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The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft
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This concise and accessible textbook introduces students to the anthropological study of religion. It examines religious expression from a cross-cultural perspective and exposes students to the complexities of religion in small-scale and complex societies.
Encyclopedia of Business and Finance
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This encyclopedia covers five general areas: finance and banking; accounting; marketing; management; and information systems. Drawing on practical professional expertise as well as that of noted scholars, the contributors include executives, government administrators and scholars from leading business programs from around the United States.
Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses
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Delivers everything you need to administer medications safely across the lifespan—well-organized monographs encompassing hundreds of generic drugs and thousands of trade names. It's the #1 Drug Guide for patient safety.
The Cheyenne Way: Conflict and Case Law in Primitive Jurisprudence
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The Cheyenne Indians, in sharp contrast to other Plains tribes, are renowned for the clear sense of form and structure in their institutions. This cultural trait, together with the colorful background of the Cheyenne, attracted the unique collaboration of a legal theorist and an anthropologist, who, in this volume, provide a definitive picture of the law-ways of a primitive, nonliterate people. This foundational study of primitive law presents the folkways in law of the Cheyenne through the technique of the American case lawyer, adjusted to the requirements of the anthropologist with his scientific understanding of human behavior and realistic sociology.
The Nineties
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The '90s brought about a revolution in the human condition, and a shift in consciousness, that we're still struggling to understand. Happily, Chuck Klosterman is more than up to the job. In The Nineties, Klosterman dissects the film, the music, the sports, the TV, the pre-9/11 politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality, the yin/yang of Oprah and Alan Greenspan, and (almost) everything else. The result is a multidimensional masterpiece, a work of synthesis so smart and delightful that future historians might well refer to this entire period as Klostermanian.
The works of William Sanders Scarborough : Black classicist and race leader
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Although unknown to classicists today, Scarborough had a distinguished career in the field and held membership in many learned societies and had an active publication record. His life as an engaged intellectual, public citizen, and concerned educator was admired and emulated by W. E. B. Du Bois. This collection, which spans a half a century from the end of Reconstruction through the vagaries of World War I and the rise of Jim Crow, gives us window we have not had before into the challenges and ambiguities of this period. As a committed intellectual, concerned educator and loyal citizen, he served as an ambassador to and for his race to several generations of people both in the U.S and abroad. In Scarborough's writings we have a portrait of a man whose struggle for physical and intellectual freedom can inform us all.
Jasmine
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When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world. In just a few years, Jasmine becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, happily pregnant by a middle-aged Iowa banker and the adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee. Jasmine's metamorphosis, with its shocking upheavals and its slow evolutionary steps, illuminates the making of an American mind; but even more powerfully, her story depicts the shifting contours of an America being transformed by her and others like her -- our new neighbors, friends, and lovers. In Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee has created a heroine as exotic and unexpected as the many worlds in which she lives.
An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis
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It remains the most accessible and authoritative introduction to philosophy available using the full power of the problem-based approach to the area to ensure that philosophy is not simply taught to students but practised by them.
Encyclopedia of Climate Change
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This set explores climate change from the perspectives of both environmental science and society. It provides comprehensive coverage of scientific terms and concepts, as well as political organizations, geography, social concepts, specific individuals, private associations, and laws.
Criminal Investigation 12E
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This edition of Criminal Investigation introduces established tools, practices and policies while detailing the latest innovations in investigative technology and science today. The authors clearly demonstrate techniques and practical applications using a proven, reader-friendly presentation. The latest discussions introduce advancements in DNA evidence, incident review and solvability factors, terrorism and homeland security, electronic data searches, new case law, forensics and physical evidence, use of body cameras, and ethics as well as increasing standards of proof for stop versus search and arrest versus conviction.
Criminal Justice in America
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The criminal justice system -- Crime and crime causation -- Criminal justice and the rule of law -- Police -- Policing : contemporary issues and challenges -- Police and law -- Courts and adjudication -- Pretrial procedures, plea bargaining, and the criminal trial -- Punishment and sentencing -- Corrections -- Incarceration and prison society -- Probation and intermediate sanctions -- Reentry into the community -- Juvenile justice -- Current challenges in criminal justice
Juvenile Justice
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Gain a practical and comprehensive understanding of the juvenile justice system with Juvenile Justice, Sixth Edition. Highly accessible and reader friendly, this book explores various programs and processes that exist in today's juvenile justice system, including prevention efforts through school and community-based programs. The Sixth edition provides a new emphasis on evidence-based practice and other cutting-edge issues such as cyberbullying, school violence, female delinquency, and more.
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to find the Good Death
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Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. Doughty vividly describes decomposed bodies and investigates the world's funerary history. She argues that the expensive, impersonal American system fosters a corrosive fear of death that hinders our ability to cope and mourn. By comparing customs, she demonstrates that mourners everywhere respond best when they help care for the deceased, and have space to participate in the process. Illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a story about the many fascinating ways people everywhere have confronted the very human challenge of mortality.
Financial and Managerial Accounting 16E
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Provide a strong foundation in business and accounting with Warren/Jones/Tayler’s FINANCIAL AND MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING, 16E. This edition presents all journal entries with accompanying T-accounts that show debit and credit postings to emphasize the impact of the journal entry on the accounting equation and financial statements. New data analytics examples and cases use data sets related to each chapter's content. New content demonstrates how to analyze and develop reports using Excel and Tableau.
Keyboarding and Word Processing: Complete Course Lessons 1-110
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This comprehensive learning package integrates keyboarding, essential and advanced word processing, document formatting and design, and communication skills within a single text, along with a strong emphasis on honing skills by completing projects in a realistic office environment. Using Microsoft® Word 2016, you will format advanced business correspondence, tables, reports, mail merge files, graphics, and a broad range of common document types, including meeting, travel, news, legal, medical, and human resources/employment.
Naturally Inclusive: Engaging Children of All Abilities Outdoors
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In this inspiring book, Dr. Ruth Wilson explores the great potential of connecting young children with special needs to the natural world. Drawing on her knowledge of research and her decades of work with children in nature, she weaves together advice, real-life examples, and testimonies from educators and families on the healing, nurturing power of nature in the lives of young children with diverse abilities.
Web Project Management: Delivering Successful Commercial Web Sites
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Web Project Management presents a solid Web project management method for building commercial Web sites. Developed by pres.co, a leading interactive agency, this refined eight-stage approach lets you closely manage your Web project's contributors, quality, costs, and schedules. The book also details how to define, measure, and understand your project's status on an ongoing basis - invaluable to the success of any project. This book is an indispensable resource, whether you are a project manager, online manager, Web director, consultant, or producer.
Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured
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Offers complete coverage of every competency statement with clarity and precision in a concise format that ensures students' comprehension and encourages critical thinking. New cognitive and didactic material is presented, along with new skills and features, to create a robust and innovative EMT training solution.
Hartman's Nursing Assistant Care
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Within Hartman's Nursing Assistant Care: Long-Term Care, you'll find clearly written care guidelines for working in long-term care, including OBRA requirements and state regulations. The textbook and accompanying workbook, instructor's guide, and online videos emphasize the importance of observing and reporting and providing person-centered, professional care.
The language of medicine
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Centering on learning medical terms by studying them in the context of the human body this highly praised, bestselling text helps you easily understand and remember imporant medical terminology by incorporating easy-to-follow explanations, relevant examples and countless reinforcement exercises. no matter where your career path takes you, Cabner's proven method for med term mastery will prepare you for success.
Nutrition basics : an active approach
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A basic overview of nutrition that explores the relationship between nutrition and physiology. Students will receive a “behind the scenes” examination of health and disease in the body, while examining some popular myths about nutrition. The authors discuss how to develop a foundation for making smart dietary choices as they discuss relevant topics such as dietary guidelines, nutrient density, the impact of nutrients on all aspects of health, and more.
Understanding food : principles and preparation
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Thoroughly explores the science of food through core material on food selection and evaluation, food safety and food chemistry. It is ideal for an undergraduate course that covers the basic elements of food preparation, food service and food science.
Workbook for Hartman's Nursing Assistant Care: Long-Term Care
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This workbook is designed to help students review what they have learned from reading the textbook (Hartman’s Nursing Assistant Care: Long-Term Care 5e). It is organized around learning objectives, which work like a built-in study guide. Multiple choice questions, crosswords, true/false statements, critical thinking scenarios, and other activities test the student's knowledge of the textbook’s 24 chapters. A skills checklist and practice certification exam are located at the end of the workbook.
The West in the World: A History of Western Civilization
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The West in the World, Fifth Edition, prompts students to take an active, analytical approach to understanding history and historical change. Readers will come to appreciate that history does not happen in isolation but rather is the consequence of a complex set of intersecting events, forces, and human actions among which there are cause-and-effect links that extend into the present day. As it compellingly tells the story of Western civilization, The West in the World encourages a critical examination and analysis of major events and themes. The fifth edition retains the medium length of previous editions, long enough to present a comprehensive, rich narrative but concise enough to give instructors the flexibility to supplement reading with other sources and books.
The Western Heritage
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The Western Heritage provides the broadest possible introduction to Western civilization in a strong, clear narrative. It fosters lively debate about the West, defines how the West has interacted with other cultures, and shows how Western civilization can be used to understand global challenges today.
The Complete Stories
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There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Taken together, these stories reveal a lively, penetrating talent that has given us some of the most powerful and disturbing fiction of the twentieth century.
The Norton Anthology of World Literature
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Contains new translations, such as Emily Wilson's Iliad and Kimi Traube's Don Quixote, an entirely new feature called Translation Lab, and newly refreshed clusters throughout on themes such as storytelling and travel ensure that diverse foundational texts will speak to today's readers in new ways.
The Norton Anthology of World Literature [3 volumes]
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Volume A. Part I. Ancient Mediterranean and near Eastern literature -- Part II. South Asian literature -- Part III. Early Chinese literature -- Volume B. Part I. Medieval China -- Part II. Japan's classical age -- Part III. India's classical age -- Part IV. Circling the Mediterranean: Europe and the Islamic world -- Volume C. Part I. Encounters with Islam -- Part II. Europe and the new world.
Precalculus: Mathematics for Calculus
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This updated edition of Precalculus: Mathematics for Calculus introduces both problem solving and mathematical modeling early and emphasizes these principles throughout. Practical applications and reinforcement provide your students with a solid foundation in the principles behind mathematical thinking. Comprehensive and evenly paced, this latest edition provides complete coverage of the function concept and integrates a significant amount of graphing technology to help students develop insights into mathematical ideas.
Intermediate Algebra
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The first edition of Marge Lial's Intermediate Algebra was published in 1972, and now we are pleased to present the 14th edition-with the same successful, well-rounded framework that was established 50 years ago and updated to meet the needs of today's students and professors.
Popular Music in America: The Beat Goes On
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Michael Campbell's best-selling Popular Music In America remains the industry standard in breadth of coverage, readability, and musical focus. The text provides a rich account of the evolution of popular music from the mid-19th century to the present.
The Moral of the Story
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Like the previous editions of The Moral of the Story, the ninth edition is a combination of classical questions in ethical theory and contemporary issues. The general concept remains the same: that discussions about moral issues can be facilitated using stories as examples, as a form of ethics lab where solutions can be tried out under controlled conditions.
Life-Span Development
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This edition of Life-Span Development provides extensive learning connections throughout the chapters. The learning system connects the chapter opening outline, learning goals for the chapter, mini-chapter maps that open each main section of the chapter, Review Connect, and Reflect questions at the end of each main section, and the chapter summary at the end of each chapter. In this edition, real-life connections are explicitly made through the chapter opening vignette, Connecting Development to Life, the Milestones program that helps students watch life as it unfolds, and Connecting with Careers.
Campbell Biology 10E
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Develop a deeper understanding of biology by making connections visually across chapters and building the scientific skills needed for success in upper-level courses. New Make Connections Figures pull together content from different chapters visually, helping you see "big picture" relationships. New Scientific Skills Exercises in every chapter use real data to build key skills needed for biology, including data analysis, graphing, experimental design, and math skills. New Scientific Skills Exercises in every chapter use real data to build key skills needed for biology, including data analysis, graphing, experimental design, and math skills.
Microbiology: An Introduction
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An engaging and clear approach to learning complex microbiology topics and theory Praised for its exceptionally clear presentation of complex topics, this #1-selling text for microbiology non-majors provides a careful balance of concepts and applications, proven art that teaches and the most robust, dynamic media in Mastering Microbiology. The text and accompanying resources help students make connections between microbiology theory and disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
The Neuroscience of Addiction
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This book answers a growing need for accessible information on the neuroscience of addiction. In the past decade neuroscientific research has greatly advanced our understanding of the brain mechanisms of addiction, however this information still remains largely confined to scientific outlets. As legislation continues to evolve and the stigma surrounding addiction persists, new findings on the impact of substances on the brain are an important public health issue. Francesca Filbey gives readers an overview of research on addiction including classic theories as well as current neuroscientific studies.
The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime
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While the success of national and international law enforcement cooperation to suppress organized crime means that stable, large-scale criminal organizations like the Cosa Nostra or the Japanese Yakuza have seen their power reduced, organized crime remains a concern for many governments. Economic globalization and the easing of restrictions on exchanges across borders now provide ample opportunity for money-making activities in illegal markets. Policies designed to stop illegal market flows often shift these activities to new places or create new problems, as the U.S.- led war on drugs spread production and trafficking to a number South and Central American countries. The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime provides informed, authoritative, and comprehensive overviews of these issues and other principal forms of organized crime, as well as the type and effectiveness of efforts to prevent and control them.
PELLETB Test Prep California
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Written by Test Prep Books, this comprehensive study guide includes a quick overview, test-taking strategies, introduction, clarity, spelling, vocabulary, reading comprehension, cloze tests, reasoning, practice questions, and detailed answer explanations.
Police Officer Exam Study Guide 2023-2024
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Trivium Test Prep's Police Officer Exam Study Guide includes everything you need to pass your local or departmental police exam the first time.
Understanding Domestic Violence: Theories, Challenges, and Remedies
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Understanding Domestic Violence not only highlights and reexamines the different challenges that we continue to face in effectively addressing issues of domestic violence but provides innovated approaches to interventions that are more in keeping with the complex nature of domestic violence. This book provides a comprehensive and multifaceted examination of conditions and factors involved in domestic violence, including psychological, sociocultural, sociopolitical, and socioeconomic issues.
Violent Offenders: Appraising and Managing Risk
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Argue that community risk management can be improved by using actuarial assessment and by combining what is known about the prediction of violence, the study of clinical decision making, and the literature on treatment outcome and program evaluation. In this new edition, the authors update their review, focusing on the actuarial instruments they developed and described earlier and on the measures they have continued to develop. In their lively style, they review the commentary on risk appraisal, addressing 20 of the most common arguments against actuarial risk appraisal.
Be Ready on Race Day
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BE READY ON RACE DAY teaches you how to create a comprehensive training plan that fits your busy life and meets your specific training needs.
Bike Snob Abroad
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BikeSnobNYC reaches the final frontier of cycling: riding with the family. As his choice to take to the road with his toddler son in tow is met with bewilderment and disapproval from onlookers and the occasional motorist, he ponders why it's such a taboo.
Homo Sapiens Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution Rewriting our Origins
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Who are we? How do scientists define Homo sapiens, and how does our species differ from the extinct hominins that came before us? This illuminating book explores how the latest scientific advances, especially in genetics, are revolutionizing our understanding of human evolution. Paul Pettitt reveals the extraordinary story of how our ancestors adapted to unforgiving and relentlessly changing climates, leading to remarkable innovations in art, technology and society that we are only now beginning to comprehend.
Life Lived Wild
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At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild, Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he's spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents: "And most of that in small tents pitched in the world's most remote regions." It's not a boast so much as an explanation. Whether at elevation or raising a family back at sea level, those years taught him, he writes, "to distinguish matters of consequence from matters of inconsequence." He leaves it to his readers, though, to do the final sort of which is which.
The World Atlas of Rivers, Estuaries, and Deltas
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The World Atlas of Rivers, Estuaries, and Deltas takes readers on an unforgettable tour of these dynamic bodies of water, explaining how they function at each stage of their flow. Combining maps and graphics with informative essays and beautiful photos, this invaluable reference book will give you a new appreciation for the power that rivers, estuaries, and deltas wield. Features a wealth of colour photos, maps, and infographics.
Art and Architecture in Mexico
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This new interpretive history of Mexican art and architecture from the Spanish Conquest to the early decades of the twenty-first century is the most comprehensive introduction to the subject in fifty years. James Oles ranges widely across media and genres, offering new readings of paintings, murals, sculptures, buildings, prints, and photographs.
Chicana and Chicano Art
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This is the first book solely dedicated to the history, development, and present-day flowering of Chicana and Chicano visual arts. It offers readers an opportunity to understand and appreciate Chicana/o art from its beginnings in the 1960s, its relationship to the Chicana/o Movement and its leading artists, themes, current directions, and cultural impacts.
Dissident Practices: Brazilian women artists, 1960s-2020s
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In Dissident Practices, Claudia Calirman examines sixty years of visual art by prominent and emerging Brazilian women artists from the 1960s to the present, covering the period from the military dictatorship to the return to democracy in the mid-1980s, the social changes of the 2000s, the rise of the Right in the late-2010s, and the recent development of an overtly feminist art practice.
Gardner's Art Through the Ages
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GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE, VOLUME I, gives you the tools to master your course material. A unique scale feature will help you better visualize the actual size of the artworks shown in the book. Within each chapter, the "Framing the Era" overviews, timeline, extended captions, and the chapter summary section titled "The Big Picture" will help you review for exams.
How to Become a Successful Artist
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Written for artists of all levels, ages and mediums, the latest book from bestselling author Magnus Resch explores how artists can have a career in the field they love. He answers the most important questions including: How do I find gallery representation? How do I write an artist statement? How should I price my artworks? And what's the best Instagram strategy? Case studies are drawn from interviews with leading experts and practitioners, including artists, gallerists, and curators. It's an invaluable resource to explain the core business principles of being an artist and reveals how to make it in the art market.
Introduction to Art
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Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning offers a comprehensive introduction to the world of Art. Authored by four USG faculty members with advance degrees in the arts, this textbooks offers up-to-date original scholarship. It includes over 400 high-quality images illustrating the history of art, its technical applications, and its many uses.
Mark Rothko
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Mark Rothko (1903-1970) is renowned for his towering abstract paintings on canvas; joy, despair, ecstasy, and tragedy are among the themes that he sought to express in his luminous works. Despite Rothko's prominence, few people know that he also created more than 1,000 paintings on paper over the course of his career. The artist viewed these not as preliminary studies but as finished paintings in their own right. These remarkable paintings range from early figurative subjects and surrealist works to the soft-edged rectangular fields, often realized at monumental scale, for which Rothko is best known.
Michelangelo: The Complete Works: Paintings, Sculptures, Architecture
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Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted Pietà and David, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. As a sculptor, painter, draftsman, and architect, the achievements of this Italian master are unique--no artist before or after him has ever produced such a vast, multifaceted, and wide-ranging œuvre. This fresh Taschen edition traces Michelangelo's ascent to the cultural elite of the Renaissance. Ten richly illustrated chapters cover the artist's paintings, sculptures, and architecture, including a close analysis of the artist's tour de force frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. Full-page reproductions and enlarged details allow readers to appreciate the finest details in the artist's repertoire, while the book's biographical essay considers Michelangelo's more personal traits and circumstances, such as his solitary nature, his thirst for money and commissions, his immense wealth, and his skill as a property investor.
Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey, DC Moore Gallery, November 13, 2007 - January 5, 2008.
To and from Utopia in the New Cuban Art
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In this spectacularly illustrated volume, Rachel Weiss offers the definitive critical history of the new Cuban art, exploring its remarkable artistic accomplishments and its role as catalyst for, and site of, public debate. Weiss draws on two decades of engagement with Cuban art and on the statements of the artist themselves to read individual artworks against the complex relationships between artists, their local and global audiences, and the Cuban state.
West of Eden: A History of the Art and Literature of Yosemite
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This treatise details the history of Yosemite artists and writers, and describes many of their most important works. The author traces the developmental threads that link early figures like Albert Bierstadt, Carleton Watkins, and John Muir with their modern day counterparts like Wayne Thiebaud, Ansel Adams, and Gary Snyder.
500 Social Media Marketing Tips
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500 Social Media Marketing Tips is your complete guide to social media success for business, featuring hundreds of the actionable strategies for success on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, Snapchat, TikTok, and more.
The Ai-Savvy Leader : 9 ways to take back control and make AI work
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A generation of AI transformation failures awaits if leaders don't connect their use of AI to their strategies. This book helps leaders retake control of the wildly rapid deployment of AI across organizations. It outlines cleanly and concisely nine actions leaders need to take to successfully steward a transition to a more AI-centric future that will lead to growth for all-companies and workers-and avoid the kinds of mistakes that author David De Cremer has seen many early adopters already make.
Capital and Ideology: a Graphic Novel Adaptation
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Thomas Piketty's powerful and bestselling Capital and Ideology is now available in this accessible and richly illustrated full-color graphic novel format. Praised by Piketty himself as a 'magnificent adaptation' of his original book, this graphic novel adaptation is perfect for anyone looking to understand the wealth gap and why society is the way it is today.
Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion -- And the Future of Clothes
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Historically, the apparel trade has exploited labor, the environment, and intellectual property. Today's clothing industry churns out 80 billion garments a year and employs every sixth person on Earth-- and the abuses have multiplied exponentially. Thomas interviews the visionary designers and companies who are propelling the industry toward that more positive future by reclaiming traditional craft and launching cutting-edge sustainable technologies to produce better fashion. From printing 3-D clothes to clean denim processing and even lab-grown materials she highlights the future of the garment industry.
Financial Literacy: How to Gain Financial Intelligence, Financial Peace and Financial Independence
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"Even if you earn a small income right now, you can take the baby steps that will add up and contribute to more security, more freedom, and a higher level of financial responsibility. It doesn’t matter if you can save $5 or $1,000 per month. After all, a small trickle can quickly turn into a deluge."
The Macroeconomics of Decarbonisation
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This book provides a rigorous and accessible portrayal of the macroeconomics of decarbonisation. The book is written in the form of a textbook so to be accessible to a wide readership. It adopts a simple language, avoiding jargon. Each chapter includes a set of key takeaways
Safeguarding Social Security for Future Generations
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This book offers a unique multi-generational approach to saving Social Security. Public programs have adapted to societal aging, but fears overwhelm hopes for Social Security's future prospects. Conservatives want to privatize operations that liberals seek to expand. Younger workers are happy that Social Security protects their elders, but most do not expect benefits when needed. Achenbaum reframes conflicting perspectives and offers new models of respectful transgenerational dialogue that can mobilize pragmatic reforms.
The Supe's Handbook: Leadership Lessons From America's Hotshot Crews
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What can you learn from a hotshot supe? You might be surprised. Clearly, it takes toughness, strength, and will to lead a hotshot crew. Did you know it also takes empathy, humor, and intellect? All that and more goes into building a motivated, efficient team that survives the grueling fire season and sticks together like a family. The hotshot superintendents in this book don't just know this, they've lived it, and they're passing their knowledge on to you. This best-practices guide and oral history is written for wildland firefighters and anyone else looking for insights into living and working as a hotshot.
A Basic Guide to Understanding, Assessing, and Teaching Phonological Awareness
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Teorías Sobre la Infancia, Segunda Edición: una Introducción a Dewey, Montessori, Erikson, Piaget y Vygotsky
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Este recurso exitoso provee introducciones claras y directas a las teorías fundamentales de John Dewey, Maria Montessori, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget y Lev Vygotsky. Cada capítulo recalca la obra de un teórico e incluye conocimiento sobre cómo la teoría impacta la enseñanza de los niños de hoy. Se incluyen preguntas de discusión y lecturas segeridas para ayudarle entender qué significa utilizar cada teoría al trabajar con los niños.
Transforming Your Outdoor Early Learning Environment
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Transforming Your Outdoor Early Learning Environments invites center and home-based educators to reimagine and reconstruct their image of conventional children's play yards as they know them and to create beautiful outdoor learning spaces on a limited budget with natural elements and loose parts that offer children opportunity for irresistible engaging explorations. Ideas, inspiration, and benefits for changing outdoor environments are provided along with the basics for designing, transforming, and maintaining 11 specific outdoor play zones.
Transition Magician 2: More Strategies for Guiding Young Children in Early Childhood Programs
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Imagine having fun getting from circle time to lunch, or from outdoors to indoors. The children will learn new skills and you'll be able to stay calm and focus on your teaching. This book is filled with great activities for caregivers to use for the times between planned activities. Features simple tools to help evaluate environments and schedules and prevent problems in developing transitions. Transition Magician 2 includes new toddler and special needs activities for a complete approach in your program.
ADHD: The College Experience
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ADHD: The College Experience offers a strength-based approach to learning that flips the script about ADHD for students who are struggling to succeed in college. This transformative perspective shows students with ADHD how they can embrace their unique abilities to find joy in learning, succeed in college, and reach their potential. Through humorous storytelling, Zaghi explains how ADHD traits are a genetic inheritance that benefits human societies, how procrastination and inattention can lead to highly creative solutions, and how risk-taking and impulsivity can lead to unexpected discoveries. This guide offers valuable insight for students with ADHD, along with their parents and educators.
College Admission Essentials
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What if you could take control of the admissions process, as you apply for your dream school, and do it in a way that's both effective and empowering? From filling out your extracurriculars to interviewing with admissions staff, it comes down to two questions: What matters most to you? How does it manifest in your life? The answers to these questions will fuel every aspect of your college admissions experience, and Ethan Sawyer (the College Essay Guy), along with advice from dozens of top admissions experts, will help you stand out against the toughest competition.
College and Career Success for Those with Physical Disabilities
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Ms. Nelson has developed a comprehensive resource to empower high school and college students with disabilities to make well-informed decisions as they navigate their academic and career paths. She provides a wealth of extremely practical information to help her readers thoroughly prepare, sort through options, manage transitions and set themselves up for success.
Creating a Data-Informed Culture in Community Colleges
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Brad C. Phillips and Jordan E. Horowitz offer a research-based model and actionable approach for using data strategically at community colleges to increase completion rates as well as other metrics linked to student success. Drawing on insights from neuroscience, psychology, behavioral economics, and organizational change, the authors reveal successful strategies for helping college personnel engage with data more effectively. Based on two decades of experience working with colleges across the country, Creating a Data-Informed Culture in Community Colleges is a much-needed resource for those concerned with improving academic success for all students
Job U: how to find wealth and success by developing the skills companies actually need
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In Job U, you'll learn about paths to rewarding occupations; where to find them and how to parlay them into the best paying job in any field. And along the way, you'll meet individuals of all ages who have attained their "dream jobs" through a non-traditional education: from an emergency air paramedic, to a lead mechanic of a racecar team, to an engineer of complex gas turbine generators, to a bestselling cookbook author. Whether you are recent high school or college graduate, or well along in your career journey, Job U will help you find your way to a more secure and prosperous future
Life During College: the veteran's guide to success
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Each year hundreds of thousands of service members leave the military for civilian life. As part of this transition, many enroll in a postsecondary education program. The transition from a highly structured military environment to a college or university can be overwhelming for veterans, who may confront a variety of barriers in their quest to earn a degree. Drawing on decades of experience in the military and higher education, Life During College: The Veteran's Guide to Success, provides straightforward guidance for veterans looking to earn a degree
The Reading Strategies Book 2.0
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The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 is designed to be a trusted, research-aligned companion for any K-8 reading classroom--no matter your curriculum, subject area, or instructional approach. Connect crucial research to powerful practice, whether you need engaging lessons for whole-class teaching, support for small-group instruction, ideas for intervention, or ways to fill gaps in a core curriculum. The friendly design makes it easy to find strategies that meet every student where they are now.
The End of Night
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Describes how ever-present, modern artificial lights have changed the way humans experience darkness and bemoans the fact that the primal dark sky can no longer influence science and art.
Introduction to Workplace Safety and Health Management: A Systems Thinking Approach
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This book takes a systems-thinking approach to allow readers to understand how Workplace safety and health (WSH) is an integral part of any organisation. The different chapters are strung together by an overarching model of incident causation, and underpinning models are presented to allow a strong conceptual foundation. Practical WSH knowledge also discussed in relevant chapters to ensure that beginners have an introduction to the fundamentals of WSH hazards and controls.The second edition presents additional systems thinking concepts and archetypes not covered previously, the safe design process in Australia, thoughts on learning disabilities and safety culture, and additional case studies. Besides the strong emphasis on conceptual framework, readers will also be exposed to the details of a WSH management system and practical WSH processes, hazards and controls.
Democracy and Reform in Public Schools
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A thought-provoking examination of how public education systems can be strengthened through strategic relationships both within schools and with outside partners. In Democracy and Reform in Public Schools, Saul Rubinstein, Charles Heckscher, and John McCarthy apply their expertise in labor relations to public school reform. They envision a model of K-12 education that shifts away from the tenets of neoliberalism and centers on productive collaboration among school boards, school administrators, teacher unions, and other education stakeholders.
ADHD Comorbidities
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The only book that covers the multiple ways in which ADHD is complicated by other psychiatric and learning disorders in both children and adults, ADHD Comorbidities: Handbook for ADHD Complications in Children and Adults features comprehensive, research-based information on ADHD and its full range of coexisting syndromes. Contributing researcher-clinicians, familiar with the complications that additional disorders pose, summarize in accessible language what is currently known about ADHD and its comorbidities, from preschool age to adulthood.
Anticancer
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This new edition addresses current developments in cancer research and offers more tips on how people living with cancer can fight it and how healthy people can prevent it.
The Anxiety Workbook
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Seven weeks to anxiety relief. Get the help you need. The Anxiety Workbook offers a simple, 7-week plan that gives you the tools needed to manage your anxiety. From understanding what causes your anxiety to mastering mindfulness, each weeklong chapter provides a supportive exploration of a single topic. Reduce worry, panic, and anxiety-read on.
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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The purpose [of this book] is to present as much practical information as possible, rather than to give an exhaustive or critical review of the research literature. Coverage includes differential diagnosis, a developmental model for assessment, family systems interventions, training parents of ADHD adolescents, and ADHD in adults.
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: a clinical workbook
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The revised and expanded third edition of this user-friendly workbook provides a master set of the assessment and treatment forms, questionnaires, and handouts recommended by Barkley in the third edition of the Handbook. Formatted for easy photocopying, many of these materials are available from no other source. Including nine new handouts, the Workbook features interview forms and rating scales for use with parents, teachers, and adult clients; helpful checklists and fact sheets; daily school report cards for monitoring academic progress; and more.
Behavioral and Emotional Disorders in Adolescents
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This groundbreaking volume brings together more than 50 leading authorities to review current knowledge on adolescent disorders: how they develop, their relationship to earlier childhood trajectories and adult outcomes, and effective strategies for diagnosis and treatment. Comprehensive and timely, this is an outstanding reference and text for anyone working with or studying adolescents and their families.
Best Practices in School Neuropsychology
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In the newly revised Second Edition of Best Practices in School Neuropsychology: Guidelines for Effective Practice, Assessment, and Evidence-Based Intervention, a team of psychological experts delivers a thoroughly updated treatment of modern issues and challenges in school neuropsychology. The editors provide comprehensive discussions of current assessment and intervention models, best practices in assessing cognitive processes, and the important task of collaborating with parents, educators, and other professionals.
Boundaries in Psychotherapy
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This book is for the professional who feels unsure when entering the gray areas that inevitably arise in psychotherapy practice. The author carefully differentiates between what constitutes appropriate and helpful boundary crossing rather than inappropriate boundary violation and explores the ethical and clinical complexities involved in boundary issues such as the exchange of gifts, nonsexual touch, therapists' self-disclosure, dual relationships, bartering, home visits, home office practice, and telehealth.
The Brain and Pain
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Pain is an inevitable part of existence, but severe debilitating or chronic pain is a pathological condition that diminishes the quality of life. The Brain and Pain explores the present and future of pain management, providing a comprehensive understanding based on the latest discoveries from many branches of neuroscience.
Clinical Neuropsychology
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This bestselling, comprehensive assessment guide has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest changes in the rapidly maturing field of clinical neuropsychology. This third edition expertly leads neuropsychologists and trainees through the complicated process of assessing, diagnosing, and treating an enormous range of neurologic, neuropsychological, psychiatric, and behavioral disorders and syndromes.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has proven to be the most effective form of treatment for social anxiety disorder. This revision of a highly regarded treatment manual presents an original treatment approach that includes specifically designed interventions to strengthen the relevant CBT strategies.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple
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Cognitive behavioral therapy is a proven form of psychotherapy that is often the first-line of treatment recommended for managing depression, anxiety, worry, and other common issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple delivers a simplified approach to learning the most essential parts of cognitive behavioral therapy and applying them to your life. Written by licensed psychologist and bestselling author Seth Gillihan, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple replaces workbook pages and technical language with quick and highly accessible cognitive behavioral therapy strategies that can be used on an as-needed basis.
Delivering Health Care in America
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Delivering Health Care in America is the most current and comprehensive overview of the basic structures and operations of the U.S. health system-from its historical origins and resources, to its individual services, cost, and quality. Using a unique "systems" approach, the text brings together an extraordinary breadth of information into a highly accessible, easy-to-read resource that clarifies the complexities of health care organization and finance while presenting a solid overview of how the various components fit together.
Diagnosing Learning Disorders, Second Edition
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Provides an accessible overview of what learning disorders are, how they develop, and how to diagnose and treat them effectively. The author presents the most current neuroscientific knowledge on a range of conditions, including dyslexia, autism spectrum disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and others. --from publisher description.
Dietetic Intern Guidebook
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The Dietetic Intern Guidebook provides an uncomplicated and practical guide to nutrition intervention for type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease.
Driven to Distraction (Revised)
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Through vivid stories and case histories of patients-both adults and children-Hallowell and Ratey explore the varied forms ADHD takes, from hyperactivity to daydreaming. They dispel common myths, offer helpful coping tools, and give a thorough accounting of all treatment options as well as tips for dealing with a diagnosed child, partner, or family member. But most importantly, they focus on the positives that can come with this "disorder"--Including high energy, intuitiveness, creativity, and enthusiasm
The Dyslexic Advantage (Revised and Updated)
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Reading and spelling challenges are actually trade-offs: dyslexic people possess powerful advantages, including incredible pattern detection, creativity, problem-solving, and more. What if we viewed dyslexia as a learning and processing style rather than a disorder? The authors profile remarkable individuals with dyslexia, and provide innovative insights for educators, employers, parents, and dyslexic adults.
The Eating Disorders Sourcebook
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Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, exercise addictions ... these disorders can be devastating, but they are in no way unbeatable. Therapist Carolyn Costin, herself recovered from anorexia, brings three decades of experience and the newest research in the field together, providing readers with the latest treatments, from medication and behavioral therapy to alternative remedies.
The End of Alzheimer's
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A groundbreaking plan to prevent and reverse Alzheimer's Disease that fundamentally changes how we understand cognitive decline. Everyone knows someone who has survived cancer, but until now no one knows anyone who has survived Alzheimer's Disease. In this paradigm shifting book, Dale Bredesen, MD, offers real hope to anyone looking to prevent and even reverse Alzheimer's Disease and cognitive decline.
Epilepsy 101 the New Patient and Family Guide to Living Well
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Does one seizure mean I have epilepsy? Will my child with epilepsy have developmental problems? Is it safe to exercise? Few conditions are plagued by as many misconceptions and prejudices as epilepsy. In Epilepsy 101, renowned medical experts compile facts and explanations about the disorder to help readers of all ages better manage their health. While addressing commonly asked questions about medicines, diets, and surgery, Epilepsy 101 also tackles often overlooked issues such as psychiatric effects, insight into doctor recommendations, and patient rights.
Fast Facts about Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
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This book describes the different STIs, new and emerging trends that are occurring, treatment options, and prevention efforts. A key component addressed in the book is reviewing at- risk populations, who often are an underserved population and at the highest risk for long-term health consequences that can occur with STI. This book brings an awareness of the impact of STI and how nurses working with all populations can increase their knowledge of STIs and be instrumental in addressing a serious global health problem.
Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychopathy
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This comprehensive handbook synthesizes the rapidly growing research base on child and adolescent psychopathy: its nature, causes, development, assessment, and treatment. The editors and contributors are leading authorities who review state-of-the-art empirical findings and weigh in on pressing questions, such as how the disorder should be conceptualized in youth and how to evaluate it in clinical and forensic contexts. Available assessment instruments and intervention approaches are critically examined. Etiological theories are presented that shed light on a range of potential causal mechanisms, including genetics, brain functioning, temperament, family processes, and other factors.
Handbook of Gender, Culture, and Health
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Illustrates the influence of gender, age and ethnicity on the health practices and risk factors for health problems in diverse groups of people. This work offers insight into the roles played by gender, biology, psychology and culture in defining our health.
Health and Physical Assessment in Nursing
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All the health assessment skills students need to think like a nurse. Health & Physical Assessment in Nursing helps nursing students master the art, science, and skills of health and physical assessment for the RN. Taking a holistic approach, the text focuses on assessing the whole person and on recognizing the diversity of patients and care settings. It imparts evidence-based knowledge and step-by-step skills alongside discussions of health, wellness, communication, and culture. The 4th edition adds three new chapters that cover the assessment of pediatric and older patients and that prepare students to document both subjective and objective findings.
How not to die: discover the foods scientifically proven to prevent and reverse disease
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Why rely on drugs and surgery to cure you of life-threatening disease when the right decisions can prevent you from falling ill to begin with? 'How Not To Die' gives effective, scientifically-proven nutritional advice to prevent our biggest killers - heart disease, breast cancer, prostate cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes - and reveals the astounding health benefits that simple dietary choices can provide.
Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry
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The goal of this book is to foster professional competence and ensure the highest quality care to those with mental illness. An eclectic, multidisciplinary approach has been its hallmark; thus, biological, psychological, and sociological factors are equitably presented as they affect the person in health and disease.
Manual of Traumatic Brain Injury: Assessment and Management
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The third edition of Manual of Traumatic Brain Injury offers a thorough revision of the popular evidence-based guide to understanding and managing all levels of traumatic brain injury. Comprehensive in scope and concise in format, this reference describes the spectrum of injury from mild to severe and the continuum of care from initial injury to management of chronic sequelae.
The Miscarriage Map
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Miscarriage: It can devastate an individual, a couple, and family to their very core. And yet, this painfully common human experience is so rarely talked about. How do we continue functioning? How do we tell our partner what we need? How do we deal with emotional dumpster fire that is the aftermath of a miscarriage? How do we not kill the fifth person who tells us “You can always have another baby.”
The New Woman's Guide to Healthy Aging
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This concise guide to healthy aging offers expert advice from a prominent family doctor on the key health issues women need to understand as they age. This guide comes three years after the author's first book on healthy aging, and it contains important new advice on sexual health, vaccines, bone health, and how to talk with your family doctor on the phone or online during this COVID pandemic.
Next generation NCLEX RN 2024-2025: NCLEX RN Examination Secrets Review Prep
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Mometrix Test Preparation's Next Generation NCLEX RN 2024-2025 - NCLEX RN Examination Secrets Review Prep is the ideal prep solution for anyone who wants to pass their National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses.
Nursing Now
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In the face of challenging situations, nurses are ideal for confronting and resolving overwhelming conditions because of their firsthand experience working directly with patients. By tapping into that experience, they face a wide variety of health-care threats head-on. Because of the pandemic and the fallout it produced, the landscape of health-care has changed. In response to these changes, the profession continues to progress and evolve at a rapid rate, and the ninth edition of Nursing Now: Today's Issues, Tomorrow's Trends is keeping up with that progress.
Psychological Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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Historically, psychologists have considered patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) challenging to treat, with significant numbers failing to benefit from treatment. The heterogeneity of the population and the complexity of the disorder have been contributing factors. However, cognitive-behavioral treatments are showing great promise, particularly when delivered with pharmacotherapy and tailored to the unique characteristics of each OCD subtype.
How tobacco smoke causes disease : the biology and behavioral basis for smoking-attributable disease : a report of the Surgeon General.
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This report considers the biological and behavioral mechanisms that may underlie the pathogenicity of tobacco smoke. Many Surgeon General's reports have considered research findings on mechanisms in assessing the biological plausibility of associations observed in epidemiologic studies. Mechanisms of disease are important because they may provide plausibility, which is one of the guideline criteria for assessing evidence on causation. This report specifically reviews the evidence on the potential mechanisms by which smoking causes diseases and considers whether a mechanism is likely to be operative in the production of human disease by tobacco smoke. This evidence is relevant to understanding how smoking causes disease, to identifying those who may be particularly susceptible, and to assessing the potential risks of tobacco products.
Smarter Workouts
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Smarter Workouts examines why exercise is important, the basic science of how various types of exercise apply different kinds of stimuli to your body, and which types one should do to help improve health and achieve specific results, providing the tools needed to make exercise an integral part of life.
A sociology of mental health and illness
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"A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness is an intellectual 'tour de force'. Rogers and Pilgrim cogently dismantle professional pretensions towards mastery of mental illness, and in their place construct compelling arguments for the need to focus on the social, economic and political determinants of mental well-being."
Professor Chris Dowrick, University of Liverpool, UK
Sports Nutrition, Sixth Edition
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Sixth edition includes: 1. a new chapter discussing emerging opportunities in sports nutrition 2. Revised overview of exercise physiology, including a description of training principles 3. Strategies for a sports nutrition assessment with application of macro- and micronutrient recommendations 4. Updated population- and sports-specific recommendations, including a new and in-depth discussion of considerations for various endurance events.
Stressed in the U. S.
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Seventy-five percent of Americans are moderately stressed. Seventy-five percent are lonely. More than 33 percent of us sleep less than six hours a night. In addition, 81 percent own a smartphone, and 77 percent use social media daily. Why are these statistics important? Because loneliness, sleep-deprivation, social media use, tech use, and even gut-imbalance-which the Huffington Post refers to as "the modern plague"--Are all causes and results of stress.
Successful Nurse Communication
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A combination of education, nursing practice, and personal experience has led me to discover extremely important and easily overlooked connections between our ability to communicate effectively and favorable outcomes involving patient safety, the cultures in which we work, and our own health. I want all healthcare professionals and consumers to see these connections so that we can work together for positive change
Take Charge of Your Nursing Career, Second Edition
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A career is a fluid process, not stagnant or simply a job. It is a process that must be nurtured -constantly grown and managed. Today, nursing professionals across the globe and at each stage in their career consistently ask how to navigate, grow, and expand their careers; change their career trajectories; and develop, hone, and promote their nursing identities. Nurses are focused on career-development and management areas that are far beyond writing a resumé or curriculum vitae. They are looking for career resources that apply to the many roles and challenges they face at all points and phases of their career. This book provides just that.
Talking Back to OCD
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No one wants to get rid of obsessive-compulsive disorder more that someone who has it. That's why Talking Back to OCD puts kids and teens in charge. Dr. John March's eight-step program has already helped thousands of young people show the disorder that it doesn't call the shots - they do.
Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma
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Dr. Janina Fisher, international expert on trauma, has spent over 40 years working with survivors, helping them to navigate the healing journey. In Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma, she shows how the legacy of symptoms helped them survive and offers: Step-by-step strategies that can be used on their own or in collaboration with a therapist; Simple diagrams that make sense of the confusing feelings and physical reactions survivors experience; Worksheets to practice the skills that bring relief and ultimately healing.
Treating Adult Survivors of Childhood Emotional Abuse and Neglect
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Grounded in 40 years of clinical practice and research, this book provides a systematic yet flexible evidence-based framework for treating adult survivors of complex trauma, particularly those exposed to chronic emotional abuse or neglect. Component-based psychotherapy (CBP) addresses four primary treatment components that can be tailored to each client's unique needs--relationship, regulation, dissociative parts, and narrative. Vivid extended case examples illustrate CBP intervention strategies and bring to life both the client's and therapist's internal experiences
Treatment of Childhood Disorders
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In a revised and updated third edition, this major professional reference and text offers an authoritative review of evidence-based treatments for the most prevalent child and adolescent problems. Leading contributors present state-of-the-art applications for anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, ADHD, autistic spectrum disorders, learning disabilities, the effects of maltreatment, substance use, and more. The third edition incorporates important, ongoing developments in research and treatment design. In particular, increased attention is given to combined treatments and how they translate into real-world clinical settings, and how individual, developmental, and contextual factors may influence outcome.
Understanding the Mental Health Problems of Children and Adolescents
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Understanding Mental Health Problems of Children and Adolescents: A Guide for Social Workers provides a practical guide for social workers on promoting positive mental health in youth from a system of care perspective. Social workers will gain an understanding of the scope of mental health issues in youth to include definitions, etiology, evidence-based treatments. The book emphasizes the importance of collaborating with youth and caregivers, importance of addressing issues from a strengths and trauma informed perspective, and of cultural humility practice.
Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy
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Roughly 15 percent of the population will have a psychotic experience, in which they lose contact with reality. And yet we still often struggle to understand and talk about psychosis. Interactions between people build on the stories they tell each other-stories about the past, about who they are or what they want. In psychosis we can no longer rely on these stories, this shared language. So how should we communicate with someone experiencing reality in a radically different way than we are? Drawing on his work in psychoanalysis, Stijn Vanheule seeks to answer this question, which carries significant implications for mental health as a whole.
Black Athena
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What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the foundation of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures. But these Afroasiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied or suppressed since the eighteenth century--chiefly for racist reasons.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants
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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, the author has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to the Americas, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In this book, she brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation."
Chicano Communists and the Struggle for Social Justice
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An insightful new history that showcases the contributions of Mexican American radical activists and the intersections between the early Chicano Movement and the Communist Party
Cliffs and Challenges
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Cliffs and Challenges is a memoir by Laura White Brunner, who worked and hiked extensively in Yosemite as a teenager in the 1910s. Young and fearless, Brunner defied typical expectations for women at the time to explore the Yosemite backcountry, including hiking barefoot when she couldn't find hiking boots that fit and pinning her skirts when she wasn't allowed to hike in pants.
A Concise History of the Aztecs
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Susan Kellogg's history of the Aztecs offers a concise yet comprehensive assessment of Aztec history and civilization, emphasizing how material life and the economy functioned in relation to politics, religion, and intellectual and artistic developments.
A Cultural Encyclopedia of Lost Cities and Civilizations
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Provides the reader with alphabetical entries on lost cities and civilizations and includes subsections: Overview: Geographic Location, Original Inhabitants, Historical Background, Culture and Society, City's Demise, Recent Discoveries and Current Status, and Bibliography. The entries-as well as the investigative boxes and sidebars-come from every region of the globe and include a broad timespan, panning all of human civilization from several millennia BCE to the present
Dictators and the Disappeared
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Dictators and the Disappeared: Democracy Lost and Restored is a timely look at a tumultuous period in Latin American history. Essays represent a range of topics and perspectives considering political events and what it means to live and struggle today with the legacies of past dictatorships. The book features artwork from the collections of the Albuquerque Museum and the University of New Mexico's Sam L. Slick and Chile Ephemera collections
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson
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The absorbing narrative of Frederick Douglass's heated struggle with President Andrew Johnson reveals a new perspective on Reconstruction's demise. Robert S. Levine grippingly recounts the conflicts that led to Johnson's impeachment from the perspective of Douglass and the wider Black community. In counterpointing the lives and careers of Douglass and Johnson, Levine offers a fresh vision of the lost promise and dire failure of Reconstruction.
The Girls of Atomic City
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This is the story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most significant moments in U.S. history. The Tennessee town of Oak Ridge was created from scratch in 1942. One of the Manhattan Project's secret cities. All knew something big was happening at Oak Ridge, but few could piece together the true nature of their work until the bomb "Little Boy" was dropped over Hiroshima, Japan, and the secret was out. The reverberations from their work there, work they did not fully understand at the time, are still being felt today.
Go for Broke: the Nisei warriors of World War II who conquered Germany, Japan, and American bigotry
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Japanese-Americans were forcefully removed from their homes and businesses, and placed in "relocation" camps throughout the West. With countless instances of "Gestapo-like" tactics used against them, no one would have faulted them for being bitter or angry at the country that held them captive. Instead, the remarkable story of these Nesei (first generation Japanese born outside of Japan) warriors explains why they were eager to defend their American homeland, and how they became the most decorated fighting unit ever assembled in U.S. military history. Go For Broke is the incredible story of how these soldiers, known as the purple Heart Battlalion," helped liberate Europe, the Pacific, and America from its pervasive and systemic bigotry.
Good Bandits, Warrior Women, and Revolutionaries in Hispanic Culture
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Following an introduction by Gary Francisco Keller, the first section of this book contains articles dedicated to good, good-bad, and bad characters, both fictional and historical, across Hispanic culture, among them gay caballeros, the heroes and villains of "Zapata" Westerns, and Don Quixote. The second section explores personages from popular culture and from novels set in the decades just before and during the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
Infamy: the shocking story of the Japanese American internment in World War II
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Former Frontline journalist Reeves (Portrait of Camelot) examines the key causes and dire consequences of the Japanese-American internment in relocation camps during WWII, concentrating on a shortsighted military strategy and anti-Japanese sentiment following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
Lies about Black People
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In this honest and welcoming book, diversity and inclusion expert, professor, and award-winning speaker Dr. Omekongo Dibinga argues that we must embark on a massive undertaking to re-educate ourselves on the stereotypes that have proven harmful, and too often deadly, to the Black community
Make Prayers to the Raven
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Portrayal of the Koyukon people and their natural surroundings based on sixteen months of living in the villages of Huslia and Hughes, Alaska between 1968 to 1972.
Man from Mono
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With sadness in his heart, & vengeance on his mind, young Jerome La Braque left the French Pyrennes to hunt the man who had killed his father. Always a gambler, J.B. anted into the pot of fate that would bind him & his descendants to Mono Basin. J.B.'s son, George shares his memoirs describing the plight of early pioneer of the Basin, how they survived & prospered.
Maria Theresa
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Unlike previous biographers, Stollberg-Rilinger is able to paint a detailed portrait of Maria Theresa as Empress, "king," and reformer, and as a mother and master manipulator, by reconstructing the world in which the Austrian Empress lived and reigned.
The Mayor of Castro Street
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A biography of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay city official in the nation, recounts his public and personal life, and examines the emergence of the San Francisco gay community as a social and political force.
Meadow in the Sky
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This book is a masterful blend of natural history, anecdote, and historical fact on the Tuolumne Meadows Region of Yosemite National Park where much of the early conservation movement began. It is also a book of high adventure with many of the figures who have become heroes of the environment: John Muir, Ansel Adams, but also those who came before: the Indians, miners, soldiers all changed by their experience in the mountains.
Miracle Country
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Miracle Country captures one family's spirit and losses in a harsh landscape that has been shaped and exploited over hundreds of years, and chronicles the author's journey as she realizes that there's nowhere else in the country, no matter how green and welcoming, that feels like home.
Morning the Sun Went Down
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This memoir chronicles Darryl Babe Wilson's journey through childhood. Born into the Achumawi and Atsugewi tribes (often called the Pit River Nation) of northeastern California, Wilson spent his early years with his family in a life rich in tradition, until tragic events forced him to learn to survive among the assimilation policies of the 1950s.
Native American Firsts
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Indigenous Firsts: A History of Native American Achievement and Events recognizes and honors 2,000 barrier-breaking trailblazers and history-making events in multiple fields-arts, entertainment, business, sovereignty, education, government, religion, science, sports, music, and more.
Owens Valley Revisited
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A Patriot's History of the United States
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Over the past decade, A Patriot's History of the United States has become the definitive conservative history of our country, correcting the biases of historians and other intellectuals who downplay the greatness of America's patriots. Professors Schweikart and Allen have now revised, updated, and expanded their book, which covers America's long history with an appreciation for the values that made this nation uniquely successful.
The Patriot's History Reader
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Presents a collection of influential documents, speeches, and legal decisions in American history.
Savage Continent
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Recounts the disorder in Europe after World War II, describing the brutal acts against Germans and collaborators, the anti-Semitic beliefs that reemerged, and the Allied-tolerated expulsions of citizens from their ancestral homelands.
The Story of Inyo
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This book's purpose is to preserve, particularly, the record of Inyo County earlier than 1870, when a printed record began. Gathering data for some such purpose began more than twenty years ago, while many of the pioneers still lived. It was the author's good fortune to know personally every early-day Inyoite then in the county.
Street Life - Poverty, Gangs, and a Ph. D.
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The author discusses the adversity he encountered growing up poor, fatherless, in a gang, incarcerated, dropped-out, and without hope. He reflects on his own personal transformation and discusses how his success of returning to school and acquiring a Ph. D. can be replicated by young people with the support of teachers, mentors, and parents.
Timelines of History
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With easily accessible cross-references that build bite-size pieces of information into a narrative that leads readers back and forth through time, "Timelines of History" makes the past accessible to all families, students, and the general reader.
W. E. B. du Bois: Writings
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Historian, sociologist, novelist, editor, and political activist, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was the most gifted and influential black intellectual of his time. This Library of America volume presents his essential writings, covering the full span of a restless life dedicated to the struggle for racial justice.
We Are Not Animals: indigenous politics of survival, rebellion, and reconstitution in nineteenth-century California
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We Are Not Animals traces the history of Indigenous people in the Santa Cruz area through the nineteenth century, examining the influence of Native political, social, and cultural values and these people's varied survival strategies in response to colonial encounters.
The Works of William Sanders Scarborough
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The first professional classicist of African-American descent has been long overlooked in modern analyses concerning the education and the uplift of black Americans. For years the discourse has been presented as a debate carried on almost bilaterally between W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. Now restored to us through Michele Valerie Ronnick's collection of his published works, we can learn how this contemporary of Washington and precursor to Du Bois understood the African American struggle through his extensive political writings.
Yosemite and Sequoia
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A century and a quarter ago, the national park idea was born when Abraham Lincoln signed legislation setting aside Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias "for public use, resort, and recreation inalienable for all time." Over the next decade, the Yosemite park commissioners had to fight private land claims to the valley. By 1890, however, a public park system was firmly established in California when the Yosemite high country and much of what is now Sequoia and King's Canyon National Parks were set aside as federally protected, public preserves.
The A-To-Z Self-Care Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals
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Self-care is an imperative for the ethical practice of social work and other helping professions. From A (awareness) to Z (ZZZZ--Sleep), the editors and contributors use a simple A-to-Z framework to outline strategies to help you build a self-care plan with specific goals and ways to reach them realistically. Questions for reflection and additional resource lists help you to dig deeper in your self-care journey. Just as the ABCs are essential building blocks for a young child’s learning, you can use the ABCs in The A-to-Z Self-Care Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals to build your way to a happy, healthy, ethical life as a helping professional. Includes a self-care planning form to help you set goals and formulate strategies.
1-2-3 Peas
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Busy little peas engage in their favorite activities as they introduce the numbers from one to 100.
Advice to 9th Graders
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Drawing from the life experiences of teens, this collection was crafted by participants in the PATHfinder Club, which has merged with POPS the Club, the organization behind eight previous anthologies. Created by and for 'individuals who have been impacted by incarceration, detention, and deportation,' this anthology provides nourishment and support and increases awareness.
Antología Poética
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Amado Nervo, seudónimo de Juan Crisóstomo Ruiz de Nervo y Ordaz, fue un poeta y prosista mexicano, perteneciente al movimiento modernista. Fue miembro correspondiente de la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, no pudo ser miembro de número por residir en el extranjero.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship -- the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves and the kind of people they want to be.
Bear says thanks
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Bear thanks his friends for bringing food dishes to his dinner party and finds a way of sharing something of his own.
Black Girl Power
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From fifteen legendary Black female authors comes a collection of stories and poems about the power we find in the everyday and the beauty of Black girlhood.
Blood Meridian
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Based on incidents that took place in the southwestern United States and Mexico around 1850, this novel chronicles the crimes of a band of desperados, with a particular focus on one, "the kid," a boy of fourteen.
The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost
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This Companion presents fifteen short, accessible essays exploring the most important topics and themes in John Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost. The essays invite readers to begin their own independent exploration of the poem by equipping them with useful background knowledge, introducing them to key passages, and acquainting them with the current state of critical debates.
The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
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The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature emphasizes the importance of understanding Latina/o literature not simply as a US ethnic phenomenon but more broadly as an important element of a trans-American literary imagination.
China rich girlfriend
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Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly funny new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birthfather.
The Conscious Style Guide
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Most of us want to choose inclusive, respectful, and empowering language. But language--and how we use it--continually evolves, along with cultural norms. When contradictory opinions muddle our purpose, how do we align our word choices with our beliefs? Who has the final say when people disagree? And why is it so hard to let go of certain words? Afraid of getting something wrong or offending, we too often treat words as dos or don'ts, regardless of context and nuance
Crazy rich asians
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When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and quality time with the man she hopes to marry. But Nick has failed to give his girlfriend a few key details. One, that his childhood home looks like a palace; two, that he grew up riding in more private planes than cars; and three, that he just happens to be the country's most eligible bachelor.
Cross My Heart and Never Lie
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Twelve-year-old Tuva struggles with how to become a teenager, friendship, and falling in love with another girl in this graphic novel set in Norway.
Crossroads in the Black Aegean
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This work is a study of African rewritings of Greek tragedy. It consists of detailed readings of six dramas and one epic poem, from different locations across the African diaspora. The authors ask why the plays of Sophocles' Theban Cycle figure so prominently among the tragedies adapted by dramatists of African descent, and how plays that dilate on the power of the past, in the inexorable curse of Oedipus and the regressive obsession of Antigone, can articulate the postcolonial moment.
Dandelion
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When climate change and automation disrupt the lives of millions, a new civilization is formed in the skies -- one that threatens the wealthy citizens who've been hoarding Earth's meager resources for themselves.
Desert Queen
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This picture book biography in verse follows the life of beloved Rajasthani drag performer Queen Harish, known as the Whirling Desert Queen of Rajasthan.
The Diary of Virginia Woolf
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Nothing yet published about her so totally contradicts the legend of Virginia Woolf.... [This] is a first chance to meet the writer in her own unguarded words and to observe the root impulses of her art without the distractions of a commentary.
Eat Your Heart Out Vol. 1
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Blanca is running away. Away from her mother--the overbearing and strict Reina--and her mother's narrow idea of what shape Blanca's life should take. While Reina finds Blanca's dream of pursuing fashion design a wasteful flight of fancy, Blanca sees possibility . . . and she knows if she doesn't leave now, she might never.
Edgar Allan Poe: the strange man standing deep in the shadows
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More than 160 years after his death, Charlotte Montague has written a fascinating account of Poe's life and times, in which she uncovers a strange man, standing deep in the shadows, whose unique imagination and macabre writing have changed popular culture--forevermore.
Gay Poems for Red States
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"No one will protect you." Months after being named the 2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. announced his decision to leave the public school system. His career as a high school English teacher had spanned more than a decade, but it ended abruptly - another casualty of the cruel and dangerous anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination that is creeping back into the halls of government and the homes of Americans. At the beginning of Carver's career, an administrator warned him about discussing his otherwise openly gay identity at work: "No one will protect you, including me."
Gender and Journalism
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Gender is just a single aspect of our humanity, yet it has a tremendous effect on the people working in journalism; the subjects and framing of the stories they tell; and ultimately the people who consume those stories. Alongside histories of equal rights and feminist movements, this textbook explores a broad spectrum of gender, race, class, and sexuality including the experiences of men and LGBTQ communities
Get Your Sh*t Together
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Provides a straight-talking, humorous, and helpful guide to shedding self-doubt and finding one's own path to success.
The Heartbeat Library
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On the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima there is a library where the heartbeats of visitors from all around the world are collected. In this small, isolated building, the pulses of people who are still alive or who have already passed away continue to echo. Several miles away, in the ancient city of Kamakura, two lonely souls meet: Shuichi, a forty-year-old illustrator, who returns to his hometown to fix up the house of his recently deceased mother, and eight-year-old Kenta, a child he finds wandering like a shadow around it.
Japanese the Manga Way
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Japanese difficult? Study boring? Not if you use a "real manga, a real Japanese" approach to learning.
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
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Jump!
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From bugs and frogs to alligators and whales, frightened animals always move out of the way of a larger opponent.
The life impossible
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When retired Maths teacher Grace is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the Balearics Grace searches for answers about her friend's life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.
A Little Life
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When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity.
The Medea and some poems
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A new version of Euripides's play which was set to music by Virgil Thomson.
Medusa of the Roses
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Sex, vengeance, and betrayal in modern day Tehran--Navid Sinaki's bold and cinematic debut is a queer literary noir following Anjir, a morbid romantic and petty thief whose boyfriend disappears just as they're planning to leave their hometown for good. Anjir and Zal are childhood best friends turned adults in love. The only problem is they live in Iran, where being openly gay is criminalized, and the government's apparent acceptance of trans people requires them to surgically transition and pass as cis straight people.
Modern Japanese Tanka
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Like haiku, tanka is a short, classical verse form that has attracted considerable attention in this century. This is the first collection of modern tanka available in English.
Not He or She, I'm Me
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A child gets ready for a wonderful day. They gleefully get dressed, hug their parents, go to school, and play with friends. All the while, unapologetically reminding themselves that they are and can only be themselves. The nonbinary experience is brightly illustrated as we follow our main character through their typical day. The story's bouncy and fun refrain reminds all readers of gender-neutral pronouns and affirms the identities of nonbinary children, encouraging readers to practice empathy for themselves and others.
The Pilot's Wife
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After a pilot dies in the crash of an airliner, his wife discovers he was a bigamist. A face-to-face follows between the legal wife, Kathryn of Boston by whom he had one child, and the other woman, Muire, who lives in England with their two children. By the author of The Weight of Water.
Queen Macbeth
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A thousand years ago in an ancient Scottish landscape, a woman is on the run with her three companions--a healer, a weaver, and a seer. The men hunting her will kill her--because she is the only one who stands between them and their violent ambition.
The Ribbon Skirt: a Graphic Novel
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Ten-year-old Anang wants to make a ribbon skirt, a piece of clothing typically worn by women in the Anishinaabe tradition, for an upcoming powwow. Anang is two-spirit and nonbinary and doesn't know what others will think of them wearing a ribbon skirt, but they're determined to follow their heart's desire. Anang sets off to gather the materials needed to make the skirt and turns to those around them -- their family, their human and turtle friends, the crows, and even the lake itself -- for help. And maybe they'll even find a new confidence within themself along the way.
Rich people problems
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Nicholas Young's grandmother Su Yi is on her deathbed. While he rushes to be by her bedside, he's not the only one. The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe to stake claim on their matriarch's massive fortune. With all parties vying to inherit a trophy estate in the heart of Singapore, Nicholas's childhood home turns into a hotbed of sabotage and scandal. Taking us from the elegantly appointed mansions of Manila to the secluded private islands in the Sulu Sea, Kevin Kwan's final installment in this irresistible trilogy reveals the long-buried secrets of Asia's most privileged families and their rich people problems.
The Road
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The story of a nameless father and son trying to survive with their humanity intact in a postapocalyptic wasteland where Earth's natural resources have been diminished, and some survivors are left to raise others for meat.
The Routledge Companion to Latin American Cinema
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The Routledge Companion to Latin American Cinema is the most comprehensive survey of Latin American cinemas available in a single volume. While highlighting state-of-the-field research, essays also offer readers a cohesive overview of multiple facets of filmmaking in the region, from the production system and aesthetic tendencies, to the nature of circulation and reception.
The Skin and Its Girl
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The Skin and Its Girl is a searing, poetic tale about desire and identity and a provocative exploration of how we let stories divide, unite, and define us-and even wield the power to restore a broken family. Sarah Cypher is that rare debut novelist who writes with the mastery and flair of a seasoned storyteller
Stars in Their Eyes: a Graphic Novel
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Maisie is on her way to her first fancon and she can't wait to meet her idol, an action star who had an above-the-knee amputation, just like Maisie. But then she meets Ollie. Ollie is a cute volunteer working the show, and they geek out about nerd culture, just as much as Maisie does. After spending the day together, Maisie notices feelings for Ollie that she's never had before. Could Ollie feel the same way?
Structuring Your Novel
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Why do some stories work and others don't? The answer is structure. In this book, you will learn the universal underpinnings that guarantee powerful plot and character arcs. An understanding of proper story and scene structure will show you how to perfectly time your story's major events and will provide you with an unerring standard against which to evaluate your novel's pacing and progression.
Tales of the Brothers Grimm
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Here you'll find oft-told favorites--'Rapunzel,' 'Red Riding Hood,' 'The Frog Prince'--alongside lesser-known gems like 'The Three Languages,' in which a young man goes to Rome on a whim and ends up as Pope. As Dr. Estés notes, you won't find 'greedy monsters of the forest . . . turned into plush toys.' In these pages, witches are hideous, death is often violent, and Rackham's figures breathe a chilling, flesh-and-bone realism. So join us in these rather dark woods, where lurk the stories that, in the words of Dr. Estés, 'reflect all of our shiver-dreads, all of our longing-loves, and all of our incorruptible hopes.'
Tito Puente, Mambo King/Tito Puente, Rey Del Mambo
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A vibrant bilingual picture-book biography that portrays the musical and cultural phenomenon of Tito Puente, Mambo King
The Ugly American
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In linked stories and vignettes set in the fictional nation of Sarkhan, the author's introduce an unlikely hero -- and to the ignorant politicians and arrogant ambassadors who ignore his empathetic and commonsense advice. William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick draw an incisive portrait of American foreign policy gone dangerously wrong -- and how it might be fixed.
Universal Monsters: Dracula
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When Dr. John Seward admits a strange new patient named Renfield into his asylum, the madman tells stories of a demon who has taken residence next door. But as Dr. Seward attempts to apply logic to the impossible...his daughter falls under the spell of the twisted Count Dracula!
The Universe in Verse
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Poetry and science, as Popova writes in her introduction, "are instruments for knowing the world more intimately and loving it more deeply." In 15 short essays on subjects ranging from the mystery of dark matter and the infinity of pi to the resilience of trees and the intelligence of octopuses, Popova tells the stories of scientific searching and discovery. Each essay is paired with a poem reflecting its subject by poets ranging from Emily Dickinson, W. H. Auden, and Edna St. Vincent Millay to Maya Angelou, Diane Ackerman, and Tracy K. Smith
Waiting for the Biblioburro/Esperando el Biblioburro
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When a man brings to a remote village two burros, Alfa and Beto, loaded with books the children can borrow, Ana's excitement leads her to write a book of her own as she waits for the Biblioburro to return. Includes glossary of Spanish terms and a note on the true story of Columbia's Biblioburro and mobile libraries in other countries.
Ana ama las historias. Pero en su pequeño pueblo, hay pocos libros y ella ya los ha leído todos. Una mañana, Ana se despierta con el "clip-clop" de cascos y la maravillosa imagen de dos burros cargando una biblioteca repleta de todos los libros que una niña pequeña pueda desear.
The Weight of Water
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A tale of marital intrigue. The protagonist is a woman photographer sent to investigate an old murder on an island. She takes along her husband, the husband's brother and the brother's girlfriend. Problems arise when the husband develops an interest in the other woman. By the author of Resistance.
Who Killed Homer
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An in-depth study of why the Greek point of view is crucial to a well-rounded education, Who Kille Homer? analyzes how and why it is vanishing from our present-day educational system. With straight-forward advice and reading lists, it is also a highly useful primer for anyone who wants more knowledge of the classics.
Winter Solstice Wish
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On the shortest day of the year, communities come together to celebrate and savor every ray of light.
American Indian Law in a Nutshell
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This guide provides a reliable resource on American Indian law. Its authoritative text covers the essentials of this complex body of law, with attention to the governmental policies underlying it. The work emphasizes both the historical development of Federal Indian Law and recent matters such as the evolution of Indian gaming, issues arising under the Indian Child Welfare Act, and the present enforcement of treaty rights. It addresses the policy and law applicable to Alaska Natives, but does not deal with Native Hawai'ians.
The Constitutional and Legal Rights of Women
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Authors Goldstein, Baer, Daum and Fine skillfully blend doctrinal and political developments to document and explain the evolution of women's rights and the law as well as the dynamics and dissension among feminist activists. Building on three previous editions, this book combines updated material on constitutional law, sex and gender discrimination, and women's reproductive rights, with new cases and readings on family law, criminal law, and LGBT rights.
The Constitutional Bind
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Americans today are increasingly uneasy about the democratic weaknesses of their Federal Constitution. But for most of living memory that very Constitution has been idealized as near perfect. How could it be that this flawed system came to enjoy such intense veneration? In a striking reinterpretation of the American constitutional past, Aziz Rana connects the spread of a distinctive twentieth century American relationship to its founding document to another development rarely treated alongside it: the rise of the U.S. to global dominance.
Copyright for Schools
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Copyright for Schools makes legal concepts related to United States copyright law understandable to educators. A staple on reference shelves, it has now been updated with new court rulings and technology applications.
A Dangerous Idea
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In 1925, when Tennesse lawmakers banned the teaching of evolution in public schools, teacher John Scopes challenged the law--and set off a gripping circus of a legal battle. Two masterminds faced off in court in a blistering debate over creationism and natural selection. A narrative nonfiction book on the Scopes Monkey Trial
The Privacy Fallacy
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Explains how privacy laws are overridden by technology companies and how they can be improved. Drawing from behavioral science, psychology, sociology, and economics, the book dispels misconceptions that trap us into ineffective approaches to growing digital harms. It then develops solutions based on corporate accountability
A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other
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Today's Supreme Court is unlike any other in American history. This is not just because of its jurisprudence. It is because today's Court is uniquely distanced from the democratic processes that buttress its legitimacy. For example, five of the nine justices took their seats after winning confirmation with the support of senators who won far fewer votes than their colleagues in opposition, and three of these five justices were also nominated by a president who lost the popular vote.
The World of Prometheus
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From imprisonment to stoning to refusal of burial, instances of punishment in ancient Athens fueled conversations among ordinary citizens and political and literary figures about the nature of justice. Re-creating in vivid detail the cultural context of the conversation, Allen shows punishment gave the community an opportunity to establish a shining myth of harmony and cleanliness: that the city could be purified of anger and social struggle, and perfect order achieved. Broad in scope, this book is one of the first to offer both a full account of punishment in antiquity and an examination of the political stakes of democratic punishment.
That Librarian
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One of the things small town librarian Amanda Jones values most about books is how they can affirm a young person's sense of self. So in 2022, when she caught wind of a local public hearing that would discuss "book content," she knew what was at stake. Schools and libraries nationwide have been bombarded by demands for books with LGTBQ+ references, discussions of racism, and more to be purged from the shelves. Amanda would be damned if her community were to ban stories representing minority groups.
Typography Essentials Revised and Updated
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Provides a practical, hands-on resource that distills and organizes the many complex issues surrounding the effective use of typography. Each of the 100 principles, which cover all practical aspects of designing with type, has an explanation and inspiring visual examples drawn from international books, magazines, posters, and more.
The Biggest Number in the World
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We all know that numbers go on forever, that you could spend your life counting and never reach the end of the line, so there can't be such a thing as a 'biggest number.' Or can there? To find out, David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee embark on an epic quest, revealing the answers to questions like: are there more grains of sand on Earth or stars in the universe? Is there enough paper on Earth to write out the digits of a googolplex? And what is a googolplex? Then things get serious.
Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science
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Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science: An Example-Based Introduction is intended for a first or second-year discrete mathematics course for computer science majors. It covers many important mathematical topics essential for future computer science majors, such as algorithms, number representations, logic, set theory, Boolean algebra, functions, combinatorics, algorithmic complexity, graphs, and trees.
Math with Bad Drawings
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A hilarious reeducation in mathematics-full of joy, jokes, and stick figures-that sheds light on the countless practical and wonderful ways that math structures and shapes our world. In Math With Bad Drawings, Ben Orlin reveals to us what math actually is; its myriad uses, its strange symbols, and the wild leaps of logic and faith that define the usually impenetrable work of the mathematician. Truth and knowledge come in multiple forms: colorful drawings, encouraging jokes, and the stories and insights of an empathetic teacher who believes that math should belong to everyone.
Real Analysis and Infinity
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Real Analysis and Infinity presents the essential topics for a first course in real analysis with an emphasis on the role of infinity in all of the fundamental concepts. After introducing sequences of numbers, it develops the set of real numbers in terms of Cauchy sequences of rational numbers, and uses this development to derive the important properties of real numbers like completeness. The book then develops the concepts of continuity, derivative, and integral, and presents the theory of infinite sequences and series of functions.
American Popular Music
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The most complete and richly supported introduction to American popular music. Explore the rich terrain of American popular music with the most complete introduction of its kind. With the sixth edition of the bestselling text American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MP3, Starr and Waterman help students hear more in the music around them with a cultural and social history of popular music.
Applying Music in Exercise and Sport
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Applying Music in Exercise and Sport combines contemporary research, evidence-based practice, and specific recommendations to enhance motivation and performance through music-related intervention. Readers will examine the psychological and physiological effects of music and learn how to apply scientific principles to personal workouts, group exercise classes, and a variety of sports
Beyoncé in the World
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Bringing together interdisciplinary scholars with expertise in gender and ethnic studies; communication and cultural studies; and music, religion, history, and literature, this volume draws on a diversity of perspectives and methods to investigate the artistic meanings, cultural contexts, and significance of Beyoncé's Lemonade
Blacksound
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Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book, Matthew D. Morrison develops the concept of "Blacksound" to uncover how the popular music industry and popular entertainment in general in the United States took shape during slavery out of blackface.
Composers
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A compelling celebration of more than 90 of the world's most influential composers from the medieval period to the present day, Composers reveals the fascinating stories of their lives, loves, and works. Biographical entries - introduced with a stunning portrait of each featured composer - trace the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired each musical genius. Profiles offer revealing insights into what drove each individual to create the musical masterpieces - symphonies, concertos, and operatic scores - that changed the direction of classical music and are still celebrated and treasured today.
Country Music
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Encyclopedia of Classic Rock
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More than movies, literature, television, or theater, rock music set the stage for the cultural shifts that occurred from 1965 to 1975. Led by The Beatles and Bob Dylan, rock became a self-conscious art form during these years, daring to go places unimaginable to earlier rock and roll musicians. The music and outspokenness of classic rock artists inspired and moved the era's social, cultural, and political developments with a power once possessed by authors and playwrights-and influenced many artists in younger generations of rock musicians.
Music, Thought, and Feeling
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Examining the intersection of music, psychology, and neuroscience, Music, Thought, and Feeling surveys the rapidly growing field of music cognition and explores its most interesting questions. Written in clear, engaging language that balances scientific and artistic perspectives, this book provides an excellent introduction to-and critical analysis of-the major issues in music cognition, making it ideal for courses in psychology of music.
Steely Dan Reelin' in the Years
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This is the acclaimed biography of Steely Dan, now updated to include details of Walter Becker's passing and Donald Fagen's continued touring with the band.
Alone Advantage
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Twenty minutes a day with God can change everything. Through focused alone time and question-driven journaling, Terri Savelle Foy will guide readers to discover how God has equipped them for purpose, hope, and success
Beyond the Threshold: afterlife beliefs and experiences in world religions
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Beyond the Threshold explores afterlife beliefs and practices in world religions, including discussions of afterlife and metaphysical experiences. The second edition features a new chapter on African spiritual perspectives, as well as updated research on paranormal phenomena, updated statistics and research, and more.
Bonhoeffer: pastor, martyr, prophet, spy
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As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside.
The Collected Works of C. G. Jung
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Essays which state the fundamentals of Jung's psychological system: "On the Psychology of the Unconscious" and "The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious," with their original versions in an appendix.
Death
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Ours is a death-denying society. But death is inevitable, and we must face the question of how to deal with it. Coming to terms with our own finiteness helps us discover life's true meaning. Why do we treat death as a taboo? What are the sources of our fears? How do we express our grief, and how do we accept the death of a person close to us? How can we prepare for our own death? Drawing on our own and other cultures' views of death and dying, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross provides some illuminating answers to these and other questions.
End Your Story, Begin Your Life
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Dreaver lays out a straightforward practice that will help readers learn to see and experience life in the present moment, free of any negative thoughts, concepts, beliefs, or stories. He walks readers through his simple, easy-to-use, three-step practice for transformation: be present with your experience; notice your story; see the truth
Food Philosophy
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Food is a challenging subject. There is little consensus about how and what we should produce and consume. It is not even clear what food is or whether people have similar experiences of it. On one hand, food is recognized as a basic need, if not a basic right. On the other hand, it is hard to generalize about it given the wide range of practices and cuisines, and the even wider range of tastes. This book is an introduction to the philosophical dimensions of food. David M. Kaplan examines the nature and meaning of food, how we experience it, the social role it plays, its moral and political dimensions, and how we judge it to be delicious or awful.
Religious Liberty in a Polarized Age
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A nonpartisan case for the importance of religious liberty in US society.
Round We Dance
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With an emphasis on the cycles of nature instead of diety worship, the author shows readers how to celebrate the wheel of the year holidays, rites of passage, and personal obervances, using dozens of rituals, workings, crafts, and recipes.
Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature
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In this new book from the Dalai Lama, the reader will discover the mind's infinitely vast potential, its buddha nature. Knowledge of buddha nature reveals and reconciles the paradox of how the mind can be the basis for both the duhkha of samsara (the unpurified mind) and the bliss and fulfillment of nirvana (the purified mind). To illustrate this, Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature first takes readers through Buddhist thought on the self, the four truths, and their sixteen attributes. It then explains afflictions--including how they arise and their antidotes--followed by an examination of karma and cyclic existence, and, finally, a deep and thorough elucidation of buddha nature. Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature shows us how to purify our minds and cultivate awakened qualities.
The 5000 Year Leap
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Explains twenty-eight "principles of freedom" as defined by America's founding fathers, discussing the role of religion, the equality of men, the system of checks and balances, obtaining peace through strength, and more.
The American President
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Of course, hard times test the mettle of every president, however golden the age in which he serves, because the problems of the country--and the world--are often left at the president's feet. And though he can rely on the counsel of his Cabinet as well as the Congress and Senate, the burden of making each decision, not to mention accepting the consequences, rests squarely on his shoulders alone. As John F. Kennedy remarked, "No easy problem ever comes to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them."
Border Brokers: children of Mexican immigrants navigating U.S. society, laws, and politics
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This book offers a nuanced look at how the children of Mexican immigrants navigate U.S. border policies and enforcement practices
Break It Up: secession, division, and the secret history of America's imperfect union
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From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a "powerful revisionist account" of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up (Eric Foner). The novel and fiery thesis of Break It Up is simple: the United States has never lived up to its name -- and never will. The disunionist impulse may have found its greatest expression in the Civil War, but as Break It Up shows, the seduction of secession wasn't limited to the South or the nineteenth century. With a scholar's command and a journalist's curiosity, Kreitner takes readers on a revolutionary journey through American history, revealing the power and persistence of disunion movements in every era and region.
California Politics
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The thoroughly revised Fifth Edition of California Politics: A Primer concisely explains how California’s history, political culture, rules, and institutions come together to shape politics today and how they will determine the state of affairs tomorrow.
The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau's Social Contract
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Few texts have offered more influential and important answers to research questions than Rousseau's Social Contract, and in this new Cambridge Companion, a multidisciplinary team of contributors provides new ways to navigate this masterpiece of political philosophy- and its animating questions.
Congress's Constitution
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Congress is widely supposed to be the least effective branch of the federal government. But as Josh Chafetz shows in this boldly original analysis, Congress in fact has numerous powerful tools at its disposal in its conflicts with the other branches. These tools include the power of the purse, the contempt power, freedom of speech and debate, and more. Drawing extensively on the historical development of Anglo-American legislatures from the seventeenth century to the present, Chafetz concludes that these tools are all means by which Congress and its members battle for public support.
The Constant Two Plan
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This book explores a novel approach to reform the Electoral College to allocate for two electoral votes from each state to the national popular vote winner, in order to bring the American presidential election process more in line with democratic norms and principles
Contesting the Far Right
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Leeb compares cases such as the appeal of the Alt-Right to American millennials and the growing electoral success of the Freedom Party in Austria, along with illustrative literary examples (such as Ishiguro and Hochschild), to demonstrate how her analysis can be applied broadly and historically, and she suggests approaches to counter the ability of the extreme right to recruit and retain new followers.
The Devil's Chessboard
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America's greatest untold story: the United States' rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. Drawing on revelatory new materials, including newly discovered U.S. government documents, U.S. and European intelligence sources, the personal correspondence and journals of Allen Dulles's wife and mistress, and exclusive interviews with the children of prominent CIA officials, Talbot reveals the underside of one of America's most powerful and influential figures.
Essential Supreme Court Decisions
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The only reference guide to Supreme Court cases organized both topically and chronologically within chapters so that readers understand how cases fit into a historical context, the 18th edition has been updated with 20 new cases, including landmark decisions on such topics as executive powers, federalism, religious freedom, free speech, LGBTQ rights, and voting rights, among others. Updated through the end of the 2021 Supreme Court session, this book remains and indispensable resource for undergraduate and law school students, lawyers, and everyone interested in our nation's laws and Constitution.
Free Speech and Turbulent Freedom
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Michael J. Glennon offers a response to the increasing censorship of America's digital marketplace of ideas, arguing that the censors are short-sighted. Quibbling over outdated distinctions misses the real threat--which is the fusion of public and private power into a modern-day cartel able to overleap longstanding constitutional safeguards.
From Asylum to Prison
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Prisons and asylums developed in parallel in the United States as institutions dedicated to the quarantine, detention, and punishment of the socially marginal. A widely accepted popular narrative holds that deinstitutionalization from the 1950s to the 1990s diminished the role of asylums in America. Yet, as Anne E. Parsons reveals, the asylum did not die--in fact, many of its structures have been transformed into prisons, just as prisons have shifted to locking up those who in an earlier era would have been sent to an asylum.
From Fascism to Populism in History
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What is fascism and what is populism? What are their connections in history and theory, and how should we address their significant differences? What does it mean when pundits call Donald Trump a fascist, or label as populist politicians who span left and right such as Hugo Chávez, Juan Perón, Rodrigo Duterte, and Marine Le Pen? Federico Finchelstein, one of the leading scholars of fascist and populist ideologies, synthesizes their history in order to answer these questions and offer a thoughtful perspective on how we might apply the concepts today. While they belong to the same history and are often conflated, fascism and populism actually represent distinct political trajectories. Drawing on an expansive record of transnational fascism and postwar populist movements, Finchelstein gives us insightful new ways to think about the state of democracy and political culture on a global scale. This new edition includes an updated preface that brings the book up to date, midway through the Trump presidency and the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil.
Get Out the Vote
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Updated to include the newest research and published in time for the 2024 election cycle, this book will again be the indispensable guide to voter mobilization for campaign managers, consultants, and activists across the political spectrum
Judicial Process in America
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Known for shedding light on the link between the courts, public policy, and the political environment, the 12th edition of Judicial Process in America will provide a comprehensive overview of the American judiciary. Considering the courts from every level, the authors thoroughly cover judges, lawyers, litigants, and the variables at play in judicial decision making.
Late Admissions: confessions of a Black conservative
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In Late Admissions, Loury examines what it means to chart a sense of self over the course of a tempestuous, but well-considered, life.
Law 101
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In this fifth edition of his bestselling classic, Jay Feinman provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the American legal system. The book covers all the main subjects taught in the first year of law school, and discusses every facet of the American legal tradition, including constitutional law, the litigation process, and criminal, property, and contracts law. Above all, Feinman reveals to readers of all kinds that despite its complexities and quirks, the law can be understood by everyone.
The Narrow Corridor
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A crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others--and explains how it can continue to thrive despite new threats.
Nolo's Essential Guide to Child Custody and Support
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When you're getting divorced, you can make a tough time easier for your children (and yourself) if you work with the other parent to draw up a custody plan and agree on child support. Doskow shows you how negotiation and mediation can keep costs down; where to find your state's child support guidelines; how to enforce and change custody and support orders; what military families need to know, and much more.
On Liberty and Other Writings
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This Norton Critical Edition includes three major essays - On Liberty (1859), Utilitarianism (1861), and The Subjection of Women (1869) - that illustrate Mill’s liberal political philosophy at the height of his powers.
Paralegal certification exam prep : 650+ multiple choice questions
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With 699 questions, Dynamic Path's Certified Paralegal module is the perfect way to prepare on-the-go for your new career as a Paralegal or Legal Assistant. We created this paperback format as an inexpensive practice set that you can mark up and take with you on the go.This module contains professionally-written multiple-choice review questions with detailed, helpful explanations, all written by legal experts.
Paralegal Study Guide 2020-2021
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If you are studying to become a paralegal, you appreciate having everything you need to know in a concise, comprehensive package. This study guide is concept driven and streamlined, to help you get better results through more effective study time.
The President Who Would Not Be King
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Vital perspectives for the divided Trump era on what the Constitution's framers intended when they defined the extent--and limits--of presidential power. One of the most vexing questions for the framers of the Constitution was how to create a vigorous and independent executive without making him king. In today's divided public square, presidential power has never been more contested. The President Who Would Not Be King cuts through the partisan rancor to reveal what the Constitution really tells us about the powers of the president.
The Supreme Court and the Philosopher
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English philosopher John Stuart Mill's understanding of the freedom of speech has been increasingly adopted over the last century into the US Supreme Court's interpretation of the First Amendment, beginning with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s use of an analogy that is now known as the 'marketplace of ideas'
Through Iceboxes and Kennels: how immigration detention harms children and families
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The southerly drive from Austin to Karnes City, Texas, takes about two hours. The first half-hour or so is on Interstate 35, traveling past car dealerships, fast food restaurants, and outlet malls. Leaving I-35 around about San Marcos, you take State Route 123 past front yards, farms, ranches, and "the graveyards of rusted automobiles," as Johnny, Arlo, and Willie sang. Small towns along the way are steeped in Texas history.
Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America
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The electoral college is the extraordinarily complex mechanism by which Americans choose their president. Is there any justification for such a system, which may elect the candidate who does not receive the most votes? Today, with two of the last five presidential elections having gone to the popular vote loser and the debacle following the 2020 election, the electoral college's flaws are more apparent than ever.
Win Win: an insider's guide to school bonds
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California has more than 1,000 school and community college (K-14) districts. When they need to build, repair or equip their campuses, these districts must ask voters to approve the issuance of general obligation (GO) bonds and raise property tax rates – a big ask. Scott demystifies the complex, often-challenging process that gives step-by-step insights into developing, structuring and selling GO bonds.
The Woman's Hour
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Following a handful of remarkable women who led their respective forces into battle, along with appearances by Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Frederick Douglass, and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Woman's Hour is an inspiring story of activists winning their own freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights
Adolescent Suicide
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For the past decade, Adolescent Suicide: Assessment and Intervention has been recognized as the best and most authoritative text on this most tragic of subjects. This long-awaited second edition incorporates almost 15 years of new research and critical thinking about clinical assessment and intervention in addition to an expanded focus on prevention. Authored by three of the world's leading experts on suicide, this book is a must-have reference and text for those working with this at-risk population.
Bullies, Tyrants, and Impossible People
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Presents a guide to dealing with difficult people in daily life, providing step-by-step techniques for neutralizing emotions and acting wisely at work, home, and life.
Getting Gamers: the psychology of video games and their impact on the people who play them
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Video games are big business. They can be addicting. They are available almost anywhere you go and are appealing to people of all ages. They can eat up our time, cost us money, even kill our relationships. But it's not all bad! This book will show that rather than being a waste of time, video games can help us develop skills, make friends, succeed at work, form good habits, and be happy. Taking the time to learn what's happening in our heads as we play and shop allows us to approach games and gaming communities on our own terms and get more out of them. Video games are big business. They can be addicting. They are available almost anywhere you go and are appealing to people of all ages. They can eat up our time, cost us money, even kill our relationships. But it's not all bad! This book will show that rather than being a waste of time, video games can help us develop skills, make friends, succeed at work, form good habits, and be happy. Taking the time to learn what's happening in our heads as we play and shop allows us to approach games and gaming communities on our own terms and get more out of them.
Houseplant HortOCCULTure
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This book teaches you how to successfully grow plants in your home, connect with their energies, and partner with them for magic.
Last Child in the Woods
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In [this book, the author] talks with parents, children, teachers, scientists, religious leaders, child-development researchers, and environmentalists who recognize the threat and offer solutions. [He] shows us an alternative future, one in which parents help their kids experience the natural world more deeply - and find the joy of family connectedness in the process.
The Laws of Human Nature
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Robert Greene's bestselling 48 Laws of Power (1988) distilled ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding, and mastery. Now he turns to understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves. We are social animals. Our very lives depend on our relationships with people. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess.
Mindfulness and self-regulation for children : over 70 powerful tasks + workbook for sensory processing disorder, ADHD, trauma, and anxiety
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Hi, my name is Vanessa B. McDonovan Ph. D. The vast experience I have gained in this field has led me to create this "manual" to help at a distance anyone looking for a way forward in the management of Sensory Processing Disorder, ADHD, Trauma, and Anxiety. I have prepared for you over 70 exercises, activities, and tools to help you to the best of my ability.
The Parents' Guide to Psychological First Aid
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Presents articles by recognized experts who provide parents with the information needed in order to help children navigate the many trying problems that typically afflict young people.
Reinventing Masculinity
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In the wake of the #MeToo movement, a leading psychologist and a top journalist offer an alternative to toxic masculinity that is rooted in compassion, connection and respect
Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child
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Unthinkable. Unbelievable. Heartbreaking. Whatever words we choose, they all fall far short of the reality. The loss of a child is a terrible thing. How do we survive this? Can we? Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child was written to help.
The Unspeakable Loss
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Charting the long path from shock, trauma, and overwhelming pain, to a life that once again contains joy, love, and laughter, The Unspeakable Loss addresses the importance of self-care and also provides a needed view into how the death of a child affects siblings and other family members. Written in a Q & A format, The Unspeakable Loss goes deeply to the heart of grief, answering the urgent questions that accompany loss. "Will my tears ever stop?" "Who am I now without my child?" "How can I help my other children cope?" "Will my marriage survive?" "Will life ever feel worth living again?" By directly answering the questions raised by grief, The Unspeakable Loss speaks wisely and compassionately, offering bite-sized chunks of wisdom in language the bereaved can absorb.
Unwinding Anxiety
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Dr. Brewer teaches us map our brains to discover our triggers, defuse them with the simple but powerful practice of curiosity, and to train our brains using mindfulness and other practices that his lab has proven can work. Distilling more than 20 years of research and hands-on work with thousands of patients, including Olympic athletes and coaches, and leaders in government and business, Dr. Brewer has created a clear, solution-oriented program that anyone can use to feel better - no matter how anxious they feel
Your Grief, Your Way
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Everyone experiences grief differently after the loss of a loved one. Some people find solace in comforting quotes and warm words, while others feel a need to take action--to do something to memorialize their loss. And some benefit from both approaches. Here's a path forward for you, no matter how you process your grief.
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth
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In A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth, Henry Gee zips through the last 4.6 billion years with infectious enthusiasm and intellectual rigor. Drawing on the very latest scientific understanding and writing in a clear, accessible style, he tells an enlightening tale of survival and persistence that illuminates the delicate balance within which life has always existed
2024 Night Sky Almanac
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This in-depth guide first introduces readers to the objects in the sky--from stars, to comets, to globular clusters--and then takes them through the cosmic events to look out for each month in 2024, with sky maps, moon phase charts and info about the planets.
Agro-Product Processing Technology
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Global food security is a challenging issue. Meeting the food and nutritional requirements of the world has become an issue for national policymakers and is of public concern. There is a need to enhance agricultural production, as well as, to reduce postharvest loss, improve the quality of processed products, and add value to products to make more quality food available. Agro-product processing technology plays a major role to reduce post-harvest losses, improve the quality of processed products, and add value to the products. It also generates employment and ultimately contributes to food security.
Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students
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Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students, Seventh Edition, is the leading self-contained aircraft structures course text suitable for one or more semesters. It covers all fundamental subjects, including elasticity, structural analysis, airworthiness and aeroelasticity. Now in its seventh edition, the author has continued to expand the book’s coverage of analysis and design of composite materials for use in aircraft and has added more real-world and design-based examples, along with new end-of-chapter problems of varying complexity.
Airplane Flying Handbook
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The Federal Aviation Administration's official publication, AIRPLANE FLYING HANDBOOK provides pilots, student pilots, aviation instructors, and aviation specialists with information on every topic needed to qualify for and excel in the field of aviation
Animal life in the Yosemite : an account of the mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians in a cross-section of the Sierra Nevada
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Ansel Adams' Yosemite
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The photographs of Ansel Adams are among America's finest artistic treasures, and are the foundation of his legacy of environmental activism. The photographs of Yosemite National Park in this book features those selected by Adams during his lifetime to offer exclusively to part visitors as affordable souvenirs, to evoke a sense of awe and respect for nature. Many of these photographs have never before been published in book form.
Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden, Revised and Updated Second Edition
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With this indispensable gardening reference-now updated with new research, insights, and voices-learn how to create a healthy, balanced, and diverse garden capable of supporting a hard-working crew of beneficial pest-eating insects and eliminate the need for synthetic chemical pesticides.
The Bees in Your Backyard
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This book provides an introduction to the roughly 4,000 different bee species found in the United States and Canada, dispelling common myths about bees while offering tips for telling them apart in the field. The book features more than 900 color photos of the bees living all around us -- in our gardens and parks, along nature trails, and in the wild spaces between. It describes their natural history, including where they live, how they gather food, their role as pollinators, and even how to attract them to your own backyard.
Biology of Longevity and Aging
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The latest edition of Robert Arking's seminal text on the biology of aging takes on an extended title, since the field of gerontology has advanced to a point at which it is possible to separate the topic into two implicit subsets, longevity and aging. This multi-faceted description of the biology of aging guides the reader through increasingly interesting answers to seven fundamental questions: What is aging? Why do we age? What mechanisms support extended longevity? What determines the onset of senescence? What is the mechanistic basis of senescence? Why do humans live so long? And lastly, what pro-longevity societal interventions are needed?
Block by Block: the Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Thermodynamics
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This book offers an original perspective on thermodynamic science and history based on the three approaches of a practicing engineer, academician, and historian. The book synthesises and gathers into one accessible volume a strategic range of foundational topics involving the atomic theory, energy, entropy, and the laws of thermodynamics.
The Brain That Changes Itself
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A new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychoanalyst Doidge traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they've transformed--people whose mental limitations or brain damage were seen as unalterable.
A Brief History of Intelligence
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"In the last decade, the science of understanding the human brain and replicating its most complicated processes through artificial intelligence has grown exponentially. Intricate neurological functions ranging from writing poetry to crafting original articles, arenas that had long been thought of as science fiction, have become our reality. And yet, large gaps remain in what AI can achieve--gaps that, as pioneering artificial intelligence entrepreneur Max Bennett argues compellingly, exist because there is still too much we don't understand about our own brains. Finding these answers requires diving into the long billion-year history of how animal brains emerged from matter; a history filled with countless half-starts, calamities, opportunities, and clever innovations. Not only do our brains have a story to tell--in fact the future of AI depends on it.
Chemical Kinetics
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This book presents a general overview of different contemporary facets of chemical kinetics in a variety of different environments. It includes 23 seminal works and reviews on different aspects of reaction processes in chemical, physical and biophysical systems, both theoretical and experimental.
China Lake
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Barret Baumgart's literary debut presents a haunting and deeply personal portrait of civilization poised at the precipice, a picture of humanity caught between its deepest past and darkest future. In the fall of 2013, during the height of California's historic drought, Baumgart toured the remote military base, NAWS China Lake, near Death Valley, California. His mother, the survivor of a recent stroke, decided to come along for the ride. She hoped the alleged healing power of the base's ancient Native American hot springs might cure her crippling headaches. Baumgart sought to debunk claims that the military was spraying the atmosphere with toxic chemicals to control the weather. What follows is a discovery that threatens to sever not only the bonds between mother and son but between planet Earth and life itself.
Drought, Flood, Fire
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Every year, droughts, floods, and fires impact hundreds of millions of people and cause massive economic losses. Climate change is making these catastrophes more dangerous. Now. Not in the future: NOW. This book describes how and why climate change is already fomenting dire consequences, and will certainly make climate disasters worse in the near future
Electrochemistry Crash Course for Engineers
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This book is a concise introductory guide to understanding the foundations of electrochemistry. By using simplified classroom-tested methods developed while teaching the subject to engineering students, the author explains in simple language an otherwise complex subject that can be difficult to master for most. It provides readers with an understanding of important electrochemical processes and practical industrial applications, such as electrolysis processes, metal electrowinning, corrosion and analytical applications, and galvanic cells such as batteries, fuel cells, and supercapacitors.
The Elements of Marie Curie: how the glow of radium lit a path for women in science
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Sobel crafts a luminous chronicle of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the many remarkable young women trained in her laboratory who were launched into stellar scientific careers of their own.
Farm and Workshop Welding, Third Revised Edition
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Welding is a valuable skill and almost anyone can learn to weld, cut, or shape metal. That's the starting point for this completely updated, supremely practical, and informative resource which, through tips, suggestions, and fault finding, helps the first timer improve and the intermediate welder expand their technique. The detailed sections inside Farm and Workshop Welding describe all the major types of welds, beginning with basic practices then progressing into trickier methods. You'll find descriptive explanations, helpful visuals, step-by-step directions, and expert suggestions. With this comprehensive guide, you'll learn everything you need to know, from arc welding, TIG welding, MIG welding, and gas welding to plasma cutting, soldering, and welding plastic.
Fuzz: when nature breaks the law
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Combining little-known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows, langur impersonators, and mugging macaques, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat.
Gorilla Tactics: how to save a species
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Cummings shares his fascinating experiences as a "wildlife Robin Hood"--raising money from the rich and famous and redistributing it to endangered gorillas and their habitats--during his seventeen years leading the organization.
Handbook of Surface and Colloid Chemistry
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This new edition of the Handbook of Surface and Colloid Chemistry informs you of significant recent developments in the field. It highlights new applications and provides revised insight on surface and colloid chemistry’s growing role in industrial innovations. The contributors to each chapter are internationally recognized experts. Several chapters represent new research areas while others provide updates on important areas of the field.
Harper's illustrated biochemistry
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The thirty-second edition of Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry combines top-quality, full-color illustrations with authoritative, integrated coverage of biochemical disease and clinical information. Featuring numerous medically relevant examples, this respected text presents a clear, succinct review of the fundamentals that every student must understand in order to succeed in medical school.
Hydroponics for Beginners
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Hydroponics is a revolutionary method of gardening that allows you to grow vegetables, fruits, and herbs in water, without any soil. The word “hydroponics” comes from the ancient Greek formation of “hydro”, meaning water, and “ponics”, meaning labor. In hydroponics, plants can base their roots in a growing medium instead of soil and get the nutrients they need from a nutrient solution, which is essentially nutrients in either liquid or powdered form dissolved in water. That’s right—no soil, no mess! With hydroponics, you can grow plants indoors all year round and not have to rely on weather, which can be so volatile
The Incomparable Valley
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Describes the domes, cliffs, waterfalls, and other natural monuments found in Yosemite Valley and the Sierra Nevada while tracing the region's geologic evolution since the Cenozoic era.
Introduction to Fire in California
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What is fire? How are wildfires ignited? How do California's weather and topography influence fire? How did the California Indians use fire? David Carle focuses on this fundamental element of the natural world, giving a fascinating and concise view of this complex topic. This clearly written, dramatically illustrated book will help Californians, including the millions who live near naturally flammable wildlands, better understand their own place in the state's landscape.
John Muir: nature's visionary
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Examines the life of the Scottish-born naturalist, whose journeys through the Gulf of Mexico, Sierra Nevadas, and Alaska instilled a love for the natural world and led him to fight for its preservation.
Mass
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Jim Baggott explores how our understanding of the nature of matter, and its fundamental property of mass, has developed, from the ancient Greek view of indivisible atoms to quantum mechanics, dark matter, the Higgs field, and beyond. He shows how the stuff of the universe is proving more elusive and uncertain than we ever imagined.
Midnight in Chernobyl
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Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster; and an investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters.
Modern Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
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Focused on closing the gap from students to technicians with our commitment to top-quality coverage of fundamentals and the latest technology. This classic is an excellent blend of theory, skill development, and service techniques and HVAC systems. Technical content has never been more up to date.
National Geographic: The Photo Ark Vanishing
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Joel Sartore's quest to photograph all the animal species under human care celebrates its 15th year with this glorious and heartwrenching collection of photographs. The animals featured in these pages are either destined for extinction or already extinct in the wild but still alive today, thanks to dedication of a heroic group committed to their continued survival. From the majestic Sumatran rhinoceros to the tiny Salt Creek tiger beetle, Sartore's photographs bring us eye to eye with the kaleidoscopic diversity of shapes, colors, personalities, and attitudes of the animal world.
National Geographic Birds, Bees, and Butterflies
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Generously illustrated and full of practical information, this approachable reference covers the wide world of birds, butterflies, and pollinating insects, including honeybees, and how to bring them into a yard and garden. For the new homeowner choosing shrubs and flowers for landscaping or the retired couple with bird feeders out the picture window, this thorough text combines tips and advice with solid science.
Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It
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Plastic pollution is a global problem that defies a singular solution. Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It considers plastic's harm to the environment, from its production to its disposal, and offers a spectrum of solutions that require action by local and federal governments, businesses and non-profits, and individuals. Using specific examples and case studies, the book describes the history and chemistry of plastic, illustrates its harms, and points toward specific legislation and policies to offer concrete solutions.
A Passion for Nature
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A definitive biography traces the life of John Muir from his boyhood in Scotland up to his death on the eve of World War I and offers important insights into the passionate nature of America's first great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club.
The Physics Book
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The Physics Book comprises concise information and step-by-step diagrams that untangle knotty theories, memorable quotes, and witty illustrations that play with our understanding of physics. This diverse and inclusive account of physics includes Pythagoras's observations on music, Galileo's experiments with spheres, and Isaac Newton's theories of gravity and the laws of motion, unlocking Albert Einstein's insights into relativity, how the accidental discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation confirmed the Big Bang theory and the reasons most of the Universe is 'missing'
Physics for Animators
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This book takes the mystery out of physics tasks like character motion, light and shadow placement, explosions, ocean movement, and outer space scenes, making it easy to apply realistic physics to your work. Uniting theory and practice, author Michele Bousquet teaches animators how to swiftly and efficiently create scientifically accurate scenes and fix problem spots, and how and when to break the laws of physics. Ideal for everything from classical 2D animation to advanced CG special effects, this book provides animators with solutions that are simple, quick, and powerful.
Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners: 20 mysteries of honey bee behavior solved
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In each chapter, Seeley describes how he and his colleagues discovered a specific mystery about how a colony works, then how they solved it, and finally each closes with an explanation of the implications of the mystery and the way it fits into the wider field of honey bee research.
A Planet of Viruses
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A Planet of Viruses pulls back the veil on this hidden world. It presents the latest research on how viruses hold sway over our lives and our biosphere, how viruses helped give rise to the first life-forms, how viruses are producing new diseases, how we can harness viruses for our own ends, and how viruses will continue to control our fate for years to come.
The Planets
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The Planets features more than 200 stunning photographs of our solar system from the archives of NASA, each paired with a detailed caption. The content is organized by distance from the Sun--beginning with Mercury and moving outward through Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and the planetary objects beyond.
Plate Tectonics
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This textbook explains how mountains are formed and why there are old and young mountains. It provides a reconstruction of the Earths paleogeography and shows why the shapes of South America and Africa fit so well together. Furthermore, it explains why the Pacific is surrounded by a ring of volcanos and earthquake-prone areas while the edges of the Atlantic are relatively peaceful. This thoroughly revised textbook edition addresses all these questions and more through the presentation and explanation of the geodynamic processes upon which the theory of continental drift is based and which have led to the concept of plate tectonics.
Relativity
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After completing the final version of his general theory of relativity in November 1915, Albert Einstein wrote a book about relativity for a popular audience. This new edition of Einstein's book features an authoritative English translation of the text along with an introduction and a reading companion that examines the evolution of Einstein's thinking and casts his ideas in a broader present-day context.
Sally Ride: America's first woman in space
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The definitive biography of Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, with exclusive insights from Ride's family and partner, by the ABC reporter who covered NASA during its transformation from a test-pilot boys' club to a more inclusive elite.
Saturn in the 21st Century
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The Cassini Orbiter mission, launched in 1997, has provided state-of-the-art information into the origins and workings of Saturn. Drawing from new discoveries and scientific insight from the mission, this book provides a detailed overview of the planet as revealed by Cassini. Chapters by eminent planetary scientists and researchers from across the world comprehensively review the current state of knowledge regarding Saturn's formation, interior, atmosphere, ionosphere, thermosphere and magnetosphere.
Solar System
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A guide to the solar system provides a photographic tour of its eight planets, as well as asteroids and comets, and presents its history from its birth to the present.
Superman's Not Coming: our national water crisis and what we the people can do about it
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Clean water is as basic to life on planet Earth as hydrogen or oxygen. In her long-awaited book--her first to reckon with the condition of water on our planet--Erin Brockovich shows us what's at stake. She writes powerfully of the fraudulent science disguising our national water crisis: Cancer clusters are not being reported. People in Detroit and the state of New Jersey don't have clean water. The drinking water for more than six million Americans contains unsafe levels of industrial chemicals linked to cancer and other health issues.
SuperSight: what augmented reality means for our lives, our work, and the way we imagine the future
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From AI mirrors that advise us on our outfits, to museums that let us talk with deceased explorers and artists, to the ways we envision sustainable cities, the scope of augmented vision is boundless. SuperSight offers a rich speculative preview of the future and its implications, both shocking and thrilling.
"We Want Better Education!": the 1960s Chicano student movement, school walkouts, and the quest for educational reform in South Texas
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Barrera offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the educational, cultural, and political issues of the Chicano Movement in Texas. This movement became the political training ground for greater Chicano empowerment for students.
The ABCs of Queer History
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An alphabet book that highlights and celebrates queer history in the United States from A to Z, presenting bold ideas for big thinkers in every letter! A is for abundant, always, ally, and alive. F is for family, friendship, fluid, and free. O is for optimists, opportunity, open, and outspoken.
American Teenager: how trans kids are surviving hate and finding joy in a turbulent era
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Journalist Nico Lang spent a year traveling the country to document the lives of transgender, nonbinary, and genderfluid teens and their families. Drawing on hundreds of hours of on-the-ground interviews with them and the people in their communities, American Teenager paints a vivid portrait of what it's actually like to grow up trans today.
The Birds, the Bees, and the Elephant in the Room: talking to your kids about sex and other sensitive topics
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Covers a broad variety of topics including how babies are made, dating, safe sex practices, the differences between gender and sexual orientation, and how to discuss consent. It is perfect for caregivers struggling to find the words, and it aims to help navigate the sometimes murky waters of discussions around bodies and sex.
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
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Was the break-up of the Soviet Union inevitable? Thirty years after its collapse, Vladislav Zubok offers a major reinterpretation of the final years of the USSR. He reveals how Gorbachev's misguided reforms deprived the government of resources and empowered separatism. Collapse sheds new light on Russian democratic populism, the struggle for independence, the crisis of Soviet finances - and, ultimately, the fragility of an authoritarian state.
The Deaf Girl: a memoir of hearing loss, hope, and fighting against the odds
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Abigail Heringer made her television debut as an instant fan-favorite on ABC's The Bachelor. Stepping out of the luxurious limo, she confidently approached her bachelor and let him know that she'd be staring at his lips all night for two reasons: (1) she was born deaf and (2) he has some nice-looking lips. But Abigail's life didn't start out with this level of self-assured energy. In fact, it started with barely any at all.
Digital Media and Child and Adolescent Mental Health
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There are varied and mixed opinions about digital media. Often parents worry about issues like online bullying and inappropriate content, but these media can also be used in positive ways by children and adolescents. Digital and social media are a vast spectrum, with many different applications, and it's important to consider it all: the good, the bad, and the ugly. This book dispels some of the myths that surround young people's use of digital media, through practical tips and evidence-based research, and provides unique insights into young people's own perspectives.
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
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Chin's memoir explores the experiences of Asian Americans and the LGBTQ+ community-along with some wonderful descriptions of food-in a hopeful, brash, and inquisitive exploration of identity and coming of age.
Formidable: American women and the fight for equality, 1920-2020
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In this narrative, Griffith integrates the fight by white and Black women to achieve equality. Previously their parallel struggles for social justice have been presented separately—as white or Black topics—or covered narrowly, through only certain individuals, decades, or incidents. The author provides a sweeping, century-long perspective, and an expansive cast of change agents. From feminists and civil rights activists to politicians and social justice advocates, from working class women to mothers and homemakers, from radicals and conservatives to those who were offended by feminism, threatened by social change, or convinced of white supremacy, the diversity of the women’s movement mirrors America.
Gender after gender in consumer culture
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Gender After Gender in Consumer Culture provides an updated discussion of how gender cuts across consumer culture, in light of increasing gender fragmentation and integration with other identity positions. Sex, the biological distinction male/female, and gender, which refers to a person's sense of being male, female, or any other combinations of these, inform issues as varied as personal identity, social interactions, and market behaviours.
Glitter and Concrete: a cultural history of drag in New York City
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Drag historian Elyssa Maxx Goodman unearths the dramatic, provocative untold story of drag in New York City in all its glistening glory. Goodman ducks beneath the velvet ropes of Harlem Renaissance balls, examines drag's crucial role in the Stonewall Uprising, traces drag's influence on disco and punk rock as well as its unifying power during the AIDS crisis and 9/11, and culminates in the era of RuPaul's Drag Race. A significant contribution to queer history and an essential listen for anyone curious about the story that echoes beneath the heels.
Guns, Germs, and Steel
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The author dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for history's broadest patterns.
Happy Singlehood
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The singles' population is rapidly growing and doing so happily ever after. Instead of marrying, many singles nurture extensive social networks, develop self-sufficient lifestyles, and make flexible living arrangements. Happy Singlehood delves into these trends in a multi-method research and asks: "Which strategies help singles fight loneliness and social pressure? What can educators, policymakers, and urban planners do for happy singles? How will the future of happy singlehood look like?"
Hijab Butch Blues
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Spanning childhood to an elite college in the US and early adult life in New York City, each essay places Lamya's struggles and triumphs in the context of some of the most famous stories in the Quran. She juxtaposes her coming out with Musa liberating his people from the Pharaoh; asks if Allah, who is neither male nor female, might instead be nonbinary; and, drawing strength from the faith and hope of Nuh building his ark, begins to build a life of her own--all the while discovering that her identity as a queer, immigrant devout Muslim is, in fact, the answer to her quest for safety and belonging
How to Know a Person
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Brooks sets out to help us do better, posing questions that are essential for all of us: If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What parts of a person's story should you pay attention to?
Life among the Piutes
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Presents Paiute princess Sarah Winnemucca's 1885 account of her life and circumstances, in which she provides insight into the Native American perspective on the settlement of the West by whites, and discusses her own efforts to preserve the Paiute culture.
Male Alienation at the Crossroads of Identity, Culture and Cyberspace
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Looking at the male psyche from boyhood through adolescence and into adulthood, [this book] provides examples from clinical practice, current events, art, and literature that show what happens when alienation is severe and leads boys and men to discharge their emotional problems in the outside world ... [eg.] compulsive internet use, flawed concepts of masculinity, difficulties with mutually intimate relationships, trouble showing emotions, and identity issues, as well as the role of fathers.
The Mask of Masculinity
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At 30 years old, outwardly thriving but unfulfilled inside, Howes began a personal journey to find inner peace and to uncover the many masks that men, both young and old, wear. He started by asking for advice from some of the world's best psychologists, doctors, and household names like Tony Robbins and Ray Lewis. ... He teaches men how to break through the walls that hold them back and shows women how they can better understand the men in their lives.
Modern Manhood
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In Modern Manhood, reporter Cleo Stiller sheds light on all the gray areas out there, using conversations that real men and women are having with their friends, their dates, their family, and themselves. Free of judgment, preaching, and sugarcoating, Modern Manhood is engaging, provocative, and, ultimately, a great resource for gaining a deeper understanding of what it means to genuinely be a good man today.
Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong about Poverty
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What if the idealized image of American society--a land of opportunity that will reward hard work with economic success--is completely wrong? Few topics have as many myths, stereotypes, and misperceptions surrounding them as that of poverty in America. The poor have been badly misunderstood since the beginnings of the country, with the rhetoric only ratcheting up in recent times. Our current era of fake news, alternative facts, and media partisanship has led to a breeding ground for all types of myths and misinformation to gain traction and legitimacy. Poorly Understood is the first book to systematically address and confront many of the most widespread myths pertaining to poverty.
Popular Culture
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In this work, Marcel Danesi employs the lens of history to explore the relationship between popular culture's content and the means by which it is delivered. The third edition features new chapters on the commercial context of pop culture and explicitly focused on digital culture, as well as exercises and discussion prompts to deepen understanding.
Poverty in the United States
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Find out why the government and corporate and nonprofit organizations have never been able to end poverty and homelessness. Bob Pfeiffer, a retired CPA and entrepreneur, retired early to pursue his passion of working with the poor with the goal of ending poverty in the United States. To learn and explain why the government has never been able to get a foothold on poverty and homelessness, Pfeiffer applied his analytical skills to wade through heavy-handed bureaucracy and make the labyrinthine $462 billion U.S. welfare system understandable to everyone.
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India
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This revised and updated new edition of the 'Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India,' concentrates on India as it emerged after the economic reforms and the new economic policy of the 1980s and 1990s and as it develops in the twenty-first century. It presents new developments and advancements in the research literature and includes a discussion of the major political change in India since the Hindu nationalist party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in 2014. This handbook contains chapters by the field's foremost scholars dealing with fundamental issues in India's current cultural and social transformation.
The Science of Racism: Everything you need to know but probably don't - yet
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West looks at how racism impacts every stage and all facets of life, from birth to death, in education, work, and business, friendships and relationships, police and the justice system, and health care. He also looks at the challenges around studying these questions and the ways we can uncover the truth, and then where we go from here: why unconscious bias training can actually make things worse, and what systems and techniques can lead us to a more equitable future.
Sexuality and the Religious Imagination
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TePaske surveys many classic conflicts that exist between religious creeds and the irrepressible numinosity of the body, sex, and erotic love. In doing so, he charts an open course through Biblical Christianity, Catholic dogma, medieval sexual heresies and Gnosticism, as he reckons with our pagan religious heritage and the claims of Mother Earth and the underworld.
Sociology of Families
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Sociology of Families: Change, Continuity, and Diversity offers students an engaging introduction to sociological thinking about contemporary families in the United States. Rather than separating discussions of gender, race, class, and sexuality into separate chapters, like other texts often do, author Teresa Ciabattari incorporates family diversity and inequality throughout the text.
Straight
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In this book the author presents a history of heterosexuality, explores the contemporary psyche of sexual orientation, and shows how culture creates and manipulates thoughts and experiences of desire, love, and relationships. Like the typewriter and the light bulb, the heterosexual was invented in the 1860s and swiftly and permanently transformed Western culture.
Unconditional
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Unconditional is a parenting guide book that provides parents of an LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning) child with a framework for helping their LGBT child navigate a world that isn't always welcoming.
The Vertical World of Yosemite
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The great Yosemite climbs are described by the climbers who made the first ascents of those granite walls. 14 climbers-including Chouinard, Robbins, Steck, and Rowell-describe days of ecstasy, nights of terror, the rise and fall of pitons, bolts and egos.
We Will Be Jaguars: a memoir of my people
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Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest--one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s--Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing.Two decades later, Nemonte has emerged as one of the most forceful voices in climate change activism. She has spearheaded the alliance of indigenous nations across the Upper Amazon and led her people to a landmark victory against Big Oil, protecting over a half million acres of primary rainforest. Her message is as sharp as a spear--honed by her experiences battling loggers, miners, oil companies and missionaries.
The Women's Small Business Start-Up Kit
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This book is a guide for women interested in starting a small business. It includes information on how to: draft a business plan; raise start-up money, including through crowdfunding; choose a legal structure; hire employees; manage finances and taxes; qualify for special certification programs and contracts for women-owned businesses; and market and brand a business online and off. Also included are interviews with successful women business owners, and tips for maintaining work-life balance
Criminal Investigation
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Introduce modern investigative principles and practices using a field-based approach strongly grounded in current research with Hess/Hess Orthmann/Cho/Molan's best-selling Criminal Investigation, 12E. This edition introduces established tools, practices and policies while detailing the latest innovations in investigative technology and science today.
Criminal Justice in America
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The criminal justice system -- Crime and crime causation -- Criminal justice and the rule of law -- Police -- Policing : contemporary issues and challenges -- Police and law -- Courts and adjudication -- Pretrial procedures, plea bargaining, and the criminal trial -- Punishment and sentencing -- Corrections -- Incarceration and prison society -- Probation and intermediate sanctions -- Reentry into the community -- Juvenile justice -- Current challenges in criminal justice
Police Officer Study Guide: Entrance Exam Prep Book Secrets
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This Mometrix guide is filled with the critical information you will need in order to do well on your police officer exam. Includes the concepts, procedures, principles, and vocabulary that police departments expect you to have mastered before sitting for your exam.
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to find the Good Death
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Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. Doughty vividly describes decomposed bodies and investigates the world's funerary history. She argues that the expensive, impersonal American system fosters a corrosive fear of death that hinders our ability to cope and mourn. By comparing customs, she demonstrates that mourners everywhere respond best when they help care for the deceased, and have space to participate in the process. Illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a story about the many fascinating ways people everywhere have confronted the very human challenge of mortality.
Web Project Management: Delivering Successful Commercial Web Sites
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Web Project Management presents a solid Web project management method for building commercial Web sites. Developed by pres.co, a leading interactive agency, this refined eight-stage approach lets you closely manage your Web project's contributors, quality, costs, and schedules. The book also details how to define, measure, and understand your project's status on an ongoing basis - invaluable to the success of any project. This book is an indispensable resource, whether you are a project manager, online manager, Web director, consultant, or producer.
Financial and Managerial Accounting 16E
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Provide a strong foundation in business and accounting with Warren/Jones/Tayler’s FINANCIAL AND MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING, 16E. This edition presents all journal entries with accompanying T-accounts that show debit and credit postings to emphasize the impact of the journal entry on the accounting equation and financial statements. New data analytics examples and cases use data sets related to each chapter's content. New content demonstrates how to analyze and develop reports using Excel and Tableau.
Web Project Management: Delivering Successful Commercial Web Sites
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Web Project Management presents a solid Web project management method for building commercial Web sites. Developed by pres.co, a leading interactive agency, this refined eight-stage approach lets you closely manage your Web project's contributors, quality, costs, and schedules. The book also details how to define, measure, and understand your project's status on an ongoing basis - invaluable to the success of any project. This book is an indispensable resource, whether you are a project manager, online manager, Web director, consultant, or producer.
Hartman's Nursing Assistant Care
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Within Hartman's Nursing Assistant Care: Long-Term Care, you'll find clearly written care guidelines for working in long-term care, including OBRA requirements and state regulations. The textbook and accompanying workbook, instructor's guide, and online videos emphasize the importance of observing and reporting and providing person-centered, professional care.
The language of medicine
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Centering on learning medical terms by studying them in the context of the human body this highly praised, bestselling text helps you easily understand and remember imporant medical terminology by incorporating easy-to-follow explanations, relevant examples and countless reinforcement exercises. no matter where your career path takes you, Cabner's proven method for med term mastery will prepare you for success.
Workbook for Hartman's Nursing Assistant Care: Long-Term Care
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This workbook is designed to help students review what they have learned from reading the textbook (Hartman’s Nursing Assistant Care: Long-Term Care 5e). It is organized around learning objectives, which work like a built-in study guide. Multiple choice questions, crosswords, true/false statements, critical thinking scenarios, and other activities test the student's knowledge of the textbook’s 24 chapters. A skills checklist and practice certification exam are located at the end of the workbook.
Astronomy 2e
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Written in clear non-technical language, with the occasional touch of humor and a wide range of clarifying illustrations. It has many analogies drawn from everyday life to help non-science majors appreciate, on their own terms, what our modern exploration of the universe is revealing. The book can be used for either a one-semester or two-semester introductory course. The second edition has been updated according to new exploration and discoveries.
Human Anatomy 9E
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Using a functional anatomy theme, this text presents human anatomy as a well-illustrated "story" with the right amount of detail that learners can understand at an introductory level. Analogies and comparative descriptions make anatomical structures more memorable and understandable, and explain how the shape and composition of structures allow them to perform their functions. The 9th edition features new exercises and questions that help students learn and use anatomical language and interpret real-world medical images while learning basic human anatomy. Building on the functional anatomy approach of previous editions, selected illustrated tables have been enhanced to tell a more cohesive and logical "story" of human anatomy.
Native Bees of the Western United States (Volume 1.1)
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Each card features a colorful photo of the male, queen, foundress, worker, or variant of forty-two of the most commonly encountered species in the Western United States. Learn scientific and common names, taxonomy, habitat formation, forewing venation, sociality, and more in one place.
Organic Chemistry: Principles and Mechanisms
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With this third edition text, Joel Karty brings organic chemistry to life through a new series of student-focused videos on mastering mechanisms and succeeding in the course. Furthermore, Karty has brought more active-learning into the text, including a new two-column solved problem format that helps promote understanding over memorization, and in-text features that challenge students to apply new concepts just after reading about them.
College Algebra in Context: with applications for the managerial, life, and social sciences
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College Algebra in Context is a higher-education textbook that teaches algebra based on data analysis, modeling, and real-life applications from the management, life, and social sciences
Precalculus: Mathematics for Calculus
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This updated edition of Precalculus: Mathematics for Calculus introduces both problem solving and mathematical modeling early and emphasizes these principles throughout. Practical applications and reinforcement provide your students with a solid foundation in the principles behind mathematical thinking. Comprehensive and evenly paced, this latest edition provides complete coverage of the function concept and integrates a significant amount of graphing technology to help students develop insights into mathematical ideas.
Introducing Psychology
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A uniquely compelling introduction to psychology from three well-known researcher/educators/writers.
An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis
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Words and the world: language and reality -- What can we know?: knowledge -- What is the world like?: perceiving the world -- The way the world works: scientific knowledge -- What is and what must be: freedom and necessity -- What am I?: mind and body -- What else is there?: philosophy of religion -- The is and the ought: problems in ethics.
Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life
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For over 25 years, Jim Kwik has worked closely with successful men and women who are at the top in their fields as actors, athletes, CEOs, and business leaders from all walks of life to unlock their true potential. In Limitless, he reveals the science-based practices and field-tested tips to accelerate self-learning, communication, memory, focus, recall, and speed reading, to create amazing results. Limitless is the ultimate transformation book and gives people the ability to accomplish more -- more productivity, more transformation, more personal success and business achievement -- by changing their Mindset, Motivation, and Methods.
The Norton Anthology of World Literature [3 volumes]
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Volume A. Part I. Ancient Mediterranean and near Eastern literature -- Part II. South Asian literature -- Part III. Early Chinese literature -- Volume B. Part I. Medieval China -- Part II. Japan's classical age -- Part III. India's classical age -- Part IV. Circling the Mediterranean: Europe and the Islamic world -- Volume C. Part I. Encounters with Islam -- Part II. Europe and the new world.
Survival of the Friendliest: understanding our origins and rediscovering our common humanity
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Explains both our evolutionary success and our potential for cruelty in one stroke and sheds new light onto everything from genocide and structural inequality to art and innovation.
