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  Sisters of the Jungle - The...

  Keriann McGoogan

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  Sisters of the Jungle explores the history of primatology, a rare scientific discipline led primarily by women, from pioneers like Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey to author Keriann McGoogan's own adventurous field studies. 
   
  Since the 1970s, the science of primatology has been dominated by women—a unique reversal, as men usually outnumber women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. 
   
  Today, one of those women is primatologist Keriann McGoogan, who has traveled to the far corners of the earth in search of wild primates. In Sisters of the Jungle, McGoogan combines stories about her own studies of howler monkeys (the loudest living primate) and lemurs (the most endangered group of animals on the planet) with those of the women who paved the way: intrepid scientists like Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas, and Alison Jolly who broke boundaries, made astonishing discoveries and ultimately shaped the trajectory of an entire branch of science.

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  The Great American Transit...

  Nicholas Dagen Bloom

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  A potent re-examination of America’s history of public disinvestment in mass transit. 
    
  Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation throughout the latter decades of the twentieth century. But as Nicholas Dagen Bloom shows in The Great American Transit Disaster, our transit networks are so bad for a very simple reason: we wanted it this way. 
    
  Focusing on Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and San Francisco, Bloom provides overwhelming evidence that transit disinvestment was a choice rather than destiny. He pinpoints three major factors that led to the decline of public transit in the United States: municipal austerity policies that denied most transit agencies the funding to sustain high-quality service; the encouragement of auto-centric planning; and white flight from dense city centers to far-flung suburbs. As Bloom makes clear, these local public policy decisions were not the product of a nefarious auto industry or any other grand conspiracy—all were widely supported by voters, who effectively shut out options for transit-friendly futures. With this book, Bloom seeks not only to dispel our accepted transit myths but hopefully to lay new tracks for today’s conversations about public transportation funding.

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  Future Polity - Using Autonomous...

  Mohamed Al Jneibi

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  A new Industrial Revolution has arrived, disrupting our political systems with AI-generated content. Yet, AI might be humanity’s best hope for peaceful world governance. 
  In Future Polity, Mohamed Al Jneibi draws on over a decade of experience as a political insider to propose a bold solution to outdated political squabbling: using unbiased technological enhancements for conflict resolution and enforcement of international policy and law. 
  Al Jneibi explores insights from renowned experts in various disciplines, citing key case studies that suggest the world is moving toward a data-centric method of decision-making. Future Polity evaluates cutting-edge research on AI negotiation agents, envisioning a future where we solve political and societal issues in an unbiased, objective way.

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  Expressly Human - Decoding The...

  Mark Changizi, Tim Barber

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  Over billions of years of evolution, animals have become increasingly sophisticated and increasingly sentient. In the process, they evolved emotions, which helped improve their odds of survival in complex situations. These emotions were, at first, purely internal. But at some point, social animals began expressing their emotions, in increasingly dramatic ways. These emotional expressions could accurately reflect internal emotions (smiling to express happiness)—or they could be quite different (smiling to cover up that you're actually furious, but can't tell your boss that). 
   
   
    
  Why did once-stone-faced animals evolve to be so emotionally expressive—to be us? The answer, as evolutionary neurobiologist Mark Changizi and mathematician Tim Barber reveal, is that emotional expressions are our first and most important language—one that allows us, as social animals, to engage in highly sophisticated communications and negotiations. 
   
   
    
  Expressly Human introduces an original theory that explains, from first principles, how the broad range of emotional expressions evolved, and provides a Rosetta Stone for human communication. It will revolutionize the way you see every social interaction, from deciding who gets the last slice of pizza to multimillion-dollar business negotiations, and change your definition of what makes us human.

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  Nature’s Best Hope - The...

  Tristan Salem

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  Nature’s Best Hope: The Essential Guide on How to Go Green. Discover Practices That Will Help You Protect Mother EarthReports on global warming and climate change seem to be everywhere and people are starting to get alarmed. However, the publication of these reports may be a good thing since it presents that there is awareness of this particular problem. As a response, people want to find ways on how they can help mother earth. One of the ways to do it is by going green. But what does it mean to go green?This audiobook will educate you on the basics of going green so you can do your part in helping the environment. You will learn what are the current problems our world is facing now and what part you can take to help solve them.This audiobook will discuss the following topics:- What Does It Mean To Go Green?- The Issues We Face With Global Warming- The Issues We Face With Natural Resources Today- The Issues We Face on Waste/Trash Today- The Issues We Face on Our Food Today- The Issues We Face With Air and Water Quality- The Legacy We are Leaving for Future Generations- Developing a New Relationship with Mother Earth- The Benefits of Going Green for the Earth and Our Wallets- And many more!Our planet is facing different environmental issues and these have a significant impact in our daily lives. If you want to learn more, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!

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  Python for Beginners -...

  Alexa Campbell

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  Python is one of the most powerful computer programming languages of all time, for several reasons we’ll discuss in the first section. The syntax is simple to learn and use and, compared to other programming languages, you often don’t need to write so much code. The sheer simplicity of the language helps programmers write more and develop programs that are more complex in less time. 
  This guide provides all you need to master the basics of programming with Python. I have kept it deliberately simple – it is a quick-start guide, after all. I have provided plenty of coding examples to show you how the syntax works, too, along with a guide on installing Python on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. I finish with some useful tips on helping you to code better. 
  By the end of the guide, you will have a deeper understanding of the Python language, a stepping stone from which to take your learning further. 
  Please note that we are using Python 3 in this guide, not Python 2, as many similar guides do. 
  Are you ready to become a computer programmer? Let’s get started on this wonderful journey.

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