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  Ring of Fire - High-Stakes...

  Virginia Heffernan

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  A valuable discovery under the world’s second-largest temperate wetland and in the traditional lands of the Cree and Ojibway casts light on the growing conflict among resource development, environmental stewardship, and Indigenous rights
  		 
  When prospectors discovered a gigantic crescent of metal deposits under the James Bay Lowlands of northern Canada in 2007, the find touched off a mining rush, lured a major American company to spend fortunes in the remote swamp, and forced politicians to confront their legal duty to consult Indigenous Peoples about development on their traditional territories. But the multibillion-dollar Ring of Fire was all but abandoned when stakeholders failed to reach a consensus on how to develop the cache despite years of negotiations and hundreds of millions of dollars in spending. Now plans for an all-weather road to connect the region to the highway network are reigniting the fireworks.
  		 
  In this colorful tale, Virginia Heffernan draws on her bush and newsroom experiences to illustrate the complexities of resource development at a time when Indigenous rights are becoming enshrined globally. Ultimately, Heffernan strikes a hopeful note: the Ring of Fire presents an opportunity for Canada to leave behind centuries of plunder and set the global standard for responsible development of minerals critical to the green energy revolution.

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  Plants and Us: How They Shape...

  Calvin Harlow

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  Plants and Us: How They Shape Our World 
  ⭐⭐ Simplified Audio Guide ⭐⭐ 
  Are you eager to delve deeper into the fascinating world of plants and understand how they profoundly influence our lives? 
  Searching for a comprehensive guide that covers all the crucial elements related to how plants shape our world? 
  Your search ends here! 
  This audiobook serves as your ultimate companion to deepen your knowledge, apply what you learn, and engage in hands-on exploration. With this, you're set for success. 
  Updated for the latest insights and discoveries! 
  Key features of this enriched guide: 
  - Profound insights into how plants shape our existence 
  - Detailed explanations of the roles and importance of various plants 
  - Fruitful strategies for understanding and appreciating plant life 
  Our guide stands out through its comprehensive coverage, essential to unlocking the mysteries of how plants influence our world. Concepts aren't merely touched upon; they are explored in depth. 
  Please note that this guide is not affiliated with any official entity and is solely an independent resource for your benefit. 
  Designed with a clear structure and easy-to-understand language, our guide ensures smooth transitions between topics. Say goodbye to dense jargon and welcome clear, precise, and technically accurate content. 
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  The Lie of the Land

  Guy Shrubsole

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  WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2025 
  A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024 
  'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER 
  'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES 
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  The lie of the land: that Britain’s landowners care for the countryside. 
  Our landowning elite are paid billions of taxpayer pounds to be good stewards. But these same landowners have carelessly trampled over our best-loved landscapes, leaving the rivers polluted, fenlands drained, and moorlands burned. 
  Guy Shrubsole has travelled across Britain to expose the lie and meet the communities fighting back to restore our lost landscapes. This is a bold, shared vision for our nation’s wild places, and how we can treat them with the awe and care they deserve. 
  *Guy Shrubsole's The Lost Rainforests of Britain was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2023-04-30* 
  *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS* 
  *SHORTLISTED FOR THE UNWIN AWARD* 
  This Sunday Times bestseller is a must-read for anyone interested in environmental conservation and the protection of habitats. Shrubsole's non-fiction work is a deep dive into the science of ecosystems, the politics of agriculture, and the social implications of rural land management. 
  For fans of Robin Wall Kimmerer (The Democracy of Species), Derek Gow (Birds, Beasts and Bedlam), Christopher Hart (Hedgelands [US Edition]), Yanis Varoufakis (Technofeudalism), and Isabella Tree (Wilding). 
  HarperCollins 2024

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  Hearing Happiness - Deafness...

  Jaipreet Virdi

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  Weaving together lyrical history and personal memoir, Virdi powerfully examines society’s—and her own—perception of life as a deaf person in America. 
   
  At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi’s world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but deaf, suddenly treated differently by everyone. Her deafness downplayed by society and doctors, she struggled to “pass” as hearing for most of her life. Countless cures, treatments, and technologies led to dead ends. Never quite deaf enough for the Deaf community or quite hearing enough for the “normal” majority, Virdi was stuck in aural limbo for years. It wasn’t until her thirties, exasperated by problems with new digital hearing aids, that she began to actively assert her deafness and reexamine society’s—and her own—perception of life as a deaf person in America. 
    
  Through lyrical history and personal memoir, Hearing Happiness raises pivotal questions about deafness in American society and the endless quest for a cure. Taking us from the 1860s up to the present, Virdi combs archives and museums in order to understand the long history of curious cures: ear trumpets, violet ray apparatuses, vibrating massagers, electrotherapy machines, airplane diving, bloodletting, skull hammering, and many more. Hundreds of procedures and products have promised grand miracles but always failed to deliver a universal cure—a harmful legacy that is still present in contemporary biomedicine. 
   
  Weaving Virdi’s own experiences together with her exploration into the fascinating history of deafness cures, Hearing Happiness is a powerful story that America needs to hear.

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  Machine Learning with Python - A...

  Alexander Cane

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  Python is one of the several multi-paradigm programming languages a lot of people prefer. It can be used for lots of purposes, interpreted and easy to understand. Python works in an amazing way as it enables its users to be able to create and use diverse programs for both complex and simple designs. This means that Python has some special plug-ins that allow one to create simple coding that could work on other platforms. As a result, with the knowledge of Python, you are sure of being able to handle different languages within the same paradigm. 
  Amazingly, when Python is used to code, it gives a fast result on the goal. Even though Python gives access to different platforms, it gives result to whatever is done instantly. In the same vein, writing of code with Python is made easy as though one is speaking in a human language. 
  Python has this multi-tasking feature that allows its users to be able to attain a single code of programming using different styles. Styles could affect the end result of a code; though it will surely be the same result with slight modifications. 
  Python is easier to learn but the focal point of syntax is readability. Because of this, there is a huge reduction in maintenance risk. Modules and packages are basic things supported by Python; these enable the reuse of codes and the program's modularity. These amazing features of Python have made it one of the leading programs that programmers will always use and recommend to others.

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  The Helpers - Profiles from the...

  Kathy Gilsinan

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  A deeply moving narrative of the coronavirus pandemic, told through portraits of eight individuals who worked tirelessly to help others. In March 2020, COVID-19 overtook the United States, and life changed for America. In a matter of weeks the virus impacted millions, with lockdown measures radically reshaping the lives of even those who did not become infected. Yet despite the fear, hardship, and heartbreak from this period of collective struggle, there was hope. In The Helpers, journalist Kathy Gilsinan profiles eight individuals on the frontlines of the coronavirus battle: a devoted son caring for his family in the San Francisco Bay Area; a not-quite-retired paramedic from Colorado; an ICU nurse in the Bronx; the CEO of a Seattle-based ventilator company; a vaccine researcher at Moderna in Boston; a young chef and culinary teacher in Louisville, Kentucky; a physician in Chicago; and a funeral home director in Seattle and Los Angeles. These inspiring individual accounts create an unforgettable tapestry of how people across the country and the socioeconomic spectrum came together to fight the most deadly pandemic in a century.

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