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  Tomatoland - How Modern...

  Barry Estabrook

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  Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright. But in Tomatoland, which is based on his James Beard Award-winning article, "The Price of Tomatoes," investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry. Fields are sprayed with more than one hundred different herbicides and pesticides. Tomatoes are picked hard and green and artificially gassed until their skins acquire a marketable hue. Modern plant breeding has tripled yields, but has also produced fruits with dramatically reduced amounts of calcium, vitamin A, and vitamin C, and tomatoes that have fourteen times more sodium than the tomatoes our parents enjoyed. The relentless drive for low costs has fostered a thriving modern-day slave trade in the United States. How have we come to this point?Estabrook traces the supermarket tomato from its birthplace in the deserts of Peru to the impoverished town of Immokalee, Florida, a.k.a. the tomato capital of the United States. He visits the laboratories of seedsmen trying to develop varieties that can withstand the rigors of agribusiness and still taste like a garden tomato, and then moves on to commercial growers who operate on tens of thousands of acres, and eventually to a hillside field in Pennsylvania, where he meets an obsessed farmer who produces delectable tomatoes for the nation's top restaurants.Throughout Tomatoland, Estabrook presents a who's who cast of characters in the tomato industry: the avuncular octogenarian whose conglomerate grows one out of every eight tomatoes eaten in the United States; the ex-Marine who heads the group that dictates the size, color, and shape of every tomato shipped out of Florida; the U.S. attorney who has doggedly prosecuted human traffickers for the past decade; and the Guatemalan peasant who came north to earn money for his parents' medical bills and found himself enslaved for two years.Tomatoland reads like a suspenseful whodunit as well as an exposé of today's agribusiness systems and the price we pay as a society when we take taste and thought out of our food purchases.

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  Lawless Universe - Science and...

  Joe Rosen

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  In this provocative reassessment of science, a physicist questions whether it can ever fully comprehend the entire material universe. 
   
  There is no question that modern science has radically advanced our understanding of nature, the universe, and even reality itself. But in Lawless Universe, theoretical physicist Joe Rosen takes the scientific method down a peg. In his estimation, people like Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins are wrong to declare that science is on the verge of unlocking all the secrets of the universe. Perhaps without realizing it, they have crossed into the realm of metaphysics in an attempt to explain the unexplainable.  
   
  Rosen considers the separate but entangled domains of science and metaphysics and examines the all-too-often ignored boundary between the objective and the subjective. He asserts that any understanding of the whole universe, if it is to be found at all, must come from nonscientific modes of comprehension and insight.

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  Forgotten Fires of Chicago - The...

  John F Hogan, Alex A. Burkholder

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  A historical journey through the city’s catastrophic fires, and the stories of the heroes who fought them.   Chicago’s war against cinder, flame, and smoke did not end with the Great Fire of 1871. In 1909, fire ripped through the dynamite room of a staging facility a mile and half off the Lake Michigan shoreline, transforming the pipe-laying operation into a raging inferno. During the World’s Columbian Exposition, thousands of fairgoers watched in horror as twelve firefighters were trapped in a blazing ice warehouse. An opera-goer left a smoking bomb under his seat at the Auditorium Theater in 1917. And the newly invented smoke ejector arrived too late to save firemen and laborers cut off in a sewer in 1931.   Join John F. Hogan and Alex A. Burkholder for the history of these forgotten fires—and those who responded to them.   “A must-read not only for first responders but also all history buffs, especially those interested in Chicago history.” —Robert Hoff, retired fire commissioner, Chicago Fire Department, from the foreword

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  Artificial Intelligence and Life...

  Hans Weber

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  Book Description 
  Have you always wondered how it is that a machine understands what you are saying? Did you wonder how Siri or Alexa always knows exactly what to show you when you ask them something? If you did, you have come to the right place. 
  Machines are able to interpret and understand human beings and also interpret the data that is fed to them because of artificial intelligence. So, what is artificial intelligence? If you have been reading the basics, you will know that artificial intelligence is a human being’s attempt to make a machine smart enough to handle processes that a human being would normally do. It is not easy to do this, since you will need to understand the system and also learn the required programming languages to instruct the computer to behave in the required manner. 
  Before you delve into the world of artificial intelligence, it is important for you to understand the basics so you know what to expect. Over the course of this book, you will gather information about: 
  ●      What artificial intelligence is 
  ●      The principles of artificial intelligence 
  ●      Subjects involved in artificial intelligence 
  ●      Some basic concepts used in artificial intelligence 
  ●      How machines learn 
  ●      The different types of data and how the data is sourced 
  ●      Applications of AI in the modern world 
  You will also gather information on how you can train machines to interpret data and provide the required output. Regardless of whether you are an amateur or an expert, you can use this book to guide you through the basics of artificial intelligence.

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  Maintaining Your Home

  Isabella Rutledge

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  Maintaining Your Home: The Essential Guide on How to Become a Professional Repair Expert. Discover Proven Tips and Ways on How to Become Your Own Handyman.Working on D.I.Y. projects can be very rewarding if the individual is well equipped mentally and physically. Therefore, before actually attempting the jobs, one should be fully prepared in these areas. Good tools can make the difference between a well-done and easy experience and a frustrating and poorly finished job. This is one of the secrets of a good handyman, as matching the correct tools to the job is part of getting the best results and an overall satisfying experience.Repairs and renovations cost a pretty penny.  But most people today opt to do their own home improvement work and although such exercises require a certain amount of experience, the internet is a great source and encouragement for those who want to tackle these improvements themselves.  In this audiobook, you will learn some tips on how to become your own handyman. Learn how to be a repair expert and maintain your own home. Here are some of the topics discussed in this audiobook: Basic Tools Required, Essential Tools For A Professional Handyman, Top Skills 1: Woodworking, Top Skills 2: Plumbing, Top Skills 3: Basic Electronics, Top Skills 4: Advanced Electronics, Protect Yourself From Injuries, Working On Floors, Walls & Ceilings, Working On Windows, Doors & Lighting, Working On Bathrooms, Kitchens & Basements, Working On The House Exterior, Always Have A First Aid Kit and more!So what are you waiting for, listen to Maintaining Your Home now to learn more!

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  ESP Autistic Children Remote...

  M.D. Diane Hennacy Powell

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  Dr. Powell describes how her curiosity about human consciousness led her to study the extent of human extrasensory abilities. Her research drove her to focus largely on autism, savant syndrome and abnormal brain function, among other things, to support the existence of extrasensory phenomena such as telepathy, remote viewing, and ESP.

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