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Broadside Books [an imprint of] HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Marriage expert Brad Wilcox provides the evidence for why marriage is the most fundamental and worthwhile social institution"--
"What's the recipe for happiness? If you listen to liberal elites or red pill influencers, you'd say it's making money, living for yourself, and staying single without kids--and you'd be wrong. Nothing predicts happiness better than a good marriage. According to new research by the University of Virginia sociologist Brad...
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the United States and the United Kingdom to the East India Company, Standard Oil, Facebook, and Alibaba, states and corporations have gradually, and then much more rapidly, taken over the planet. They have helped to conquer poverty and eliminate disease, but also unleashed global wars and environmental degradation. As Runciman demonstrates, states and corporations are the ultimate decision-making machines, defined by their ability to make their...
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Publisher
Anansi International
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An indispensable guide to seeing and understanding our planet through the divisions we make, find, or feel. Our world has innumerable boundaries. They range from the obvious -- an ocean, or a mountain range -- to subtle differences in language or climate. We cross boundaries all the time, sometimes without realizing it. They can be subjective: our perceptions of a boundary may not be shared by others. And yet they shape the way we engage with the...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"The latest developments in robotics and artificial intelligence and a preview of the coming decades, based on research and interviews with the world's foremost experts. If there's one universal trait among humans, it's our social nature. Having relationships with others is a hard-wired need that literally shapes us and the lives we lead. The craving to connect is universal, compelling, and frequently irresistible. This concept is central to Robots...
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Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Hilke Schellmann is an Emmy award-winning investigative reporter, Wall Street Journal and Guardian contributor, and journalism professor at NYU. In "The Algorithm," she investigates the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the world of work. AI is now being used to decide who has access to an education, who gets hired, who gets fired, and who receives a promotion. Drawing on exclusive information from whistleblowers, internal documents, and real-world...
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Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Influential designer Harris Reed explores the world of gender-defying fashion in this richly illustrated monograph. In Fluid, revolutionary fashion designer Harris Reed introduces the world to a new era in fluid fashion. At the center of Reed's sartorial journey has always been his desire to change the way people express their identities through clothing. Fluidity's essence is adaptable, evolutionary, and dynamic, and Reed's work constantly disrupts...
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Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"The color of one's skin and passport have long dictated the conditions of travel. For Shahnaz Habib, travel and travel writing have always been complicated pleasures. Habib threads the history of travel with her personal story as a child on family vacations in India, an adult curious about the world, and an immigrant for whom roundtrips are an annual fact of life. Tracing the power dynamics that underlie tourism, this ... debut parses who gets to...
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Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In The Big 100, journalist William J. Kole tackles the pressing questions of our super-aging future and offers an encouraging view of the reality that awaits us, our children, and our grandchildren. Countering a forbidding bleakness with profound policy, societal, and lifestyle solutions, The Big 100 flashes the brightness of a future few thought possible. New member of AARP and grandson of a centenarian, Kole explores the looming era of longevity...
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Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon -- the rising number of unclaimed dead in America today -- and what it says about the state of our society. For centuries, people who died destitute or alone were buried in potters' fields--a Dickensian end that even the most hard-pressed families tried to avoid. Today, more and more relatives are abandoning their dead, leaving it to local governments to dispose of the bodies....
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Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Whether you're planning your finest Ugly Christmas Sweater Party or spending a quiet evening by the stocking-lined fireside at home, make the season bright with this guide to 40 favorite holiday albums from the 1940s to the present. Each entry features liner notes on the album and accompanying boozy beverage recipes that complement the music or connect the drink to the artist. Select holiday food recipes throughout complete the experience.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Washington Book is the perfect guide to the state of our politics, and then men and women who dominate the terrain. It explores the construction of personal identity, the delusions of leadership, and that mix of subservience and ambition that can define a life in politics. The more we read the stories of Washington, Lozada contends, the clearer our understanding of the competing visions of our country"--
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Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Any tattoo is the outcome of an intimate, often hidden, process. The people, bodies, and money that make tattooing what it is blend together and form a heady cocktail, something described by Matt, the owner of Oakland's Premium Tattoo, as "Blood and Lightning." Faced with the client's anticipation of pain and excitement, the tattooer must carefully perform calm authority to obscure a world of preparation and vigilance. "Blood and Lightning, my dude,"...
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Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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A wide-ranging anthology of essays exploring one of the most vital art forms on the planet today. From the earliest computers to the smartphones in our pockets, video games have been on our screens and part of our lives for over fifty years. Critical Hits celebrates this sophisticated medium and considers its lasting impact on our culture and ourselves. This collection of stylish, passionate, and searching essays opens with an introduction by Carmen...
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Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Other Side of Empathy argues that empathy itself is a culturally created and maintained affective ideology deployed to make sense of a world that has been irrevocably distorted by colonization and technology. Understanding empathy culture, and empathy as an ideology allows for an exploration of its arbitrariness, cultural contradictions, and limits. An analysis of "human zoos," as presented in colonial photography and in their digital afterlife,...
18) Motherlike
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Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"As soon as Katherine Leyton discovered she was pregnant, a powerful reckoning began. Motherlike is both a feminist memoir of new motherhood as well as a rumination on womanhood. A book for anyone interested in an honest and revealing look at a process that is essential to our experience as humans, and yet is routinely unexamined and dismissed. Sharp and intensely candid, funny, and deeply poignant, Leyton weaves her own experience of becoming a mother...
19) How to find a four-leaf clover: what Autism can teach us about difference, connection, and belonging
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Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A special-education teacher with thirty years of experience working with autistic people gives readers a deeper understanding of and appreciation for the neurodiverse community and looks at ways we can develop more meaningful connections with others.
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A "magisterial" (Sunday Times) illumination of how books were used in war across the twentieth century--both as weapons and as agents for peace. We tend not to talk about books and war in the same breath--one ranks among humanity's greatest inventions, the other among its most terrible. But as esteemed literary historian Andrew Pettegree demonstrates, the two are deeply intertwined. The Book at War explores the various roles that books have played...
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