From a highly lauded modern voice in feminism and racial justice comes a deeply personal and insightful approach to the power of reimagining to dismantle the frameworks and systems that no longer serve us while building liberating new ones.
There are breaking points in all our lives when we realize that the way things have been done before no longer serve us, be it the way we approach our relationships, our belief systems, our work, our education, even our rest. For activist, philanthropist, and CEO Rachel Cargle, reimagining - the act of creating in our minds that which does not exist but that we believe can and should - has been a lifelong process.
Reimagining served as the most powerful catalyst for Cargle's personal transformation from a small-town Christian wife to an incisive queer feminist voice of a generation.
Random House Audio
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9780593134733
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Book
Our Moon
By Boyle, Rebecca
An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the Artemis launches--from an acclaimed Scientific American and Atlantic contributorFar from being a lifeless ornament in the sky, the Moon holds the key to some of science's central questions, and in this fascinating account of our remarkable satellite, award-winning science journalist Rebecca Boyle shows us why it is the secret to our success.The Moon stabilizes the Earth's tilt toward the Sun, creating reliable seasons. The durability of this tilt over millennia stabilizes our climate. The Moon pulls on the ocean, driving the tides. It was these tides that mixed nutrients in the sea, enabling the evolution of complex life and, ultimately, bringing life onto land.
Random House
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9780593129722
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Hardcover
Factfulness
By Rosling, Hans
Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends -- what percentage of the world's population live in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish school -- we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distortour perspective -- from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse) . Our problem is that we don't know what we don't know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases.It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn't mean there aren't real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. ---"This book is my last battle in my life-long mission to fight devastating ignorance ... Previously I armed myself with huge data sets, eye-opening software, an energetic learning style and a Swedish bayonet for sword-swallowing. It wasn't enough. But I hope this book will be." Hans Rosling, February 2017.
Flatiron Books
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9781250107817
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Hardcover
The Dragonfly
By Brown, Maschelle
Information about Dragonfly The Dragonfly is book three (3) of the series Beautiful. The Dragonfly is an amazing book which explores the life, activities and facts about these beautiful amazing insects. It is a great learning tool for advancing kids, it has beautiful captivating pictures and interesting facts as well.
Independently published
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9798547510991
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Paperback
Putin's Playbook
By Rebekah, Koffler,
GATEWAY ED
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9781684510030
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Mammals of Ohio
By Harder, John D.
This comprehensive guide illustrates how species within each of the seven orders of mammals in Ohio share modes of reproduction, locomotion, and nutrition, providing a framework for understanding the fascinating world of mammalian biology. Presentations of natural history in each account of the various species are enhanced with descriptions of intriguing adaptations for avoiding demise from predators, food shortages, and the frigid conditions of Ohio winters.Challenges to wildlife conservation are considerable in Ohio, with its vast industrialized urban centers distributed across a largely agricultural landscape. With frequent citations of scientific reports and conservation efforts of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife, and other public and private entities, this book instills an appreciation for the rich mammalian fauna of Ohio, as well as knowledge on how to join efforts to protect it.
Ohio University Press
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9780821424636
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Paperback
50 Things They Don't Want You to Know About Trump
By Hudson, Jerome
Breitbart.com editor Jerome Hudson returns with even more red pills, facts, and statistics to counteract the lies and blind spots of the mainstream media.Did you know Donald Trump has allocated more funding to historically black colleges and universities than any other president? In 50 Things They Don't Want You to Know About Trump, Jerome Hudson uncovers all the things Americans have not been told about our 45th president. We're surrounded by supposed influencers shouting about the scandals that Americans care about the least, from TV talking heads to social media activists, from feckless Washington swamp monsters to candidates fighting for the soap box. Your teachers, your politicians, and your local paper are not likely to ever tell you: Drug overdoses dropped for the first time in 30 years under Trump.
Publisher: n/a
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9780063027657
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Half Broke
By Gaffney, Ginger
"You will remember these tenacious and utterly winning people for a long, long time, and you will never forget the horses." -- Pam HoustonAn alternative prison ranch in New Mexico conducts a daring experiment: setting the troubled residents out to retrain an aggressive herd of horses. The horses and prisoners both arrive at the ranch broken in one way or many -- the horses often abandoned and suspicious, the residents, some battling drug and alcohol addiction, emotionally, physically, and financially shattered. Ginger Gaffney's job is to retrain the untrainable. With time, the horses and residents form a profound bond, and teach each other patience, control, and trust.As Gaffney peels away the layers of her own story -- a solitary childhood, painful introversion, and a transformative connection with her first horse, a filly named Belle -- she, too, learns to trust people as much as she trusts horses.
W. W. Norton & Company
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9781324003076
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Hardcover
Random Acts of Medicine
By Jena, Anupam B.
A groundbreaking book at the intersection of health and economics, revealing the hidden side of medicine and how unexpected - but predictable - events can profoundly affect our health.. "Smart, entertaining, and full of surprises." - Steven D. Levitt, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Freakonomics. Why do kids born in the summer get diagnosed more often with A.D.H.D.? How are marathons harmful for your health, even when you're not running? What do surgeons and salesmen have in common? Which annual event made people 30 percent more likely to get COVID-19?. As a University of Chicago-trained economist and Harvard medical school professor and doctor, Anupam Jena is uniquely equipped to answer these questions. And as a critical care doctor at Massachusetts General who researches health care policy, Christopher Worsham confronts their impact on the hospital's sickest patients.
Doubleday
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9780385548816
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Hardcover
You Are Your Best Thing
By Burke, Tarana
It started as a text between two friends.Tarana Burke, founder of the 'me too.' Movement, texted researcher and writer Bren Brown to see if she was free to jump on a call. Bren assumed that Tarana wanted to talk about wallpaper. They had been trading home decorating inspiration boards in their last text conversation so Bren started scrolling to find her latest Pinterest pictures when the phone rang.But it was immediately clear to Bren that the conversation wasn't going to be about wallpaper. Tarana's hello was serious and she hesitated for a bit before saying, "Bren, you know your work affected me so deeply. It's been a huge gift in my life. But as a Black woman, I've sometimes had to feel like I have to contort myself to fit into some of your words.
A Renaissance of Our Own
By Cargle, Rachel E.
From a highly lauded modern voice in feminism and racial justice comes a deeply personal and insightful approach to the power of reimagining to dismantle the frameworks and systems that no longer serve us while building liberating new ones.
There are breaking points in all our lives when we realize that the way things have been done before no longer serve us, be it the way we approach our relationships, our belief systems, our work, our education, even our rest. For activist, philanthropist, and CEO Rachel Cargle, reimagining - the act of creating in our minds that which does not exist but that we believe can and should - has been a lifelong process.
Reimagining served as the most powerful catalyst for Cargle's personal transformation from a small-town Christian wife to an incisive queer feminist voice of a generation.
Our Moon
By Boyle, Rebecca
An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the Artemis launches--from an acclaimed Scientific American and Atlantic contributorFar from being a lifeless ornament in the sky, the Moon holds the key to some of science's central questions, and in this fascinating account of our remarkable satellite, award-winning science journalist Rebecca Boyle shows us why it is the secret to our success.The Moon stabilizes the Earth's tilt toward the Sun, creating reliable seasons. The durability of this tilt over millennia stabilizes our climate. The Moon pulls on the ocean, driving the tides. It was these tides that mixed nutrients in the sea, enabling the evolution of complex life and, ultimately, bringing life onto land.
Factfulness
By Rosling, Hans
Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends -- what percentage of the world's population live in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish school -- we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distortour perspective -- from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse) . Our problem is that we don't know what we don't know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases.It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn't mean there aren't real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. ---"This book is my last battle in my life-long mission to fight devastating ignorance ... Previously I armed myself with huge data sets, eye-opening software, an energetic learning style and a Swedish bayonet for sword-swallowing. It wasn't enough. But I hope this book will be." Hans Rosling, February 2017.
The Dragonfly
By Brown, Maschelle
Information about Dragonfly The Dragonfly is book three (3) of the series Beautiful. The Dragonfly is an amazing book which explores the life, activities and facts about these beautiful amazing insects. It is a great learning tool for advancing kids, it has beautiful captivating pictures and interesting facts as well.
Putin's Playbook
By Rebekah, Koffler,
Mammals of Ohio
By Harder, John D.
This comprehensive guide illustrates how species within each of the seven orders of mammals in Ohio share modes of reproduction, locomotion, and nutrition, providing a framework for understanding the fascinating world of mammalian biology. Presentations of natural history in each account of the various species are enhanced with descriptions of intriguing adaptations for avoiding demise from predators, food shortages, and the frigid conditions of Ohio winters.Challenges to wildlife conservation are considerable in Ohio, with its vast industrialized urban centers distributed across a largely agricultural landscape. With frequent citations of scientific reports and conservation efforts of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife, and other public and private entities, this book instills an appreciation for the rich mammalian fauna of Ohio, as well as knowledge on how to join efforts to protect it.
50 Things They Don't Want You to Know About Trump
By Hudson, Jerome
Breitbart.com editor Jerome Hudson returns with even more red pills, facts, and statistics to counteract the lies and blind spots of the mainstream media.Did you know Donald Trump has allocated more funding to historically black colleges and universities than any other president? In 50 Things They Don't Want You to Know About Trump, Jerome Hudson uncovers all the things Americans have not been told about our 45th president. We're surrounded by supposed influencers shouting about the scandals that Americans care about the least, from TV talking heads to social media activists, from feckless Washington swamp monsters to candidates fighting for the soap box. Your teachers, your politicians, and your local paper are not likely to ever tell you: Drug overdoses dropped for the first time in 30 years under Trump.
Half Broke
By Gaffney, Ginger
"You will remember these tenacious and utterly winning people for a long, long time, and you will never forget the horses." -- Pam HoustonAn alternative prison ranch in New Mexico conducts a daring experiment: setting the troubled residents out to retrain an aggressive herd of horses. The horses and prisoners both arrive at the ranch broken in one way or many -- the horses often abandoned and suspicious, the residents, some battling drug and alcohol addiction, emotionally, physically, and financially shattered. Ginger Gaffney's job is to retrain the untrainable. With time, the horses and residents form a profound bond, and teach each other patience, control, and trust.As Gaffney peels away the layers of her own story -- a solitary childhood, painful introversion, and a transformative connection with her first horse, a filly named Belle -- she, too, learns to trust people as much as she trusts horses.
Random Acts of Medicine
By Jena, Anupam B.
A groundbreaking book at the intersection of health and economics, revealing the hidden side of medicine and how unexpected - but predictable - events can profoundly affect our health.. "Smart, entertaining, and full of surprises." - Steven D. Levitt, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Freakonomics. Why do kids born in the summer get diagnosed more often with A.D.H.D.? How are marathons harmful for your health, even when you're not running? What do surgeons and salesmen have in common? Which annual event made people 30 percent more likely to get COVID-19?. As a University of Chicago-trained economist and Harvard medical school professor and doctor, Anupam Jena is uniquely equipped to answer these questions. And as a critical care doctor at Massachusetts General who researches health care policy, Christopher Worsham confronts their impact on the hospital's sickest patients.
You Are Your Best Thing
By Burke, Tarana
It started as a text between two friends.Tarana Burke, founder of the 'me too.' Movement, texted researcher and writer Bren Brown to see if she was free to jump on a call. Bren assumed that Tarana wanted to talk about wallpaper. They had been trading home decorating inspiration boards in their last text conversation so Bren started scrolling to find her latest Pinterest pictures when the phone rang.But it was immediately clear to Bren that the conversation wasn't going to be about wallpaper. Tarana's hello was serious and she hesitated for a bit before saying, "Bren, you know your work affected me so deeply. It's been a huge gift in my life. But as a Black woman, I've sometimes had to feel like I have to contort myself to fit into some of your words.