Released 06/2022
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Skill Level: Beginner | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 53m | Size: 394.1 MB
The world has become more virtual in the last few years than any other time in the previous twenty. It seems like everyone is talking about the metaverse now—but what does it mean, in reality? Join instructor Christopher Lafayette for a deep dive into the metaverse in this beginner-friendly course, exploring what it is, how it's being applied today, and what to expect in the future.

English | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B0B1VR2HLJ | Duration: 5:22 h | 292 MB
Matt Walsh / Narrated by Matt Walsh

Claus Emmeche, "Towards a Semiotic Biology: Life Is the Action of Signs"
English | ISBN: 1848166877 | 2011 | 318 pages | PDF | 1258 KB
This book presents programmatic texts on biosemiotics, written collectively by world leading scholars in the field (Deacon, Emmeche, Favareau, Hoffmeyer, Kull, Markos, Pattee, Stjernfelt). In addition, the book includes chapters which focus closely on semiotic case studies (Bruni, Kotov, Maran, Neuman, Turovski).According to the central thesis of biosemiotics, sign processes characterise all living systems and the very nature of life, and their diverse phenomena can be best explained via the dynamics and typology of sign relations. The authors are therefore presenting a deeper view on biological evolution, intentionality of organisms, the role of communication in the living world and the nature of sign systems - all topics which are described in this volume. This has important consequences on the methodology and epistemology of biology and study of life phenomena in general, which the authors aim to help the reader better understand.

Social Media Is About People
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1637422628 | 139 Pages | EPUB | 1.23 MB
Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter, Tik Tok-the one thing that unites them all is that they are used by people, real human beings. Too often today, marketers are focused on algorithms and analytics instead of simply trying to help their company meaningfully connect with the humans that are going to help them grow.

RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan Is Born By Richard B. Jewell
2012 | 340 Pages | ISBN: 0520271785 | EPUB | 3 MB
One of the Big Five" studios of Hollywood's golden age, RKO is remembered today primarily for the famous films it produced, from King Kong and Citizen Kane to the Astaire-Rogers musicals. But its own story also provides a fascinating case study of film industry management during one of the most vexing periods in American social history. RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan is Born offers a vivid history of a thirty-year roller coaster of unstable finances, management battles, and artistic gambles. Richard Jewell has used unparalleled access to studio documents generally unavailable to scholars to produce the first business history of RKO, exploring its decision-making processes and illuminating the complex interplay between art and commerce during the heyday of the studio system. Behind the blockbuster films and the glamorous stars, the story of RKO often contained more drama than any of the movies it ever produced.

My Name Is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize By Jody Williams
2013 | 286 Pages | ISBN: 0520270258 | PDF | 4 MB
As Eve Ensler says in her inspired foreword to this book, Jody Williams is many thingsa simple girl from Vermont, a sister of a disabled brother, a loving wife, an intense character full of fury and mischief, a great strategist, an excellent organizer, a brave and relentless advocate, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. But to me Jody Williams is, first and foremost, an activist."From her modest beginnings to becoming the tenth womanand third American womanto receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Jody Williams takes the reader through the ups and downs of her tumultuous and remarkable life. In a voice that is at once candid, straightforward, and intimate, Williams describes her Catholic roots, her first step on a long road to standing up to bullies with the defense of her deaf brother Stephen, her transformation from good girl to college hippie at the University of Vermont, and her protest of the war in Vietnam. She relates how, in 1981, she began her lifelong dedication to global activism as she battled to stop the U.S.-backed war in El Salvador.Throughout the memoir, Williams underlines her belief that an average woman"through perseverance, courage and imaginationcan make something extraordinary happen. She tells how, when asked if she'd start a campaign to ban and clear anti-personnel mines, she took up the challenge, and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) was born. Her engrossing account of the genesis and evolution of the campaign, culminating in 1997 with the Nobel Peace Prize, vividly demonstrates how one woman's commitment to freedom, self-determination, and human rights can have a profound impact on people all over the globe.

Ann O'Brien, "Everyone Is Psychic: How to Awaken Your Intuition to Improve Your Relationships, Enrich Your Life & Read Others"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1734412828 | ASIN: B09VSCBBGN | EPUB | pages: 242 | 0.6 mb
Discover the Ultimate Guide to Increasing Your Intuition

Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis By Mark Binelli
2012 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0805092293 | EPUB | 1 MB
Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists-all have been drawn to Detroit's baroquely decaying, nothing-left-to-lose frontier.With an eye for both the darkly absurd and the radically new, Detroit-area native Mark Binelli has chronicled this convergence. Throughout the city's "museum of neglect"-its swaths of abandoned buildings, its miles of urban prairie-he tracks both the blight and the signs of its repurposing, from the school for pregnant teenagers to a beleaguered UAW local; from metal scrappers and gun-toting vigilantes to artists reclaiming abandoned auto factories; from the organic farming on empty lots to GM's risky wager on the Volt electric car; from firefighters forced by budget cuts to sleep in tents to the mayor's realignment plan (the most ambitious on record) to move residents of half-empty neighborhoods into a viable, new urban center.Sharp and impassioned, Detroit City Is the Place to Be is alive with the sense of possibility that comes when a city hits rock bottom. Beyond the usual portrait of crime, poverty, and ruin, we glimpse a longshot future Detroit that is smaller, less segregated, greener, economically diverse, and better functioning-what could be the boldest reimagining of a post-industrial city in our new century. Detroit City Is the Place to Be isone ofPublishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012

Published 6/2022
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A surprising course to help you buy, taste, pair, serve and store wines with confidence through dynamic classes.

English | ASIN: B09YVPT8JC | 2022 | 4 hours and 28 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 123 MB
Why are we often convinced that we're right even when we're wrong? Why are we jealous, or paranoid, even when we have absolutely no reason to be? Why is it so easy for fake news to spread around the globe and fool us? It's because we don't see the world as it is, rather we reconstruct it in our mind. Reality is way too complex and multiple to be apprehended by our capacities of attention, which are quite limited, as well as our brain abilities. That is why our perception of the world is subjective and various elements influence the way we acquire knowledge and form opinions. Our brain is recreating the world in its own way—most of the time for our own good: how hard would it be if, before making a choice, we had to know about all the options available in a given situation?