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Shouty person

Book 12 was Unwritten Law by Helena Kennedy QC and Rib Davis.

Interesting selection of true stories about legal cases that changed the law in the UK.

Very short review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/

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Unwritten Law by Helena Kennedy QC and Rib Davis A BBC RADIO TRUE CRIME SERIES
May 11, 2025, 19:51 · · 1 · 0
Patrick O'Beirne

In the Clouds of the Night
Donal Winters
292pp, 2025.
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In 1939, Thomas Pakenham, a Protestant widower from Dublin, bundles his four young Catholic children into a car, and smuggles them across the border into the North. Wracked with grief at the loss of his wife, Ciss, and driven by paranoia and suspicion that her Catholic family will lay claim to their children, he does the only thing he believes he can do, and disappears.
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In the Clouds of the Night Donal Winters
What follows is a complex tale of survival and sacrifice, as the family Thomas vowed to keep together face separation, hunger, chaos, and cruelty. For years the children’s lives are marked by trauma, loss and despair, while back in the South, their maternal grandmother, Kate Beirne, consumed by grief, holds on to the hope of news about her missing grandchildren. In the Clouds of the Night explores the profound struggle and resilience of one family in mid-century Ireland, highlighting the hardships of separation, the pain of loss, and the enduring hope for reconciliation. It examines the unconventional choices made in the name of love and religion, the impact of those decisions, and the strength found in forgiveness and restoration, offering timeless reflections on faith, family, and the human condition.
May 11, 2025, 14:12 · · · 0 · 0
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Everyday Aspergers: A Journey on the Autism Spectrum by Samantha Craft, 2018

Through 150 entries, Samantha Craft presents a life of humorous faux pas, profound insights, and the everyday adventures of an autistic female.

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In her vivid world, nothing is simple and everything appears pertinent. Even an average trip to the grocery store is a feat and cause for reflection. From being a dyslexic cheerleader with dyspraxia going the wrong direction, to bathroom stalking, to figuring out if she can wear that panty-free dress, Craft explores the profoundness of daily living through hilarious anecdotes and heart-warming childhood memories. Ten years in the making, Craft’s revealing memoir brings Asperger’s Syndrome into a spectrum of brilliant light—exposing the day-to-day interactions and complex inner workings of an autistic female from childhood to midlife.
May 11, 2025, 05:28 · · 1 · 0
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The Physics of Stars: Structure, Evolution and Properties by Mathias Scholz, 2025

Interested students in the natural and engineering sciences, as well as high school graduates, instructors, teachers, and amateur astronomers, will find a valuable overview of the physics of stars in this book.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007

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The only prerequisite is a basic mathematical and physical background, which does not go beyond the knowledge of integral and differential calculus. In this regard, this book aims to bridge the gap with the specialized literature available on the internet, allowing readers to benefit from it. The first part traces the historical development that led to a detailed understanding of the nature of stars and their life cycles. The goal of the following chapters is to provide a pragmatic introduction to the physical processes that determine the structure and evolution of stars based on their fundamental parameters such as mass and chemical composition. It will show what can be learned from the analysis of starlight about stellar atmospheres, the fundamental role of the virial theorem in the lives of stars, and the nuclear processes deep inside stars that provide the energy that makes them shine. Finally, there will be an in-depth phenomenological look at the final stages of stellar evolution. This section will discuss states of matter that are far from experimental realization but whose properties can be, at least in principle, inferred from the observation of concrete objects such as white dwarfs or neutron stars. Exciting developments are still expected in this area in the future. Mathias Scholz is hobby astronomer. He studied physics at the University of Rostock from 1981 to 1986.
May 11, 2025, 03:22 · · 1 · 0
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May 10, 2025, 10:50 · · 1 · 0
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📖 🎙️ **Globalization's Backlash: Echoes of the Interwar Era in Today’s World**

“_She highlights how economic insecurity, the rise of mass politics, and anxieties over immigration and trade shaped political reactions in both eras, while noting key differences—such as the role of environmentalism today and the absence of a world war in recent memory._”

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May 10, 2025, 08:50 · · 0 · 2
Shouty person

Book 9 was Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI by James Muldoon, Callum Cant, Mark Graham.

This book is an indictment of unfettered capitalism, exposing how it exploits all workers everywhere.

Review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/

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Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI by James Muldoon, Callum Cant, Mark Graham
May 09, 2025, 20:45 · · 2 · 0
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The Story of More How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahren, 2020

"Hope Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet? The Story of More is thoughtful, informative, and—above all—essential." —Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction

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May 09, 2025, 08:15 · · 4 · 0
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The Quantum and Cosmic Codes of the Universe by Sebahattin Tuzemen, 2019

This book provides a wide perspective on all areas of physics, from atoms to galaxies. It describes the most complicated and difficult issues in the field through simple examples and social analogies. It combines the approach of popular science with sophisticated scholarly insights into the discipline of physics.

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It also offers some philosophical insights that will be of interest to philosophers and theologians.
May 09, 2025, 06:26 · · 1 · 0
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Towards an Ethical Approach to Animals: A Life Learning about Animal Welfare by Clive Phillips

In two parts, this open access work offers a broad and often unconventional approach to animal ethics, written by a pioneer in animal welfare science and ethics.

Free download:
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The author Clive Phillips, Australia's first professor of animal welfare, first describes his life experience and career in the field, which enabled him to provide thoughts and possible solutions to some of the key problems in human-animal relations following in section two. His memoirs describe a journey from privileged upbringing in the Christian tradition to confronting Australian livestock industries with some of their traditional practices. Experiences meeting livestock farmers, industry supporters and national representative bodies taught him new approaches to the ways in which we manage animals. After building one of the largest animal welfare centers worldwide, Clive Phillips retired and pursues his animal welfare mission independently. The second part introduces novel aspects that evolved with the author over several decades of involvement in animal welfare science. This part takes a wide perspective, asking how important and unique our animal kingdom is, how did it evolve and why, and what are the key issues for our treatment of other animals? It concludes by considering our future relationship with animals and how this will change with current developments in society and in particular contemporary attitudes toward the consumption of animals. This historical and futuristic look at animal ethics is unique, making this book a thought provoking read for all interested.
May 09, 2025, 05:17 · · 1 · 0
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Food, Environmental Degradation and Injustices: How the Way We Eat Will Destroy Us by Simon Sneddon, 2025

What if the global trade in key food commodities suddenly ceased? This book takes readers on a thought-provoking journey through the environmental, ethical, and social justice issues embedded in our food systems.

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From meat and seafood to staple crops like tomatoes, potatoes, palm oil, and soya, it explores how industrial agriculture and aquaculture drive deforestation, biodiversity loss, labour exploitation, and species injustice. Drawing on green criminology and eco-justice principles, the book uncovers how corporations, weak regulations, and economic inequalities sustain harmful practices—often legally sanctioned but morally indefensible. Through an innovative “what-if” approach, it challenges readers to rethink the true cost of their food and the power of their choices. This compelling book is essential reading for anyone concerned with sustainability, corporate accountability, and the future of global food production.
May 09, 2025, 02:45 · · 3 · 0
Francisca Sinn

@kristina I saw that you’re accepting non-fiction recommendations as well. I highly recommend Jesse Thistle’s memoir “From The Ashes”. The audiobook is read by the author.

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And thank you for this amazing thread highlighting books I didn’t know of.

May 08, 2025, 21:25 · · 0 · 0
GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦

thanks to rhina & the good people at Simon and Schuster, an advance reader's copy of this book FINALLY arrived today

The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne By Chris Sweeney

#Books #Nonfiction #birds #Forensics #ornithology simonandschuster.com/books/The

May 08, 2025, 17:09 · · 2 · 0
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A Brief Excursion into Human Cognition The Evolving Influence of Social Media & Artificial Intelligence by Hans Kankam, 2025

This book offers a concise exploration of human cognition, charting its historical development and revealing how disciplines such as neuroscience, linguistics, anthropology, the social sciences, and behavioral economics shape our understanding.

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Structured as a condensed handbook, it examines the core principles defining cognition while reflecting on how these insights influence AI advancements and social media interactions. Subsequent sections highlight how evolving cognitive research, combined with rapid AI growth, is driving a paradigm shift in how we perceive ourselves and our world. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, the book also explores the possible unintended consequences of integrating such knowledge into everyday life. By illuminating emerging trends and potential future directions, it equips both specialists and non-specialists with a fresh lens on how cognition shapes—and is shaped by—technology and society.
May 08, 2025, 08:26 · · 1 · 0
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100 Teaching Ideas that Transfer and Transform Learning; Expanding your Repertoire by Frank T. Lyman Jr., 2022

Expand your teaching repertoire with this unique collection of instructional ideas.

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Author Frank T. Lyman Jr., esteemed educator and creator of the Think-Pair-Share model, offers ways to help students think critically, encounter puzzling phenomena and seek explanations, think before responding, listen to responses from others, create their own questions, visualize a scene, employ problem-solving strategies, and more. Appropriate for teachers of all grades and subjects, the ideas address the pursuit of true learning—wanting to learn, how to learn, and enabling to learn—and can easily be adapted and applied to a wide variety of contexts. The book’s format allows you to pick and choose activities for your own professional development journey and make them your own, so you can expand your teaching toolbox and bring more students to deeper levels of learning.
May 08, 2025, 08:18 · · 1 · 0
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Cultural Number Systems: A Sourcebook by Karenleigh A. Overmann, 2025

This sourcebook presents an extensive look at cultural number systems in numeracy and writing systems.

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Based on a decade of research by the author, the work examines topics such as why Xerxes the First counted his army by having his men march through an enclosure big enough to hold 10,000 of them at a time, why the Hawaiian word for "twenty" means “nine and two,” why an ancient Greek mathematician was driven mad by irrational numbers, and how old counting might be and how we might know this. Along the way, the author describes topics such as dactylonomy, the ancient art of expressing and calculating numbers with the fingers; specified counting, the use of different counting sequences to count different types of objects; and the ephemeral abacus, strategies for counting that involve people and goods but not an actual device. The chapters are organized into six geographical areas (the ancient Near East, Africa, Europe, Asia/India, Oceania, and the Americas).
May 08, 2025, 06:59 · · 1 · 0
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A Big Little Life A Memoir of a Joyful Dog by Dean Koontz, 2009

In a profound, funny, and beautifully rendered portrait of a beloved companion, bestselling novelist Dean Koontz remembers the golden retriever who changed his life. A retired service dog, Trixie was three when Dean and his wife, Gerda, welcomed her into their home.

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She was superbly trained, but her greatest gifts couldn’t be taught: her keen intelligence, her innate joy, and an uncanny knack for living in the moment. Whether chasing a tennis ball or protecting those she loved, Trixie gave all she had to everything she did, inspiring Dean and Gerda to trust their instincts and recapture a sense of wonder that will remain with them always. Trixie lived fewer than twelve years; in this wide world, she was a little thing. But in every way that mattered, she lived a big life.
May 08, 2025, 03:51 · · 1 · 0

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