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  Dubai - Gilded Cage

  Syed Ali

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  This revealing portrait of the famously wealthy Persian Gulf city investigates the human cost of its miraculous rise to global prominence.   In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure territory of the United Arab Emirates into a global center for business, tourism, and luxury living. With astonishing skyscrapers and tax-free incomes, its rulers have made Dubai into a playground for the global elite while skillfully downplaying its systemic human rights abuses and suppression of dissent. It is a fascinating case study in light-speed urban development, massive immigration, and vertiginous inequality.   In Dubai: Gilded Cage, sociologist Syed Ali delves beneath the dazzling surface to analyze how—and at what cost—Dubai has achieved its success. Ali brings alive a society rigidly divided between expatriate Westerners enjoying opulent lifestyles on short-term work visas, native Emiratis who are largely passive observers, and workers from the developing world who provide the manual labor and domestic service needed to keep the emirate running, often at great personal cost.  “At last, a comprehensive expose of the economic and sexual exploitation that erected this utopia of greed. Syed Ali has seen the future in Dubai and it doesn’t work.” —Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums

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  The Gamekeeper at Home

  Richard Jefferies

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  This classic of English nature writing provides an entertaining account of the life of a gamekeeper in southern England during the second half of the nineteenth century.

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  Renewable solutions in end-uses:...

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  This report provides an overview of heat pump technologies and their applications, discusses building stock and the implications for the use of heat pumps in both new and old buildings and examines recent market developments.

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  Being Brains - Making the...

  Francisco Ortega, Fernando Vidal

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  This “interesting, informative, and provocative book” explores the pervasive influence of neuroscience and “the view that we are essentially our brains” (History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences).  Being Brains offers a critical exploration of neurocentrism, the belief that “we are our brains,” which came to prominence in the 1990s. Encouraged by advances in neuroimaging, the humanities and social sciences have gravitated toward the brain as well, developing neuro-subspecialties in fields such as anthropology, aesthetics, education, history, law, sociology, and theology. Even in the business world, dubious enterprises such as “neuromarketing” and “neurobics” have emerged to take advantage of the heightened sensitivity to all things neuro.   While neither hegemonic nor monolithic, the neurocentric view embodies a powerful ideology that is at the heart of some of today’s most important philosophical, ethical, scientific, and political debates. Being Brains examines the internal logic of this new ideology, as well as its genealogy and its main contemporary incarnations.  Being Brains was chosen as the 2018 Outstanding Book in the History of the Neurosciences by the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences.

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  On Plant Blindness

  Melissa Petruzzello

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  Melissa Petruzzello of Encyclopædia Britannica discusses “plant blindness” as a form of cognitive bias and why understanding plants is important for humanity. This is the first installment of the Botanize! podcast series.

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  Ocean Cliffs - Deep relaxation...

  Greg Cetus

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  Ocean Cliffs is an audio recording which will transport you to that perfect holiday moment when you see a beautiful breathtaking expanse of natural ocean stretching from the surface of the cliffs and rocks towering above.  The audio recording begins with you hearing the ocean from a distance, just as you approach the cliffs. Then you come closer and closer and begin to hear a more defined rolls and whispers of the waves and streams hitting the rocks. The audio recording culminates in a more powerful ocean waves sequence full of natural holistic energy surrounding you it its gentle embrace and blocking all other extraneous noises and disturbances.

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