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  Inventing Niagara - Beauty Power...

  Ginger Strand

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  Americans call Niagara Falls a natural wonder, but the falls aren't very natural anymore. In fact, they are a study in artifice. Water diverted, riverbed reshaped, brink stabilized, and landscape redesigned, the falls are more a monument to man's meddling than to nature's strength. Held up as an example of something real, they are hemmed in with fakery-waxworks, haunted houses, IMAX films, and ersatz Indian tales. A symbol of American manifest destiny, they are shared politely with Canada. Emblematic of nature's power, they are completely human-controlled. An archetype of natural beauty, the falls belie an ugly environmental legacy still bubbling up from below. On every level, Niagara Falls is a monument to how America falsifies nature, reshaping its contours and redirecting its force while claiming to submit to its will.Combining history, reportage, and personal narrative, Inventing Niagara traces Niagara's journey from sublime icon to engineering marvel to camp spectacle. Along the way, Ginger Strand uncovers the hidden history of America's waterfall: the Mohawk chief who wrested the falls from his adopted tribe, the revered town father who secretly assisted slave catchers, the wartime workers who unknowingly helped build the atomic bomb, and the building contractor who bought and sold a pharaoh. With an uncanny ability to zero in on the buried truth, Strand introduces us to underwater dams, freaks of nature, mythical maidens, and 280,000 radioactive mice buried at Niagara.From LaSalle to Lincoln to Los Alamos, Mohawks to Marilyn, Niagara's story is America's story, a tale of dreams founded on the mastery of nature. At a time of increasing environmental crisis, Inventing Niagara shows us how understanding the cultural history of nature might help us to rethink our place in it today.

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  Live Streaming Kit - How to Live...

  Walt Roberts

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  It’s your worst fear. 
  Trying to live stream video… 
  But you don’t know where to start. 
  Yes, it’s overwhelming at first, but this short book is going to help. 
  From the co-host of Live Streaming Tech on YouTube, comes a new guide on the best first steps to live streaming video. 
  Most gamers and video influencers make live streaming look way too easy. In practice, it’s much harder. 
  After over two decades of learning and applying in computer technology, Walt Roberts shares his keen insights on what you need to do to start live streaming video immediately. 
  Would you rather grind it out and hope for the best? Or, go into live streaming video with confidence? 
  With dozens of platforms and tons of technology, discover exactly what you need including:When is the right time for you to go liveWhat gear is the best to invest in & what to avoidWhy you don’t have to wait to get paid as a live streamer & gamerHow to save your money when buying microphones, webcams or other peripheralsWhere is the best live streaming platform: YouTube, Twitch, Facebook or PeriscopeAnd, so much more! 
  You’ll love this short read, because it’s going to get you live streaming with confidence right away. 
  Get it now.

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  How Can I Help? - A Week in My...

  David Goldbloom, Pier Bryden

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  A humane behind-the-scenes account of a week in the life of a psychiatrist at one of Canada’s leading mental health hospitals. How Can I Help? takes us to the frontlines of modern psychiatric care.How Can I Help? portrays a week in the life of Dr. David Goldbloom as he treats patients, communicates with families, and trains staff at CAMH, the largest psychiatric facility in Canada. This highly readable and touching behind-the-scenes account of his daily encounters with a wide range of psychiatric concerns—from his own patients and their families to Emergency Department arrivals—puts a human face on an often misunderstood area of medical expertise. From schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder to post-traumatic stress syndrome and autism, How Can I Help? investigates a range of mental issues.What is it like to work as a psychiatrist now? What are the rewards and challenges? What is the impact of the suffering—and the recovery—of people with mental illness on families and the clinicians who treat them? What does the future hold for psychiatric care?How Can I Help? demystifies a profession that has undergone profound change over the past twenty-five years, a profession that is often misunderstood by the public and the media, and even by doctors themselves. It offers a compassionate, realistic picture of a branch of medicine that is entering a new phase, as increasingly we are able to decode the mysteries of the brain and offer new hope for sufferers of mental illness.

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  World's Greatest Warplanes

  Colin Higgs

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  The World's Greatest Warplanes are the ones that get the job done. Visionary engineers and inventors have created some of the most impressive fighting machines. RJ Mitchell's Spitfire and Sydney Camm's Hurricane fought for control of the skies against Kurt Tank's FW190 and Willy Messerschmitt's Bf 109. Roy Chadwick's Lancaster and Boeing's mighty B-17 Flying Fortress battled to take the attack to the enemy in dangerous skies. In the Cold War great names such as the RAF's Lightning and Vulcan, the US Air Force's Sabre and Phantom were up against the best from Mikoyan and Gurevich's Mig factory. And in the last decades the skies have been dominated by the powerhouse American aviation industry. The F-16 is the defender of choice for the West and the amazing B-52 Stratofortress and B2 Spirit stealth bomber provide awesome offensive capability.In this ebook you will discover all these great military aircraft and many more, aircraft that have dominated the skies for more than a century.

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  Solar PV: A Gender Perspective

  Irena International Renewable...

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  This report, the third in IRENA’s gender perspective series, examines the participation of women in the solar PV sector.

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  Expressly Human - Decoding The...

  Mark Changizi, Tim Barber

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  Over billions of years of evolution, animals have become increasingly sophisticated and increasingly sentient. In the process, they evolved emotions, which helped improve their odds of survival in complex situations. These emotions were, at first, purely internal. But at some point, social animals began expressing their emotions, in increasingly dramatic ways. These emotional expressions could accurately reflect internal emotions (smiling to express happiness)—or they could be quite different (smiling to cover up that you're actually furious, but can't tell your boss that). Why did once-stone-faced animals evolve to be so emotionally expressive—to be us? The answer, as evolutionary neurobiologist Mark Changizi and mathematician Tim Barber reveal, is that emotional expressions are our first and most important language—one that allows us, as social animals, to engage in highly sophisticated communications and negotiations. Expressly Human introduces an original theory that explains, from first principles, how the broad range of emotional expressions evolved, and provides a Rosetta Stone for human communication. It will revolutionize the way you see every social interaction, from deciding who gets the last slice of pizza to multimillion-dollar business negotiations, and change your definition of what makes us human.

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