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- Sideways : the city Google couldn't buy / by O'Kane, Josh,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the Globe and Mail tech reporter who revealed countless controversies while following the Sidewalk Labs fiasco in Toronto, an uncompromising investigation into the bigger story and what the Google sister company's failure there reveals about Big Tech, data privacy and the monetization of everything. When former New York deputy mayor Dan Doctoroff landed in Toronto, promising a revolution in better living through technology, the locals were starstruck. In 2017 a small parcel of land on the city's woefully underdeveloped lakeshore was available for development, and with Google co-founder Larry Page and his trusted chairman Eric Schmidt leaning into Sidewalk Labs' pitch for the long-forsaken property--with Doctoroff as the urban-planning company's CEO--Sidewalk's bid crushed the competition. But as soon as the bid was won, cracks appeared in the partnership between Doctoroff's team and Waterfront Toronto, the government-sponsored organization behind the contest. There were hundreds more acres of undeveloped former port lands nearby that kept creeping into conversation with Sidewalk, and more questions were emerging than answers about how much the public would actually benefit from the Alphabet-owned company's vision for the high-tech neighbourhood--and the data it could harvest from the people living there. Alarm bells began ringing in the city's corridors of power and activism. To Torontonians accustomed to big promises with little follow-through, the fiasco that unfolded seemed at first like just another city-building sideshow. But the pained battle to reel in the power of Sidewalk Labs became a crucible moment in the worldwide battle for privacy rights and against the extension of Big Tech's digital might into the physical world around us. With extensive contacts on all sides of the debacle, O'Kane tells a story of global consequence fought over a small, forgotten parcel of mud and pavement, taking readers from California to New York to Toronto to Berlin and back again. In the tradition of extraordinary boardroom dramas like Bad Blood and Super Pumped, Sideways vividly recreates the corporate drama and epic personalities in this David-and-Goliath battle that signalled to the world that all may not be lost in the effort to contain the rapidly growing power of Big Tech"--- Subjects: Google (Firm); City planning; Data privacy; Privacy, Right of; Technology; Waterfronts; Technology;
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- To speak for the trees : my life's journey from ancient Celtic wisdom to a healing vision of the forest / by Beresford-Kroeger, Diana,1944-author.;
"Canadian botanist, biochemist and visionary Diana Beresford-Kroeger's startling insights into the hidden life of trees have already sparked a quiet revolution in how we understand our relationship to forests. Now, in a captivating account of how her life led her to these illuminating and crucial ideas, she shows us how forests can not only heal us but save the planet. When Diana Beresford-Kroeger-- whose father was a member of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy and whose mother was an O'Donoghue, one of the stronghold families who carried on the ancient Celtic traditions-- was orphaned as a child, she could have been sent to the Magdalene Laundries. Instead, the O'Donoghue elders, most of them scholars and freehold farmers in the Lisheens valley in County Cork, took her under their wing. Diana became the last ward under the Brehon Law. Over the course of three summers, she was taught the ways of the Celtic triad of mind, body and soul. This included the philosophy of healing, the laws of the trees, Brehon wisdom and the Ogham alphabet, all of it rooted in a vision of nature that saw trees and forests as fundamental to human survival and spirituality. Already a precociously gifted scholar, Diana found that her grounding in the ancient ways led her to fresh scientific concepts. Out of that huge and holistic vision have come the observations that put her at the forefront of her field: the discovery of mother trees at the heart of a forest; the fact that trees are a living library, have a chemical language and communicate in a quantum world; the major idea that trees heal living creatures through the aerosols they release and that they carry a great wealth of natural antibiotics and other healing substances; and, perhaps most significantly, that planting trees can actively regulate the atmosphere and the oceans, and even stabilize our climate. This book is not only the story of a remarkable scientist and her ideas, it harvests all of her powerful knowledge about why trees matter, and why trees are a viable, achievable solution to climate change. Diana eloquently shows us that if we can understand the intricate ways in which the health and welfare of every living creature is connected to the global forest, and strengthen those connections, we will still have time to mend the self-destructive ways that are leading to drastic fires, droughts and floods."--- Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Beresford-Kroeger, Diana, 1944-; Botanists; Biochemists; Celts; Forest ecology.; Forests and forestry; Trees; Trees;
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- Abetka / by Malkovych, Ivan.;
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- Subjects: Board books.; Alphabet books.; Ukrainian language; Ukrainian language;
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- Cuentos de letras : aprende el abecedario y sus sonidos con un cuento para cada letra / by De Sancho Soto, Sabina María.; Sempere, Javier.; Cano, Violeta.;
Las divertidas aventuras de las letras, de la A a la Z, quedan recogidas en estos 29 cuentos, uno por cada sonido del abecedario.- Subjects: Animals; Alphabet; Spanish language materials.;
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- Bukvaryk / by Zinov'i͡eva, L. O.;
3-5 rokiv.- Subjects: Picture books.; Alphabet books.; Ukrainian language; Ukrainian language; Ukrainian language materials.;
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- Nos boucles au naturel : abécédaire / by Cherry, Matthew A.; Harrison, Vashti.;
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- Subjects: Alphabet books.; Abécédaires.; Picture books.; Français (Langue); French language; Coiffures; Hairstyles; Noirs américains; African Americans; French language materials.;
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- Une soupe abracadabrante! / by Chartrand, Lili.; Battuz, Christine.;
LSC- Subjects: Histoires rimées.; Stories in rhyme.; Cuisine; Soupes; Abécédaires.; Cooking; Soups; Alphabet books.;
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- Leo con Pocoyo : un cuento para cada vocal / by Zinkia (Firm);
I Read with Pocoyo. One story for each vowel.- Subjects: Picture books.; Pocoyo (Fictitious character); Friendship; Spanish language; Reading; Alphabets; Spanish language materials.;
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- Leo con Pocoyo : un cuento para cada letra / by Zinkia (Firm);
I Read with Pocoyo. One story for each consonant.- Subjects: Picture books.; Pocoyo (Fictitious character); Friendship; Spanish language; Reading; Alphabets; Spanish language materials.;
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- Quelle créativité! : un livre pour les petits génies / by Spires, Ashley,1978-; Cavagna, Marlène.;
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- Subjects: Picture books.; Livres d'images.; Alphabet books.; Makerspaces; Inventions; Inventions; Handicraft; Artisanat; French language materials.;
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