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David W. Jones

Dear Video Reviewers of Books:

IF you review a book that uses words or language outside of what you're used to, and complain that it was "too hard to follow because I had to keep stopping the audio book to look up a word":

READ THE ACTUAL BOOK, NOT LISTEN TO AN AUDIO BOOK VERSION OF IT.

I know many of you have no discernible attention span and imagine you can multitask.

But if you can't put any thought into a book, don't blame the book for your inability to think.

Sincerely,
Me

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A History of the World in 12 Maps by Jerry Brotton, 2013

A fascinating look at twelve maps—from Ancient Greece to Google Earth—and how they changed our world

In this masterful study, historian and cartography expert Jerry Brotton explores a dozen of history's most influential maps, from stone tablet to vibrant computer screen. Starting with Ptolemy, "father of modern geography," and ending with satellite cartography,

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A History of the World in 12 Maps brings maps from classical Greece, Renaissance Europe, and the Islamic and Buddhist worlds to life and reveals their influence on how we—literally—look at our present world. As Brotton shows, the long road to our present geographical reality was rife with controversy, manipulation, and special interests trumping science. Through the centuries maps have been wielded to promote any number of imperial, religious, and economic agendas, and have represented the idiosyncratic and uneasy fusion of science and subjectivity.
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Ken Lussey

How far would you go to right a wrong? ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is a spooky adventure story for younger readers involving a two-century-old family mystery and the haunting of Dunmore Park, a ruined house in central Scotland.

The sheer size of Dunmore Park is clear from the main cellar corridor in the south range. The cellars have a key role as the story develops, both as the ruins seen here and back when the house was complete.

Find out more:
kenlussey.com/h46c/index.html

The image shows the view along the main cellar corridor running the length of the south range of the house. Tall stone walls rise on both sides, linked by overhead arches. There are dark doorways on both sides. The front cover of ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is shown in the top right corner.
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Climate Change Impacts on Toxins and Health Effects by Amal Saad-Hussein et al, 2025

This book covers the impact of global warming on environmental toxins, occupational toxins, food toxins, marine toxins and agricultural toxins. It discusses the current knowledge on the environmental and health effects of these toxins, and how these toxins could be aggravated through global warming and the worsening environmental conditions.

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Step-by-step, each chapter describes the impact of climate change on a type of the toxins and their health effects, also depicted by numerous photographs and drawings. In addition, clear flow charts aid in identifying the magnitude of the health problem among the target population. Physiology and pathology of these toxins on human body is also discussed. Further topics include the impacts of global warming on drugs and other different therapeutic medications. The book provides an outlook on adaptive measures that could be taken to minimize the toxicity of these toxins, and how to minimize the health impacts. This book assists the medical persons and environmental scientists in negotiating the steep learning curve involved in gaining the skills needed to perform predictive and therapeutic strategies for proper adaptation with climate changes, which offers significant advantages in terms of avoidance of health impact of climate change. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-96-3416-3
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Curious Loth-cat

For decades, I've been trying to identify a book I read when I was in school, in which a boy and girl take shelter from the cold inside a dead dragon (kind of like Luke and the Tauntaun), and emerge with telepathy and other dragon abilities. This scene was all I remembered. Turns out it was the second book of the Pit Dragon Chronicles, "Heart’s Blood", by Jane Yolen, which I just stumbled across and reread. Mystery finally solved!

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en.wikipedia.orgThe Pit Dragon Chronicles - Wikipedia
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