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Publication Date: 2024
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Acclaimed developmental psychologist David Yeager--who has worked alongside Angela Duckworth (Grit), Carol Dweck (Mindset), and Paul Tough (How Children Succeed)--reveals the new science of motivating young people ages ten through twenty-five in an illuminating and practical book that is a must-read for managers, parents, educators, coaches, and mentors everywhere. Imagine a world in which Gen Xers, millennials, and boomers interact with young people in ways that leave them feeling inspired, enthusiastic, and ready to contribute-rather than disengaged, outraged, or overwhelmed.
Publication Date: 2022
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Two seventeen-year-old trans boys in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, struggling to understand themselves and their love for each other, are inspired by an online story about trans soldiers who fell in love during the American Revolution.
Publication Date: 2019
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Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, this text offers a comprehensive discussion of the physical and human geography of the United States and Canada, weaving in the key themes of environment and sustainability throughout.--Provided by publisher.
Publication Date: 2020
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Abigail, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of Magda Szabó's books in her native Hungary. Gina is the only child of a general, a widower who has long been happy to spoil his bright and willful daughter. Gina is devastated when the general tells her that he must go away on a mission and that he will be sending her to boarding school in the country. She is even more aghast at the grim religious institution to which she soon finds herself consigned.
Publication Date: 2024
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Social historian Virginia Nicholson examines the social history of female adornment from 1860-1960, a century of rapid change through the introduction of new technologies which brought women into the public gaze more than ever before.
Publication Date: 2019
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Going beyond the story of America as a country discovered by a few brave men in the New World, Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in forming our national identity.
Publication Date: 2004
Publication Date: 2024
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Armageddon : une insignifiante place forte perdue en Galilée, qui en est venue à représenter le lieu de la fin du monde. Car l'apocalypse est une réalité géographique mais aussi culturelle : elle désigne d'abord le nom d'un livre énigmatique, celui de Jean, dit livre de la Révélation. C'est à l'exploration d'Armageddon dans l'histoire que s'attache ce livre.
Publication Date: 2022
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It starts when Claudia offers Immy a yellow rose. Immy has been in love before- many times, across many lifetimes. But never as deeply, as intensely as this. Claudia has never been in love this before either. But then, this is her first time with a vampire. The forbidden thirst for blood runs deep in Immy. And within her mind clamor the voices, of all the others she has been, their desires, and their wrongs. -- adapted from jacket
Publication Date: 2024
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As winter turned to spring in the year 1699, Sebastian and Jane embarked on a campaign of persuasion. The two wished to marry, and they sought the backing of their community in Boston. Nothing, however, could induce Jane's enslaver to consent. Only after her death did Sebastian and Jane manage to wed, forming a union that was stable and long-lasting despite the fact that husband and wife were not always able to live in the same household.
Publication Date: 2024
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Precocious eight-year-old Bibsy navigates a relationship with a teacher who thinks she talks too much.
Publication Date: 2021
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Christine de Pizan's Body Politic (1406-1407) is the first political treatise to have been written not just by a woman, but by a woman capable of holding her own in a normally male domain. It advises not just the prince, as was traditional, but also nobles, knights, and the common people, promoting the ideals of interdependence and social responsibility. Rooted in the mind-set of medieval Christendom, it heralds the humanism of the Renaissance, highlighting classical culture and Roman civic virtues.
Publication Date: 2024
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A headman of a remote Kelabit longhouse in Borneo is wrestling with recent changes caused by logging and roadbuilding. During this time of tension, he tells three historical narratives defining what makes the good life. His stories of history celebrate pioneering heroes who led through warfare and migrations, who interact with the Brooke state and initiate peace-making, and who journey to seek local Christian missionaries.
Publication Date: 2024
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Build Your Own Robot is a project-based guide that takes you from spinning your first DC motor to programming a mobile robot that you can control from your phone or computer. You'll write simple Python code to help your new friend spin, move, and find its way. You'll even teach it to track faces and fetch snacks. Plus, a helpful hardware purchasing guide makes it easy to find exactly what you need to get started!
Publication Date: 2021
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Detroit, 1930s. Mary, the American-born daughter of Greek and French immigrants, lives in a tiny apartment with her parents, her brothers, and her twin sister. She questions why her parents ever came to America, while yearning for true love, to own her own business, and to be an independent, modern American woman. Flashbacks to her parents' childhoods connect their stories with Mary's: issues of arranged marriage, learning about independence, and yearning to grow beyond one's own culture. -- adapted from back cover
Publication Date: 2024
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An essential reference written for the marine industry and seafarers around the world. Cargo Work has been fully revised and expanded to cover the key classes of cargo, regarding the handling, stowage and carriage of all major commodities by marine transports. The book provides a general guide to the movement of a wide range of cargoes safely, under the latest international regulations affecting all cargo work, equipment and operational systems.
Publication Date: 2024
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Not all unequal countries are unequal in the same ways or to the same degree. In Challenging Inequality, Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens analyze different patterns of increasing income inequality in post-industrial societies since the 1980s and assess the policies and social structures best able to mitigate against the worst forms and effects of market inequality.
Publication Date: 2024
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A Pulitzer Prize winner's startling, intimate portrait of a church, its radical mission to build community, its heartbreaking crisis, and the future of faith in America--
Publication Date: 2024
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A book that examines how structural inequalities directly influence undergraduate life. Universities love to talk about diversity. They spend millions of dollars advertising just how diverse they, offering diversity statistics that are personalized with pictures. But Anthony Jack argues that this is a superficial approach. He calls it a gift shop approach that displays groups like trinkets and fails to truly serve students from underrepresented groups. Moreover, social class is almost entirely absent from the conversation.
Publication Date: 2024
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A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, revealing the perils and inequities of our growing reliance on automated decision-making On the surface, a British poet, an UberEats courier in Pittsburgh, an Indian doctor, and a Chinese activist in exile have nothing in common. But they are in fact linked by a profound common experience-unexpected encounters with artificial intelligence.
Publication Date: 2024
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In the summer of 2023 as Iris Apfel welcomed her 102nd birthday, she put pen to paper to write this very special project: what Iris called her legacy book. With more than 300 personal photos and beautiful, unseen fabric patterns from her Old World Weavers archive, Iris's incredible energy radiates from every page. Here she shares her creative work, her adventures, and her unwavering belief that color and creativity are essential to a life well lived--
Publication Date: 2020
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English translation of Arcangela Tarabotti's major devotional work, first published in Italian in 1643, celebrating the joys of conventual life -- a striking contrast to her more famous Paternal Tyranny, attacking the practice of the forced conventualization of daughters--
Publication Date: 1999
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An American computer hacker operating in Southeast Asia attempts to break a World War II cypher to find the location of a missing shipment of gold. The gold was stolen by the Japanese during the war. By the author of The Diamond Age.
Publication Date: 2024
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Crying holds a privileged place in conversations around emotions as an expression of authentic feeling. And yet, tears are ambiguous: they might signal the most positive and negative of affects; they might present a sincere revelation of self or be simulated to manipulate others. Unsurprisingly, tears figure prominently on stage and on screen, where actors have experimented with the mechanics of making tears.
