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  Forgiving Humanity - How the...

  Peter Russell

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  Why has the most innovative of species become so dangerous? The answer, suggests Peter Russell, lies in humanity’s accelerating pace of development. He shows how innovation breeds further innovation—a positive feedback loop leading to exponential rates of change. But our minds cannot grasp the full implications of exponential growth. We think more in terms of linear change, leading to a blind spot on the future.  
  However fast the pace of change may be today, it will be even faster in the years to come, bringing ever more rapid scientific and technological advances. But ever-accelerating change also creates stress on the systems involved. The faster the change, the greater the stress, and the more likely systemic breakdown. We are heading into a future with technology beyond our dreams, but in a world that is breaking at the seams. 
  Russell argues there is no blame for this. Spiraling rates of development, with all their consequences, positive and negative, are the inevitable fate of any intelligent, technologically-empowered species.  
  How do we live with such unsettling conclusions? How can we prepare for a world that is becoming increasingly unpredictable? What does it mean for the future of humanity? 
  Peter Russell, the widely acclaimed author of The Global Brain and other pioneering works, earned an honors degree in theoretical physics and psychology —as well as a masters degree in computer science —at the University of Cambridge. He subsequently went to India where he explored meditation and Eastern philosophy, and was one of the first people to introduce personal development programs to corporations in the 1970s. His other books include The TM Technique, The Upanishads, Waking Up in Time, From Science to God, and Letting Go of Nothing.

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  Mastering Scrum Master...

  Jimmy Mathew

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  Mastering Scrum Master Interviews: 200 Situational Questions and Answers. 
  Practical Insights and Expert Answers for Tackling Scrum Master Role Interviews. 
  This book is designed to help you excel in Scrum Master role interviews by providing 200 carefully curated situational questions along with detailed answers. Each question addresses real-world scenarios that Scrum Masters often face, covering key challenges related to team dynamics, stakeholder engagement, Agile transformation, and organizational change. With comprehensive explanations, this course empowers you to understand the logic behind each answer, helping you build your own personalized responses during interviews. Whether you're an aspiring Scrum Master or looking to refine your interview skills, this course equips you with the insights needed to succeed. 
  A few things to keep in mind: there is often no single correct answer to these questions. The responses provided here are based on personal experience, but interviewers may have different perspectives shaped by their own challenges and background. The goal is not to memorize exact answers but to understand the logic and reasoning behind them so that you can adapt and craft your responses during the interview. 
  We've provided detailed answers to give you a range of ideas to draw from, allowing you to build a solid answer even if you only recall a few key points during the interview. Now, let’s dive into the questions.

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  Cryptids: How We Know They are Real

  James Maxey

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  When you stare into the shadows... do the shadows stare back? 
  Sasquatch! Mothman! Nessie! The Jackalope! Many cryptids are famous, but which ones are real? Search beyond blurry photos and sketchy eye-witness accounts to examine physical evidence of cryptids that shows... how we know they are real. 
  Sample passages: 
  From Chapter 1 
  "Studying cryptids sharpens the mental tools needed to cut through the thickets of misleading and incomplete evidence. The skills you’ll practice as you judge the existence of Bigfoot can be used to analyze any number of scientific, commercial, political, or philosophical claims. The study of cryptids can lead the open-minded explorer into a better understanding and appreciation of our world. 
  From Chapter 16 
  "The giant squid swims through deep, dark seas surrounded by things we’ll never see, and can’t imagine. 
  In this light, the fact that anyone would state that we’ve already discovered every large creature in the wild is a foolish claim. Just because something is unknown isn’t proof that it’s unreal. If someone tells you a certain cryptid doesn’t exist, there’s no reason to accept that as the final word. There can be no final word. Reality is still being discovered and understood, and there’s an infinite supply of the unknown to transform into the knowable."

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  Dispersals - On Plants Borders...

  Jessica J. Lee

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  A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future 
   
   
   
  A seed slips beyond a garden wall. A tree is planted on a precarious border. A shrub is stolen from its culture and its land. What happens when these plants leave their original homes and put down roots elsewhere? 
   
   
   
  In fourteen essays, Dispersals explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds: from species considered invasive, like giant hogweed; to those vilified but intimate, like soy; and those like kelp, on which our futures depend. Each of the plants considered in this collection are somehow perceived as being "out of place"—weeds, samples collected through imperial science, crops introduced and transformed by our hand. Combining memoir, history, and scientific research in poetic prose, Jessica J. Lee meditates on the question of how both plants and people come to belong, why both cross borders, and how our futures are more entwined than we might imagine.

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  A Fenland Garden - Creating a...

  Francis Pryor

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  The story of how Francis Pryor created a haven for people, plants and wildlife in a remote corner of the fens. 
   
  A Fenland Garden is the story of the creation of a garden in a complex and fragile English landscape - the Fens of southern Lincolnshire - by a writer who has a very particular relationship with landscape and the soil, thanks to his distinguished career as an archaeologist and discoverer of some of England's earliest field systems. It describes the imagining, planning and building of a garden in an unfamiliar and sometimes hostile place, and the challenges, setbacks and joys these processes entail. This is a narrative of the making of a garden, but it is also about reclaiming a patch of ground for nature and wildlife - of repairing the damage done to a small slice of Fenland landscape by decades of intensive farming. 
   
  A Fenland Garden is informed by the empirical wisdom of a practising gardener (and archaeologist) and by his deep understanding of the soil, landscape and weather of the region; Francis's account of the development of the garden is counterpointed by fascinating nuggets of Fenland lore and history, as well as by vignettes of the plantsman's trials and tribulations as he works an exceptionally demanding plot of land.

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  Plagues and Pandemics That...

  Science Explained

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  You know the names. Plague, smallpox, cholera, polio. You have heard they changed the world, but nobody ever explained how a thing too small to see could actually do that, or how ordinary people managed to stop it.
  
  This audiobook gives you one disease per chapter, each a self-contained story you can finish on a single commute. You will stand beside John Snow as he maps deaths around a London water pump, watch a country doctor test a rumour about milkmaids that becomes the first vaccine, and follow the mosquito hunters who traced malaria and yellow fever to their source. Alongside every story you get the microbe's own biology in plain language, with a tangible everyday comparison for every big number, so the science lands without any medical background.
  
  By the last chapter you will understand why some killers were beaten for good while others still circulate, and you will never hear a news report about an outbreak the same way again. Press play and meet the detectives.

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