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  Walden

  Henry David Thoreau

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  Walden is a work by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and to some degree a manual for self-reliance. First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amid woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts.  
  Thoreau used this time to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. The experience later inspired Walden, in which Thoreau compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development. The book can be seen as performance art, a demonstration of how easy it can be to acquire the four necessities of life. Once acquired, he believed people should then focus their efforts on personal growth.   
  By immersing himself in nature, Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Simple living and self-sufficiency were Thoreau's other goals, and the whole project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, a central theme of the American Romantic period.   
  Thoreau makes precise scientific observations of nature as well as metaphorical and poetic uses of natural phenomena. He identifies many plants and animals by both their popular and scientific names, records in detail the color and clarity of different bodies of water, precisely dates and describes the freezing and thawing of the pond, and recounts his experiments to measure the depth and shape of the bottom of the supposedly "bottomless" Walden Pond.

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  Counter Sniper Handbook -...

  Defense U.S. Department of

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  Counter Sniper aims to reduce the damage caused by a sniper, which can often be very harmful. The individual who shoots at police, firemen, soldiers or citizens is certainly dangerous. In order to counteract, it is necessary to train individuals whose knowledge and skills fall within the description of a sniper, but who are known as Counter snipers. This handbook provides the crucial information in the selection of the right equipment, preparation, training, and the decisive actions of the counter sniper.
  Content: 
  Ammunition
  Rifles
  Sights
  Noise and Muzzle Flash 
  General Notes
  Trajectory of 222 Cartridge 
  Description of Epoxy Impregnation of Stock
  Firing Positions 
  Typical Countersniper Situations 
  Suitable Countersniping Equipment

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  Being Digital - Get an Easy and...

  Jason Linden

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  Being Digital: Get an Easy and Simple Step-by-Step Guide on How to Start an Online Business and Profit OnlineIn the modern work-from-home era, it appears like everyone is managing a digital company or business. Today, individuals are spending more cash on the web, which has moved business accentuation to digital wellsprings of income and digital channels. The development of the digital economy has made individuals more acquainted with digital items and administrations, which has driven organizations to look for new upper hands in the digital space. Beginning a digital business takes less time and doesn't need a weighty interest in actual resources, for example, office space or stock. In this audiobook, you will get an easy to follow guide on how to start your own online business. You will also learn different strategies on how you can make the most money online. This audiobook will discuss the following topics:- Development of the Digital Economy- Instructions to Set-Up a Digital Business- Advantages of Digital Change- Ways to Make Money Online- And many more!As an internet entrepreneur, you have the flexibility to work from anywhere you want, whenever you want. For many budding businesses, this may be a huge relief. If you want to learn more, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!

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  North Pole South Pole - The Epic...

  Gillian Turner

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  This “fantastic story” of one of physics’ great riddles takes us through centuries of scientific history (Simon Lamb, author of Devil in the Mountain).   Why do compass needles point north—but not quite north? What guides the migration of birds, whales, and fish across the world’s oceans? How is Earth able to sustain life under an onslaught of solar wind and cosmic radiation? For centuries, the world’s great scientists have grappled with these questions, all rooted in the same phenomenon: Earth’s magnetism.   Over two thousand years after the invention of the compass, Einstein called the source of Earth’s magnetic field one of greatest unsolved mysteries of physics. Here, for the first time, is the complete history of the quest to understand the planet’s attractive pull—from the ancient Greeks’ fascination with lodestone to the geological discovery that the North Pole has not always been in the North—and to the astonishing modern conclusions that finally revealed the true source.   Richly illustrated and skillfully told, North Pole, South Pole unfolds the human story behind the science: that of the inquisitive, persevering, and often dissenting thinkers who unlocked the secrets at our planet’s core.   “In recent years, many very good books for interested non-scientists have been published: Richard Dawkins’s Climbing Mount Improbable and The Ancestor’s Tale, Stephen Jay Gould’s The Lying Stones of Marrakech, and Dava Sobel’s Longitude and The Planets, to name some of them. North Pole, South Pole . . . is a worthy addition to that list . . . Turner has a great story to tell, and she tells it well.” —The Press (New Zealand)

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  A Book of Noises - Notes on...

  Caspar Henderson

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  Sound shapes our world in invisible but profound ways, and here Caspar Henderson brings his characteristic curiosity, knowledge and sense of wonder to the subject to take us on an exhilarating journey through the heard universe. 
  A Book of Noises gathers together sounds from the cosmos, the natural world, the human world, and the invented world, and contains quiet pockets of silence. From the vast sound of sand in the desert to the tuneful warble of a songbird, to the meditative resonance of a temple bell and the improvisational melodies of jazz, this is a celebration of all things auricular. 
  The preface is read by Cerys Matthews, and the rest of the book by the author

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  Saving Jemima - Life and Love...

  Julie Zickefoose

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  For fans of Wesley the Owl and The Soul of an Octopus, the story of a sick baby bird nursed back to health and into the wild by renowned writer/artist Julie Zickefoose. When Jemima, a young orphaned blue jay, is brought to wildlife rehabilitator Julie Zickefoose, she is a virtually tailless, palm-sized bundle of gray-blue fluff. But she is starved and very sick. Julie’s constant care brings her around, and as Jemima is raised for eventual release, she takes over the house and the rest of the author's summer.   Shortly after release, Jemima turns up with a deadly disease. But medicating a free-flying wild bird is a challenge. When the PBS show Nature expresses interest in filming Jemima, Julie must train her to behave on camera, as the bird gets ever wilder. Jemima bonds with a wild jay, stretching her ties with the family. Throughout, Julie grapples with the fallout of Jemima’s illness, studies molt and migration, and does her best to keep Jemima strong and wild. She falls hard for this engaging, feisty and funny bird, a creative muse and source of strength through the author’s own heartbreaking changes. Emotional and honest, Saving Jemima is a universal story of the communion between a wild creature and the human chosen to raise it. Read by the author.   

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