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  Oil Beach - How Toxic...

  Christina Dunbar-Hester

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  Can the stories of bananas, whales, sea birds, and otters teach us to reconsider the seaport as a place of ecological violence, tied to oil, capital, and trade? 
    
  San Pedro Bay, which contains the contiguous Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, is a significant site for petroleum shipping and refining as well as one of the largest container shipping ports in the world—some forty percent of containerized imports to the United States pass through this so-called America’s Port. It is also ecologically rich. Built atop a land- and waterscape of vital importance to wildlife, the heavily industrialized Los Angeles Harbor contains estuarial wetlands, the LA River mouth, and a marine ecology where colder and warmer Pacific Ocean waters meet. In this compelling interdisciplinary investigation, award-winning author Christina Dunbar-Hester explores the complex relationships among commerce, empire, environment, and the nonhuman life forms of San Pedro Bay over the last fifty years—a period coinciding with the era of modern environmental regulation in the United States. The LA port complex is not simply a local site, Dunbar-Hester argues, but a node in a network that enables the continued expansion of capitalism, propelling trade as it drives the extraction of natural resources, labor violations, pollution, and other harms. Focusing specifically on cetaceans, bananas, sea birds, and otters whose lives are intertwined with the vitality of the port complex itself, Oil Beach reveals how logistics infrastructure threatens ecologies as it circulates goods and capital—and helps us to consider a future where the accumulation of life and the accumulation of capital are not in violent tension.

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  Simple Shelters - Tents Tipis...

  Jonathan Horning

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  How do you build a yurt?  A Bedouin tent?  What about a kathe?  What’s a yaranga?  How about a hogan?  Can you stay warm in an igloo?  Are there secrets to living, thriving and surviving in specific climates?  In this unique and exquisite little book, Jonathan Horning examines basic shelters from all over the world:  mud-brick adobe structures, nomads’ tents, travellers’ quick fixes, timber frame buildings, and modern solutions, including strawbale designs and geodesic domes.

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  Angular Mastery

  Et Tu Code

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  Master the art of building modern web applications with Angular!  
  In 'Angular Mastery', you'll dive deep into the world of Angular, exploring its powerful features and best practices for creating scalable, maintainable, and highly responsive apps. 
  Covering everything from the basics to advanced techniques, this comprehensive guide is perfect for developers new to Angular as well as those looking to take their skills to the next level. You'll learn how to: 
  * Set up and configure your Angular project 
  * Build reusable components with ngModules and Services 
  * Handle complex UI interactions with Forms and Templates 
  * Integrate popular libraries and frameworks (e.g., RxJS, Materialize) 
  * Optimize performance and debug issues

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  CompTIA A+ & Security+...

  Josh Russell

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  This ultimate combo includes: 
  ✅ Complete Coverage of CompTIA A+ Exams 220-1101 & 220-1102 ✅ Full Masterclass for CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 ✅ Pro-Level Practice Tests with Detailed Explanations ✅ Hands-On Concepts, Real-World Scenarios & Career Tips 
  Written by certified tech experts and instructional designers, this guide makes complex IT concepts fun, approachable, and crystal clear. You'll go from “What’s an IP address?” to “Hire me now” without the overwhelm. 
  🧠 What's Inside:All-in-One Learning System: Tailored for busy learners with streamlined content that focuses on what actually shows up on the exams.Up-to-Date with 2025 Exam Objectives: No outdated fluff—just what you need, nothing you don’t.Memory Boosters & Exam Hacks: Learn faster with clever analogies, tech humor, and bite-sized breakdowns.Career-Ready Skills: Includes practical security skills, troubleshooting tactics, and resume-ready vocabulary to land your dream role. 
  💼 Perfect For:Career changers jumping into techStudents preparing for job-ready certificationsIT support, helpdesk, or cybersecurity hopefulsAnyone tired of boring, bloated textbooks 
  📈 Start Smart, Study Smarter, Win Big 
  Don’t just pass—own your certifications and stand out in the tech crowd. With this 2-in-1 masterclass, you’re not just prepping for exams... you’re launching your future. 
  Get your copy now and let your IT journey begin.

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  What the Bears Know - How I...

  Steve Searles, Chris Erskine

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  In the late 1990s, the town of Mammoth Lakes, California, hired Steve Searles as a hunter to cull half its troublesome bear population. But as he began to prepare for the grim task, the bears soon won him over, and Searles realized there had to be a better way. He soon developed nonlethal tactics to control their behavior and overpopulation that heralded a landmark moment in the care and handling of the American black bear. But change was not without its challenges. To some, his success was dismissed due to his lack of formal academic training. Yet Searles never wavered in his commitment, and eventually became not just local folk hero but a nationally recognized expert. This high school dropout saved not just the bears, but, in many ways, his community. 
   
   
   
  In a tradition that runs from John Muir to Bear Grylls, Searles finds a fellowship with nature and a deeper meaning in the world of bears. Do bears understand things we don't? Are they dialed in to some greater natural force? Unlike us, bears waste little time on unreasonable fears. Bears are fully in the moment. They have an inner peace that seems to offset their power and strength. That may explain why no other animal on the planet is as revered as the bear. As Searles shares his remarkable knowledge and we become immersed in the ursine world, you'll never look at bears or nature the same way again.

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  Velociraptor The: The History of...

  Editors Charles River

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  The massively popular 1990 novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton and its subsequent movie adaptations led to a huge resurgence in interest in dinosaurs and the prehistoric world. That interest continues to the present day, even though most of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park weren’t actually from the Jurassic period. Triceratops, Velociraptor, Tyrannosaurus Rex and the huge sauropods such as Brachiosaurus that feature in the book and movies all actually belong to the Late Cretaceous period, more than 40 million years after the end of the Jurassic. Regardless, the movie made certain kinds of dinosaurs instantly recognizable, even if associated with the wrong era. 
  	Thanks to the movie, there has been some unwitting confusion over the identity of the Velociraptor, and this confusion was due in large part to the fact the name sounds far more scary than the creature to which the name originally belonged. Moreover, the creature to which the label was applied in the novel and movie was actually a distant cousin named Deinonychus, but as the story goes, the author, Michael Crichton, thought “Velociraptor” sounded “more dramatic.” The actual Velociraptor lived not in the badlands of North America, but in the badlands of central-eastern Asia, and it was not nearly as intimidating as Deinonychus. In fact, the main species of genus Velociraptor - Velociraptor mongoliensis - was no bigger than a turkey. Thus, in a very real sense, the Velociraptor has taken on a larger-than-life reputation.

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