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  Cool Gadgets Devices...

  Owen Jones

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  Embark on a captivating journey into the realm of ingenious gadgets and cutting-edge devices with Cool Gadgets, Devices, Contraptions, and Tools As a gadget enthusiast, the allure of innovative technology is a constant source of fascination and excitement. This book serves as a guide to the latest and most intriguing gadgets, offering insights into their functionality, applications, and the impact they have on our daily lives. 
  From the convenience of smart home technology to the thrill of wearable fitness trackers and the awe-inspiring capabilities of drone technology, this book explores a wide array of gadgets that have revolutionised the way we live, work, and play. Whether you’re a seasoned gadget aficionado or just dipping your toes into the world of innovation, there’s something for everyone within these pages. 
  Discover the convenience of smart thermostats and lighting systems that adapt to your preferences, creating a comfortable and energy-efficient home environment. Dive into the world of wearable fitness trackers, which not only monitor your physical activity but also motivate and inspire you to achieve your health and fitness goals. 
  Explore the fascinating capabilities of drones, from hobbyist drones capturing breathtaking aerial footage to professional-grade drones revolutionising industries like agriculture and film-making. Dive into the world of cool car accessories and cell phone gadgets that enhance your driving experience and keep you connected on the go. 
  Join us on this adventure through Cool Gadgets, Devices, Contraptions, and Tools, where we delve into the world of gadgets, devices, contraptions, and tools that continue to shape the way we live in the modern world. Whether you’re seeking practical solutions or simply intrigued by the latest technological marvels, this book is your guide to the ever-evolving landscape of innovation.

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  A Darker Wilderness - Black...

  Erin Sharkey

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  What are the politics of nature? Who owns it, where is it, what role does it play in our lives? Does it need to be tamed? Are we ourselves natural? In A Darker Wilderness, a constellation of luminary writers reflect on the significance of nature in their lived experience and on the role of nature in the lives of Black folks in the United States. Each of these essays engages with a single archival object, whether directly or obliquely, exploring stories spanning hundreds of years and thousands of miles, traveling from roots to space and finding rich Blackness everywhere. 
   
   
   
  Erin Sharkey considers Benjamin Banneker's 1795 almanac, as she follows the passing of seasons in an urban garden in Buffalo. Naima Penniman reflects on a statue of Haitian revolutionary François Makandal, within her own pursuit of environmental justice. Ama Codjoe meditates on rain, hair, protest, and freedom via a photo of a woman during a civil rights demonstration in Alabama. And so on with wide-ranging contributions unearthing evidence of the ways Black people's relationship to the natural world has persevered through colonialism, slavery, violence, and structurally racist policies. 
   
   
   
  A scrapbook, a family chest, a quilt—a work of historical engagement and literary accomplishment—A Darker Wilderness is a collection brimming with abundance and insight.

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  Africulture - How the Principles...

  Michael Carter Jr.

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  "Africulture is a gift and inspiration."—Michael W. Twitty, author of the James Beard Foundation Award-winning The Cooking Gene 
   
  A bold, timely history illuminating the essential contributions to U.S. agriculture arising from the expertise and innovations of Black men and women. 
   
  In Africulture, fifth-generation family farmer Michael Carter, Jr. has blended an eclectic brew of history, culture, African-centered perspectives, and African American farm realities. Throughout, he includes inspiring stories of innovators as well as sobering facts tracking the severe decline in the number of Black farmers in the United States over the last century. Descriptions of tropical crops that Carter grows, from jute to Nigerian spinach, enliven the text, as do anecdotes from his compelling family history and profiles of contemporary Black farmers and activists. Drawing on the lifecycle of a plant as a metaphor for both individual growth and the larger story of African American farming, Carter evokes the relationship between soil health (metaphorically, society and community) and plant health (i.e., the ability of Black farmers and families to thrive). 
   
  Africulture also includes Carter’s heartfelt reflections on the cycles of progress and backsliding—what he calls “blacklash”—that are an inescapable part of the history of Black people in the United States, in agriculture and beyond. In the present moment, when the civil rights gains and progress toward economic parity for Black Americans of the past fifty years may be slipping away, Carter offers the possibility of a better future through several foundational principles of Africulture. 
   
  Destined to surprise, challenge, and enrich, Africulture lays bare the undeniable revelation that without African expertise and innovation, American agriculture—and America itself—would not exist. 
   
  “The ancestors are undoubtedly shaking their tambourines in celebration of Africulture...[it] provides a blueprint for the blossoming of an agriculture rooted in cultural memory, ecological care, and mutual thriving.”—Leah Penniman, cofounder, Soul Fire Farm; author of Farming While Black

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  Ultimate Life Success meditation...

  Stuart Newman

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  If you are looking for a way to achieve permanent success, then the Ultimate Life Success meditation - Hypnosis for success while sleeping - DST Hypno with Stu Newman is the perfect choice.  
  This hypnosis program will help you tap into your subconscious mind and reprogram it to think more positively about yourself and your goals in life.  
  With this powerful tool, you can create new habits that will lead to greater levels of success both professionally and personally.  
  The hypnotic audio track also helps put your body into a deep state of relaxation so that all feelings of stress or anxiety are eliminated during sleep time which leads to improved mental clarity when awake.  
  Plus, it's easy-to-follow instructions make it simple enough for anyone regardless of experience level!  
  So if achieving ultimate life success is something important on your list, give this session a try today!

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  Loose of Earth - A Memoir

  Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn

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  Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn was the oldest of five children, a twelve-year-old from Lubbock, Texas, whose evangelical family eschewed public education for homeschooling, and wove improbable scientific theories into literal interpretations of the Bible. Then her father, a former air force pilot, was diagnosed with cancer at the age of thirty-eight, and, "it was like throwing gasoline on the Holy Spirit." Stirred by her mother, the family committed to an extreme diet and sought deliverance from equally extreme sources: a traveling tent preacher, a Malaysian holy man, a local faith-healer who led services called "Miracles on 34th Street." 
   
   
   
  What they didn't know was that their lives were entangled with a larger, less visible environmental catastrophe. Firefighting foams containing carcinogenic compounds had contaminated the drinking water of every military site where her father worked. Commonly referred to as "forever chemicals," the presence of PFAS in West Texas besieged a landscape already burdened with vanishing water, taking up residence in wells and in the bloodstreams of people who lived there. An arresting portrait of the pernicious creep of decline, and a powerful cry for environmental justice, Loose of Earth captures the desperate futility and unbending religious faith that devastated a family, leaving them waiting for a miracle that would never come.

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  Anthropocene - A Very Short...

  Erle C. Ellis

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  The proposal that the impact of humanity on the planet has left a distinct footprint, even on the scale of geological time, has recently gained much ground. Global climate change, shifting global cycles of the weather, widespread pollution, radioactive fallout, plastic accumulation, species invasions, the mass extinction of species—these are just some of the many indicators that we will leave a lasting record in rock, the scientific basis for recognizing new time intervals in Earth's history. The Anthropocene, as the proposed new epoch has been named, is regularly in the news. 
   
   
   
  Even with such robust evidence, the proposal to formally recognize our current time as the Anthropocene remains controversial both inside and outside the scholarly world. Instead, the Anthropocene has emerged as a powerful new narrative, a concept through which age-old questions about the meaning of nature and even the nature of humanity are being revisited and radically revised. 
   
   
   
  This Very Short Introduction explains the science behind the Anthropocene and the many proposals about when to mark its beginning: the nuclear tests of the 1950s? The beginnings of agriculture? The origins of humans as a species? The Anthropocene remains a work in progress. Is 
  this the story of an unprecedented planetary disaster? Or of newfound wisdom and redemption?

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