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  Practice the Pause - Jesus'...

  Caroline Oakes

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  These days, many of us live in a state of overreactive fight-or-flight response and chronic stress. The demands of modern life pull us in all directions and can often put the meaningful connections in our lives at risk—connections to our deepest selves, to others, and even to God. 
   
   
   
  But there is good news. New developments in brain science have recently proven that an intentional practice of pausing for a few minutes of meditation, prayer, or other contemplative practice actually rewires our brain in ways that make us calmer, less reactive, and better able to see the bigger picture. 
   
   
   
  In Practice the Pause, spiritual director and writer Caroline Oakes offers easy-to-understand explanations of how this new brain science is confirming what every spiritual tradition has been telling us for millennia: by practicing the pause, we become more self-aware and better able to understand others. We become more "God aware." With a refreshing focus on the Eastern Christian understanding of Jesus as a master of wisdom, Oakes shines a spotlight on Jesus's own centering pause practice as a transformative path for personal and social change. We learn that even a seven-second pause practice can move us beyond the fight-or-flight responses of our ego in our daily lives and actually equip us to cultivate the common good in the world.

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  CLIMATE - How Wladimir Koppen...

  Darcy Pattison

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  2026 Best STEM Book – NSTA/CBC 
  2026 NSSTA Notable Social Studies Book 
  “A visually evocative and mentally stimulating introduction to a climatologist.” Kirkus Reviews 
    
  Before kids can understand climate change—first, they need to understand climate. 
    
  As a teenager, Wladimir Köppen became interested how the landscape changed as he traveled south from St. Petersburg on the Baltic Sea in northern Russia to Crimea on the Black Sea. Explaining that changing landscape became his life’s work. 
    
  In late 1800s, weather and climates were poorly understood. They needed someone to study it carefully over a long period of time. Köppen moved to Hamburg, Germany as head weatherman at the Deutsche Seewarte, the German Marine Observatory on the Baltic Sea. His job was to start one of the world’s first daily weather reports. He helped set up weather stations on the North Sea and train its staff. From around the world, he gathered other weather data. 
    
  The World’s First Climate Map 
  Slowly, that childhood problem of changing landscapes came into focus as he developed the world’s first climate map. They set out the five climate classifications Köppen identified (tropical, arid, temperate, continental, and polar). Köppen’s maps are still used today to help us understand the world’s ecosystems and plan for the future. 
   

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  How I Filmed the War

  Geoffrey H. Malins

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  An account of World War I and the experience of filming it by an early cinematographer (and, after the war, successful director) who was there. (Summary by R. S. Steinberg)

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  The Shark Handbook 3rd Edition -...

  Greg Skomal

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  Dive deep into the world of sharks, the most fascinating and misunderstood marine animals on the planet, in this stunning new edition of The Shark Handbook, written by Shark Week expert, Dr. Greg Skomal. 
  Did you know that a whale shark’s spots are as unique as a fingerprint? Or that sharks can go into a trance when flipped upside down? Or that the Megallodon’s mouth was 6 feet across? With The Shark Handbook, jump into brand new facts about these fierce sea creatures! Explore all of the orders of sharks, such as:Ground sharksGreat white sharksMackerel sharksCarpet sharksand more! 
    
  Learn about over 400 profiles of every shark in existence, from the first sharks living about 445 million years ago to the ones lurking in the ocean deep today. Starring spectacular, full-color photography that makes these jaw-dropping sharks come to life, this is the perfect gift for the shark enthusiast in your life. 
  Dr. Greg Skomal, PhD is an experienced aquarist and Marine Fisheries Biologist at Martha's Vineyard Fisheries, Division of Marine Fisheries, Massachusetts. He's been keeping saltwater aquariums since childhood and has shared his extensive knowledge with viewers of National Geographic, the Discovery Channel, NBC's Today, and other media. 
  Diagrams, an appendix, and a bibliography can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download. 

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  American Disgust - Racism...

  Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer

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  American Disgust shows how perceptions of disgust and fears of contamination are rooted in the country's history of colonialism and racism. Drawing on colonial, corporate, and medical archives, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer argues that microbial medicine is closely entwined with changing cultural experiences of digestion, excrement, and disgust that are inextricably tied to the creation of whiteness. 
   
   
   
  Ranging from nineteenth-century colonial encounters with Native people to John Harvey Kellogg's ideas around civilization and bowel movements to mid-twentieth-century diet and parenting advice books, Wolf-Meyer analyzes how embedded racist histories of digestion and disgust permeate contemporary debates around fecal microbial transplants and other bacteriotherapeutic treatments for gastrointestinal disease. 
   
   
   
  At its core, American Disgust wrestles with how changing cultural notions of digestion—what goes into the body and what comes out of it—create and impose racial categories motivated by feelings of disgust rooted in American settler-colonial racism. It shows how disgust is a changing, yet fundamental, aspect of American subjectivity and that engaging with it—personally, politically, and theoretically—opens up possibilities for conceptualizing health at the individual, societal, and planetary levels.

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  Calming Sleep Music & Rain - All...

  mindMAGIXX - All Night Sleep Sounds

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  Calming Sleep Music & Rain – All Night Edition | Continuous Ambient Sleep SoundsThis all-night sleep soundscape combines calming ambient sleep music with the gentle, steady rhythm of natural rain sounds to help you relax deeply, let go of stress, and sleep peacefully through the night. Designed for uninterrupted listening, this continuous ambient sleep track plays seamlessly for hours, creating a stable and comforting sonic environment for rest and recovery.The soft layers of soothing rain, blended with slow, atmospheric ambient tones, help quiet mental chatter, ease anxiety, and support the body's natural sleep cycle. The sound design is intentionally smooth and unobtrusive, making it ideal for deep sleep, insomnia relief, nighttime relaxation, and background white noise.The tracks are perfect for:•Falling asleep faster and staying asleep longer•Deep, restorative sleep and nighttime relaxation•Reducing stress, anxiety, and nervous tension•Blocking out unwanted noise with natural rain sounds•Meditation, mindfulness, and calming evening routinesThe All Night Edition is carefully balanced to avoid sudden changes in volume or texture, allowing your nervous system to remain relaxed while your brain gently drifts into deeper sleep stages. Whether you're resting at home, traveling, or simply need a calm background for the night, these continuous ambient sleep sounds provide a safe, soothing atmosphere you can rely on.For best results:Listen at a low to moderate volume using speakers or headphones in a comfortable, safe resting position.Ideal for anyone seeking calming sleep music, rain sounds for sleeping, ambient noise for deep rest, or peaceful nighttime audio.--calming sleep music and rain sounds, ambient sleep music all night, continuous rain sounds for sleep, deep sleep ambient soundscape, relaxing rain and music for sleeping, insomnia relief sleep sounds rain, soothing ambient noise for deep sleep, sleep music with rain all night long, peaceful night rain sounds relaxation, background ambient sleep audio, calming music for anxiety and sleep, rain sounds to fall asleep faster, uninterrupted sleep soundscape ambient, deep rest music with nature sounds, stress relief sleep music rain, natural rain white noise for sleep, ambient relaxation sounds for nighttime, sleep aid music continuous playback, mindfulness and meditation sleep sounds, night rain ambience for restful sleep

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