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  3D-Printing Houses

  Martin Drake

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  3D printing is transforming industries worldwide, and construction is no exception. As housing shortages and high building costs continue to challenge communities, 3D-printed homes offer a promising solution. This technology enables faster, more affordable, and adaptable construction, making homeownership and safe housing accessible to more people. By automating traditional processes, 3D printing redefines what's possible in construction—reducing waste, customizing designs, and speeding up building times. This book explores the groundbreaking impact of 3D printing on housing, highlighting its potential to revolutionize construction, improve affordability, and reshape the future of urban and rural living. 
    
  3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, is reshaping the construction industry by introducing innovative approaches to building homes, offices, and infrastructure. Traditionally used in manufacturing and prototyping, 3D printing has now evolved into a reliable construction method that involves layering material to create structures, walls, and entire buildings from digital models. This technology allows construction companies to bypass many of the labor-intensive processes typically associated with conventional building techniques, offering an efficient, cost-effective, and flexible approach to construction. 
    
  In 3D printing for construction, materials like concrete, mortar, and specialized compounds are extruded layer by layer, following a precise digital design that directs robotic arms or large-scale printers. These printers can operate continuously, producing walls, floors, and structural elements at a faster pace than manual construction. As a result, 3D printing not only reduces the time required to build but also significantly decreases labor costs, as fewer workers are needed on-site. Projects that once took months can now be completed in weeks or even days, depending on the scale of the building.

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  Tech Monopoly - (The MIT Press...

  Herbert Hovenkamp

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  In recent years, the astronomical rise of tech giants like Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft has been criticized as anticompetitive, and many have wondered if antitrust law can help protect workers and consumers. In Tech Monopoly, Herbert Hovenkamp explores competition problems in a wide range of high-tech firms—from those that sell purely digital products, such as video streaming, search, software, or email services, to others that sell more traditional "tactile" products, such as hardware, clothing, groceries, or rides. He offers a realistic look at the powers and limitations of antitrust law in tech markets with an assessment that is as comprehensive as it is accessible. 
   
   
   
  After a general introduction to antitrust law, Tech Monopoly considers how competitive harm should be assessed in these markets. Then Hovenkamp looks at the role of large digital platforms, including Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft, and considers whether their size alone is an antitrust problem or if the concern should be limited to market power. Finally, the author addresses the very difficult problem of remedies. Should we "break up" big tech, and if so, how? What kind of breakup of these firms would make users or others better off? And if breakups are not the only possible antitrust fix, are there more effective and less disruptive alternatives?

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  Fish On Fish Off

  Stephen Sautner

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  Author and master storyteller Stephen Sautner narrates this special immersive audio edition of his modern angling classic complete with music and ambient sound. Through a series of 50 personal essays, each of which worthy of its own podcast, Fish On, Fish Off explores what happens when the self-taught, DIY angler sets out to fish the world–and winds up stumbling into every possible pitfall and danger along the way. These include: getting chased from a river by an elephant, surviving a terrifying helicopter ride over the Straits of Magellan, and breaking his only rod on the second cast in Cuba’s Bay of Pigs. Closer to home, he is swept off a jetty by a rogue wave, winds up in an emergency room more than once with fishing lures hanging from various parts of his anatomy, and perhaps most daunting, surviving 30 years of the scrum better known as opening day of trout season in his crowded home state of New Jersey. These stories of heartbreak, terror, and triumph transcend beyond fishing, and make for excellent listening for angler and non-angler alike.

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  Kargil - From Surprise To Victory

  V.P. Malik

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  ""General Malik's book...stands out as perhaps the most valuable 
  contribution to our military literature since Independence."" 
  -The Tribune 
  ""Malik deserves credit for a frank and refreshing analysis of the 
  first limited war fought by two nuclear powered states. His theory 
  about the possibilities of further conflict would go a long way in 
  shaping India's military strategy."" 
  -The Telegraph 
  ""General Malik's account...is comprehensive, straight from the 
  shoulder and interesting to a range of readers.... This...volume 
  will certainly be a reference point, not just in discussions on the 
  Kargil conflict, but also in the way the Indian army perceives vital 
  issues like nuclear deterrence."" 
  -Business Standard 
  In February 1999, Pakistani Army personnel, disguised as jihadi militants, infiltrated into mountainous Kargil and occupied key vantage points. Their intrusion triggered a limited war between the world's newest nuclear states. It was a bitter battle, and one that threw up important lessons for India's defence preparedness, as also its responses to conflicts such as this. This incisive book by General V.P. Malik, former Chief of the Army Staff, analyses the reasoning behind the Pakistani Army's moves and tactics and reviews crucial issues such as the extent of intelligence and surveillance failure on the Indian side and the measures necessary to redress these failings. Away from questions of strategy and tactics, however, Kargil is also a reminder of the unalloyed heroism that was on display during those grim weeks, heroism that become a benchmark for valour.

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  Taking Stock - A Year Among Cows

  Roger Morgan-Grenville

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  Since highland cattle ransacked his grandmother's vegetable patch when he was six, Roger Morgan-Grenville has been fascinated by cows. 
   
  So at the age of 61, with no farming experience, he signed on as a part- time labourer on a beef cattle farm to tell their side of the story. The result is this lyrical and evocative book. 
   
  For 10,000 years, cow and human lives have been intertwined. Cattle have existed alongside us, fed and shod us, quenched our thirst, and provided a thousand other tiny services, and yet most of us know little about them. We are also blissfully unaware of the de-natured lives we often ask them to lead. 
   
  Part history, part adventure and part unsentimental manifesto for how we should treat cows in the 21st century, Taking Stock asks us to think carefully about what we eat, and to let nature back into food production.

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  Healing With Hypnosis: A...

  Dr Kirsty Black

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  Healing with Hypnosis: A Read-and-Record Guide to Self-Therapy – Everyday Challenges introduces a pioneering approach to self-hypnotherapy - offering a calm, structured way to work with your subconscious mind through guided listening. 
  In this audiobook, you will be led through carefully designed sessions that help your mind settle, reset, and respond more naturally to positive change. 
  You do not need more willpower.  You need access to the subconscious — where real change happens. 
  Through these sessions, you’ll be guided to: 
  • Calm stress and nervous system overload 
  • Sleep more deeply and switch off at night 
  • Restore emotional balance 
  • Strengthen confidence 
  • Improve motivation and focus 
  • Reduce procrastination 
  • Increase energy and vitality 
  • Let go of the past 
  • Build positive thinking patterns 
  • Quit smoking 
  Each session is designed to be simple, repeatable, and easy to return to — allowing your mind to become more familiar with the process over time. 
  Written by Dr Kirsty Black, chiropractor, naturopath, and certified hypnotherapist with over twenty years of clinical experience, this book removes the mystery from hypnosis and replaces it with clarity, structure, and reassurance. You’ll first understand how hypnosis works, then apply it step by step in a way that keeps you aware, in control, and moving at your own pace. 
  This book is the first in an 18-book Healing with Hypnosis series, with future titles designed to address phobias, break unwanted habits, improve performance, and support healthier relationships and family life. 
  This isn’t a gimmick. It isn’t stage hypnosis. It isn’t a dense clinical manual. 
  It’s a structured, first-of-its-kind method designed to help you work with your mind gently and effectively — one calm session at a time. Keep this book nearby as a practical guide you can return to whenever you need to reset, refocus, or reconnect.

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