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  Dream States - Smart Cities...

  John Lorinc

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  WINNER OF THE 2022 WRITERS’ TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
  		 
  Is the ‘smart city’ the utopia we’ve been waiting for?
  		 
  The promise of the so-called smart city has been at the forefront of urban planning and development since the early 2010s, and the tech industry that supplies smart city software and hardware is now worth hundreds of billions a year.
  		 
  But the ideas and approaches underpinning smart city tech raise tough and important questions about the future of urban communities, surveillance, automation, and public participation. The smart city era, moreover, belongs firmly in a longer historical narrative about cities — one defined by utopian ideologies, architectural visions, and technological fantasies.
  		 
  Smart streetlights, water and air quality tracking, autonomous vehicles: with examples from all over the world, including New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Portland, and Chicago, Dream States unpacks the world of smart city tech, but also situates this important shift in city-building into a broader story about why we still dream about perfect places.
  		 
  “John Lorinc’s incisive analysis in Dream States reminds us that the search for urban utopia is not new. Throughout the book, Lorinc underscores the fact that a gamut of urban innovations – from smart city megaprojects to e-government to pandemic preparedness tools – only provide promise when scrutinized together with the political, economic, social, and physical complexities of urban life.” – Shauna Brail, University of Toronto
  		 
  “Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias takes us on a fascinating journey across world cities to show how technology has shaped them in the past and how smart city technology will reshape them in the future. This book is essential reading for policy makers, researchers, and practitioners interested in understanding the opportunities and challenges of smart city technology and what it means for city building.” – Enid Slack, University of Toronto School of Cities
  		 
  “Utopia may be the oldest grift in the city-building business, but Dream States shows that technology is a timeless tool for turning the most ordinary of urban dreams – clean air and water, safe streets, and decent homes – into reality. As digital dilettantes try to sell us on a software overhaul, John Lorinc provides us an indispensable and flawless guide to the must-haves and never-agains of the smart city.” – Anthony Townsend, Urbanist in Residence, Cornell Tech, author of Smart Cities

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  Calming Underwater Whale Sounds...

  Luna Brook

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  Immerse yourself in the tranquil depths of the ocean with Calming Underwater Whale Sounds, a transformative 8D soundscape audiobook designed to ease your mind, body, and spirit. Featuring the soothing resonance of gentle whale songs blended with soft oceanic white noise, this immersive listening experience surrounds you in a calming underwater world.
   
  Using advanced 8D audio technology, the sound moves fluidly around your head when listening with headphones, creating a deeply spatial environment that enhances relaxation, encourages mindfulness, and supports restful sleep. Perfect for moments when you need to drift off peacefully, release stress, or focus with clarity, this continuous soundscape transforms any space into a serene underwater sanctuary.
   
  
   
  Key Features:
  
   
  8+ hours of continuous, uninterrupted underwater whale sounds enhanced with soft white noise for ultimate relaxation
  
   
  8D audio technology creates a moving, three-dimensional listening experience that mimics the sensation of being underwater (listen with headphones for best experience)
  
   
  Natural whale songs and oceanic tones help calm the nervous system, reduce anxiety, and ease stress
  
   
  Supports sleep by masking disruptive noises and promoting longer, deeper rest cycles
  
   
  Ideal companion for meditation, yoga, breathwork, mindfulness, journaling, or quiet focus
  
   
  Creates a peaceful underwater atmosphere perfect for bedtime routines, study sessions, or calming busy environments
  
   
  Excellent for blocking out background noise at home, in the office, or while traveling
  
  
   
  
  Press play, surrender to the soothing whale songs, and let the ocean carry you into a state of deep calm and renewal.

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  Web Development Redefined -...

  Natalie Brown

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  Web Development Redefined: Navigating the Digital Canvas: A Comprehensive Guide to Web Development is the latest innovative book for aspiring developers, seasoned pros, and anybody else who happens to be interested in learning the art and science of web creation. This enormous book gives you the skills and information you need to build cutting-edge, captivating, and powerful websites while guiding you through the dynamic and ever-evolving world of the internet. 
  Starting off with giving the reader the basics of web development, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as functionally crucial elements to the build, it drives home organizing web pages, design layouts, and adding interaction. It goes further to explore backend programming, databases, and server administration in addition to aesthetics, giving readers a great understanding of how websites work on the other side of the veil. 
  The book addresses issues of accessibility, responsiveness, and user-centric design while drawing attention to how important design is and the need for a quality user experience. The book goes through the process of creating the best websites which not only are useful but amiable and inviting to a whole range of devices and audiences. 
  Advanced concepts keep the reader ahead of the game with frontend frameworks, asynchronous programming, and APIs. Web Development Redefined will be your resource guide and textbook to explain the real-world examples and the priceless advice given. This book will give you the tools in an industry of fast change from developing your very first website and mastering your development skills. 
  This book invites you to rethink web development in the form of digital art; maybe concepts make reality, or it's more of a guide for technical purposes. It dares you to redefine what is possible on the digital canvas, urges innovation, and lets you bring your creativity free. That is where your trip into the future of web development starts.

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  The Common Rule - Habits of...

  Justin Whitmel Earley

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  Over 100,000 Copies Sold!
  Christianity Today Book Award – Christian Living/Discipleship
  Create a Gospel-Centered Rule of Life
  Habits form us more than we form them. The modern world is a machine of invisible habits, forming us into anxious, busy people. We yearn for the freedom of the gospel but remain shackled by our screens and exhausted by our routines. How can we truly break free, find rest, and form a life that aligns our habits with our foundational beliefs?
  According to Justin Earley, the answer is a rule of life. The Common Rule's four daily and four weekly habits transform frazzled days into lives of love for God and neighbor.
  In The Common Rule, you'll find
  
  - doable, life-giving practices to find freedom and rest for your soul,
  - expanded content including study guide questions for individual reflection and group discussion, and
  - practical, accessible resources for building habits that bring life.
  Take the first step toward a life of intentionality and discover how simple, meaningful habits can transform your everyday moments into a rhythm of peace and purpose.
  "Full of glimpses of the life we were made for, and the simple choices that can take us in that direction. The habits described here, and the wisdom they embody, are the path toward sanity in a frenetic world." – Andy Crouch, author of The Tech-Wise Family and Culture Making
  "With his precise plan, Earley instructs Christians on how to create an environment for a healthy spiritual life." – Publishers Weekly Review, February 2023

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  Silence - The Psychology and the...

  Olga V. Lehmann

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  In Silence: The Psychology and the Craft for Emotional Wellbeing, the author―a psychotherapist, university professor, educator, and researcher―takes the listener into a thought-provoking and heartfelt journey. She offers original perspectives and vulnerable stories from her clients, students, and personal life. Drawing on, among others, ethnographic and autoethnographic accounts, Lehmann serves the listener with psychological insights, offering a timely, critical, and thorough viewpoint to contrast with an overload of misinformation about what silence is and how people should feel when quiet. The listener will be challenged to aspire to balance when communicating or connecting with themselves, with others, with nature, or with art, or, for some, as part of a spiritual path. Whether in nature, at work meetings, on the road, in a classroom, in the therapy room, or at the dinner table, silences appear as coordinates, and this book is the missing map for surviving and thriving when navigating toward well-being.

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  Northeaster - A Story of Courage...

  Cathie Pelletier

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  For many, the past few years have been defined by climate disaster. Stories about once-in-a-lifetime hurricanes, floods, fires, droughts, and even snowstorms are now commonplace. But dramatic weather events are not new and Northeaster, Cathie Pelletier's breathtaking account of the 1952 snowstorm that blanketed New England, offers a valuable reminder about nature's capacity for destruction as well as insight into the human instinct for preservation. 
   
   
   
  Northeaster weaves together a rich cast of characters whose lives were uprooted and endangered by the storm. Housewives and lobstermen, loggers and soldiers were all trapped as snow piled in drifts twenty feet high. The storm smothered hundreds of travelers in their cars, covered entire towns, and broke ships in half. In the midst of the blizzard's chaos, there were remarkable acts of heroism and courageous generosities. Doctors braved the storm to help deliver babies. Ordinary people kept their wits while buried in their cars, and others made their way out of forests to find kindhearted strangers willing to take them in. 
   
   
   
  It's likely that none of us know how we would handle a confrontation with a blizzard or other natural disaster. But Northeaster shows that we have it inside to fight for survival in some of the harshest conditions that nature has to offer.

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