Tag: Neighbors

September 17, 2024

Meet the Neighbors Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World [Audiobook]

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Free Download Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D9912394 | 2024 | 11 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 310 MB
Author: Brandon Keim
Narrator: Paul Woodson
Honeybees deliberate democratically. Rats reflect on the past. Snakes have friends. In recent decades, our understanding of animal cognition has exploded, making it indisputably clear that the cities and landscapes around us are filled with thinking, feeling individuals besides ourselves. But the way we relate to wild animals has yet to catch up. In Meet the Neighbors, science journalist Brandon Keim asks: what would it mean to take the minds of other animals seriously? In this wide-ranging exploration of animals’ inner lives, Keim takes us into courtrooms and wildlife hospitals, under backyard decks and into deserts, to meet anew the wild creatures who populate our communities and the philosophers, rogue pest controllers, ecologists, wildlife doctors, and others who are reimagining our relationships to them. When we come to understand the depths of their pleasures and pains, the richness of their family lives and their histories, what do we owe so-called pests and predators, or animals who are sick or injured? Can thinking of nonhumans as our neighbors help chart a course to a kinder, gentler planet? As Keim suggests, the answers to these questions are central to how we understand not only the rest of the living world, but ourselves. Meet the Neighbors opens our eyes to the world of vibrant intelligence just outside our doors.

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September 12, 2024

Afghanistan and Its Central Asian Neighbors Toward Dividing Insecurity

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Free Download Ivan Safranchuk, "Afghanistan and Its Central Asian Neighbors: Toward Dividing Insecurity "
English | ISBN: 1442280174 | 2017 | 38 pages | EPUB | 897 KB
The general trend in Afghanistan is clear-cut: the overall security situation has consistently deteriorated since 2009, worsening dramatically since 2014. However, in the provinces of Afghanistan adjacent to Central Asia, the security situation has deteriorated even further than in Afghanistan as a whole. This report considers the range of options available to the Central Asian neighbors of Afghanistan (Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) in responding to this growing threat, both unilaterally and in their bilateral engagement with actors in Afghanistan. Furthermore, it considers how decision making processes in Central Asia will be affected by future developments in Afghanistan by assessing options and likely outcomes under a set of security scenarios in Afghanistan itself.

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April 25, 2024

Distant Neighbors The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry & Gary Snyder

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Free Download Gary Snyder, Chad Wriglesworth, "Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry & Gary Snyder"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1619023059, 1619025469 | PDF | pages: 321 | 1.4 mb
"The letters are valuable for ecologists, students, and teachers of contemporary American literature and for those of us eager to know how these two distant neighbors networked, negotiated, and remained friends." ―San Francisco Chronicle

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January 10, 2024

Chicago’s Block Clubs How Neighbors Shape the City

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Free Download Chicago’s Block Clubs: How Neighbors Shape the City (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Amanda I. Seligman
English | October 4, 2016 | ISBN: 022638571X, 022638585X | True EPUB/PDF | 312 pages | 4.7/5.7 MB
What do you do if your alley is strewn with garbage after the sanitation truck comes through? Or if you’re tired of the rowdy teenagers next door keeping you up all night? Is there a vacant lot on your block accumulating weeds, needles, and litter? For a century, Chicagoans have joined block clubs to address problems like these that make daily life in the city a nuisance. When neighbors work together in block clubs, playgrounds get built, local crime is monitored, streets are cleaned up, and every summer is marked by the festivities of day-long block parties.

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January 5, 2024

Afghanistan and Its Neighbors after the NATO Withdrawal

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Free Download Amin Saikal, "Afghanistan and Its Neighbors after the NATO Withdrawal "
English | ISBN: 1498529127 | 2016 | 240 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The planned reductions in NATO troop numbers in Afghanistan through 2015 and a final withdrawal at the end of 2016 brings up numerous pressing questions about the security and national interests of not just Afghanistan, but of the broader region itself. The problem of a chaotic Afghanistan-or of an outright Taliban victory-is of great concern to not only immediate neighbors such as Iran, Pakistan, and the former Soviet Central Asian republics to the north, but also to those countries in the region with Afghanistan-related security or economic concerns, such as China and India. Further abroad, Russian, American and European interests and plans for dealing with the fallout from Afghanistan must also be taken into account as these major powers have enduring interests in Afghanistan and the region. This volume puts the prospects for short- and mid-term security dynamics at the core of the analysis, with each case being placed in its proper contemporary historical, economic, and political context. The book will offer a truly comprehensive, nuanced, and timely account of the security situation in and around Afghanistan.

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