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  Forgotten Landscapes - How...

  Stanley A. Rice

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  North America was not empty nor were its inhabitants savages when Europeans arrived in 1492. Quite the opposite, North America was thickly populated by indigenous people who lived in clean cities, had a thriving economy, and transformed the landscape into bountiful productivity. Forgotten Landscapes reveals the incredible extent to which Native Americans manipulated and shaped their surrounding environs through agricultural practices and urban engineering, resulting in one of the most prosperous civilizations of their time.Well before European contact, North American cities and villages were bound together by an intricate trade network. Today, Spiro Mound in rural Oklahoma is a few piles of dirt, not on the road to anywhere. But at the time of the Mississippian civilization, about a thousand years ago, it was one of the largest cities in the world. With the controlled use of fire, Native Americans had transformed thick forests into open woodlands and expanded the ranges of prairies. Through organized hunting, Natives controlled the populations of prey animals such as passenger pigeons, and when Native populations grew large enough, they developed agriculture including irrigated crops, and even orchards. In this fascinating and overdue book, author Stanley A. Rice shows his audience the Pre-Columbian landscape of America that has been largely forgotten.

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  The Complete Family Guide to...

  Thomas F. Harrison, Hilary S....

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  If you are struggling to help a loved one recover from addiction--and to cope with the devastating impact on the whole family--you are not alone. But until now, there has been no single book that gives the millions of families like yours the comprehensive, unbiased information you need. This expertly written guide addresses the painful questions that spouses, parents, and grown children face every day. Why do addicts make such bad choices? How can you find (and afford) treatment that works--and convince your loved one to try it? Can relapse be prevented? When does being supportive cross the line to enabling? Providing science-based answers and resources, the authors cover crucial emotional, financial, and legal issues that simply aren't discussed in other books. The more your family knows about the myths and realities of addiction, the better equipped you will be to overcome it. 
    

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  Science - from Civizilation in...

  Robert H. Lowie

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  What makes a nation scientific: its inventions, or its willingness to pursue knowledge without an immediate profit? 
   
  In this incisive essay from *Civilization in the United States*, anthropologist Robert H. Lowie examines America’s complicated relationship with scientific achievement. 
   
  Lowie acknowledges the country’s important researchers and practical accomplishments, but challenges the belief that commercial invention alone represents scientific greatness. America excels at applying discoveries to machines, products, and industry, he argues, while frequently neglecting the patient theoretical work on which those applications depend. 
   
  Pure scientists face limited funding, low professional status, exhausting teaching and administrative duties, and pressure to produce results that appeal to wealthy patrons or business-minded institutions. Universities often prize organization, efficiency, and publicity above the independent thinkers whose creativity gives scientific institutions their value. 
   
  Lowie also warns against intellectual conformity. Genuine discovery requires more than technical skill: it demands broad education, academic freedom, philosophical reflection, and what he calls “reasoned nonconformism”—the courage to question accepted authorities without abandoning evidence or disciplined thought. 
   
  Originally published in 1922, *Science* is a thoughtful critique of commercialism, institutional bureaucracy, and the cultural conditions required for lasting innovation. 
   
  Narrated by John Riddle.

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  Smart Rivals - How Innovative...

  Bonnie Yining Cao, Feng Zhu

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  A new, researched-based look at how traditional or smaller companies can better compete with Big Tech on their own terms 
   
   
   
  Companies are fighting the wrong battle. The consensus has been to learn the best practices from Big Tech and imitate them. But new paths for growth aren't created by imitation; they're forged by radical differentiation. 
   
   
   
  In Smart Rivals, Harvard Business School professor Feng Zhu and former Bloomberg journalist Bonnie Cao show business leaders how to create new competitive advantages by offering product features and benefits that tech giants and other competitors cannot match. 
   
   
   
  Zhu and Cao bring listeners across the globe, revealing how big conglomerates—Coca-Cola, Ping An, and AB InBev—and scrappy upstarts—an Italian toll payment platform, a Chinese footwear retailer, a Nigerian media company, and scores of others—have managed to thrive by tapping into their unique capabilities. 
   
   
   
  Based on original research and insights gleaned from leaders in a wide-range of industries, Smart Rivals will help you find new capabilities that mere imitation could never provide and lead to new products, services, strategies, and advantages.

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  The Second History of Man

  MD John Bershof

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  In the spirit of medieval writer Chaucer, all human activity lies within the artist’s scope, the History of Man Series uses medicine as a jumping off point to explore precisely that, all history, all science, all human activity since the beginning of time. The jumping off style of writing takes the reader, the listener into worlds unknown, always returning to base, only to jump off again. History of Man are stories and tales of nearly everything. 
  The Second History of Man focuses mostly on bacteria and bacterial infections as the foundation, jumping off into Darwin and evolution, gin & tonics and the discovery of the first antibiotic to treat infection (and it wasn’t penicillin), visiting with those clever chaps who cook up drugs in the lab. We’ll call upon poets & poetry, celebrities like Frank Sinatra, the Rat Pack, and Bobby Darin, the classical music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, the tragic story of World War II, Anne Frank and the Holocaust, tuberculosis, and a few of the rich & famous who suffered from TB, travelling back in time to the Black Death which wiped out 25 percent of humans on Earth, exploring the origins of a salon and a saloon, Columbus and the Age of Discovery, the lost generations of childhood, ending with the invention of the Internet.

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  Transform Your Marriage Through...

  Bastian Rookwood

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  Transform Your Marriage through Unspoken Connection Secrets 
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  Updated to reflect current insights and practices in relationship dynamics. 
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