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  Supergrid Super Solution (2nd...

  Eddie O'Connor, Kevin O'Sullivan

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  As we live through an era of polycrisis this book sets out how electricity can get the world off fossil fuels and accelerate to a zero-carbon economy. The essential element in this transformation is a supergrid to transmit vast amounts of cost-competitive, regionally produced power quickly to where it’s most needed.Supergrid – Super Solution outlines:The masterplan by a global leader in developing renewable energy with input from leading energy experts.The creation of an energy revolution using superconductor cables to deliver electricity from offshore wind and solar to areas of peak demand at the heart of Europe through rollout of the supergrid – by deploying already proven technology.The opportunity for Ireland and other peripheral coastal communities to be regenerated as major exporters of green power.The need for courage and collective action by states, the private sector and the public to work together in the best interests of humanity and planet Earth.

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  Extreme Self Confidence...

  Affirmational Journey

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  Do you often feel unsure of yourself and wish you had more confidence? Are you looking to transform your self-esteem and approach life with a bold, fearless attitude? This audiobook is designed to help you build extreme self-confidence through powerful affirmations. Each affirmation is crafted to boost your self-belief, enhance your self-worth, and empower you to face challenges head-on. By listening to these affirmations regularly, you will reprogram your mind to embrace confidence and eliminate self-doubt. Whether you're preparing for a big presentation, an important decision, or everyday interactions, these affirmations will support you in becoming your most confident self. Start your journey towards extreme self-confidence today and unlock your true potential.

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  Before The Big Bang - The Origin...

  Laura Mersini-Houghton

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  A revolutionary new account of our universe’s creation—and a breathtaking exploration of the landscape from which we sprang—from one of the world’s most celebrated cosmologists 
  What came before the Big Bang, and what exists outside of the universe it created? Until recently, scientists could only guess at what lay past the edge of space-time. However, as pioneering theoretical physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton explains, new scientific tools are now giving us the ability to peer beyond the limits of our universe and to test our theories about what is there. And what we are finding is upending everything we thought we knew about the cosmos and our place in it. 
  Mersini-Houghton is no stranger to boundaries—or to pushing through them. As a child growing up in Communist Albania, she discovered a universe beyond her walled-off world through the study of math and science, and through music. As a female cosmologist in a male-dominated field, she transcended the limits that society and her profession tried to place on her. And as a trailblazing researcher, she helped to revolutionize the study of our universe by revealing that, far from living in a cosmic Albania, with a world that ends at its borders, we are part of a larger family of universes—a multiverse—that holds wonders we are only beginning to unlock. Mersini-Houghton’s groundbreaking research suggests that we sit in a quantum landscape whose peaks and valleys hide a multitude of other universes, and even hold the secret to the origins of existence itself. Recent evidence has revealed the signatures of such sibling universes in our own night sky, confirming Mersini-Houghton’s theoretical work and offering humbling evidence that our universe is just one member of an unending cosmic family. 
  The incredible scientific saga of one woman’s mind-expanding journey through the multiverse, Before the Big Bang will reshape our understanding of humanity’s place in the unfathomable vastness of the cosmos. 
  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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  A Year In The Maine Woods

  Bernd Heinrich

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  Escapist fantasies usually involve the open road, but Bernd Heinrich's dream was to focus on the riches of one small place—a few green acres along Alder Brook just east of the Presidential Mountains. The year begins as he settles into a cabin with no running water and no electricity, built of hand-cut logs he dragged out of the woods with a team of oxen. There, alone except for his pet raven, Jack, he rediscovers the meaning of peace and quiet and harmony with nature—of days spent not filling out forms, but tracking deer, or listening to the sound of a moth's wings. Throughout this year when "the subtle matters and the spectacular distracts," Heinrich brings us back to the drama in small things, when life is lived consciously. His story is that of a man rediscovering what it means to be alive.

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  Mathematical Biology - A Very...

  Philip K. Maini

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  Why are English Premier League football shirt patterns very similar to animal coat markings? And what do invasive species have in common with cancer cells in the body? Mathematical biology develops models which answer these questions, as they are applied to processes from the spread of a gene in a population, to predator-prey dynamics in an ecosystem, to the growth of tumors.In this Very Short Introduction Philip K. Maini describes the art of modeling, what it is, why we do it, and illustrates how the abstract way of thinking that is the essence of mathematics enables us to transfer knowledge from one area of research to another. Using numerous examples, he explains how the same fundamental ideas have been used in different fields, and shows how mathematics is the language of science. The author also points to cases in science where the traditional scientific modelling approach—verbal reasoning—is incorrect and shows how mathematics can uncover, and correct, such flawed reasoning while, at the same time, enhance our intuition. This book provides a guide to the trajectory of mathematical biology from a niche subject in the 1970s to a well-established, popular subject that is truly inter-disciplinary, and points to exciting future challenges.

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  The Fate of the World

  Bill McGuire

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  Why past climate change tells us it's almost too late.  
  A warning and a rallying-cry. 
  'Read it and weep, or read it and win' Chris Packham 
  A global refugee crisis. Extreme storms. Agriculture devastated. Economic ruin. Societal collapse. These are not just possibilities but likely outcomes of our ongoing failure to stem greenhouse gas emissions — and in our lifetimes. This alarming book explains why. 
  The Fate of the World is a 4.6-billion-year history of the Earth, putting contemporary global heating in the context of geological epochs and periods to reveal what past climate change can tell us about our planet’s future. It highlights with unflinching realism how what’s happening now compares with what happened in deep time — and explains the devastating impacts that are now more likely than not. 
  Renowned expert Bill McGuire reveals that our climate already all but matches that of the last interglacial period — the Eemian — when sea levels were 6 to 9 metres higher, and that it is on track to mimic the Pliocene period, when giant camels roamed the Arctic, as soon as the 2030s. Later this century, parts of our world could be experiencing double-figure temperature rises as we continue to wind the clock back 50 million years in a couple of centuries — and without urgent preparation, our civilization is very poorly placed to survive. 
  Notwithstanding the urgency of the message, this is a hopeful book. The future will be forbidding, but every tonne of carbon we do not emit will make it less so. We can all do our bit, and we must. 
  If you read just one book on the climate crisis, make it this one. 
  Grounded in science and environmental evidence from nature and palaeontology, McGuire shows how warming is reshaping our world and why protection and conservation can no longer be optional. With clear policy and political choices laid out for the public, this latest warning is also a practical call to act before the best chances of avoiding collapse slip away. 
  For fans of David Wallace-Wells (The Uninhabitable Earth), Mike Berners-Lee (A Climate of Truth), Lawrence Maxwell Krauss (The Physics of Climate Change), Michael E. Mann (Our Fragile Moment), and Tim Marshall (Prisoners of Geography). 
  HarperCollins 2026

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