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  Ivory's Ghosts - The White Gold...

  John Frederick Walker

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  “[A] tour de force examination of the history of ivory . . . and the demise of the elephant and human decency in the process of this unholy quest.” —The Huffington Post   Praised for the nuance and sensitivity with which it approaches one of the most fraught conservation issues we face today, John Frederick Walker’s Ivory’s Ghosts tells the astonishing story of the power of ivory through the ages, and its impact on elephants. Long before gold and gemstones held allure, ivory came to be prized in every culture of the world—from ancient Egypt to nineteenth-century America to modern Japan—for its beauty, rarity, and ability to be finely carved. But the beauty came at an unfathomable cost.   Walker lays bare the ivory trade’s cruel connection with the slave trade and the increasing slaughter of elephants in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the 1980s, elephant poaching reached levels that threatened the last great herds of the African continent, and led to a worldwide ban on the ancient international trade in tusks. But the ban has failed to stop poaching—or the emotional debate over what to do with the legitimate and growing stockpiles of ivory recovered from elephants that die of natural causes.   “Ivory’s Ghost is essential reading for anyone concerned with conservation and with the tenuous future of one of the most magnificent creatures our earth has ever seen.” —George B. Schaller, author of A Naturalist and Other Beast

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  Purpose and Desire - What Makes...

  J. Scott Turner

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  A professor, biologist, and physiologist argues that modern Darwinism's materialist and mechanistic biases have led to a scientific dead end, unable to define what life is—and only an openness to the qualities of "purpose and desire" will move the field forward. 
  J. Scott Turner contends, "To be scientists, we force ourselves into a Hobson's choice on the matter: accept intentionality and purposefulness as real attributes of life, which disqualifies you as a scientist; or become a scientist and dismiss life's distinctive quality from your thinking. I have come to believe that this choice actually stands in the way of our having a fully coherent theory of life." 
  Growing research shows that life's most distinctive quality, shared by all living things, is purpose and desire: maintain homeostasis to sustain life. In Purpose and Desire, Turner draws on the work of Claude Bernard, a contemporary of Darwin revered among physiologists as the founder of experimental medicine, to build on Bernard's "dangerous idea" of vitalism, which seeks to identify what makes "life" a unique phenomenon of nature. To further its quest to achieve a fuller understanding of life, Turner argues, science must move beyond strictly accepted measures that consider only the mechanics of nature.

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  God's Hotel - A Doctor a...

  Victoria Sweet

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  San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the hôtel-Dieu (God's hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves-"anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times" and needed extended medical care-ended up here. So did Victoria Sweet, who came for two months and stayed for twenty years.Laguna Honda, lower-tech but human-paced, gave Sweet the opportunity to practice a kind of attentive medicine that has almost vanished. Gradually, the place transformed the way she understood her work. Alongside the modern view of the body as a machine to be fixed, her extraordinary patients evoked an older idea of the body as a garden to be tended. God's Hotel tells their story and the story of the hospital itself, which, as efficiency experts, politicians, and architects descended, determined to turn it into a modern "health care facility," revealed its own surprising truths about the essence, cost, and value of caring for body and soul.

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  Plastics - Good or Bad?

  Seeker

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  From food packaging to toys, plastic has become an integral part of society, but what is it doing to our planet? Are we able to make alternatives or cut out plastic altogether? Listen in to this best of collection from Seeker as they take you through the crazy laboratory accident that helped create plastic, the scientists who are creating infinitely recyclable plastic, and what the world would look like without plastic.

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  The Homing Instinct - Meaning &...

  Bernd Heinrich

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  “A noted naturalist explores the centrality of home in the lives of humans and other animals . . . A special treat for readers of natural history” (Kirkus Reviews).   Every year, many species make the journey from one place to another, following the same paths and ending up in the same places. Every year since boyhood, the acclaimed scientist and author Bernd Heinrich has done the same, returning to a beloved patch of western Maine woods. Which led him to wonder: What is the biology in humans of this primal pull toward a particular place, and how is it related to animal homing?   In The Homing Instinct, Heinrich explores the fascinating mysteries of animal migration: how geese imprint true visual landscape memory; how scent trails are used by many creatures to locate their homes with pinpoint accuracy; and how even the tiniest of songbirds are equipped for solar and magnetic orienteering over vast distances. And he reminds us that to discount our human emotions toward home is to ignore biology itself.   “A graceful blend of science and memoir . . . [Heinrich’s] ability to linger and simply be there for the moment when, for instance, an elderly spider descends from a silken strand to take the insect he offers her is the heart of his appeal.” —Julie Zickefoose, The Wall Street Journal   “Deep and insightful writing.” —David Gessner, The Washington Post

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  Touchpad Computer Applications...

  Sanjay Jain

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  The chapters of this book have been selected and designed as per the CBSE curriculum of Computer Applications (Code 165). 
  
  KEY FEATURES 
  - National Education Policy 2020 
  - Do you Know?: This section contains a fact about the topic. 
  - Lab Assignment 'N Activity: This section contains an activity to apply the concepts learnt. 
  - PART A & PART B: This section contains questions to assess the intellectual and comprehensive writing skills. 
  - CBSE Sample Question Paper: This section contains sample question paper. 
  - Digital Solutions 
  
  DESCRIPTION (This section should contain complete information about the book from the start to the end, in around 1350 characters with space.)
  The main features of this book are as follows: 
  - The language of the book is simple and easy to understand. 
  - The book focuses on Free and Open-Source Software (Foss) with highlights of MS Office. 
  - Notes are given for add-on knowledge. 
  - Students are provided with fun facts about the topic. 
  - Lab Activities are added in between the chapters to develop practical skills. 
  - The applications of IT Tools are discussed with real life scenarios. 
  - The contents will help to create opportunity for better job prospects with respect to IT fields. 
  
  WHAT WILL YOU LEARN (what will the readers be capable of doing after reading the book)(5-6 sentences) (300 characters with space)
  You will learn about: 
  - Networking 
  - HTML 
  - CSS 
  - Cyber ethics 
  - Scratch 
  - Python 
  WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR (audience) (Let the readers know what knowledge they should have before reading the book)(350 characters with space)
  Grade - 10 
  
  TABLE OF CONTENTS (Numbered list) 
  1. Unit-1: Networking 
  (a) Chapter-1 Networking 
  2. Unit-2: HTML 
  (a) Chapter-2 Introduction to HTML 
  (b) Chapter-3 More About HTML 
  (c) Chapter-4 Cascading Style Sheets 
  3. Unit-3: Cyber Ethics 
  (a) Chapter-5 Cyber Ethics 
  4. Unit-4: Scratch or Python 
  (a) Chapter-6 Scratch 
  (b) Chapter-7 Programming in Python 
  (c) Chapter-8 Decision Making in Python 
  (d) Chapter-9 Looping in Python 
  5. Practical Work 
  6. Viva Voce Questions 
  7. Projects 
  8. Glossary 
  9. CBSE Sample Question Paper

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