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  The Complete Guide to Smallholding

  Debbie Kingsley

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  Essential advice from finding your plot to selling your produce and everything in between
  Growing your own food and living off the land is an aspiration for many, but where do you start and how do you make it work? Providing a truly comprehensive insight and packed with practical guidance for the 21st century smallholder, this book is for anyone considering, starting out or in the throes of smallholding. Addressing the challenges and pitfalls, as well as the joys, and with over 400 illustrations.

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  Jupiter: A Planet in our Solar...

  Jason Hill

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  Do you love learning about space?  Do you know how important the solar system is?  This is the audio book for you.   All your questions will be answered.  Jupiter is fifth in line from the Sun, Jupiter is, by far, the largest planet in the solar system.  This planet is  more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined.  Jupiter's familiar stripes and swirls are actually cold, windy clouds of ammonia and water, floating in an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium. Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot is a giant storm bigger than Earth that has raged for hundreds of years.

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  On the Backs of Tortoises -...

  Elizabeth Hennessy

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  An insightful exploration of the iconic Galápagos tortoises, and how their fate is inextricably linked to our own in a rapidly changing world.   Finalist for the 2020 E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, sponsored by PEN America Literary Awards   The Galápagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For sixty years, conservationists have worked to restore this evolutionary Eden after centuries of exploitation at the hands of pirates, whalers, and island settlers. This book tells the story of the islands’ namesakes—the giant tortoises—as coveted food sources, objects of natural history, and famous icons of conservation and tourism. By doing so, it brings into stark relief the paradoxical, and impossible, goal of conserving species by trying to restore a past state of prehistoric evolution. The tortoises, Elizabeth Hennessy demonstrates, are not prehistoric, but rather microcosms whose stories show how deeply human and nonhuman life are entangled. In a world where evolution is thoroughly shaped by global history, Hennessy puts forward a vision for conservation based on reckoning with the past, rather than trying to erase it.   “Fresh, insightful . . . Hennessy’s melding of human and natural history makes for thought-provoking reading.” —Booklist (starred review)   “Gripping . . . well-researched and thought-provoking . . . whether you’re well-versed in the intricacies of conservation or have only just begun to long for a look at the tortoises yourself. On the Backs of Tortoises is a natural history that asks important questions, and challenges us to think about how best to answer them.” —Genevieve Valentine, NPR   “Wonderfully interesting, informative, and engaging, as well as scholarly.” —Janet Browne, author of Charles Darwin: Voyaging and Charles Darwin: The Power of Place

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  The Dark Age of Tanks -...

  David Lister

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  A British tank historian sheds new light on the UK’s Cold War era research and development of cutting-edge military vehicles and anti-tank weaponry. 
   
  In the thirty years after the Second World War, the British army entered a period of intense technological development. Yet, due to the lack of surviving documentation, comparatively little is known about this period. What does survive, however, reveals the British Army’s struggle to use cutting edge technology to create weapons that could crush the Soviet Union's armed forces, all the while fighting against the demands of Her Majesty's Treasury. 
   
  On this journey, the Army entertained ideas such as massive 183mm anti-tank guns, devastating rocket artillery, colossal anti-tank guided missiles, and micro-tanks operable by crews of only two. At one point, they were on the cusp of building hover tanks. This book explores a time period of increasing importance in military engineering history and brings much-needed light to the dark age of British tanks.

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  Inside Out

  Pat Toulson

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  Similar to Jenny Worth’s Call the Midwife, this book reveals a different, still hidden medical field, the world of x-rays. This story follows a shy, sixteen year old girl, as she attempts to become a professional radiographer from 1962 into the 1990’s. All the incidents and cases are true, for they are Patricia Toulson’s real-life memories. She is thrust into the harsh disciplinary world of a general hospital, ruled by barbed tongues of nursing Sisters’ and ridiculed and harassed by experienced male staff. She experiences horror and tragedy, sadness and joy but also humour abounds in unexpected places. She encounters child abuse, infertility and teenage terminal illness, countered by the wonders of the healing body and the splendour and radiance of pregnancy.

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  Left Brain - Myths and...

  Tyler Bordan

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  What can you do to use your left brain’s full capacity more?  
  Have you ever heard of left-brain and right-brain activity? What does it mean? And what can you do with them?  
  What if I told you a lot of people don’t know the difference between the left brain and the right brain? Or that their idea of those two areas is overly simplistic?  
  Is there really such a thing as being left-brained or right-brained?  
  If you are interested in learning more about the brain, then this short audiobook is definitely for you. Academic studies worldwide have pointed out humans don’t use all of their brain, and even though the 10 percent myth has been widely debunked, there is still more to do and to learn so you can increase your brain function significantly. 
  Therefore, in this brief guide, a list of intriguing facts and myths will be outlined and clarified. Among others, you will have the opportunity to hear about: The seven left-brain qualities we don’t often realize we need.How to expand your mind through brain training.Eating habits that can increase brain activity.How creativity relates to the way our brain functions.Interesting side notes about the soul, the brain, and the afterlife.The best ways to stimulate the functionality of the left brain with essential oils.How the law of attraction relates to the left brain. 
  Let’s not forget the importance of optimal use of our left brain to increase in intelligence and keep society afloat. After all, many great, successful people thrive on the evolvement and development of their left brain. If you should want to increase some spectacle of your intelligence in that area as well, then I urge you to get started by hearing more about it.  
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