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  A Biocentric View of Our Common...

  Angela Manno

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  In this 2026 interview with Justine Willis Toms, Artist and iconographer Angela Manno, creator of the Sacred Biodiversity Oracle, offers a profound invitation into this awareness through a deck of 36 cards portraying animals and plants from around the world. Her luminous paintings shimmer with quiet, radical devotion to the living Earth, encouraging us to encounter other beings and ecosystems as sacred presences rather than distant “resources.”  
  Environmental leader Bill McKibben has described her work as “Powerful reminders of the beauty and holiness of the world we are destroying, and of our duty to protect what remains.”  
  Angela Manno is an award-winning visual artist based in New York City whose work weaves together spirituality, ecology, and contemporary iconography. A Bard College graduate, she also studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and Parsons School of Design. She has also trained in Byzantine-Russian iconography with master Vladislav Andrejev. Her work has been exhibited at major institutions, including the Smithsonian, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and NASA’s collections. She is especially known for her series Contemporary Icons of Threatened and Endangered Species.  
  Interview Date: 1/9/2026.   Tags: Angela Manno, Thomas Berry, Byzantine-Russian iconography, Viso Divina, Maasai lion guardians, Jane Goodall, conservation, environmental stewardship, Sundance ritual, Sandra Steingraber, Art & Creativity, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Meditation, Personal Transformation

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  The AI Art Revolution - Your...

  Chloe Henderson

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  Are you ready to unleash your inner artist in ways you never thought possible? The canvas is no longer just linen and wood—it is a digital expanse humming with algorithms. "The AI Art Revolution" is your comprehensive roadmap to navigating the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-driven creativity.
   
  
   
  Whether you are a professional artist looking to streamline your workflow or a complete beginner who has never picked up a paintbrush, this book cuts through the technical jargon to offer a clear, step-by-step path to mastery. Author Kaelen Foster bridges the gap between complex technology and timeless artistic principles, empowering you to wield AI with intention.
   
  
   
  Inside this guide, you will explore:
   
  - The Mechanics of Magic: Understand how AI art generators actually work.
   
  - Prompt Engineering Mastery: Learn the new language of creativity to get consistent, breathtaking results.
   
  - Tool Deep-Dives: Master leading platforms like Midjourney, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion.
   
  - Aesthetic Principles: Apply color theory and composition to elevate your AI outputs.
   
  - Monetization Strategies: Discover how to turn your digital creations into a side hustle or career.
   
  - Ethics and Ownership: Navigate the legal landscape of copyright and AI-generated content.
   
  
   
  The revolution is here. Don’t be left behind. Grab your copy of "The AI Art Revolution" today and start creating the art you've always dreamed of.

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  Overcoming Depression and Low...

  Chris Williams

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  Overcoming Depression and Low Mood in Older Adults joins the bestselling Routledge Overcoming series, which includes publications that have the seal of approval by the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and highly commended by the British Medical Association. 
   
  This workbook outlines how to use the Five Areas® model of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to equip older adults experiencing low mood or depression with key life skills to overcome these conditions. 
   
  Addressing the common challenges faced by older adults during times of low mood and depression, the book provides educational life skills and resources to increase mental wellbeing in the care home, day hospital, and social support networks of this population. Chapters cover topics such as understanding and changing behaviors; behavioral activation and tackling avoidance; noticing and changing extreme and unhelpful thoughts; rebalancing relationships; building assertiveness; and problem solving. 
   
  This is a valuable text for any healthcare or mental health professional working with older adults including psychological therapists, social care workers, residential home staff, psychiatrists and practice nurse and health visiting staff. The workbook is also an approachable resource for older adults themselves.

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  Neural Networks for Beginners -...

  Brian Murray

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  "Neural Networks for Beginners: An Easy-to-Follow Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning" is an essential guide to understanding the basics of neural networks, the fundamental technology behind artificial intelligence and deep learning. 
   This book provides an in-depth exploration of neural network architectures and how they can be used to solve complex real-world problems in a variety of fields, including image and speech recognition, natural language processing, and time series analysis. 
   Written for beginners, this book provides a clear and concise introduction to the concepts and techniques of neural networks, including the basics of machine learning and deep learning. It covers a range of topics, from the fundamentals of neural networks to building and training models using popular frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch, as well as advanced topics like transfer learning and reinforcement learning. 
   With practical examples and clear explanations, "Neural Networks for Beginners" is a valuable resource for anyone looking to learn about this exciting field. Whether you are a student, a professional, or simply interested in the technology behind artificial intelligence, this book will help you understand the basics of neural networks and how they are used to solve real-world problems. 
   

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  Borders of Care - Immigrants...

  Beatrix Hoffman

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  Probes the relationship between the immigration and health care systems in the United States. For the roughly ten million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, federal health care coverage is out of reach. Barred from Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act, most rely on hospital emergency rooms when they get sick, or clinics that don’t inquire about immigration status. Further obstacles to health care, including discrimination and the fear of deportation, mean that immigrants, undocumented or not, seek and receive less medical attention than any other population in the country. Yet immigrants haven’t always been ostracized from health care in the United States—providers and activists have for over a century worked to make medical services available to newcomers and migrants, including, at times, the undocumented. Drawing together stories from diverse communities from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Borders of Care examines how health care in the United States has both included and excluded immigrants. Beatrix Hoffman analyzes both the health and immigration systems, adding to our understanding of why these structures, and the policies that support them, have resisted reform. Moreover, she shows that immigrants, often scapegoated as burdens on the health-care system, have strengthened it through their responses to systemic exclusion. By creating hospitals and clinics, serving as practitioners, fighting for safer workplaces, filing lawsuits, organizing and protesting, immigrants and migrants have improved medical access for everybody and advanced the idea of health care as a universal right. As accessible as it is authoritative, Hoffman’s survey could not be more timely.

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  Affective Neuroscience - The...

  Jaak Panksepp

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  Some investigators have argued that emotions, especially animal emotions, are illusory concepts outside the realm of scientific inquiry. However, with advances in neurobiology and neuroscience, researchers are demonstrating that this position is wrong as they move closer to a lasting understanding of the biology and psychology of emotion. In Affective Neuroscience, Jaak Panksepp provides the most up-to-date information about the brain-operating systems that organize the fundamental emotional tendencies of all mammals. Presenting complex material in a readable manner, the book offers a comprehensive summary of the fundamental neural sources of human and animal feelings, as well as a conceptual framework for studying emotional systems of the brain. Panksepp approaches emotions from the perspective of basic emotion theory but does not fail to address the complex issues raised by constructionist approaches. These issues include relations to human consciousness and the psychiatric implications of this knowledge. The book includes chapters on sleep and arousal, pleasure and fear systems, the sources of rage and anger, and the neural control of sexuality, as well as the more subtle emotions related to maternal care, social loss, and playfulness. Representing a synthetic integration of vast amounts of neurobehavioral knowledge, including relevant neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and neurochemistry, this book will be one of the most important contributions to understanding the biology of emotions since Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. 
   
  This audiobook is expertly read and engineered by Mike Fraser. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

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