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  Find More Birds - 111 Surprising...

  Heather Wolf

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  A trove of 111 ingenious tips for seeing more birds wherever you are—from crowd favorites (hummingbirds, owls, eagles) to species you've never spotted before 
   
   
   
  Seeing more birds than you ever imagined and witnessing exciting avian drama is possible—whether you're on the go or in your own neighborhood, local park, or backyard. As Heather Wolf explains, it all comes down to how you tune in to the show happening around you, the one in which birds—highly skilled at staying under the radar—are the stars. In Find More Birds, Heather shares her very best tactics. 
   
   
   
  ● Look for birds at their favorite "restaurants"—from leaf litter to berry bushes, and ball fields to small patches of mud. 
   
   
   
  ● Watch for "tree bark" that moves . . . you may find it has feathers. 
   
   
   
  ● Try simply sitting on the ground for a revealing new perspective. 
   
   
   
  Plus, special tips point the way to crowd favorites such as hummingbirds, owls, and eagles—and can't-miss bird behaviors. As your senses sharpen and "noticing" becomes second nature, Find More Birds will turn your daily routines into bird-finding adventures. Whether you're strolling down the block or parking your car, you never know what will surprise you next!

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  No Country for Old Age -...

  Mischa Honeck

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  Since the birth of their nation, Americans have acted on the belief that theirs was a land of youth, a place destined to offer a fresh start to an aging world. No Country for Old Age tells this story from the founding period to our present moment, but not without exposing its darker side: rejuvenation has often bred grand expectations that end in division and despair. 
   
   
   
  Mischa Honeck reveals how Americans of diverse backgrounds have sought not only to feel and look younger but also to breathe new life into their communities. Whether marching under the banners of science, public health, sexual liberation, physical fitness, nation-building, or world peace, these youth seekers have tended to paint their ventures in utopian colors. However, from the founders to today's Silicon Valley elites, anti-aging ventures have repeatedly magnified social inequalities, often projecting visions of society that have been unmistakably classist, racist, misogynist, and ageist. Today we are experiencing rejuvenation's Janus-faced legacy: As transhumanists rhapsodize about cyber-enhancing human bodies, ghastly pandemics, old-age poverty, and shrinking life expectancies are poised to become the new normal for many twenty-first-century Americans.

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  Futurecide

  W. Douglas Smith

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  Every civilization in history has faced moments of overwhelming existential crises, and they all eventually collapsed. Was this failure inherent in the evolution of civilization, something within the human species, or a combination of both? More importantly, was it predictable and 
  unavoidable? Most civilizations believed they had a special relationship with the divine and were beyond the laws of nature. Our current economic civilization is now global and interdependent. Today’s economy is responsible for the most rapid mass extinction in Earth’s history. We face imminent catastrophic climate change and environmental disruption, yet the same sense of exceptionalism and hubris clouds humanity’s judgement and ability to act rationally.
   
  Environmental disruption is making the planet uninhabitable. No economy can consume its way out of scarcity. This law of nature conflicts with many longstanding economic theories. Sheltered and self-absorbed elitists promote lies and prey on humanity’s most vulnerable instincts of pecking order, conformity, and obedience to authority. These primal instincts may be maladapted to civilization in its current form. Today’s elitists are choosing mass extinction in a false belief in their own invincibility. To survive, humanity can no longer follow delusional 
  leaders to self-destruction.
   
  In non-technical language, the author explores common phases in the development of past civilizations, and the critical junctures and decisions that made collapse inevitable. He investigates the linkages and contradictions between human social behavior, the economy, and the environment. In the closing pages, he identifies a clear path to redemption.

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  Ultimate Full-Stack Web...

  Bhargav Bachina

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  Craft Production-Grade Web Apps with MEVN on AWS, Azure, & GCP
  
  Book Description
  Embark on a journey into modern web development with the Ultimate Full Stack Web Development with MEVN to build robust, scalable applications using MongoDB, Express. js, Vue. js, and Node. js. 
  Starting with fundamental concepts and installation steps, this book progresses to advanced topics and hands-on coding exercises, culminating in the creation of a comprehensive project that spans the entire stack. The book will dive into Vue. js for crafting seamless dynamic user interfaces and explore Node. js modules and components to effectively structure applications. 
  Next, it will delve deeper into MongoDB for efficient data management and seamless integration within your MEVN stack. It will navigate UI development intricacies and explore essential logging options to refine Node. js API development practices. 
  In the concluding section, you'll learn essential techniques for deploying MEVN applications effectively in production environments. The book will cover Docker's capabilities for consistent application containerization across varied deployment settings and critical unit testing and end-to-end testing strategies to boost application reliability and performance. 
  
  Table of Contents
  
  1. Introduction
  2. Prerequisites
  3. Exploring Vue. js
  4. Node. js Modules and Components
  5. Setting Up Development Environment
  6. Backend Development With TypeScript
  7. Getting Familiar With MongoDB and Integration
  8. UI Development
  9. Logging Options in Node. js API
  10. Building MEVN Stack for Production
  11. Running MEVN Stack on Docker
  12. Unit Testing
  13. End-to-End Testing
  14. MEVN Stack Container Options on Google Cloud
  15. MEVN Stack Container Options on AWS
  16. MEVN Stack Container Options on Azure   
  Index

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  Statistics: A Very Short...

  David J. Hand

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  Modern statistics is very different from the dry and dusty discipline of the popular imagination. In its place is an exciting subject which uses deep theory and powerful software tools to shed light and enable understanding. And it sheds this light on all aspects of our lives, enabling astronomers to explore the origins of the universe, archaeologists to investigate ancient civilizations, governments to understand how to benefit and improve society, and businesses to learn how best to provide goods and services.Aimed at listeners with no prior mathematical knowledge, this Very Short Introduction explores and explains how statistics work, and how we can decipher them.

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  Masters or Slaves? - AI and the...

  Jeremy Peckham

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  Artificial Intelligence (AI) pervades much of our lives. We use facial recognition to open our phones, and the state uses it to track us—so what’s the problem? Decisions are made using machine learning on our private and personal data, from shopping habits to medical history—have we lost control? We order our digital world in conversation with chatbots—how convenient, but is it changing our relationships with people? The prospect of a self-driving vehicle lies just around the corner—should we care that it might run over a child to save the passenger’s life?Jeremy Peckham shows us how we have become seduced by progress, embracing AI applications for their convenience, yet unwittingly diminishing our ability to be God’s image-bearers and losing moral responsibility. Rooted in the biblical truth that humanity is created in God’s image, Masters or Slaves? explores six ways in which AI has an impact today. We are challenged where, and how, to set boundaries, both privately and as a society, in order not to fall into addiction, slavery, and idolatry.

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