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  The Voice of Animals

  Pilar Badía

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  The most common way we come to know animals is usually by rote learning the specific features that certain kind of animals have according to a textbooks. We learn that they are mammals, birds or fish; but at school we rarely mention that they have a personality of their own and even less do we analyze whether we treat them well or badly. Have you ever wondered how animals actually feel?
  Have you thought about how they are treated in our society?
  The Voice of Animals promotes reflection through critical thinking on different issues related to animal ethics. By raising questions it paves the way to analyze the most common themes that emerge in adolescence regarding the lives of animals, both free and captive.

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  How to Master Technical...

  Ingrid Beauvez-Denis

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  Experience a truly HUMAN audiobook, brought to life by a warm, expressive voice artist. Her calm yet engaging delivery, paired with varied pacing and intonation, makes every concept instantly clear—boosting your comprehension and memory. 
   
  Prefaced by NATO’s lead interpreter and head of training, this book provides a simple formula for speaking and writing about specialist topics so they are understood by anyone. Achieve two seemingly opposite goals: be clear and comprehensive, yet succinct and to the point. Prevent misunderstandings and ensure you never bore or annoy your audience. As a bonus, you will learn to recognize when others use "savant words" to manipulate you. 
   
  Is this book for you? 
  - Have you struggled to explain topics that were complex or strange to your listeners? 
  - Have you ever felt lost by someone’s jargon but weren’t sure how to ask for clarity? 
  - Have you ever sensed that some people were trying to fool you by throwing fancy words at you? 
   
  This is a fantastic tool for professionals across all fields, including public speakers, translators, interpreters, and B2–C2 TESOL/ESL students and teachers. 
   
  What you will learn: 
  - Putting yourself in your partners’ shoes 
  - Mastering standard structures and active language 
  - Choosing the right subjects 
  - Explaining your specialised terms in everyday English 
  - Making coherent lists 
  - Why ‘looks matter’ 
   
  Listening time: 3 hours, a small investment for a lifetime of impressing your audience, colleagues, teachers, and students with brilliant explanations. 
   
  The Superpower Combo: Pair this audiobook with the slim paperback featuring illustrations, recap tables, and space for notes. Present your completed exercises to a coach for professional feedback. 
   
  Ready to start? Press play and learn how to turn the nuts and bolts of technical jargon into a crystal-clear flow of language!

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  Mastering Data to Win -...

  Mark Chisnell, Gilberto Pastorella

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  The modern racing yacht is awash with onboard instruments and electronics giving enormous amounts of data. But few people fully understand how to get the most out of all the information at their fingertips, let alone make it useful for the team to enable them to win races. But ace navigators, Mark Chisnell and Gilberto Pastorella, do – both have worked with professional sailing programmes all over the world – from America's Cup to Maxi, ORC / IRC and one-design fleets. In Mastering Data to Win they take the reader through the process: from understanding the concepts, ensuring accuracy, using the data to win races and then post-race analysis to find performance gains. By mastering your instruments you can make the right calls every time and know for certain when to tack, which shift to look out for and how the tide can work with or against you. With colour diagrams and photographs throughout, this instructional guide turns information into excellence.  Accessible to those new to racing, it also has a depth of information that will transform the performance of even professional sailors.

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  Mercury and Gemini: The History...

  Editors Charles River

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  The successful Apollo 11 mission was certainly an astonishing technological triumph, but what is less well remembered now are that many programs preceded Apollo and were essential to its success. Project Mercury was one of those, and in many ways it represented the greatest step forward in terms of the conquest of space. Before Project Mercury, there was no certainty that a human could survive the rigors of a space launch or live outside Earth’s atmosphere. There was no agreement on just what an astronaut should be, and various individuals involved debated whether they should be pilots, technicians, scientists, or even merely observers in an automated craft. Before Project Mercury, no one was entirely certain what a rocket capable of taking a person into space would look like, or even whether building such a craft was within the capabilities of engineering in the 1950s. 
  Gemini also marked another important milestone as America finally surpassed the Soviet Union in space technology. Before Gemini, the US was playing a desperate game of catch-up as it attempted to match Soviet accomplishments. The last Project Mercury flight launched in May 1963, and before then, Russia had put the first satellite in Earth’s orbit and the first man in space and had followed these with longer flights than the tiny Mercury spacecraft. In terms of military significance, it was recognized that the ability to dominate space was very important, and to many people in America, it seemed that Russia was well on the way to doing this. No one could have guessed that it would be almost three years before the next American manned space flight occurred when Gemini 3 left the launch pad in March 1965. It seemed to many people that the Russian lead in space exploration had become unassailable and, in order to reestablish the credibility of the US space program, the Gemini flights simply had to succeed.

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  Quantum Physics for Beginners -...

  Oliver Graves

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  What if everything you thought you knew about reality… was incomplete? 
  How can a particle be in two places at once? Why does simply observing something change its behavior? And how can two objects be “connected” across vast distances with no visible link? 
  This audiobook breaks down the mind-bending logic of quantum mechanics into something even complete beginners can follow — without dumbing it down. With engaging, bite-sized chapters, it brings you inside the bizarre but beautiful logic that shapes the tiniest parts of our universe… and influences far more than you might think. 
  You’ll finally understand concepts like entanglement, the photoelectric effect, and quantum uncertainty — but more importantly, you’ll discover how these ideas connect to technology, philosophy, and even the human body. 
  You’ll learn:Why the double-slit experiment is the weirdest and most important experiment in physicsHow observation can change reality, and what that really meansWhat Einstein got right — and wrong — about quantum mechanicsWhy energy is quantized, and what that means for atoms and lightHow mathematics became physics’ secret weaponWhat perturbation theory is, and how it helps predict the unpredictableThe surprising role of conservation laws and symmetriesWhat quantum physics tells us about the nature of time and causalityHow technology like lasers, transistors, and MRI depends on quantum principlesWhat modern science says about the human body as a quantum system 
  Forget lifeless textbooks. This is science with all the wonder left in.Start listening — and discover the quantum side of reality you were never taught in school.

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  The Sound of Many Waters - A...

  Robin A. Crawford

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  Join Robin Crawford on a personal journey from the source of the River Tay to the sea.
  With the widest catchment area of any river in Britain, the Tay drains much of the lower Highlands of Scotland. A vast network of lochs and smaller bodies of water feed the Isla, Garry, Tummel, Almond and Earn, which all flow into this mighty river.
  As Robin Crawford walks along the banks of the Tay, we delve into the history of this landscape and his personal connection with it, from hill walks with friends into the mountains of the Tay's source to his student days in Dundee, where the Tay eventually spills out into the North Sea.
  Along the route we dip into the river's story: the gold-panners on the river Cononish, the Earthquake House outside Comrie, Beatrix Potter's holiday home near Dunkeld. Throughout, the river is our constant companion, connecting the small moments on which events turn and lives are changed forever.

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