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  Downy Woodpecker and Other Bird...

  Greg Cetus

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  Downy woodpeckers are native to deciduous forest areas of North America. For their small size they produce a wide range of birdsongs, calls, and characteristic woodpecker drum beats.This recording offers continuous Downy Woodpecker calls and drumming recorded in natural habitat together with other birds and forest creatures.

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  Summary of Brian Christian & Tom...

  Falcon Press

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  Summary of Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths's Algorithms to Live By is an immersive look at the history and development of several algorithms used to solve computer science problems. It also considers potential applications of algorithms in human life including memory storage and network communication.

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  Albion Or Oblivion?

  Ph.D. Theodore Roszak

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  How can we preserve our personal sanity while braving the great technological wilderness? How can human integrity be renewed in the face of the rising technocracy? Roszak first came to prominence as author of The Making of the Counterculture and then became a spokesperson of the personal experience in the urban-industrial world.

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  Wild Shores - The Magic of...

  Richard Nairn

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  Following the Irish coast in a clockwise direction, acclaimed ecologist Richard Nairn travels by boat, on foot and sometimes by air to visit the best remaining wild places, including islands, cliffs, beaches and dunes.
  The result is a unique mix of nature, history, science and a reflection on the author's personal experiences of exploring Ireland's coast. By viewing the Irish coastline from the sea, Richard gains a unique perspective on the island. And along the way, he recalls a lifetime spent studying nature.
  'An affectionate and timely celebration of Ireland's richly varied coastline' Bryan Dobson
  'A great read – whatever part of the coast you visit' &Eacuteanna N&iacute Lamhna
  'A brilliant and timely odyssey around our precious, precarious shores' Professor John Brannigan, University College Dublin
  'An exhilarating journey right around our coastline' Paddy Woodworth, Journalist and author
  'An intimate, inspiring and lovely read about Ireland's shorelines: its places and spaces' Professor Robert Devoy, Lead Editor of The Coastal Atlas of Ireland

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  The Petlyakov Pe-2 - Stalin's...

  Peter C. Smith

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  The definitive book on the development and deployment of the Soviet Union’s supreme dive-bomber—with rare archival and private photos. 
   
  During the Second World War, the Petlyakov Pe-2 Peshka was the Soviet Union’s main dive- and light-bomber in operations across the Eastern Front. It became a mainstay of the Soviet counteroffensive that led to the fall of Berlin. They also led the way in the brief but annihilating Manchurian campaign against Japan in the closing days of the war in 1945. 
   
  Conceived by a team of top aircraft designers whom Stalin had incarcerated on political charges, the Peshka had originally been designed as a high-altitude twin-engine fighter plane. But due to the outstanding success of the German Stukas in the Blitzkrieg, it was quickly transformed into the fastest dive-bomber in the skies. 
   
  Only a handful had reached front lines by the start of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941. But by 1945, more than 11,000 of the type were built, including many variants. Many of these remained in service with the air forces of Yugoslavia and the Warsaw Pact countries into the 1950s. Using official sources, including the official Pe-2 handbook, as well as rare color and black-and-white photographs from both official and private collections, this is the definitive record of the Pe-2.

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  Last Night in the OR - A...

  Bud Shaw

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  The 1980s marked a revolution in the field of organ transplants, and Bud Shaw, MD, who studied under Tom Starzl in Pittsburgh, was on the front lines. Now retired from active practice, Dr. Shaw relays gripping moments of anguish and elation, frustration and reward, despair and hope in his struggle to save patients.He reveals harshly intimate moments of his medical career: telling a patient's husband that his wife has died during surgery; struggling to complete a twenty-hour operation as mental and physical exhaustion inch closer and closer; and flying to retrieve a donor organ while the patient waits in the operating room. Within these more emotionally charged vignettes are quieter ones, too, like growing up in rural Ohio, and being awakened late at night by footsteps in the hall as his father, also a surgeon, slipped out of the house to attend to a patient in the ER.

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