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Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Greenfieldboyce, Nell

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Date Published: 01-2024

ISBN: 0393882349 | EAN: 9780393882346

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Bibliography, Price on Product | Pages: 224

Annotation: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

An astonishing debut from the beloved NPR science correspondent: intimate essays about the intersection of science and everyday life.

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City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Kimble, Megan

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)

Date Published: 04-2024

ISBN: 0593443780 | EAN: 9780593443781

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product | Pages: 368

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Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Tenen, Dennis Yi

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Date Published: 02-2024

ISBN: 0393882187 | EAN: 9780393882186

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Illustrated, Bibliography, Index, Price on Product | Pages: 176

Annotation: In the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the seamstress. Today, it has come for the writer, physician, programmer, and attorney.

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White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: McMillan, Tracie

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company

Date Published: 04-2024

ISBN: 1250619424 | EAN: 9781250619426

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Dust Cover, Bibliography, Index, Price on Product | Pages: 464

Annotation: "In THE WHITE BONUS, Tracie McMillan asks a provocative question about racism in America: When people of color are denied so much, what are white people given? And how much is it worth--not in amorphous privilege, but in dollars and cents? McMillan begins with three generations of her family, tracking their modest wealth to its roots: American policy that helped whites first. Simultaneously, she details the complexities of their advantage, exploring her mother's death in a nursing home, at 44, on Medicaid; her family's implosion; and a small inheritance from a banker grandfather. In the process, McMillan puts a cash value to whiteness in her life and assesses its worth. McMillan then expands her investigation to four other white subjects of different generations across the U.S. Alternating between these subjects and her family, McMillan shows how, and to what degree, racial privilege begets material advantage across class, time, and place"--

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Iceman Inheritance: Prehistoric Sources of Western Man's Racism, Sexism and Aggression (Revised)

BasicBinding: Paperback

Publisher: Kayode Publications

Date Published: 06-1991

ISBN: 1879831007 | EAN: 9781879831001

BasicBinding: Paperback

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents | Pages: 229

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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

BasicBinding: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books

Date Published: 12-2005

ISBN: 014303653X | EAN: 9780143036531

BasicBinding: Paperback

Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents, Price on Product | Pages: 208

Audience Age Range: 18 to UP

Reading Grade Level: 13 to UP

Annotation: Postman takes an enlightening look at the long-term effects of mass media--how it transforms the world, and the ways in which the media onslaught can be challenged.

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Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Price, Devon

Publisher: Harmony

Date Published: 02-2024

ISBN: 0593581210 | EAN: 9780593581216

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product | Pages: 368

Annotation: "Learn to identify-and combat-Systemic Shame, the feeling of self-hatred and disempowerment that comes from living in a society that blames individuals for systemic problems, with this invaluable resource from the social psychologist and author of Unmasking Autism"--

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Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

BasicBinding: Paperback

Author: Hernandez, Jessica

Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Date Published: 01-2022

ISBN: 1623176050 | EAN: 9781623176051

BasicBinding: Paperback

Features: Price on Product, Illustrated, Bibliography, Index | Pages: 256

Annotation: Place of publication listed on title page as Huichin, unceded Ohlone land, aka Berkeley, California.

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Asian American Is Not a Color: Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Poon, Oiyan A

Publisher: Beacon Press

Date Published: 04-2024

ISBN: 0807013625 | EAN: 9780807013625

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product | Pages: 232

Annotation: "A mother and race scholar seeks to answer her daughter's many questions about race and racism with an earnest exploration into race relations and affirmative action from the perspectives of Asian Americans"--

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Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Taylor, Astra

Publisher: Pantheon Books

Date Published: 03-2024

ISBN: 0593701240 | EAN: 9780593701249

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product | Pages: 432

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Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us about America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny

BasicBinding: Paperback

Author: Howe, Neil

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)

Date Published: 12-1997

ISBN: 0767900464 | EAN: 9780767900461

BasicBinding: Paperback

Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product | Pages: 400

Annotation: Basing their vision on a provocative theory of American history as series of recurring 80- to 100-year cycles, the authors predict that, just after the millennium, America will enter a new era that will culminate with a political and social crisis comparable to the American Revolution, the Civil War, and World War II. "The Fourth Turning" shows how it is not too early--or too late--to prepare for our next rendezvous with destiny.

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Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Ariely, Dan

Publisher: Harper

Date Published: 09-2023

ISBN: 0063280426 | EAN: 9780063280427

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product | Pages: 320

Annotation: "Misinformation affects all of us on a daily basis, from social media to larger political challenges, from casual conversations in supermarkets to even our closest relationships. While we recognize the dangers that misinformation poses, the problem is complex, far beyond what policing social media alone can achieve, and too often our limited solutions are shaped by partisan politics and individual interpretations of truth. ... Ariely argues that to understand the irrational appeal of misinformation, we must first understand the behavior of 'misbelief,' the psychological and social journey that leads people to mistrust accepted truths, entertain alternative facts, and even embrace full-blown conspiracy theories. Misinformation, it turns out, appeals to something innate in all of us, ... and it is only by understanding this psychology that we can blunt its effects"

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Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Kakutani, Michiko

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)

Date Published: 02-2024

ISBN: 0525574999 | EAN: 9780525574996

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product | Pages: 256

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Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Shew, Ashley

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Date Published: 09-2023

ISBN: 1324036664 | EAN: 9781324036661

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Price on Product, Index | Pages: 160

Annotation: One of BookRiot's Ten Best Disability Books of 2023

A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are the real experts when it comes to technology and disability.

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What We've Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Metzl, Jonathan M

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Date Published: 01-2024

ISBN: 132405025X | EAN: 9781324050254

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Illustrated, Bibliography, Index, Price on Product | Pages: 384

Annotation: A searing reflection on the broken promise of safety in America.

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Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (Second Edition, Second)

BasicBinding: Paperback

Author: Eberstadt, Nicholas

Publisher: Templeton Press

Date Published: 09-2022

ISBN: 1599475979 | EAN: 9781599475974

BasicBinding: Paperback

Features: Price on Product | Pages: 252

Annotation: Nicholas Eberstadt's landmark 2016 study, Men without Work, cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and "full or near full employment" conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet, continuing crisis: Depression-era work rates for American men of "prime working age" (twenty-five to fifty-four).

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Humankind: Changing the World One Small Act at a Time

BasicBinding: Paperback

Author: Aronson, Brad

Publisher: Lifetree

Date Published: 04-2020

ISBN: 192805563X | EAN: 9781928055631

BasicBinding: Paperback

Features: Price on Product, Bibliography, Index | Pages: 256

Annotation: Brad Aronson's life changed in an instant when his wife Mia was diagnosed with leukemia. He spent most of the next two and a half years either by her side as she received treatment or trying to shield their five-year-old son Jack from the worst of Mia's illness. Amid the stress and despair of waiting for the treatment to work, Brad and Mia were met by an outpouring of kindness from friends, family, and even complete strangers. Inspired by the many demonstrations of "humankindness" that supported their family through Mia's recovery, Brad began writing about the people who rescued his family from that dark time, often with the smallest of gestures.

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Beneath the Moon: Fairy Tales, Myths, and Divine Stories from Around the World

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Yoshitani, Yoshi

Publisher: Ten Speed Press

Date Published: 09-2020

ISBN: 1984857223 | EAN: 9781984857224

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Index, Illustrated, Price on Product | Pages: 176

Annotation: "Powerful and universal retellings of seventy-eight divine stories, legends, and myths from around the world, each accompanied by a gorgeous illustration from acclaimed artist Yoshi Yoshitani"--

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Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Nelson, Timothy J

Publisher: Mariner Books

Date Published: 08-2023

ISBN: 0063239493 | EAN: 9780063239494

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Illustrated, Bibliography, Index, Price on Product | Pages: 352

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Norse Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook: From Vikings to Valkyries, an Epic Who's Who in Old Norse Mythology

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Publisher: Adams Media Corporation

Date Published: 10-2023

Illustrator: Richard, Sara

ISBN: 1507220529 | EAN: 9781507220528

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Index, Price on Product | Pages: 240

Annotation: "Learn more about your favorite Norse gods, goddesses, and heroes with this collection of profiles that share the real stories behind the characters. With characters from Norse myths coming to life on the big and small screens, and in the pages of new and exciting fiction, this guide can give you all the details you need to understand your favorite heroes, villains, and powerful deities. With comprehensive entries that outline each character's names, roles, related symbols, and foundational myths, you can get to know the roots of these personas, and better understand the new stories we tell about them today"--

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