Author Lauren Berlant poses inconvenience as an affective relation and considers how we might loosen our attachments in ways that allow us to build new forms of life.
Fruit Harvesting
Discover Nature’s Abundance When we harvest fruit seasonally, we’re reminded that good things can’t be rushed, and that life’s offerings are best at their peak. In this sweet guide by author Sara Bir, learn the fundamentals of year-round fruit picking, including: where, when, and how to look for fruit; the etiquette of gathering on public land; how to put your …
8 Keys to Parenting Kids & Teens with ADHD (2nd Edition)
Build foundational communication, social-emotional, and decision-making skills to foster your child’s independence. In this second edition of her best-selling book, ADHD expert Cindy Goldrich offers compassionate, science-backed tools to help parents support their child’s growth in patience, communication, emotional regulation, and independence. With fresh insights, expanded strategies, and current research, this update emphasizes the crucial role of executive function, elaborates …
Leading With Purpose
Make work meaningful—and unleash your organization’s full potential. If you read (or listen to) nothing else on leading with purpose, listen to this book. We’ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you define, communicate, and fulfill your organization’s purpose—and deliver results. This book will inspire you to connect the work to the …
World Religions All-in-One For Dummies
World Religions All-in-One for Dummies offers an easy starting point for anyone curious to investigate religious and cultural differences. In terms anyone can understand, this book explains the foundations of major world religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Mormonism, Catholicism, and Taoism. You can choose the religions you’d like to focus on or hear about them all. You’ll learn about …
Navigating Multiple Sclerosis 2nd Edition
Multiple sclerosis (MS) causes a myriad of physical, cognitive, and emotional symptoms that impact function and quality of life for those with the disease and those providing care. Navigating Life with Multiple Sclerosis is a practical guide for meeting the challenges of this life-long, unpredictable disease. This insightful guide offers a detailed description of the essential components of comprehensive MS care, from …
Once Upon a Place
Once Upon a Place explores narratives from modern film, famous fairy tales, and ancient mythology to define the five core locations that shape every story: the Cavern, the Deep, the Vessel, the Forest, and the Labyrinth. Popularized by Joseph Campbell, the hero’s journey features narrative stages along which a person matures and transforms. But where heroes transform is just as important as what they do …
Effective Business Communication for Dummies
Make sure your voice gets heard in any situation—and learn to listen, too Effective Business Communication For Dummies gives you the tools you need to communicate better, both in and outside of the office. You want to build strong relationships, and you’ll need strong communication skills to do it. This book demystifies active listening, assertive speaking, conflict resolution, virtual team leadership, …
Florida Spectacular
If when you think “Florida” you don’t think “spectacular,” Cathy Salustri is determined to change your mind. Explaining why the state is more than the “Florida Man” stories and the politics that so often make national news, and looking beyond the crowded beaches and theme parks, Salustri celebrates what makes the state worth a deeper understanding in this lively trip …
The Second Manassas Campaign
Waged from June 26 to September 1, 1862, the Second Manassas campaign pitted the US Armies of Virginia and the Potomac against the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and its new commander, Robert E. Lee. The campaign unfolded against a backdrop of momentous US political decisions regarding confiscation, emancipation, and Confederate civilians. These decisions dismayed and energized Confederates, sparking the …
Intuitive Eating for Diabetes
The No Shame, No Blame, Non-Diet Approach to Managing Your Blood Sugar Are you one of the millions dealing with diabetes? If so, you’re probably all too familiar with the medical establishment badgering you to lose weight. But did you know evidence now shows that approaches focusing solely on weight loss are at best unhelpful and at worst, harmful? These …
Why Are We Here?
A deeply human exploration of how our relationship with work has evolved—and a guide for leaders who aim to make things right—from the author of The Burnout Epidemic. Work has recently undergone profound changes, not all for the better. AI’s acceleration has led to worker fears and uncertainties around job security. DEI initiatives are underfunded or canceled. The debate over …
The Waters of Mnemosyne
Ancient Greek Religion for Modern Pagans Build a Deep, Contemporary Practice Rooted in Ancient Greek Traditions Presenting more than seventy exercises, rites, pathworkings, and prayers, Gwendolyn Reece ingeniously revitalizes fundamental concepts from ancient Greece for today’s practitioner. Whether you’re a Pagan or simply drawn to the Greek pantheon, Reece helps you build relationships with the Theoi (Olympians, Titans, and other …
Information Science
Information Science: The Basics, by Judith Pintar and David Hopping, provides an accessible introduction to the multifaceted field of Information Science (IS). Inviting listeners to explore a modern field of study with deep historical foundations, the book begins by considering the complexities of the term “information” and the information life cycle from classification to preservation. Each chapter examines a different …
The Unmasking Workbook for Autistic Adults
Let this workbook guide you toward your authentic, autistic self. You don’t have to hide anymore. If you grew up before the neurodiversity movement, chances are you were taught at an early age that your autistic traits were “wrong” or “bad.” Whether it was stimming, difficulties with making small talk, avoiding eye contact, sensitivities to loud sounds or certain textures, …
Embedded Systems
Interested in developing embedded systems? Since they don’t tolerate inefficiency, these systems require a disciplined approach to programming. This easy-to-read guide helps you cultivate a host of good development practices, based on classic software design patterns and new patterns unique to embedded programming. Learn how to build system architecture for processors, not operating systems, and discover specific techniques for dealing …
Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures
In Residual Governance, Gabrielle Hecht dives into the wastes of gold and uranium mining in South Africa to explore how communities, experts, and artists fight for infrastructural and environmental justice.
Blockchain Governance (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
An engaging and comprehensive exploration of how fundamental ideas in political and legal thought shape the governance of blockchain communities, and are, in turn, shaped by blockchain technology. How can digital cash truly be “trustless”? What does it mean that blockchain offers a new paradigm of the “rule of code”? How are decisions made when a blockchain system faces an …
Aligned: Stakeholder Management for Product Leaders
Product management naturally incorporates empathy, psychology, and thinking outside the box in pursuit of the best design for products. But how often do you apply those same skills to your relationships with people in your company? By breaking the art of stakeholder management into simple lessons and frameworks, this practical book shows product managers how to manage the crucial relationships …
The Neurodivergence Skills Workbook
Written by neurodivergent psychologists for neurodivergent readers. This empowering workbook offers self-compassion skills to help you embrace who you are and thrive. As an autistic person or neurodivergent individual with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you may sometimes feel as if you’re living in a world that wasn’t designed for you. You may have sensory sensitivities, social difficulties, struggles with executive …
The ADHD Workbook for Teen Girls
Understand your unique brain, maximize your strengths, and find the confidence to shine with this engaging workbook—just for you. If you’re a teen girl with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)—or suspect you may be—you’ve probably experienced a number of challenges in your life, including struggling in school, difficulty making friends, feeling like you have to be perfect, negative self-talk, fear of …
The Microdose Diet: The 90 Day Plan for More Success, Passion and Happiness
Microdose psychedelics safely and strategically to reach your goals. MORE! The Microdose Diet is your 90-day plan to uplevel your life. Who wouldn’t want MORE out of their life? More success, more money, more happiness, more passion. For most of us, though, this MORE is elusive. No matter how hard you’ve tried, you never seem to get there; there is …
Common Ground: Second Language Acquisition Theory Goes to the Classroom
“Common Ground is accessible to teachers at all levels yet firmly rooted in current questions of second language acquisition (SLA). One of its primary strengths is the authors themselves, both of whom are accomplished language teachers who understand the challenges and opportunities in communication-focused language teaching. Their experience, expertise, insight, and enthusiasm for language teaching translate into a book that …
Threshold: How Smart Homes Change Us Inside and Out
An urgent and cautionary examination of the totalizing effect of smart home technology on the lives of those who live in them—and those who don’t Smart homes are here—domestic spaces bristling with networked technologies that appear to enhance work, entertainment, logistics, health, and security. But these technologies may also extract a cost in attention, money, and privacy. In Threshold, communication …
Who is a Worthy Mother
Nearly every person in the United States is affected by adoption. Adoption practices are woven into the fabric of American society and reflect how our nation values human beings, particularly mothers. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, the renewed debate over women’s reproductive rights places an even greater emphasis on adoption. As a …
Unruly Figures
A fascinating look at the lives of twenty rebels and rule-breakers throughout history and what made their contributions to society—in science, politics, art, and more—transformative. By the author and host of the popular Unruly Figures Substack newsletter and podcast. Unruly Figures gives you access to the lives and often untold stories of twenty of history’s most fascinating individuals. Of all …
Remote and Hybrid Work – What Everyone Needs to Know
In Remote and Hybrid Work: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Barbara Z. Larson addresses key questions regarding the contemporary workplace: what is the difference between virtual work and remote work? How common is remote work, and what changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic? Is there a particular type of person who is better suited for remote work? What are the …
Off Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandries for Living in Outer Space
Can we do better in space than we’ve done here on Earth? We’ve pinpointed the destination, refined the technology, designed the habitat. Are we forgetting something? A timely reminder that it’s not just rocket science, this book explores the all-too-human issues raised by the prospect of settling in outer space. Accordingly, her work highlights the complex ethical challenges that accompany …
Security Chaos Engineering: Sustaining Resilience in Software and Systems
Cybersecurity is broken. Year after year, attackers remain unchallenged and undeterred, while engineering teams feel pressure to design, build, and operate “secure” systems. Failure can’t be prevented, mental models of systems are incomplete, and our digital world constantly evolves. How can we verify that our systems behave the way we expect? What can we do to improve our systems’ resilience? …
Navigating Life with Multiple Sclerosis
This book will serve as a practical guide for meeting the challenges of this life-long disease. MS may cause a myriad of symptoms and varies greatly from person to person. The authors demystify MS and offer practical solutions and guidance based upon their extensive combined clinical and research experience. The book tackles many of the common symptoms experienced by the …
The Artifice of Intelligence
AI is becoming ubiquitous. Whatever its arrival portends for our future, whether riches or ruin, it cannot be avoided. The Artifice of Intelligence explores two questions at the heart of a theological response to AI. Is it possible for human beings to have authentic relationships with an AI? How does the increasing presence of AI change the way humans relate …
Why Tammy Wynette Matters
With hits such as “Stand By Your Man” and “Golden Ring,” Tammy Wynette was an icon of American domesticity and femininity. But there were other sides to the first lady of country. Steacy Easton places the complications of Wynette’s music and her biography in sharp-edged relief, exploring how she made her sometimes-tumultuous life into her work, a transformation that was …
Mass Shootings in America
This work examines mass shootings in the United States, focusing on events from 1966 to 2016. In addition to providing essential information about each shooting, it surveys underlying causes of such events and potential reforms to prevent future ones. This book is an informed and informative resource for understanding the reasons for and consequences of mass shootings in America. It …
Holistic Homesteading
“For those interested in living off their land and starting a homesteading lifestyle, this book does a great job providing practical tips, recipes, and inspiration to get started on a sustainable path.” —Loni Wetherell, Library Journal #1 Best Seller in Greenhouses, Sewing, Energy, House Plans, and Container Gardening Make healthier life choices to heal yourself and the environment through self-sufficiency. …
Adulting with ADHD
Adulting with ADHD was created to help adults who are newly diagnosed, undiagnosed, or find themselves struggling with new ADHD symptoms in adulthood. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder has commonly been thought of as a childhood struggle, and many are uninformed about the ways it can impact their adult life. This book provides education on the ways this diagnosis affects your …
Life Transitions
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