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  100 Great Scientists Who Changed...

  John Balchin

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  'If I saw further than others it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.' 
  - Sir Isaac Newton 
   
  This audiobook introduces 100 of these giants of scientific discovery: the men and women who, often in the face of extreme skepticism or worse, have striven and succeeded in pushing back the boundaries of human knowledge. Ranging across the spectrum of scientific endeavor, from the cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo, to the medical revolutions of Hippocrates and Galen, it includes the fields of physics, biology, chemistry and genetics. 
   
  Spanning from the ancient world to the 20th century, these figures include:AristotleLeonardo di VinciBenjamin FranklinIsaac NewtonStephen Hawking 
   
  100 Great Scientists Who Changed the World provides riveting insight into the men and women who shaped the world today.

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  Saving Ourselves - From Climate...

  Dana R. Fisher

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  We've known for decades that climate change is an existential crisis. For just as long, we've seen the complete failure of our institutions to rise to the challenge. Fossil fuel interests maintain a stranglehold on political and economic power. Even though we have seen growing concern from everyday people, civil society has succeeded only in pressuring decision makers to adopt watered-down policies. Is there any hope of achieving the systemic change we need? 
   
   
   
  Dana R. Fisher argues that there is a realistic path forward for climate action—but only through mass mobilization that responds to the growing severity and frequency of disastrous events. She assesses the current state of affairs and shows why public policy and private-sector efforts have been ineffective. Spurred by this lack of progress, climate activism has become increasingly confrontational. Fisher examines the radical flank of the climate movement: its emergence and growth, its use of direct action, and how it might evolve as the climate crisis worsens. She considers when and how activism is most successful, identifying the importance of creating community, capitalizing on shocking moments, and cultivating resilience. Clear-eyed yet optimistic, Saving Ourselves offers timely insights on how social movements can take power back and open windows of opportunity for transformative climate action.

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  The Stellar Mind - The...

  Ylia Callan

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  What if the universe itself thinks? The Stellar Mind takes listeners on an extraordinary journey into the hidden intelligence woven into the very fabric of reality. From the silent dance of neutrinos to the magnetic memory of planets, this audiobook explores how consciousness might exist far beyond brains, permeating stars, Earth, and the cosmos itself. 
   
  Blending cutting-edge science, philosophy, and metaphysical inquiry, this audiobook illuminates the mechanisms by which the universe processes information, remembers, and evolves. Discover the cognitive potential of cosmic plasma, the neural-like architecture of spacetime, and what this means for life, AI, and our search for extraterrestrial intelligence. 
   
  Thought-provoking and awe-inspiring, The Stellar Mind challenges conventional notions of mind, life, and intelligence, inviting you to perceive the universe not as inert matter but as a living, thinking entity. By the final chapter, listeners will reconsider their place in the cosmos and the profound ethical and spiritual implications of a universe that knows itself.

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  My Child the Algorithm - An...

  Hannah Silva

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  A playful and provocative exploration of queer single parenting and love, in conversation with an AI algorithm and a toddler 
   
   
   
  My Child, the Algorithm describes encounters between a single parent, a curious, verbal toddler, and a language-producing algorithm. Like a male seahorse, Hannah Silva carried a baby made from her partner's egg. But when she gave birth, her partner left, and Hannah found herself navigating life alone with her child, surviving on United Kingdom universal credit, humor, and buckets of imagination. 
   
   
   
  As she navigates friendship, dating, and life as a queer parent in London, Hannah begins cowriting with an open-source language model, a precursor to ChatGPT, feeding the algorithm language and receiving language in return. Through her interactions with her toddler and the algorithm, expressions of humor, play, and insight begin to emerge. With the help and disruption of these unreliable narrators, Hannah deconstructs her story and constructs a new one, unraveling what she has been taught to want, finding alternative ways of thinking, loving, and parenting today.

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  Black Holes - The Key to...

  Professor Brian Cox, Professor...

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  By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive narrative work on black holes and how they can help us understand the universe.  
  At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly it can bend space, throwing vast jets of radiation millions of light years out into the cosmos. Its kind were the very first inhabitants of the universe, the black holes. 
  Today, across the universe, at the heart of every galaxy, and dotted throughout, mature black holes are creating chaos. And in a quiet part of the universe, the Swift satellite has picked up evidence of a gruesome death caused by one of these dark powers. High energy X-ray flares shooting out from deep within the Draco constellation are thought to be the dying cries of a white dwarf star being ripped apart by the intense tides of a supermassive black hole – heating it to millions of degrees as it is shredded at the event horizon. 
  They have the power to wipe out any of the universe’s other inhabitants, but no one has ever seen a black hole itself die. But 1.8 billion light years away, the LIGO instruments have recently detected something that could be the closest a black hole gets to death. Gravitational waves given off as two enormous black holes merge together. And now scientists think that these gravitational waves could be evidence of two black holes connecting to form a wormhole – a link through space and time. It seems outlandish, but today’s physicists are daring to think the unthinkable – that black holes could connect us to another universe. 
  At their very heart, black holes are also where Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity is stretched in almost unimaginable ways, revealing black holes as the key to our understanding of the fundamentals of our universe and perhaps all other universes. 
  Join Professors Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw in exploring our universe’s most mysterious inhabitants, how they are formed, why they are essential components of every galaxy, including our own, and what secrets they still hold, waiting to be discovered. 
  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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  Working With Porcupines - 24...

  Terry Mckinney

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  Difficult, prickly people seem to be everywhere: At work, at home, in restaurants, on the highway, every-friggin’-where! And there is an art to dealing with them. You can learn this art, so problem-people become easier to manage and have less impact on your life and work. Working With Porcupines gives you 24 easily learned proven tips, techniques and hacks for dealing with impossible bosses, idea-stealing work colleagues, almost-impossible relatives and challenging spouses and partners. Each of these 24 tips is the perfect length for before-bed reading!  
  No more cowering at work as narcissists, blamers, dramatics and sociopaths dominate every conversation. No more tiptoeing around an impossible boss who is sucking the life out of you. Working With Porcupines takes you inside a sociopath-rich work environment - - - the aerospace industry - - - where, for whatever reason, strong personalities and grumpy, odd people congregate!  
  Working With Porcupines takes you inside a sociopath-rich work environment - - - the aerospace industry - - - where, for whatever reason, strong personalities and grumpy, odd people congregate!  
  See how the major defense contractors and agencies in the USA keep their “Type A” leaders and managers productive without being domineering, and in-charge without burning out their employees. Mack has trained them all: Boeing Phantom Works, Lockheed Martin-Sikorsky and ADP (Skunk Works); Northrop Grumman (four divisions), General Dynamics, Booz Allen Hamilton, Raytheon, DARPA, FAA, NASA, all the US Military services, and many Allied nations as well (no endorsement alleged or implied). If you want to be listened-to and respected, if you are tired of being manipulated by toxic, abrasive bullies and idiots, if you are seeking a blueprint for living, even a personal mental and behavioral framework for a happier life, then Working With Porcupines is for you.

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