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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race - Paperback

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by Reni Eddo-Lodge (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This is a book that was begging to be written. This is the kind of book that demands a future where we'll no longer need such a book. Essential. --Marlon James "The most important book for me this year." --Emma Watson Selected by Emma Watson as the Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick for January/February 2018Sunday Times BestsellerWinner of the British Book Awards Nonfiction Narrative Book of the YearWinner of the Jhalak PrizeFoyles Nonfiction ...

Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism - Paperback

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by Alain Brossat (Author), Sylvie Klingberg (Author), David Fernbach (Translator)Recovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish tradition Jewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto; they were in the vanguard of those resisting Franco and the Nazis. They originated in Yiddishland, a vast expanse of Eastern Europe that, before the Holocaust, ran from the Baltic Sea to the western edge of Russia and incorporated hundreds of Jewish co...

The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media

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Report copyright infringementby Emily Hund (Author)A critical history of the social media influencer's rise to global prominence Before there were Instagram likes, Twitter hashtags, or TikTok trends, there were bloggers who seemed to have the passion and authenticity that traditional media lacked. The Influencer Industry tells the story of how early digital creators scrambling for work amid the Great Recession gave rise to the multibillion-dollar industry that has fundamentally reshaped cultu...

Personal Threat Management: The Practitioner's Guide to Keeping Clients Safer

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Grindell (Author), Robert A. Fein (Foreword by)'Anyone interested in protecting themselves or others should read this book.' - Neil Basu QPM, former head of UK Counter Terrorism PolicingTake the guesswork out of protecting clients.Public figures are increasingly receiving death threats. Ordinary people are struggling with toxic behaviour in the workplace. Psychological and reputational harm are both on the rise. How can security and HR professionals iden...

Of Popes and Unicorns: Science, Christianity, and How the Conflict Thesis Fooled the World - Hardcover

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by David Hutchings (Author), James C. Ungureanu (Author)This is the story of John Draper, Andrew White, and the conflict thesis: a centuries-old misconception that religion and science are at odds with one another. Renowned scientist John William Draper (1811-1882) and celebrated historian-politician Andrew Dickson White (1832-1918) were certain that Enlightened Science and Dogmatic Christianity were mortal enemies--and they said as much to anyone who would listen. More than a century later, ...

A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth - Paperback

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by Chris Smaje (Author)A modern classic of the new agrarianism"Chris Smaje...shows that the choice is clear. Either we have a small farm future, or we face collapse and extinction."--Vandana Shiva"Every young person should read this book."--Richard HeinbergIn a groundbreaking debut, farmer and social scientist Chris Smaje argues that organizing society around small-scale farming offers the soundest, sanest and most reasonable response to climate change and other crises of civilisation--and wi...

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by C. Wright Mills (Author), Alan Wolfe (With)First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and critiques the organization of power in the United States, calling attention to three firmly interlocked prongs of power: the military, corporate, and political elite. The Power Elite can be read as a good account of what was taking place in America at the time it was written, but its underlying question of ...

The Race to the Bottom: The OnlyFans Economy

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Report copyright infringementby A. a. Castor (Author)In an era where digital platforms are reshaping the way we live, work, and connect, OnlyFans has emerged as one of the most influential-and controversial-tools for content creators. This book offers a comprehensive exploration of OnlyFans, delving into its impact on the digital economy, society, and the lives of both creators and subscribers. From the opportunities it provides for economic empowerment and personal branding to the ethical di...

Frauds, Phones & Fingerprints: Proving Your Identity in the Digital Age

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Report copyright infringementby Almis Ledas (Author)The internet is a happy hunting ground for identity thieves, fraudsters and scammers. Criminal impersonation has evolved leaving established methods for protection against identity theft no longer effective. If you're active online, it's time to learn safe navigation in the digital world.Frauds, Phones and Fingerprints will help you understand what you need to know and what you need to do to stay safe. Entertaining and informative, it uses c...

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Report copyright infringementby Claes Wohlin (Author), Per Runeson (Author), Martin H?st (Author)Back JacketThis textbook, which has become the leading source for empirical software engineering research through its earlier editions, provides an in-depth introduction to experimentation in software engineering. The focus is on the steps to go through when conducting experiments. It also introduces a structure for selecting a research design and an introduction to systematic literature reviews, ...

Humberto Maturana: Reflections on Bringing Forth Worlds

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Report copyright infringementby Frederick Steier (Editor), Pille Bunnell (Editor)This volume is grounded in a deep appreciation of the rich and cohesive constellation of ideas developed by Humberto Maturana which, taken as a whole, can be understood as a biocultural matrix of human understanding. As a way of thinking, these ideas comprise an epistemological shift that changes the way we regard 'reality' as we are compelled by his work to consider not only how we do what we do, but also how we...

Where Cloud Is Ground: Placing Data and Making Place in Iceland Volume 11

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Report copyright infringementby Alix Johnson (Author)Where Cloud Is Ground offers an ethnography of the international data storage industry and an inquiry into the relationship between data and place. Based in Iceland, which is fast becoming a hot spot for data centers--facilities where large quantities of data are processed and stored--the book traces the fraught work of siting data's material manifestations in relation to landforms and earth processes, local politics, national narratives, a...

Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction - Paperback

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by Shira Hassan (Author), Adrienne Maree Brown (Foreword by), Tourmaline (Introduction by)Liberatory Harm Reduction is one of the most important interventions of the 20th century, and yet a compilation of its critical stories and voices was, until now, seemingly nowhere to be found. Saving Our Own Lives, an anthology of essays from long-time organizer Shira Hassan, fills this gap by telling the stories of how sex workers, Black, Indigenous, and people of color, queer folks, trans, gender non...

Wild Chocolate: Across the Americas in Search of Cacao's Soul - Hardcover

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by Rowan Jacobsen (Author)"Inspiring." -MARK BITTMAN"One of the best stories under the sun." -JOS? ANDR?S From James Beard Award-winner Rowan Jacobsen, the thrilling story of the farmers, activists, and chocolate makers fighting all odds to revive ancient cacao and produce the world's finest bar. When Rowan Jacobsen first heard of a chocolate bar made entirely from wild Bolivian cacao, he was skeptical. The waxy mass-market chocolate of his childhood had left him indifferent to it, and most e...

Living with Television Now: Advances in Cultivation Theory and Research

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Morgan (Editor), James Shanahan (Editor), Nancy Signorielli (Editor)George Gerbner's cultivation theory provides a framework for the analysis of relationships between television viewing and attitudes and beliefs about the world. Since the 1970s, cultivation analysis has been a lens through which to examine television's contributions to conceptions of violence, sex roles, political attitudes and numerous other phenomena. Hundreds of studies during this t...

Why Gender Matters, Second Edition: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences - Paperback

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by Leonard Sax (Author)A revised and updated edition (with more than 70% new material) of the evergreen classic about the innate differences between boys and girls and how best to parent and teach girls and boys successfully, with completely new chapters on sexual orientation and on transgender and intersex kids. Eleven years ago, Why Gender Matters broke ground in illuminating the differences between boys and girls--how they perceive the world differently, how they learn differently, how the...

A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Pulitzer Prize Winner) - Paperback

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by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (Author)PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so similar to our own" (The New York Times Book Review).Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine. On the basis of that ...

Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece - Paperback

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by Gustav Schwab (Author)From fire-stealing Prometheus to scene-stealing Helen of Troy, from Jason and his golden fleece to Oedipus and his mother, this collection of classic tales from Greek mythology demonstrates the inexhaustible vitality of a timeless cultural legacy. These stories of heroes and powerful gods and goddesses are set forth simply and movingly, in language that retains the power and drama of the original works by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Homer. Introduction by Wer...

Global Social Work: Preparing Globally Competent Social Workers for a Diverse and Interconnected World - Paperback

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by Gina Chowa (Editor)The essential skills-based guide for navigating global social work and ethical practice. A comprehensive guide for global practitioners, this text challenges unfettered adaptations of Eurocentric approaches and equips social workers with essential skills for effective context specific global practice throughout the lifespan. Integrating insights from both the Global South and North, it fosters a robust knowledge base, emphasizing using self to promote the wellbeing of th...

Ability Machines: What Video Games Mean for Disability

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Report copyright infringementby Sky Larell Anderson (Author)Video games are both physically and cognitively demanding--so what does that mean for those with a disability or mental illness? Though they may seem at odds, Ability Machines illuminates just how vital video games are to understanding our bodies and abilities.In Ability Machines, Sky LaRell Anderson shows us how video games can help us imagine what our abilities mean and how they engage us physically, behaviorally, and cognitively ...

We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice - Paperback

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by Adrienne Maree Brown (Author), Malkia Devich-Cyril (Afterword by)Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It's time to think this through. "Cancel" or "call-out" culture is a source of much tension and debate in American society. The infamous Harper's Letter," signed by public intellectuals of both the left and right, sought to settle the matter and only caused greater division. Originating as a way for marginalized and disempowered people to address harm and take do...

Badass Women and Hashtagged Zombies: Gender in the Walking Dead from Screen to Social Media

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Report copyright infringementby Allison Christina Budaj (Author) In its evolution from graphic novels to a sprawling multimedia universe, the impact of The Walking Dead cannot be understated. Beyond its narrative roots, a passionate community of viewers use social media to delve deeper into the anxieties and social issues portrayed within the narrative universe. This book uses fan discussions on social media platforms to analyze the series' appeal and its ability to provoke discussions about ...

Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

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Report copyright infringementby Natasha Dow Schüll (Author)An anthropologist looks at the new "crack cocaine" of high-tech gambling Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot machines, revamped by ever more compelling digital and video technology, have unseated traditional casino games as the gambling industry's revenue mainstay. Addiction by Design takes readers ...

Weird But True! Birthdays: 300 Fun-Tastic Facts to Celebrate - Paperback

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by National Geographic (Author)Do you LOVE your birthday and never want it to end? Keep the party spirit pumping all year with this mind-boggling book! Did you know that on each birthday, you are 31,536,000 seconds older than you were on your last birthday? Or that the winner at the world birthday-cake-eating championship ate 14.5 pounds of cake in just under eight minutes? How about that you likely share your birthday with about 20.8 million other people around the globe?Unwrap 300 wacky fac...

Aphrochic: Celebrating the Legacy of the Black Family Home - Hardcover

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by Jeanine Hays (Author), Bryan Mason (Author)A powerful, visually stunning celebration of Black homeownership, featuring inspiring homes and family histories of notable Black Americans--including chef Alexander Smalls and actor Danielle Brooks. "The most important design book of our time."--Stacey Lindsay, design editor, Camille Styles Jeanine Hays and Bryan Mason invite you into the intimate spaces of actors and musicians, the creative studios of artists and curators, the "boss" homes of en...

Antisemitism in Online Communication: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Hate Speech in the Twenty-First Century

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Report copyright infringementby Matthias J. Becker (Author), Laura Ascone (Author), Karolina Placzynta (Author)The normalisation of hate speech, including antisemitic rhetoric, poses a significant threat to social cohesion and democracy. While global efforts have been made to counter contemporary antisemitism, there is an urgent need to understand its online manifestations. Hate speech spreads easily across the internet, facilitated by anonymity and reinforced by algorithms that favour engagi...

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The Quickest Revolution: An Insider's Guide to Sweeping Technological Change, and Its Largest Threats

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Report copyright infringementby Jacopo Pantaleoni (Author)Written by a leading expert who has played a key role in developing cutting-edge technologies, this book delves into the intersection of computer science, artificial intelligence, and philosophy.Since their invention, computers have kept revolutionizing the world at a staggering pace. And yet, through recent conquests in AI and computer graphics, the profound effects of this revolution threaten to upend much of the previous world order...

October 7th: Searching for the Humanitarian Middle

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Report copyright infringementby Marsha Lederman (Author)In this emotional missive from the diaspora, Globe and Mail columnist Marsha Lederman gathers her columns searching for the humanitarian middle of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Since 2023, the best-selling and award-winning author and journalist has been reflecting, with deep empathy, on the horrific October 7th attacks on Israeli citizens, rising anti-Semitism, and the brutal violence against civilians in Gaza in her column for the Glo...

Unmasking Latinx Ministry for Episcopalians: An Anglican Approach - Paperback

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by Carla E. Roland Guzmán (Author)A look through a Latinx lens at how the Episcopal/Anglican church can minister to and with the Latinx community Unmasking Latinx Ministry is a unique look at the history of the Episcopal Church in the last fifty years, including a bold and insightful analysis of the institutionalization of Latinx ministries. This history is contextualized within the struggles of the Episcopal Church in terms of race, gender, and sexuality. Through a Latinx lens, the author b...

K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher - Paperback

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by Mark Fisher (Author), Darren Ambrose (Editor), Simon Reynolds (Foreword by)A comprehensive collection of the writings of Mark Fisher (1968-2017), whose work defined critical writing for a generation. This comprehensive collection brings together the work of acclaimed blogger, writer, political activist and lecturer Mark Fisher (aka k-punk). Covering the period 2004 - 2016, the collection will include some of the best writings from his seminal blog k-punk; a selection of his brilliantly ins...

Winning the Social Media War: How Conservatives Can Fight Back, Reclaim the Narrative, and Turn the Tides Against the Left - Paperback

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by Alex Bruesewitz (Author), Charlie Kirk (Foreword by)Winning the Social Media War provides a playbook for conservatives to gain followers, influence, and affect public policy change in politics and on social media. Winning the Social Media War outlines how conservatives in the United States ceded the culture war to the left and provides a playbook with techniques on how to effectively win back influence over the culture through the use of social media. Through novel interviews, independent ...