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  Urban Lowlands - A History of...

  Steven T. Moga

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  Interrogates the connections between a city’s physical landscape and the poverty and social problems that are often concentrated at its literal lowest points.In Urban Lowlands, Steven T. Moga looks closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City, Black Bottom in Nashville, Swede Hollow in Saint Paul, and the Flats in Los Angeles, to interrogate the connections between a city’s actual landscape and the poverty and social problems that are often concentrated at its literal lowest points. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective on the history of US urban development from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Moga reveals patterns of inequitable land use, economic dispossession, and social discrimination against immigrants and minorities. In attending to the landscapes of neighborhoods typically considered slums, Moga shows how physical and policy-driven containment has shaped the lives of the urban poor, while wealth and access to resources have been historically concentrated in elevated areas—truly “the heights.” Moga’s innovative framework expands our understanding of how planning and economic segregation alike have molded the American city.

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  Astronomical Mindfulness - Your...

  Anonimo

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  Using the power of the sun, moon, stars, and planets, this unique guide is filled with engaging exercises that deepen your knowledge of the solar system, help you take necessary pauses every day, and foster a renewed sense of presence in the universe. 
  Thousands of years ago, when we humans lived together in communal caves, we told stories about the stars. When we later took to the seas, we used stellar positions to navigate and pinpoint our place in the world. When we eventually stopped migrating and settled on land, we relied on the constellations and the Sun to plant and sustain crops. Yet today, we modern humans have lost this deep connection to the cosmos that was once central to our daily lives. 
  Astronomical Mindfulness helps us reconnect to the solar system once more, guiding us through the fundamental ways in which our planet moves through the solar system and how these motions determine our perception of time and place. Offering a concise yet in-depth look at the Sun, the Moon, the planets, and the stars, it teaches us to observe and understand the elements comprising the celestial sphere—deepening our lives and helping us become more informed, engaged, and mindful every day. 
  The best part: you don’t need to climb a mountain, visit an observatory, or even own a telescope. From an apartment rooftop to a city park, from your backyard to the window by your desk, the skies are accessible to everyone. Astronomical Mindfulness is a unique tool for personal growth essential to coping in our modern world, enabling us to be more present, more connected, and more relaxed simply by looking up toward the stars. 
  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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  The 38 Billion Year Story of...

  Ylia Callan

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  The 3.8 Billion Year Story of Life and Evolution takes listeners on an awe-inspiring journey through the vast history of life on Earth. From the mysterious origins of the first microbes to the great evolutionary leaps that gave rise to complex organisms, this audiobook unfolds the sweeping saga of our planet’s living tapestry. 
  Discover the Oxygen Revolution that transformed the atmosphere, the icy grip of Snowball Earth, the explosive diversification of the Cambrian Period, and the rise and fall of mighty species through cataclysmic mass extinctions. Walk alongside the earliest land plants, giant insects of the Carboniferous swamps, colossal dinosaurs, and finally, the remarkable emergence of mammals and humans. 
  Written in a clear, engaging narrative style, this audiobook blends science and storytelling to reveal how life has endured, adapted, and flourished against unimaginable odds. Whether you are fascinated by biology, geology, or the human story itself, The 3.8 Billion Year Story of Life and Evolution offers a grand perspective on the interwoven forces that shaped every creature alive today - including us.

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  The Day One Executive - A...

  April Armstrong

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  How can ambitious professionals stand out as future executives?In The Day One Executive, strategic leadership advisor April Armstrong explains how long-term success requires getting results, building mutually beneficial relationships, and cultivating reserves of resilience. It empowers you to hit the ground running in all three of these areas starting on Day One.Early in her career, Armstrong discovered a huge gap between what is taught in school and what it takes to be a successful executive. This book aims to close that gap through insight, research, and stories from more than a dozen top executives who share secrets from the C-suite to help you know:1. Why it pays to move up early;2. How to spot—and seize—a potential “catapult moment,” which can rapidly accelerate your career; and3. Why you must go beyond the job description to custom create your role starting on Day One.Choosing to be an executive is a very specific form of leadership: the stakes, standards, and levels of success are higher. The Day One Executive shares the distinguishing attitudes and behaviors to get noticed and, once recognized, start enjoying better choices, increased financial autonomy and freedom, and greater influence and impact in your career.

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  Black Bear - A Story of...

  Trina Moyles

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  When Trina Moyles was five years old, her father, a wildlife biologist known in Peace River as "the bear guy," brought home an orphaned black bear cub for a night before sending it to the Calgary Zoo. This brief but unforgettable encounter spurred Trina's lifelong fascination with Ursus americanus—the most populous bear on the northern landscape, often considered a nuisance to human society. As a child roaming the shores of the Peace in the footsteps of her beloved older brother, Brendan, she understood bears to be invisible entities: always present but mostly hidden and worthy of respect.After years of working for human rights organizations, Trina returned to northern Alberta for a job as a fire tower lookout. Over four summers, Trina begins to move beyond fear and observe the extraordinary essence of the maligned black bear—a keystone species who is as subject to the environmental consequences of the oil economy as humans. At the same time, she searches for common ground with Brendan on the land that bonded them.Impassioned and eloquent, Black Bear is a story of grief and a vision of peaceful coexistence in a divided world. It captures the fragility of our relationships with human and nonhuman species alike, and the imperative to protect the wild—along with the people we hold closest.

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  Airbus A320 Special Operations

  Facundo Conforti

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  The maneuvers of an Airbus A320 are extremely simple during normal operations. They may present minimal complexity during abnormal operations, but the aircraft is extremely easy to fly. 
  	On the other hand, there are special operations that require a higher level of attention, and these are not necessarily abnormal operations or emergencies, but rather uncommon operations, such as flights in wind shear, volcanic ash, among others. 
  	In this work, you will learn all the details of each of these special operations, which will take your understanding of A320 flight to the next level.

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