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  99 Bottles - A Black Sheep's...

  André Hueston Mack

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  99 Bottles is a highly opinionated wine guide from one of the country’s most celebrated—and unorthodox—sommeliers and winemakers. 
    
  In this entertaining, informative, and thoroughly unconventional wine guide, award-winning sommelier, winemaker, and wine educator André Hueston Mack presents readers with the 99 bottles that have most impacted his life. Instead of just pairing wines with foods, Mack pairs practical information with personal stories, offering up recommendations alongside reflections on being one of the only African Americans to ever work at the top level of the American wine industry. 
    
  The 99 bottles range from highly accessible commercial wines to the most rarefied Bordeaux on the wine list at The French Laundry, and each bottle offers readers something to learn about wine. This window into Mack’s life combines a maverick’s perspective on the wine industry with an insider’s advice on navigating wine lists, purchasing wine, and drinking more diverse and interesting selections at home. 99 Bottles is a one-of-a-kind exploration of wine culture today from a true trailblazer.

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  The Spaces That Make Us - Why...

  Danish Kurani

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  Create a better life by creating better design. Did you know that. . . 
  . . . the arrangement of your living room could improve your relationship with your partner? 
  . . . the layout of your child’s classroom affects their grades and test scores? 
  . . . the design of your hospital room influences how quickly you recover? 
  We live in a symbiotic relationship with the spaces around us—first we make our spaces, and then our spaces make us. But we’re living in a suboptimal world, one that we designed. The good news: We can redesign it. For twenty years, architect and designer Danish Kurani has been transforming spaces to improve people’s health and happiness through the design of schools, homes, offices, and community centers across four continents. 
  The Spaces That Make Us offers you:A clear, easy-to-follow philosophy you can apply to any space—your home, office, school, or neighborhood.Surprising research revealing how design impacts your physical health, emotional well-being, and the quality of your relationships.A journey through the past 2 million years, arriving at how current design practices make life worse.An inspiring vision for creating future designs and a compelling call to rethink design’s fundamentalsPractical strategies for using smarter design to improve your life, at any budget level. 
    
  Kurani unveils a life-changing design philosophy, Baaham (pronounced BAH-hum), a word from Urdu meaning “in tandem”—describing two interconnected things working in harmony. Baaham draws from psychology, sociology, anthropology, and evolutionary biology. Whether you’re designing for yourself or others, at any scale from a bedroom to a city block, Baaham is a roadmap for improving health, building deeper relationships, and finding greater fulfillment. It’s not just a philosophy—it’s a way of life. 
  Featuring seven core principles, Baaham helps everyone—from financially strapped college students to a manager looking to improve their team’s performance—create environments that are functional, beautiful, and life-changing. This book doesn’t tell you what to design. It teaches you how to design, so that you can build the life you want. Engaging illustrations are included throughout every chapter, to illuminate each principle and bring Baaham to life. 
  The Spaces That Make Us will change how you see the world—opening your eyes to what isn’t working, and helping you remake your spaces for a happier, healthier life. 
  Line drawings and a Baaham design canvas can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download. 

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  Our Little Farm - Adventures in...

  Peter Wohlleben, Miriam Wohlleben

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  Called "a veritable tree whisperer" by the Wall Street Journal, Peter Wohlleben is known across the world for his illuminating books about forests and how to help them thrive. Now, the German forester invites listeners into his home for the first time in Our Little Farm, describing the steps he and his wife, Miriam, have taken to live sustainably and in harmony with nature. 
   
   
   
  Peter and Miriam moved from the city to a remote forest lodge in the early nineties. Amidst juggling careers and raising a young family, they learned how to plant and rotate crops, harvest and preserve nature's bounty, and tend to the unique needs of their animals and environment. Along the way, they made mistakes and abandoned some projects (sheep raising was not their thing) but maintained a sense of joy in their shared goal. 
   
   
   
  Brimming with insights, wisdom, and tips on everything from constructing farm buildings to choosing the perfect chicken, Our Little Farm shows that, with a little grit, humor, and self-compassion, it's possible to live according to our values and to care for the earth even as we care for ourselves, our homes, and our families.

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  Insect Control At Home -...

  Owen Jones

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  Welcome to this exploration of the past, present and future of pest management in “Insect Control: Navigating the Frontier of Cutting-Edge Control Solutions”. In this dynamic journey, we unravel the tapestry of cutting-edge technologies reshaping the age-old battle against pests. The evolving landscape of insect control is no longer confined to conventional methods but embraces an array of revolutionary solutions driven by smart devices, artificial intelligence, and innovative traps. 
  As the realms of technology and entomology converge, “Insect Control” serves as your navigational guide, unveiling the transformative power of precision, efficiency, and sustainability in pest control. We embark on a quest to redefine the relationship between humans and insects, transcending traditional approaches to create a harmonious coexistence. 
  The chapters within this book delve into the depths of smart sensors that monitor insect movements in real-time, AI algorithms that predict and counter pest behaviour, and traps that revolutionise how we capture and control pests. From the bustling urban environments to vast agricultural landscapes, these innovations offer a glimpse into a future where pest management is not just a reaction but a proactive, anticipatory endeavour. 
  Join us on this technological odyssey, where innovation meets entomology, and the age-old struggle against pests transforms into a saga of ingenuity and sustainability. “Insect Control” is more than a guide; it`s a glimpse into the future of pest control—an era where the precision of technology harmonises with the resilience of nature to create environments free from invasive intruders. Let the exploration begin!

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  The Land and Its People - Essays

  David Sedaris

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  In THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE, his first new collection since HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, David Sedaris reflects on what it means to be a foreigner, a brother, a lifelong friend. He tries on the role of caretaker after his boyfriend Hugh’s hip-replacement surgery, and both succeeds and fails. He buys his sister a cape and discusses his brother with a jaded Duolingo bot. He walks dozens of miles with his friend Dawn and challenges her to eat a truck tire. Ever adding to his list of “Countries I Have Been To,” he rides a horse named Tequila in Guatemala, buys a bespoke priest’s cassock in Vatican City, and goes on safari in Kenya without taking a single photo.   There is sadness here—scrolling through his address book, he realizes how many dear friends are now deceased—but also delight: he revels in authors’ biographies, the malapropism that becomes a decades-long inside joke, and pair of well-made cotton underpants. He is bitten by a dog. A train passenger vomits in his face. A woman on the street late at night either sexually harasses him or doesn’t. Look how hard it is to be alive!   Throughout these essays—at once acerbic and tender, playful and profound—Sedaris shows how much there is to marvel at when you keep your head up and your eyes open, observing with warmth and curiosity this fascinating human species and the lands we inhabit.

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  Growing Marijuana For Beginners...

  Dave Abbott

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  Welcome to Growing Marijuana for Beginners! Thank you for choosing this book, and I hope you enjoy what you find contained within these pages. This book will teach you everything you need to know about marijuana, cannabis, indoor gardening, and much more. 
  Before we delve into the science of growing marijuana, we will first ensure that we are all on the same page regarding our basic cannabis and marijuana knowledge. After you finish reading the first chapter of this book, you will be ready to take on the following chapters. In the chapters that follow, we will learn about a variety of topics, including; The science of cannabis, what happens when you smoke or ingest it, the chemicals contained within cannabis and how they can benefit you, examples of the different types of cannabis that you can choose to grow, and how to begin growing cannabis plants of your own!

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