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The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself Racial Myths and Our American Narratives [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0D7QQLYLX | 2024 | 10 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 284 MB
Author: David Mura
Narrator: David Lee Huynh

The police murders of two Black men, Philando Castile and George Floyd, frame this searing exploration of the historical and fictional narratives that white America tells itself to justify and maintain white supremacy. From the country’s founding through the summer of Black Lives Matter in 2020, David Mura unmasks how white stories about race attempt to erase the brutality of the past and underpin systemic racism in the present. Intertwining history, literature, ethics, and the deeply personal, Mura looks back to foundational narratives of white supremacy to show how white identity is based on shared belief in the pernicious myths, false histories, and racially segregated fictions. White supremacy insists white knowledge is superior to Black knowledge, and this belief dismisses the truths embodied in Black narratives.

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Unsettled What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, Updated and Expanded Edition


Free Download Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, Updated and Expanded Edition by Steven E. Koonin
English | June 11th, 2024 | ISBN: 1637745257 | 384 pages | True EPUB | 16.44 MB
In this updated and expanded edition of climate scientist Steven Koonin’s groundbreaking book, go behind the headlines to discover the latest eye-opening data about climate change-with unbiased facts and realistic steps for the future.

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The Yankees Index Every Number Tells a Story


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English | 2016 | ISBN: 1629371769 | 368 Pages | EPUB | 43.0 MB
Yankees fans have witnessed improbable feats, extraordinary achievements, and unmatched performances during the team’s 100-plus seasons.

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The Origin of Feces What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society


Free Download David Waltner-Toews, "The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society"
English | 2013 | pages: 232 | ISBN: 177041116X | EPUB | 0,8 mb
The Origin of Feces takes an important subject out of locker-rooms, potty-training manuals, and bio-solids management boardrooms into the fresh air of everyone’s lives. With insight and wit, David Waltner-Toews explores what has been too often ignored and makes a compelling argument for a deeper understanding of human and animal waste. Approaching the subject from a variety of perspectives ― evolutionary, ecological, and cultural ― The Origin of Feces shows us how integral excrement is to biodiversity, agriculture, public health, food production and distribution, and global ecosystems. From the primordial ooze to dung beetles, from bug frass, cat scats, and flush toilets to global trade, pandemics, and energy, this is the awesome, troubled, unexpurgated story of feces.

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Smellosophy What the Nose Tells the Mind [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B08C49V7WN | 2020 | 10 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 299 MB
Author: A.S. Barwich
Narrator: Chloe Cannon

A pioneering exploration of olfaction that upsets settled notions of how the brain translates sensory information. Decades of cognition research have shown that external stimuli "spark" neural patterns in particular regions of the brain. This has fostered a view of the brain as a space that we can map: here the brain responds to faces, there it perceives a sensation in your left hand. But it turns out that the sense of smell – only recently attracting broader attention in neuroscience – doesn’t work this way. A. S. Barwich asks a deceptively simple question: What does the nose tell the brain, and how does the brain understand it? Barwich interviews experts in neuroscience, psychology, chemistry, and perfumery in an effort to understand the biological mechanics and myriad meanings of odors. She argues that it is time to stop recycling ideas based on the paradigm of vision for the olfactory system. Scents are often fickle and boundless in comparison with visual images, and they do not line up with well-defined neural regions. Although olfaction remains a puzzle, Barwich proposes that what we know suggests the brain acts not only like a map, but also as a measuring device, one that senses and processes simple and complex odors.

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