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The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do about It - Hardcover

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by Mary Ann Sieghart (Author)Every woman has a story of being underestimated, ignored, challenged, or patronized in the workplace. Maybe she tried to speak up in a meeting, only to be talked over by male colleagues. Or a client addressed her male subordinate instead of her. These stories remain true even for women at the top of their fields; in the U.S. Supreme Court, for example, female justices are interrupted four times more often than their male colleagues--and 96 percent of the time by m...

Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden: Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians - Paperback

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by Gilbert L. Wilson (Author)Buffalo Bird Woman, a Hidatsa Indian born about 1839, was an expert gardener. Following centuries-old methods, she and the women of her family raised huge crops of corn, squash, beans, and sunflowers on the rich bottomlands of the Missouri River in what is now North Dakota. When she was young, her fields were near Like-a-fishhook, the earth-lodge village that the Hidatsa shared with the Mandan and Arikara. When she grew older, the families of the three tribes move...

Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church - Hardcover

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by Hahrie Han (Author)The inspiring story of evangelicals in Cincinnati struggling to bridge racial divides in their own church, their community, and across the nation In 2016, even as Ohio helped deliver victory to presidential candidate Donald Trump, Cincinnati voters also passed a ballot initiative for universal preschool. The margin was so large that many who elected Trump must have--paradoxically--also voted for the initiative: how could the same citizens support such philosophically dis...

Bless Your Heart: A Field Guide to All Things Southern

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Report copyright infringementby Landon Bryant (Author), Adam Trest (Illustrator)Hey, y'all. Welcome to the South! Viral sensation and TikToker Landon Bryant (@LandonTalks) presents his tongue-in-cheek "anthropological dive" into the food, fashion, linguistics, culture, holidays, and traditions of the American South, complete with commentary from famous Southerners, humorous charts, and charming illustrations. "Let's discuss . . ." These two words began the viral sensation that is @LandonTalk...

Cleaning House: The Fight to Rid Our Homes of Toxic Chemicals

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Report copyright infringementby Lindsay Dahl (Author)From the front lines of the movement for safer products, environmental health expert Lindsay Dahl takes us on her journey from skeptic to activist, exposing the secret forces that keep toxic chemicals in our homes, bodies, and environment--showing us how to fight back and keep our families safe.In Cleaning House, Lindsay Dahl shows how seemingly innocuous items--everything from toys to common beauty and cleaning products--can include toxic ...

Human History on Drugs: An Utterly Scandalous But Entirely Truthful Look at History Under the Influence

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Kelly (Author)A lively, hilarious, and entirely truthful look at the druggie side of history's most famous figures, including Shakespeare, Queen Victoria, and the Beatles, from debut author (and viral historical TikToker with nearly 100K followers) Sam Kelly Did you know that Alexander the Great was a sloppy drunk, William Shakespeare was a stoner, and George Washington drank a spoonful of opium every night to staunch the pain from his fake teeth? Or how a...

Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala - Hardcover

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by Rachel Nolan (Author)The poignant saga of Guatemala's adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigenous dispossession. In 2009 Dolores Preat went to a small Maya town in Guatemala to find her birth mother. At the address retrieved from her adoption file, she was told that her supposed mother, one Rosario Colop Chim, never gave up a child for adoption--but in 1984 a girl across the street was abducted. At that house, Preat...

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery - Paperback

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by Eric Foner (Author)Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see Lincoln, a pragmatic politician grounded in principle, deftly navigating the dynamic politics of antislavery, secession, and civil war. Lincoln's greatness...

Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age: Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload - Hardcover

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by Richard E. Cytowic (Author)An award-winning neurologist on the Stone-Age roots of our screen addictions, and what to do about them. The human brain hasn't changed much since the Stone Age, let alone in the mere thirty years of the Screen Age. That's why, according to neurologist Richard Cytowic--who, Oliver Sacks observed, "changed the way we think of the human brain"--our brains are so poorly equipped to resist the incursions of Big Tech: They are programmed for the wildly different needs...

Chasing North American Monsters: A Guide to Over 250 Creatures from Greenland to Guatemala

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Report copyright infringementby Jason Offutt (Author), Loren Coleman (Foreword by)Discover more than 250 Humanoids, Howlers, and Scaly Swimmers from Across North America Here in North America, there be monsters! Jason Offutt takes you on a thrilling adventure across all twenty-three countries--as well as every state and territory of the US, Canada, and Mexico--to meet one or more monsters in each location. Featuring illustrations throughout, this book travels to Alaska, the Caribbean, Greenla...

Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2025 - Paperback

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by Mickey Huff (Editor), Andy Lee Roth (Editor), Mnar Adley (Foreword by)Highlighting the year's most significant independent journalism--including reports on toxic chemicals, climate disinformation, and union victories--Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2025 illuminates issues and raises voices that the establishment press have throttled. State of the Free Press 2025 shows how independent journalism can promote civic engagement and reconnect people who have otherwise lost interest i...

Dark Aeon: Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity - Hardcover

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by Joe Allen (Author), Stephen K. Bannon (Foreword by)Humanity is consumed by relentless transformation Like a thief in the night, artificial intelligence has inserted itself into our lives. It makes important decisions for us every day. Often, we barely notice. As Joe Allen writes in this groundbreaking book, "Transhumanism is the great merger of humankind with the Machine. At this stage in history, it consists of billions using smartphones. Going forward, we'll be hardwiring our brains to ...

Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation - Hardcover

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by Linda Villarosa (Author)PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - "A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and die quicker'--an eye-opening game changer."--Oprah DailyFrom an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation. In 2018, Linda Villarosa's New York Times Magazine ar...

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by Gail Gibbons (Author)Learn all about medieval knights with favorite nonfiction author and illustrator Gail Gibbons -- perfect for the younger set! "Children won't want to surrender this book, so buy multiple copies," says Booklist of this ideal picture book primer on medieval knights. The author covers tournaments, chivalry, and what happened when a bad knight was caught. Legendary knights such as Sir Gawain and the knights of the Round Table are included, as is St.George and the dragon, a...

People Will Talk: The Surprising Science of Reputation - Hardcover

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by John Whitfield (Author)How to get a good reputation--deserved or not --and why we care what other people thinkWhy does a fish only bite another fish if no one else is watching? Why do people overshare online? Why do some people meet trivial insults with extreme violence? Why do so many gods have multiple eyes? In People Will Talk, science writer John Whitfield shows how reputation helps answer all of these questions, and more. What is the secret to getting get a good reputation? Unfortunat...

My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine

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Report copyright infringementby Sami Hermez (Author), Sireen Sawalha (With)A riveting and unapologetic account of Palestinian resistance, the story of one family's care for their land, and a reflection on love and heartache while living under military occupation. In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the decades that followed and their lives in the Palestinian vil...

Appalachian Folklore Unveiled: Mysterious Happenings of Folk Spirits and Mystic Shades from the Ancient Foothills - Hardcover

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by Darkness Prevails (Author), Carman Carrion (With)Step behind the veil of a rarely accessed culture with terrifying and mysterious ghost stories and lore as old and deeply enriched as the Appalachian Mountains themselves. Hosts of the leading, ever-popular horror podcast network, Eeriecast, guide the reader through the winding trails and thick forests of Appalachia, encountering the ghosts, creepy creatures, paranormal sounds, and mysterious mists that cloak and roam this rarely-accessed re...

Richard Wagamese Selected: What Comes from Spirit - Hardcover

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by Richard Wagamese (Author), Drew Hayden Taylor (Editor)From the author of Indian Horse and Embers, here is a new curated collection of Richard Wagamese's short writings.Richard Wagamese, one of North America's most celebrated Indigenous authors and storytellers, was a writer of breathtaking honesty and inspiration. Always striving to be a better, stronger person, Wagamese shared his journey through writing, encouraging others to do the same.Following the success of Embers, which has sold al...

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by Patricia Telesco (Author)This cauldron of culinary magic forever banishes the ordinary in eating. A Kitchen Witch's Cookbook by Patricia Telesco combines over 300 carefully selected recipes with bewitching information that will change your approach to cooking, whether you are the chef for yourself, your family, or a roomful of friends. A Kitchen Witch's Cookbook combines delicious and easy-to-make recipes that span the globe and the centuries. You can use these wonderful dishes for any occ...

Birds' Nests: Business and Ethnicity in Southeast Asia: An Anthropological Study of Business - Paperback

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by Kasem Jandam (Author)Southeast Asia is renowned for birds' nests and the bird's nest trade. A bird's nest is often referred to as "White Gold" or "the Caviar of the East." In Birds' Nests: Business and Ethnicity in Southeast Asia, Kasem Jandam explores the history of using birds' nests and outlines key aspects of the business: consumption and its impact on ecology and the environment, market innovations, and the legal system related to public, private, community, and nonexclusive economic ...

Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care - Paperback

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by Mimi E. Kim (Editor), Cameron Rasmussen (Editor), Durrell M. Washington (Editor)A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities.Within social work--a profession that has been intimately tied to and often complicit in the building and sustaining of the carceral state--abolitionist thinking, movement-building, and radical praxis are shifting the field. Critical scholarship and organiz...

National Identity and Its Defenders: Thailand Today - Paperback

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by Craig J. Reynolds (Editor)The first edition of this book was hailed as original and challenging in its analyses of Thai national identity. The topic is today no less worthy of discussion and comment. The essays boldly offer insights into the formation of Thai identity from the perspectives of history, political science, anthropology, linguistics, social psychology, human geography, and media and religious studies.Written in the aftermath of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, a new chapter re...

Heroines of the Qing: Exemplary Women Tell Their Stories - Paperback

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by Binbin Yang (Author)Heroines of the Qing introduces an array of Chinese women from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who were powerful, active subjects of their own lives and who wrote themselves as the heroines of their exemplary stories. Traditionally, "exemplary women" (lienu)--heroic martyrs, chaste widows, and faithful maidens, for example--were written into official dynastic histories for their unrelenting adherence to female virtue by Confucian family standards. However, despi...

Lore of the Land: Folklore & Wisdom from the Wild Earth - Hardcover

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by Claire Cock-Starkey (Author), Samantha Dolan (Illustrator)Unearth the secrets of our natural world with the Lore of the Land, a richly illustrated compendium of folklore and wisdom from the land, skies, and seas. From thundering rivers to shady groves, flickering marshes to lightless caves, and from snow-capped mountains to the depths of the ocean, discover the folklore of Earth's wildest places. Stories and spirits abound in these land- and seascapes, where traditional wisdom and mysteri...

Beginning to Remember: The Past in the Indonesian Present - Paperback

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by Mary S. Zurbuchen (Editor)Beginning to Remember charts Indonesia's turbulent decades of cultural repression and renewal amid the rise and fall of Suharto's New Order regime. These cross-disciplinary pieces illuminate Indonesia's current efforts to reexamine and understand its past in order to shape new civic and cultural arrangements.In 1998, "reformasi" brought a wave of relief and euphoria. But Suharto's removal did not dispel persistent corruption, official secrecy and denial, religious...

Iran and the Surrounding World: Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics - Paperback

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by Nikki R. Keddie (Editor), Rudi Matthee (Editor)These essays examine Iran's place in the world--its relations and cultural interactions with its immediate neighbors and with empires and superpowers from the beginning of the Safavid period in 1501 to the present day. The book provides important historical background on recent political and social developments in Iran and on its contemporary foreign relations. The topics explored include Iranian influence abroad on political organization, rel...

Landscape Traveled by Coyote and Crane: The World of the Schitsu'umsh - Hardcover

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by Rodney Frey (Author), Ernie Stensgar (Author)Anthropologist Rodney Frey culminates a decade of work with the Schitsu'umsh (the Coeur d'Alene Indians of Idaho) in this portrait of the unique bonds between a people and the landscape of their traditional homeland. The result of an intensive collaboration between investigator and Native people, the book includes many traditional stories that invite the reader's participation in the world of the Schitsu'umsh.The Schitsu'umsh landscape of lake a...

All the World's Reward: Folktales Told by Five Scandinavian Storytellers - Paperback

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by Reimund Kvideland (Author), Henning K. Sehmsdorf (Author)All the World's Reward presents ninety-eight tales from Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Swedish-speaking Finland, and Iceland. Each area is represented by the complete recorded repertoire of a single storyteller. Such a focus helps place the stories in the context of the communities in which they were performed and also reveals how individual folk artists used the medium of oral literature to make statements about their lives and their worl...

New Lives in Anand: Building a Muslim Hub in Western India - Paperback

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by Sanderien Verstappen (Author), Padma Kaimal (Editor), K. Sivaramakrishnan (Editor)In 2002 widespread communal violence tore apart towns and villages in rural parts of Gujarat, India. In the aftermath, many Muslims living in Hindu-majority villages sought safety in the small town of Anand. Following such dramatic displacement, the town emerged as a site of opportunity and hope. For its residents and transnational visitors, Anand's Muslim area is not just a site of marginalization; it has be...

Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke - Hardcover

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by Lewis Clarke (Author), Carver Clark Gayton (Introduction by)Lewis George Clarke published the story of his life as a slave in 1845, after he had escaped from Kentucky and become a well-regarded abolitionist lecturer throughout the North. His book was the first work by a slave to be acquired by the Library of Congress and copyrighted.During the 1840s he lived in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, home of Aaron and Mary Safford, where he encountered Mary's stepsister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, along...

Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka - Paperback

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by Mythri Jegathesan (Author), Piya Chatterjee (Editor)Beyond nostalgic tea industry ads romanticizing colonial Ceylon and the impoverished conditions that beleaguer Tamil tea workers are the stories of the women, men, and children who have built their families and lives in line houses on tea plantations since the nineteenth century. The tea industry's economic crisis and Sri Lanka's twenty-six year long civil war have ushered in changes to life and work on the plantations, where family membe...

Pioneering Death: The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century Oregon - Paperback

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by Peter Boag (Author)On an autumn day in 1895, eighteen-year-old Loyd Montgomery shot his parents and a neighbor in a gruesome act that reverberated beyond the small confines of Montgomery's Oregon farming community. The dispassionate slaying and Montgomery's consequent hanging exposed the fault lines of a rapidly industrializing and urbanizing society and revealed the burdens of pioneer narratives boys of the time inherited.In Pioneering Death, Peter Boag examines the Brownsville parricide ...