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  NASA Programs in the 1970s: The...

  Editors Charles River

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  Space exploration was always an expensive business, and throughout NASA’s history, the agency has had to justify to Congress its need for every dollar it intended to spend. This problem has helped NASA to be more careful and more creative with the money they did receive, and scientists had to justify the equipment they wanted to include on each space probe. They had to justify the size and the power demand, too. If they wanted too much, the entire mission might be scrubbed, and all their work would have been for naught. This made planning and designs leaner and more efficient, as scientists and engineers were more careful with their recommendations. 
  In fact, the Pioneer program was the most diversified sequence of any of NASA’s programs, and though they’re now remembered for being among the first probes in history to reach the Outer Solar System, the elaborate planning changed goals several times over several years before resulting in historic successes. NASA had wanted to do a Grand Tour of the Solar System toward the end of the 1970s to take advantage of the scheduled alignment of planets, which meant the Pioneer missions were meant to be test runs prior to the main events (Voyager 1 and Voyager 2), and a great many things discovered by Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 were essential to the successful planning of the Voyager probes. 
  Voyager 1 and 2 have done far more than accomplish their original missions. In fact, they are now exploring interstellar space, far beyond the outer planets in the cold wasteland between the stars. Each spacecraft carries a copy of a golden record which contains an introduction to Earth, should some alien civilization happen to encounter either Voyager 1 or Voyager 2. In the first Star Trek movie, writers imagined just that, creating a story of a Voyager spacecraft being captured and adapted for its own uses.

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  Your AI Ally - A Beginner's...

  Alberto Posse

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  Harness the Power of AI to Revolutionize Your Productivity
   
  
   
  Transform your productivity with "Your AI Ally," a comprehensive guide designed for beginners eager to embrace artificial intelligence. Dive into the evolution and capabilities of AI, discovering a world of endless possibilities. Learn how AI personal assistants like ChatGPT, Notion AI, and Google Assistant can simplify and enhance your life, turning complex tasks into seamless processes.
   
  
   
  This book provides proven strategies for integrating AI into your daily routine, offering immediate productivity boosts and time-saving solutions. Whether managing household tasks or professional projects, AI becomes an essential part of your decision-making and workflow management, helping you achieve more with less effort.
   
  
   
  Explore practical and ethical considerations for responsible AI usage, and navigate potential challenges with ease. You'll gain confidence in troubleshooting and adapting to the AI learning curve, ensuring a smooth transition into this transformative domain.
   
  
   
  "Your AI Ally" equips you with AI solutions tailored to various lifestyles—from creative applications for writers and artists to organized workflows for freelancers and homemakers. As you prepare for technological advancements, this guide helps you stay ahead of emerging trends.
   
  
   
  Empower yourself to embrace AI mastery. Let this book motivate you to take actionable steps toward a future filled with productivity and success.

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  Conserving Nature in Greater...

  Robert B. Keiter

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  The story of how Yellowstone, established in 1872 as the world’s first national park, has become synonymous with nature conservation—and an examination of today’s challenges to preserve the region’s wilderness heritage. For more than 150 years, the Yellowstone region—now widely known as the twenty-three million acre Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem—has played a prominent role in the United States’ nature conservation agenda. In this book, Robert B. Keiter, an award-winning public land law and policy expert, traces the evolution and application of fundamental ecological conservation concepts tied to Yellowstone.
   
  
  Keiter’s book highlights both the conservation successes and controversies connected with this storied region, which has been enmeshed in change. 
  But in the face of explosive human population growth and related development pressures, new efforts must also account for the region’s privately owned lands along with accelerating recreational activities that present quite different problems.
  
  Exploring both notable conservation accomplishments and the ongoing challenges confronting this special place, Keiter’s book explains the many forces—scientific, political, economic, legal, cultural, climatic, and more—at work driving controversy and change across the region. But more than this, Conserving Nature in Greater Yellowstone shows us that the lessons gleaned from Yellowstone’s expansive nature conservation efforts are profoundly important for both the country and the world.

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  Gentle Rain and Birdsong –...

  Calming Nature Sounds for...

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  Step into a world of natural peace and harmony. This immersive soundscape blends the gentle rhythm of falling rain with the soothing melodies of birdsong—recorded deep within the enchanted forests of Germany’s Volcanic Eifel and New Zealand’s ancient Waipoua Forest.
   
  
   
  With over 90 minutes of high-quality, crystal-clear ambient nature sounds, this audio experience is ideal for relaxation, meditation, stress relief, mindfulness practice, yoga, or focused work. Whether you’re looking for a calming background for your wellness routine or peaceful soundscapes for radio, film, or television, this recording delivers pure tranquility.
   
  
   
  The subtle interplay of rain on leaves, forest ferns, mossy grounds, and distant bird calls has a calming effect on the nervous system—and may even help reduce symptoms of tinnitus. Let this natural symphony become your personal hammock for the soul.
   
  
   
  Perfect for:
   
  ✔️ Meditation & mindfulness
   
  ✔️ Deep relaxation & stress relief
   
  ✔️ Sleep & tinnitus support
   
  ✔️ Spa, massage, yoga & wellness sessions
   
  ✔️ Peaceful ambient background in any setting
   
  
   
  Let the sounds of the forest carry you away—into a space of serenity, presence, and inner peace.

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  The Last of Its Kind - The...

  Gisli Palsson

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  The great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction. A flightless bird that bred primarily on the remote islands of the North Atlantic, the last of its kind were killed in Iceland in 1844. Gísli Pálsson draws on firsthand accounts from the Icelanders who hunted the last great auks to bring to life a bygone age of Victorian scientific exploration while offering vital insights into the extinction of species. 
   
   
   
  Pálsson vividly recounts how British ornithologists John Wolley and Alfred Newton set out for Iceland to collect specimens only to discover that the great auks were already gone. At the time, the Victorian world viewed extinction as an impossibility or trivialized it as a natural phenomenon. Pálsson chronicles how Wolley and Newton documented the fate of the last birds through interviews with the men who killed them, and how the naturalists' Icelandic journey opened their eyes to the disappearance of species as a subject of scientific concern—and as something that could be caused by humans. 
   
   
   
  Blending a richly evocative narrative with rare, unpublished material as well as insights from ornithology, anthropology, and Pálsson's own North Atlantic travels, The Last of Its Kind reveals how the saga of the great auk opens a window onto the human causes of mass extinction.

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  Dignity for Deeply Forgetful...

  Jade C. Angelica, Stephen G. Post

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  For caregivers of deeply forgetful people: a book that combines new ethics guidelines with an innovative program on how to communicate and connect with people with Alzheimer's. 
   
  How do we approach a "deeply forgetful" loved one so as to notice and affirm their continuing selfidentity? For three decades, Stephen G. Post has worked around the world encouraging caregivers to become more aware of—and find renewed hope in—surprising expressions of selfhood despite the challenges of cognitive decline. 
   
  In this book, Post offers new perspectives on the worth and dignity of people with Alzheimer's and related disorders despite the negative influence of "hypercognitive" values that place an ethically unacceptable emphasis on human dignity as based on linear rationality and strength of memory. This bias, Post argues, is responsible for the abusive exclusion of this population from our shared humanity.  
   
  With vignettes and narratives, he argues for a deeper dignity grounded in consciousness, emotional presence, creativity, interdependence, music, and a self that is not "gone" but "differently abled."  
   
  Post covers key practical topics such as: 
  • understanding the experience of dementia 
  • noticing subtle expressions of continuing selfhood, including "paradoxical lucidity" 
  • perspectives on ethical quandaries from diagnosis to terminal care and everything in between, as gleaned from the voices of caregivers 
  • how to communicate optimally and use language effectively 
  • the value of art, poetry, symbols, personalized music, and nature in revealing self-identity 
  • the value of trained "dementia companion" dogs 
   
  At a time when medical advances to cure these conditions are still out of reach and the most recent drugs have shown limited effectiveness, Post argues that focusing discussion and resources on the relational dignity of these individuals and the respite needs of their caregivers is vital. Grounding ethics  
  on the equal worth of all conscious human beings, he provides a cautionary perspective on preemptive assisted suicide based on cases that he has witnessed. He affirms vulnerability and interdependence as the core of the human condition and celebrates caregivers as advocates seeking social and economic  
  justice in an American system where they and their loved ones receive only leftover scraps. Racially inclusive and grounded in diversity, Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People also includes a workshop appendix focused on communication and connection, "A Caregiver Resilience Program," by Rev. Dr. Jade C. Angelica.

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