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BUILT FROM BURGERS is a clear, sharp, and wildly listenable walkthrough of how life actually works. From DNA to digestion, from cell division to consciousness. No fluff. No filler. Just the full biological blueprint of you, explained molecule by molecule. This isn’t a textbook. It’s a systems manual. Inside, you’ll learn how your body builds itself from atoms, why proteins do everything, how cells specialize, how your brain talks to your gut, and what happens when it all breaks down.

This book introduces the Anthropic-Independent Reality Index, a conceptual framework designed to assess the degree to which ideas are shaped — or distorted — by evolved cognitive structures. Drawing on insights from evolutionary epistemology, cognitive neuroscience, and the philosophy of science, the index offers a non-utilitarian scale for measuring the ontological independence of a concept from the adaptive biases of the human mind.

In Brain Hacks, you won't find another overwhelming list of 500 obvious tips. Instead, you'll discover a curated set of powerful, often counter-intuitive productivity hacks, each one backed by surprising and simple explanations from neuroscience. This book is the user's manual for your mind that you were never given.

Long praised as the pinnacle of political progress, democracy is often wrapped in symbols of freedom, choice, and justice. Yet beneath its familiar rituals lies a system vulnerable to manipulation, co-opted by hidden powers, and sustained by illusions more than truths. This book challenges the comforting narratives that shield modern democracies from scrutiny. It explores how institutions built to serve the people can be quietly steered by elites, how media and technology mask control with noise, and how conformity, not violence, becomes the most effective tool of domination.

From fire to fallout, potions to polymers — this is the story of how we figured out what everything is made of. Chemistry 101 isn’t your high school textbook. It’s a walkthrough of how humans turned mystery into mastery. You’ll meet alchemists chasing gold, scientists splitting atoms, and modern chemists designing synthetic realities out of carbon and code. Packed with stories, structure, and the messy human drive to mix, burn, and bottle the universe, this book walks you through the wild history of reactions — from ancient smelting pits to lab-grown meat and CRISPR edits.

This book isn't about perfection. It's about reclaiming your body, spirit, and piece — one breath, one sip, one honest truth at a time. Written during a time of deep recovery and transformation, Balanced Body, Nourished Soul is part guide, part emotional journey. It invites you to reconnect with your body through simple, powerful, movement. To hydrate not just with water, but with purpose. And to listen to the wisdom your soul's been whispering all along.

Thanksgiving is one of America’s oldest traditions — but the story we tell about it is mostly myth. Thanks, But No Thanks walks through the real origins of the holiday, from the Indigenous nations who lived here long before the Pilgrims arrived, to the 1621 harvest feast, to the centuries of change that shaped Thanksgiving into what it is today. Along the way, it explores the wars, treaties, proclamations, school plays, family rituals, and cultural rewrites that turned a single event into a national tradition.

Are you a nursing student struggling with dosage calculations? You're not alone — and you don't have to be overwhelmed anymore. Concise Notes on Dosage Calculations for Nursing Students is your shortcut to understanding the most essential math skills you need to pass exams, ace clinicals, and succeed on the NCLEX-RN - all without wasting hours on fluff. This high-yield crash course is designed specifically for busy nursing students who want maximum results with minimal time.

For centuries, college was a temple — a place of ideas, inquiry, and dusty robes. But somewhere between the monastery and the marketing department, something changed. In Campus, Inc., JJ takes listeners on a sly, engaging journey through the history of higher education. From theology lectures in medieval Europe to stadium-sized campuses with climbing walls and billion-dollar football programs, this is the story of how college became a business — and how success got sold, one loan at a time. This isn’t a takedown. It’s a timeline.

He wasn’t just the man who discovered gravity. He was the man who tried to measure God. Isaac Newton is often remembered as the cold genius who sat under an apple tree and changed the world with a single thought. But the truth is far stranger — and far more human. Heaven’s Codebreaker peels back the myth to reveal the obsessive, secretive, visionary mind behind modern science.

A pacifist in a time of drafts, an exile in a time of war, a young man once fled with nothing but a tea tin of memories. From those scraps was born the Plushling Bear—a soft, absurd creature wandering through grotesque landscapes where bottles are empty, folk devour themselves, and the gentle are always hunted. This is no ordinary fable. It is an adolescent tale stitched from childhood images: scraps of paper, torn toys, grandmother’s voice, lemon-juice tears.

I used to believe perfection was the key to happiness — until it nearly broke me. I chased the perfect job, the perfect relationship, the perfect version of myself… and still felt like I wasn’t enough. Every flaw felt like failure. Every mistake felt like proof of unworthiness. Burned out and drained, everything changed when I discovered Embrace Imperfection by Jack Cator.

Your heart hammers before a presentation. Your stomach twists into knots at a party. Your mind races with a thousand "what-ifs" when the lights go out. You’ve been told to "just calm down" or "think positive," but that advice feels impossible and just makes you feel worse. It can feel like you’re fighting a losing battle against your own brain, and you’re tired of the struggle. But what if anxiety isn't a character flaw? What if it's just a faulty alarm system you were never given the owner's manual for? This book is that manual.

What if the stars were no longer far away? In this sweeping exploration of a future without distance, this book asks what would happen if humanity could step from world to world as easily as crossing a room. From the first leap beyond Earth to the governance of civilizations scattered across the galaxy, it traces the promises, perils, and moral dilemmas of a universe suddenly within reach.