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  The Human Place in Nature -...

  John Schooneveldt

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  This book explores a new approach to understanding the evolution of mind and consciousness by examining the perceptual abilities of animals and the way they experience their world. It offers a science-based, bottom-up approach to our own conscious worldview by seeing it through the eyes of others. Human ecologist John Schooneveldt emphasizes the role of context in evolution and the way animals internalize and engage with the contextual properties of their world that are meaningful for them. The core argument is that a context, which is subjective and comprised of the perceptual capacities, offers new insights into the evolution of mind. Rather than seeing biological evolution in terms of the emergence of mindless forms and cultural evolution as the emergence of disembodied minds, the book seeks to integrate these two perspectives through the rigorous mapping of contexts. 
   
  This book: reveals an understanding of animal minds; formulates a hypothesis for the evolution of consciousness; includes a discussion of the origin of technological innovation; provides a rationale for the ecology of mind; proposes a theory of the evolution of language; outlines the science of experience and how it influences choice; and explains the role of context and choice with respect, especially to human ecology.

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  Old Wine and New New Wine

  JBS Palmer

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  Old Wine and New New Wine can kickstart your imagination into a profound new and true view of the intersection of science, philosophy, and supernatural religion. At the end of the day—if you reach it—you will grasp the essential relation between our qualitative experience and science, see science in a new light, trade in your materialism for materiality, and have an uncanny knowledge of what happens at death.

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  Lump - A Memoir in Ineloquent...

  Allison Sweet Grant

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  For fans of Between Two Kingdoms and Milk and Honey, a dazzling, unconventional memoir—in essays and verse—of a young woman’s sojourn with breast cancer; a chronicle of the most tragic moments in loss, and a celebration ofthe most tender moments in life.Question:If one breast is triple positive and the other triple negative, do they cancel each other out?Asking for a friend.    In this intimate meditation, Allison Sweet Grant begins at the place she assumed was the end. Barely 40, a mother of three, and just embarking upon her literary career, she started detailing her cancer experience the only way she knew how. In poems and compositions including “The Good Patient: A Play,” “A Note on Common Sense,” “Hot-Girl Summer,” and “1000 Kinds of Clouds,” Grant deftly explores every emotion, from the gripping panic of diagnosis to the bittersweet relief of recovery, and the heartbeats in between.     Unpretentious, gut-wrenchingly honest, and at times devastatingly funny, Lump illuminates the fear, hope, everyday indignities of illness, and unexpected joys of healing with sobering clarity and wisdom. Whether you’re on a similar course, supporting a loved one through theirs, or simply appreciate lyrical musings and poignant prose, this evocative collection is one you will savor and share. 

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  After Apollo: The History of...

  Charles River Editors

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  Today the Space Race is widely viewed poignantly and fondly as a race to the Moon that culminated with Apollo 11 “winning” the Race for the United States. In fact, it encompassed a much broader range of competition between the Soviet Union and the United States that affected everything from military technology to successfully launching satellites that could land on Mars or orbit other planets in the Solar System. Moreover, the notion that America “won” the Space Race at the end of the 1960s overlooks just how competitive the Space Race actually was in launching people into orbit, as well as the major contributions the Space Race influenced in leading to today’s International Space Station and continued space exploration.  
  Space exploration was always an expensive business, and throughout NASA’s history, the agency has had to justify to Congress its need for every dollar it intended to spend. This problem has helped NASA to be more careful and more creative with the money they did receive, and scientists had to justify the equipment they wanted to include on each space probe. They had to justify the size and the power demand, too. If they wanted too much, the entire mission might be scrubbed, and all their work would have been for naught. This made planning and designs leaner and more efficient, as scientists and engineers were more careful with their recommendations. 
  Although Apollo 11’s successful mission to the Moon is seen as the culmination of the Space Race, and the Apollo program remains NASA’s most famous, one of the space agency’s most successful endeavors came a few years later. In fact, the Pioneer program was the most diversified sequence of any of NASA’s programs, and though they’re now remembered for being among the first probes in history to reach the Outer Solar System, the elaborate planning changed goals several times over several years before resulting in historic successes. 

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  Excel VBA - A Comprehensive...

  Peter Bradley

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  If you want to take Excel to the next level, and improve your knowledge in VBA, you should learn how to implement the tools and functions that VBA offers in your work. 
  If your aim is to improve and automate processes using Excel VBA, you have come to the right place. 
  Over the course of the book, you will gather information on a wide array of tools and Excel options. The book will take you through some facts about Excel VBA and will also leave you with some tips that you can use to improve the processing speed of VBA. 
  This book is packed with some friendly advice on the easiest methods that you can use to develop sub procedures, and the many ways in which you can call them. 
  You will learn more about:Some facts about Excel VBAAdditional resources that you can use to gather more information about Excel VBATips to improve the performance of MacrosSome issues with Excel spreadsheets, and solutions to handle those errorsWorking with sub procedures 
  If you have some knowledge about Excel VBA, and want to improve your skills in programming with VBA then this book is for you. 
  So What are You Waiting For? Grab a copy of this book now.

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  A Fascinating Journey Through...

  Martin K. Ettington

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  Time is a fascinating subject and one which affects our lives in many ways.  
  This book covers a lot of aspects of the subject. 
  First, how did measurements of time like seconds, minutes, hours, and years develop? 
  Next, what is the history of timekeeping mechanisms from ancient water clocks, to mechanical mechanisms, atomic clocks, and much more. 
  Lastly, what are some of the stranger aspects or anomalies of time such as premonitions, how time and space work, and possible time travel stories. 
  And philosophical questions like: Does the future already exist? 
  I wanted this book to be a comprehensive volume on time and so included lots of different stories and understandings about time which indicate we may not fully understand it yet.

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