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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Featuring stories by a bestselling, cross-genre assortment of some of the most exciting writers working today, an anthology of gender-bent, queered, race-bent, and inclusive retellings from the enchanting and eternally popular world of Greek myth. Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, and the other denizens of Mount Olympus feel almost as present and larger than life today as they did when they were worshipped as gods. Humanity has been telling and retelling...
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Publisher
Hachette Go
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The "Anti-Ableist Manifesto" defines ableism as discrimination in favor of non-disabled people and helps readers understand that ending discrimination begins with self-reflection. Tiffany Yu celebrates the power of stories and lived experiences to foster the proximity, intimacy, and humanity of disability identities that have far too often been "othered" and rendered invisible. As the Asian American daughter of immigrants, living with PTSD and a...
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Historians of social science will benefit from the detailed examination of how economics expanded into new areas like the environment. Environmental historians will benefit from an understanding of how economics claimed to be 'on the side' of the environment. Environmental economists will benefit from the contextualization of their field.
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Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Food banks-warehouses that collect and systematize surplus food-have expanded into one of the largest mechanisms to redistribute food waste. From their origins in North America in the 1960s, food banks provide food to communities in approximately one hundred countries on six continents. This book analyzes the development of food banks across the world and the limits of food charity as a means to reduce food insecurity and food waste. Based on fifteen...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"With artificial intelligence developing so rapidly that even some of the biggest names behind the advances are calling for pauses and increased regulation, discussions of the future of work in the age of AI have reached a new level of urgency. While certain less specialized jobs have long faced the threat of being replaced by more efficient and profitable machines (e.g., self-checkout lanes at grocery stores), many specialized jobs and jobs requiring...
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Publisher
Health Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
One of the most significant sources of suffering comes from our human tendency to avoid difficult emotions. We are not taught how to face these unpleasant, often daily inner experiences (mind-body energies) and so we tend to push them away, ignore them, or become unwittingly overwhelmed by them. Yet how we meet and greet these difficult emotions has everything to do with our well-being, resilience, and ability to connect with ourselves and others....
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Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When you put learning at the center of everything you do, you'll grow your career, boost your leadership skills, enrich your relationships, and increase your joy and fulfillment in life. But even for people who are naturally curious and interested in solving problems, being an effective learner--one who can turn learning into action--takes insight and practice. This collection of wisdom and practical habits from some of the most successful leaders...
Publisher
[Independently published]
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Mental illness can be devastating and crippling to those who are suffering. Kevin Conley, a Wildland Firefighter, knows firsthand how depression and a severe panic disorder can affect every aspect of everyday life and existence. This is a story about how he decided to fight back with all his will. On a journey to find peace and clarity and to finally put his demons to rest. He rode his bicycle 3,500 miles across the country in 47 days, all with his...
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Publisher
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"We are entering a new technological age in which artificial intelligence and immersive media will transform society at all levels, mediating our lives by altering what we see, hear, and experience. Powered by immersive eyewear and driven by interactive AI agents, this new age of computing has the potential to make our world a magical place where the boundaries between the real and the virtual, the human and the artificial, rapidly fade away. If managed...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Despite being the most common learning disability, dyslexia is widely misunderstood-it is not related to a lack of comprehension or having a low IQ, nor is it simply a matter of mixing up letters. In this book, Sayeski and Chandler translate research from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, linguistics, and education into bite-sized, actionable guidance for teachers and parents to follow to put kids on the path to reading"--
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
To many of us, electricity can still seem like the "magic" our ancestors imagined it to be when they saw it in the natural world. But the science of electricity is considerably more amazing than magic, as you'll see in the 24 fascinating lectures of Electrical Engineering for Everyone. With dozens of live demonstrations, along with explanatory graphics and video, Dr. Laura J. Bottomley brings you on the amazing journey of electrical engineering, the...
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Publisher
The Economist
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Whether you're standing up in front of a crowd at a conference or chatting with a colleague in an elevator, storytelling is the most effective way to get your point across. It works in ninety-second Superbowl television spots, it works in ten-second social media formats, and it works in that email you have to fire off in five seconds flat. Why? The short answer is that people don't make decisions based on logic. They make decisions based on emotions....
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Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In Capitalism Created the Climate Crisis and Capitalism Will Solve It: The Market Forces Catalyzing a Climate Technology Renaissance, distinguished author Kentaro Kawamori delivers a fascinating and timely exploration of the interplay between capitalism and climate change. He explains how the capitalist system helped to contribute to the current crisis of global warming and how that same system will help to end it. In the book, the author discusses...
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Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Blooming with rare archival images, the story of scientific botanical illustrations over nearly seven hundred years. In a world flooded with images designed to create memories, validate perceptions, and influence others, botanical illustration is about something much more focused: creating technically accurate depictions of plants.
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Publisher
National Gallery of Art
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Curated by artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, this exhibition brings together works by an intergenerational group of nearly 50 living Native artists practicing across the United States. Their powerful expressions reflect the diversity of Native American individual, regional, and cultural identities. At the same time, these works share a worldview informed by thousands of years of reverence, study, and concern for the land. Through a variety of practices--including...
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Publisher
Black Irish Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"I have a theory about the Hero's Journey. We all have one. We have many, in fact. But our primary hero's journey is the passage we live out, in real life, before we find our calling. The hero's journey ends when, like Odysseus, we return home to Ithaca, to the place from which we started. What then? The passage that comes next is The Artist's Journey. On our artist's journey, we move past Resistance and past self-sabotage. We discover our true selves...
19) It's not hysteria: everything you need to know about your reproductive health (but were never told)
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Series
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An inclusive and essential guide to reproductive health--including period problems, pelvic pain, menopause, fertility, sexual health, vaginal and urinary conditions, and overall wellbeing--from leading expert and fierce advocate Dr. Karen Tang Did you know 1 in 3 women experience menstrual abnormalities or pelvic issues? Yet these conditions are overwhelmingly misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or dismissed. The root causes for these issues, such as PCOS,...
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Building on the success and impact of Library 2020: Today's Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow's Library by Joseph Janes, Library 2035: Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries updates, expands upon, and broadens the discussions on the future of libraries and the ways in which they transform information services to best serve their communities.Library 2035 explores the lessons learned over the past decade and forecasts the opportunities, strengths,...
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