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  You Are Here - Exposing the...

  Thomas M. Kostigen

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  “A passionate and heartfelt call to care.” 
  —Bruce Feiler, New York Times bestselling author of Walking the Bible and America’s Prophet 
    
  In You Are Here, Thomas Kostigen, the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Green Book, takes us to the most extreme environmental areas on the planet to show how what we do from the comfort of our own home affects people, places, and things everywhere. A timely, much-needed alarm that recalls Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth combined with a compelling travel narrative reminiscent of Anthony Bourdain with straight ahead Anderson Cooper-like reporting, You Are Here is “an intriguing and insightful account that deserves to be read by everyone” (Mark Plotkin, Time Magazine Hero for the Planet).

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  Stalking the Great Killer -...

  Larry C. Floyd, Joseph H. Bates

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  Stalking the Great Killer is the story of Arkansas's struggle to control tuberculosis, and how the state became a model in its treatment of the disease. 
   
   
   
  To place the story of tuberculosis in Arkansas in historical perspective, the authors trace the origins of the disease. Arkansas suffered some of the worst ravages of the disease, and the authors argue that many of the improvements in the state's medical infrastructure grew out of the desperate need to control it. 
   
   
   
  In the early twentieth century, Arkansas established a sanatorium and thirty years later, the segregated Black sanitorium. These institutions helped slow the disease but at a cost: removed from families and communities, patients suffered from the isolation. Joseph Bates saw this when he delivered an uncle to the sanitorium in the 1940s. In the 1960s, Bates, now a physician, and his colleague Paul Reagan overcame a resistant medical-political system to develop a new approach to treating the disease. 
   
   
   
  In the age of Covid-19, this history offers valuable lessons about community involvement in public health, the potential efficacy of public-private partnerships, and the importance of leadership in the battle to eradicate disease.

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  Mirror Matrix - The Missing...

  Ylia Callan

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if reality is missing nothing - except the way we look at it? 
   
  Mirror Matrix: The Missing Dimensions of Reality presents a grounded but far-reaching way of understanding the universe as an information system shaped by reflection, interference and feedback. 
   
  Rather than treating light as a passive messenger, this book shows how reality itself is structured by how information reflects and recombines. Through the four fundamental dimensions of light - intensity, frequency, polarisation and phase - finite signals generate an effectively inexhaustible range of patterns. Infinity emerges not from the size of the universe, but from the richness of interaction. 
   
  Moving from physics to perception, from living systems to culture and meaning, Mirror Matrix reveals a consistent logic at work: patterns that align with their environment persist, while others fade. Observation becomes participation. Meaning becomes stabilised pattern. Responsibility becomes unavoidable in a world of accelerating reflection. 
   
  This book explores questions that sit at the boundary of science and philosophy: 
   
  Why does order exist instead of noise? 
   
  How can finite systems produce overwhelming complexity? 
   
  Why do some patterns - atoms organisms, ideas - persist while others disappear? 
   
  What does it mean to act inside a world shaped by feedback and amplification? 
   
  Written in an accessible, down-to-earth tone, Mirror Matrix does not propose a new belief system or speculative cosmology. It offers a missing lens - one that connects light, life, thought and culture through the same underlying process. 
   
  The mirrors are already in place. 
   
  The patterns are already forming. 
   
  What remains open is how deliberately we choose to participate in the dimensions we’ve been missing.

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  Red Dead Redemption - History...

  Esther Wright, John Wills

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  While the Western was dying a slow death across the cultural landscape, it was blazing back to life as a video game in the early twenty-first century. Rockstar Games' Red Dead franchise, beginning with Red Dead Revolver in 2004, has grown into one of the most critically acclaimed video game franchises of the twenty-first century. Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West offers a critical, interdisciplinary look at this cultural phenomenon at the intersection of game studies and American history. 
   
   
   
  Drawing on game studies, western history, American studies, and cultural studies, the authors train a wide-ranging, deeply informed analytic perspective on the Red Dead franchise—from its earliest incarnation to the latest, Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018). Their intersecting chapters put the series in the context of American history, culture, and contemporary media, with inquiries into issues of authenticity, realism, the meaning of play and commercial promotion, and the relationship between the game and the wider cultural iterations of the classic Western. The contributors also delve into the role the series' development has played in recent debates around working conditions in the gaming industry and gaming culture.

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  Random Science Facts That Will...

  Facta Somnus

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  "Random Science Facts That Will Make You Sleep" is an engaging audiobook designed to help you relax and fall asleep quickly while learning something new. It combines soothing narration with a variety of intriguing science facts, covering topics from the depths of space to the wonders of nature. Each fact is chosen to be interesting yet calming, providing a gentle mental diversion that eases your mind away from daily stress. Ideal for bedtime listening, this audiobook is perfect for those who want to end their day with a mix of education, relaxation, and a touch of curiosity.

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  Data Warehouse Essentials -...

  Virversity Online Courses

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  Data Warehouse Essentials is a course designed to provide a robust understanding of data warehousing concepts, architecture, and best practices. Targeted at aspiring data professionals, this course delivers the knowledge required to design, implement, and optimize data warehouses.Core Learning Objectives:- Understand data warehousing concepts and their importance in modern data management.- Learn architectural components and design considerations.- Explore data modeling techniques, including ER models and star schemas.- Examine ETL processes and data integration from multiple sources.- Get acquainted with popular data warehousing tools and technologies.- Develop querying, reporting, and performance optimization skills.- Ensure security, compliance, and governance in data warehousing.- Understand the relationship between big data and data warehouses.The course starts with an introduction to data warehousing fundamentals, focusing on their importance in data-driven decision-making. It covers data warehouse architecture, components, and design aspects crucial for building efficient systems.Learners delve into data modeling to organize data within a warehouse and cover essential ETL procedures for data integration and cleansing. Practical skills include navigating data warehousing tools and the current technology landscape.Other focus areas include querying, reporting, performance optimization, and maintaining data warehouse security and governance. The course ends with the exploration of big data's interaction with data warehousing, preparing students to address modern data challenges. By the conclusion, participants will enhance their data management skills, becoming adept at designing and managing robust data warehouses in line with business objectives.

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