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  Smallpox

  Santiago Machain

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  This comprehensive history delves into the devastating impact of smallpox on human civilization. It explores the disease's origins, its spread across continents, and the scientific breakthroughs that led to its eradication.

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  The Body Has a Mind of Its Own -...

  Matthew Blakeslee, Sandra Blakeslee

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  Why do you still feel fat after losing weight? Why do you duck your head when you drive into an underground parking garage? Why are your kids so enthralled by video games? 
   
  The answers to these questions can be found in a new understanding of how your brain interacts with your body, the space around your body, and the social world. Every point on your body, each internal organ, and every point in space out to the end of your fingertips is mapped inside your brain. Your ability to sense, move, and act in the physical world arises from a rich network of flexible body maps distributed throughout your brain. 
   
  The science of body maps has far-reaching applications. It can help people lose weight, improve their ability to play a sport, or assist recovery from stroke. It points the way to new treatments for anorexia and phantom limbs. It helps explain out-of-body experiences, auras, placebos, and healing touch. It provides a new way to understand human emotions from love to hate, lust to disgust, pride to humiliation. 
   
  With scientific discoveries from every corner of the globe, Sandra and Matthew Blakeslee have written a compelling narrative that is positively mind-bending and that will appeal to readers of Sharon Begley's Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain.

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  The Wanderer - An Alaska Wolf's...

  Tom Walker

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  The Wanderer is the first book ever to chart a wolf's movement, almost to the day, for an extended period of time. Informed by unique access to research and field notes, award-winning author, photographer, and naturalist Tom Walker shares the story of Wolf 258, nicknamed "the Wanderer," part of a research project that studied wolves in Alaska's Yukon–Charley Rivers National Preserve for more than two decades. A GPS collar recorded the animal's coordinates once a day as it moved through the wilderness. To the amazement of all, the Wanderer traveled more than 2,700 miles in less than six months. To tell this story, Walker had unparalleled access to research and field notes, including the cooperation of the biologist who first collared the Wanderer and the wolf researcher now assigned to Yukon–Charley. 
   
   
   
  The Wanderer recounts the compelling life of one particular wolf, while examining the broader complexity of the species as a whole and its struggle for survival. Walker explores not only the natural history of wolves, but the relationship of people—Indigenous, pioneers and settlers, biologists, politicians—to this predator, shedding light on the long northern traditions of trapping and hunting, the tangled politics of wolf management, and the futility of borders to contain large mammals.

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  Vanishing New York - How a Great...

  Jeremiah Moss

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  An unflinching portrait of gentrification in the twenty-first century, and a love letter to lost New York, by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing New York 
   
   
   
  New York City has long been a destination for rebels and rule breakers, artists, writers, and other hopefuls longing to be part of its rich cultural exchange and unique social fabric. But today, modern gentrification is transforming the city from an exceptional, iconoclastic metropolis into a suburbanized luxury zone with a price tag only the top 1 percent can afford. 
   
   
   
  Blogger and cultural commentator Jeremiah Moss has emerged as one of the most outspoken and celebrated critics of this dramatic shift. He has spent the past decade observing and painstakingly documenting this sea change, and in Vanishing New York, he reports on the city's development in the twenty-first century, a period of "hyper-gentrification" that has resulted in the shocking transformation of beloved neighborhoods and the loss of treasured unofficial landmarks. Moss leads us on a colorful guided tour of the most changed parts of town—from the Lower East Side and Chelsea to Harlem and Williamsburg—lovingly eulogizing iconic institutions as they’re replaced with soulless upscale boutiques, luxury condo towers, and suburban chains.

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  Lean Project Management for...

  Steve Abrams

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  "Lean Project Management for Beginners: Streamline Your Projects, Maximize Value, and Minimize Waste with Lean Principles" is the essential guide for newcomers seeking to incorporate Lean methodologies into their project management practices. In today’s fast-paced business world, efficiency is key, and this book provides a straightforward, accessible path to understanding and implementing Lean principles that drive success. 
  From the history and development of Lean thinking to practical strategies for applying Lean tools and techniques in your projects, this book covers it all. Each chapter breaks down fundamental concepts, such as the identification and elimination of waste, ensuring continuous value flow, and setting up a pull system, into digestible and actionable parts. 
  With a range of real-world examples from various industries, including small businesses and large corporations, readers can see how Lean project management is applicable and beneficial across different contexts. Furthermore, the book tackles common pitfalls and challenges, offering advice on how to sustain Lean practices and measure their impact effectively. 
  "Lean Project Management for Beginners" provides the tools you need to reduce costs, enhance efficiency, and deliver projects that precisely meet customer needs. Start your journey towards becoming a proficient Lean project manager and transform the way you handle projects forever. 
   

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  The Top 100 List of Lies on...

  Daniel Hall, Mic Adam, Shari Berg

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  The Only Guide that tells the ugly truth behind how many of Social Media's "Top" influencers built their thrones. With social media creators reaching nearly half of humanity, many metrics are misleading and superficial. They hide the true value and impact of online content and tempt people to cheat or overestimate their success. It's time to put the HUMAN back into HUMANity. Our mission is to help you see socials with eyes wide open and how to spot the fakery. You're just being muted and left to feel less than you really are by those cheating on socials. Your ideas may be the change we need to see in the world! In order to get your message out, you must first see the world of socials with blinders off. Our book will help you filter out the fake noise.

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