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  When Mountain Lions Are...

  Beth Pratt-Bergstrom

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  “This delightful book details our ever-evolving relationship with Earth’s wildest creatures, promising that peaceful coexistence is possible.” —Jennifer Holland, New York Times–bestselling author 
   
  Wildness beats in the heart of California’s urban areas. In Los Angeles, residents are rallying to build one of the largest wildlife crossings in the world because of the plight of one lonely mountain lion named P-22. Porpoises cavort in San Francisco Bay again because of a grassroots effort to clean up a waterway that was once a toxic mess. And on the Facebook campus in Silicon Valley, Mark Zuckerberg and his staff have provided a home for an endearing family of wild gray foxes. Through actions as sweeping as citizen science initiatives and as instantaneous as social media posts, a movement of diverse individuals and communities is taking action to recast nature as an integral part of our everyday lives.  
   
  When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors explores this evolving dynamic between humans and animals, including remarkable stories like the journey of the wolf OR-7 and how Californians are welcoming wolves back to the state after a ninety-year absence, how park staff and millions of visitors rallied to keep Yosemite’s famed bears wild, and many more tales from across the state. Written by Beth Pratt-Bergstrom of the National Wildlife Federation, these inspiring stories celebrate a new paradigm for wildlife conservation: coexistence. 
   
  “A contemporary and exciting view of conservation that we all can celebrate.” —Ed Begley Jr. 
   
  “When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors focuses on a serious problem by presenting meaningful solutions, and is as enjoyable to read as it is informative.” —Foreword Reviews

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  Improvised Munitions Handbook –...

  Defense U.S. Department of

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  This manual provides detailed explanation of manufacturing munitions from seemingly innocuous locally available materials. As an official army manual, it was primarily intended to increase the potential of Special Forces and guerrilla troops, however, "Improvised Munitions Handbook" represents perfect reading for all arms enthusiasts, as well as civilians considering their safety. This edition offers simple instructions, enriched with a large number of illustrations, on various techniques for constructing many different weapons and devices made of materials that can be bought in a drug or hardware store or found in a junkyard. The instructions are presented in a way that even people normally not familiar with making and handling munitions can use them.
  Table of Contents:
  Explosives and Propellants 
  Plastic Explosive Filler
  Improvised Black Powder 
  Carbone Tet- Explosive
  Methyl Nitrate Dynamite 
  Urea Nitrate Explosive
  Sodium Chlorate and Sugar or Aluminum Explosive…  
  Mines and Grenades
  Nail Grenade
  Wine Bottle Cone Charge 
  Coke Bottle Shaped Charge…
  Small Arms Weapons and Ammunitions 
  Pipe Pistol for 9 mm Ammunition 
  Shotgun (12 gauge)
  Carbine (7.62 mm Standard Rifle Ammunition)
  Rifle Cartridge… 
  Mortars and Rockets 
  Shotgun Grenade Launcher
  Fire Bottle Launcher
  60 mm Mortar Projectile Launcher…
  Incendiary Devices
  Chemical Fire Bottle
  Gelled Flame Fuels
  Improvised White Flare
  Improvised White Smoke Munitions…
  Fuses, Detonators & Delay Mechanisms 
  Electric Bulb Initiator 
  Fuse Igniter from Book Matches 
  Delay Igniter from Cigarette 
  Watch Delay Timer
  Can-Liquid Time Delay
  Detonator…
  Miscellaneous 
  Mousetrap Switch 
  Knife Switch 
  Rope Grenade Launching Technique 
  Bicycle Generator Power Source 
  Improvised Battery
  Armor Materials…   
  Primary High Explosives 
  Secondary High Explosives

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  A A-Birding on a Bronco

  Florence A. Merriam

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  Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey was an American ornithologist and nature writer. She started observing bird behavior at a time when most bird study was based on collections and skins. By 1885, she began to write articles focusing on protecting birds. Her introduction of a birdwatching field guide, aimed at living birds, is considered the first in the tradition of modern bird guides. She wrote the first of these at the age of 26, initially as a series of notes in the Audubon Magazine and later as books. In "A-Birding on a Bronco," she writes an engaging memoir about her several trips to study birds on a ranch in California in the late 1800's.

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  Lizards on the Mantel Burros at...

  Etta Koch, June Cooper Price

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  A warm, witty memoir of a young family’s rugged adventure living in the newly established Big Bend National Park in the 1940s.   A woman who went West with her husband in the 1840s must have expected hardships and privation, but during the 1940s, when Etta Koch stopped off in Big Bend with her young family and a twenty-three-foot travel trailer in tow—which they named Porky, the Road Hog—she anticipated a brief, civilized camping trip between her old home in Ohio and a new one in Arizona. It was only when she found herself moving into an old rock house without plumbing or electricity in the new Big Bend National Park that Etta realized she’d left her sheltered life behind for an experience in frontier living.   In this book based on her journals and letters, Etta Koch and her daughter June Cooper Price chronicle their family’s first years—1944–1946—in the Big Bend. Etta describes how her photographer husband Peter Koch became captivated by the region as a place for natural history filmmaking—and how she and their three young daughters slowly adapted to a pioneer lifestyle during his months-long absences on the photo-lecture circuit. In vivid, often humorous anecdotes, she describes making the rock house into a home, getting to know the Park Service personnel and other neighbors, coping with the local wildlife, and, most of all, learning to love the rugged landscape and the hardy individuals who call it home.

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  The Opioid Epidemic - What...

  Yngvild Olsen, Joshua M. Sharfstein

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  The opioid epidemic is responsible for longest sustained decline in US life expectancy since the time of World War I and the Great Influenza. In 2017, nearly 50,000 Americans died from an opioid overdose - with an estimated two million more living with opioid addiction every day.
   
  The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know is an accessible, nonpartisan overview of the causes, politics, and treatments tied to the most devastating health crisis of our time. Its comprehensive approach and Q&A format offer listeners a practical path to understanding the epidemic from all sides: the basic science of opioids; the nature of addiction; the underlying reasons for the opioid epidemic; effective approaches to helping individuals, families, communities, and national policy; and common myths related to opioid addiction.
   
  Written by two expert physicians and enriched with stories from their experiences in the crosshairs of this epidemic, this audiobook is a critical resource for any general listener - and for the individuals and families fighting this fight in their own lives.

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  Aws Amazon Web Services:

  Anthony Harris

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  Amazon has become one of the world's most valuable assets that not only generate revenues from selling goods but has cloud computing and web hosting facilities as its potential profit drivers.The company's revenue figures have hit the billion mark, emerging itself as one of the successful companies that have put its competitors behind.You may have questions like:·        What is AWS all about?·        Where AWS can be used?·        How to use it?In this book you will discover:·        Network and Content Delivery·        Developer tools such as AWS Code Commit and AWS X-Ray·        Management tools such as Cloud Formation and AWS control tower·        Using managed Blockchain for Amazon Quantum Ledger Databases (QLDB)·        Security, Identity and compliance·        Desktop and App streaming·        Which one is better? Artificial intelligence or Machine Learning?·        How AWS can store large workloads/data in databases.And much more!Scroll up and Get Your Copy!You will thanks yourself to choose to listen to this audiobook.

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