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Revealing : the underrated power of oversharing - VIEW IN CATALOG
Revealing : the underrated power of oversharing
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We all know the feeling: that gut-wrenching post-conversation replay, cringing at how much we just revealed. We live in fear of saying too much, so we keep our mouths shut, guard our emotions, and lock away our most personal thoughts. But what if we've been worrying about the wrong thing? A growing body of research shows we vastly underestimate the value of sharing more than we think we should, with our spouses, friends, colleagues, and even strangers. Drawing on over a decade of research and real-life stories, behavioral scientist Leslie John explores why we hesitate to open up, when sharing really does backfire, and how to strike a balance between too much and too little. Learning to be more vulnerable and open at work and at home can unlock some of life's richest rewards: deeper friendships, stronger professional relationships, greater well-being, and, yes, even love. Revealing is a road map for making smarter, bolder, and ultimately more satisfying decisions about just how much you want to share and why.
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153.6 Joh
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To anyone who ever asks : the life, music, and mystery of Connie Converse - VIEW IN CATALOG
To anyone who ever asks : the life, music, and mystery of Connie Converse
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Connie Converse's recordings were too good not to know, and too out of place for the 1950s to make sense. Her music seemed to bridge the gap between traditional Americana, the Great American Songbook, and the singer-songwriter movement that exploded a decade later. And then there was the legend: in 1974, at the age of fifty, she simply drove off one day and was never heard from again. Fishman approaches Converse's story as both a fan and a journalist, and places her in the canon as a significant outsider artist, a missing link between a now old-fashioned kind of American music and the reflective, complex, arresting music that transformed the 1960s and music forever. It is a story that includes suicide, mental illness, cross-country road trips, 1950s Greenwich Village, an America marching into the Cold War, questions about sexuality, and visionary, forward thinking about race, class, and conflict.
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782.42164 Fis
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The blind spot : how oligarchs dominate our democracy - VIEW IN CATALOG
The blind spot : how oligarchs dominate our democracy
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The wealthy and powerful few have dominated the many throughout most of human history. This is now more starkly visible than ever--a time when, with politicians bought and paid for across the political spectrum, the gulf between oligarchs and average citizens is larger than any gap that existed during European feudalism or the slave society of Imperial Rome. One thing is clear: the world is heading into an even deeper state of inequality, one that oligarchs of past eras could only have dreamed of. The strange thing is, for the first time in history, this domination is accomplished through democracy. Yet we aren't in open revolt against the system. In fact, we seemingly keep voting to prop it up. Why? In The Blind Spot, political scientist Jeffrey Winters delivers a timely, incisive account of how we reached this era of in-your-face oligarchy. Tracing the evolution of wealth power through the modern democratic era, he demonstrates how domination by oligarchs isn't just a flaw in our democracy, but a foundational feature--allowing the wealthy to limit the agenda, control the marketplace of ideas, and rewire the law to defend, hide, and increase their money and power. Now, in an extraordinary paradox, we exist in a state of "participatory inequality," a world in which the 99.99 percent of us participate openly, freely, and democratically in our own ongoing exclusion and exploitation. But The Blind Spot ultimately sounds a clarion call for change, arming us not only with a vital lens through which we can understand just how bad our political reality has become, but also with bold ideas for how we might shift the balance of power. While powerful oligarchs do not cede power willingly, this period of shocking inequality is nevertheless an opportunity for change.
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321.5 Win
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1873 : the Rothschilds, the first great depression, and the making of the modern world
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From the author of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Lords of Finance, another magnificent and timely reckoning with the first truly global financial calamity through the prism of the famous banking family at the center of the whirlwind Over the course of the 1850s and 1860s, during the first era of globalization, the world experienced an unprecedented economic boom. Fueling this expansion was an explosion in borrowing through the global bond market, which provided financing for the century's most costly and transformative innovation: the railroad. At the hub of the bond market stood one family-the Rothschilds. With offices in London, Paris, Vienna, and Frankfurt, and through their agent August Belmont in New York, the Rothschilds were arguably the wealthiest and most powerful family in world history, possessing an unmatched ability to mobilize capital on a massive scale and wielding unparalleled political influence. The boom predictably swelled into a series of bubbles that burst simultaneously in the early 1870s, cascading from one country to the next across Europe and the world. Governments of the major economic powers responded by blundering amid the tumult into a precipitous remaking of the global currency system-a move that not only exacerbated the ensuing economic collapse but set the stage for a prolonged twenty-year period of punitive deflation. This deflation sparked waves of populism and anti-globalization sentiment. As Liaquat Ahamed shows us in this enthralling history, the crisis of 1873 was, among other things, a death blow to Reconstruction in the United States and the proximate cause of the Ottoman Empire's slow death spiral and Britain's takeover of Egypt. Ironically, as markets grew irrationally frenzied, the Rothschilds had presciently managed to protect themselves from the worst financial effects. Nevertheless, when the deluge came, they were viciously scapegoated everywhere as part of a wider spasm of hatred directed at "Jewish finance," a strain of antisemitism that would come to full evil flower in Austria and Germany during the 20th century. 1873 is a marvelous birds-eye reckoning with the full dimension of the crisis, from its build-up to its long aftermath. Through the Rothschilds and a cast of other eyewitnesses, including Karl Marx and Mark Twain making cameos at crucial moments, we have witnesses on the ground to give us the human perspective. And we have a great and brilliant financial historian's firm grasp of the larger forces at play to create a truly cohesive global narrative with thrilling explanatory power.
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330.9034 Aha
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The summer of death : the Great Heat Wave of 1936 and the making of modern-day America
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In 1936, after one of the coldest winters on record, North America experienced a heat wave that remains unmatched today. Thanks to a combination of an unusually warm sea surface in the Atlantic and Pacific, stagnating high-pressure, drought, and poor farming techniques, temperatures soared across virtually every state (and the territory of Alaska) for months. This summer, the sun aimed its deadly rays at more than 11,000 Americans and 1,000 Canadians. Air conditioning was uncommon, workers' rights were few, and in an age before high blood pressure medication, a lot of middle-aged adults, toiling in the sun, were literally working themselves to death. This was a summer in which there was almost no escape from the 100-plus temperatures, and woe to those who tried. Men, women, and children rushed into rivers to cool off, only to drown. Desperate people slept on roofs to catch a breeze, only to roll over and plummet to their deaths. Young and old, rich and poor, human and animal, it didn't really matter. If the heat wanted you, it was going to get you. The heat wave of 1936 sparked massive social changes and technological advances, as well as improvements in health care, and it ignited an ongoing impassioned national dialogue about climate change that continues, to varying degrees, to this day.
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363.3492 Wil
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When memory fades : what to expect at every stage, from early signs to full support for Alzheimer's and Dementia
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A geriatrician whose perspective on his specialty changed when his own father was diagnosed with dementia provides clear, calm questions to ask and tasks to tackle--as well as what not to worry about--from the first moments of concern. When Nate Chin's father, also a doctor, began to feel his mind slipping, even a family as knowledgeable and capable as theirs was knocked back on its heels, disorganized, and unsure of what to do first. Chin, who in addition to his practice, became one of his father's primary caregivers until he died, determined to figure out the best way to move forward, for his own family, his patients, and now for everyone else. WHEN MEMORY FADES is clear, smart, and cuts through the understandable impulse to grasp at ineffective treatments. From the first concerns that something might be wrong right through to the toughest stages of the disease, Chin gives granular information and frames topics that help readers figure out how to think about what's happening: -How to Distinguish Normal Signs of Aging from Clinical Dementia -How to Avoid Delaying Assessment -Navigating the Medical Exam -How to Plan & Run a Family Meeting -Focus on the early stages/transition period to full disease can be determinative to both quality of patient life and interactions -How to Set New Routines & Healthy Habits -Day to Day Patient Care -Community and Connection, and How to Maintain Them -Dying of Alzheimer's is Just Dying.
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616.8311 Chi
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The wreck of the Mentor : a true story of death, despair, and deliverance in the age of sail
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True story of the American whaleship Mentor, wrecked in 1832 on a remote reef in the western Pacific. With supplies dwindling, the eleven surviving crewmen face not only the bleak miseries of shipwreck in unfamiliar territory but also the tense uncertainty of first contact with the Idigenous people of the Micronesianarchipelago of Palau, who approach the deserted days of the ship's lamentable arrival. In this gripping saga of cultural collision, gritty survivalism, winning historian Eric Jay Dolin vidvidly reconstructs the Mentor's doomed voyage, the years of perilous captivity, and the delicate negotiations and fraught naval rescue mission that followed.
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910.452 Dol
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Tyrants and rogues : understanding the Declaration of Independence - VIEW IN CATALOG
Tyrants and rogues : understanding the Declaration of Independence
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From an acclaimed historian, a revelatory account of the Declaration of Independence, centered not on the lofty preamble but on the specific grievances that make up the bulk of the document and that offer an entirely new view into the Revolutionary era.
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973.313 Par
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The face : a cultural history
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The Face begins in the historical West, where we learn how humans have interpreted faces and connected specific features with ideas of morality, social hierarchy, psychology, and so much more, setting the stage for the cultural biases that now inform our everyday interactions across the globe. We then watch how new technologies that reflect or alter our face's appearance have transformed our idea of the Self over time--from the growth of portraiture in the Renaissance and the mass production of mirrors and photography in the nineteenth century, to twenty-first century innovations like digital avatars and face transplants. And throughout, we explore the face as the cultural artifact that it is: a surface that grows, is adorned, and then displayed, influencing who we are and might become as both individuals and members of society. Readers will walk away with a new understanding of the history, power, and future of the face, alongside its role in modern identity, genetics, technology, and beyond .
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306.4613 Bou
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The hardest, longest race : Henry Ford and the cross-country contest that changed America
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From Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Eric Moskowitz comes the riveting story of the first true coast-to-coast automobile race in U.S. history, a fast-paced tale of the gritty and determined drivers who braved hostile terrain, mechanical failure, and, shockingly, sabotage, to take home the gold. In 1909, America was home to 253 automakers, a landscape of visionaries, schemers, and would-be barons of the new century. But when playboy millionaire M. Robert Guggenheim announced an audacious "Ocean to Ocean" contest from New York City to the Seattle World's Fair, only three companies were brassy enough to show up at the starting line: Acme, Ford, and Shawmut. Oddsmakers favored the Acme and Itala, a pricy import also joining the race, while dismissing the pint-sized Ford - a homely little number called the Model T- and the long-shot Shawmut, struggling to survive after a factory fire. In fact, many didn't believe any of the cars would reach Seattle at all, as they would need to forge a 4,106-mile course of mountain ranges, mud bogs, washed-out wagon bridges, and harrowing canyon trails, long before the era of asphalt highways, seatbelts, and service stations. But Henry Ford was intent on proving that the Model T could go the distance and beat out the muscular luxury cars--and he didn't plan to leave it to chance. Indeed, a little over three weeks after the race began, a Ford crossed the line hours ahead of the Shawmut. Except that victory was a fraud. The Hardest, Longest Race is a colorful tale of ambition and subterfuge, but it is also a love letter to America at the turn of the Twentieth Century. As a seeming people's champion-a car for the masses-traverses the vast nation, Moskowitz brings to vivid life the diverse populace and landscape that it would soon transform.
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796.72 Mos
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Lightning beneath the sea : the race to wire the world and the dawn of the information age
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On an unassuming January day in 1854, an entrepreneur named Cyrus Field was struck by an idea: if he could lay a telegraph cable across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, thereby wiring the world for near-instantaneous communication, he was sure to bring about peace on Earth. His plan would later be described as a 'wild and visionary scheme,' the moonshot of the nineteenth century. At the time, no project like it had ever been attempted; in fact, science still lacked a universal theory of electricity. But twelve years, four spectacular-and spectacularly public-failures, and near-incalculable amounts of money, bravery, and tenacity later, the first transatlantic cable was laid, ushering in the global information age and transforming life on Earth forever. In Lightning Beneath the Sea, acclaimed author James M. Tabor weaves an unforgettable tale of radical vision, unwavering determination, and improbable triumph against the odds and wild rages of the Atlantic. The dream team Field assembled to realize the cable project included telegraph legend Samuel F. B. Morse; a young William Thompson, Lord Kelvin, called the da Vinci of his day; Michael Faraday, the father of electrical engineering; and legendary philanthropist and railway pioneer Peter Cooper, founder of the Cooper Union. Together, they battled miscalculations, freak accidents, probable corporate sabotage, and the hubris of the project's original chief electrician--a man who insisted on being called Wildman Whitehouse--while racing two rival efforts to establish telegraphic communications between continents. When it was finally done, their cable would span 2,000 miles and lie as many as 2.5 miles deep under the ocean. Today, hundreds of its descendants still carry 99 percent of the world's information through a 'world undersea web.' Deeply researched and written with verve, Lightning Beneath the Sea is the definitive account of an epoch-making achievement.
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384.15 Tab
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The traveler : one man's quest for humanity from the South Seas to revolutionary Paris
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From an early age, it was clear that George Forster possessed a brilliant mind. At just ten years old, he became a botanist when he accompanied his irascible father, Reinhold, on a wild expedition to Russia. By the time he was twelve, they had moved to London and the young boy soon became the breadwinner by publishing translations of the most popular travel accounts of the day. Then, in 1772, at the age of seventeen, George Forster joined Cook's second voyage, the most daring expedition of the time. The HMS Resolution set sail with orders to find what was then the hypothetical southern continent of Antarctica, stopping at the islands of the South Pacific--including New Zealand, Vanuatu, Tonga, Tahiti, and Easter Island--along the way. The Resolution carried the ambitions of the most powerful empire in the world, but Forster brought an understanding that was far ahead of his day. A gifted observer, linguist, artist, and writer, he studied the diverse cultures of the world without prejudice and was one of the first Europeans to talk about universal human rights.Recognized on his return as one of Europe's brightest minds, Forster used his fame to advocate for freedom and human rights and wrote against empire, white supremacy, and slavery. He admired strong, educated women, even accepting his wife's independence--and her love affairs. Driven by his passion for equality, Forster would eventually be pulled into the vortex of the French Revolution and live in Paris during the Reign of Terror. Throughout it all, he held close the radical belief that our common humanity is far greater than what sets us apart. The Traveler recounts the remarkable life of this deeply curious and exceptional man who, though largely forgotten by history, truly belonged to the future.
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306.092 Wul
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I eat the stars : how to live fully and beautifully in a collapsing world - VIEW IN CATALOG
I eat the stars : how to live fully and beautifully in a collapsing world
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Our world is going through a fundamental shift. The crises and threats pile up: AI takeover, climate carnage, intensified conflicts, technofascist rule, and authoritarianism. Why now, and why everything, all at once? In I Eat the Stars, Sarah Wilson explains that we are in the midst of what every sophisticated civilization before us has experienced - complex systems collapse. She goes on to explore how we, as tenderhearted humans, can navigate this radical moment together. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with scientists, philosophers, economists, historians, and spiritual leaders, she offers a compassionate guide to navigating the 'too-muchness', make meaningful choices for our lives, and rising to our full humanity -- while refusing to succumb to despair. With her warm, incisive voice, Wilson reframes collapse not as a finality but as an invitation to reconnect with what matters to us, and to meet the future with courage, creativity, and unprecedented care. What if, she asks, this new world we're entering is more stunning than we'd ever imagined?"
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306 Wil
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The Nazi ghost train : evasion, betrayal, and escape during World War II - VIEW IN CATALOG
The Nazi ghost train : evasion, betrayal, and escape during World War II
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Hours before the liberation of Brussels in 1944, the Germans loaded more than 1,400 members of the Resistance, SOE agents, and Allied airmen onto a train bound for the Neuengamme concentration camp. What happened next came to be known as the miracle of "The Ghost Train," as members of the Resistance rose up to derail the train and save the lives of all of those on board. The book shines a light on everyday heroes: such as New Yorker Ted Kleinman, a Jew who risked his life to carry out sabotage behind the lines; young Resistance heroines such as Michou Dumon, who ordered an attempt to kill one traitor and escaped to London to expose another; and Belgian businessman Gaston Masereel, who planned to parachute into his homeland as an SOE agent. Badly hurt when his plane was attacked, he killed all four German soldiers who came to arrest him. As well as the heroes, there is a villain every bit as keenly drawn and despicable as any in a spy thriller: the most heartless double agent of all--Prosper Dezitter. A convicted rapist and swindler, he enlisted the aid of his mistress to create a false network of helpers to ensnare airmen and řsistants, which made Dezitter a millionaire. Investigative journalist Greg Lewis draws upon a wealth of sources and his own extensive interviews to bring to life a cast of unforgettable characters, as The Nazi Ghost Train unfolds.
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940.53493 Lew
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On courage : how to be a dissident in an age of fear - VIEW IN CATALOG
On courage : how to be a dissident in an age of fear
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The United States is only the latest country to face a leader who wields fear as a weapon, punishes political enemies, disappears people off the street, and undermines free and fair elections. Today nearly three out of four people on earth live under authoritarianism, the highest rate since the late 1970s. But even under repressive conditions, each of us holds the power to help defeat autocrats. Based on their acclaimed The New Yorker essay "So You Want to Be a Dissident?," veteran reporter Julia Angwin and political strategist Ami Fields-Meyer give us a captivating - and profoundly hopeful - guide to courage in an age of fear.
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320.53 Ang
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Where the green light shines : a fifty-year odyssey from the Boundary Waters to the Far North
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A centuries-long story of adventure runs through the Boundary Waters. Stretching from northern Minnesota into the Canadian Shield, this lake-dappled expanse--long an Indigenous homeland and later also a fur trading hub--is the most visited designated wilderness in North America, with more than 200,000 people dipping their paddles into its ancient waterways each year. Bridging the legendary arctic expeditions of the nineteenth century and the making of today's recreational paddling tradition, Where the Green Light Shines is a fascinating chronicle of canoe exploration, told through the journeys of a true master of the craft, Bob O'Hara. O'Hara first launched his canoe as a Boy Scout in the 1950s, and he spent every summer for the next sixty-five years venturing further north into the Canadian barrens, a region rarely seen by paddlers. Mentored by a generation of adventurers and by the Inuit who long paddled the northern tundra rivers, O'Hara would become a guiding light for many young canoeists. Passionate yet guarded, O'Hara dedicated his life to the thrill of paddling, and his extraordinary journeys here become a touchstone as Ryan Rodgers tells the story of a nascent canoeing scene that continues to thrive today. A vivid depiction of the northern wilds traversed by an eclectic roster of paddlers, bush pilots, and historic characters, Where the Green Light Shines illuminates a lost world of arctic canoeing remade in our time. It is bound to transport anyone interested in outdoor adventure--from wilderness canoeists to armchair travelers--and to bring home the eternal allure of the far north.
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797.122 Rod
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Monster of a land : on the road in search of modern America - VIEW IN CATALOG
Monster of a land : on the road in search of modern America
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From The New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing: a cross-country journey exploring this land and its people from someone who knows what it's like to truly exist on the margins. Lauren Hough has always been haunted by the road trips she never got to take: no money, no vacation days, no car capable of making the drive. So upon finally finding herself in a situation where such a trip might be possible, she leaps at the chance, refurbishing a ramshackle 2001 Dodge Ram van and setting off from Austin, Texas, in the tire tracks of John Steinbeck's iconic Travels with Charley. With Woody, her husky mix, as wingman, Lauren chats -- at gas stations and restaurants and auto shops and bars -- with an incredible cross section of Americans from all walks of life and every possible political perspective. And as she circumnavigates the country, she documents, with all-too-rare empathy, what it means to be poor, to be marginalized, and to be seen as other in America. Part travelogue, part social commentary, Monster of a Land is a journey that will show us how far we've come as a nation and how far we still have to go.
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917.304 Hou
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How to try again : an approachable guide to navigating chaos and making change that sticks
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Some people wake up at 4 A.M., run fifteen miles barefoot, and take an ice bath. This book is for the rest of us. The false promises of optimized wellness and productivity are a recipe for personal blame and frustration. We're chasing the wrong goals with the wrong expectations and the wrong strategy. We're trying to make positive change while living in an environment that's determined to keep us complacent and distracted. No wonder all-or-nothing thinking leads to 'all, then nothing' results. Of course we're struggling! Fortunately, escaping this 'doom loop' is Steve Kamb's superpower. We're not failures. We're humans who failed at something. Welcome to the club! For nearly two decades, Kamb has helped tens of millions of people make sustainable progress, even when life happens. Blending empathy and REAL helpful advice, How to Try Again will help you navigate everyday chaos, restart without guilt, and make change that sticks. Drawing on behavioral psychology, real-world examples, and self-deprecating humor, How to Try Again offers a compassionate, funny, and radically practical guide for anyone who has ever struggled to make their goals last. Discover: The PACT Framework: A four-step method to turn any failure into a data point for future success; How to Tread Water: How to maintain momentum even when life gets overwhelming; The Doom Loop: Why we self-sabotage after one mistake and how to escape it instantly; The 'Shower Tomorrow' Strategy: A mental hack to restart your progress without guilt. We don't need to succeed with more discipline. We need to fail with more compassion. We can stop waiting for the perfect plan, stop feeling guilty about the past, and learn How to Try Again differently. All while being delightfully, forgivably human.
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155.24 Kam
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Hidden creatures : luscious leeches, bashful botflies, and the wondrous, history-shaping world of parasites
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There is the tapeworm, which can grow 120 feet in length within the gut of a whale; the tsetse fly, a notorious vector of disease that can pierce the skin even of crocodiles with its needle-like mouth; and the most universal symbol of parasitic behavior: the leech. Long villainized as, well, parasitic, these creatures are actually a vital part of every ecosystem--and Dr. Dino Martins, an award-winning entomologist and biologist from Kenya, has made it his life's mission to demystify these beguiling beings. Hidden Creatures is a journey across the world ten times over--from Martins's home in the wilds of East Africa to the rainforests of Borneo to cities and backyards across the globe. Along the way we encounter brilliant and eccentric experts who join Martins on his adventures to investigate not only parasites but their hosts, from hyraxes and hippos to, of course, humans.
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591.7857 Mar
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The cure at Walden Pond : a guide to recovering our humanity - VIEW IN CATALOG
The cure at Walden Pond : a guide to recovering our humanity
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Drawing upon Walden and Thoreau's journals, Moore explores themes of mindfulness, spirituality, simplicity, nature, memory, and community, encouraging readers to cultivate a more meaningful and harmonious life.
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158.13 Moo
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Babylon : the biography of a metropolis
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Babylon often appears more myth than history. Purportedly the site of the Hanging Gardens and the Tower of Babel, its infamous presence in the Bible has made it a byword for sinful decadence. But Babylon was a real place teeming with life, a bustling mega-city on the Euphrates where schoolteachers, artisans, priests, slaves, prostitutes, and soldiers rubbed shoulders in maze-like streets and busy marketplaces. The city was home to some extraordinary rulers, from Hammurabi, the great lawgiver, to Nebuchadnezzar II, the conqueror-king, in whose reign the city glistened in gold and lapis lazuli. In Babylon, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones brings the ancient city vividly to life, tracing its foundation from its world domination to its subsequent decline and fall into ruin, and then to dust. From ribald drinking songs to acerbic letters between rival kings, extraordinary ancient sources help inform what is both a stunning work of scholarship and a fascinating evocation of a long-lost world.
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Call Number:
935.5 Lle
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American alt : a true story of madness and friendship in a fractured country - VIEW IN CATALOG
American alt : a true story of madness and friendship in a fractured country
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A glimpse into the mind of an American conspiracy theorist, the schizophrenia, trauma, and misinformation that drove him to the brink, and the friendship that brought him back. On the eve of January 6, 2021, Michael Dodd and his three friends found themselves in a stolen vehicle on the grounds of the Washington State capitol, armed to the teeth, and ready to kidnap Governor Jay Inslee. Only there weren't actually three others in the car-- Michael was alone. Months later, the violent plan thwarted, Michael sat in a psychiatric hospital and learned that he was struggling with undiagnosed schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder. His knowledge of that fateful day was spotty, fractured by the different personality states he now knew were affecting his reality. Skeptical of a state mental health system, but anxious to find out how his world turned upside down, he reached out to his longtime friend, the author Chris Lockhart, for help. American Alt is the odyssey of two friends trying to piece together the fragments of Michael's shattered memory and uncover the truth of what pushed him to the edge. Set against the beautiful but economically broken region where both men rambled in their youth, Lockhart delivers a suspenseful, profoundly moving story of discovery and affirmation.
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616.89 Loc
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Scavenging beauty : a memoir in walks
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The transformative memoir of a woman who dedicates herself to walking every street in her county to heal from decades of trauma. As a social worker in California, Angelica Glass spent her career helping families struggling with poverty, abuse, and neglect. When she realized that the stress of her job was becoming overpowering, she turned to walking as an outlet. Yet what began as a chance to exercise her body turned into something much more: a years-long odyssey in which Glass drew on the cathartic beauty of nature, the discipline of exercise, and the healing power of reflection to confront her own past. The more she walked, the more she found what she rarely had growing up: solace and forgiveness. One of eight children born to parents who suffered from addiction and mental illness, Glass had survived privation, hunger, and abuse, and for a time lived on the streets and in foster care. Despite these challenges, she eventually finished high school, graduated from college, established stable long-term relationships, and raised two sons. In the process, she learned that it was by drawing on nature to heal herself - by scavenging beauty on her terms - that she began to understand that we do not have to be prisoners of our pasts. By turns intimate and sweeping, evocative and eye-opening, Scavenging Beauty is a powerful and hopeful celebration of how nature can help us heal from within.
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158.1 Gla
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Been there, done that : how our history shows what we can overcome - VIEW IN CATALOG
Been there, done that : how our history shows what we can overcome
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Our nation's past is full of massive upheaval, disagreement, and departures from the moral high ground. The political gentlemanly conduct of yesteryear is no more than a myth. But that reality never allowed our worst historical selves to defeat our better angels. In Been There, Done That, Greg looks back in time to eight examples from our nation's history and shows that some of the hottest issues of our day are, in fact, American traditions that stand firmly beside another deeply American trait: the will to push back on these demons, prevail, and overcome. It may be 250 years since this country's founding, but the playbook has remained mostly the same. From the Founding Father's hyperpartisan print war of the 1790s, to the caning of Senator Charles Sumner in 1856, to the thoroughly corrupt presidential election of 1876, and all the way through the yellow journalism and print war of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randoph Hearst, you will recognize how familiar these stories are to our own supposedly unprecedented times.
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306.20973 Jac
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They stole a city : Wilmington's white supremacist coup and the families who live with its legacy
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In this ambitious and groundbreaking history, Lauren Collins weaves together stories of four Wilmington, NC, families over 125 years to create a full accounting of the long-term effects of the 1898 white supremacist massacre and coup and its critical role in subverting American democracy. After the Civil War, Reconstruction ushered in an era of political equality and economic opportunity for Black people, and it lasted longer in Wilmington than almost anywhere else. In 1898, Wilmington was a bastion of Black success: Black cultural life flourished, while a thriving Black middle class brimmed with lawyers, educators, and elected officials. The city became a symbol of Black hope -- only for all of it to come to a violent end on November 10, 1898. In this epic, multigenerational narrative, Lauren Collins traces the fates of four Wilmington families: the Howes, the Halseys, the Moores, and the Bellamy/MacRaes, all of whom were present on the day when a mob of white supremacists launched a murderous coup to "take the city." After issuing a "White Declaration of Independence," white men gunned down scores of Black men, chasing their families into hiding. Then they marched to city hall, where they overthrew the democratically elected, multiracial local government at gunpoint in what is thought to be the only successful coup d'̌état on American soil. No one knows exactly how many Black citizens they murdered -- surely dozens, likely hundreds -- while driving thousands of survivors and their white allies out of town. Folklore among both Black and white Wilmingtonians holds that the Cape Fear River ran red. While the effects of this episode of racial terrorism would ricochet through the next century of our nation's history, no one was ever prosecuted or punished, and many of the details have been largely -- and deliberately -- forgotten. In collaboration with living descendants of Black and white families, Collins seeks to create a more complete understanding of 1898 than can be drawn solely from the archives. She follows these four families and their descendants through the eras of segregation and Jim Crow, the Great Migration, the Civil Rights movement, and school desegregation, all the way up to the Black Lives Matter and racial justice protests in 2020, emphasizing the lasting and consequential effects of 1898 on the city and people of Wilmington. Weaving together each generation's reckoning with their past and how it has imprinted on their present, They Stole a City is an ambitious and revelatory examination of American racial terror as it has played out in one Southern city, written in the conviction that the story of the 1898 Wilmington massacre and coup is, in fact, a story about America in 2025.
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975.627041 Col
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Kingdom of devils : a tale of murder in the shadow of the American Revolution - VIEW IN CATALOG
Kingdom of devils : a tale of murder in the shadow of the American Revolution
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In Kingdom of Devils, historian Katherine Grandjean examines the terrifying crimes of the Harp brothers, often considered America's first serial killers. During the late 1790s, Wiley and Micajah Harp carried out a brutal series of murders across the frontier regions of Tennessee and Kentucky, leaving communities terrified and authorities unable to stop them. Beyond recounting the crimes themselves, Grandjean explores how the upheaval and economic hardships following the American Revolution created anger, instability, and violence in the young United States, offering a deeper look at the darker side of early American history.
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Book
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364.1523 Gra
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Hotel exile : Paris in the shadow of war
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Since its opening in 1910, the Hotel Lutetia has been a grand Paris institution, a meeting place for artists, intellectuals, musicians, and politicians. André Gide took his lunch here, James Joyce lived in one of its rooms, Picasso and Matisse were regular guests. But the hotel has a darker history, too--from the years before, during, and after the second World War. In this short period, the Lutetia witnessed some of the most dramatic and terrible events in recent history. In Hotel Exile, Jane Rogoyska evokes in novelistic prose the emotions, dilemmas, and fates of the hotel's patrons. In the 1930s, Europe's bohemian artists and political activists, forced to flee their homes when Hitler came to power, met at the Lutetia with the hope of forming an alternative government. But when war came, Paris was occupied, and the hotel became the headquarters of the German military intelligence service--and the center of their operation to root out enemies of the Reich. In 1945, the Lutetia was requisitioned once more, this time transformed into a reception center for Holocaust survivors who sought refuge after the Liberation. Rogoyska explores what it meant for these three profoundly different groups to live in exile, under the shadow of the dark ideology that dictated the course of their lives. A masterpiece of empathy and concision, Hotel Exile is about what happens at the edges of a war, passing through the doors of a normally functioning hotel, a site under occupation, and, finally, a shelter and place of healing.
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944.361 Rog
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Sisters of the midnight sun : a murder in Arctic Alaska - VIEW IN CATALOG
Sisters of the midnight sun : a murder in Arctic Alaska
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Rebecca Wright is a defense attorney living in the Lower 48 when she suddenly finds herself a widow and an empty nester. In need of a radical change, she accepts a public defender position in Utqiagvik on Alaska's North Slope, an oil-rich area the size of Wyoming where the Inupiat community holds great cultural, political, and economic power.Though she'll always be a tanik--an outsider--she works hard to gain the trust and friendship of the folks who call this singular place home. When two well-known sisters, Bernice and Wanda Ipalook, are found murdered, Wright is tasked with representing Amos Lane, a drifter on the short-list of murder suspects. Criminal charges are looming. But this is summer in northern Alaska, the season of the midnight sun, when twenty-four-hour sunlight makes it difficult for witnesses to confirm the time--or even the day--they last saw the sisters, Amos, or anyone else. Wright must navigate an unreliable client, a prosecution willing to entrap her to get a conviction, a budding romance, and a community that believes Amos might deserve a different form of justice from what the tanik legal system can provide.
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Book
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364.1523 Wri
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Our knives will save us : dispatches from a White Mountain Apache chef - VIEW IN CATALOG
Our knives will save us : dispatches from a White Mountain Apache chef
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From beloved Indigenous chef Nephi Craig, a searing personal and cultural reckoning about the power of food to heal intergenerational wounds. When Nephi Craig enrolled in the culinary program at Scottsdale Community College, it was out of necessity--his DUI conviction had left him with three years' probation with either full-time employment or education. He chose school, expecting little more than a means to an end. But what he encountered on his first day was a profound dissonance: not a single other Indigenous person in the room and European recipes that, beneath their French and Italian names, echoed the flavors of his own Apache roots. Calling to mind his roaming childhood on the White Mountain Apache and Navajo reservations, that moment sparked a lifelong pursuit, not just of culinary mastery, but also of cultural rediscovery. Craig began tracing the buried histories of Indigenous cultivars such as the acorn, the squash, and the cacao bean, each one a portal into the violent legacy of colonization. He was hungry to not only better understand the way this history embedded itself in Native foodways but to also build Indigenous food sovereignty and to reconnect people with this rich cuisine. His mission led him around the world, from high-end kitchens in Japan, Germany, and England, to Executive Chef roles across the US. All the while, though, Craig wrestled in the shadows of his alcoholism and substance abuse, entering one addiction treatment center after another in the hopes that he could get--and remain--sober. Unexpectedly, in the heat and rhythm of professional kitchens and in the collaborative energy of top fine dining restaurants, Craig found a lifeline. However, it wasn't until he was faced with the difficult decision of choosing between a career in culinary prestige and one serving the Native communities at home that he found his true vocation. Interweaving personal reflection with searing cultural insight, Craig lays bare the ongoing traumas wrought by colonial violence, from systemic poverty and poor mental health to addiction and suicide within Native communities. At the same time, he offers a vision of hope: one where food is decolonized, history is honored, and healing is possible.
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641.5092 Cra
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Unleashed : how to bring out the best in your dog - VIEW IN CATALOG
Unleashed : how to bring out the best in your dog
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Our dogs are no longer just pets--they're family. This means, according to celebrity dog trainer Jaime Goodrich, that the way we train them needs to change. Unleashed argues that behavior problems worsen, not improve, with heavy discipline. If you instead address the source of a dog's anxiety or fear, problematic behaviors will naturally and permanently disappear. Goodrich provides techniques rooted in kindness and understanding rather than punishment and dominance. She addresses attachment in dogs--what normal attachment looks like and what it looks like when things go south. She teaches you how to identify your dog's particular coping strategy and how to identify stress signals your dog is giving you. You'll be able to recognize your dog's particular triggers and desires, and, most importantly, be able to figure out how to work within your dog's particular neurological level to make substantial change in their behaviors.
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636.70887 Goo
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How to kill a language : power, resistance, and the race to save our words - VIEW IN CATALOG
How to kill a language : power, resistance, and the race to save our words
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Languages can be killed in many ways: war, the climate crisis, nationalism, and even quiet choices made at the dinner table. Around the world, an unprecedented shift is drawing speakers toward national and global lingua francas. For some, that means losing the language of parents or grandparents; for many, it is a permanent farewell to systems that carry knowledge, culture, and belonging. With half of our 7,000 languages due to disappear this century, linguicide is one of the most pressing cultural emergencies of our age. In How to Kill a Language, journalist Sophia Smith Galer travels across continents and generations to chart this phenomenon. In Ecuador, she sees firsthand how shame deters parents from passing Kichwa onto their children. In Oman, she learns about languages with roots older than Arabic but never officially recognized. And in Italy, she searches for her Nonna's dia︠lt, which is vanishing from diaspora communities and Italy itself. But languages can also be reclaimed: We meet the Karuk tribe of California, pioneering a grassroots language immersion program, and the storytellers challenging the criminalization of Kurdish. And in her discussion of Hebrew, Smith Galer reckons with the unintended consequences of raising a language seemingly from the grave. Part investigation, part travelogue from a disappearing world, How to Kill a Language exposes the true costs of this mass extinction event. Brought to life by vivid storytelling and Smith Galer's own experience with language loss, it's a fierce rallying cry for a multilingual future.
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417.7 Smi
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Data empire : the power of information to organize, control, and dominate - VIEW IN CATALOG
Data empire : the power of information to organize, control, and dominate
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A new lens on human history outlining data's powerful role in governance and exploitation.
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005.7 Ris
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You won't get free of it : stories of mothers and daughters - VIEW IN CATALOG
You won't get free of it : stories of mothers and daughters
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A collection of reported stories that explore the relationship between mothers and daughters by the award-winning author of Strangers to Ourselves.
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306.8743 Avi
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A pox on fools : the true believers, grifters, and cynics who convinced us to reject vaccines
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This work examines the historical development of vaccine skepticism from the introduction of smallpox inoculation in the eighteenth century to the present. Through three essays, Thomas Levenson explores recurring concerns about the safety, effectiveness, and social implications of vaccination, tracing how these ideas emerged in different historical contexts and influenced public attitudes and public health policy. The book discusses the relationship between scientific evidence, public trust, and the spread of vaccine misinformation.
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614.47 Lev
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Agatha Christie : the mother of the cozy mystery - VIEW IN CATALOG
Agatha Christie : the mother of the cozy mystery
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Step into the world of history's most legendary mystery and crime writer--Agatha Christie! Through one hundred short entries, you'll get an intimate glimpse into the life, mind, and works of the mother of the cozy mystery. Featuring quotes about--and from--the literary genius and excerpts from her suspenseful stories, this beautifully crafted biography celebrates Christie's literary brilliance and timeless creations. With each page, you'll discover the experiences that shaped her classic detective novels, short stories, and plays, from her early years to her lasting impact on popular culture. Whether you're a longtime Christie admirer or just beginning your literary adventure, uncover the unexpected mysteries behind the "Queen of Crime" with Agatha Christie!
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Book
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823.912 Wes