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  Dreams of Duneland - A Pictorial...

  Kenneth J Schoon

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  The towering sand dunes along Lake Michigan not far from Chicago are one of the most unexpected natural features of Indiana. Dreams of Duneland is a beautifully illustrated introduction to the Dunes region, its history, and future prospects. This area of shifting sands is also a place of savanna, wetland, prairie, and forest that is home to a wide diversity of plant and animal species. The preserved area of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore sits by residential communities, businesses, and cultural attractions, evidence of a long history of competition for the land among farmers, fur traders, industrialists, conservationists, and urban and recreational planners. With more than 400 stunning images, the book brings to life the remarkable story of this extraordinary place.

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  Creating Great Marketing...

  Mark Mage

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  Newsletters are a great marketing tool. They always have been and probably always will be. In today's online-marketing-driven world, newsletter content is a key component to achieving sales and improve your overall results. Creating great newsletter content is what drives these results and makes achieving this ultimate goal possible -- and it's actually pretty easy to get there, if you know what you do. This quick and easy introduction spells out the essential concepts you need to grasp so you too can succeed, It gives you hands-on advice to get started quickly and easily and understand the simple ingredients you need to increase your success with great newsletter content for your own marketing needs. Creating Great Marketing Newletters is available as e-book, paperback and audiobook editions. 
  This audiobook edition of Creating Great Marketing Newsletters comes complete with a supplement section that contains clickable links for all Reference Materials and Recommendations for your convenience and for easy access.

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  Survival of the Nicest - How...

  Stefan Klein

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  Award-winning, international bestselling science writer Stefan Klein explores the benefits of altruism on humanity in Survival of the Nicest. 
   
  The phrase “survival of the fittest” conjures an image of the most cutthroat individuals rising to the top. But Stefan Klein, author of The Science of Happiness, makes the startling assertion that altruism is the key to lasting personal and societal success. In fact, altruism defines us: Natural selection favored those early humans who cooperated in groups, and with survival more assured, our altruistic ancestors were free to devote brainpower to developing intelligence, language, and culture—our very humanity.  
   
  Klein’s groundbreaking findings lead him to a vexing question: If we’re really hard-wired to act for one another’s benefit, why aren’t we all getting along? He believes we’ve learned to mistrust our instincts because success is so often attributed to selfish ambition, and with an extraordinary array of material—current research on genetics and the brain, economics, social psychology, behavioral and anthropological experiments, history, and modern culture—he makes the case that generosity for its own sake remains the best way to thrive. 
   
  “Stefan Klein, an enticing storyteller, marshals the evidence for the value of altruism—not only to one’s family but, much more interestingly, to one’s self and one’s tribe. Altruism is truly contagious!” —Roald Hoffman, Nobel Laureate 
   
  “A scholarly tour de force about why generosity makes good sense, Survival of the Nicest is also compulsively readable. Klein argues convincingly that helping others is one of the best things we can do for ourselves.” —Elizabeth Svoboda, author of What Makes a Hero?: The Surprising Science of Selflessness

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  Patient Care

  MD Paul Seward

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  Recalling remarkable cases-and people-from a career launched in the first days of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Paul Seward leads us in his memoir through suspenseful diagnoses and explorations of anatomy. By his side, we learn to distinguish nursemaid's elbow from a true broken arm. We learn how our breathing and swallowing mechanisms resemble a practical joke. But when a baby's heart stops and a young doctor forgets what to do, the situation is far from funny. Within the conditions of great stress and rapid decision-making that are routine in the ER, Dr. Seward shows us that medical staff must be more than technicians of the body: they must be restorers of the human. Whether it is comforting anxious families or subjecting a distressed patient to tough procedures, they must learn the difficult work of caring for strangers. Throughout Patient Care, Dr. Seward reflects on how a life in medicine tests what it means to put ethics into practice.

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  Astrobiology - The Search for...

  Andrew May

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  Extraterrestrial life is a common theme in
  
  science fiction, but is it a serious prospect in the real world? Astrobiology
  
  is the emerging field of science that seeks to answer this question.
  
  The possibility of life elsewhere in the cosmos
  
  is one of the most profound subjects that human beings can ponder. Astrophysicist
  
  Andrew May gives an expert overview of our current state of knowledge, looking
  
  at how life started on Earth, the tell-tale 'signatures' it produces, and how
  
  such signatures might be detected elsewhere in the Solar System or on the many 'exoplanets'
  
  now being discovered by the Kepler and TESS missions.
  
  Along the way the book addresses key questions such as the riddle of Fermi's
  
  paradox ('Where is everybody?') and the crucial role of DNA and water – they're
  
  essential to 'life as we know it', but is the same true of alien life? And the really
  
  big question: when we eventually find extraterrestrials, will they be friendly
  
  or hostile?

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  The Rare and the Beautiful - How...

  Cressida Connolly

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  Like the better-known Mitfords, the Garman sisters took center stage in Bohemian London during the first half of the twentieth century. Beautiful, flamboyant, and headstrong, they broke away from middle-class conventions, seducing and inspiring a generation of artists. Kathleen, an enigmatic artist's model and aspiring pianist, was the lover and, later, wife of controversial American-born sculptor Jacob Epstein. Mary married the maverick poet Roy Campbell, whose verse attack on the Bloomsbury group following Mary's affair with Vita Sackville-West was the literary scandal of the epoch. Lorna, the youngest and most beautiful of the sisters, was the lover of both the painter Lucian Freud and the poet Laurie Lee.The Rare and the Beautiful offers the first portrait of a beguiling band of eccentric siblings who possessed an uncanny ability to turn heads, break hearts, and spark creative genius. Set against the exciting backdrop of London's decadent subculture, it evokes their extraordinary milieu of high culture, drama, and scandal.

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