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  Pregnancy Interrupted - The...

  Kate Clancy

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  A compassionate, evidence-based look at pregnancy loss—how and why it happens, and why the assurances of the medical industry don't reflect the realityOne of the most prevalent myths about human pregnancy is that of all possible outcomes, a baby is the most likely. Pregnancy Interrupted challenges the misleadingly linear narrative that begins with two lines on a pregnancy test and ends with a newborn. Drawing on Kate Clancy's own deeply personal stories of pregnancy loss and moving interviews with others, it reveals how the frequency of loss and miscarriage is far more common than most realize. This provocative book makes an impassioned, fact-based case for truthfulness and care at a time when inaccurate images of fetuses abound, electronic impulses continue to pass for a heartbeat, and reproductive autonomy is criminalized.Presenting the unvarnished science of pregnancy loss, Clancy validates the experiences of women and gender minorities, offers solace for the person on her third miscarriage, and gives guidance for lawmakers and advocates seeking change. While genetic errors make some losses inevitable, this is not the whole story. Clancy describes how other factors increase the risk—from the choices we sometimes make to environmental and social conditions that go overlooked or ignored. She exposes the links between miscarriage and stressors like physical and emotional violence and explores how we might prevent miscarriages and stillbirths while mitigating the trauma when they do occur.Pregnancy Interrupted provides an eye-opening account of pregnancy and loss as an unpredictable yet universal experience.

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  Adventures of Old Mr Toad

  Thornton W. Burgess

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  The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad is another in the long line of children's books by conservationist Thornton W. Burgess. In this book, we follow the adventures of Old Mr. Toad as he joins the Spring Chorus at the Smiling Pool, shows off his babies, displays his special tongue to Peter Rabbit and has a very special encounter with Buster Bear. We also learn little lessons about life such as pride can burst like a great big bubble, your friends' hidden talents may surprise you and it is considered impolite to watch someone change his clothes - especially when he eats them. (Summary by John Lieder)

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  Procrastinators Playbook The: A...

  CHELSEA KISAKI

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  Transform Your Time with Proven Strategies 
  Are you tired of constantly putting things off and feeling the weight of uncompleted tasks? Is procrastination sabotaging your goals, leaving your dreams on the back burner? Experience the breakthrough you’ve been craving with "The Procrastinator's Playbook: A Practical Guide to Getting Things Done." This life-changing resource offers practical tools and strategies to help you conquer procrastination once and for all. 
  In this comprehensive guide, dive deep into the psychology of procrastination. Understand why you delay tasks and identify common triggers that keep you stuck. Explore different procrastination types like the Perfectionist and the Avoider, allowing you to tailor your approach to your unique challenges. 
  Set yourself up for success by learning to craft SMART goals and break down daunting tasks into manageable steps. Embrace effective time management techniques such as the Pomodoro Technique and Time-Blocking, ensuring every minute counts. Create a distraction-free, productive environment and delve into digital minimalism to enhance focus.

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  Free Agents - How Evolution Gave...

  Kevin J. Mitchell

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  This audiobook narrated by neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents an evolutionary case for the existence of free will
  
  Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency—or free will—is an illusion. In Free Agents, leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents a wealth of evidence to the contrary, arguing that we are not mere machines responding to physical forces but agents acting with purpose.
  
  Traversing billions of years of evolution, Mitchell tells the remarkable story of how living beings capable of choice emerged from lifeless matter. He explains how the emergence of nervous systems provided a means to learn about the world, granting sentient animals the capacity to model, predict, and simulate. Mitchell reveals how these faculties reached their peak in humans with our abilities to imagine and to be introspective, to reason in the moment, and to shape our possible futures through the exercise of our individual agency. Mitchell's argument has important implications—for how we understand decision making, for how our individual agency can be enhanced or infringed, for how we think about collective agency in the face of global crises, and for how we consider the limitations and future of artificial intelligence.
  
  An astonishing journey of discovery, Free Agents offers a new framework for understanding how, across a billion years of Earth history, life evolved the power to choose and why this matters.

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  Replugged - From Mainframes to...

  Satnam Bains

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  Replugged is a field guide for staying human as artificial intelligence reshapes work, culture, and everyday life. Arguing that AI's impact will rival the advent of the computer and the internet, it takes a multi-dimensional view. First, it examines how past world-changing technologies rewired society, what they created, and what they broke. Second, it looks forward technologically, showing how AI converges with cloud, data, sensors, robotics, and biology and what real adoption (beyond hype) demands. Third, it analyses the psychological effects of attention drift, information overload, and bias and offers practices that restore agency. Fourth, it places AI within a philosophical and ethical frame, asking not just what we can build but what we should become.
  Blending story, systems thinking, and practical playbooks, Replugged introduces the Timeflow lens, focusing on energy, attention, and intention over time, to turn acceleration into action that readers can test this week.
  Replugged includes a QR to an AI Companion that extends the conversation, letting readers question, explore, and update insights as the technology (and their lives) evolve.

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  Millenia of Minds - Thinkers Who...

  Ylia Callan

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  What distinguishes a great mind from an ordinary one? How do the rarest geniuses see the world in ways others cannot? 
   
  Millenia of Minds, Thinkers Who Rewired Humanity explores the extraordinary cognitive processes of the most influential thinkers of the last millennium and beyond. This book goes beyond biographies and achievements to examine how genius thinks, imagines, and perceives. It reveals patterns of thought that allowed these individuals to unlock truths invisible to ordinary minds. 
   
  From Isaac Newton, who felt the geometry of motion before calculus existed, to Nikola Tesla, who internally simulated entire machines; from Srinivasa Ramanujan, who received mathematics like visions in dreams, to Kurt Gödel, who discovered the limits of logic itself — this book examines the minds that reshaped mathematics, physics, and philosophy. Other minds include Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, Alan Turing, Marie Curie, James Clerk Maxwell, Wolfgang Pauli, Euclid, Archimedes, Aristotle, and Carl Friedrich Gauss. 
   
  Each chapter explores unique cognitive traits: structural intuition, internal simulation, persistent perception, system-building, and the capacity to sense underlying coherence or inconsistency. The book highlights how these minds operated in isolation, endured personal cost, and yet reshaped human understanding. 
   
  More than a history of genius, this work is a guide to appreciating the architecture of human thought, intuition, and creativity. It demonstrates that exceptional cognition is not simply knowledge accumulated, but the ability to perceive reality’s hidden structure and act upon it. 
   
  For readers fascinated by science, mathematics, philosophy, or the nature of human consciousness, this book offers a rare opportunity to explore how the greatest minds actually thought, and what their methods reveal about the untapped potential of our own cognition.

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