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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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  Higher Self & Inner Child Sleep...

  Healing Tales

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  This soothing audiobook combines calming narratives with a gentle male voice and tranquil background music to guide you into a deep, restful sleep. Explore the journey of connecting with your higher self while nurturing your inner child, fostering emotional healing and inner peace. Each story is crafted to evoke feelings of safety, love, and acceptance, helping to release past traumas and align with your true self. Perfect for bedtime, this meditation creates a serene environment for profound relaxation and holistic well-being. Let go, heal, and sleep deeply.

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  Red Leviathan - The Secret...

  Ryan Tucker Jones

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  The Soviet Union killed over six hundred thousand whales in the twentieth century, many of them illegally and secretly. That catch helped bring many whale species to near extinction by the 1970s, and the impacts of this loss of life still ripple through today’s oceans. In this new account, based on formerly secret Soviet archives and interviews with ex-whalers, environmental historian Ryan Tucker Jones offers a complete history of the role the Soviet Union played in the whales' destruction. 
   
   
   
  As other countries—especially the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Norway—expanded their pursuit of whales to all corners of the globe, Stalin determined that the Soviet Union needed to join the hunt. Cold War intrigue encouraged this destruction, but, as Jones shows, there is a more complex history behind this tragic Soviet experiment. Jones compellingly describes the ultimate scientific irony: today's cetacean studies benefited from Soviet whaling, as Russian scientists on whaling vessels made key breakthroughs in understanding whale natural history and behavior. 
   
   
   
  Red Leviathan reveals how the Soviet public began turning against their country's whaling industry, working in parallel with Western environmental organizations like Greenpeace to help end industrial whaling—not long before the world's whales might have disappeared altogether.

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  Optics - Principles and...

  Mark Hedges

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  Optics is the branch of physics that deals with the study of light and its interaction with matter. It encompasses a wide range of phenomena, including reflection, refraction, diffraction, and the formation of images. Light, as an electromagnetic wave, plays a central role in our everyday lives, enabling us to see the world around us and facilitating numerous technological advancements. The study of optics is essential not only for understanding the behavior of light but also for developing applications in fields such as medicine, telecommunications, photography, and astronomy. 
  The nature of light has been a subject of fascination and research for centuries. Early thinkers, such as ancient Greek philosophers, speculated about the properties of light and its role in vision. However, it was not until the work of scientists like Isaac Newton and Thomas Young in the 17th and 18th centuries that light began to be studied in a more rigorous and scientific manner. Newton’s particle theory of light and Young’s double-slit experiment, which demonstrated the wave nature of light, were crucial milestones in the development of optics. These contributions laid the groundwork for the modern understanding of light as an electromagnetic wave, described by Maxwell’s equations. 
  At the heart of optics is the study of how light behaves as it interacts with different materials. This behavior is governed by the fundamental principles of reflection, where light bounces off surfaces, and refraction, where light bends as it passes through different media. These principles are described by laws such as the Law of Reflection and Snell’s Law of Refraction. The interaction of light with materials also leads to phenomena such as dispersion, where different colors of light separate due to their varying wavelengths, and absorption, where light energy is transferred to the material, often converting to heat.

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  Dr Sonia's Guide to Navigating...

  MD Sonia Bahlani

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  The key to feeling good "down there" is understanding causes and solutions—there is relief from pelvic pain. 
   
   
   
  One in fifteen people report experiencing chronic pelvic pain, while many more suffer in silence. It's time to put aside the stigmatization and misdiagnosis! Dr. Sonia Bahlani has helped thousands of patients reclaim their lives at her New York City practice. With dual expertise in the fields of gynecology and urology—sought purposefully because she was interested in helping patients with pelvic pain—Bahlani is the doctor to address this common yet often-untreated condition. 
   
   
   
  In this book, Bahlani helps readers in multiple ways: she provides detailed information on what might be causing pain—from endometriosis to fibroids to prostate inflammation—through descriptions, questions, and case studies; and she reviews treatments, from what readers can expect in a doctor's office to what they can do at home. Her sympathetic bedside manner and extensive knowledge will help empower readers and give them renewed control over their own bodies.

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  Java in Action - The Journey of...

  Elizabeth King

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  "Java in Action: The Journey of Java: From Core Concepts to Advanced Programming," is for beginners and intermediate programmers who want to master Java. Every chapter comes with exercises and code examples that can help in building and developing problem-solving skills. 
  Right from basic concepts that act as a foundation of Java to high-level programming methods, it takes the reader through the complete journey and prepares the reader with all that would be needed to start programming applications confidently in real life. 
  In the beginning sections, it talks about OOP and some core principles of Java that focus on variables, data types, and control structures. Readers are well-oriented and acquainted with Java basics via simple explanations and working examples. 
  The subjects the book involves become more sophisticated along with this: file handling, multi-threading, structures for data, and more detailed best practices about effective coding and scalability. 
  What is impressive besides analyzing the robust standard libraries and APIs of Java is that it even throws in some valuable insights into how this language can be used for database integration, concurrent programming, and web development. 
  "Java in Action" takes readers beyond syntax so they can understand what Java can do and where it's being applied within all types of industries, so it's the perfect book for any person looking to upgrade his or her programming skills. 
  This book will be a comprehensive and very readable guide to Java's rich programming ecosystem, whether the system you are designing is small or large.

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