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New Adult 000 - 300s Nonfiction 000 - Computer Science, Knowledge, and Systems 100 - Philosophy and Psychology 200 - Religion 300- Social Science, Law, and Education |
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Conspiracy : why the rational believe
the irrational
by Michael Shermer
The author contemplates how we think about conspiracy theories.
Who believes conspiracy theories, and why? Which conspiracy
theories are likely to be true or false? What criteria we can use to
assess them, and what we should do to combat dangerous
conspiracy ideas and reestablish trust in our democratic
institutions, in the media, and in one another.
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The creative act : a way of being
by Rick Rubin
A master at helping people connect with who they really are and
what they really offer, the nine-time Grammy-winning producer illuminates the path of the artist. It is a road we all can follow,
putting the power to create moments, and even lifetimes of
exhilaration and transcendence within closer reach.
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The book of boundaries : set the limits that will set you free
by Melissa Urban
The CEO of the Whole30 and an authority on helping people create lifelong healthy habits shows how establishing boundaries is the key to better mental health and self-confidence, improved productivity, greater energy and more fulfilling relationships.
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The love prescription : seven days to
more intimacy, connection, and joy
by John Mordechai Gottman
Drawing on 40 years of studying love and sharing data from
more than 3,000 couples, two of the worlds leading relationship scientists present a formula from a good relationship, showing how
a few small changes can fundamentally transform your relationship
for the better.
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Forgive : why should I and how can I?
by Timothy Keller
Forgiveness is an essential skill, a moral imperative, and a
religious belief that cuts right to the core of what it means to
be human. In Forgive, Timothy Keller shows readers why it is
so important and how to do it, explaining in detail the steps you
need to take in order to move on without sacrificing justice or
your humanity"
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How to Inhabit Time : Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now
by James K. A. Smith
Many Christians are disconnected from the past or imagine they are "above" history, immune to it, as if self-starters from clean slates in every generation. They suffer from a lack of awareness of time and the effects of history—both personal and collective—and thus are naive about current issues and fixated on the end times.
Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith shows that awakening to the spiritual significance of time is crucial for orienting faith in the 21st century.
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Silencing white noise : six practices to overcome our inaction on race
by Willie Dwayne Francois
"A prominent Black church leader calls people of all races to engage six "rhythms of reparative intercession" to silence White Noise-the racist speech, ideas, and policies that lull us into inaction on racial injustice-and to develop lifelong Christian antiracist practices"
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Untouchable : how powerful people
get away with it
by Elie Honig
A CNN senior legal analyst and nationally bestselling author
exposes how the rich and powerful use the American criminal
justice system to their own benefit by manipulating seemingly fair institutions and practices to build empires of corruption and get
away with misdeeds for which ordinary people would be imprisoned.
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Edible economics : a hungry economist explains the world
by Ha-Joon Chang
One of the world's leading economists presents concepts about globalization, climate change, immigration, automation and
more by comparing them to food from around the world and
show how understanding the economy is like learning a recipe.
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J.K. Lasser's 1001 deductions and tax
breaks 2023 : your complete guide to everything deductible
by Barbara Weltman
Expert attorney and small business advocate Barbara Weltman
delivers a thorough and carefully researched explanation of the constantly changing tax laws as they apply to ordinary, taxpaying Americans. The latest edition of this book has been completely
updated to reflect recent legislation, the latest tax court rulings,
and IRS guidance, allowing readers to easily refer to relevant
deductions and credits in the easy-to-follow guide.
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GRE Master Wordlist: 1535 Words for
Verbal Mastery
by GRE
This book is a collection of 1535 vocabulary words that are
handpicked by GRE experts having years of experience. The
words come with parts of speech, pronunciation, synonyms,
antonyms, and example sentences. The example sentences will
help you understand the meaning of words in context and teach
you to use them correctly in sentences.
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A Spectre, Haunting
by China Mieville
China Miéville's riveting engagement with the Communist Manifesto offers a lyrical introduction and a spirited defense
of the modern world's most influential political document.
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Screaming on the inside : the unsustainability of American motherhood
by Jessica Grose
Weaving together her personal journey with scientific, historical
and contemporary reporting, a New York Times opinion writer
dismantles 200 years of unrealistic parenting expectations and
empowers todays mothers to make choices that actually serve themselves, their children and their communities.
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Ejaculate responsibly : a whole new
way to think about abortion
by Gabrielle Stanley Blair
In a series of 28 brief arguments reframing the abortion issue,
Gabrielle Blair deftly makes the case for moving the abortion
debate away from controlling and legislating women's bodies and
instead directs the focus on men's lack of accountability in
preventing unwanted pregnancies.
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Tracers in the dark : the global hunt
for the crime lords of cryptocurrency
by Andy Greenberg
With unprecedented access to the major players in federal
law enforcement and private industry who have cracked the
Bitcoin blockchain, a veteran cybersecurity reporter presents this thrilling, globe-spanning story of dirty cops, drug bazaars, trafficking rings and the biggest takedown of an online narcotics market in the history of the internet.
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Black women will save the world : an anthem
by April Ryan
The trailblazing White House correspondent reflects on 2020 and the unprecedented role of African American women in helping to uphold democracy. Ryan also recalls her own personal journey from working-class Baltimore to the pinnacle of her profession.
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Homecoming : the path to prosperity in a post-global world
by Rana Foroohar
The Financial Times columnist and CNN analyst presents a vision of a new age of economic localization in the face of global trade and supply chain failures and how this trend can help keep investment and wealth closer to home.
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Lady justice : women, the law, and
the battle to save America
by Dahlia Lithwick
Dahlia Lithwick, one of the nation's foremost legal commentators,
tells the gripping and heroic story of the women lawyers who fought
the racism, sexism, and xenophobia of Donald Trump's presidency,
and won. After the sudden shock of Donald Trump's victory over
Hillary Clinton in 2016, many Americans felt lost and uncertain.
It was clear he and his administration were going to pursue a
series of retrograde, devastating policies.
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The myth of normal : trauma, illness & healing in a toxic culture
by Gabor Maté
Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription
drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has
high blood pressure. In Europe, hypertension is diagnosed in more
than 30 percent of the population. And everywhere, adolescent
mental illness is on the rise. So what is really "normal" when it
comes to health?
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Spiderweb Capitalism : How Global
Elites Exploit Frontier Markets
by Kimberly Kay Hoang
Spiderweb Capitalism sheds critical light on how global elites
capitalize on risky frontier markets, and deepens our understanding
of the paradoxical ways in which global economic growth is
sustained through states where the line separating the legal from
the corrupt is not always clear.
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US Citizenship Test Study Guide 2022
and 2023
by Andrew Smullen
Your future depends on your US Citizenship test results. With this Exampedia study guide, you will have everything you need to
succeed and achieve your goals. Our team brings you a complete
prep package in a simple, easy to understand format.
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Free market : the history of an idea
by Jacob Soll
Tracing the intellectual evolution of the free market, from ancient
Rome to today, the award-winning author argues that we need to go back to the origins of free market ideology in order to truly understand
it and to develop new economic concepts to face todays challenges.
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By hands now known : Jim Crow's
legal executioners
by Margaret Burnham
The director of Northeastern University's Civil Rights and
Restorative Justice Project examines the legal apparatus that
helped sustain Jim Crow-era violence, focusing on a series of
harrowing cases from 1920 to 1960.
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Nomads : the wanderers who shaped
our world
by Anthony Sattin
Exploring the evolutionary biology and psychology of restlessness
that makes us human, Anthony Sattin's sweeping history charts the power of nomadism from before The Bible to its decline in the
present day. Connecting us to mythology and the records of
antiquity, Nomads explains why we leave home, and why we
like to return again. This is the history of civilization as told
through its outsiders.
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My three dads : patriarchy on the
Great Plains
by Jessa Crispin
Jessa Crispin melds personal narrative with history and current events
to explore the dark side of Kansas, where she grew up. She meditates
on why the American Midwest still enjoys an esteemed position in the US's imagination about itself, why its foundational myths are the myths of what it means to be "American." And while we may romanticize aspects of Midwestern life-the nuclear family, the pioneering attitude,
the small town friendliness-the realities, she argues, are harsher.
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Diary of a misfit : a memoir and a mystery
by Casey Parks
Part memoir, part investigative reporting, this sweeping journalistic saga explores sexuality and gender, family trauma and the redemptive force of love.
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Mother brain : how neuroscience is rewriting the story of parenthood
by Chelsea Conaboy
In this powerful narrative, a journalist and mother delves into the major brain changes that come with being new parents. This book delves into the neuroscience to reveal unexpected upsides and how this science is mostly absent from the public conversation about parenthood.
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Buy this, not that : how to spend your way to wealth and freedom
by Sam Dogen
"Sam Dogen's Financial Samurai blog has helped over 70 million people achieve financial freedom. Now, he shares his no-nonsense playbook to build wealth and retire early through smarter spending. With hard numbers and his signature straight talk, Dogen reveals the spending dos and donts for the biggest, and the smallest, purchases of your life. In topics ranging from career, to education, to family and parenting, to lifestyle and real-estate-Dogen shows how to calculate your optimal calorie-per-dollar budget. You don't need to be a millionaire or a genius to achieve financial freedom. It's about making the most of your money, now, and forever-and it's never too late to get started"
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Status and culture : how our desire for higher social rank shapes identity, fosters creativity, and changes the world
by W. David Marx
In Status and Culture, W. David Marx weaves together history, psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, philosophy, linguistics, semiotics, cultural theory, literary theory, art history, media studies, and neuroscience to reveal for the first time the inner workings of status.
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Formidable : American women and the
fight for equality: 1920-2020
by Elisabeth Griffith
In this riveting narrative, an activist and academic, integrating the
fight by White and Black women to achieve quality, provides a
sweeping, century-long perspective and an expansive cast of
change agents, showing how the diversity of the women's
movement mirrors America.
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The fishermen and the dragon : fear,
greed, and a fight for justice on the
gulf coast
by Kirk W. Johnson
A gripping, twisting account of a small town set on fire by hatred, xenophobia, and ecological disaster. This is a story that weaves
together corporate malfeasance, a battle over shrinking natural resources, a turning point in the modern white supremacist
movement, and one woman's relentless battle for environmental
justice.
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To risk it all : nine conflicts and the
crucible of decision
by James Stavridis
Told through the thrilling and heroic stories of nine famous acts of leadership in battle from the U.S. Navy's nearly 250-year history,
one of the great naval leaders of our time draws from them a set of insights we can all put to use when confronted with fateful choices.
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Meet me by the fountain : an inside
history of the mall
by Alexandra Lange
This entertaining and evocative stroll through the rise, fall
and ongoing reinvention of malls, which proved to be a powerful
draw for creative thinkers, including Joan Didion, Ray Bradbury
and George Romero, chronicles how the design of these
marketplaces played an integral role in cultural ascent.
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Leadership : six studies in world strategy
by Henry Kissinger
Drawing on his deep study of history as well as his distinguished
career in government, the consummate diplomat and statesman
studies six impactful leaders in modern history, including Anwar
Sadat, Margaret Thatcher and Lee Kuan Yew, revealing the
masterful strategies and leadership of these great geopolitical minds.
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Rogues : true stories of grifters,
killers, rebels and crooks
by Patrick Radden Keefe
The prize-winning, New York Times best-selling author presents
twelve of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker that
form a deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well
as those who stand up against them.
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