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Feline Love Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: All About Cats and Training Your Cat
Feline Love Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: All About Cats and Training Your Cat Cats make really great pets and they are ideal companions for people who work full time or who live in an apartment. Cats are less maintenance compared to other pets and taking care of them is less expensive as well. But before you get that cute little kitten you’ve been eyeing, it’s important to learn as much as you can to determine if a cat is the right fit for you. For example, it’s important to learn if you’re allergic to cats or not. Cats and kittens adjust quickly to different environments than we do. Depending on the nature, breed and the environment of a new cat or kitten is how well they will adjust. Kittens will adjust quicker and smoother than an older cat. Especially if the environment happens to be a busy, crowded home. Cats can be very finicky at times. When you are trying to change bad behaviors, this can be hard and they might not always do what you want them to do. You have to redirect them into a behavior that is more acceptable for the both of you. This bundle will teach you everything you need to learn about having a cat for a pet. You will learn what it involves, what you need to prepare, how to take care of one, their diet and grooming as well as the common issues that come with taking care of pets. This 2 in 1 bundle includes the following audiobooks: - All About Cats: The Essential Guide on Cat Care, Learn Useful Knowledge and Tips on the Proper Care For Your Feline Friend - Training Your Cat: The Essential Guide on the Proven and Effective Techniques for Training Your Cat's Behavior Get your copy of Feline Love 2 in 1 Bundle today!
D.T. Boris, Frankie Wynn (Author), Candice Madewell, Marcus Mulenga, Tanya Neihardt (Narrator)
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Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food
Combining the ethical clarity of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals with the disquieting vision of Alan Weissman’s bestseller The World Without Us, a thought-provoking, entertaining exploration of a future where animal consumption is a thing of the past. Though increasing numbers of people know that eating meat is detrimental to our planet’s health, many still can’t be convinced to give up eating meat. But how can we change behavior when common arguments and information aren’t working? Acclaimed anthropologist Roanne Van Voorst changes the dialogue. In Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals, she shifts the focus from the present looking forward to the future looking back—imagining a world in which most no longer use animals for food, clothing, or other items. By shifting the viewpoint, she offers a clear and compelling vision of what it means to live in a world without meat. A massive shift is already taking place—everything van Voorst covers in this book has already been invented and is being used today by individuals and small organizations worldwide. Hopeful and persuasive, Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals offers a tantalizing vision of what is not only possible but perhaps inevitable.
Roanne Van Voorst (Author), Eileen Stevens (Narrator)
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The Embodied Mind: Understanding the Mysteries of Cellular Memory, Consciousness, and Our Bodies
We understand the workings of the human body as a series of interdependent physiological relationships, all the way down to the inner workings of every cell. Why is it that the accepted understanding that the physical phenomenon of the mind is attributed only to the brain? In The Embodied Mind, internationally renowned psychiatrist Dr. Thomas R. Verny sets out to redefine our concept of the mind and consciousness. He brilliantly compiles new research that points to the mind's ties to every part of the body. The Embodied Mind collects disparate findings in physiology, genetics, and quantum physics in order to illustrate the mounting evidence that somatic cells, not just neural cells, store memory, inform genetic coding, and adapt to environmental changes-all behaviors that contribute to the mind and consciousness. Verny describes single-celled organisms with no brains demonstrating memory, and points to the remarkable case of a French man who, despite having a brain just a fraction of the typical size, leads a normal life with a family and a job. The Embodied Mind shows how intelligence and consciousness-traits traditionally attributed to the brain alone-also permeate our entire being.
Thomas R. Verny (Author), Matthew Josdal (Narrator)
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Gardening Primer Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Beginner's Guide to Organic Gardening and Greenhouse Gardeni
Gardening Primer Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Beginner's Guide to Organic Gardening and Greenhouse Gardening Hacks For some people, gardening is a passion. Some people garden just as a hobby but for some others, it’s a way to also feed their families. Gardening is a great way to provide healthy food for you and your loved ones. When you buy produce from the store, it just isn’t the same as presenting a salad to your family that came exclusively from your garden worked by your own two hands. This is also a way to have control over what type of food you and your family eat without fear of chemicals or preservatives. Some grow their plants in greenhouses. Most greenhouse owners are familiar with the advantages of growing their own plants and flowers, prolonging the growing season and the possibility of heating their home. This bundle will teach you everything you need to know about organic gardening. You will learn the benefits of organic gardening and how to prepare your own organic garden. You will learn ideas about mulching, weed control, and composting. Plus you will get some ideas on all-natural pest controls and ways to make sure your garden thrives – without chemicals. You will also learn how to grow your own food through greenhouse gardening. Learn some guides and tips on how to grow your own organic foods. This 2 in 1 bundle includes the following audiobooks: - Beginner's Guide to Organic Gardening: The Step-by-Step Guide on How to Plant Your Own Organic Garden - Greenhouse Gardening Hacks: The Essential Guide on How to Grow Your Own Plans and Food Through Greenhouse Gardening Get your copy of this Gardening Primer 2 in 1 Bundle today!
Erik Spitz, Ron Oaklyn (Author), Marcus Mulenga, Todd Studder, Tracy Pearson (Narrator)
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Digital Pandemic: Covid-19: How Tech Went from Bad to Good
In early 2020 on a writing sabbatical, Michael Bociurkiw was on Spain's frontier with Gibraltar when his phone started receiving texts from Asia about a mysterious disease sickening hundreds of people in China's Hubei province. Little did he know at the time that it would quickly morph into the deadliest pandemic in modern history. His early reporting and commentary on what would become known as the coronavirus pandemic has now been collated into the first postmortem on the crisis. What follows is a bold global analysis from someone with a truly unique international perspective-and from an experienced hand who's been on the story from the start. Digital Pandemic chronicles how many technological trends-from working from home and tele-health to distance learning and e-commerce-have been catapulted ahead by at least a decade due to the pandemic. Who got rich and who didn't. How strongmen and authoritarian governments leveraged the pandemic in their favor. Will influencers and digital nomads survive a not-so-familiar "new normal"? Crucially, the book offers more than two dozen predictions to paint a picture of the "new normal." It may be premature to forecast when and how the Covid-19 pandemic will end but, for now, this book is required listening for anyone wishing to understand the lasting impact-both good and bad-on humanity.
Michael Bociurkiw (Author), Michael Bociurkiw (Narrator)
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Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It
'This disturbing but very important book makes clear we must dig deeper than the normal solutions we are offered.'-Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia Works Bright Green Lies exposes the hypocrisy and bankruptcy of leading environmental groups and their most prominent cheerleaders. The best-known environmentalists are not in the business of speaking truth, or even holding up rational solutions to blunt the impending ecocide, but instead indulge in a mendacious and self-serving delusion that provides comfort at the expense of reality. They fail to state the obvious: We cannot continue to wallow in hedonistic consumption and industrial expansion and survive as a species. The environmental debate, Derrick Jensen and his coauthors argue, has been distorted by hubris and the childish desire by those in industrialized nations to sustain the unsustainable. All debates about environmental policy need to begin with honoring and protecting, not the desires of the human species, but with the sanctity of the Earth itself. We refuse to ask the right questions because these questions expose a stark truth-we cannot continue to live as we are living. To do so is suicidal folly.
Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Max Wilbert (Author), Joel Richards (Narrator)
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Con un estilo eficaz y fuentes de gran calado, este libro responde a una falta en el periodismo nacional sobre la industria que marcó la mayor parte del siglo XX en México y que actualmente toma un rumbo indefinido pero bastante negativo. A partir de la nacionalización de la industria petrolera, por ochenta años Pemex fue el principal sostén de la economía mexicana, una maquinaria generadora de billones y billones de dólares por la producción y venta del oro negro y sus derivados, sólo que, a pesar de ser un bien público, sus ganancias y beneficios se repartieron entre pocas manos. Al cabo de esas ocho décadas, la reforma energética, que acabó con el modelo nacionalista, hizo escombros el Pemex de Cárdenas: deliberadamente, la producción se derrumbó para dar paso a la desnacionalización y privatización. Pero ¿quiénes se enriquecieron de la gallina de los huevos de oro?, ¿dónde quedó la ganancia de la renta petrolera? A estas y otras interrogantes da respuesta este libro, que explica el entramado que llevó al declive y desmantelamiento de la industria petrolera mexicana. Pemex RIP cierra una trilogía sobre Pemex iniciada con Camisas Azules, Manos Negras. El saqueo de Pemex desde Los Pinos (2010) y El Cártel Negro. Cómo el crimen organizado se ha apoderado de Pemex (2011), en la que revela fraudes, peculado, abuso de poder, tráfico de influencias, enriquecimiento ilícito, sobornos y muchos otros abusos de funcionarios y empleados que tuvieron en sus manos la encomienda de dirigir y operar una de las petroleras más importantes del mundo, y que en sus manos la convirtieron en epicentro de corrupción del país.
Ana Lilia Pérez (Author), Lili Barba, Liliana Barba (Narrator)
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In this collection of essays from 2016-2021, the author explores a variety of themes including the environment, war, agriculture, settler colonialism, racism, patriarchy, media criticism, green energy, collapse and the nature of civilization itself. Sylistically, the selections vary from reporting to analysis to personal story telling. They previously appeared on Counterpunch, Resilience, Green Social Thought and other online venues, but this is their first time in print.
Kollibri Terre Sonnenblume (Author), Kollibri Terre Sonnenblume (Narrator)
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The Science of James Bond: The Super-Villains, Tech, and Spy-Craft Behind the Film and Fiction
From Sean Connery to Daniel Craig, James Bond is the highest-grossing movie franchise of all time. Out-grossing Star Wars, Harry Potter, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the world's most iconic and international secret agent has a shelf life of almost six decades, from Dr. No to Spectre. As nuclear missile threats are replaced by a series of subtler threats in a globalized and digital world, Bond is with us still. In The Science of James Bond, we recognize the Bond franchise as a unique genre: spy-fi. A genre of film and fiction that fuses spy fiction with science fiction. We look at Bond's obsessions with super-villains, the future, and world domination or destruction. And we take a peek under the hood of trends in science and tech, often in the form of gadgets and spy devices in chapters such as: ● Goldfinger: Man Has Achieved Miracles in All Fields but Crime! ● You Only Live Twice: The Race to Conquer Space ● Live and Let Die: Full Throttle: Bond and the Car ● Skyfall: The Science of Cyberterrorism ● And more!
Mark Brake (Author), Alex Wyndham (Narrator)
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Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence-from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of research, award-winning scholar Kate Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the minerals drawn from the earth, to the labor pulled from low-wage information workers, to the data taken from every action and expression. This book reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased inequity. Rather than taking a narrow focus on code and algorithms, Crawford offers us a material and political perspective on what it takes to make AI and how it centralizes power. This is an urgent account of what is at stake as technology companies use artificial intelligence to reshape the world.
Kate Crawford (Author), Larissa Gallagher (Narrator)
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Robots: What Everyone Needs to Know
There is a huge effort underway in industry and universities to develop the next generation of more intelligent, autonomous, mobile robots. Accompanying these arrivals has been a steady stream of inflammatory articles in the media raising concerns over the impending specter of super-intelligent robots, along with stories about how most jobs will soon be lost to robots. Here, using the question-and-answer format, Phil Husbands gives a balanced and broad introduction to robotics and the current state of the field, analyzing where it has come from, and where it might go in the future. He begins with the history of robotics and its complex relationship with popular culture, and then moves on to discuss the technology underlying robots in an engaging, non-technical way, exploring the limits of what robots can actually do now and what they might be able to do in the future. Naturally these machines are attracting great attention. Do they pose a threat or an unprecedented opportunity? And although the 'singularity' may not be something to worry about, there are certainly ethical issues needing consideration as robots with some intelligence are used increasingly across many sectors. Husbands considers both these ethical problems and also the wider socio-political challenges that robots are already creating, and the larger ones they might bring in the future.
Phil Husbands (Author), Liam Gerrard (Narrator)
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Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria
A scientific detective story and a case study in the social construction of mass psychogenic illness. The authors provide dozens of examples of kindred episodes of mass hysteria throughout history, in addition to psychosomatic conditions and even the role of insects in triggering outbreaks. It is one of the most extraordinary cases in the history of science: the mating calls of insects were mistaken for a "sonic weapon" that led to a major diplomatic row. Since August 2017, the world media has been absorbed in the "attack" on diplomats from the American and Canadian Embassies in Cuba. While physicians treating victims have described it as a novel and perplexing condition that involves an array of complaints including brain damage, the authors present compelling evidence that mass psychogenic illness was the cause of "Havana Syndrome." This mysterious condition that has baffled experts is explored across eleven chapters which offer insights by a prominent neurologist and an expert on psychogenic illness. A lively and enthralling listen, the authors explore the history of similar scares from the eighteenth century belief that sounds from certain musical instruments were harmful to human health, to nineteenth century cases of "telephone shock," and more contemporary panics involving people living near wind turbines that have been tied to a variety of health complaints. The authors provide dozens of examples of kindred episodes of mass hysteria throughout history, in addition to psychosomatic conditions and even the role of insects in triggering outbreaks. Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria is a scientific detective story and a case study in the social construction of mass psychogenic illness.
Robert E. Bartholomew, Robert W. Baloh (Author), George Newbern (Narrator)
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