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  Letters From Everest:...

  George Mallory

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  ‘An extraordinary treasure trove’ Andrew Marr 
  A unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains. 
  On the 8th of June, 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine were seen through a telescope on the upper slopes of Mount Everest. They were never seen alive again. In 1999, Mallory’s body was found below the ridge where he was last seen. In the 100 years since his disappearance, many words have been written about Mallory, but very little has ever been published of his own thoughts. 
  Letters from Everest is an eye opening set of personal letters from Mallory to his family, collected and published for the first time by his great-nephew. In the letters, Mallory is completely open about his life, his climbing and especially the three Everest Expeditions he was a part of – 1921, 1922 and the last in 1924. His writing is full of extraordinary insights – most of which have never been published in any form. They are a unique collection – an actual reflection, possibly the one and only, of the thoughts of a climbing legend who walked into history a century ago. 
  In this non-fiction biography, Mallory's letters reveal the raw and unfiltered thoughts of a man who dared to challenge nature. His experiences, his fears, his triumphs, all laid bare in this literary collection, make Letters from Everest a must-read for anyone fascinated by the world of mountaineering and exploration. 
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  HarperCollins 2024

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  Force of Nature - Understanding...

  Owen D. Jones

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  An eye-opening exploration of natural selection’s power and how it can help human society flourish. 
    
  Most of us learned about natural selection in our school days and remember the basics of how it drives evolution, plus a few of its everyday implications, like the risks of overusing antibiotics. Yet deep misconceptions about evolution and natural selection abound—even, studies show, among medical students and high school biology teachers, not to mention the rest of us. In Force of Nature, professor of law and biology Owen D. Jones reveals how these misunderstandings cost us opportunities, undermine our goals, and even imperil lives—and shows how a deeper understanding of natural selection is far more useful and powerful than we think. 
    
  Jones argues that natural selection is not merely a historical process that shaped relationships between species in the past, but an underused framework for navigating today’s most pressing challenges. By sharpening our understanding of how natural selection actually operates—its speed, scale, and profound influence on human and animal behavior—we can make better decisions across a wide range of fields. Drawing on examples from medicine, psychology, and artificial intelligence to economics, agriculture, law, and beyond, Force of Nature demonstrates how evolutionary thinking can open new horizons in cancer treatment and space exploration, create faster machines and more agile robots, and even help design more effective and just laws. Along the way, readers tour some of animals’ most remarkable behaviors, such as the archerfish’s prowess at precision-firing missiles of water and geckos’ ability to walk upside-down—on glass. 
    
  Enlightening and inspiring, Force of Nature invites us to appreciate natural selection as a dynamic force we can better understand—and harness—to build smarter technologies, wiser policies, and a more resilient future. 
    
  "A lucid and eye-opening presentation of the many surprising ways that natural selection can help us understand ourselves and the world we are making."—Steven Pinker, best-selling author of When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows …

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  Build the Best Mental Version of...

  KR Goswami

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  Building the Best Mental Version of Yourself, Embrace Resilience, Master Your Mind, and Create Your Ultimate Self is written by KR Goswami

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  The Dead Sea - A 10000 Year History

  Nir Arielli

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  A human history of one of the planet's most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shores 
   
   
    
  The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their healing properties, though its own waters are deadly to most lifeforms—even so, civilizations have built ancient cities and hilltop fortresses around its shores for centuries. The protagonists in its story are not only Jews and Arabs, but also Greeks, Nabataeans, Romans, Crusaders and Mamluks. Today it has become a tourist hotspot, but its drying basin is increasingly under threat. 
   
   
    
  In this panoramic account, Nir Arielli explores the history of the Dead Sea from the first Neolithic settlements to the present day. Moving through the ages, Arielli reveals the religious, economic, military, and scientific importance of the lake, which has been both a source of great wealth and a site of war. The Dead Sea weaves together a tapestry of the lake's human stories—and amidst environmental degradation and renewed conflict, makes a powerful case for why it should be saved.

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  Animate - How Animals Shape the...

  Michael Bond

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  A mind-expanding deep dive into how animals have shaped us, from the Paleolothic Period to the present day.In Animate, acclaimed science writer Michael Bond explores how animals have profoundly influenced our minds and cultures. Drawing on cutting-edge insights from psychology, anthropology, literature, and neuroscience, Bond traces the varied ways their lives have affected ours, from our hunter-gatherer ancestors whose brains were rewired by the prey they hunted and the predators they feared, to the medieval and Enlightenment thinkers who used animals to promote notions of human supremacy.Scientists today are challenging the assumption that we are separate from and superior to animals, showing that they too possess intelligence, empathy, creativity and even the ability to use tools. If everything that supposedly makes us human is shared with other creatures, where does that leave us? And if we are not as exceptional as we thought, how should we be treating the animals we live alongside?A fascinating exploration of what it means to be both human and animal, Animate shows that to better understand ourselves, we must pay more attention to the other beings with whom we share our world.

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  Natural Language Processing for...

  James Ferry

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  "Natural Language Processing for Beginners: Advanced Techniques and Applications in Natural Language Processing" bridges the gap between foundational NLP concepts and cutting-edge advancements in the field. Designed for those who have a basic understanding of NLP and are eager to delve deeper, this book provides a thorough exploration of advanced techniques and their practical applications. 
  Building on core principles, you will explore sophisticated methods such as neural machine translation, deep learning architectures (including RNNs, LSTMs, and Transformers), and multimodal NLP. The book also covers emerging areas like low-resource language processing, explainable AI, and ethical considerations in NLP, providing a holistic view of the current landscape. 
  Through detailed explanations, real-world examples, and hands-on projects, this guide ensures you not only understand the advanced techniques but also know how to apply them effectively. Learn to tackle complex tasks such as sentiment analysis, text classification, and question answering with state-of-the-art models and algorithms. 
  "Natural Language Processing for Beginners: Advanced Techniques and Applications in Natural Language Processing" equips you with the skills and insights to advance your expertise and stay at the forefront of this dynamic field.

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