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  Sky Dance - Fighting for the...

  John D. Burns

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  Lord Purdey was shaking with anger. 'Bring back the lynx? Over my dead body!"
  The environmental protestors murmured, and Rory stepped forward. 'Your hunting has destroyed our hills and left them treeless wastes, devoid of wildlife. It's time that changed.'
  'Listen, you lentil-eating cat lover,' Purdey barked through the megaphone, 'men like me own Scotland. If we want to kill anything that moves and turn the whole damn place into a theme park, we'll do it.'
  Someone from the group of protestors hurled a turnip. It struck Purdey and he crumpled to the ground. Just as the archaic class system he represents must eventually fall, Angus thought with a grin.
  In his first two bestselling books, The Last Hillwalker and Bothy Tales, John D. Burns invited readers to join him in the hills and wild places of Scotland. In Sky Dance, he returns to that world to ask fundamental questions about how we relate to this northern landscape – while raising a laugh or two along the way. Anyone who has gazed at the majesty of the Scottish mountains will know this place and want to return to it. Now, as wild land is threatened like never before, it's time we asked ourselves what kind of future we want for the Highlands.

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  No Impact Man - The Adventures...

  Colin Beavan

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  A guilty liberal finally snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, becomes a bicycle nut, turns off his power, and generally becomes a tree-hugging lunatic who tries to save the polar bears and the rest of the planet from environmental catastrophe while dragging his baby daughter and Prada-wearing, Four Seasons-loving wife along for the ride. And that's just the beginning. Bill McKibben meets Bill Bryson in this seriously engaging look at one armchair liberal's decision to put his money where his mouth is and go off the grid for one year—while still living in New York City—and see if it's possible to make no net impact on the environment. In other words, no trash, no toxins in the water, no elevators, no subway, no products in packaging, no air-conditioning, no television... 
  What would it be like to try to live a no impact lifestyle? Is it possible? Could it catch on? Is living this way more fun or less fun? More satisfying or less satisfying? Harder or easier? Is it worthwhile or senseless? Are we all doomed or can our culture reduce the barriers to sustainable living so it becomes as easy as falling off a log? These are the questions at the heart of this whole mad endeavor, via which Colin Beavan hopes to explain to the rest of us how we can realistically live a more "eco-effective" and by turns more content life in an age of inconvenient truths.A Macmillan Audio production.

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  Sex in the Sea - Our Intimate...

  Marah J. Hardt

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  Forget the Kama Sutra. When it comes to inventive sex acts, just look to the sea. There we find the elaborate mating rituals of armored lobsters; giant right whales engaging in a lively threesome whilst holding their breath; full moon sex parties of groupers and daily mating blitzes by blueheaded wrasse. Deep-sea squid perform inverted 69s, while hermaphrodite sea slugs link up in giant sex loops. From doubly endowed sharks to the maze-like vaginas of some whales, Sex in the Sea is a journey unlike any other to explore the staggering ways life begets life beneath the waves.Sex in the Sea uniquely connects the timeless topic of sex with the timely issue of sustainable oceans. Through overfishing, climate change, and ocean pollution we are disrupting the creative procreation that drives the wild abundance of life in the ocean. With wit and scientific rigor, Marah J. Hardt introduces us to the researchers and innovators who study the wet and wild sex lives of ocean life and offer solutions that promote rather than prevent, successful sex in the sea. Part science, part erotica, Sex in the Sea discusses how we can shift from a prophylactic to a more propagative force for life in the ocean.

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  Clean Architecture - A...

  Robert C. Martin

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  By applying universal rules of software architecture, you can dramatically improve developer productivity throughout the life of any software system. Now, building upon the success of his best-selling books Clean Code and The Clean Coder, legendary software craftsman Robert C. Martin ("Uncle Bob") reveals those rules and helps you apply them.
  
  Martin's Clean Architecture doesn't merely present options. Drawing on over a half-century of experience in software environments of every imaginable type, Martin tells you what choices to make and why they are critical to your success. As you've come to expect from Uncle Bob, this book is packed with direct, no-nonsense solutions for the real challenges you'll face-the ones that will make or break your projects.
  - Learn what software architects need to achieve-and core disciplines and practices for achieving it
  - Master essential software design principles for addressing function, component separation, and data management
  - See how programming paradigms impose discipline by restricting what developers can do
  - Understand what's critically important and what's merely a "detail"
  Implement optimal, high-level structures for web, database, thick-client, console, and embedded applications
  - Define appropriate boundaries and layers, and organize components and services
  - See why designs and architectures go wrong, and how to prevent (or fix) these failures
  
  Clean Architecture is an essential book for every current or aspiring software architect, systems analyst, system designer, and software manager-and for every programmer who must execute someone else's designs.

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  Tech Adjacent - The Exponential...

  Mushambi Mutuma

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  It is almost impossible to keep up with the pace and direction in which business and technology are moving today.
  ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. AUTOMATION. BLOCKCHAIN. BIG DATA. INTERNET OF THINGS. THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
  Who actually knows what any of these concepts mean for their business, much less how to integrate them? Things are moving at a faster pace than ever before and trying to keep up has become intimidating and overwhelming. It's tempting to bury your head in the sand than try to make head or tail of it all.
  But none of the buzzwords actually matter! You don't have to jump aboard every single change and adjustment in the market, or trade in your suit for a T-shirt, jeans and sneaker combo. If you have the right context, it's a lot simpler to understand and use technological shifts as an opportunity to transform your business.
  Tech Adjacent is about understanding the principles of tech and its pace, hearing the footsteps of where it might be going, knowing how disruption and innovation work tangibly and, most importantly, leveraging it for your individual exponential success.
  Innovation is contextual, so while Uber, Airbnb and Facebook are grandiose Silicon Valley success stories, they have little relevance in the African market. This book shares stories and case studies of African businesses, exposing who is getting disrupted as we speak and why, as well as how new companies are leading the next wave of growth.
  Mushambi Mutuma's experience and expertise in both business and as a tech entrepreneur give real-life context to rapid change, unlocking future opportunities and offering tools to predict where your audience and industry are heading. He sells no big ideas, but genuinely shares his unique perspectives and know-how to help whoever he can in the process.
  Tech Adjacent isn't just another book on growing your business in 100 days, nor is it dry academic theory. It is the guidebook for not only surviving but excelling in a world of exponential growth. Whether you are a start-up entrepreneur or a corporate executive, this guide is a must for both present and future leaders.
  Don't get left behind!

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  CBT for Children Adolescents and...

  Dr. Dale Pheragh

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  The CBT guide for Children and Adolescents gives you the resources to help the children in your life handle their daily obstacles with ease.Inside this workbook you'll find hundreds of worksheets, exercises, and activities to help treat: ?	Ideal Solution for Anti-Personality Disorder?	Tantrum, ?	Disruptive Behaviour Disorder, ?	Anti-Social Personality Disorder, ?	Avoidant Personality Disorder, ?	Oppositional Defiant Disorder & Conduct Disorders?	Conduct Disorders Written by a doctor with decades of experience working with kids, teens, adults and these practical and easy-to-use therapy tools are vital to teaching people how to cope with and overcome their deepest struggles. Step-by-step, you'll see how the best strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy are adapted for children.Conduct disorder, sometimes diagnosed in child years, that is seen as antisocial actions which violate the privileges of others and age-appropriate sociable standards and guidelines. Antisocial behaviors can include irresponsibility, delinquent acts (such as truancy or operating away), breaking the rights of others (such as robbery), and physical hostility toward pets or others (such as assault or rape). These behaviors sometimes happen collectively; however, one or several might occur with no other(s).Conduct Disorder is a significant behavioral and emotional disorder that may appear in children and teenagers. A kid with this disorder may screen the design of disruptive and violent behavior and also have problems following guidelines.It isn't uncommon for children and teenagers to have behavior-related problems sometime throughout their development. However, the behavior is known as to be always a Conduct Disorder when it's long-lasting, so when it violates the privileges of others, it will go against accepted norms of behavior and disrupt the child's or families’ everyday living.

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