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Light is changing, dramatically. Our world is getting brighter — you can see it from space. But is brighter always better?
Artificial light is voracious and spreading. Vanquishing precious darkness across the planet when we are supposed to be using less energy. The quality of light has altered as well. Technology and legislation have crushed warm incandescent lighting in favour of harsher, often glaring alternatives. Light is fundamental — it...
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#1 There is no evidence that Putin plays chess, and in any case, it is not his sort of game. Chess is a contest of inflexible rules, transparency, and an intellectual competition where the options are strictly constrained. Putin doesn't want to limit his options like that.
#2 Putin wants power and stability at home, and recognition abroad. He needs the Russian economy...
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Siesta Key volume 2
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Chloe copes with a huge blow from one of her best friends over Siesta's heartthrob, Brandon. The group tries to remain neutral, but Alex gets caught in the crossfire and faces the wrath of Chloe. Meanwhile, the fight to win Alex's affections continues between Madisson and Juliette as they each try to reclaim their territory at Brandon's bonfire.
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In this urgently needed guide, the PBS host, award-winning journalist, and author of We Need to Talk teaches us how to have productive conversations about race, offering insights, advice, and support.
A self-described "light-skinned Black Jew," Celeste Headlee has been forced to speak about race-including having to defend or define her own-since childhood. In her career as a journalist for public media, she's made it a priority to talk about race...
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A myth-busting explanation of inflation, the desperate gullibility of central bankers and finance ministers-and our abject failure to learn from history
From investors and monetary authorities to governments and policy makers, almost everyone had assumed inflation was dead and buried. But now people the world over are confronting a poisonous new economic reality and, with it, the prospect of vast and increasing wealth inequality.
How have we arrived...
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"With the proliferation of social media, the intense pressure to succeed, and our overreliance on external rewards, metrics, and validation, FOPO is running rampant. Our concern with what other people think about us has become an irrational, unproductive, and unhealthy obsession in the modern world. And its negative effects reach into all aspects of our lives. In The First Rule of Mastery, Michael Gervais shows us the key to leading a high-performance...