"Each season brings its own chance of furthering that dream, rendering devastation, or usually, delivering a dose of both." —Lindsey Liles for Garden & Gun
https://longreads.com/2025/03/13/inside-the-fight-to-save-theworlds-most-endangered-wolf/
"Each season brings its own chance of furthering that dream, rendering devastation, or usually, delivering a dose of both." —Lindsey Liles for Garden & Gun
https://longreads.com/2025/03/13/inside-the-fight-to-save-theworlds-most-endangered-wolf/
Today in Labor History March 12, 1928: The St. Francis Dam failed in Los Angeles, California, killing 431 people. It is the second deadliest disaster in California, after the 1906 earthquake, and one of the worst U.S. civil engineering disasters ever. A defective foundation and design flaws caused the failure. Yet, the inquest absolved chief engineer, William Mulholland, of all criminal responsibility, and he continued to earn a salary from the Bureau of Public Works (though his career was effectively ended). The authorities continued to find the remains of victims of the flood until the mid-1950s. Many of the victims were washed out to sea. Some washed ashore as far south as Mexico. Mulholland was also the designer of the 233-mile Los Angeles Aqueduct, which sucks water from the Owens Valley and is a major cause of the depletion of the fragile Mono Lake. As its water levels continues to decline, it threatens the world’s second largest gull rookery, home to up to 50,000 birds. The aqueduct’s construction, and the shady methods Mulholland used to acquire the water rights, led to the California Water Wars between L.A. County and Owens Valley farmers. Many of those same Anglo farmers (or their predecessors) usurped the land from Piute people during the 1863 Owens Valley Indian War, which was precipitated, in part, by the vast loss of human and cattle lives, and the displacements, caused by the Megaflood of 1861, which inundated much of the West, from Idaho and Oregon, down to northern Baja California. The corruption related to the construction of the aqueduct has been portrayed in the film Chinatown, and in the nonfiction book, “Cadillac Desert.”
For more on the Megaflood of 1861, please read my article, “Worse Than the Big One”: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2023/01/04/worse-than-the-big-one-californias-coming-megaflood-2/
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Bipolar Depression
Molecular Neurobiology, Clinical Diagnosis, and Pharmacotherapy
By Carlos A. Zarate Jr. (Editor), Husseini K. Manji (Editor), 2018
This book brings together mental health professionals and researchers to offer the most up-to-date information on the diagnosis, treatment, and research surrounding bipolar depression.
Digital Forensic by Nilakshi Jain, 2019
This book is for those who desire to learn more about investigating and fighting digital crimes. It covers latest challenges faced in digital forensic like email forensic, mobile forensic and cloud forensic. It also sequentially explains disk forensic, network forensic, memory forensic, mobile forensic and cloud forensic.
Encyclopedia of Green Materials by Chinnappan Baskar et al, 2025
Encyclopedia of Green Materials covers comprehensive overview, recent research and development of Green Materials and Green Nanomaterials, and their applications in all areas, including electronics, sensors, textiles, biomedical, energy and energy storage, building constructions and interiors design, automotive, green plastic manufacturing, food packing
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"How Sheridan creates these worlds complements the theme of one brave man — occasionally, a woman — taking on the malignant forces hell-bent on destroying this country." —Stephen Rodrick for Rolling Stone
https://longreads.com/2025/03/11/its-taylor-sheridans-world-were-just-watching-it/
Reading now: After the Flying Saucers Came. Such a flowing history of UFOs in culture. Easy to read, engaging, thoughtful. #nonfiction #paranormal #popculture #UFO #UAP
**Aramaic: Lingua Franca, Koine, or Both?**
_”The study investigates the historical roles of Aramaic as both a lingua franca and a koine, examining its development and usage across various periods. It identifies three main contexts: as the administrative and diplomatic language of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, as the religious and scholarly language of Jewish communities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and as the liturgical and literary language of Syriac Christianity.”
Healey, J. (2025) 'Aramaic: lingua franca, koine, or both?,' in Open Book Publishers, pp. 771–796. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0463.28.
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I know in the past I've posted a lot about reading nonfiction but it turns out I prefer reading fiction.
The nonfiction I read tends to be depressing and enraging because I read about history and politics (humans haven't changed at all over centuries).
So I end up reading fiction to help me chill out and recover from the exhausting nonfiction.
**Viking History: Book Recommendations!**
Michael Kist
#Video length: eleven minutes and three seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9xg200wQvw
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Coping with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) by Mary Jordan, 2020
Adults are being increasingly diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), and this book provides strategies for concerned individuals to help slow the onset of the condition. Around 50% of adults with MCI go on to develop dementia, but research shows that self-help through early intervention and preventative measures can hugely slow this down.
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How to Astronaut An Insider's Guide to Leaving Planet Earth by Terry Virts, 2020
This book is a collection of essays, each one on a different subject related to spaceflight. Some short, some long. Some technical, some emotional. Some fact-based, and some purely speculative. Some funny, some tragic. All are written with two goals in mind: to make you laugh, and to make you say, “Wow!” Often.
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Happy Wool Felt Animals by Makiko Arai
Craft a menagerie of miniature animals from simple materials! Author Makiko Arai's easy felting techniques are perfect for beginners or anyone who enjoys a relaxing handcraft. With a little wool roving and a felting needle in hand, you'll get step-by-step instructions to make 30 fuzzy friends, with a focus on shaping, color, and texture.
Handbook on Building Cultures of Peace by Joseph de Rivera, 2008
Mediation and negotiation, personal transformation, non-violent struggle in the community and the world: these behaviors – and their underlying values – underpin the United Nations’ definition of a culture of peace, and are crucial to the creation of such a culture.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321550377_Handbook_on_Building_Cultures_of_Peace
Fashion, Costume and Culture, volumes 1-5
https://archive.org/details/fashioncostumecu0000pend
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The 100 A Ranking Of Most Influential People In History by Michael H. Hart, 2004
Hart's yardstick is influence- not the greatest people, but the most influential, the people who swayed the destinies of millions of human beings, determined the rise and fall of civilizations, changed the course of history. With incisive biographies, Hart describes their careers and contributions.
i never thought i’d enjoy a book on debt, but here we are!
in 'the paradox of debt' richard vague argues that government debt acts as a wealth creator for private households —backing it up with historical data and global comparisons. it’s clear, thought-provoking, and surprisingly engaging. if you’re interested in economics, finance, or policy, this one’s worth your time!
full review: https://idealistatheart.com/the-paradox-of-debt-by-richard-vague/
Morality and Self-Interest Edited by Paul Bloomfield, 2007
Ever since "Know Thyself" was inscribed at Delphi, Western philosophers have struggled to understand the relations between morality and self-interest. This edited volume of essays pushes forward one of the oldest and most important debates in philosophy. Is morality a check on self-interest or is it in one's self interest to be moral?
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Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present by Nicholas J. Cull et al, 2003
A truly international, authoritative A–Z guide to five centuries of propaganda, in both wartime and peacetime, which covers key moments, techniques, concepts, and some of the most influential propagandists in history.
https://archive.org/details/propagandamasspe0000cull
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