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"Every year, our planet loses over 150 species of plants and animals, and India is very much in the midst of this mass ‘sixth extinction’. We are losing species in our backyard—where are the once ubiquitous sparrows, or the fireflies that lit up our nights? And in the forests, iconic...

'Rich and replenishing ... I felt lovesick for it after it was done' ELEANOR CATTON, Booker Prize-winning author 'A fascinating, original story' TLS 'I really loved this book' JENN ASHWORTH 'A real treasure' ROWAN WILLIAMS, former Archbishop of Canterbury __________ In the past, we were deeply...

In The Vanishing Face of Gaia, British scientist James Lovelock predicts global warming will lead to a Hot Epoch. Lovelock is best known for formulating the controversial Gaia theory in the 1970s, with Ruth Margulis of the University of Massachusetts, which states that organisms interact with and regulate Earth's surface and atmosphere. We ignore this interaction at our peril.

On a clear May afternoon at the end of his junior year at Harvard, Howard Axelrod played a pick-up game of basketball. In a skirmish for a loose ball, a boy's finger hooked behind Axelrod's eyeball and left him permanently blinded in his right eye. A week later, he returned to the same dorm room, but to a different world. A world where nothing looked solid, where the distance between how people saw him and how he saw had widened into a gulf.

Immerse yourself in a captivating tale of mystery as a young doctor, an alumnus of the renowned legal and medical savant Dr. John Thorndyke, stumbles upon a peculiar case of a mans disappearance. His absence raises many questions as his oddly phrased will comes to light. Is he dead or alive? The case takes on significant importance due to the cryptic nature of his will. With Dr. Thorndykes analytical prowess and forensic acumen, the truth gradually unfolds. Amidst this intriguing chaos, the young doctor finds his soulmate in the most unexpected place - the Egyptian exhibit of the British ...

Discover the art of falconry through Our Vanishing Wild Life, an insightful treatise by Edmund Bert, Gentleman. This comprehensive work is divided into three sections the first reveals how to train a short-winged hawk to possess excellent qualities; the second offers strategies to reclaim a hawk from undesirable behaviors; and the third provides remedies for known ailments and afflictions. Bert, who resided in Collier Row near Romford, Essex, shares his remarkable experiences training the Goshawk, having achieved great success in the field. He recounts thrilling hunts across the downs of ...

A podcast for people who build with AI. Long-format conversations with people shaping the field about agents, evals, multimodal systems, data infrastructure, and the tools behind them. Guests include Jeremy Howard (fast.ai), Hamel Husain (Parlance Labs), Shreya Shankar (UC Berkeley), Wes McKinney (creator of pandas), Samuel Colvin (Pydantic) and more. hugobowne.substack.com

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