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  Love Your Mother - 50 States 50...

  Mallory McDuff

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  From elder voices opposing the Dakota Pipeline to young people running for office to advocate for change, every day we see real-life stories about how women are making a collective difference on climate justice. Women are also disproportionately impacted by climate change and thus are critical to transforming society away from dependence on fossil fuels and toward renewable energy and environmental equity. 
   
   
   
  As a mother and a professor of environmental education, Mallory McDuff wanted to give her two daughters and her students a roadmap to engage in climate justice in their communities, rather than be left feeling paralyzed by the enormity of the problem. She set out to find women of diverse ages, backgrounds, and vocations—one from each of the fifty US states—as inspiration for a new kind of leadership focused on the heart of the climate crisis. Love Your Mother lifts up the stories of these women working toward a viable future, from farmer and rancher Donna Kilpatrick in Arkansas to writer Latria Graham in South Carolina. 
   
   
   
  From Alabama to Alaska, from Wisconsin to Wyoming, these women are poets, physicians, climate scientists, students, farmers, writers, documentary filmmakers, and more. Their work lights the way for conversation and collective action in our homes and in the world. It's time we follow their lead.

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  Dealing with Early-Onset...

  Sonia Discher

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  Dealing with Early Onset Alzheimer's: Love, Laughter & Tears is Sonia Discher's heartbreaking but empowering story of caring for her husband, Steve. The story follows Steve's diagnosis with Early Onset Alzheimer's at age 50 through treatment, care and his passing. Sonia provides a look behind the curtain of this terrible sickness to reveal a treasure trove of tips and tricks she did to understand the disease, advocate for her husband, care for her family and preserve her sanity throughout a confusing and sad time. Functional, day-to-day tips about early warning signs, medication levels, and how to address doctors, nurses and other professional caregivers (among many other areas such as long-term care and hospital stays) are some of the valuable examples included in this personal story.

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  Popular Scientific Lectures

  Ernst Mach

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  This recording has been digitally produced by DeepZen Limited, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. DeepZen uses Emotive Speech Technology to create digital narrations that offer a similar listening experience to human narration.  
   
  Ernst Mach was a Moravian-born Austrian physicist and philosopher, who contributed to the physics of shock waves. The ratio of one's speed to that of sound is named the Mach number in his honor. As a philosopher of science, he was a major influence on logical positivism and American pragmatism. Through his criticism of Newton's theories of space and time, he foreshadowed Einstein's theory of relativity.Included in this compilation are a set of scientific lectures that were intended to popularize science in the late 19th and early 20th century. Now in the twenty-first century, and scientific literacy falling to an all-time low, a call to popularize science could not be more needed.

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  Mycology - Fungi and Their World

  Mike Crawford

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  Fungi occupy a unique and essential place in the natural world, forming a biological kingdom distinct from plants, animals, and bacteria. Unlike plants, fungi do not rely on photosynthesis to produce energy, and unlike animals, they do not consume food through ingestion. Instead, they absorb nutrients externally by secreting powerful enzymes that break down organic material. This ability allows fungi to play a crucial role in ecosystems, particularly as decomposers that recycle nutrients back into the environment. 
  The evolutionary origins of fungi date back over a billion years, with evidence suggesting they share a distant common ancestor with animals. As they evolved, fungi developed an incredible range of adaptations, enabling them to survive in nearly every habitat on Earth. From the depths of the ocean to arid deserts, fungi have found ways to thrive in extreme conditions. Some species form vast underground networks, facilitating communication between plants, while others exist as microscopic spores floating invisibly through the air. 
  Classifying fungi has been a longstanding challenge due to their vast diversity and complex life cycles. Scientists traditionally grouped fungi based on physical traits and reproductive strategies, but advances in molecular biology have refined their classification. The major phyla of the fungal kingdom include Basidiomycota, which encompasses familiar mushrooms, Ascomycota, which includes yeasts and molds, Zygomycota, known for fast-growing molds, and Glomeromycota, which form essential symbiotic relationships with plant roots. These diverse groups showcase the wide-ranging forms and functions of fungi in nature.

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  Automation with SaltStack -...

  Yogesh Raheja

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  Empower Your Infrastructure with SaltStack Automation. 
  Book Description
  Unleash the full potential of SaltStack to transform your infrastructure management and automation practices. This book is crafted to provide clear, step-by-step guidance, ensuring you can apply SaltStack's capabilities to automate and streamline your workflows effectively. 
  Starting with the basics, the book introduces the fundamentals and SaltStack framework, guiding you through configuring and managing infrastructure with this versatile tool. Detailed chapters cover the architecture of SaltStack, various deployment models, and the prerequisites for setting up SaltStack masters and minions. You will learn how to effectively manage modules and perform remote execution tasks, mastering state file management and highstate concepts along the way. 
  Dive deep into advanced features such as grains for targeting and customizing data, Jinja templates for dynamic configuration, and multi-environment infrastructure management. Understand the critical role of pillars in SaltStack, their configuration, and their importance in managing sensitive data and configuring the state tree. 
  With a focus on practical application, this book includes real-world examples and scenarios to help you implement what you have learned. You will discover industry best practices for optimal configuration, deployment, maintenance, and scaling of SaltStack-managed infrastructure, ensuring your automation processes are efficient and robust. 
  
  Table of Contents
  
  1. Introduction to SaltStack and Its Framework
  2. Architecture and SaltStack Deployment
  3. Modules and Remote Execution with SaltStack
  4. State File Management
  5. HighState and Salt Tree
  6. Grains, Jinja Templates, and Environments
  7. Pillars
  8. The Salt Event-Driven Infrastructure
  9. Masterless and Agentless Salt   
  Index

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  Coding with Python - A...

  Alexander Cane

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  In many cases, we hear people talking about programming and how it is hard to use different programming languages in your program. Programming is not as difficult as many people think. There are different types of programming languages of which you can choose when doing a program. These languages include JavaScript, C++, and Python. As we start learning about Python programming language, you will understand all layers of the Python and its concepts and how it is easy to use it for programming. Reading this book will also empower you with the necessary coding skills. 
  Coding is not as severe as most people think. It is only tough for beginners. There are many coding languages, and the most popular coding languages include C++ and Java, which most people feel scared when they hear about them. The pages are sometimes filled with symbols and letters that you, as a beginner, cannot understand them. Although programming scares many people due to the feeling that it is too hard for them to learn, Python programming language is one of the most original programming languages for an individual to learn about coding and even study it as a professional.  
  In this book, you will be provided with the basics of Python programming. To understand better on to get started in Python programming, the book will begin by talking about they python programming, steps for downloading the program if you do not have in your computer, and importance of studying the python programming. It will then define some essential keywords for an individual to understand the program and eventually talk about the effects of using Python in coding and programming.

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