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Muse: The Magnetism of Women Who Stop Abandoning Themselves - Hardcover

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by Amanda Hanson (Author)Women, there is a more beautiful way to live. That begins when you meet your inner Muse. For too long, womanhood has been defined by patriarchal structures that keep us women small, quiet, and at war with our bodies. It's time for a radical return to true, self-led womanhood. In Muse: The Magnetism of Women Who Stop Abandoning Themselves, Dr. Amanda Hanson examines the history and current systems that put women in the position of living their lives based on their ...

The Tea Book: Experience the World's Finest Teas, Qualities, Infusions, Rituals, Recipes - Hardcover

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by Linda Gaylard (Author)The Tea Book helps you explore the blends, tastings, and ceremonies from around the world and create your own delicious tea traditions. Where does tea come from? In The Tea Book learn where in the world tea is cultivated and how to drink each variety at its best, with steeping notes and step-by-step recipes. The Tea Book is your world tour of the art of tea. Visit tea plantations from India to Kenya and explore maps of the world's most important growing regions. Learn...

A Minimally Good Life: What We Owe to Others and What We Can Justifiably Demand - Hardcover

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by Nicole Hassoun (Author)What do we owe to each other simply out of respect, or concern, for our common humanity? What can we claim? The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as many states' constitutions embody competing answers to these questions. Different accounts of what we owe to others out of concern for our common humanity ground divergent accounts of the basic minimum just societies and the international community must he...

The Dancing Healers: A Doctor's Journey of Healing with Native Americans - Paperback

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by Carl a. Hammerschlag (Author)This fascinating account of a Yale-trained psychiatrist's twenty-year experience with Native American healing interweaves autobiography with stories of the Native Americans who challenged his medical school assumptions about their methods.While working as a family physicans in a Native American hospital in the Southwest, Carl Hammerschlag was introduced to a patient named Santiago, a Pueblo priest and clan chief, who asked him where he had learned how to heal. ...

Solito: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Memoir - Hardcover

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by Javier Zamora (Author)New York Times Bestseller - Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today - Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography - Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award - A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this "gripping memoir" (NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family. Finalist for the PEN/J...

Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Malcolm Gaskill (Author)Witchcraft is a subject that fascinates us all. Indeed, from childhood most of us develop some mental image of a witch--usually an old woman, mysterious and malignant. But why do witches still feature so heavily in our cultures and consciousness? From Halloween superstitions to literary references such as Faust and, of course, Harry Potter, witches seem ever-present in our lives. In this Very Short Introduction, Malcolm Gaskill takes a long historical perspective, f...

Mayflower: Voyage, Community, War - Paperback

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by Nathaniel Philbrick (Author)"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."--The New York Times Book Review Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in HistoryNew York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the Year With a new preface marking the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower. How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of In the Hurricane's Eye and Valiant Ambition on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behin...

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by Matthew Josephson (Author)Prize-winning historian and biographer Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons is the story of the Gilded Age's giant American capitalists who seized economic power after the Civil War and altered the shape of American life forever.The definitive book on the rise and power of early American capitalists, The Robber Barons examines the careers of such masters of finance and industry as J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould...

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Paperback

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by Isabel Wilkerson (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - "An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions--now with a new Afterword by the author. #1 NONFI...

Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle - Paperback

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by Thomas Sankara (Author)"There is no true social revolution without the liberation of women," explains the leader of the 1983-87 revolution in Burkina Faso. Workers and peasants in that West African country established a popular revolutionary government and began to combat the hunger, illiteracy, and economic backwardness imposed by imperialist domination. Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.3 x 5.3 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 01, 2007

Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times - Paperback

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by Paul Rogat Loeb (Author)Soul of a Citizen awakens within us the desire and the ability to make our voices heard and our actions count. We can lead lives worthy of our convictions. A book of inspiration and integrity, Soul of a Citizen is an antidote to the twin scourges of modern life--powerlessness and cynicism. In his evocative style, Paul Loeb tells moving stories of ordinary Americans who have found unexpected fulfillment in social involvement. Through their example and Loeb's own wise...

Stephen I, the First Christian King of Hungary: From Medieval Myth to Modern Legend - Hardcover

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by Nora Berend (Author)Stephen I, Hungary's first Christian king (reigned 997-1038) has been celebrated as the founder of the Hungarian state and church. Despite the scarcity of medieval sources, and consequent limitations on historical knowledge, he has had a central importance in narratives of Hungarian history and national identity. This book argues that instead of conceptualizing modern political medievalism separately as an 'abuse' of history, we must investigate history's very fabric, b...

Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives - Hardcover

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by Alice Loxton (Author)'Utterly, utterly brilliant. Fizzing with energy, wit and insight' - Tracy Borman, bestselling historian Biggest books to look out for in 2024 - The Guardian At eighteen, your life is full of of what-ifs and why-nots. You have everything to look forward to - unless you've got the plague . . . From a young Elizabeth Tudor facing deadly intrigue at court to a teenage Richard Burton, the rugby-obsessed son of a Welsh miner, historian Alice Loxton explores Britain's past t...

Identity Theory: Revised and Expanded - Paperback

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by Peter J. Burke (Author), Jan E. Stets (Author)The concept of identity has become widespread within the social and behavioral sciences, cutting across disciplines from psychiatry and psychology to political science and sociology. Introduced more than fifty years ago, identity theory is a social psychological theory that attempts to understand person's identities, their sources in interaction and society, their processes of operation, and their consequences for interaction and society from a...

American Colonies: The Settling of North America (the Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1) - Paperback

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by Alan Taylor (Author), Eric Foner (Editor)A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from milennia past, through the decades of Western colonization and con...

The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation: Male Homosexual Politics in 1970s West Germany - Hardcover

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by Craig Griffiths (Author)The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation explores ways of thinking, feeling, and talking about being gay in the 1970s, an influential decade sandwiched between the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality in 1969, and the arrival of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the early 1980s. Moving beyond divided Cold War Berlin, it also focuses on lesser-known cities, such as Aachen, Cologne, Frankfurt, Münster, and Stuttgart, to name just a few of the 53 localities that were home to ...

Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of the Hunt for the Nation's Most Elusive Serial Killer - Paperback

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by Robert Graysmith (Author)Robert Graysmith's New York Times bestselling account of the desperate hunt for a serial killer and his own investigation of California's unsolved Zodiac murders. A sexual sadist, the Zodiac killer took pleasure in torture and murder. His first victims were a teenage couple, stalked and shot dead in a lovers' lane. After another slaying, he sent his first mocking note to authorities, promising he would kill more. The official tally of his victims was six. He claim...

This Is San Francisco: A Children's Classic - Hardcover

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by Miroslav Sasek (Author)Let the rumbling cable car tell you the story And what a story: From the crookedest street in the world to the Peking ducks in Chinatown, San Francisco is easily one of the world's most enchanting cities. Illustrator Miroslav Sasek captures both the breathtaking landscape and the cosmopolitan flavor of the City by the Bay in This is San Francisco. First published in 1962, Sasek's jaunty, colorful illustrations will still dazzle kids and adults alike.Author Biography...

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge - Paperback

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by Carlos Castaneda (Author)A Yaqui way of knowledge. The teachings of don Juan is the story of a remarkable journey: the first awesome steps on the road to becoming a "man of knowledge" -- the road that continues with A Separate Reality and Journey to Ixtlan. "For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length. And there I travel, looking, looking, breathlessly." -- Don...

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow - Hardcover

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by Yuval Noah Harari (Author)Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This ...

The Oxford Annotated Mishnah - Paperback

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by Shaye J. D. Cohen (Author), Robert Goldenberg (Author), Hayim Lapin (Author)The Mishnah is the foundational document of rabbinic law and, one could say, of rabbinic Judaism itself. It is overwhelmingly technical and focused on matters of practice, custom, and law. The Oxford Annotated Mishnah is the first annotated translation of this work, making the text accessible to all. With explanations of all technical terms and expressions, The Oxford Annotated Mishnah brings together an expert gro...

The Deadly Force Script: How the Police in America Defend the Use of Excessive Force - Paperback

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by William M. Harmening (Author)How many times have you read a news story about someone being shot by the police while reaching for their waistband? Or about an officer who testified at trial that the person he shot during a physical struggle had superhuman strength or a thousand-yard stare in his eyes? And how many times have you watched a police chief or sheriff during a press conference invoke the "21-foot rule" to justify their officer's killing of a mentally ill person with a knife? Thes...

Wash Day: Passing on the Legacy, Rituals, and Love of Natural Hair - Hardcover

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by Tomesha Faxio (Author)A visual celebration of natural Black hair that highlights the powerful connection between mothers and their children during their wash day rituals. "A beautiful love letter to natural hair and the rituals Black women have created."--Roxane Gay In this stunning book, documentary photographer Tomesha Faxio explores the power of "wash day," a day that Black women dedicate to washing, detangling, conditioning, and styling their natural hair. The significance of wash day ...

Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales: Fossils of Washington State - Paperback

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by Elizabeth A. Nesbitt (Author), David B. Williams (Author)From trilobites near the Idaho border and primitive horses on the Columbia Plateau to giant bird tracks near Bellingham and curious bear-like beasts on the Olympic Peninsula, fossils across Washington State are filled with clues of past life on Earth. With abundant and well-exposed rock layers, the state has fossils dating from Ice Age mammals only 12,000 years old back to marine invertebrates more than 500 million years old. In Spir...

Climate Restoration: The Only Future That Will Sustain the Human Race - Paperback

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by Peter Fiekowsky (Author), Carole Douglis (With)People around the world recognize the dire threat posed by climate change. Governments, businesses, and individuals are making commitments to shift to renewable energy sources, trim consumption, and otherwise reduce their carbon footprints.But what if these steps are woefully inadequate to ensure the future health-or even the survival-of the human race? What if the most popular goal being pursued by today's climate activists-net zero carbon em...

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own - Paperback

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by Eddie S. Glaude (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same."--Time James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. What can we learn from his struggle in our own moment? One of the Best Books of the Year: Time, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune - One of Esquire's Best Biographies of All Time - Winner of the Stowe Prize -...

Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity - Paperback

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by Paola Ramos (Author)Latinos across the United States are redefining identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many--Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer and undocumented, living in large cities and small towns--are voices who have been chronically overlooked in how the diverse population of almost sixty million Latinos in the U.S. has been represented. No longer. In this empowering cross-country travelogue, journalist and activist Paola Ram...

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by Jill McDonald (Author)Learn from home and explore the world with these fun and easy board books!All young children love dinosaurs. Here's a Hello, World! board book that teaches toddlers all about Triceratops, Stegosaurus, T-rex, and many more--with colors, shapes, sizes, and super-simple facts. Hello, World! is a series designed to introduce first nonfiction concepts to babies and toddlers. Told in clear and easy terms ("T. rex's arms were very small, even though its body was large") and...

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

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by Neil Postman (Author), Andrew Postman (Introduction by)What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever. "It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman." -CNN Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman's groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of televi...

The Faerie Handbook: An Enchanting Compendium of Literature, Lore, Art, Recipes, and Projects - Hardcover

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by The Editors of Faerie Magazine (Author)"I'll be honestly surprised if The Faerie Handbook doesn't end up having the same impact and influence as Froud and Lee's Faeries did all those years ago."--Charles de LintIn this exquisite anthology, Editor in Chief Carolyn Turgeon and the editors of Enchanted Living Magazine (formerly Faerie Magazine) welcome you into an enchanted realm rich with myth, mystery, romance, and abundant natural beauty. Organized into four sections--Flora & Fauna, Fa...

The World of Italian Folk Magic: Magical and Herbal Cures from the Wise Women of Italy - Hardcover

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by Rose Inserra (Author)Ancient magical practices to integrate into everyday life. Drawing on her Italian strega (witch) heritage, Rose Inserra's guide to the folk magic of this ancient culture is a treasure trove of Italian folklore, customs, magic and healing practices that will simplify your life and declutter your mind and heart. These practices fulfill the most basic needs of life: warmth, nourishment and connection to the magical and the spiritual. Discover unique Italian witchcraft su...

Tears of Disinheritance: Revisiting the Maasai Historical and Contemporary Land Injustices in Kenya - Paperback

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by Ben R. Ole Koissaba (Author)The land question remains an emotive issue across Kenya regardless of one's ethnic origins. Today, almost every Kenyan seeks to own a kaplot, a piece of earth however small, that one can call one's own. The resultant conflicts that arise with this mindset are many and are at the centre of displacement and marginalization of many Kenyans while enriching a few in the privileged class. Yet this need not be the case if we all learnt from our past and especially the ...