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Black Cyclists : The Race for Inclusion
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Cycling emerged as a sport in the late 1870s, and from the beginning, Black Americans rode alongside and raced against white competitors. Robert J. Turpin sheds light on the contributions of Black cyclists from the sport's early days through the cementing of Jim Crow laws during the Progressive Era.
Kraus' Recreation and Leisure in Modern Society
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Kraus' Recreation and Leisure in Modern Society provides a detailed introduction to the history, developments, and current trends in leisure studies. The Twelfth Edition focuses on the challenges and opportunities impacting the profession — including dramatic demographic changes, new technologies, and innovations in marketing — through an array of pedagogical features, including engaging sidebars and case studies addressing contemporary issues. Focusing on ten different types of organizations— ranging from nonprofit community organizations and armed forces recreation to sports management and travel and tourism sponsors — the Twelfth Edition is an invaluable resource for students considering a career in the recreation and leisure industry.
Regulating Bodies
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With highlights across the spectrum of professional athletics from ski jumping to horse racing, "Regulating Bodies" narrates the global scientization of the sports industry and the lasting influence of protective sports policies on international discourses around race, sex, identity, and impairment.
Schoolishness
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In Schoolishness, Susan D. Blum continues her journey as an anthropologist and educator. The author defines "schoolishness" as educational practices that emphasize packaged "learning, " unimaginative teaching, uniformity, constant evaluation by others, arbitrary forms, predetermined time, and artificial boundaries, resulting in personal and educational alienation, dependence, and dread.
Sustainability
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The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for "sustainable foods" that were produced from "sustainable agriculture"; groups ranging from small advocacy organizations to city and state governments to the United Nations tout "sustainable development" as a strategy for local and global stability; and woe betide the city-dweller who doesn't aim for a "sustainable lifestyle." Seeming to have come out of nowhere to dominate the discussion-from permaculture to renewable energy to the local food movement-the ideas that underlie and define sustainability can be traced back several centuries. In this illuminating and fascinating primer, newly revised and updated, Jeremy L. Caradonna does just that, approaching sustainability from a historical perspective and revealing the conditions that gave it shape.
Milestone Visual Documents in American History
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This collection focuses on visual images as documents to be analyzed and understood in their own right, just as written documents are. Including primary sources from America in the 1600s to the present, this set features iconic photographs, paintings, cartoons, maps, and more. It pairs each visual source with in-depth scholarly analysis and commentary to help students and researchers better understand the image and place it in its historical context.
Uncovered: the story of insurance in America
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This book is a history of the insurance business and the regulation of that business in the United States.
Calm and in Control : Simple and Effective Strategies to Support Young Children's Self-Regulation
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Self-regulation isn't something we're born with. It's a skill we learn and improve over time. The better we are at self-regulation, the more successful we will be at life's tasks. Most children learn self-regulation—the ability to remain calm and in control of our thoughts, actions, and emotions—in response to an external event or stimuli, between the ages of three and seven. This book provides simple and effective strategies and activities to help every child in a preschool or kindergarten classroom learn to regulate their emotions and behaviors.
Connecting Equity, Literacy, and Language
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This book shows literacy professionals how to develop the dispositions and actions associated with advocacy-focused teaching. While portraits of culturally conscious literacy teachers are now readily available, becoming such a teacher continues to be a challenge. Drawing from 60+ years of experience working with teacher candidates and teachers in the city of Philadelphia, the authors argue that becoming an advocacy-focused literacy teacher requires making moral commitments to students and developing professional competencies that fuse literacy, language, and equity studies.
Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice
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Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice: The Role of Pedagogical Leadership in Early Child Programs is a comprehensive practical look at creating systems, structures, and protocols for supporting people in large and small organizations, individuals working as mentors, coaches or pedagogical leaders to invite educators into a thinking and learning process about their work. Readers will develop the skills and mindsets that can enhance their performance and effect organizational change.
Empowering Play in Primary Education
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The education system does not always promote or give primacy to play within the curriculum, yet research and policy alike acknowledge the importance of play for children and young people. Empowering Play in Primary Education addresses this issue, contributing innovative ideas about how teachers, teaching assistants and children may incorporate play within the classroom while also advocating for its use as a powerful tool for ensuring successful learning outcomes.
From Parents to Partners : Building a Family-Centered Early Childhood Program
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Build collaborative partnerships with families to help the whole family thrive. This book explores the reasons and methods for developing cooperative partnerships, along with tools and strategies to help build the support network for family-centered care.
No Biting : Solutions and Support for Toddler Programs
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Biting is an issue that can affect any toddler in any setting and can have developmental, emotional, or environmental causes. This book offers technique-building advice for approaching biting in ways that work effectively for everyone involved.
The Original Learning Approach
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Influenced by the Reggio Emilia Approach and AnjiPlay, the Original Learning Approach facilitates observation, imitation, and practice for learning through play. By incorporating wonder, curiosity, joy, knowledge, imagination, interaction, risk, time, reflection, and listening into children's play, this teaching lens will help early childhood professionals nurture continuous lifelong learners.
Pedagogy of Humanization
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The Pedagogy of Humanization is the first book to bring together the practice (how) and theory (what and why) of inclusive and asset-based teaching. In this book, a group of teacher-educators across disciplines explore their personal and professional identities to reveal the potential for applying each tenet of culturally relevant pedagogy in their respective fields. Filled with anecdotes, exercises, user-friendly theories and examples, readers will learn how teachers can humanize themselves to have the capacity to be effective teachers of children who have been dehumanized and underserved by traditional teaching and schooling.
Responsive Practice for Dual Language Learners in Early Childhood Education
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Responsive Practices for Dual Language Learners in Early Childhood Education provides educators theoretical background and practical advice as they welcome an increasing number of dual language learners into their programs, to support these children to learn and flourish.
The Sky Above and the Mud Below
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David Sobel's follow-up to Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens walks readers through the nitty-gritty facts of running a nature-based program. Organized around nine themes, each chapter begins with an overview from the author, followed by case studies from diverse early childhood programs, ranging from those that serve at-risk children to public preschools to university farm programs to Waldorf schools.
Supercharge Professional Development for Early Childhood Educators
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Supercharge Professional Development for Early Childhood Educators empowers early childhood program leaders to transform their current professional development practices, offering innovative and concrete ideas for supporting educators. The timely and inspiring resources in this handbook will increase engagement, build collaboration, and enhance all aspects of any professional development program.
Transformational Coaching for Early Childhood Educators
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Transformational Coaching for Early Childhood Educators is a reflective workbook designed to help early childhood professionals strengthen their coaching skills and their ability to facilitate transformational learning in others. The goal of this program is for individuals to attain sustainable habits of self-reflection, critical thinking, problem-solving, and lifelong learning themselves, as well as the ability to intentionally facilitate others to do the same.
Getting the Best Out of College for Students on the Autism Spectrum
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This interactive workbook provides guidance for your entire journey through college and further education. Full of handy tips and strategies to help you through college, it guides you through early hurdles such as preparing for a new sensory environment, planning your transport and making friends.
Amplifying Voices in UX
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Amplifying Voices in UX explores the theme of balance in design and UX in three main areas: curriculum design that includes empathy, service learning, and design justice; design and balance for effective medical and health communication; and design to create balance in labor, social, civic, and political movements.
Applied Cryptography : protocols, algorithms, and source code in C
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Cryptographic techniques have applications far beyond the obvious uses of encoding and decoding information. For developers who need to know about capabilities, such as digital signatures, that depend on cryptographic techniques, there's no better overview than Applied Cryptography, the definitive book on the subject.
Machine Learning and Cryptographic Solutions for Data Protection and Network Security
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The increasing frequency and complexity of cyber-attacks demand a dynamic approach, and this is where the intersection of cryptography and machine learning emerges as a powerful ally. As hackers become more adept at exploiting vulnerabilities, the book stands as a beacon of insight, addressing the urgent need to leverage machine learning techniques in cryptography. Machine Learning and Cryptographic Solutions for Data Protection and Network Security unveils the intricate relationship between data security and machine learning and provide a roadmap for implementing these cutting-edge techniques in the field.
Modern Vulnerability Management
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This book comprehensively covers the principles of Risk-based vulnerability management (RBVM) – one of the most challenging tasks in cybersecurity -- from the foundational mathematical models to building your own decision engine to identify, mitigate, and eventually forecast the vulnerabilities that pose the greatest threat to your organization.
Teaching Honesty in a Populist Era: emphasizing truth in the education of citizens
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Teaching Honesty in a Populist Era asserts that honesty is an important component in a healthy democracy and yet very few schools overtly teach it. This book describes what honesty is, how it is connected to truth, why both are important to and at risk in democracies today, and how we should teach them in schools.
Atlas of Emergency Medicine Procedures
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The significantly expanded second edition of this full-color atlas provides a step-by-step, visual guide to the most common procedures in emergency medicine. Completely revised, it also includes new procedures such as REBOA, the HINTS test, sphenopalatine ganglion block, occipital nerve block, and lung ultrasonography. Procedures are described on a single page, or two-page spreads, so that the physician can quickly access and review the procedure at hand.
The Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
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Authoritative source on public health issues. Topics focus on health crises affecting the public at large, ranging from epidemic (local) and pandemic (widespread) diseases (H1N1, Malaria, food-borne illnesses, West Nile etc.); chronic conditions such as famine, malnutrition, cancer and diabetes; and social issues such as sexual abuse, obesity, bullying and new substance abuse issues, plus much more.
The Outbreak Atlas
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The Georgetown Outbreak Activity Library (GOAL) captures what needs to get done, when, and by whom. Now, in The Outbreak Atlas , Rebecca Katz and Mackenzie S. Moore have translated this complex material into a book designed for a public audience. This book provides an overview of outbreak activities alongside compelling case studies and visuals to guide readers through the complexity involved in outbreak preparedness, response, and recovery.
The Reason I Jump : the inner voice of a thirteen-year-old boy with autism
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Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, The Reason I Jump is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. With disarming honesty and a generous heart, Naoki shares his unique point of view on not only autism but life itself.
An Early Start for Your Child with Autism
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Cutting-edge research reveals that parents can play a huge role in helping toddlers and preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) connect with others and live up to their potential. This encouraging guide from the developers of a groundbreaking early intervention program provides doable, practical strategies you can use every day.
American Decades
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Explores and analyzes the events, people, and social trends that impacted contemporary history in the decade from 2010 to 2019.
The Americas
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This two-volume encyclopedia profiles the contemporary culture and society of every country in the Americas, from Canada and the United States to the islands of the Caribbean and the many countries of Latin America.
Battleground Ukraine
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The first major English-language history of Ukraine from its emergence after the demise of the Soviet Union through the current Russian invasion.
The End of Ambition
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The End of Ambition: America’s Past, Present, and Future in the Middle East posits that in the post–World War II era, the United States was successful in the Middle East when it pursued policies aimed at preventing harm to its core interests.
Europe
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This A-Z encyclopedia explores the national dimensions of culture and society, the culture and society formed historically and formulated by nation states in Europe. It provides information on the minority nations and ethnic groups within each state, and on aspects of global, international and transnational culture and society that tie so many peoples today to others across regional, national and continental boundaries.
Gun Country
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Andrew C. McKevitt tells the history of this gun boom through the dynamics of consumer capitalism and Cold War ideology, the combination of which resulted in a vast number of Americans arming themselves to the teeth and centering their political identity on their guns.
Historical Dictionary of Mexico
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Historical Dictionary of Mexico contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
A History of the Muslim World
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In Michael Cook's words, this book is "about a substantial slice of human history delimited by a particular cultural characteristic: adherance to Islam in some form or other. [...] A commitment to Islam makes a difference. Wherever a society and its rulers have come to be Muslim, this has meant a major discontinuity with its pre-Islamic past and a significant expansion of its relations with the wider Muslim world."
Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on natural history, paleontology, and stephen jay gould
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One of the twentieth century's great paleontologists and science writers, Stephen Jay Gould was, for Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, also a close colleague and friend. In Macroevolutionaries , they take up the tradition of Gould's acclaimed essays on natural history, offering a series of wry and insightful reflections on the fields to which they have devoted their careers.
Milestone Documents of U. S. Slavery
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Covering the era of slavery and some 250 years in the nation's history, this set includes critical primary sources from essays, speeches, and letters to government documents such as legislation and court opinions. In each case, the primary source is paired with in-depth commentary from numerous scholars and historians.
Milestone Visual Documents in American History
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This collection focuses on visual images as documents to be analyzed and understood in their own right, just as written documents are. Including primary sources from America in the 1600s to the present, this set features iconic photographs, paintings, cartoons, maps, and more. It pairs each visual source with in-depth scholarly analysis and commentary to help students and researchers better understand the image and place it in its historical context.
Raid and Reconciliation
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Brandon Morgan tells the story of how dreams of capitalist development and varied forms of violence went hand-in-hand to create rural communities along the U.S.-Mexico border around the turn of the twentieth century.
The Three Kingdoms of Korea
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Weaving together legends of ancient kings with the true histories of monks, scholars, and laypeople, this book sheds new light on a foundational period that continues to shape Korean identity today.
An Unholy Traffic
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During the American Civil War, Confederates bought and sold thousands of men, women, and children. A robust and surviving slave trade, the extension of a traffic that had emerged to support the rise of the Cotton Kingdom, enabled them to do so.
Volcanic : Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions
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A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. But only after 1738, in the age of Enlightenment, did the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii reveal its full extent. In an era of groundbreaking scientific endeavour and violent revolution, Vesuvius became a focal point of strong emotions and political aspirations, an object of geological enquiry, and a powerful symbol of the Romantic obsession with nature.
African Migration and the Novel
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Examines how current novels dealing with African migration address social issues, immigrant subjectivity, and the politics of migration. African Migration and the Novel: Exploring Race, Civil War, and Environmental Destruction explores pressing social and political issues such as racial identity, environmental devastation, human trafficking, and political violence through the lens of novels of African migration.
The Equality of Flesh
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The Equality of Flesh traces a new genealogy of equality before its formalization under liberalism. While modern ideas of equality are defined through an inner human nature, Brent Dawson argues that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries conceptualized equality as an ambivalent and profoundly bodily condition.
Feminist Literary Criticism
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The first major book of feminist critical theory published in the United States is now available in an expanded second edition. This widely cited pioneering work presents a new introduction by the editor and a new bibliography of feminist critical theory from the last decade.
Future Folk Horror
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Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures analyzes folk horror by looking at its recent popularity in novels and films such as The Ritual (2011), The Witch (2015), and Candyman (2021). Countering traditional views of the genre as depictions of the monstrous, rural, and pagan past trying to consume the present, the contributors to this collection posit folk horror as being able to uniquely capture the anxieties of the twenty-first century, caused by an ongoing pandemic and the divisive populist politics that have arisen around it.
Graveyard Gothic
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Graveyard Gothic is the first sustained consideration of the graveyard as a key Gothic locale. This volume examines various iterations of the Gothic graveyard (and other burial sites) from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, as expressed in numerous forms of culture and media including poetry, fiction, TV, film and video games.
The Lost Princess : Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales
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People often associate fairy tales with Disney films and with the male authors from whom Disney often drew inspiration—notably Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen. In these portrayals, the princess is a passive, compliant figure. By contrast, The Lost Princess shows that classic fairy tales such as “Cinderella,” “Rapunzel,” and “Beauty and the Beast” have a much richer, more complex history than Disney's saccharine depictions.
Muslim Women and Misogyny
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In this bold new book, Samia Rahman explores the relationships between misogyny and Muslim women's experiences in Britain today, untangling complex issues such as Muslim feminism, representation, toxic masculinity, marriage and sexuality. Based on extensive interviews with both women and men from Islamic communities, she offers a powerful, much-needed response to the misappropriation of female Muslim voices, revealing the many faces of Muslim womanhood within the UK.
Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, and Amending Issues, 1789-2023
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Written by a leading scholar of the constitutional amending process, this two-volume encyclopedia, now in its fifth edition, is an indispensable resource for students, legal historians, and high school and college librarians.
Milestone Documents of the Supreme Court
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This collection covers both iconic and controversial decisions from the early republic to the present day. From early decisions that outlined the roles and powers of the 3 branches of government to contemporary cases about LGBTQ rights and reproductive rights, this set pairs each Court decision with in-depth commentary and analysis.
Post-Punk and Philosophy
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Post-Punk and Philosophy is a collection of twenty chapters by philosophers who are also post-punk fans, discussing many different aspects of the Post-Punk phenomenon.
Enabling Students' Voices and Identities
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One of the challenges educational systems are facing today worldwide is enabling children's voices from silenced, marginalized, and excluded groups. This book analyzes the challenge of various identities and their uniqueness within childhood and offers theoretical and pedagogical-educational solutions within Philosophy for/with Children (P4wC).
Philosophy: the Classics
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Now in its fourth edition, Philosophy: The Classics is a brisk and invigorating tour through the great books of western philosophy. In his exemplary clear style, Nigel Warburton introduces and assesses thirty-two philosophical classics from Plato's Republic to Rawls' A Theory of Justice. With a glossary and suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, this is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in philosophy.
Post-Punk and Philosophy
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Post-Punk and Philosophy is a collection of twenty chapters by philosophers who are also post-punk fans, discussing many different aspects of the Post-Punk phenomenon.
American Apocalypse
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A thorough analysis of the right-wing interests contributing to the downfall of American democracy The war on American democracy is at a fever pitch. Such a corrosive state of affairs did not arise spontaneously up from the people but instead was pushed, top-down, by six private sector special interest groups—big business, the House Freedom Caucus, the Federalist Society, Fox News, white evangelicals, and armed militias. In American Apocalypse Rena Steinzor argues that these groups are nothing more than well-financed armies fighting a battle of attrition against the national government, with power, money, and fame as their central motivations.
Encyclopedia of American Immigration
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Designed for high school students, college undergraduates and the general researcher, Encyclopedia of American Immigration offers a clear and innovative approach to immigration history that can also be used by advanced students and scholars. Fully updated, this three-volume set features dozens of new entries as well as extensive updates to existing entries.
International Cooperation Against All Odds
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International Cooperation Against All Odds: The Ultrasocial World recasts how we understand international relations through an examination of how the human evolutionary predisposition to be "ultrasocial" as a species impacts which political ideas succeed, transform, manipulate, and inspire on a global scale.
Charm : How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics
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In this book, media sociologist Julia Sonnevend argues that "charm" has become a keyword of contemporary global politics. As people increasingly turn their attention to political personalities in contrast to parties, policies, and institutions, the power of personal magnetism needs public examination.
Edge of Catastrophe : Erich Fromm, Fascism, and the Holocaust
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In 'Edge of Catastrophe', Roger Frie introduces readers for the first time to the unpublished Holocaust letters in the family of the public intellectual and psychoanalyst Erich Fromm. The letters provide new insights into Fromm's life and work, particularly in relation to his lifelong concerns with fascism, racism, and human destructiveness. The image of Fromm that emerges enriches our understanding of what it means to be both a social critic and practicing psychologist. In light of the racial hatred, antisemitism, and political crises we see today, this book demonstrates that a politics of engagement and a psychology of well-being go hand in hand.
Enabling Students' Voices and Identities
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One of the challenges educational systems are facing today worldwide is enabling children's voices from silenced, marginalized, and excluded groups. This book analyzes the challenge of various identities and their uniqueness within childhood and offers theoretical and pedagogical-educational solutions within Philosophy for/with Children (P4wC).
How Technology, Social Media, and Current Events Profoundly Affect Adolescents
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How Technology, Social Media, and Current Events Profoundly Affect Adolescents examines eighteen contemporary issues and their impact on the biological, psychological, and social domains in adolescents. Using research and clinical studies, this book reviews a host of issues that includes sleep, obesity, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, substance use, suicidality/self-harm, cyberbullying, racism/discrimination, LGBTQ, gender dysphoria, poverty, divorce, bereavement, mortality, and more. In addition to these issues, the book provides an analysis of current events and their impact on adolescents, including the COVID pandemic and war in Ukraine.
A Neurophilosophy of Libertarian Free Will
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A Neurophilosophy of Libertarian Free Will presents a defense of libertarian free will that is informed by neuroscience, physics and philosophy. It argues that causation in living systems is dominated by cybernetic feedback loops and criterial reparameterizations that help animals find adequate ways of fulfilling their goals.
The Sage Encyclopedia of Multicultural Counseling, Social Justice, and Advocacy
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Since the late 1970s, there has been an increase in the study of diversity, inclusion, race, and ethnicity within the field of counseling. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Multicultural Counseling, Social Justice, and Advocacy will comprehensively synthesize a wide range of terms, concepts, ideologies, groups, and organizations through a diverse lens.
Stolen Focus: why you can't pay attention--and how to think deeply again
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Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening-and how to get our attention back.
The Reason I Jump : the inner voice of a thirteen-year-old boy with autism
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Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, The Reason I Jump is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. With disarming honesty and a generous heart, Naoki shares his unique point of view on not only autism but life itself.
An Early Start for Your Child with Autism
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Cutting-edge research reveals that parents can play a huge role in helping toddlers and preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) connect with others and live up to their potential. This encouraging guide from the developers of a groundbreaking early intervention program provides doable, practical strategies you can use every day.
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants
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Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things—from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen—provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults brings Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation.
Fighting Fire in the Sierra National Forest
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To live in the foothills on the periphery of the Sierra National Forest is to live with the certainty of summer wildfires. Each year, from April forward, Californians watch the sky and sniff the air for telltale signs of smoke. While fire remains a constant threat, the strategy for combating it has evolved with the understanding of its beneficial role in the forest environment. In this book, Marcia Penner Freedman traces the history of firefighting and fire management from the forest's early years through the policy shifts that began in the 1960s and the measures used today.
Forests in Our Changing World
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Forests cover vast regions of the globe and serve as a first line of defense against the worst effects of climate change, but only if we keep them healthy and resilient. Forests in Our Changing World tells us how to do that. Authors Joe Landsberg and Richard Waring present an overview of forests around the globe, describing basic precepts of forest ecology and physiology and how forests will change as earth's climate warms. Drawing on years of research and teaching, they discuss the values and uses of both natural and plantation-based forests.
Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on natural history, paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould
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One of the twentieth century's great paleontologists and science writers, Stephen Jay Gould was, for Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, also a close colleague and friend. In Macroevolutionaries , they take up the tradition of Gould's acclaimed essays on natural history, offering a series of wry and insightful reflections on the fields to which they have devoted their careers.
Pyrocene Park : A Journey Into the Fire History of Yosemite National Park
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Renowned fire historian Stephen J. Pyne argues that the relationship between fire and humans has become a defining feature of our epoch, and he reveals how Yosemite offers a cameo of how we have replaced an ice age with a fire age: the Pyrocene. Organized around a backcountry trek to a 50-year experiment in restoring fire, Pyrocene Park describes the 150-year history of fire suppression and management that has led us, in part, to where the park is today.
Trees in Trouble : Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change
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Climate change manifests in many ways across North America, but few as dramatic as the attacks on our western pine forests. In Trees in Trouble, Daniel Mathews tells the urgent story of this loss, accompanying burn crews and forest ecologists as they study the myriad risk factors and refine techniques for saving this important, limited resource.
Under Fire and Under Water : Wildfire, Flooding, and the Fight for Climate Resilience in the American West
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Epic wildfire. Devastating drought. Cataclysmic flooding. Extreme weather in the wake of climate change threatens to turn the American West into a region hostile to human habitation—a “Great American Desert,” as early US explorers once mislabeled it. As Bruce E. Cain suggests in this timely book, the unique complex of politics, technology, and logistics that once won the West must be rethought and reconfigured to win it anew in the face of a widespread accelerating threat. The challenges posed by increasingly extreme weather in the West are complicated by the region's history, the deliberate fractiousness of the American political system, and the idiosyncrasies of human behavior—all of which Cain considers, separately and together, in Under Fire and Under Water.
When Forests Burn
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Wildfires have been part of the American landscape for thousands of years. Forests need fire--it's as necessary to their well-being as soil and sunlight. But some fires burn out of control, destroying everything and everyone in their path. Chock full of dramatic stories, fascinating facts, and compelling photos, When Forests Burn teaches us about the past--and shows a better way forward in the future.
The Wildfire Reader
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With more than 150 dramatic photographs, Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy covers the topic of wildfire from ecological, economic, and social/political perspectives while also documenting how past forest policies have hindered natural processes, creating a tinderbox of problems that we are faced with today.
Wildlife Stewardship on Tribal Lands
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Wildlife Stewardship on Tribal Lands is the first comprehensive resource dedicated to the voices and expertise of Native scholars and wildlife professionals. In its pages, nearly one hundred Native and non-native wildlife conservationists, managers, and their collaborators share lessons to guide wildlife professionals in how best to incorporate native methods and how to work effectively with tribal stakeholders.
The World Atlas of Trees and Forests
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A marvelously illustrated look at the world's diverse forests and their ecosystems. The earth's forests are havens of nature supporting a diversity of life. Shaped by climate and geography, these vast and dynamic wooded spaces offer unique ecosystems that shelter complex and interdependent webs of flora, fungi, and animals. The World Atlas of Trees and Forests offers a beautiful introduction to what forests are, how they work, how they grow, and how we map, assess, and conserve them.
Connecting Equity, Literacy, and Language
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This book shows literacy professionals how to develop the dispositions and actions associated with advocacy-focused teaching. While portraits of culturally conscious literacy teachers are now readily available, becoming such a teacher continues to be a challenge. Drawing from 60+ years of experience working with teacher candidates and teachers in the city of Philadelphia, the authors argue that becoming an advocacy-focused literacy teacher requires making moral commitments to students and developing professional competencies that fuse literacy, language, and equity studies.
Disability Visibility
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According to the last census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some are visible, some are hidden--but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together an urgent, galvanizing collection of personal essays by contemporary disabled writers.
Getting the Best Out of College for Students on the Autism Spectrum
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This interactive workbook provides guidance for your entire journey through college and further education. Full of handy tips and strategies to help you through college, it guides you through early hurdles such as preparing for a new sensory environment, planning your transport and making friends.
The Last Human Job
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The Last Human Job explores the human connections that underlie our work, arguing that what people do for each other in these settings is valuable and worth preserving. Drawing on in-depth interviews and observations with people in a broad range of professions-from physicians, teachers, and coaches to chaplains, therapists, caregivers, and hairdressers-Allison Pugh develops the concept of "connective labor," a kind of work that relies on empathy, the spontaneity of human contact, and a mutual recognition of each other's humanity.
Nature, Culture, and Inequality
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In this unique work, Thomas Piketty presents a synthesis of his historical and comparative research on inequality. He challenges the idea that there could be natural inequalities and shows that the march toward equality has always depended on political and social struggles, addressing diverse topics such as: education, inheritance, the climate crisis, the taxation of wealth, and gender disparities.
Pedagogy of Humanization
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The Pedagogy of Humanization is the first book to bring together the practice (how) and theory (what and why) of inclusive and asset-based teaching. In this book, a group of teacher-educators across disciplines explore their personal and professional identities to reveal the potential for applying each tenet of culturally relevant pedagogy in their respective fields. Filled with anecdotes, exercises, user-friendly theories and examples, readers will learn how teachers can humanize themselves to have the capacity to be effective teachers of children who have been dehumanized and underserved by traditional teaching and schooling.
Responsive Practice for Dual Language Learners in Early Childhood Education
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Responsive Practices for Dual Language Learners in Early Childhood Education provides educators theoretical background and practical advice as they welcome an increasing number of dual language learners into their programs, to support these children to learn and flourish.
The Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ+ Studies
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The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies, 2nd Edition will be a broad, interdisciplinary product aimed at students and educators interested in an interdisciplinary perspective on LGBTQ issues. This far-reaching and contemporary set of volumes is meant to examine and provide understandings of the lives and experiences of LGBTQ individuals, with attention to the contexts and forces that shape their world.
College Accounting, Chapters 1-27
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The leading Heintz/Parry's COLLEGE ACCOUNTING, 22E combines a step-by-step approach and excellent examples with an online homework tool that makes accounting understandable, regardless of your accounting background or business experience.
Foundations of Business
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Shows you how to become a better employee, more informed consumer and successful business owner. You examine issues within the economy, business ownership, management, human resources, marketing, social media, e-commerce, management information systems, accounting and finance. You also learn how cultural diversity, ethics and social responsibility, small business and entrepreneurship and environmental concerns impact both the nation's economy and you, as an individual consumer.
The Electronic Health Record for the Physician's Office
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Combining a print textbook with online SimChart for the Medical Office software, The Electronic Health Record for the Physician’s Office, 4th Edition uses real-world examples and screenshots to walk you through each EHR task. Clear, step-by-step guidelines simplify the exercises in each simulation, so you master all the EHR skills required of a medical office professional.
Heartsaver pediatric first aid CPR AED : student workbook
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AHA's 2020 Heartsaver Pediatric First Aid CPR AED course is directed at those involved in child care and those with a duty to respond to children's health emergencies, such as child-care workers, teachers, foster-care workers, camp counselors, youth organizations, and coaches for children's sports organizations. The course is also recommended for parents, grandparents, babysitters, and guardians.
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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Fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society.
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
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The Price of Glory- Verdun 1916 is the second book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The Fall of Paris and To Lose a Battle and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany. Alistair Horne's classic work, continuously in print for over fifty years, is a profoundly moving, sympathetic study of the battle and the men who fought there.
Mathematics for the Trades
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This text provides the practical mathematics skills needed in a wide variety of trade, technical, and other occupational areas, including plumbing, automotive, electrical and construction trades, machine technology, landscaping, HVAC, allied health, and many more. It is especially intended for students who find math challenging and for adults who have been out of school for a time.
Jazz
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Now with streaming audio for every track, this text provides everything students need for listening to, understanding, and loving jazz. Written by two master storytellers, the book combines a dynamic listening experience with vivid narrative history, must-hear masterworks, and a superior media package to reveal the excitement of America's quintessential music.
Music: an Appreciation (10E Brief)
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Music: An Appreciation remains the time-tested solution for welcoming non-majors to the art of listening to great music. Now, Roger Kamien places a renewed focus on learning the elements of music, fostering each student's unique path to listening and understanding. Kamien equips students with the language, tools, and listening skills required to sustain a life-long enthusiasm for music. The tenth edition places a particular focus on students, giving them step-by-step help as they learn the elements of music, an increased number of musical selections to experience, and an enhanced Connect and SmartBook experience.
A Short Introduction to World Religions
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This leading textbook for world religions is now available in a more concise version. Many of the features of Introduction to World Religions are retained in this volume but with focus on the religious traditions themselves. The section on religions of antiquity has been removed and key content in each chapter streamlined to increase accessibility for students in their study and research of the world's religious traditions. Known and valued for its balanced approach, this book offers an arresting layout with rich illustrations.
Between Us
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Using decades-long, cutting-edge research, acclaimed psychologist Batja Mesquita asks us to reconsider emotions through the lens of what they do in our relationships, both one-on-one and within larger social networks. From an outside-in perspective, readers will understand why pride in a Dutch context does not translate well to North Carolina, or why one's anger at a boss does not mean the same as your anger to a partner in a close relationship. By looking outward at relationships at work, school, and home, we can better judge how our emotions will be understood, how they might change a situation, and how they change us.
Mind, Self, and Society
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This collection gets to the heart of Mead's meditations on social psychology and social philosophy. Its penetrating, conversational tone transports the reader directly into Mead's classroom as he teases out the genesis of the self and the nature of the mind. The book captures his wry humor and shrewd reasoning, showing a man comfortable quoting Aristotle alongside Alice in Wonderland. Included in this edition are an insightful foreword from leading Mead scholar Hans Joas, a revealing set of textual notes by Daniel R. Huebner that detail the text's origins, and a comprehensive bibliography of Mead's other published writings.
The Power of the Badge
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In The Power of the Badge, Emily M. Farris and Mirya R. Holman argue that the autonomy and authority granted to sheriffs in the United States creates an environment where sheriffs rarely change, elections do not create meaningful accountability, employees, budgets, and jails can be used for political gains, marginalized populations can be punished, right-wing extremism flourishes, and reforms fail.
The Art of the Literary Poster
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During the 1890s, a new type of poster emerged in the United States, one that more closely resembled a work of art than an advertisement. Thanks to recent advancements in printing techniques, artists could create colorful, inventive compositions that seamlessly integrated text and images. Though short-lived, the so-called literary poster had a lasting impact on illustration, graphic design, and marketing in the United States. This book showcases more than 40 highlights from The Met's outstanding collection of literary posters, developed over four decades through the vision and support of Leonard A. Lauder.
Mothers of Invention
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Offering a radical rewriting of the history of contemporary art from a feminist perspective, four distinguished authors explore the lineages of performance, abstraction, craft and ecofeminism in ways that reveal the debt these important genres owe to the work of pioneering women artists.
Picasso Linoleum Cuts
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A selection of Picasso's prints made from 1954 to 1968 is accompanied by a discussion of his printmaking methods.
Dignity Not Debt
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Dignity Not Debt reimagines the American household debt landscape. Contrary to the myth that households can avoid debt troubles by taking on "good debt" and avoiding "bad debt," many Americans have no choice but to take on debt just to survive. And when they turn to debt for opportunities, these promised opportunities often never materialize. Chrystin Ondersma describes the brutal reality of Americans' experience with debt and dismantles the stubborn myths-including the myth of the free market-that continue to stand in the way of just and sensible economic policy.
Early Childhood Practicum
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Through a carefully curated selection of scholarly articles, Early Childhood Practicum provides readers with a foundational understanding of educational theories for early childhood education, emphasizing their application in classroom settings.
Advancing Cyber Security Through Quantum Cryptography
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With the increasing power of computing, cybersecurity faces mounting threats, making digital systems more vulnerable to attacks. While modern cryptography used to be compelling, it now shows vulnerabilities against rapidly growing computational capabilities. Therefore, robust security solutions have become urgent in this precarious landscape. Advancing Cyber Security Through Quantum Cryptography is a book that can guide us through the turbulent waters of cybersecurity and quantum cryptography.
Conservation Drones : mapping and monitoring biodiversity
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Increasing numbers of ecologists and conservation biologists have begun to explore the use of drone technology to obtain accurate and up-to-date data on the distribution and density of species, as well as the threats to their habitats, in their ongoing attempts to conserve and monitor biodiversity. Conservation drones are low-cost, autonomous, and operator-friendly unmanned aerial vehicles that can be used for surveying, mapping, and monitoring both habitat and biodiversity.
Metaverse Security Paradigms
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This book aims to explore the multifaceted aspects of security within the Metaverse, addressing the unique challenges and innovative solutions that define this emerging landscape.
Utilizing Generative AI for Cyber Defense Strategies
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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) offers a revolutionary approach to enhance cybersecurity. By utilizing advanced algorithms, data analysis, and machine learning, generative AI can simulate complex attack scenarios, identify vulnerabilities, and develop proactive defense mechanisms while adapting to modern-day cyber-attacks. This book covers topics such as cyber security, threat intelligence, and behavior analysis, and is a useful resource for computer engineers, security professionals, business owners, government officials, data analysts, academicians, scientists, and researchers.
Divergent Mind : thriving in a world that wasn't designed for you
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A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women--those with ADHD, autism, and other sensory processing differences--exploring why these traits are overlooked in women and how society benefits from allowing their unique strengths to flourish. Divergent Mind is a long-overdue, much-needed answer for women who have a deep sense that they are "different." Sharing real stories from women with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, misophonia, and more, Nerenberg explores how these brain variances present differently in women and dispels widely held misconceptions. She also offers a path forward, describing practical changes in how we can communicate, design our surroundings, and better support divergent minds.
Inducing Immunity?: justifying immunization policies in times of vaccine hesitancy
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In "Inducing Immunity?", legal philosopher Roland Pierik and bioethicist Marcel Verweij explore ways to regulate collective immunization in as democratic a manner as possible. Offering an in-depth analysis in bioethics and legal philosophy, this book is a sensible and applicable guide for health professionals, policymakers, and academics alike on how we can--and must--do better with our immunization policies.
Life Under Pressure : the social roots of youth suicide and what to do about them
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Youth suicide clusters have deeply unsettled communities in recent years. While clusters have been widely documented in the media, too little is known about why youth die by suicide, why youth suicide clusters happen, and how to stop them both. In "Life under Pressure", Anna S. Mueller and Seth Abrutyn investigate the social roots of youth suicide and why certain places weather disproportionate incidents of adolescent suicides and suicide clusters. Through close examination of kids' lives in a community repeatedly rocked by youth suicide clusters, Mueller and Abrutyn reveal how the social worlds that youth inhabit and the various messages they learn in those spaces -- about who they are supposed to be, mental illness, and help-seeking -- shape their feelings about themselves and in turn their risk of suicide.
Loud Hands : autistic people, speaking
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Autistic people speak out because there is nothing wrong with us. We are complete, complex, human beings leading rich and meaningful existences and deserving dignity, respect, human rights, and the primary voice in the conversation about us. This anthology, and the Loud Hands Project as a whole, serves to document and explore that.
Madness
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In Madness, Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still stands to this day in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. She blends the intimate tales of patients and employees whose lives were shaped by Crownsville with a decade-worth of investigative research and archival documents.
Nerdy, Shy, and Socially Inappropriate : a user guide to Asperger life
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Cynthia Kim explores all the quirkiness of living with Asperger Syndrome (now reclassified as part of Autism Spectrum Disorder) in this accessible, witty and honest guide looking from an insider perspective at some of the most challenging and intractable aspects of being autistic. From being labelled nerdy and shy as an undiagnosed child to redefining herself when diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome as an adult, she describes how her perspective shifted to understanding a previously confusing world and combines this with the results of extensive research to explore the 'why' of ASD traits. This intelligent insider guide will help adults with ASDs and their partners, family members, friends, and colleagues, but it also provides a fresh and witty window into a different worldview.
Underbelly : childhood diarrhea and the hidden realities of global health
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Underbelly articulates the pathways of global health funding and development policies by exploring their outcomes for recipient individuals and communities. Drawing on 15 years of ethnographic research and global health program implementation in highland Guatemala, this book focuses on the provision of primary health care services as a critical exemplar of how global health and development programs fall short, specifically focusing on efforts to prevent and treat diarrhea.
Alexandria: a city and myth
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Alexandria was one of the most important cities of the ancient world, with achievements in the arts, sciences, and religion. Niall Finneran seeks to understand the wider picture, the longer period of evolution as a city, as both an urban concept and a literary and historical ideal. He does this by bringing together the disciplines of archaeology, anthropology, history, geography, oral history, art, and literature.
American Indians and National Forests
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This book tells the story of how tribal nations and the U.S. Forest Service dealt with wholesale changes in forest ownership and forest use, which alternately alienated Indians from foresters or brought them together in cooperative endeavors.
The Black President
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With lively prose and sensitivity to context, this book offers a sweeping, authoritative history of the Obama presidency, focusing particularly on its impact and meaning vis-à-vis African Americans. This interpretative account captures the America that made Obama's White House years possible, while at the same time rendering the America that resolutely resisted the idea of a Black chief executive, thus making conceivable the ascent of his most unlikely of successors.
Cinematic Guerrillas: propaganda, projectionists, and audiences in socialist China
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What was cinema in socialist China? How did mass media enchant and mobilize the revolutionary masses? Cinematic Guerrillas is a cultural history of Maoist film exhibition, reception, and audiences that offers fresh insights into the 'what,' 'when,' 'where,' and 'who' of world cinema. Moving beyond textual analysis and production histories, this book examines the media networks and environments, discourses and practices, experiences and memories of film projectionists and their grassroots audiences from the 1940s to the 1980s.
Fifth Sun
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For the first time, in Fifth Sun, the history of the Aztecs is offered in all its complexity, in an account based solely on the texts written by the people themselves. The Aztecs suddenly appear as real people, rather than the exotic, bloody figures of stereotypes. The conquest is neither an apocalyptic moment, nor an origin story launching Mexicans into existence. This book presents the story of Native Americans who had a history of their own long before the Europeans arrived and who used their talents to survive when the worst of times came upon them.
In Close Association : local activist networks in the making of Japanese modernity, 1868-1920
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The book is the first English-language study to examine local networks of women and men who built modern Japan in the Meiji period. It uncovers how a colorful group of Okayama-based activists founded institutions, promoted social reform, and advocated "civilization and enlightenment" while forging pathbreaking conceptions of self and society. Placing gender analysis at its core, the study offers fresh perspectives on what women did beyond domestic boundaries while showing men's lives too were embedded in home and kin.
Kinky History
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Contrary to popular belief, our predecessors had all sorts of obscene hobbies long before Christian Grey hit the scene. In this enlightening romp, learn about the first instances of homosexuality on record from the ancient world and the diverse history of nonbinary gender; encounter a thousand years' worth of hilarious and horrifying contraceptive methods; consider the positive and negative effects of the widespread availability of pornography in the digital age-and how our relationship to it changed during the pandemic; take a sneaky riffle through centuries of bedside drawers; and discover the dirty little secrets of luminaries such as Julius Caesar, James Joyce, Albert Einstein, and Virginia Woolf.
Reading Maya Art
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A compendium of one hundred hieroglyphs that are building locks of ancient Maya painting and sculpture. Using over five hundred line drawings and photographs, it shows how to identify the signs, understand their meaning, and appreciate the novel ways they appear in art.
Rupturing Rhetoric: the politics of race and popular culture since Ferguson
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Rupturing Rhetoric: The Politics of Race and Popular Culture since Ferguson responds to the racial rhetoric of American popular culture in the years since Brown's death. Through close readings of popular media produced during the late Obama and Trump eras, this volume details the influence of historical and contemporary representations of race on public discourse in America. Using Brown's death and the ensuing protests as a focal point, contributors argue that Ferguson marks the rupture of America's post-racial fantasy
Struggle for Empire: the battles of General Zuo Zontang
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The book provides the first modern biography in English of the famed Chinese civil and military official, Zuo Zongtang (1812-1885). Known in the USA primarily for the ubiquitous spicy, sweet chicken dish that bears his name, Zuo was one of the foremost leaders of the late Qing dynasty, playing a major role in the suppression of the massive Taiping, Nian, and Dungan rebellions, engineering the reconquest of Central Asia from Muslim rebels, and serving as an imperial adviser and provincial governor during the Sino-French War fought for control of Vietnam.
The Twelve Caesars
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Covers the Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian.
A World of Enemies
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In US foreign policy, conflict has replaced diplomacy. At home, wars on crime, drugs, immigration, and terrorism dissolve barriers between law enforcement and combat. Tracing the origins of militarized policy to post-Vietnam fears of waning US power, Osamah Khalil argues that it is time to discard forever wars and invest in political solutions.
Arc Welding Processes Handbook
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Written by a welding/metallurgical engineer with over 40 years of experience, Arc Welding Processes Handbook delivers the welding and materials expertise required to master complex welding processes and techniques to ensure that the task is done correctly and safely. While reinforcing an understanding of international welding standards and rules. The prefect handbook for those professionals who need an “up- to-date” reference to advance processes as well as those welders new to the field and need to hone their skills.
Gears and Gear Cutting for Home Machinists
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Presents instructions to the amateur machinist for approaching gears and gear cutting, and provides information on the fundamentals and the mathematical equations necessary to design and cut gears.
Handcrafted Careers
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As workers attempt new modes of employment in the era of the Great Resignation, they face a labor landscape that is increasingly uncertain and stubbornly unequal. With Handcrafted Careers, sociologist Eli Revelle Yano Wilson dives head-first into the everyday lives of workers in the craft beer industry to address key questions facing American workers today--about what makes a good career, who gets to have one, and how career progress in craft brewing might unfold.
Home Workshop Blacksmithing for Beginners
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A complete blacksmithing guide for metalworkers that provides detailed overviews on a variety of blacksmithing tools, techniques, and projects, "Home Workshop Blacksmithing" will walk you through everything you need to know. With informative sections on safety, taking heats, cutting steel, and other fundamentals, also provided are step-by-step projects for making your own forge, tapered bar, prybar, spring puller, and more.
Modern Welding
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Modern Welding is a comprehensive text that has long been the standard for teaching theory, fundamentals, equipment, and techniques of welding technology, with enough information to span a two-year curriculum. Covering all of the information required for complete AWS SENSE Level 1 and Level 2 certification, this text includes shielded metal arc welding, gas metal arc welding, flux cored arc welding, gas tungsten arc welding, oxyfuel gas welding and cutting, various thermal cutting processes, testing and inspection, welding symbol interpretation, and print reading.
An Asperger's Guide to Public Speaking
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People with Asperger Syndrome (now reclassified as part of Autism Spectrum Disorder) often excel at public speaking, but there are key elements that they can find challenging. This book explains how to master public speaking with advice on preparation, delivery, gauging your audience, and surviving post-speech social events - all addressed from a unique Asperger perspective.
Cinematic Guerrillas: propaganda, projectionists, and audiences in socialist China
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What was cinema in socialist China? How did mass media enchant and mobilize the revolutionary masses? Cinematic Guerrillas is a cultural history of Maoist film exhibition, reception, and audiences that offers fresh insights into the 'what,' 'when,' 'where,' and 'who' of world cinema. Moving beyond textual analysis and production histories, this book examines the media networks and environments, discourses and practices, experiences and memories of film projectionists and their grassroots audiences from the 1940s to the 1980s.
Eid Mubarak : Our first Eid Celebration
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A little book for little ones to help them appreciate the special days of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
Ishrūn alf farsakh taḥta al-baḥr ; عاشرون الف فرسخ تحت البحر / جول ڤرن ؛ رسوم، فرنسيس رافولز ؛ النص العربي، سونيا الكوش = Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
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Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" translated into Arabic.
Movies under the Influence
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Exploring the effects of intoxicants on film spectatorship, Movies under the Influence charts their entangled histories from early cinema through the psychedelic 1970s. Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece examines the implicit relationship mind-altering substances suggest between mass media, spectatorship, and governmental regulation, offering a new angle from which to understand cinema's lasting role in evolving American culture.
Narrative Podcasting in an Age of Obsession
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Narrative Podcasting in an Age of Obsession is the first book to look back on this prodigious body of material and attempt to make sense of it from a structural, historical, and analytic point of view. Focusing on more than 350 podcasts and other audio works released between Serial and the COVID pandemic, the book explores why so many of these podcasts seem "obsessed with obsession," why they focus not only on informing listeners but also dramatizing the labor that goes into it, and why fiction podcasts work so hard to prove they are a brand new form, even as they revive features of radio from decades gone by.
Out Stealing Horses
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An early morning adventure out stealing horses leads to the tragic death of one boy and a resulting lifetime of guilt and isolation for his friend, in this moving tale about the painful loss of innocence and of traditional ways of life that are gone forever.
Piranesi
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Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house--a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.
Project Hail Mary
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A lone astronaut. An impossible mission. An ally he never imagined. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
Ranger Baldy and the Disappearing Waterfall
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When Yosemite National Park's grandest waterfall mysteriously disappears, Ranger Baldy of the Animal Rescue Corps soars into action. This story features beautiful illustrations of Yosemite's native animals and landscapes.
Reading Greek Tragedy
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This book is designed as an advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy, primarily for the reader who has little or no experience with Greek literature or culture. The author aims to provide a combination of powerful readings of individual plays with an understanding of the complex difficulties involved in the analysis of the workings of Greek tragic texts, in the light of modern literary critical studies.
Required Reading
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How ordinary forms of writing -- including manuals, petitions, almanacs, and magazines--shaped the way colonial subjects understood their place in empire In Required Reading, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay offers a new and provocative history of reading that centers archives of everyday writing from the British empire. Mukhopadhyay rummages in the drawers of bureaucratic offices and the cupboards of publishers in search of how historical readers in colonial South Asia responded to texts ranging from licenses to manuals, how they made sense of them, and what this can tell us about their experiences living in the shadow of a vast imperial power.
What Is This Thing Called Philosophy of Language?
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In this clear and carefully structured introduction to the subject, Gary Kemp explains the following key topics: the basic nature of philosophy of language, its concepts, and its historical development Frege's theory of sense and reference; Russell's theory of definite descriptions Wittgenstein's Tractatus, Ayer, and the Logical Positivists Recent perspectives including Kripke, Kaplan and Putnam; arguments concerning necessity, indexicals, rigid designation and natural kinds the pragmatics of language, including speech-acts, presupposition and conversational implicature Davidson's theory of language, the 'principle of charity', and the indeterminacy of interpretation puzzles surrounding the propositional attitudes (sentences which ascribe beliefs to people) the challenges presented by the later Wittgenstein contemporary directions, including contextualism, fictional objects and the phenomenon of slurs.
What the World Might Look Like: decolonial stories of resilience and refusal
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Exposing the complexities and limits of resilience, What the World Might Look Like questions the concept of resilience, highlighting how Black and Indigenous novelists can offer different de-colonial ways of thinking about and with resilience to imagine things 'otherwise.'
In With the In Crowd
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The 1960s were a time of monumental political and social shifts. Avant-garde jazz, made by musicians indifferent to public perception aligns well with widely held images of the era. In with the In Crowd: Popular Jazz in 1960s Black America argues that this dominant, and unfortunately distorted, view negates and ignores a vibrant jazz community. These musicians and their listeners created a music defined by socialization, celebration, and Black pride.
The Buddha : life and afterlife between East and West
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"The Buddha" is the first book to combine a history of early traditions about Siddhartha Gautama's life with an authoritative account of how he and the tantalizing philosophy inspired by him came to the attention of the West. It takes the reader on a remarkable journey encompassing (among other topics) Alexander the Great, the courts of the Mongol Khans, Jesuit missions to China and Japan, and intrepid European travelers and scholars from the modern era. Melding Pali and Sanskrit sources with vivid reception, author Philip Almond presents the Buddha's story as multi-layered: one of transition from a world of angels and demons, water and tree spirits, to an altogether different context where Buddhism mixed with the cultural preoccupations of those who tentatively - sometimes following false trails - tried to make sense of its fascinating complexity.
Finding Your Voice : a free speech comic
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Finding Your Voice follows two high school students who encounter speech restrictions and learn about First Amendment Rights against the backdrop of a school assembly. Through conversations with teachers, a counselor, and a college student, they discover the value and limits of expression while exploring ways to make their own individual statements.
Divergent Mind : thriving in a world that wasn't designed for you
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A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women--those with ADHD, autism, and other sensory processing differences--exploring why these traits are overlooked in women and how society benefits from allowing their unique strengths to flourish. Divergent Mind is a long-overdue, much-needed answer for women who have a deep sense that they are "different." Sharing real stories from women with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, misophonia, and more, Nerenberg explores how these brain variances present differently in women and dispels widely held misconceptions. She also offers a path forward, describing practical changes in how we can communicate, design our surroundings, and better support divergent minds.
Life Under Pressure : the social roots of youth suicide and what to do about them
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Youth suicide clusters have deeply unsettled communities in recent years. While clusters have been widely documented in the media, too little is known about why youth die by suicide, why youth suicide clusters happen, and how to stop them both. In "Life under Pressure", Anna S. Mueller and Seth Abrutyn investigate the social roots of youth suicide and why certain places weather disproportionate incidents of adolescent suicides and suicide clusters. Through close examination of kids' lives in a community repeatedly rocked by youth suicide clusters, Mueller and Abrutyn reveal how the social worlds that youth inhabit and the various messages they learn in those spaces -- about who they are supposed to be, mental illness, and help-seeking -- shape their feelings about themselves and in turn their risk of suicide.
Loud Hands : autistic people, speaking
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Autistic people speak out because there is nothing wrong with us. We are complete, complex, human beings leading rich and meaningful existences and deserving dignity, respect, human rights, and the primary voice in the conversation about us. This anthology, and the Loud Hands Project as a whole, serves to document and explore that.
Nerdy, Shy, and Socially Inappropriate : a user guide to Asperger life
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Cynthia Kim explores all the quirkiness of living with Asperger Syndrome (now reclassified as part of Autism Spectrum Disorder) in this accessible, witty and honest guide looking from an insider perspective at some of the most challenging and intractable aspects of being autistic. From being labelled nerdy and shy as an undiagnosed child to redefining herself when diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome as an adult, she describes how her perspective shifted to understanding a previously confusing world and combines this with the results of extensive research to explore the 'why' of ASD traits. This intelligent insider guide will help adults with ASDs and their partners, family members, friends, and colleagues, but it also provides a fresh and witty window into a different worldview.
Stolen Focus: why you can't pay attention--and how to think deeply again
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In this book, the author embarks on a thrilling journey, taking readers from veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD, to Silicon Valley dissidents who exposed social media companies' furtive attempts to hack our focus; from a favela in Rio where everyone lost their attention in a particularly catastrophic way, to an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore their workers' attention. In this urgent, deeply researched book, the author shows readers that if we understand the twelve true causes of this crisis - from the collapse of sustained reading to the disruption of boredom to rising pollution - we, as individuals and as a society, can finally begin to solve it by staging an "attention rebellion."
Toxic Stress : how stress is making us ill and what we can do about it
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How does stress contribute to illnesses like heart disease and diabetes? What can we do to protect ourselves and heal from toxic stress? Those who read this book will explore the fascinating mysteries of our hidden stress response system and learn how to prevent stress from turning into illness.
American Indians and National Forests
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This book tells the story of how tribal nations and the U.S. Forest Service dealt with wholesale changes in forest ownership and forest use, which alternately alienated Indians from foresters or brought them together in cooperative endeavors.
Becoming a Wildlife Professional
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The core of the book presents over 100 diverse career options that are available to aspiring wildlife workers, including work in biological field research, forestry, rehabilitation, ranching, photography, and refuge management. It also details each position's educational and technical requirements, challenges, salaries, and opportunities for advancement.
Beyond the Sage on the Stage : communicating science and contemporary issues effectively
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Communication failures are ubiquitous. Exacerbating the situation, much communication advice is superficial, and the vast research base that should inform best practices in communication is difficult to navigate. "Beyond the Sage on the Stage" translates lessons from carefully documented scholarship into lucid prose with meaningful examples that illustrate readily applicable communication strategies. This user-friendly guide provides a unique cross-disciplinary approach to developing the knowledge, skills, and habits of mind to achieve evolving communication goals.
Climate Games
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Yet real climate change is a complex social dilemma involving the world's nearly eight billion inhabitants. In the real world, the worst effects of climate change are likely to be felt by developing countries, while most of the decisions will be made by rich, industrialized countries.
Conservation Drones : mapping and monitoring biodiversity
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Increasing numbers of ecologists and conservation biologists have begun to explore the use of drone technology to obtain accurate and up-to-date data on the distribution and density of species, as well as the threats to their habitats, in their ongoing attempts to conserve and monitor biodiversity. Conservation drones are low-cost, autonomous, and operator-friendly unmanned aerial vehicles that can be used for surveying, mapping, and monitoring both habitat and biodiversity.
Elderflora : a modern history of ancient trees
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Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in "Elderflora", our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists embarked on a quest to locate and precisely date the oldest living things on earth. Taking us from Lebanon to New Zealand to California, Farmer surveys the complex history of the world's oldest trees, including voices of Indigenous peoples, religious figures, and contemporary scientists who study elderflora in crisis. In a changing climate, a long future is still possible, Farmer shows, but only if we give care to young things that might grow old.
Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet
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Five stunningly large, unbroken forests remain on Earth: the Taiga, extending from the Pacific Ocean across all of Russia and far-northern Europe; the North American boreal, ranging from Alaska's Bering seacoast to Canada's Atlantic coast; the Amazon, covering almost the entirety of South America's bulge; the Congo, occupying Africa's wet equatorial middle and parts of six nations; and the island forest of New Guinea, twice the size of California. These megaforests are vital to preserving global biodiversity, thousands of cultures, and a stable climate, economist John W. Reid and celebrated biologist Thomas E. Lovejoy argue convincingly in Ever Green.
The Forest Service and the Greatest Good
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Author James G. Lewis presents a history of the US Forest Service beginning with its origins in 1905, early conservation efforts, and policies for the regulation of grazing and hunting. He follows with the fires of 1910 and resulting policies, timber and wildlife management, wilderness recreational use, and the postwar environmental movement. He clarifies the work of directors Gifford Pinchot, Henry Graves, and influential employees like Aldo Leopold, and addresses the changing roles of women and minorities, the service during the 1970s, and its movement toward ecosystems management.
Introduction to Forestry and Natural Resources
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Introduction to Forestry and Natural Resources presents a broad overview of the profession of forestry. The book details several key fields within forestry, including forest health, economics, policy, utilization, and forestry careers. Chapters deal specifically with forest products and harvesting, recreation, wildlife habitats, tree anatomy and physiology, and ethics.
Introduction to Forests and Renewable Resources
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The introductory course in natural resources is broader and more diverse than ever. Today's students need to know how to manage forest, wildlife, watershed, and range resources in a variety of environments and serving the needs of myriad stakeholders. To that end, Chad Dawson has built on the foundation established by him and the late John Hendee to bring Introduction to Forests and Renewable Resources thoroughly up to date. The Ninth Edition has been reorganized to better address content--for example, policy and the differences between managing federal, state, and private land--that applies to all resources.
Land on Fire
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Wildfires are burning longer and hotter than ever, affecting communities and the web of life throughout the West. Fires of recent years have been among the most devastating on record: millions of acres have burned and more than a billion dollars spent controlling them. In "Land on Fire", acclaimed nature writer Gary Ferguson explores the fascinating science behind this phenomenon and the ongoing research to find a solution.
Ponderosa
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"Ponderosa" recounts the history of humans among the ponderosa pines, the historical role of fire, how and why the forest has changed and what people can do to restore the forest to its former glory.
Principles of Wildlife Conservation
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Wildlife tend our forests - they pollinate flowers, disperse seeds, eat insects that harm trees, and keep herbivores and diseases in check. They keep our forests healthy and resilient - ready and able to face and counter any challenges - such as global warming and climate change. Wildlife do need our care, concern and attention, but we also need our wildlife - perhaps much more sincerely. So how do we conserve wildlife? This is the question that Principles of Wildlife Conservation seeks to answer.
Seeing the Forest for the Trees
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For centuries, people have understood that forests, and our utilisation of them, influence the climate. With modern environmental concerns, there is now scientific, governmental, and popular interest in planting trees for climate protection. This book examines the historical origins of the idea that forests influence climate, the bitter controversy that ended the science, and its modern rebirth.
The State of Fire : why California burns
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Considers the long history of ecological burns, the varied ways fire behaves across the state, and the lessons that can be learned from California's largest fires of recent decades.
Trees of North America
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From the creators of the world's most trusted field guides--a go-to source for millions of nature lovers--comes a completely new and unparalleled reference work: the most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date guide to the trees of North America. This master guide is the result of a collaboration between leading scientists, scholars, taxonomic and field experts, photo editors, and designers. An indispensable reference, it covers more than 700 species, with nearly 3,500 full-color photographs--including images of leaf shape, bark, flowers, fruit, and fall leaves.
In Close Association : local activist networks in the making of Japanese modernity, 1868-1920
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The book is the first English-language study to examine local networks of women and men who built modern Japan in the Meiji period. It uncovers how a colorful group of Okayama-based activists founded institutions, promoted social reform, and advocated "civilization and enlightenment" while forging pathbreaking conceptions of self and society. Placing gender analysis at its core, the study offers fresh perspectives on what women did beyond domestic boundaries while showing men's lives too were embedded in home and kin.
Kinky History
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Contrary to popular belief, our predecessors had all sorts of obscene hobbies long before Christian Grey hit the scene. In this enlightening romp, learn about the first instances of homosexuality on record from the ancient world and the diverse history of nonbinary gender; encounter a thousand years' worth of hilarious and horrifying contraceptive methods; consider the positive and negative effects of the widespread availability of pornography in the digital age-and how our relationship to it changed during the pandemic; take a sneaky riffle through centuries of bedside drawers; and discover the dirty little secrets of luminaries such as Julius Caesar, James Joyce, Albert Einstein, and Virginia Woolf.
Matrescence : on the metamorphosis of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood
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A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and body.
Mean Girl Feminism : how White feminists gaslight, gatekeep, and girlboss
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Mean girl feminism encourages girls and women to be sassy, sarcastic, and ironic as feminist performance. Yet it coopts its affect, form, and content, from racialized oppression and protest while directing meanness toward people in marginalized groups. But, as author Kim Hong Nguyen argues, the racialized meanness found across pop culture opens possibilities for building an intersectional feminist politics that rejects performative civility in favor of turning anger into liberation.
Normal Sucks : how to live, learn, and thrive outside the lines
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Author Jonathan Mooney blends anecdote, expertise, and memoir to present a new mode of thinking about how we live and learn. As a neurodiverse kid diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD who didn't learn to read until he was twelve, the realization that he wasn't the problem - the system and the concept of normal were - saved Mooney's life. Whip-smart and inspiring - and movingly framed as a letter to his own young sons - this book will upend what we call normal and empower us all.
Odd Girl Out : an autistic woman in a neurotypical world
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From childhood, author Laura James knew she was different. She struggled to cope in a world that often made no sense. It wasn't until she reached her forties that she found out why. Laura learned--quite by chance--that she is autistic. One of the 700,000 people in the UK undiagnosed with autism. With touching and searing honesty, Laura challenges everything we think we know about what it means to be autistic.
There Was Nothing There: Williamsburg, the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood
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There Was Nothing There explores the daily, lived-effects of gentrification for neighborhood residents - those who are newcomers and those who have remained as Williamsburg transformed around them.
The Electronic Health Record for the Physician's Office
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Combining a print textbook with online SimChart for the Medical Office software, The Electronic Health Record for the Physician’s Office, 4th Edition uses real-world examples and screenshots to walk you through each EHR task. Clear, step-by-step guidelines simplify the exercises in each simulation, so you master all the EHR skills required of a medical office professional.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature : Expanded
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Read by more than 8 million students, The Norton Anthology of English Literature sets the standard. New longer texts include: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' in Simon Armitage's new translation, Sidney's 'Defense of Poetry', Wycherley's 'The Country Wife', Joyce's 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man', Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway' and Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot' (exclusive to Norton).
Jazz
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Now with streaming audio for every track, this text provides everything students need for listening to, understanding, and loving jazz. Written by two master storytellers, the book combines a dynamic listening experience with vivid narrative history, must-hear masterworks, and a superior media package to reveal the excitement of America's quintessential music.
The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area
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Draws upon research to imagine daily life among the Ohlone Native Americans in northern California before the arrival of the Spanish.
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."
The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area
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Draws upon research to imagine daily life among the Ohlone Native Americans in northern California before the arrival of the Spanish.
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
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An autobiographical account of the adolescence and youth of Stephen Dedalus, who reappears in Ulysses.
Between Us
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Using decades-long, cutting-edge research, acclaimed psychologist Batja Mesquita asks us to reconsider emotions through the lens of what they do in our relationships, both one-on-one and within larger social networks. From an outside-in perspective, readers will understand why pride in a Dutch context does not translate well to North Carolina, or why one's anger at a boss does not mean the same as your anger to a partner in a close relationship. By looking outward at relationships at work, school, and home, we can better judge how our emotions will be understood, how they might change a situation, and how they change us.
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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Fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society.
Mind, Self, and Society
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This collection gets to the heart of Mead's meditations on social psychology and social philosophy. Its penetrating, conversational tone transports the reader directly into Mead's classroom as he teases out the genesis of the self and the nature of the mind. The book captures his wry humor and shrewd reasoning, showing a man comfortable quoting Aristotle alongside Alice in Wonderland. Included in this edition are an insightful foreword from leading Mead scholar Hans Joas, a revealing set of textual notes by Daniel R. Huebner that detail the text's origins, and a comprehensive bibliography of Mead's other published writings.
A Short Introduction to World Religions
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This leading textbook for world religions is now available in a more concise version. Many of the features of Introduction to World Religions are retained in this volume but with focus on the religious traditions themselves. The section on religions of antiquity has been removed and key content in each chapter streamlined to increase accessibility for students in their study and research of the world's religious traditions. Known and valued for its balanced approach, this book offers an arresting layout with rich illustrations.
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."
American Conspiracism
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This book aims to better understand the phenomenon of American conspiracism by investigating how people acquire their beliefs, how conspiratorial stories function in politics and society, the role of conspiracy theories in the formation of national identities, and what conspiratorial beliefs mean to individual believers. Topics include QAnon, the Boogaloo Boys, the Satanic Panic, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination, the Great Replacement Theory, anti-Catholic nativism, Flat Earth belief, Elvis Lives, Covid-19 denial, and much more.
The Anthropology of Sport
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The Anthropology of Sport explores not only what anthropological thinking tells us about sports, but also what sports tell us about the ways in which the sporting body is shaped by and shapes the social, cultural, political, and historical contexts in which we live. Core themes discussed in this book include the body, modernity, nationalism, the state, citizenship, transnationalism, globalization, and gender and sexuality.
The Art of Learning Math
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This book is is a journey into what makes math meaningful. It takes the reader through the developmental stages of learning math, from infancy to adulthood. It weaves stories, examples, research references, reasons, the arts, and evolutionary understandings to make it relevant and comprehensible to readers. It also provides concrete, actionable tools to help the reader be successful in their endeavor, whether that is to educate groups of children, their own children, or themselves.
Beautiful Math
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This novel illustrates how seemingly magical technological feats of the digital revolution can be explained by some surprisingly simple math.
Bodies for Battle : US Army physical culture and systematic training, 1885-1957
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In "Bodies for Battle", Garrett Gatzemeyer investigates the creation and evolution of an official U.S. Army physical culture during the period when the most significant changes were made: 1885 to 1957.
Capital Punishment
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This authoritative, balanced, and accessible reference resource provides readers with an absorbing overview of capital punishment in America, including its history, its legal and cultural foundations, and racial and economic factors in its application.
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.
The Conscientious Justice: How Supreme Court Justices' Personalities Influence the Law, the High Court, and the Constitution
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This book offers a fresh perspective that will jar Supreme Court scholarship out of complacency. It argues that justices' personalities influence their behavior, which in turn influences legal development and the United States Constitution. This impressive group of authors exhaustively examine every part of the Court's decision-making process, and focus on the trait of conscientiousness and how it influences justices over nine different empirical contexts, from agenda setting to writing the Court's opinions. The Conscientious Justice is an important and comprehensive account of judging that restructures existing approaches to analyzing the High Court.
Cops, Cameras, and Crisis
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Following the tragic deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and others at the hands of police, interest in body-worn cameras for local, state, and federal law enforcement has skyrocketed. In "Cops, Cameras, and Crisis", Michael D. White and Aili Malm provide an up-to-date analysis of this promising technology, evaluating whether it can address today's crisis in police legitimacy.
Epidemics and Society
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This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today, and in a new preface addresses the global threat of COVID-19. In a clear and accessible style, Frank M. Snowden reveals the ways that diseases have not only influenced medical science and public health, but also transformed the arts, religion, intellectual history, and warfare.
The Evolution of Religions
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This book demonstrates how the widespread human attraction to the supernatural led to the formation over time of organized religions--the cyclically oriented Asian faiths, Asian and western polytheisms, Abrahamic monotheism, traditional and reform Christianity, the gnostic mystery religions, and Islam--and the impact that these diverse religions had on the societies in which they were embedded.
Fundamentals of Cultural Psychology
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This innovative textbook is the ideal introduction to cultural psychology. It focuses on a holistic approach to cultural psychology, which emphasizes that culture is created and shared by people and society. Organized around short core concept chapters, the book encourages students to think critically about culture and the theories around it.
The Handy Law Answer Book
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"The Handy Law Answer Book" is a legal primer for general audiences covering the history and practice of law in the United States. Combining practical legal tips with an exhaustive overview of the law in the United States, this comprehensive reference answers more than 750 questions regarding the history of the U.S. legal system; how courts work at the local, state, and federal levels; family law; immigration law; tort law; employment law; credit and bankruptcy law; and criminal law.
Healing Movements : Chicanx-indigenous activism and criminal justice in California
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How women and men involved in a grassroots abolitionist project of cultural healing counter the carceral state and build otherwise in a Chicanx community in California.
Historical Dictionary of Mexico
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Historical Dictionary of Mexico contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
A History of the Muslim World
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In Michael Cook's words, this book is "about a substantial slice of human history delimited by a particular cultural characteristic: adherence to Islam in some form or other. [...] A commitment to Islam makes a difference. Wherever a society and its rulers have come to be Muslim, this has meant a major discontinuity with its pre-Islamic past and a significant expansion of its relations with the wider Muslim world."
Horror in Classical Literature
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"Horror in Classical Literature: 'On a Profound and Elementary Principle'" serves as a good introduction to horror in ancient Graeco-Roman literature. It reviews the concepts of horror (literary, psychological, and biophysical), examines the current definitions for horror fiction, evaluates the current interest in the darker side of the classical world, and suggests new ways of thinking about horror as a genre.
How Technology, Social Media, and Current Events Profoundly Affect Adolescents
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With over 750 references cited, this book delivers a contemporary overview of major adolescent issues and how they relate to one another, including the impacts of technology, the pandemic, and war on youth.
How to Think Like a Philosopher
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By now, it should be clear: in the face of disinformation and disaster, we cannot hot take, life hack, or meme our way to a better future. But how should we respond instead? In "How to Think like a Philosopher", Julian Baggini turns to the study of reason itself for practical solutions to this question, inspired by our most eminent philosophers, past and present.
Indigenous Science and Technology
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"Indigenous Science and Technology" focuses on how Nahua Native Americans have explored, understood, and explained the world around them, in pre-invasion, colonial, and contemporary time periods.
The Limits of Community Policing
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"The Limits of Community Policing" addresses conflicts between police and communities. Luis Daniel Gascón and Aaron Roussell depart from traditional conceptions, arguing that community policing-popularized for decades as a racial panacea-is not the solution it seems to be.
Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries
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This is a graphically bold, story-driven book, accessible to readers with a middle-school math background, that engagingly introduces readers to 16 unsolved mathematical puzzles.
Mental Health, Gender, and the Rise of Sport
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"Mental Health, Gender, and the Rise of Sport" explores the historical role of sport in the prescription for mental and physical health through the epidemic of neurasthenia, a debilitating neurological disorder that afflicted American society throughout the latter nineteenth century.
Perspectives from the Past : Volume 1
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"Primary Sources in Western Civilizations" offers a broad range of selections in varying degrees of length; with a total of 225 classic and contemporary primary sources. Selections are long, which gives students a chance to engage and understand each document, and the book includes two visual sources per chapter.
Perspectives from the Past : Volume 2
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"Primary Sources in Western Civilizations" offers a broad range of selections in varying degrees of length; with a total of 225 classic and contemporary primary sources. Selections are long, which gives students a chance to engage and understand each document, and the book includes two visual sources per chapter.
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
The Psychology of Trauma
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The Psychology of Trauma integrates the knowledge and research from clinical practice and neuroscience to offer a scientific approach to understanding and managing symptoms of trauma. Using a trauma-informed framework, this novel explores how clinical understanding can help family and community to support the journey of recovery.
Sentencing Without Guidelines
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This book looks to the case of South Carolina to show how its attempt to achieve sentencing uniformity through guidelines reform was successfully resisted by South Carolina judges, but how other mechanisms arose to ensure fair expectations in criminal sentencing there nonetheless.
Social Media and Adolescent Health
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Social media has been fully integrated into the lives of most adolescents in the U.S., raising concerns among parents, physicians, public health officials, and others about its effect on mental and physical health. Over the past year, an ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examined the research and produced this detailed report exploring that effect, and laying out recommendations for policymakers, regulators, industry, and others in an effort to maximize the good and minimize the bad.
Strength Coaching in America
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It's hard to imagine, but as late as the 1950's, athletes could get kicked off a team if they were caught lifting weights. Coaches had long believed that strength training would slow down a player. Muscle was perceived as a bulky burden; training emphasized speed and strategy, not "brute" strength. Fast forward to today; the highest-paid strength and conditioning coaches can now earn $700,000 a year. Strength Coaching in America delivers the fascinating history behind this revolutionary shift.
Suspect Citizens: what 20 million traffic stops tell us about policing and race
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"Suspect Citizens" offers the most comprehensive look to date at the most common form of police-citizen interactions, the routine traffic stop. Throughout the war on crime, police agencies have used traffic stops to search drivers suspected of carrying contraband. The key element in this strategy, which kept it hidden from widespread public scrutiny, was that middle-class white Americans were largely exempt from its consequences. Tracking these police practices down to the officer level, "Suspect Citizens" documents the extreme rarity of drug busts and reveals sustained and troubling disparities in how racial groups are treated.
Talking Back : Native women and the making of the early South
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Historian Alejandra Dubcovsky tells a story of war, slavery, loss, remembrance, and the women whose resilience and resistance transformed the colonial South. In exploring their lives she rewrites early American history, challenging the established male-centered narrative. Dubcovsky reconstructs the lives of Native women -- Timucua, Apalachee, Chacato, and Guale -- to show how they made claims to protect their livelihoods, bodies, and families.
Third World Studies
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In this revised and expanded second edition of Third World Studies, Gary Y. Okihiro considers the methods and theories that might constitute the formation of Third World studies.
Treaty Justice : the Northwest tribes, the Boldt decision, and the recognition of fishing rights
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In 1974, Judge George Boldt issued a ruling that affirmed the fishing rights and tribal sovereignty of Native nations in Washington State. The Boldt Decision transformed Indigenous law and resource management across the United States and beyond. Like Brown v. Board of Education, the case also brought about far-reaching societal changes, reinforcing tribal sovereignty and remedying decades of injustice. In this novel, legal historian and tribal advocate Charles Wilkinson tells the dramatic story of the Boldt Decision against the backdrop of salmon's central place in the cultures and economies of the Pacific Northwest.
When the Hood Comes Off: racism and resistance in the digital age
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From cell phone footage of police killing unarmed Black people to leaked racist messages and even comments from friends and family on social media, online communication exposes how racism operates in a world that pretends to be colorblind. In "When the Hood Comes Off", Rob Eschmann blends rigorous research and engaging personal narrative to examine the effects of online racism on communities of color and society, and the unexpected ways that digital technologies enable innovative everyday tools of antiracist resistance.
A World of Enemies
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In US foreign policy, conflict has replaced diplomacy. At home, wars on crime, drugs, immigration, and terrorism dissolve barriers between law enforcement and combat. Tracing the origins of militarized policy to post-Vietnam fears of waning US power, Osamah Khalil argues that it is time to discard forever wars and invest in political solutions.
