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Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up - Hardcover

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by Abigail Shrier (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From the author of Irreversible Damage, an investigation into a mental health industry that is harming, not healing, American children In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions for children are common, and the proliferation of mental health diagnoses has not helped the staggering number of kids who are lonely, ...

Whistleblower: My Unlikely Journey to Silicon Valley and Speaking Out Against Injustice - Paperback

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by Susan Fowler (Author)"A powerful illustration of the obstacles our society continues to throw up in the paths of ambitious young women." --The New York Times Book Review "Important . . . empowering." --Gayle King, CBS This Morning "That [Fowler] became a whistle-blower and a pioneer of a social movement almost seems inevitable once you get to know her. Uber should have seen her coming." --San Francisco Chronicle Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR Susan Fowler was just twenty-five years old...

American Murder Houses: A Coast-To-Coast Tour of the Most Notorious Houses of Homicide - Paperback

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by Steve Lehto (Author)There are places in the United States of America where violent acts of bloodshed have occurred. Years may pass--even centuries--but the mark of death remains. They are known as Murder Houses. From a colonial manse in New England to a small-town home in Iowa to a Beverly Hills mansion, these residences have taken on a life of their own, gaining everything from local lore and gossip to national--and even global--infamy. Writer Steve Lehto recounts the stories behind th...

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by Jonathan Safran Foer (Author)Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is the groundbreaking moral examination of vegetarianism, farming, and the food we eat every day that inspired the documentary of the same name. Bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. For years he was content to live with uncertainty about his own dietary choices but once he started a family, the moral dimensio...

Norse Mythology, Vikings, Magic & Runes: Stories, Legends & Timeless Tales From Norse & Viking Folklore + A Guide To The Rituals, Spells & Meanings of - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby History Brought Alive (Author) Number of Pages: 428 Dimensions: 0.87 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 23, 2021

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Drexel Lehr (Author) Number of Pages: 398 Dimensions: 0.89 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 11, 2025

Microdosing with Amanita Muscaria: Creativity, Healing, and Recovery with the Sacred Mushroom - Paperback

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by Baba Masha (Author), James Fadiman (Foreword by)- Shows how Amanita microdoses offered help and healing for a broad range of conditions, including hormonal dysfunction, allergies, gingivitis, heartburn, eczema, psoriasis, depression, epilepsy, hypertension, insomnia, and migraine - Reveals how Amanita microdoses are effective for pain relief and for interrupting addictions to alcohol, opiates, nicotine, caffeine, and other narcotics - Details how to safely identify, prepare, and preserve A...

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by Rob Sheffield (Author)Shops, churches, pubs, social clubs, libraries, parks, schools, streets, windowsills, gardens, pavements... These public spaces can have an extraordinary effect on well-being in a community. They bring people together and form the bonds that lead to people supporting each other. With vivid descriptions and heartfelt anecdotes, Pieces of Us is a moving tribute to the people who made up this distinct part of Wales. The author, Rob Sheffield, shares first-person accounts...

How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society - Paperback

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by Manning Marable (Author), Leith Mullings (Foreword by)Marable offers profound insight into the deeply intertwined problems of race and class in the United States historically and today.Author BiographyManning Marable (1950-2011) was a professor of public affairs, history and African-American Studies at Columbia University. Marable authored fifteen books including Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for History.Leith Mullings (1945-2020) was a distinguished...

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by Tessa Allen (Author), Tessa Allen (Illustrator)With a spare, inspiring text and gorgeous watercolor illustrations, this is a timeless and important book for activists of all ages. This hardcover picture book is perfect for sharing and for gifting. Sometimes people march to resist injustice, to stand in solidarity, to inspire hope. Throughout American history, one thing remains true: no matter how or why people march, they are powerful because they march together. Number of Pages: 32 Dim...

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by Athol Fugard (Author), John Kani (Author), Winston Ntshona (Author)Developed in workshops with award-winning actors, these are the works in Fugard's canon that most directly confront the dehumanizing brutality of apartheid. Includes: Sizwe Bansi is Dead, The Island, and Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act.Author BiographyThe New Yorker has said of Athol Fugard, A rare playwright, who could be a primary candidate for either the Nobel Prize in Literature or the Nobel Peace P...

The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths - Paperback

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by William Hansen (Editor), William Hansen (Translator), William Hansen (Introduction by)The first anthology to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories--from myths and fairy tales to jokes Captured centaurs and satyrs, incompetent seers, people who suddenly change sex, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh--these are just some of the colorful characters who feature in the unforgettable stories that ancient Greeks and Romans told in their daily lives. Toget...

Hollywood: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Peter Decherney (Author)In this engaging and readable book, Peter Decherney tells the story of Hollywood, from its nineteenth-century origins to the emergence of internet media empires. He recounts how the studio system rose out of the ashes of Thomas Edison's trust to create the handful of companies that have dominated global screens and imaginations for more than 100 years. Throughout, he reveals that the elements we take to be a natural part of the Hollywood experience--stars, genre-dri...

Handbook of Japanese Mythology - Paperback

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by Michael Ashkenazi (Author)Japanese gods, too numerous to count, are known collectively as yaoyorozu-no-kamigami--the eight million. They are the cast of a vast, complex mythology that encompasses two religions, three cultures, and three millennia, one whose ancient deities are still hard at work today. Handbook of Japanese Mythology makes it easy to travel this vast yet little-known mythological landscape. The book reveals the origins of Japan's myths in the very different realms of Buddh...

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Report copyright infringementby Karen Cheung (Author)A boldly rendered--and deeply intimate--account of Hong Kong today, from a resilient young woman whose stories explore what it means to survive in a city teeming with broken promises. "[A] pulsing debut . . . about what it means to find your place in a city as it vanishes before your eyes."--The New York Times Book Review ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post Hong Kong is known as a place of extremes: a former colony of the...

The Caregiver's Journey: A Roadmap for Navigating Your Path - Paperback

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by Pamela S. Showalter (Author), Raylene Bell (Author)The Caregiver's Journey: A Roadmap for Navigating Your PathWhat began as an effort to manage stress through journaling, The Caregiver's Journey chronicles five years the authors spent caring for a loved one who lived hundreds of miles away. Realizing their hard-earned lessons could help smooth the path of those in similar situations, The Caregiver's Journey serves as a roadmap for anyone navigating the role of caregiver. The chronological ...

The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning - Paperback

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by Resmaa Menakem (Author)The New York Times bestselling author of My Grandmother's Hands surveys America's deteriorating democracy and offers embodied practices to help us protect ourselves and our country. "All of us need to read this book--and then act on it."--Angela Rye, NPR political analyst and former CNN commentator"Resmaa Menakem is one of our country's most gifted racial healers. His brilliant new book could not be more timely."--Michael Eric Dyson, author of Entertaining Race and L...

Gay Notions: Four Short Plays On The Gay Experience

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Report copyright infringementby Floyd Stephen Alexander (Author)In a world where fear of difference has caused unimaginable pain and sorrow, this powerful work seeks to bridge the gap between the gay and straight communities. Through heartfelt storytelling, it highlights the devastating impact of intolerance-from mass shootings to the tragic killing of a classmate, and the painful separation of families.This book is a call to action, urging us to use the power of our voices to foster understa...

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Report copyright infringementby Julie Lewis (Author), Jenny Koenig (Author)One Woman's Journey of Advocacy, Faith, and Positivity"You only have three to five years to live."On the day she was diagnosed with HIV and thrust from the confines of her suburban mom bubble into the scary and unpredictable world of AIDS, Julie promptly found herself fighting for her life and rights amidst a disease she never imagined would hijack her future. With three young children, her family began making every ef...

How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom

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Report copyright infringementby Johanna Hedva (Author)From one of the most influential voices in disability activism comes an essay collection that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is a vibrant part of life. In the wake of the 2014 Ferguson riots, and sick with a chronic condition that rendered them housebound, Johanna Hedva turned to the page to ask: How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can't get out of be...

Black & Brown Faces in America's Wild Places (20th Anniversary Edition): African Americans Making Nature and the Environment a Part of Their Everyday

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Report copyright infringementby Dudley Edmondson (Author)Encourage diversity in outdoor wilderness areas by reading interviews with 20 people of color who have active roles in nature.During his travels around the country as a wildlife photographer, Dudley Edmondson made a concerning observation: he was the only person of color in many of the wilderness locations he visited. He began asking himself some important questions: "Why am I not seeing many people of color in the parks?" "Where are t...

Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company

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Report copyright infringementby Alice Driver (Author)Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, and a New Yorker best book of 2024, a "startling glimpse into the meatpacking industry's abuse of undocumented and incarcerated workers" (The New York Times Book Review) and those who had the courage to fight back. On June 27, 2011, a deadly chemical accident took place inside the Tyson Foods chicken processing plant in Springdale, Arkansas, where the company is headquartered. The comp...

The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us

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Report copyright infringementby John J. Lennon (Author)In 2001, John J. Lennon killed a man on a Brooklyn Street. Now he's a journalist, working from behind bars, trying to make sense of it all. The Tragedy of True Crime is a first-person journalistic account of the lives of four men who have killed, written by a man who has killed. Lennon entered the New York prison system with a sentence of 28 years to life but after he stepped into a writing workshop at Attica Correctional Facility, his wh...

Fact Stranger Than Fiction: Seventy-Five Years Of A Busy Life, With Reminiscences Of Many Great And Good Men And Women (1920)

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Report copyright infringementby John Patterson Green (Author)Fact Stranger Than Fiction: Seventy-Five Years Of A Busy Life, With Reminiscences Of Many Great And Good Men And Women is a memoir written by John Patterson Green in 1920. The book chronicles the author's experiences during his eventful life, spanning over seventy-five years. Green was a prominent figure in American politics, having served as a member of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.The boo...

Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform

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Report copyright infringementby Anne E. Marshall (Author)The nineteenth-century Kentucky antislavery reformer Cassius Marcellus Clay is generally remembered as a knife-wielding rabble-rouser who both inspired and enraged his contemporaries. Clay brawled with opponents while stumping for state constitutional changes to curtail the slave trade. He famously deployed cannons to protect the office of the antislavery newspaper he founded in Lexington. Despite attempts on his life, he helped found t...

Invisible Bridge: An African Journey through Cultures

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Report copyright infringementby Francis Mading Deng (Author)Francis Deng was in his second year in 1959-60, one of only four or five Southern law students. He was one of the favoured sons of Deng Majok, the well-known Paramount Chief of the Ngok Dinka, the only Nilotic people to live in Northern Sudan. Francis was quite short for a Dinka, only about six-foot, but he was recognizably Nilotic and, without putting on airs, had a dignified aristocratic bearing. He spoke very good English and Arab...

Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America

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Report copyright infringementby Jeff Chang (Author)"Water Mirror Echo is a remarkable story of a man, the traditions and communities that created him, and the new worlds he made possible. Like Bruce Lee himself, Jeff Chang is blessed with the vision to see things we do not yet see, thinking and writing with a restless, chasm-crossing, almost prophetic ambition." -- Hua Hsu, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Stay True: A Memoir"This book is as celebratory as it is incisive, as it is, at times, ...

John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism

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Report copyright infringementby Keith Gilyard (Author)John Oliver Killens's politically charged novels And Then We Heard the Thunder and The Cotillion; or One Good Bull Is Half the Herd, were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His works of fiction and nonfiction, the most famous of which is his novel Youngblood, have been translated into more than a dozen languages. An influential novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and teacher, he was the founding chair of the Harlem Writers Guild and mentored ...

Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Women Writers Reflect on the Candidate and What Her Campaign Meant

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Morrison (Author)No one else in the political arena inspires as wide a range of passionate feelings as Hillary Rodham Clinton. Cold or competent, overachiever or pioneer, too radical or too moderate, she continues to overturn the assumptions we make about her. In Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary, New Yorker editor Susan Morrison has compiled a timely collection of original pieces by America's most notable women writers. The result is a dazzling and revea...

Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds

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Report copyright infringementby Patty Krawec (Author), Omar El Akkad (Foreword by)In this powerful reframing of the stories that make us, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec leads us into the borderlands of history, science, memoir, and fiction to ask: What worlds do books written by marginalized people describe and invite us to inhabit? When a friend asked what books could help them understand Indigenous lives, Patty Krawec, author of Becoming Kin, gave them a list. This list became a book club ...

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Kolb (Author)A deaf writer's exploration of language, communication, and what it means to be articulate--and her journey to reclaim her voiceRachel Kolb was born profoundly deaf the same year that the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, and she grew up as part of the first generation of deaf people with legal rights to accessibility services. Still, from a young age, she contorted herself to expectations set by a world that prioritizes hearing pe...

House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home

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Report copyright infringementby John T. Edge (Author)The author of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South tells his own story this time. Of growing up in a house wrecked by violence and a South haunted by racism. And of how his search for home led him to find escape and belonging through food. Until he realizes that gathering at the table is just one small step toward reckoning. "A story for all Americans on a path to self-awareness, honesty, and love."--Wright Thompson, New...