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  Shameless Gasoline Windfalls -...

  Thomas Porcher

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  Did you know that lower oil prices are almost never passed on fairly to consumers at the pump? That oil companies sacrifice their own refineries? That they pay no taxes, manipulate information and collude to avoid competition?
  Every year, the announcement of profits by oil companies, especially Total, provokes reactions of admiration or indignation from French observers, experts and politicians. But what are these figures hiding? Thomas Porcher reveals eight scandalous practices by the gasoline giants. His aim—to encourage collective denunciation and vigilance, which alone will lead governments to act for the good of citizens.

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  R Programming Insights Textbook

  Manish Soni

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  In today's data-driven world, the ability to analyze and interpret data is essential. R, a powerful and versatile programming language, has become a leading tool for data analysis, statistics, and visualization. This book is designed to be a comprehensive guide to R programming, suitable for both beginners and experienced users. We start with the basics of R, including installation and familiarization with RStudio. From there, we cover fundamental concepts such as data types, structures, and basic operations, progressing to advanced topics like data manipulation, statistical analysis, and visualization. The book also introduces popular R packages that enhance its capabilities. Each chapter includes practical exercises and real-world examples to reinforce your learning and provide hands-on experience. By working through these exercises, you will gain a deeper understanding of R and the confidence to apply your skills to real-world problems. 
  Whether you are new to programming or an experienced coder looking to add R to your skillset, this book will serve as a valuable resource. By the end, you will be proficient in R programming and inspired to explore its vast possibilities. To reinforce your learning and ensure mastery of the concepts, each chapter includes: 
  1. Exercises: Thought-provoking exercises designed to test your understanding and reinforce key concepts. 
  2. Activities: Hands-on activities to apply what you've learned in real-world scenarios, fostering critical thinking and problem-solving skills. 
  3. Projects: Engaging projects that challenge you to tackle R Programming problems from start to finish, integrating multiple concepts and techniques. 
  4. Test Papers: Comprehensive test papers to assess your knowledge and track your progress throughout the course.

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  Real Near-Death Stories NDE...

  Tales Of Afterlife

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if consciousness continues beyond clinical death, and ordinary people have returned with extraordinary proof of an afterlife? Journey through meticulously documented near-death experiences that challenge everything science tells us about consciousness and mortality. These aren't folklore or religious tales—they're verified accounts from credible witnesses whose lives were forever transformed by their encounters with death and return. Discover the remarkable story of Tom Sawyer, who survived 33,000 volts of electricity for twenty minutes, experiencing clinical death while witnessing profound revelations about existence, interconnectedness, and the nature of reality itself. Follow Dr. Lloyd Rudy's impossible surgical case that shattered a veteran heart surgeon's materialist worldview. Each account features extensive research, medical documentation, and follow-up studies that validate these extraordinary experiences. Explore detailed life reviews where experiencers relive every moment from multiple perspectives, understanding the ripple effects of their actions across time and space. Witness dramatic personality transformations, enhanced psychic abilities, and the complete loss of death anxiety that characterizes authentic near-death experiences. These stories offer compelling evidence for consciousness survival, featuring truck drivers, medical professionals, and ordinary individuals who encountered something beyond physical reality. Whether you're seeking comfort about mortality, exploring consciousness research, or investigating evidence for an afterlife, these thoroughly investigated cases provide profound insights into humanity's greatest mystery—what happens when we die.

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  Overcoming Fear and Panic...

  Mashal Al Nawab MD PhD

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  This second edition has been revised and expanded, offering updated material and further insight into this profoundly draining condition.   
  Although I am both a medically qualified and an academic doctor, I do not purport to write this book as a trained psychiatrist or psychologist, of which I am neither. I do, however, claim to be an experienced, consultant-level, medical professional who has, in the past, suffered from panic attacks related to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which I developed many, many years ago now. Consequently, I am very familiar with the subject matter, have been in your shoes, and am able to view the problem from both ends of the spectrum.  The purpose of this book is to provide you, the reader, with an enhanced understanding of panic attacks and anxiety, their causes, and their main features. Additionally, it is designed to embed within you an attitude that enables you to reclaim the authority or self-control that panic and anxiety may have stripped away. Despite what you may be feeling now, always appreciate that it is neither our anxieties nor our panic that define who we really are.  
  In this book you will find an awesome weapon that will help you change the way you relate to anxiety and panic and ultimately dominate them. Having said that, the reader should keep in mind that the road to recovery may not be a straight or comfortable one. Ups and downs, twists, and turns will be part of the journey. However, rest assured that you will find your way to a life free of anxiety and panic when you achieve the attitude alteration and concept lock-in presented in this book. Know that when it comes to defeating anxiety and panic, Knowledge is Truly king

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  The Fox Shrew and You - How...

  Rogier B. Mars

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  A leading neuroscientist describes the long evolutionary process that led to the human brain. 
  Our human brain is both unique and similar to that of other species. The only way we can trace its evolution is by comparing it to the brains of animals alive today. In this book, leading neuroscientist Rogier Mars offers an engaging account of the evolution of the brain by exploring the brains and cognitive capacities of animals from the humble sea squirt to the socially minded fox and the tiny shrew. 
  By examining the challenges that different animals and their ancestors faced, Mars shows that we can understand what drove the evolution of their brains. Early vertebrates became predators of the sea; mammals evolved a complex neocortex to deal with foraging for high-energy food; and social primates adapted to contend with a fast-changing environment in which groups of individuals team up to get food. Over the course of a long evolutionary road, the ancestors of present-day animals and their descendants continually adapted to challenges, modifying their brains again and again. For us humans, this process gradually led to a brain that is capable of so much, from inventing language to traveling into space. 
  Mars leads listeners across eras and species, showing us how we resemble our animal cousins, how we differ from them, and how animals in one branch of the evolutionary tree did the hard evolutionary work of becoming human.

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  Marx for Cats - A Radical Bestiary

  Leigh Claire La Berge

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  At the outset of Marx for Cats, Leigh Claire La Berge declares that "all history is the history of cat struggle." Revising the medieval bestiary form to meet Marxist critique, La Berge follows feline footprints through Western economic history to reveal an animality at the heart of Marxism. She draws on a twelve-hundred-year arc spanning capitalism's feudal prehistory, its colonialist and imperialist ages, the bourgeois revolutions that supported capitalism, and the communist revolutions that opposed it to outline how cats have long been understood as creatures of economic critique and liberatory possibility. By attending to the repeated archival appearance of lions, tigers, wildcats, and "sabo-tabbies," La Berge argues that felines are central to how Marxists have imagined the economy, and by asking what humans and animals owe each other in a moment of ecological crisis, La Berge joins current debates about the need for and possibility of eco-socialism. In this playful and radical bestiary, La Berge demonstrates that class struggle is ultimately an interspecies collaboration.

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