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  And i´m still Alive - A life...

  Ines Vasku

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  A biography at 24. What can you do with life know and tell? Not much at first glance, but when I think about it , I feel like I've already had more than 9 lives. No, I was never beaten or abused, I have a family and a roof over my head. And yet I wanted everything completely differently or planned it. Through drastic experiences of life-threatening illness, bullying and psychological problems, my life became a real hurdle. Not only physically but also socially handicapped, sometimes more developed than people and young people my age, but on the other hand still like a child. So put life presents me with more obstacles than solutions. Every person has their own problems and I mean completely own! Seeing life through someone else's eyes. Understanding what it means not to be "normal". and yet always the fight for normality I am a person in conflict with my body and mine Soul And I fight every day "And I'm still alive!" And I'm still alive A perfect family. I don't fit in there, but who actually says what's perfect or not

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  Why Geese Don't Get Obese (and...

  Eric P. Widmaier

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  Imagine being able to consume 250,000 calories daily without gaining weight. 
  If you had the metabolism of a shrew you could. And while most of us can't hold our breath for more than a few minutes, the Weddell seal can remain under water for a full 75 minutes! 
  Through many amazing examples, Why Geese Don't Get Obese discusses the mechanisms humans and other creatures have evolved to gauge their need for food; gather water and oxygen; circulate blood; regulate body temperature; respond to stressful situations; and maintain other survival needs. 
  Peppy prose and just the right amount of detail make this audio-book a delight and a fitting ode to the remarkable resilience of nature!

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  Bird & Forest Nature Sounds -...

  Pacific Wave Therapy

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  This one-of-a-kind audiobook gives you real Australian bird & forest sounds — professionally recorded in different quiet nature spots, with no music and no artificial effects. 
  You’ll hear a mix of famous Australian birds and soothing nature sounds that create a calm, steady background, including:Kookaburras with their iconic laughing callButcherbirds with clear, clean songsCockatoos calling from the distanceCurrawongs with their deeper, rounder notesAustralian Magpies doing their smooth, warbling callsRainbow Lorikeets with bright, lively chatterNoisy Miners adding sharper callsSuperb Fairywrens with light, high-pitched sounds 
  You’ll also hear gentle wind, leaves, relaxing rain and the natural quiet that makes the whole experience feel open and real. 
  Does the science agree? Nature sounds help the brain slow down because they’re easy to process. Your mind doesn’t have to fight for attention the way it does with city noise, phones, or music with lyrics. That makes it easier to focus, read, study, work, or settle down at night. 
  There’s also good evidence that listening to nature audio can reduce stress and help your body shift into a calmer state. Bird sounds work especially well because they have just enough variety to keep your mind engaged without pulling you away from what you’re doing. 
  No talking. No music. Only real nature, professionally recorded and edited. 
  Press play!

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  The Secret Body - How the New...

  Daniel M. Davis

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  "A perfect blend of cutting-edge science and compelling storytelling."—Bill Bryson
  This audiobook narrated by Jot Davies offers revolutionary new vision of human biology and the scientific breakthroughs that will transform our lives
  
  Imagine knowing years in advance whether you are likely to get cancer, or having a personalized understanding of your individual genes, organs, and cells. Imagine being able to monitor your body's well-being, or have a diet tailored to your microbiome. The Secret Body reveals how these and other stunning breakthroughs and technologies are transforming our understanding of how the human body works, what it is capable of, how to protect it from disease, and how we might manipulate it in the future.
  
  Taking readers to the cutting edge of research, Daniel Davis shows how radical new possibilities are becoming realities thanks to the visionary efforts of scientists to reveal the invisible and secret universe within each of us. Focusing on six important frontiers, Davis describes what we are learning about cells, the development of the fetus, the body's immune system, the brain, the microbiome, and the genome—areas of human biology that are usually understood in isolation. Bringing them together here for the first time, Davis offers a new vision of the human body as a biological wonder of dizzying complexity and possibility.
  
  Written by an award-winning scientist at the forefront of this adventure, The Secret Body is a gripping drama of discovery and a landmark account of the dawning revolution in human health.

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  AI: Rise of the Lightspeed Learners

  Charles Jennings

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  Powerful new autonomous machines called AIs are popping up all around us. The most important of these, says former AI industry CEO Charles Jennings, are the Lightspeed Learners--AIs with the power to learn on their own. 
  Jennings' new book, "AI: Rise of the Lightspeed Learners", explores how AIs are affecting everything from trucking to dentistry, currency trading to warfare. It grapples with the existential challenges AI presents to humanity, and concludes the biggest threat is not killer robots, but dangerous dictators. “There are potentially disastrous consequences for Americans of all political persuasions if China leaps ahead of us in AI," he says. "An AI-dominant China would ultimately take the lead in high tech, financial services, military weapons, energy systems, transportation, manufacturing and more. AI is the coolest, strangest, most dangerous, most powerful technology yet. And we Americans, funders of the crucial first fifty years of AI research, are at risk of letting it slip away.” 
  Jennings makes the case that development—and control—of “friendly AI” become an urgent political priority in the United States. But he does so less through political rants than by what he calls AI storytelling, and by taking the listener on a journey into the brave new world of AIs…a journey that includes original stories, music and poetry, as well as highly accessible explanations about how AI works, and why it matters. Visit www.lightspeedlearners.com to learn more.

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  Creative Evolution

  Henri Bergson

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  Henri Bergson’s highly influential book, ‘Creative Evolution’ (‘Evolution Creatrice’, 1907) established a theory of evolution - called ‘Creative Evolution Theory’ - which gained a considerable following in the first half of the 20th Century. It also helped the author to win the Nobel Prize in 1927 for his work investigating the origins of biological information and divergence in the evolutionary process.  
   
  In this work, Bergson seeks an alternative explanation as to how new forms of life emerge compared to those prevailing at the time. This included both the ‘mechanistic’ or deterministic explanations of biological science on the one hand, and on the other the ‘finalist’ or strictly teleological explanation of those who believed in the hand of a ‘Creator’ or God, coordinating life in a divine plan. 
   
  Creative Evolution proposes a third explanation in what Bergson calls élan vital’ or ‘vital impetus’, a force that infuses all matter and drives it forward into an ever-changing and infinite variety of living forms. This appears as a vital impetus that can also be related to humanity’s own creative life force. Bergson’s book builds on his ‘Theory of Time’ as set forth in works such as ‘Matter and Memory’ and ‘Time and Free Will’.  In these works, and in the present volume, Bergson sees continuous ‘duration’ as real time, as opposed to the way in which time is divided up into measured units by the ‘organising’ mind of science. 
   
  Life, as we really experience it, is subject to constant change and our tendency to explain evolutionary change by looking only at ‘ends’ achieved rather than the processes by which they emerge, divorces us from the life force itself.  
   
  Instead, Bergson feels we need to reengage with our instincts as well as with our intelligence in order to understand the evolutionary process, as both co-exist to some extent within us, all forms of life having a common origin in that instinctual, innate knowledge of simpler life forms. Though these may be unconscious or semi-conscious, they are, in Bergson’s view, much more in touch with the ever-changing nature of real time than the analytical and rational knowledge of our species 
   
  As he writes:  “Our thought, in its purely logical form, is incapable of presenting the true nature of life, the full meaning of the evolutionary movement. Created by life, in definite circumstances, to act on definite things, how can it embrace life, of which it is only an emanation or an aspect?”  
   
  It is to attempt an answer to this question that ‘Creative Evolution’ directs its attention.

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