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  What We Know about Climate...

  Kerry Emanuel

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  This audiobook is an updated edition of a guide to the basic science of climate change, and a call to action. The vast majority of scientists agree that human activity has significantly increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - most dramatically since the 1970s. Yet global warming skeptics and ill-informed elected officials continue to dismiss this broad scientific consensus. In this updated edition of his authoritative book, MIT atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel outlines the basic science of global warming and how the current consensus has emerged. Although it is impossible to predict exactly when the most dramatic effects of global warming will be felt, he argues, we can be confident that we face real dangers. Emanuel warns that global warming will contribute to an increase in the intensity and power of hurricanes and flooding and more rapidly advancing deserts. But just as our actions have created the looming crisis, so too might they avert it. Emanuel calls for urgent action to reduce greenhouse gases and criticizes the media for downplaying the dangers of global warming (and, in search of “balance,” quoting extremists who deny its existence).
  
  
  
  This edition has been updated to include the latest climate data, a discussion of the Earth’s carbon cycle, the warming hiatus of the first decade of this century, the 2017 hurricanes, advanced energy options, the withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, and more. It offers a new foreword by former US Representative Bob Inglis (R-SC), who now works on climate action through his organization RepublicEN.
  
  
  
  What We Know About Climate Change is wonderfully read by award-winning narrator Karen Chilton. This audiobook was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.
  
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  Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

  William Henry Davies

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  The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp is an autobiography published in 1908 by the Welsh poet and writer W. H. Davies (1871–1940). A large part of the book's subject matter describes the way of life of the tramp in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States in the final decade of the 19th century. George Bernard Shaw had become interested in Davies, a literary unknown at the time, and had agreed to write a preface for the book, largely through the concerted efforts of his wife Charlotte. Shaw was also instrumental in keeping the unusual title of the book, of which Davies himself was unsure, and which later proved to be controversial with some reviewers. The book was the third published by Davies, having been preceded by The Soul's Destroyer (1905) and New Poems (1907). The 1920 edition of the book concludes with five poems selected by Davies from The Soul's Destroyer. The book was written in the space of six weeks, "a great achievement for a first book by a man with the minimum of education." ( Wikipedia (edited by Expatriate))

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  Lead with Clarity in Chaos - The...

  Alfonso Aramburo

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  Stop being the most expensive firefighter on your payroll. Start being the architect of your own engine. 
  If you are an industrial leader, you know the "invisible weight" of carrying the machine on your back. You wake up thinking about the company while on vacation, working 14-hour days just to stop the business from sliding backward. You have been praised for how quickly you are scaling, but behind the curtain, you are fighting a daily battle with inefficiency, misalignment, and burnout.  
  Lead with Clarity in Chaos is not a book of leadership clichés or high-level academic theory. It is a collection of real, raw experiences and hard-won truths forged in the trenches of global turnarounds. Alfonso Arámburo, a "been there, done that" operator with 17 years in $150M+, provides a mirror and a map for the leader trapped in the "Heroic Management" cycle. 
  Through the lens of real-world "Trench Files," you will walk through the trenches of leadership and recognize yourself in stories such as 
  • Finding the Fire vs. Blaming the Smoke: Discover how a manufacturing division bleeding margin for 18 months misdiagnosed its problem as "lack of urgency" when the real fire was a deeply flawed system logic 
  • The $300K ERP Mistake: Why "buying clarity" through software to skip the work of fixing process flows is a recipe for wasted capital and team frustration 
  • Killing the "Passive Yes": Understand why teams nod in the boardroom but take zero action on the floor, and how to replace "Polite Betrayal" with radical accountability 
  • Strategy as Subtraction: Learn the discipline of ruthless prioritization to kill 80% of the "noise" so your team can actually execute the 20% that drives EBITDA 
  It’s time to start building a system-dependent engine that produces predictable excellence without your constant intervention

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  Cosmetic Procedures Bundle 2 in...

  Diane Nielsen, Elisabeth Franco

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  Cosmetic Procedures Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Plastic Surgery and Cosmetology DecodedIs cosmetic surgery something that has been on your mind? It might be if you have an imperfection, like excess fat, excess skin, or wrinkles, that you want to fix. More people and more people are now considering the benefits and the end results of plastic surgery. With the advancements in surgery and in the way the body can be shaped, it's hard not to resist the lure of the knife and what it can do for your body. While 92% of all cosmetic surgery patients are women, men are becoming patients more often as well. Your appearance matters in the business world as well as in your personal life, so why not take steps to secure your looks for as long as you can?This bundle will serve as your comprehensive guide regarding cosmetic surgery. It will give you the information you need before doing any cosmetic procedure. You will learn whether plastic surgery is for you, the preparations you need to take and the after care after your procedures. You will learn which procedures may be good for you and which ones are not recommended for you. This 2 in 1 bundle includes the following audiobooks:1. Plastic Surgery: The Essential Guide to Cosmetic Surgery. Learn About Different Procedures, What to Expect and Discover Whether You Really Need Plastic Surgery or Not2. Cosmetology Decoded: Learn the Ins and Outs of Different Cosmetic Surgeries and Procedures That Can Help Give You a Youthful LookIf you want to learn more, download your copy of Cosmetic Procedures 2 in 1 Bundle today!

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  Reaching the Moon: The History...

  Editors Charles River

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  The Apollo Program is the most famous and celebrated in American history, but the first successful landing of men on the Moon during Apollo 11 had complicated roots dating back over a decade, and it also involved one of NASA’s most infamous tragedies. From 1959-1963, the United States worked toward putting satellites and humans into orbit via the Mercury program, but Eisenhower’s administration was already designing plans for the Apollo program by 1960, a year before the first Russian orbited the Earth and two years before John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. 
  At the same time, America would begin missions to the Moon as early as 1958. On March 27, 1958, Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy announced a lunar project for the International Geophysical Year, consisting of three Air Force launches followed by two Army launches of a JPL-designed lunar probe. ARPA directed the Air Force to launch its probes "as soon as possible consistent with the requirement that a minimal amount of useful data concerning the Moon be obtained." 
  Throughout the 1960s, NASA would spend tens of billions on missions to the Moon, the most expensive peacetime program in American history to that point, and Apollo was only made possible by the tests conducted through earlier missions, including the historic Ranger Program. Conceived as an early part of the attempt to land a man on the Moon, Ranger was designed to photograph the lunar surface in preparation for future landings. Until Ranger, images of the Moon were only available through Earth-based telescopes, which lacked the detail necessary to determine safe sites for landing a spacecraft. Ranger aimed to fill in that gap of knowledge, and like many of NASA’s missions during the 1960s, the program exemplified both the successes and the failures of the agency’s early years.

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  The Origin and Development of...

  Maynard Shipley

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  The Origin and Development of the Atomic Theory is a concise and illuminating journey through one of the most important ideas in human thought: the nature of matter itself. 
  Written in the early twentieth century, Maynard Shipley traces the evolution of atomic theory from its philosophical beginnings in the ancient world to its emergence as a cornerstone of modern science. Beginning with the Pythagoreans and early Greek and Indian thinkers, Shipley explores how number, geometry, and speculation first shaped humanity’s attempts to understand the structure of reality. 
  The narrative follows the development of atomism through Leucippus and Democritus, examining atoms and the void, causal necessity, sensory perception, and the physical properties of shape, size, and arrangement. Shipley contrasts these ideas with competing schools of thought, including the Eleatics’ denial of motion and Anaxagoras’ theory of “seeds,” before turning to Epicurus and Lucretius, whose writings defended atomism against superstition and divine design. 
  In its final chapters, the book connects ancient philosophy to modern science, charting the revival of atomism through thinkers such as Descartes and Gassendi and culminating in John Dalton’s quantitative laws of chemistry. Shipley concludes by linking these early models to modern discoveries—electrons, nuclei, isotopes, and atomic number—showing how a speculative idea became a measurable scientific reality. 
  Clear, thoughtful, and accessible, The Origin and Development of the Atomic Theory offers a timeless overview of how human reason slowly uncovered the hidden structure of matter—and laid the foundations of chemistry and physics as we know them.

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