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  Welfare of Future Children The:...

  Rebecca Bennett

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  Narrated by Rebecca Bennett, this open access practical guide to reproductive ethics navigates the complex subject of the policy around IVF treatment and disability screening based on the concerns around the welfare of future children. It focuses on 3 questions in order to examine these often complex philosophical issues: 
  · Should we allow prospective parents using IVF to implant an embryo with a condition considered to be a disability? 
  · Is routine screening for Down syndrome in pregnancy ethically acceptable, even if there is evidence that individuals may feel pressure to accept this screening? 
  · Are we justified in attempting to evaluate the potential parenting ability of those trying to access fertility treatment (e.g. disabled people or individuals with past criminal convictions) and prevent access in some cases? 
  Rebecca Bennett walks the listener through different answers to these questions, exploring issues such as whether it is ever morally wrong to reproduce, whether we have a moral obligation to try and bring the ‘best’ children we can into existence and how we can assess the quality of future lives.There is, of course, no consensus about what the ‘right’ answers are to these questions, however answers are needed. 
  This area of policy and regulation is one that, Bennett argues, is heavily influenced by intuition, social norms and bias. The Welfare of Future Children invites us to question these norms and to come to a position on these issues that emphasises reason, transparency and accountability. 
  The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Manchester, UK.

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  The Sleep Reset System - A...

  Christine Kennedy

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  The Sleep Reset System gives listeners a practical, structured way to stop treating sleep like a mystery and start rebuilding the conditions that make it happen naturally. Instead of relying on one-off tips, supplements, or generic relaxation advice, it presents sleep as a system shaped by biology, environment, timing, habits, stress, and conditioning. 
  Listeners learn how sleep actually works, how to identify whether their main issue is falling asleep, staying asleep, poor sleep efficiency, or schedule misalignment, and how to fix the specific inputs that may be keeping them awake. The book walks through the core levers that influence better sleep: morning light, circadian rhythm, sleep pressure, bedroom darkness and temperature, caffeine and alcohol timing, movement, wind-down routines, screen boundaries, anxious thoughts, and the learned association between bed and wakefulness. 
  Its strongest value is that it turns sleep improvement into a repeatable protocol. Each chapter gives the listener a clear next step that can be done quickly, making the book useful not only as an explanation of sleep, but as a practical reset plan. The listener walks away with a system they can apply tonight, refine over the next few weeks, and return to whenever stress, travel, parenting, work, or bad habits disrupt their sleep again. 
  The core promise is simple: better sleep doesn’t come from forcing yourself to shut down. It comes from sending the right signals to your body, in the right order, consistently enough for sleep to become natural again.

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  The Reality of ESP - A...

  Russell Targ

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  On February 4, 1974, members of the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped nineteen-year-old newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst from her Berkeley, California, apartment. Desperate to find her, the police called physicist Russell Targ and Pat Price, a psychic retired police commissioner. As Price turned the pages of the police mug book filled with hundreds of photos, suddenly he pointed to one of them and announced, “That’s the ringleader.” The man was Donald DeFreeze, who was indeed subsequently so identified. Price also described the type and location of the kidnap car, enabling the police to find it within minutes. That remarkable event is one reason Targ believes in ESP. Another occurred when his group made $120,000 by forecasting for nine weeks in a row the changes in the silver-commodity futures market. 
   
  As a scientist, Targ demands proof. His experience is based on two decades of investigations at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), which he cofounded with physicist Harold Puthoff in 1972. This twenty-million-dollar program launched during the Cold War was supported by the CIA, NASA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and Army and Air Force Intelligence. The experiments they conducted routinely presented results that could have happened by chance less than once in a million. Targ describes four types of experiments: remote viewing, distant mental influence, whole-field isolation, and precognition and retrocausality. He also presents evidence for survival after death; explains how ESP works based on the Buddhist/Hindu view of ourselves as nonlocal, eternal awareness; discusses the ethics of exercising psychic abilities; and shows us how to explore ESP ourselves. “I am convinced,” Targ says, “that most people can learn to move from their ordinary mind to one not obstructed by conventional barriers of space and time. Who would not want to try that?”

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  The Obesity Code - Unlocking the...

  DR. JASON FUNG

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  Everything you believe about how to lose weight is wrong. Weight gain and obesity are driven by hormones - in everyone - and only by understanding the effects of insulin and insulin resistance can we achieve lasting weight loss. 
  In this highly listenable and provocative book, Dr. Jason Fung sets out an original, robust theory of obesity that provides startling insights into proper nutrition. In addition to his five basic steps - a set of lifelong habits that will improve your health and control your insulin levels - Dr. Fung explains how to use intermittent fasting to break the cycle of insulin resistance and reach a healthy weight - for good.

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  The Museum of the Wood Age

  Max Adams

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  A passionate and imaginative exploration of wood – the material that shaped human history. 
  As a material, wood has no equal in strength, resilience, adaptability and availability. It has been our partner in the cultural evolution from woodland foragers to engineers of our own destiny. Tracing that partnership through tools, devices, construction and artistic expression, Max Adams explores the role that wood has played in our own history as an imaginative, curious and resourceful species. Beginning with an investigation of the material properties of various species of wood, The Museum of the Wood Age investigates the influence of six basic devices – wedge, inclined plane, screw, lever, wheel, axle and pulley – and in so doing reveals the myriad ways in which wood has been worked throughout human history. From the simple bivouacs of hunter-gatherers to sophisticated wooden buildings such as stave churches; from the decorative arts to the humble woodworking of rustic furniture; Max Adams fashions a lattice of interconnected stories and objects that trace a path of human ingenuity across half a million years of history.

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  The Future of Database...

  Robert Lewis

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  Modern database systems are changing quickly, and the book "The Future of Database Management Technologies: Harnessing the Power of Data: Insights and Strategies in Database Management" looks into this and gives a complete guide to the next era of data management. Beginning with traditional relational systems and moving on to the newest ideas like NoSQL, NewSQL, and AI-driven optimization, this book shows how database technologies have changed over time. 
  Although this article talks about big changes like cloud-based database management systems (DBMS), real-time analytics, and decentralized data, it mostly talks about how businesses can use these new technologies to make strategic decisions. The book also looks at how to use big data frameworks, what data lakes and warehouses are for, and some examples of how advanced database solutions work in different types of businesses. 
  Security and privacy are at the top of the conversation because our world is based on data. They deal with both moral issues and new threats. The people who read this will learn about strategies that are ready for the future, like how to make databases that last, solutions based on blockchain technology, and database management systems that run themselves. 
  This book gives readers the information and skills they need to adapt to a database ecosystem that is always changing. It's great for tech fans, business leaders, and people who work with data because it has both in-depth technical information and useful advice. Get ready to use data to its fullest potential and stay ahead of the competition in a digital world that is always changing.

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