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This Grandpa BlogsThisGrandpaBlogs
2025-11-25

"O Jerusalem!" is a masterpiece of narrative history. It makes the past feel immediate and deeply personal.

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This Grandpa BlogsThisGrandpaBlogs
2025-11-25

Before Silicon Valley billionaires, there were MIT students obsessed with code. Discover the true roots of the computer revolution.

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earthlingappassionato
2025-11-25

Sentient by Jackie Higgins, 2022

How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses

Perfect for fans of The Soul of an Octopus and The Genius of Birds, this revelatory book explores how we process the world around us through the lens of the incredible sensory capabilities of thirteen animals, revealing that we are not limited to merely five senses.





There is a scientific revolution stirring in the field of human perception. Research has shown that the extraordinary sensory powers of our animal friends can help us better understand the same powers that lie dormant within us. From the harlequin mantis shrimp with its ability to see a vast range of colors, to the bloodhound and its hundreds of millions of scent receptors; from the orb-weaving spider whose eyes recognize not only space but time, to the cheetah whose ears are responsible for its perfect agility, these astonishing animals hold the key to better understanding how we make sense of the world around us. “An appealingly written, enlightening, and sometimes eerie journey into the extraordinary possibilities for the human senses” ( Kirkus Reviews , starred), Sentient will change the way you look at humanity.
earthlingappassionato
2025-11-25

Handbook of Nature-Based Solutions to Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change by Gustavo J. Nagy et al, 2023

Over recent years, nature-based solutions (NbS) have gained popularity as tools to ameliorate the effects of climate change, while slowing down the global warming process. More specifically, the potential of NbS has been explored in terms of meeting greenhouse gas emissions targets, and fostering climate change adaptation.





NbS are methods that use and enhance nature to improve social and environmental challenges. They involve several multifaceted actions, that work sustainably to restore and protect the natural environment while helping people. Therefore, these solutions are useful in climate change adaptation and mitigation. There are 3 main areas which NbS may target, namely reducing exposure, reducing sensitivity, and supporting adaptive capacity.
earthlingappassionato
2025-11-25

The Inpatient Medicine Handbook: A Concise, Visual Guide to Clinical Decision-Making by Masahiro J Morikawa, 2025

This is an inpatient medicine book for those residents and medical students rotating to inpatient medicine for adults. Its main goal is to provide meaningful teaching without compromising the quality of patient care.








By aiming to do this, it provides a succinct demonstration of ideas to deal with common medical conditions encountered on the adult inpatient medicine floor. The flow of ideas and procedures is detailed in a simplified way to guide learners to master the essence of each medical condition. Inpatient Medicine Handbook is organized into four specific sections. The first one is titled fundamentals and includes chapters on basic medical knowledge not specifically linked to a specialty. Some of these chapters include acid-base interpretation, minerals, fluid, nutrition, anemia and substance abuse. The second section focuses on a variety of surgical topics such as perioperative medicine, vascular medicine and transplant medicine. The third and largest section discusses essential topics that are the most common problems encountered in inpatient medicine. These include inpatient dermatology, acute pancreatitis, pneumonia, COPD and epilepsy, among others. The book ends with essential formulas and vocabularies needed to treat patients. Each chapter includes a flowchart to help guide the user in their care.
earthlingappassionato
2025-11-25

Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers by Joseph Mazur, 2024

While all of us regularly use basic math symbols such as those for plus, minus, and equals, few of us know that many of these symbols weren't available before the sixteenth century. What did mathematicians rely on for their work before then? And how did mathematical notations evolve into what we know today?






In Enlightening Symbols, popular math writer Joseph Mazur explains the fascinating history behind the development of our mathematical notation system. Traversing mathematical history and the foundations of numerals in different cultures, Mazur looks at how historians have disagreed over the origins of the numerical system for the past two centuries. He follows the transfigurations of algebra from a rhetorical style to a symbolic one, demonstrating that most algebra before the sixteenth century was written in prose or in verse employing the written names of numerals. Mazur also investigates the subconscious and psychological effects that mathematical symbols have had on mathematical thought, moods, meaning, communication, and comprehension. He considers how these symbols influence us, how they lead to new ideas by subconscious associations, how they make connections between experience and the unknown, and how they contribute to the communication of basic mathematics From words to abbreviations to symbols, this entertaining history shows how math evolved to the familiar forms we use today. "An enjoyable read. " — Science "If you enjoy reading about history, languages and science, then you'll enjoy this book. . . . you don't have to be a mathematician to enjoy this informative book. " — Guardian.com's, GrrlScientist "Fascinating."
earthlingappassionato
2025-11-25

If Russia Wins A Scenario by Carlo Masala, 2025

March 2028: Russian troops capture the small Estonian town of Narva and the island of Hiiumaa in the Baltic Sea. After victory in Ukraine, Putin's long-mooted encroachment into the Baltic states has begun. Europe's slow rearmament and its compromised military and intelligence capabilities is now clear for its enemies to exploit. Does Article 5 of NATO apply? What will the alliance decide?






In If Russia Wins, military expert and Professor of International Relations at the University of Munich, Carlo Masala explores these questions and underlines what is at stake in Ukraine in the starkest possible terms. For those of us who have only ever known peace, we are accustomed to everything turning out well in the end. But what if it doesn't? Translated from the German by Olena Ebel and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp.
This Grandpa BlogsThisGrandpaBlogs
2025-11-24

The Munich Olympics massacre was a global tragedy. This book details the deadly response it triggered from Israeli agents.

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This Grandpa BlogsThisGrandpaBlogs
2025-11-24

Before the iPhone, there was NeXT and Pixar. Discover the crucial, lesser-known chapter of Steve Jobs' career.

thisgrandpablogs.com/steve-job

Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋bibliolater@qoto.org
2025-11-24

📖 **Why the World Keeps Making New Joans of Arc and Why that Matters**

"_The Joans of Arc phenomenon is ultimately a story about how we use the medieval past to tell modern stories about gender, heroism, race, and nationhood._"

🔗 arc-humanities.org/blog/2025/1.

#Nonfiction #Medieval #History #Books

#Image attribution: Paul Dubois, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil.

"Equestrian statue of Joan of Arc, by Paul Dubois, Saint-Augustin square, Paris."
Arpad Nagyarpad56nagy@me.dm
2025-11-24

Through thick and thin, she's the pretty face who's never given up and made this marriage feel like a win.
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#marriage #marriedlife #family #memoir #personalessay #Nonfiction #writingcommunity #writer #writerslife #lovestory

Williamwm@mast.wmclark.com
2025-11-24

James Patterson Is Pretty Sure Marilyn Monroe Was Murdered #books #publishing #biography #nonfiction hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyl

ArchaeolibrarianArchaeolibrarian
2025-11-24

When medicine fails and motherhood remains, one woman discovers how to rebuild a life from the quiet edges of grief. 💔

Today’s showcase features The Still Point by Anuradha — a beautifully written, deeply reflective that explores loss, healing, and the strength found in stillness. A powerful piece of for anyone who appreciates emotional honesty and quiet resilience.

Read the full post here archaeolibrarian.wixsite.com/w

earthlingappassionato
2025-11-24

The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction by Leofranc Holford-Strevens, 2005

Why do we measure time in the way that we do? Why is a week seven days long? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being? Why are some calendars lunar and some solar? The organisation of time into hours, days, months and years seems immutable and universal, but is actually far more artificial than most people realise.



The French Revolution resulted in a restructuring of the French calendar, and the Soviet Union experimented with five and then six-day weeks. Leofranc Holford-Strevens explores these questions using a range of fascinating examples from Ancient Rome and Julius Caesar's imposition of the Leap Year, to the 1920s' project for a fixed Easter.
Luke: grue foddercaptainfez@aus.social
2025-11-24

2025 book seventy-five: Bryan Burrough and John Helyar: Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #bookstodon #nonfiction #business #bryanburrough #johnhelyar #audiobook

An image of the book cover for "Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco" by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. The cover features a bold red background with white text and includes a subtitle that indicates it was a New York Times bestseller.
This Grandpa BlogsThisGrandpaBlogs
2025-11-23

Dive into the mission that changed history. This insider account claims to tell the real story. A must-read for history buffs.

thisgrandpablogs.com/bin-laden

MikeDunnAuthorMikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social
2025-11-23

Today in Labor History November 23, 1644: At the height of the English Civil War, John Milton published an anti-censorship pamphlet, “Areopagitica.” He had been censored several times, particularly in his attempts to defend divorce, a radical idea in those days. He anonymously published “The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce” (1643), which was condemned by the Puritan clergy as heretical and supportive of sexual libertinism.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #FreeSpeech #censorship #liberalism #divorce #sexuality #CivilWar #books #writer #author #milton #fiction #nonfiction @bookstadon

Cover of Milton's "The Divorce Tracts"
earthlingappassionato
2025-11-23

A Very Brief History of Eternity by Carlos Eire, 2010

What is eternity? Is it anything other than a purely abstract concept, totally unrelated to our lives? A mere hope? A frightfully uncertain horizon? Or is it a certainty, shared by priest and scientist alike, and an essential element in all human relations?

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In A Very Brief History of Eternity, Carlos Eire, the historian and National Book Award–winning author of Waiting for Snow in Havana, has written a brilliant history of eternity in Western culture. Tracing the idea from ancient times to the present, Eire examines the rise and fall of five different conceptions of eternity, exploring how they developed and how they have helped shape individual and collective self-understanding. A book about lived beliefs and their relationship to social and political realities, A Very Brief History of Eternity is also about unbelief, and the tangled and often rancorous relation between faith and reason. Its subject is the largest subject of all, one that has taxed minds great and small for centuries, and will forever be of human interest, intellectually, spiritually, and viscerally.
earthlingappassionato
2025-11-23

Encyclopedia of Time.

Science, Philosophy, Theology & Culture

Surveying the major facts, concepts, theories, and speculations that infuse our present comprehension of time, the Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture explores the contributions of scientists, philosophers, theologians, and creative artists from ancient times to the present.

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By drawing together into one collection ideas from scholars around the globe and in a wide range of disciplines, this Encyclopedia will provide readers with a greater understanding of and appreciation for the elusive phenomenon experienced as time. Features Surveys historical thought about time, including those ideas that emerged in ancient Greece, early Christianity, the Italian Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment, and other periods Covers the original and lasting insights of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin, physicist Albert Einstein, philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, and theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Discusses the significance of time in the writings of Isaac Asimov, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Francesco Petrarch, H. G. Wells, and numerous other authors Contains the contributions of naturalists and religionists, including astronomers, cosmologists, physicists, chemists, geologists, paleontologists, anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers, and theologians Includes artists' portrayals of the fluidity of time, including painter Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory and The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, and writers Gustave Flaubert's The Temptation of Saint Anthony and Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis Provides a truly interdisciplinary approach, with discussions of Aztec, Buddhist, Christian, Egyptian, Ethiopian, Hindu, Islamic, Navajo, and many other cultures' conceptions of time
earthlingappassionato
2025-11-23

From Eternity to Here by Sean M. Carroll, 2010

The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
A rising star in theoretical physics offers his awesome vision of our universe and beyond, all beginning with a simple question: Why does time move forward? Time moves forward, not backward—everyone knows you can't unscramble an egg.




In the hands of one of today's hottest young physicists, that simple fact of breakfast becomes a doorway to understanding the Big Bang, the universe, and other universes, too. In From Eternity to Here, Sean Carroll argues that the arrow of time, pointing resolutely from the past to the future, owes its existence to conditions before the Big Bang itself— a period modern cosmology of which Einstein never dreamed. Increasingly, though, physicists are going out into realms that make the theory of relativity seem like child's play. Carroll's scenario is not only elegant, it's laid out in the same easy-to- understand language that has made his group blog, Cosmic Variance, the most popular physics blog on the Net. From Eternity to Here uses ideas at the cutting edge of theoretical physics to explore how properties of spacetime before the Big Bang can explain the flow of time we experience in our everyday lives. Carroll suggests that we live in a baby universe, part of a large family of universes in which many of our siblings experience an arrow of time running in the opposite direction. It's an ambitious, fascinating picture of the universe on an ultra-large scale, one that will captivate fans of popular physics blockbusters like Elegant Universe and A Brief History of Time.

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