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The Relentless Courage of a Scared Child: How Persistence, Grit, and Faith Created a Reluctant Healer

Tana Amen

New York Times bestselling author, neurosurgical ICU trauma nurse, and vice president of Amen Clinics Tana Amen shares how overcoming her traumatic past made her a passionate champion for others in need of healing and hope.A terrifying childhood of abandonment and abuse, battles with cancer...
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On Bette Midler: An Opinionated Guide

Kevin Winkler - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

Bette Midler today is a beloved legacy star, best known for her comic witch in Disney's Hocus Pocus (1993) and its 2022 sequel. She has also gained prominence for sentimental, anthemic ballads like "Wind Beneath My Wings," her initiation of green space projects in New York...
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Practical Simulations for Machine Learning: Using Synthetic Data for AI

Paris Buttfield-Addison - ?O'Reilly Media; 1st edition
Format: 1st Edition

Simulation and synthesis are core parts of the future of AI and machine learning. Consider: programmers, data scientists, and machine learning engineers can create the brain of a self-driving car without the car. Rather than use information from the real world, you can synthesize artificial...
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Keep Calm and Trust the Science: An extraordinary year in the life of an immunologist

Professor Luke O'Neill - Gill Books
Format: Hardcover

Professor Luke O'Neill has become one of the most well-known and trusted voices of Ireland's COVID-19 pandemic, thrust into the spotlight as we struggled to make sense of a crisis that saw the country grind to a halt. In these personal diaries, Luke reveals what life was like behind...
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In Praise of Great Compassion

Dalai Lama - Wisdom Publications
Format: Hardcover

The fifth volume of the Dalai Lama's definitive Library of Wisdom and Compassion series, which has sold nearly 15,000 copies to date.In Praise of Great Compassion, the fifth volume of the Library of Wisdom and Compassion, continues the Dalai Lama's teachings on the path to awakening....
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The Parenting Map: Step-by-Step Solutions to Consciously Create the Ultimate Parent-Child Relationship

Shefali Tsabary - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

A revolutionary new parenting method by the New York Times bestselling author of The Conscious Parent and The Awakened Family. Every parent is capable of raising happy, healthy, and emotionally grounded children. Despite this, too many of us struggle along the journey. From the fast-changing...
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The Ethics of Eating Animals: Usually Bad, Sometimes Wrong, Often Permissible (Routledge Research in Applied Ethics)

Bob Fischer - Routledge
Format: 1st Edition

Intensive animal agriculture wrongs many, many animals. Philosophers have argued, on this basis, that most people in wealthy Western contexts are morally obligated to avoid animal products. This book explains why the author thinks that's mistaken. He reaches this negative conclusion...
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How to Understand Your Sexuality: A Practical Guide for Exploring Who You Are

Meg-John Barker - Jessica Kingsley Pub
Format: Paperback

Gay, straight, queer, pansexual, demisexual, ace...? Sexuality is complex and diverse, but it doesn't have to be confusing.This down-to-earth guide is the ultimate companion for understanding, accepting and celebrating your sexuality. Written by two internationally renowned authors...
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The Trauma Beat: A Case for Re-Thinking the Business of Bad News

Tamara Cherry - ECW Press
Format: Paperback

A groundbreaking and thorough examination of the trauma caused by the media covering crimes, both to victims and journalists, from a respected journalist and victim advocateIn The Trauma Beat, an eye-opening combination of investigative journalism and memoir, former big-city crime reporter...
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Revolutionary Roads

Bob Thompson - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

In the ride-along tradition of Sarah Vowell, Tony Horwitz and Bill Bryson, REVOLUTIONARY ROADS revisits the pivotal figures and key turning points of the American Revolutionary War.. REVOLUTIONARY ROADS takes readers on a time-traveling adventure through the crucial places American independence...
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