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  Darwin's Apprentice - An...

  Janet Owen

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  The fascinating story of Charles Darwin’s friend, fellow scientist, and champion.   Sir John Lubbock was an important Darwinist, witness to an extraordinary moment in the history of science and archaeology—the emotive scientific, religious, and philosophical debate which was triggered by the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species in 1859.  Darwin’s Apprentice looks at Lubbock’s critical yet often overlooked role in the Darwinian campaign, including the ways in which Lubbock’s archaeological and ethnographic collections shaped both his work and personal life. It offers an enlightening view not only of the beginnings of Darwinism, but of the scientific world of late nineteenth-century Britain.

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  Living Up There

  Jane Wodening

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  "What I find so rare and immediate in this journal is the self-grown quality of the knowledge gained from the presented experience. How many of us live with this degree of attention to the events of our experience..." - Reed Bye, Forward 
  This book is a series of short vignettes of a life lived in a way few human beings will ever know: in a tiny cabin, with no running water or wired electricity, at 10,000 feet altitude in the Rocky Mountains. The kicker: this was a year-round life, over 10 years. Thoreau spent two years at Walden Pond, Robert Louis Stevenson only two weeks on his "epic" journey through France. Jane's endurance and test of time brings even more depth and scope to her story. Nederland, Colorado locals still talk about seeing her snowshoe into town for supplies, speculating on her sanity. Hearing the author read this book helps one anchor that sanity, and how her personal, social experiment grew into a bonding of nature and woman that resounds well beyond a simple memoir.

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  Deep Sleep Hypnosis - A Powerful...

  James Mesmer

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  Tired of not going to sleep?Are you sick of spending endless nights lying in bed, hoping you could sleep more quickly? Then you want to try HYPNOSIS's hidden power. 
  Lack of quality sleep will impair your alertness and quality of life when you are awake, as someone with sleeping problems already knows. Suffering through sleepless nights doesn't have to be your life. Instead, you can fall asleep easily and get a good night's sleep. 
  Hypnosis has been used for decades to treat many illnesses, including the failure to get better sleep. With hypnotherapy, you can help you improve the quality of your life. 
  With this massive package of deep sleep meditations, you can lie back and relax in gentle music while you instantly minimize your anxiety and tension and fall into warm, dreamy sleep. 
  The solution is to practice unique mindfulness exercises that build more "space" in your mind in order to experience inner peace and happiness. Through these patterns, you'll have the ability to decide what's most important in your life, what doesn't fit your interests any more, and how you want to live on a daily basis.And that's what you're going to need to understand your mind!

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  Concentration - Focus Longer and...

  Dave Farrel, Emily Wilds

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  This is a 2-book bundle, consisting of these themes 
  Theme 1: Do you know what the seven keys are to think better? 
    
  And do you understand the advantages of creative visualization? 
    
  Many people have no clue what’s going on inside their minds. And even though I cannot promise that this book can explain every thought and every idea or imagination, it will definitely give you new insights that help you get a firmer grasp of the neurological connections your brain is making. 
    
  Theme 2: Focusing is more important than it have has been in an era with social media, advertisements, and a million possibilities to spend your time wisely or foolishly. In this guide, we will show you how to ignore distractions, improve your memory, and increase your concentration.

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  Cradle to Cradle - Remaking the...

  Michael Braungart, William...

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  "Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural world? they ask. In fact, why not take nature itself as our model? A tree produces thousands of blossoms in order to create another tree, yet we do not consider its abundance wasteful but safe, beautiful, and highly effective; hence, "waste equals food" is the first principle the book sets forth. Products might be designed so that, after their useful life, they provide nourishment for something new-either as "biological nutrients" that safely re-enter the environment or as "technical nutrients" that circulate within closed-loop industrial cycles without being "downcycled" into low-grade uses (as most "recyclables" now are). Elaborating their principles from experience redesigning everything from carpeting to corporate campuses, the authors make an exciting and viable case for change.

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  Vaquita - Science Politics &...

  Brooke Bessesen

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  In 2006, vaquita, a diminutive porpoise making its home in the Upper Gulf of California, inherited the dubious title of world's most endangered marine mammal. Nicknamed "panda of the sea" for their small size and beguiling facial markings, vaquitas have been in decline for decades, dying by the hundreds in gillnets intended for commercially valuable fish, as well as for an endangered fish called totoaba. When international crime cartels discovered a lucrative trade in the swim bladders of totoaba, illegal gillnetting went rampant, and now the lives of the few remaining vaquitas hang in the balance. 
  Author Brooke Bessesen takes us on a journey to Mexico's Upper Gulf region to uncover the story. She interviewed townspeople, fishermen, scientists, and activists, teasing apart a complex story filled with villains and heroes, a story whose outcome is unclear. When diplomatic and political efforts to save the little porpoise failed, Bessesen followed a team of veterinary experts in a binational effort to capture the last remaining vaquitas and breed them in captivity—the best hope for their survival. In this fast-paced, soul-searing tale, she learned that there are no easy answers when extinction is profitable. 
  Whether the rescue attempt succeeds or fails, the world must ask itself hard questions. When vaquita and the totoaba are gone, the black market will turn to the next vulnerable species. What will we do then?

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