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  The Book of Flaco - The World’s...

  David Gessner

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  The story of Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from Central Park Zoo and captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of followers around the world. 
   
   
   
  Nature writer David Gessner chronicles the year-long odyssey of Flaco and the human drama that followed the owl who captured the imaginations of New Yorkers and people around the world. Though he'd spent his life in a cage, Flaco learned to survive in New York City by eating rats, squirrels, and birds. He was an immigrant coming from elsewhere to make it in the big city. Central Park, the island of green in an urban sea, was his new home territory. 
   
   
   
  Flaco's urban adventure brought controversy, pitting those who felt he should be returned to the safety of the zoo against those who created the "Free Flaco" movement. The birding world was fractured over the ethics of the online sharing of his location that brought scores of enthusiasts to view him each day. And his end—with a grim necropsy revealing Flaco had suffered a viral infection from eating pigeons and had multiple rodenticides in his system—serves as a Rachel Carson-esque warning about the harm we've done to our urban environments, inspiring the passage of long-sought legislation protecting urban birds and regulations meant to reduce the use of rodenticides in New York City.

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  Organic Farming - Principles and...

  Ruchini Kaushalya

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  Discover the transformative world of organic farming with "Organic Farming: Principles and Practices for Chemical-Free Cultivation." This comprehensive guide is a must-read for anyone seeking to embrace sustainable, eco-friendly, and healthier agricultural methods. 
  Are you yearning to reconnect with the earth and produce food that's free from harmful chemicals? Look no further. In this enlightening eBook, Ruchini, an experienced organic farmer, shares a wealth of knowledge that will empower you to embark on your organic farming journey with confidence. 
  Key Features: 
  Foundations of Organic Farming: Delve into the core principles that underpin organic agriculture. Learn how to nurture and respect the natural cycles of your land while promoting biodiversity and soil health. 
  Chemical-Free Cultivation Techniques: Say goodbye to synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. Explore a variety of effective, organic alternatives that will help you manage pests, diseases, and nutrient levels while safeguarding the environment. 
  Crop Selection and Rotation: Maximize your harvests through strategic crop selection and rotation. Understand how different plants interact with the soil and each other, and discover how to maintain a balanced and resilient ecosystem on your farm. 
  Composting and Soil Enrichment: The secret to successful organic farming lies in the soil. Uncover the art of composting and learn how to create nutrient-rich soil that will yield abundant and flavorsome crops year after year. 
  Case Studies and Success Stories: Benefit from real-life examples of successful organic farms around the world. Gain insights into their challenges, triumphs, and innovative approaches that have paved the way for thriving, sustainable agriculture. 
  Embark on your organic farming journey today by clicking "Add to Cart" and taking the first step towards a more sustainable and fulfilling way of farming. 
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  Scrum: Book summary & analysis

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  This is a concise summary and analysis of Scrum, by Jeff Sutherland. It is not the original book and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Jeff Sutherland. Ideal for those seeking a quick and insightful overview.
   
  "Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time" offers an insightful look into the Scrum methodology, a revolutionary approach to project management and team collaboration. The author, one of the co-creators of Scrum, presents a system that emphasizes efficiency, adaptability, and continuous improvement. The book illustrates how teams can achieve greater productivity, faster delivery times, and higher-quality outcomes by implementing simple, yet powerful principles. Through real-world examples and practical advice, the author demonstrates how Scrum can transform the way organizations operate, fostering innovation and enhancing performance across various industries.

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  Care Without Pathology - How...

  Christoph Hanssmann

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  Over the past two decades, medical and therapeutic approaches to transgender patients have changed radically, from treating a supposed pathology to offering gender-affirming care. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in New York City and Buenos Aires, Care without Pathology moves across the Americas to show how trans- health activists have taken on the project of depathologization. 
   
   
   
  In New York, Christoph Hanssmann examines activist attempts to overturn bans on using public health dollars to fund trans- health care. In Argentina, he traces how trans- activists marshaled medical statistics and personal biographies to reveal state violence directed against trans- people and travestis. Hanssmann also demonstrates the importance of understanding transphobia in the broader context of gendered racism, ableism, and antipoverty, arguing for the rise of a thoroughly coalition-based mass mobilization. 
   
   
   
  Care without Pathology highlights the distributive arguments activists made to access state funding for health care, combating state arguments that funding trans- health care is too specialized, too expensive, and too controversial. Hanssmann situates trans- health as a crucible within which sweeping changes are taking place—with potentially far-reaching effects on the economic and racial barriers to accessing care.

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  Crush - Close Encounters with...

  James Riordon

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  Gravity is at once familiar and mysterious. It's the reason for the numbers on your bathroom scale, the intricate dance of the stars and planets, and the evolution and eventual fate of the universe. In Crush, James Riordon takes listeners on a tour of gravity from its vanishing insignificance on the microscopic scale to its crushing extreme inside black holes.From the moment we lift our heads as infants until the moment we lie down and ultimately surrender to its pull at the end of our lives, we labor under the burden of gravity. It has guided the shape and structure of our bodies over eons of evolution and sculpted the Earth as it cooled from a blob of molten rock. As Riordon explains, the stars couldn't shine without gravity holding them together. Even the atoms that make up you and everything around you were forged in stellar furnaces that gravity built. It took Einstein to realize that gravity is not, in fact, a force at all, but instead the curvature of space and time.A fascinating and memorable listen, Crush examines our personal relationships with gravity; explores gravity's role in making the universe uniquely hospitable for life; and even reveals how the mundane flow of water in your kitchen sink offers a glimpse into the secrets of black holes.

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  Earthopolis - A Biography of Our...

  Carl H. Nightingale

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  This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for ill. Carl Nightingale takes readers on a sweeping six-continent, six-millennium tour of the world’s cities, culminating in the last 250 years, when we vastly accelerated our planetary realms of action, habitat, and impact, courting dangerous new consequences and opening prospects for new hope. In Earthopolis we peek into our cities’ homes, neighborhoods, streets, shops, eating houses, squares, marketplaces, religious sites, schools, universities, offices, monuments, docklands, and airports to discover connections between small spaces and the largest things we have built. The book exposes the Urban Planet’s deep inequalities of power, wealth, access to knowledge, class, race, gender, sexuality, religion, and nation. It asks us to draw on the most just and democratic moments of Earthopolis’s past to rescue its future.

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