A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, In Search of a Better World is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times.Renowned UN prosecutor and human rights scholar Payam Akhavan has encountered the grim realities of contemporary genocide throughout his life and career. He argues that deceptive utopias, political cynicism, and public apathy have given rise to major human rights abuses: from the religious persecution of Iranian Bah's that shaped his personal life, to the horrors of ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia, the genocide in Rwanda, and the rise of contemporary phenomena such as the Islamic State. But he also reflects on the inspiring resilience of the human spirit and the reality of our inextricable interdependence to liberate us, whether from hateful ideologies that deny the humanity of others or an empty consumerist culture that worships greed and self-indulgence.
House of Anansi Press
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9781487003395
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Paperback
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim [50th Anniversary Edition]
By Sinatra, Frank
Universal Music Enterprises
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602557354805
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Mixed Plate
By Koy, Jo
A hilarious, fearlessly honest, and profoundly relevant memoir by superstar Filipino-American comedian internationally celebrated for his family-inspired humor.Comedian Jo Koy is beloved around the globe for his relatable humor about his family: his overbearing Filipino mom, his rebellious sister, his "indirectly" racist American stepfather, his own smart-ass teenage son. In this funny and moving memoir, Koy uncovers the stories behind the stand-up: the conflict, the drama, and the laughter as he struggles to find his place in an industry, a country -- and the world. In Mixed Plate, Koy opens up about his childhood -- his birth on an Air Force base in Misawa, Japan, to a Filipino mother and a white father who abandoned him -- and reflects on what it was like to be thrust into a world that had no idea what to make of him, with a family that was poor, fractured, and plagued with violence and mental illness.
Dey Street Books
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9780062969965
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Hardcover
Mark Twain - STEM Labs
By Cameron, Schyrlet
GRADES 5-12: This 80-page science workbook helps students learn about the potential of renewable energy sources.FEATURES: This science resource book uses the scientific method and engages students through experimenting, assessing, and presenting research findings as they attempt to solve real-world problems. INCLUDES: Units are designed to cultivate an interest in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. Topics covered include energy, energy sources, electricity, solar energy, geothermal energy, and much more. Contents of this workbook help students to strengthen their communication skills, critical thinking skills, and more.WHY MARK TWAIN MEDIA: Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing captivating, supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms.
Mark Twain Media
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9781622238200
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Paperback
The Storyteller
By Grohl, Dave
So, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ("It's a piece of cake! Just do 4 hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!") I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I've recorded and can't wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the Kiss posters on my wall as a child. This certainly doesn't mean that I'm quitting my day job, but it does give me a place to shed a little light on what it's like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, walking through life while living out the crazy dreams I had as young musician.
Dey Street Books
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9780063076099
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Hardcover
Reader, Come Home
By Wolf, Maryanne
From the author of Proust and the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf's Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we think and feel. Since then, the ways we process written language have changed dramatically with many concerned about both their own changes and that of children. New research on the reading brain chronicles these changes in the brains of children and adults as they learn to read while immersed in a digitally dominated medium.Drawing deeply on this research, this book comprises a series of letters Wolf writes to us - her beloved readers - to describe her concerns and her hopes about what is happening to the reading brain as it unavoidably changes to adapt to digital mediums.
Harper
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9780062388780
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Hardcover
The Divider
By Baker, Peter
From top journalists and the bestselling authors of The Man Who Ran Washington, an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency.Revered journalists Peter Baker of TheNew York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker tell the inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale. Baker and Glasser argue that Trump was not just lurching from one controversy to another; he was learning to be more like the foreign autocrats he admired. The Divider is that rare thing, a lasting history that also contains scoops, dozens of exclusive stories from behind the scenes in the White House, from the deadly serious to the absurd--from how close we got to nuclear war with North Korea, to which cabinet members had a resignation pact, to whether Trump asked Japan's prime minister to nominate him for a Nobel Prize.
Doubleday
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9780385546539
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Hardcover
Seeing Gender
By Gottlieb, Iris
Seeing Gender is an of-the-moment investigation into how we express and understand the complexities of gender today. Deeply researched and fully illustrated, this book demystifies an intensely personal - yet universal - facet of humanity. Illustrating a different concept on each spread, queer author and artist Iris Gottlieb touches on history, science, sociology, and her own experience. This book is an essential tool for understanding and contributing to a necessary cultural conversation, bringing clarity and reassurance to the sometimes confusing process of navigating ones' identity. Whether LGBTQ , cisgender, or nonbinary, Seeing Gender is a must-read for intelligent, curious, want-to-be woke people who care about how we see and talk about gender and sexuality in the 21st century.
Chronicle Books
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9781452176611
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Hardcover
Verona Comics
By Dugan, Jennifer
From the author of Hot Dog Girl comes a fresh and funny YA contemporary romance about two teens who fall in love in an indie comic book shop. Jubilee has it all together. She's an elite cellist, and when she's not working in her stepmom's indie comic shop, she's prepping for the biggest audition of her life.Ridley is barely holding it together. His parents own the biggest comic-store chain in the country, and Ridley can't stop disappointing them--that is, when they're even paying attention.They meet one fateful night at a comic convention prom, and the two can't help falling for each other. Too bad their parents are at each other's throats every chance they get, making a relationship between them nearly impossible . . . unless they manage to keep it a secret.
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
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9780525516286
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Hardcover
Social Security Works For Everyone!
By Altman, Nancy J.
Social Security expansion is back on the agenda, at a time when Americans need it more than ever -- here's what it should look like (and why it matters to everyday people all over the country) "Altman and Kingson cut through the fog of calculated confusion and outright lies about Social Security." -- David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author The COVID-19 crisis has pulled the curtain back on America's looming retirement income crisis, a fraying of the national community, and ever-worsening income inequality. Never before have so many people's livelihoods and futures been thrown into flux. Now more than ever, expanding Social Security is essential to addressing these challenges. Social Security Works for Everyone!, an evolution of the argument Nancy J.
In Search of A Better World
By Akhavan, Payam
A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, In Search of a Better World is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times.Renowned UN prosecutor and human rights scholar Payam Akhavan has encountered the grim realities of contemporary genocide throughout his life and career. He argues that deceptive utopias, political cynicism, and public apathy have given rise to major human rights abuses: from the religious persecution of Iranian Bah's that shaped his personal life, to the horrors of ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia, the genocide in Rwanda, and the rise of contemporary phenomena such as the Islamic State. But he also reflects on the inspiring resilience of the human spirit and the reality of our inextricable interdependence to liberate us, whether from hateful ideologies that deny the humanity of others or an empty consumerist culture that worships greed and self-indulgence.
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim [50th Anniversary Edition]
By Sinatra, Frank
Mixed Plate
By Koy, Jo
A hilarious, fearlessly honest, and profoundly relevant memoir by superstar Filipino-American comedian internationally celebrated for his family-inspired humor.Comedian Jo Koy is beloved around the globe for his relatable humor about his family: his overbearing Filipino mom, his rebellious sister, his "indirectly" racist American stepfather, his own smart-ass teenage son. In this funny and moving memoir, Koy uncovers the stories behind the stand-up: the conflict, the drama, and the laughter as he struggles to find his place in an industry, a country -- and the world. In Mixed Plate, Koy opens up about his childhood -- his birth on an Air Force base in Misawa, Japan, to a Filipino mother and a white father who abandoned him -- and reflects on what it was like to be thrust into a world that had no idea what to make of him, with a family that was poor, fractured, and plagued with violence and mental illness.
Mark Twain - STEM Labs
By Cameron, Schyrlet
GRADES 5-12: This 80-page science workbook helps students learn about the potential of renewable energy sources.FEATURES: This science resource book uses the scientific method and engages students through experimenting, assessing, and presenting research findings as they attempt to solve real-world problems. INCLUDES: Units are designed to cultivate an interest in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. Topics covered include energy, energy sources, electricity, solar energy, geothermal energy, and much more. Contents of this workbook help students to strengthen their communication skills, critical thinking skills, and more.WHY MARK TWAIN MEDIA: Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing captivating, supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms.
The Storyteller
By Grohl, Dave
So, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ("It's a piece of cake! Just do 4 hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!") I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I've recorded and can't wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the Kiss posters on my wall as a child. This certainly doesn't mean that I'm quitting my day job, but it does give me a place to shed a little light on what it's like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, walking through life while living out the crazy dreams I had as young musician.
Reader, Come Home
By Wolf, Maryanne
From the author of Proust and the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf's Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we think and feel. Since then, the ways we process written language have changed dramatically with many concerned about both their own changes and that of children. New research on the reading brain chronicles these changes in the brains of children and adults as they learn to read while immersed in a digitally dominated medium.Drawing deeply on this research, this book comprises a series of letters Wolf writes to us - her beloved readers - to describe her concerns and her hopes about what is happening to the reading brain as it unavoidably changes to adapt to digital mediums.
The Divider
By Baker, Peter
From top journalists and the bestselling authors of The Man Who Ran Washington, an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency.Revered journalists Peter Baker of TheNew York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker tell the inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale. Baker and Glasser argue that Trump was not just lurching from one controversy to another; he was learning to be more like the foreign autocrats he admired. The Divider is that rare thing, a lasting history that also contains scoops, dozens of exclusive stories from behind the scenes in the White House, from the deadly serious to the absurd--from how close we got to nuclear war with North Korea, to which cabinet members had a resignation pact, to whether Trump asked Japan's prime minister to nominate him for a Nobel Prize.
Seeing Gender
By Gottlieb, Iris
Seeing Gender is an of-the-moment investigation into how we express and understand the complexities of gender today. Deeply researched and fully illustrated, this book demystifies an intensely personal - yet universal - facet of humanity. Illustrating a different concept on each spread, queer author and artist Iris Gottlieb touches on history, science, sociology, and her own experience. This book is an essential tool for understanding and contributing to a necessary cultural conversation, bringing clarity and reassurance to the sometimes confusing process of navigating ones' identity. Whether LGBTQ , cisgender, or nonbinary, Seeing Gender is a must-read for intelligent, curious, want-to-be woke people who care about how we see and talk about gender and sexuality in the 21st century.
Verona Comics
By Dugan, Jennifer
From the author of Hot Dog Girl comes a fresh and funny YA contemporary romance about two teens who fall in love in an indie comic book shop. Jubilee has it all together. She's an elite cellist, and when she's not working in her stepmom's indie comic shop, she's prepping for the biggest audition of her life.Ridley is barely holding it together. His parents own the biggest comic-store chain in the country, and Ridley can't stop disappointing them--that is, when they're even paying attention.They meet one fateful night at a comic convention prom, and the two can't help falling for each other. Too bad their parents are at each other's throats every chance they get, making a relationship between them nearly impossible . . . unless they manage to keep it a secret.
Social Security Works For Everyone!
By Altman, Nancy J.
Social Security expansion is back on the agenda, at a time when Americans need it more than ever -- here's what it should look like (and why it matters to everyday people all over the country) "Altman and Kingson cut through the fog of calculated confusion and outright lies about Social Security." -- David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author The COVID-19 crisis has pulled the curtain back on America's looming retirement income crisis, a fraying of the national community, and ever-worsening income inequality. Never before have so many people's livelihoods and futures been thrown into flux. Now more than ever, expanding Social Security is essential to addressing these challenges. Social Security Works for Everyone!, an evolution of the argument Nancy J.