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  A Call to Farms - Reconnecting...

  Jennifer Grayson

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  Hope for the future lies with a new generation of regenerative farmers. 
   
   
   
  Within a decade, nearly half of all American farmland will change hands as an older generation of farmers steps aside. In their place, a groundswell of new growers will face numerous challenges, including soil degradation, insufficient income, and investors devouring farmland at a staggering pace. These new farmers are embracing regenerative agriculture—the holistic approach to growing food that restores the soil and biodiversity—in the movement to reclaim our health and the planet's. But can their efforts help reverse an epidemic of diet-related disease, food inequality, and even climate change? 
   
   
   
  To answer that question and more, award-winning journalist Jennifer Grayson embedded herself in a groundbreaking farmer training program, then embarked on this investigative journey. The diverse array of farmers, graziers, and food activists whom she profiles here are working toward better, more sustainable foodways for all. From a one-acre market garden in Oregon to activists reviving food sovereignty in South Carolina, A Call to Farms tells the captivating story of these new agrarians finding hope and purpose in reconnecting to the land and striving to improve the future of American food.

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  CCNA - A Comprehensive Beginners...

  Walker Schmidt

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  Are you looking for ways in which you can further your knowledge and skills related to your technical job profile? Are you uncertain about the courses that you can choose? Do you want to learn about Cisco certifications but aren’t sure where to begin? Are you curious about the CCNA Routing and Switching Certification, but are not sure what it entails? Well, if your answer is yes to these questions, then this is the perfect book for you. The CCNA Routing and Switching Certification is one of the most sought after professional certifications available these days. In fact, a lot of employers seem to prefer candidates who are CCNA certified. This certification helps further your knowledge and skill sets as a network engineer, increases the career opportunities available to you, prepares you to successfully handle and keep up with all the innovations taking place in the world of networking, ensures that you are updated about all the latest trends and technology and also helps you learn from your peers. In this book, you will learn about • What Cisco is • The different products and services that Cisco offers • Basics of the CCNA examination • Different types of CCNA exams • The benefits of obtaining a CCNA Certification • The CCNA Routing and Switching Certification • Preparation for the CCNA R&S Certification and much more. There are different levels of certification that you can enroll yourself in, ranging from an entry-level certification to an expert level. You can slowly make your way through each level and attain the skills and knowledge necessary to stay on top of your game. All the information that is provided within this book will guide you along the way as you start preparing for the CCNA Routing and Switching exams.

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  My Instruments Lied to Me Six...

  Nikolaos Broikos

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Six times during this programme, something the author had built reported a confident falsehood. Not one of the six was caught by a check he had written. 
   
  One of them was the strongest finding in the entire project: a perfect result, every trial, in the direction the whole field expects. It was completely false, and the only thing that caught it was opening a file and reading what the model had actually said. 
   
  This is the instrument book. How to build a comparison that means something. How to find out what a wrong answer scores on your own tests, before you report a score at all. How to prove a grader can fail before you let it grade anything. Why an evaluator's error rate tells you almost nothing and its error direction tells you everything. 
   
  Every method in it is a few hundred lines of ordinary code with no dependencies, and every one of them exists because something went wrong first. 
   
  It is also, unusually, a book that documents its own failures at full length: the detector that looked for one set form of words and reported ninety-six fabrications where there were none, the check that compared a string against a pair of values and therefore could never fail, the average built from six outliers of ninety-six. Not as a confession, but because the pattern in how they were found is the most transferable thing here. 
   
  For anybody who has to decide something about an AI system and would rather decide it on evidence than on somebody's confidence.

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  The social contract & discourses

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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  In The Social Contract & Discourses, Jean Jacques Rousseau delves into the complexities of political and social philosophy. His work outlines the concept of the "social contract," a foundational theory that proposes individuals come together to form a collective body in which they agree to abide by the "general will." Rousseau critiques the inequality and corruption present in traditional systems of governance and advocates for a republic where the sovereignty lies with the people. The book discusses how the ideal state should be structured to ensure the preservation of freedom and equality for all citizens. Rousseau also examines human nature, arguing that while people are born free, society imposes constraints that limit their liberty. The text includes discourses on inequality, the origins of social structures, and the corrupting influence of civilization. This work remains a critical influence on modern political thought and offers profound insights into democracy, governance, and human rights.

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  Born of Ice and Fire - How...

  Graham Shields

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  An exploration of how the Cryogenian Period, when our planet was covered in ice for millions of years, created today's remarkable biodiversity 
   
   
    
  More than half a billion years ago, our world was completely covered by glaciers, a "Snowball Earth" that persisted for millions of years. Incredibly, this unimaginable cold led to the remarkable diversification of life on earth known as the Cambrian explosion. With a geologist's eye and a knack for storytelling, Graham Shields explores when and how such inhospitable conditions enabled animals to evolve, radiate, and diversify into our earliest ancestors. 
   
   
    
  This journey navigates the wild swings between hot and cold climates, oxygenation and asphyxiation, biological radiations and extinctions, asking how such instability relates to grander forces that brought our planet to its modern state. Shields guides listeners through evidence found in the Australian outback, Mongolia, Scotland, and other locales, revealing how geologists can trace glaciation, the atmosphere, oceans, mountain building, and more through the earth's rocks, providing a comprehensive theory of how life evolved and diversified.

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  Wait Five Minutes - Weatherlore...

  Shelley Ingram, Willow G. Mullins

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  The weather governs our lives. It fills gaps in conversations, determines our dress, and influences our architecture. No matter how much our lives may have moved indoors, no matter how much we may rely on technology, we still monitor the weather. Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-First Century draws from folkloric, literary, and scientific theory to offer up new ways of thinking about this most ancient of phenomena. 
   
   
   
  Weatherlore is a concept that describes the folk beliefs and traditions about the weather that are passed down casually among groups of people. From detailing personal experiences at picnics and suburban lawns to critically analyzing storm stories, novels, and flood legends, contributors offer engaging multidisciplinary perspectives on weatherlore. 
   
   
   
  As we move further into the twenty-first century, an increasing awareness of climate change and its impacts on daily life calls for a folkloristic reckoning with the weather and a rising need to examine vernacular understandings of weather and climate. Weatherlore helps us understand and shape global political conversations about climate change and biopolitics at the same time that it influences individual, group, and regional lives and identities. We use weather, and thus its folklore, to make meaning of ourselves, our groups, and, quite literally, our world.

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