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  Toxic Water Toxic System -...

  Michael Mascarenhas

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  The tireless resistance of local communities fighting for ownership of America's third largest water system 
   
   
    
  Toxic Water, Toxic System exposes the consequences of a seemingly anonymous authoritarian state willing to maintain white supremacy at any cost—including poisoning an entire city and shutting off water to thousands of people. Weaving together narratives of frontline activists along with archival data, Michael Mascarenhas provides a powerful exploration of the political alliances and bureaucratic mechanisms that uphold inequality. 
   
   
    
  Drawing from three years of ethnographic fieldwork in Flint and Detroit, this book amplifies the voices of marginalized communities, particularly African American women, whose perspectives and labor have been consistently overlooked. Toxic Water, Toxic System offers a fresh perspective on the ties between urban austerity policies, environmental harm, and the advancement of white supremacist agendas in predominantly Black and brown cities.

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  Meetings with Moths: Discovering...

  Katty Baird

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  Mossy greens, conker browns, cream, chocolate and deepest black; add stripes, swirls and splotches and you have some of the most striking wildlife Britain has to offer. 
  In Meetings with Moths ecologist Katty Baird roams Scotland seeking out, documenting and observing moths. Green Longhorns, Pimpinel Pugs and Peacock Moths are just some of the species that catch her attention as she climbs into holes, ventures behind waterfalls and wanders forests with her boundless curiosity. 
  But you needn’t travel far and wide to see beautiful moths. Katty shows that you can easily enjoy discovering moths and caterpillars without specialist knowledge by creating your own light trap or simply looking more closely at your immediate landscape. 
  Meetings with Moths is a story about green health and the power of a passion to sustain us. 
  In Meetings with Moths, Katty Baird explores the diverse habitats of Scotland, from the coastal shorelines to the lush ecosystems, making it the latest and best reference in ecology. Her passion for nature and animals, especially moths and butterflies, shines through, making this book a top pick for new and seasoned nature enthusiasts. 
  For fans of John Muir Laws (The Laws Field Guide to Sierra Birds), Arthur V. Evans (The Little Book of Beetles), Timothy Snyder (Our Malady), Pete Dunne (The Courage of Birds), and Wendy Williams (Kraken). 
  HarperCollins 2023

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  Binaural Delta Waves for Deep...

  Home of Soothing Sleep Sounds

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  This audio compilation with 11 XXL-sessions is designed to facilitate the transition from wakefulness to deep, restorative sleep through the use of binaural delta wave stimulation.---Binaural beats are generated when two slightly different frequencies are presented separately to each ear. The brain perceives a third, rhythmic pulse corresponding to the frequency difference between the two tones. In this recording, the difference is tuned to the delta frequency range (0.5–4 Hz), which is associated with slow-wave sleep and deep relaxation.---Prolonged exposure to delta-frequency stimulation leads to:• Reduced cortical arousal and overall neural activity• Enhanced synchronization of low-frequency neural oscillations• Gradual induction and maintenance of deep, non-REM sleep statesFor optimal effect, use quality stereo headphones such as AirPods in a quiet environment, and allow the session to play continuously at a low volume as you fall asleep.---No voice or verbal guidance is included — only low-frequency binaural tones blended with ambient sound textures engineered for physiological calmness and sustained delta entrainment.---#### deep sleep, binaural beats, delta waves, brainwave entrainment, sleep induction, non-REM sleep, relaxation, recovery, frequencies, 0.5–4 Hz ####

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  Magnetic Current

  Edward Leedskalnin

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  Magnetic Current is a short pamphlet by eccentric sculptor and writer Edward Leedskalnin. Detailing his many experiments with magnets, this work posits that it is not metal itself that is magnetic. Rather, tiny individual magnet particles that circulate in and around the metal give it its pull. 
   
  Edward Leedskalnin was born in Latvia in 1887. While his formal education lasted only until 4th grade, he was intensely curious and spent much of his youth reading. At the age of 26, Leedskalnin became engaged. But as the young woman was only 16, she (or her mother) decided that he wasn’t a suitable match and called off the wedding the day before it was set to occur.  
   
  Heartbroken, Leedskalnin emigrated to the United States. In 1923, he purchased an undeveloped acre of land in Florida City. Over the next 28 years, Leedskalnin cut massive pieces of oolite rock from his property, moved them, and sculpted them—all on his own. He built a two-story tower from oolite, which served as his living quarters. In the grounds below, sculptures and carved stone furniture dot the landscape. The project was dedicated to his “Sweet Sixteen,” the woman who rejected him years before. 
   
  During the years of his construction project, Leedskalnin studied and tested magnets from his home base of Rock Gate. His findings were eventually compiled into Magnetic Current, a short pamphlet detailing his theories of magnetism.  
   
  The pamphlet explains many of his experiments. Using U-shaped, round, and bar magnets, as well as car batteries, light bulbs, and coils of wire, he demonstrates the movements of magnetic currents in a double helix pattern, swirling around each other to create pull.

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  Guided sleep meditation for...

  Stuart Newman

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  Do you want to feel more courageous, confident and powerful?  
  Then guided sleep meditation with DST Hypno and Stu Newman is the perfect solution for you!  
  With this program, you can unlock your inner power while sleeping deeply.  
  It will help improve self-esteem by developing positive thinking patterns that are reinforced during deep relaxation.  
  Guided sleep meditation also helps reduce stress levels so that courage and confidence can blossom without fear of failure or rejection.  
  Plus, it's easy to use - just listen to the audio track as your drift off into a peaceful slumber each night for an improved sense of wellbeing in no time at all!

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  ChatGPT SEO Playbook for Service...

  Jonathan Brown

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. You picked up this book because you run a local service business and you have noticed something shifting under your feet, the way your customers find you is changing, and you are not sure you like where it is going. A homeowner with a flooded basement no longer scrolls through a list of blue links, and they ask a chatbot which company to call, and the chatbot names two businesses and leaves everyone else in silence. You may have already asked an AI assistant who the best provider in your town is and discovered that your competitors are all over the answer while you are nowhere. Or maybe you have been told that local SEO is dead, that AI will destroy small businesses, and that the only way forward is to spend a fortune every month on ads, and you are looking for a different answer. Whatever brought you here, you share a conviction that this book was written to honor: the shift to conversational search is real, it is happening in your town right now, and it favors the prepared. 
   
  This book is not a collection of vague marketing advice, and it is not a promise of overnight rankings, and it is not a magic phrase that forces an AI to recommend you, because no such phrase exists and anyone selling one is selling a fantasy. It is not a celebration of keyword stuffing, link buying, or spam, because those tactics erode the very trust you are trying to build. What you actually need is the honest, current, complete set of levers that influence what AI assistants say about local businesses, and the pages that follow are that playbook: every chapter built around tools, workflows, prompts, and examples you can use within a week. 
   
  Inside, you'll discover: 
  • The ten-point visibility audit that shows you exactly where you stand today 
  • The entity that machines trust, and how to make your facts consistent everywhere 
  • How to write content that gets quoted inside AI answers 
  • Reviews as ranking fuel, and the system that generates them

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