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  Using Our Whole Brain

  James Olson

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  The two sides of the brain have different perspectives of the world and they lead us to make very different choices. Olson’s research shows that we need to blend these two for three-dimensional thinking. He discusses how we can tell when we are functioning from our right brain or our left brain.

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  Human Spaceflight - From Mars to...

  Louis Friedman

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  Mars, a mysterious dust-ridden place, is most like Earth in its climate and seasons. Of all the possible destinations in space to travel, Mars is the most likely for humans to reach. According to esteemed scientist Louis Friedman, it may be the only destination outside the moon to ever see human footprints.Far from diminishing our future in space, Human Spaceflight lays out a provocative future for human space travel. The noted aerospace engineer and scientist says that human space exploration will continue well into the future, but space travel by humans will stop at Mars. Instead, nanotechnology, space sails, robotics, biomolecular engineering, and artificial intelligence will provide the vehicles of the future for an exciting evolution not just of space travel but of humankind.Friedman has worked with agencies around the globe on space exploration projects to extend human presence beyond Mars and beyond the solar system. He writes that once we accept Mars as the only viable destination for humans, our space program on planet Earth can become more exciting and more relevant. Mars, he writes, will take hundreds, even thousands, of years to settle. During that time, humans and all our supporting technologies will evolve, allowing our minds to be present throughout the universe while our bodies stay home on Earth and Mars.

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  My Attainment of the North Pole

  Frederick Albert Cook

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  A wild epic journey by an American phusician and two Inuit companions struggling to be the first humans to reach the North Pole. The adventure continues with a year long, near dath journey back to civilization and concludes with the wrath of an angry unbelieving establishment.  Liste as Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, a respectd physician and experienced explorer, tells you how he became the first man to reach the North Pole on April21, 1908. Hear his bitter fight with Admiral Robert E. Peary who denied that Cook had beaten him to the Pole and sought to destroy Cook's reputation. This is one of the great controversies in the history of exploration. The Listen2Read American Adventure Library is a series of historic first person accounts of extraordinary adventures by Americans or by visitors to America. The entire series can be previewed at Listen2Read.com

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  30-Second Elements - The 50 most...

  Eric Scerri

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  When was radium discovered? Who are Dmitri Mendeleev and Glenn T. Seaborg? Who discovered uranium's radioactivity? Which element is useful for dating the age of Earth? And why doesn't gold have a scientific name?
  
  30-Second Elements presents you with the very foundations of chemical knowledge, explaining concisely the 50 most significant chemical elements.
  
  This book uses helpful glossaries and tables to fast track your knowledge of the other 68 elements and the relationships between all of them.

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  Paradise Island - Ocean Waves...

  Greg Cetus

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  Audio recording of intimate natural sounds from the Paradise Island. Gentle bubbles of rolling ocean waters, tropical birds singing, gentle breeze and tropical plants and trees all participating in this delicate celebration of life. A detailed and rich ambient background for meditation, relaxation, or deep sleep.

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  Insulin - A Hundred-Year History

  Stuart Bradwel

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  In 1922, researchers made one of the most important medical breakthroughs of the century: insulin. Their discovery seemed miraculous. When it was given to diabetic patients on the brink of death, their condition rapidly improved.However, this was no simple cure. Injections must be taken for life. Without them, symptoms quickly return, often with fatal results. But while a lifetime on insulin poses great challenges, it also offers opportunities. In this revelatory history, Stuart Bradwel looks back on one of medicine's most celebrated innovations. Setting professional narrative against subjective patient experience, he tells the story of a drug that has challenged many of the basic assumptions upon which medical practice is built, both inside and outside the clinic.Nevertheless, Bradwel reminds us that the centenary of this apparent "wonder drug" should be no cause for celebration. Insulin often remains inaccessible to those who need it most: elusive prescriptions, uneven availability and sky-high prices result in rationing and desperate do-it-yourself research and development. In the face of bootstraps rhetoric and "Pharma Bro" capitalists, patients across the world are left to fend for themselves. There is a long way to go in the twenty-first century until insulin truly fulfills the extraordinary promises made by its discovery.

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