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We Rise: The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement that Restores the Planet

XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ · Rodale Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Challenge the status quo, change the face of activism, and confront climate change head on with the ultimate blueprint for taking action.Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is a 16-year-old climate activist, hip-hop artist, and powerful new voice on the front lines of a global youth-led movement. He and his group...
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Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money and Having Fun Investing in Startups

David S. Rose · Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Achieve annual returns of 25% or more with a well-designed angel portfolio Written by David S. Rose, the founder of Gust the global platform that powers the world of organized professional angel investing Angel Investing is a comprehensive, entertaining guide that walks readers through...
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Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story

Steven M D Hatch · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 303
Format: Hardcover

Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and Ebola had become a world health emergency. Hundreds of victims perished...
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Getting Laid: Everything You Need to Know About Raising Chickens, Gardening and Preserving — with Over 100 Recipes!

Barb Webb · Viva Editions
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

Sustainable living boasts no boundaries. You don't need massive amounts of acreage or even a fenced-in backyard. We may not be 100 percent sustainable in our lifestyle, but we can become better in-tune with our environment and conscientious of our actions. Like all aspects of life,...
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Ending Back Pain: 5 Powerful Steps to Diagnose, Understand, and Treat Your Ailing Back

Dr. Jack Stern M.D. Ph.D. · Avery; 1 edition
Format: Book

A totally new paradigm for treating back pain Virtually every American will suffer from back pain at some point. Dr. Jack Stern, a neurosurgeon and professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, brings relief to these millions of sufferers (including himself) who literally ache for help....
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The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters

Gregory Zuckerman · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Everyone knew it was crazy to try to extract oil and natural gas buried in shale rock deep below the ground. Everyone, that is, except a few reckless wildcatters - who risked their careers to prove the world wrong. Things looked grim for American energy in 2006. Oil production was in steep...
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A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity

Nicholas D. Kristof · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

An essential, galvanizing narrative about making a difference here and abroad—a road map to becoming the most effective global citizens we can be.In their number one New York Times best seller Half the Sky, husband-and-wife team Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn brought to light struggles...
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Passionate Nutrition: A Guide to Using Food as Medicine from a Nutritionist Who Healed Herself from the Inside Out

Jennifer Adler · Sasquatch Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

This power-foods healthy-living guidebook will inspire readers to eat well, lose weight, and embrace food as medicine. "Food as medicine" is a powerfully healing way to eat and was embraced by nutritionist Jennifer Adler as she recovered from a malnour­ished childhood and adolescence....
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Bulletproof Spirit: The First Responder's Essential Resource for Protecting and Healing Mind and Heart

Dan Willis · New World Library
Format: Print book

If you are a police officer, firefighter, EMT, ER nurse, or soldier, or you love one - this book can save your lifeSuicide, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) , substance abuse, and many more emotional and stress-related problems plague the first-responder community....
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Animal Stars: Behind the Scenes with Your Favorite Animal Actors

Allen Anderson · New World Library
Format: Hardcover

When cameras roll and directors call, “Action,” some of the most dependable, funniest, and most enthusiastic actors stand poised on four legs, with ears alert. From Joey in War Horse to the wolves in Game of Thrones, what we see on screen is the result of meticulous preparation...
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10 Granny Squares 30 Bags: Purses, totes, pouches, and carriers from favorite crochet motifs

Margaret Hubert · Creative Pub Intl
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Crochet up to 30 creative, fun bags, starting from just 10 granny squares!The granny square is the crocheter's foundation for countless projects and is unparalleled for its portability, versatility, and endless variety. With The Granny Square Book, Margaret Hubert showed how the humble...
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The Pre-Raphaelites and Science

John Holmes · Paul Mellon Centre BA
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover

This revelatory book traces how the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their close associates put scientific principles into practice across their painting, poetry, sculpture, and architecture. In their manifesto, The Germ, the Pre-Raphaelites committed themselves to creating a new kind of art modeled...
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Industry of Anonymity: Inside the Business of Cybercrime

Jonathan Lusthaus · Harvard University Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The most extensive account yet of the lives of cybercriminals and the vast international industry they have created, deeply sourced and based on field research in the world's technology-crime hotspots.Cybercrime seems invisible. Attacks arrive out of nowhere, their origins hidden by layers...
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Poems from the Blue Ridge

ALEXANDER H TER WEELE · Piscataqua Press
Pages: 104
Format: Hardcover

Poems from the Blue Ridge is a work of art. Indeed, two works of art in a single volume. On the one hand, a compendium of poems - inspiring poems, complex poems, playful poems - and on the other hand, a collection of sketches - inspiring sketches, complex sketches, playful sketches. The reader...
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Changing Keys: Keyboard Instruments for America 1700-1830

John R Watson · Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Pages: 150
Format: Hardcover

Through the instruments that comprise the historical keyboard collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation including six harpsichords, six spinets, three organs, and twenty three pianos Changing Keys: Keyboard Instruments for America, 1700-1830;explores the keyboard culture of America...
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