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In this fantasy debut, written in the Christian apologetic tradition of the Narnia tales, Cladis explores a very contemporary American crisis, when Satan and a cabal of human cronies, including a venal US presidential hopeful, threaten the body politic and ultimately the world. Unfortunately for them, two teenagers from Colorado, in love and deeply imaginative, have a powerful and inspiring guide of their own – The Fortune Teller – who just may be more than He appears to be. Part time-travel epic, part Stephen King style dystopian thriller, and always, ultimately, a theological quest for the meaning of life, death, this battle between good and evil, it’s a thrilling and eye-opening tale for readers of all ages.

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Conservation Biology brings together fundamental principles, tools, and techniques from applied and basic research, and hundreds of real-world examples and stories from a variety of disciplines to teach students how to become practicing conservation biologists who protect and manage Earth’s biodiversity. By bridging the life sciences, social sciences, humanities, and engineering disciplines, this text inspires the next generation of conservation leaders to tackle complex environmental challenges and become effective stewards of the world’s biodiversity. A major theme throughout the text is the active role that researchers, local communities, conservation organizations, governments, and the public can play in protecting biodiversity.

This second edition of Conservation Biology is updated with the latest research, new interactive exercises, and improved diversity and inclusion to prepare upper-level undergraduates and graduate students for successful careers in conservation. The new enhanced e-book offers additional features to reinforce learning.

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The eighteenth-century text Work on Women by Louise Dupin (also known as Madame Dupin, 1706-1799) is the French Enlightenment’s most in-depth feminist analysis of inequality – and its most neglected one. In this book, Angela Hunter and Rebecca Wilkin offer the first-ever edition of selected translations of Dupin’s massive project, developed from manuscript drafts. Hunter and Wilkin provide helpful introductions to the four sections of Work on Women (Science, History and Religion, Law, and Education and Mores) which contextualize Dupin’s arguments and explain the work’s construction – including the role of her secretary, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Dupin’s central claim in Work on Women is that French jurists have gradually disenfranchised women through reductive interpretations of Roman law. As a result, modern marriage is founded on an abusive, illegitimate contract that enriches one party and impoverishes the other. This manifest injustice is enabled by the “masculine vanity” that aggrandizes men, diminishes women, and distorts all realms of knowledge. Dupin shows how the most reputable scientists incorporate old notions of women’s weakness into new understandings of the body, while historians denigrate female rulers or erase them altogether. Even in everyday conversation, men assert their entitlement to social dominance through casual misogyny. Thus, although Dupin advocates for meaningful education for girls, she insists that the upbringing of boys must also be reformed.

This volume fills an important gap in the history of feminist thought and will appeal to readers eager to hear new voices that challenge established narratives of intellectual history.

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The relationship of James Baldwin’s life and work to Black religion is in many ways complex and confounding. What is he doing through his literary deployment of religious language and symbols? Despite Baldwin’s disavowal of Christianity in his youth, he continued to engage the symbols and theology of Christianity in works such as The Amen Corner, Just Above My Head, and others. With Jimmy’s Faith, author Christopher W. Hunt shows how Baldwin’s usage of those religious symbols both shifted their meaning and served as a way for him to build his own religious and spiritual vision. Engaging José Esteban Muñoz’s theory of disidentification as a queer practice of imagination and survival, Hunt demonstrates the ways in which James Baldwin disidentifies with and queers Black Christian language and theology throughout his literary corpus.

Baldwin’s vision is one in which queer sexuality signifies the depth of love’s transforming pos­sibilities, the arts serve as the (religious) medium of knitting Black community together, an agnostic and affective mysticism undermines Christian theological discourse, “androgyny” troubles the gender binary, and the Black child signifies the hope for a world made new. In disidentifying with Christian symbols, Jimmy’s Faith reveals how Baldwin imagines both religion and the world “oth­erwise,” offering a model of how we might do the same for our own communities and ourselves.

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In Taos County, New Mexico, probation officer Nina Montgomery thinks she knows all about Ángel Martinez, a “frequent flyer” in the judicial system for increasingly sadistic treatment of his ex-partner, Liza Monaghan. When Liza is found dead on her kitchen floor, everyone suspects Ángel—Nina most of all. When Ángel’s aunt Loretta, Nina’s neighbor and friend, asks her to look into Liza’s murder, Nina reaches out to friend and sheriff’s deputy Larry Baca and becomes embroiled in the case. As Nina delves into Ángel’s and Liza’s lives, she is surprised to learn that Ángel is a santero artist on the rise. A talented but struggling ceramic artist herself, Nina’s worlds collide when a Hollywood celebrity wants her art just as the entanglements of Ángel’s family history begin to suggest the source of Liza’s death. Amid the cultural and natural beauty of the Northern Rio Grande Valley, Nina finds herself steeped in the drama of a family gone terribly and violently wrong.

Niles is also the author of the novels The Book of John and The Basket Maker and the poetry collection Geographies of the Heart.

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To Those Who Overcome is a unique study through the “Book Of Revelation” that focuses more on how to apply this incredible book than on end of times predictions. What the Apostle John wrote is as relevant today as it was two thousand years ago because we, too, live in a culture opposed to the gospel message. Therefore, Christians would be wise to read and understand Revelation, stand firm in their faith, and prepare for the spiritual battle ahead.

In this easy-to-understand commentary on Revelation, Dr. Darren Schwartz walks through each chapter and explains various interpretations and perspectives regarding John’s letter, thus challenging the reader to dig deeper into God’s word and apply its truths. The simple message of Revelation is clear: God wins! Yet persecution and oppression of God’s people are increasing worldwide. So, believers must learn to persevere and honor the Lord… regardless of the cost. Are you prepared for that? Will you compromise when things get tough? Or will you overcome?

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Ted Morton has spent 30 years in Alberta politics. He was elected as a Reform Party senator-in-waiting in the 1998 Alberta Senate election. In 2001, Stockwell Day appointed him as Parliamentary Director of Policy and Research for the federal Canadian Alliance Party in Ottawa. From 2004-2012, Ted represented Foothills-Rocky View in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. During these years, he also served in cabinet as Minister of Finance, Minister of Energy, and Minister of Sustainable Resources Development. In 2006 and again in 2011, Morton ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives.

In Strong and Free, Morton shares the lessons learned from this journey, both his successes and his disappointments. Informed by his background as professor of political science, Morton recounts his early involvement with Preston Manning and the Reform Party, his friendship with Stephen Harper, and the infamous Alberta Agenda or Firewall Letter of 2001. He explains how the Progressive Conservative Party’s flawed leadership selection process eroded party support, and how the PC’s refusal to acknowledge and accommodate the growth of Albertans’ support for the federal Reform Party led to vote splitting with the Wild Rose Party and the end of the PC dynasty in 2015.

Openly discussing his conservative ideological principles and goals, Morton provides an account of thirty years of Alberta politics as seen from the inside by someone who reached for the top—and almost made it. Strong and Free argues that an independent, prosperous Alberta makes a strong and prosperous Canada. Ted Morton has spent thirty years fighting for both.

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“What is comfort but a filament between past and present with some sort of future implied? In other words, safety. In other words, care. I know it is possible to find these things without her—I know they are there. But it can be so hard to ask. So much is unknown.”

Rebecca Spiegel is working as a teacher in New Orleans when she learns of her sister’s suicide. Only after the funeral does shock give way to grief—and to many questions. How could Emily do this to herself? How could she have abandoned all those who loved her? And what could have been done differently to prevent this devastating loss?

In the days and weeks that follow, Spiegel embarks on a search for answers. She unpacks family history, documents the last traces of her sister’s life, and questions what more she could have done to prevent her death. What she finds instead is that there is no narrative on the other side of grief like this. There is no answer, no easy resolution—only those that leave and those that keep living. Unflinchingly honest, visceral, and raw, this courageous elegy lays bare the hard realities of surviving the loss of a loved one.

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Kūkai: Japan’s First Vajrayāna Visionary is a wide-ranging account of how the ninth-century founder of the Japanese Shingon school of Buddhism, Kūkai (774–835), effectively forged a unique identity for the new meditative and ritual practices he learned during two years’ study in China. While esoteric (“tantric”) Buddhism is also known as Vajrayāna (“vehicle of the diamond/thunderbolt”), Kūkai alternatively named it the “esoteric teaching” (mikkyō), Vajrayāna, and Shingon, the Sino-Japanese term for “mantra.” He carefully articulated how contemplative practices engaging the “three secrets” of body (symbolic gestures, mudrā), speech (recitation of mantra), and mind (visualizing the world as a mandala) radically transform one’s sense of self. These practices aim to uncover hidden dimensions of being to reveal a state of profound existential freedom and power that is an embodied manifestation of awakened consciousness. Kūkai employed every available social and material resource to establish Vajrayāna practices on a solid foundation.

Gardiner’s book examines Kūkai’s rigorous clarification of the distinctive character of Vajrayāna practice that creatively portrayed it as taking goal of the path (Buddhahood) to be both its end and its means, and his forceful characterization of Shingon as the only form of Buddhism in Japan to enable the immediate accessibility of enlightenment. Kūkai’s extensive knowledge of canonical Buddhist texts allowed him to frame Vajrayāna practice as a method that could unite the “two truths” (ultimate and conventional) via a multi-layered contemplative practice that expresses their fundamental unity. He affirmed the possibility of achieving enlightenment in “this lifetime” by revealing how “this body” is already intrinsically grounded in the qualities of a Buddha. The practices facilitate a thoroughgoing realization of this identity.

Gardiner also details Kūkai’s engagement with debates active in China and India on the relationship between levels of embodiment (kāya in Sanskrit) understood to be possessed by a Buddha, and demonstrates the affinity his interpretation of Vajrayāna has with later Indian and Tibetan models. The book explores Kūkai’s rhetorical positioning vis-à-vis other Buddhist schools in Japan and highlights his ardor and urgency for promoting his vision of the power and beauty of Shingon practice.

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Joel H. Morris’s debut novel is set ten years before the events of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. This story of a mother and her son delves into the ambition, power, and fate that define one of literature’s most notorious figures: Lady Macbeth. Born in a noble household and granddaughter of a forgotten Scottish king, a young girl carries the guilt of her mother’s death and the weight of an unknowable prophecy. When she is married at fifteen to the Mormaer of Moray, she experiences firsthand the violence of a sadistic husband and a kingdom constantly at war. To survive with her young son in a superstitious realm, she must rely on her own cunning and wit, especially when her husband’s downfall inadvertently sets them free. Suspicious of the dark devices that may have led to his father’s death, her son watches as his mother falls in love with the enigmatic thane Macbeth. Now a woman of stature, Lady Macbeth confronts a world of masculine power and secures the protection of her family. But the coronation of King Duncan and the political maneuvering of her cousin Macduff set her on a tragic course, one where her own success might mean embracing the very curse that haunts her and risking the child she loves.

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Megan Broker’s debut book, The Pause Effect: Now You Can Lead and Belong empowers us to learn in real-time by sharing her leadership journey through the lens of one of life’s most charged and complicated mergers: blending families. Blended families are like highly matrixed organizations lacking clear roles and reporting structures with competing cultures. This book is a pioneering work that delves into the often-overlooked moments that shape our leadership and connection to others. In addition to her journey of blending families, Broker draws from her extensive experience in corporate leadership. Through these experiences, she reveals how intentional pauses can foster genuine connections, align actions with values, and create a powerful personal brand. In an era where traditional leadership paradigms are evolving, Broker’s insights are both timely and transformative. Leadership today is not just about wielding authority; it’s about fostering connections, harnessing strengths, and driving collective growth. The Pause Effect equips readers with actionable practices to cultivate self-awareness and intentional presence, enabling leaders at all levels to enhance their influence and effectiveness.

Megan Broker is an executive coach with nearly three decades of experience across telecommunications, pharmaceutical, and consulting sectors. She is dedicated to empowering leaders to enhance their self-awareness and drive positive change. Her career, marked by numerous accolades, has solidified her reputation as a transformative guide in the leadership space.

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Over the last decade, Adam Lampton has photographed the former Portuguese colony of Macau (now a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China) and witnessed its transformation from a small enclave into an international gambling mecca and leisure destination. The colonial legacy, the communist experiment in capitalism, and the Chinese traditions continually collide and remake Macau through the filter of each other’s histories.

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In Universally Adored and Other One Dollar Stories, Elizabeth Bruce gives readers 33 ways of looking at a dollar. Her empathetic, humorous, and disarming embrace of plain-spoken people searching for a way out charms and provokes. These are bittersweet stories of resilience and defiance.

A color-obsessed artist draws a facsimile of a dollar – a masterpiece universally adored – to win her girlfriend back. While checking for spare change in the laundry, a Tennessee housewife with a malcontent husband finds an unused condom in his Sunday trousers. A runaway teen with a newborn follows a vagabond healer absolving the bedraggled godless through hugs of forgiveness. A ladies’ room attendant tracked down by her abusive ex finds refuge in a cheap motel with a 1970s era bed massager.

Riffing on the intimate object of a dollar, Bruce’s humane short fictions ring with the exquisite voices of characters in analog worlds.

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Gender violence has been at the forefront of women’s human rights struggles for decades, shaping political movements and NGO and government programs related to women’s empowerment, community development, and public health. Drawing on over twenty years of research and activism in rural Ecuador, Karin Friederic provides a remarkably intimate view of what these rights-based programs actually achieve over the long term. 

The Prism of Human Rights brings us into the lives of women, men, and children who find themselves entangled in intimate partner violence, structural violence, political economic change, and a global cultural project in which “rights” are associated with modernity, development, and democratic states. She details the multiple forms of violence that rural women experience; shows the diverse ways they make sense of, endure, and combat this violence; and helps us understand how people are grappling with new ideas of gender, rights, and even of violence itself. Ultimately, Friederic demonstrates that rights-based interventions provide important openings for women seeking a life free of violence, but they also unwittingly expose “liberated” women to more extreme dynamics of structural violence. Thus, these interventions often reduce women’s room to maneuver and encourage communities to hide violence in order to appear “modern” and “developed.”

This analysis of human rights in practice is essential for anyone seeking to promote justice in a culturally responsible manner, and for anyone who hopes to understand how the globalization of rights, legal institutions, and moral visions is transforming distant locales and often perpetuating violence in the process.

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Pakistan & American Diplomacy offers an insightful, fast-moving tour through Pakistan-U.S. relations, from 9/11 to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, as told from the perspective of a former U.S. diplomat who served twice in Pakistan. Ted Craig frames his narrative around the 2019 Cricket World Cup, a contest that saw Pakistan square off against key neighbors and cricketing powers Afghanistan, India, and Bangladesh, and its former colonial ruler, Britain.

Craig provides perceptive analysis of Pakistan’s diplomacy since its independence in 1947, shedding light on the country’s contemporary relations with the United States, China, India, Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan. With insights from the field and from Washington, Craig reflects on the chain of policy decisions that led to the fall of the Kabul government in 2021 and offers a sober and balanced view of the consequences of that policy failure. Drawing on his post-Cold War diplomatic career, Craig presents U.S.-Pakistan policy in the context of an American experiment in promoting democracy while combating terrorism. Currently serving again in South Asia as a counterterrorism program advisor, Ted Craig retired from the U.S. Foreign Service after twenty-nine years and two tours in Islamabad, Pakistan, the second as political counselor. He also served three tours in Latin America and held policy jobs related to peace and security, environmental diplomacy, and human rights.

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Out of the libertine literary tradition of eighteenth-century France emerged over a dozen memoir novels of female libertines who eagerly take up sex work as a means of escape from the patriarchal control of fathers and husbands to pursue pleasure, wealth, and personal independence outside the private, domestic sphere. In these anonymously published novels, the heroines proudly declare themselves prostitutes, or putains, and use the desire they arouse, the professional skills they develop, and the network of female friends they create to exploit, humiliate, and financially ruin wealthy and powerful men. In pursuing their desires, the putains challenge contemporary notions of womanhood and expose the injustices of ancien-régime France. Until the French Revolution spelled the end of the genre, these novels proposed not only an appealing libertine utopia in which libertine women enjoy the same benefits as their male counterparts but also entirely new ways of looking at systems of power, gender, and sexuality.

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Many people have heard about Quakers, but most know little about them. Their faith and practice contain many precious gems that can be adopted by anyone to further expand their spiritual life.

Dr. Linda Seger is a long-time Quaker who has integrated her Quaker values as a professional in the scriptwriting and film industry for 40 years. This practical and accessible book deepens the faith of Quakers and introduces non-Quakers to Quaker testimonies, practices, and values.

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Civil War Life at Home, Palmer’s sixth history book for adults, presents the diaries of four people far removed from battle who nonetheless found their lives changed by the Civil War. Sarah was a Quaker farm girl whose religion and location initially seemed to insulate her from the war. Martha, despite being a “True Woman”, found herself being drawn into the politics of the war. Howard, a farmer, had to deal with the changing economy and constant threat of the draft. And Eliza saw the war split her sons into opposing armies. Across the years, these four speak to us through their dairies. With extensive footnoting by the author this is a marvelous volume for those interested in the times, throwing light on a portion of the 1860s population that is usually overlooked.

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Ask not what science can do for you, but what public history can do for science!

Interpreting Science at Museums and Historic Sites stresses the untapped potential of historical artifacts to inform our understanding of scientific topics. It argues that science gains ground when contextualized in museums and historic sites. Engaging audiences in conversations about hot topics such as health and medical sciences or climate change and responses to it, mediated by a history museum, can emphasize scientific rigor and the time lag between discovery and confirmation of societal benefit. Interpreting Science emphasizes the urgency of this work, provides a toolkit to start and sustain the work, and shares case studies that model best practice and resources useful to facilitate and sustain a science-infused public history.

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When facing challenges from male authorities in their diocese, three spirited Catholic nuns on the Kentucky frontier must choose between their vows of obedience to the Church or their commitment to their fiercely independent community of women.

A Sisterhood on Fire dives into the vastly underexplored world of women religious in the American West and exhibits these nuns as more than just footnotes in Church texts. 

This is Sarah’s second novel, and she lives with her husband and two dogs in St. Louis, Missouri.

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In Between Two Worlds, clinical psychologist Jemela Macer explores her familial, cultural, and spiritual journey to reclaim lost parts of her ancient Armenian soul and unite them with her modern American life.

Born the grandchild of four Armenian Genocide survivors long silent about the atrocities they endured, Macer asks, in a series of connected essays: What is passed down unknowingly from one generation to the next? How does transgenerational trauma live within us? And finally, how do we forgive our perpetrators, find healing, and re-integrate lost parts of our soul and those of our ancestors?

Macer takes readers from her childhood and young adulthood in Southern California, to the streets of India, Europe, Pakistan, South America, and finally, in what she comes to call “The Genocide Tour,” to the place of ancient Western Armenia. Searching for an inner sense of home, and a relationship to her ancestral roots, she ultimately finds them back in Southern California, in the very place where she began.

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Eugene, a wealthy paraplegic, must decide whether to preserve his consciousness forever in a digital utopia or suffer the pain tormenting his existence. Yet, the more he learns about digital replication, the more deeply he understands personhood, empathy, and the value of suffering.

“This novella is a marvel: a vision of a not-so-distant future in which our bodies are virtually obsolete and our consciousnesses immortal. Into an otherwise nihilistic world, Nathanial White encodes a kind of tragic beauty suffused with longing. Reading Conscious Designs made me want to download the author’s brain, harness its powers of imagination, and wrestle with the questions he so intelligently dramatizes in these pages.” Christopher Castellani, author of Leading Men.

Nathanial White brings his lived experience of paralysis and recovery to Conscious Designs. What follows is a journey into ethics, morality, and the philosophy of being and personhood. Each time I thought I knew where the story was going, it surprised me, and drew me deeper. The prose is reminiscent of classic science fiction greats such as Asimov or Aldiss who played with ideas like colors on a canvas.” Marie Vibbert, author of Galactic Hellcats.

Conscious Designs knows what it is–which is more than its characters can say for themselves. Nathanial White’s fiction has its mind on human consciousness and artificial intelligence and an exoskeletal boot planted firmly on story. If you find yourself returning to the sci-fi of Philip K. Dick and the philosophical provocations of Brian Evenson, Conscious Designs is for you–at least, the version of yourself you call “you.” Christopher David Rosales, author of Word is Bone.

White won the 2023 Colorado Book Award in Science Fiction/Fantasy for Conscious Design.

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In 1964, when he was ten years-old, Sid’s father, Commander James Stockdale, was a Navy fighter pilot and Carrier Air Group Commander (CAG) at the peak of his career. One year after the war started, in September 1965, he was shot down and spent the next seven and a half years in the “Hanoi Hilton” as the senior Naval officer.

After a year of being frustrated with the incompetence of the US government’s handling of the POW issue, Sid’s mother, Sybil Stockdale, began organizing women in similar circumstances in the greater San Diego area. This group eventually became The National League of Families of POWs and the Missing in Southeast Asia. Throughout the war, they pressured the U.S. government towards action and raised public awareness about the plight of POWs.

Commander Stockdale came home in February 1973, with the other 590 servicemen held during the war. Six months later, Sid started as a first-year at Colorado College. This memoir is the story of Sid’s life, from age 11 to 18, living in his household during those turbulent years. His primary sources include his parent’s book, In Love and War (1984), his mother’s diary that he received after she passed in 2016, and his own memories.

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In the late nineteenth century, at a time when Americans were becoming more removed from nature than ever before, U.S. soldiers were uniquely positioned to understand and construct nature’s ongoing significance for their work and for the nation as a whole. American ideas and debates about nature evolved alongside discussions about the meaning of frontiers, about what kind of empire the United States should have, and about what it meant to be modern or to make “progress.” Soldiers stationed in the field were at the center of these debates, and military action in the expanding empire brought new environments into play.

In Taking the Field, Kohout draws on the experiences of U.S. soldiers in both the Indian Wars and the Philippine-American War to explore the interconnected ideas about nature and empire circulating at the time. By tracking the variety of ways American soldiers interacted with the natural world, Kohout argues that soldiers, through their words and their work, shaped Progressive Era ideas about both American and Philippine environments. Studying soldiers on multiple frontiers allows Kohout to inject a transnational perspective into the environmental history of the Progressive Era, and an environmental perspective into the period’s transnational history. Kohout shows us how soldiers—through their writing, their labor, and all that they collected—played a critical role in shaping American ideas about both nature and empire, ideas that persist to the present.

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This unusual book explores the transformative power of liminal experiences in ancient Greek texts, psychoanalytic theory, and the author’s own life, to demonstrate how a contemporary understanding of ancient thought can illuminate modern psychoanalytic theory and practice especially as it relates to trauma, grief, and the development of psyche.

With the understanding that liminal experiencing involves engaging a psychic space outside the boundaries of ego organization, Dobson artfully interweaves autobiography, literary analysis, philosophical ontology, and psychoanalysis, to formulate a new paradigm for how to construct human beings, how to enliven and deepen personal and therapeutic experience, and how poetic language is the gateway to this magical realm of transformation. Alongside richly detailed case analyses, the author uses her dual expertise in psychoanalysis and ancient Greek literature to explore how the maternal and liminal in human life were displaced with the rise of Athens and a new way of being human ― the rational citizen ― and how this repression has resulted in diminished, constricted experiencing and the suppression of women throughout western history.

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This two-volume study argues that Nietzsche’s aristocratic politics is inconsistent with his core philosophical commitments to determinism and immoralism. It critically reconstructs Nietzsche’s theories of justice and rights as the potential ground for a non-liberal, democratic, and socialist politics.

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This two-volume study argues that Nietzsche’s aristocratic politics is inconsistent with his core philosophical commitments to determinism and immoralism. It critically reconstructs Nietzsche’s theories of justice and rights as the potential ground for a non-liberal, democratic, and socialist politics.

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Hilarious, heart-breaking, and perfectly pitched, these carefully researched poems about historical women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine will bring you to both laughter and outrage in just a few lines. A wickedly funny, feminist take on the lives and work of women who resisted their parents, their governments, and the rules and conventions of their times.

Explore the stories of women you may have heard of (Marie Curie, Jane Goodall, Émilie du Châtelet) alongside those of others you may not (Virginia Apgar, Maryam Mirzakhani, Ynes Mexia, Susan La Flesche Picotte, Chien-Shiung Wu). Illustrated with Kristin DiVona’s portraits for NASA’s “Reaching Across the Stars” project, this is a book to share with scientists, feminists, and poets, young and old of any gender.

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A Good Morning America Buzz Pick, and a BuzzFeed and New York Post “Best Book of 2022”.

Twenty-four-year-old New York bookseller Naomi Ackerman is desperate to write a novel, but struggles to find a story to tell. When, after countless disastrous dates, she meets Caleb – a perfectly nice guy with a Welsh accent and a unique patience for all her quirks – she thinks she’s finally stumbled onto a time-honored subject: love. Then Caleb’s ex-girlfriend, Rosemary, enters the scene. 
 
Upon learning that Rosemary is not safely tucked away in Caleb’s homeland overseas, but in fact lives in New York and also works in the literary world, Naomi is threatened and intrigued in equal measure. If they both fell for the same man, what else might they have in common? The more Naomi learns about Rosemary, the more her curiosity consumes her. Before she knows it, her casual Instagram stalking morphs into a friendship under false pretenses – and becomes the subject of her nascent novel. 

As her lies and half-truths spiral out of control, and fact and fiction become increasingly difficult to untangle, Naomi must decide what – and who – she’s willing to sacrifice to write the perfect ending.

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Writing as a Performing Art is written to encourage, motivate and inspire non-fiction writers of all ages. It celebrates why we write, why we must write, and reviews the strategies veteran writers employ. One of its aims is to cultivate the Inner Editor – to remind writers of the importance of editing, rewriting and polishing their work.

The primary goal of Writing as a Performing Art is to prepare writers to write compelling and convincing stories. Stories are what makes us human, and writers help us navigate the complexities of life. Writers help reveal our common human bonds. They let us know we not alone, and help us search for better possibilities.

Cronin’s Writing as a Performing Art is both a pep-talk and a rigorous guide for how writers can more effectively connect with their readers. It reviews standard practices yet encourages writers to write bravely, to bend the rules to make their points, and to provide the evidence to convince. Writing matters. And what matters even more is the power of ideas. Writing, Cronin emphasizes, is a grand opportunity to tell your story. To tell the truth, advocate for improvements, share creative ideas, and celebrate our capacity for compassion, gallantry, humanity, and love.

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In The Mike File, Trimble grapples with his brother’s heartrending life and death and looks behind doors he’s barricaded in himself.

In 1957, when Trimble was six, psychosis overwhelmed his 14-year-old brother, Mike. Mike left home and never lived there again, dying alone in a Denver boarding home at 33. Journalists used Mike’s death to expose these “ratholes” warehousing people with mental illness.

Detective story, social history, journey of self-discovery, and compassionate and unsparing memorial to a family and a forgotten life, The Mike File will move every reader with a relative or friend touched by psychiatric illness or disability.

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Being a gringo in Brazil is terrific! Are you planning on visiting or working in Brazil? Becoming Brazilian will guide you through the intricacy of Brazilian culture and give you a deeper understanding of the country. It covers cross-cultural differences that will aid the reader to navigate both social and business interactions and explains the regional differences in Brazil though its celebrations, beliefs, customs, and gastronomy.
Becoming Brazilian focuses on the history and themes of major topics of Brazilian life. It is not a tour guide nor a travel guide. Becoming Brazilian is a guide for living and interacting with Brazilians to give the reader a deeper experience during their time in this great country.

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This continuing saga of Jack Walker’s fascinating life story takes the reader inside the Chicago labor movement, civil rights street activity, and anti-Vietnam War protests of the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s. The reader is with Walker as he associates with labor leaders, some honest and some not, and politicians and judges on the take. He introduces two mafia “juice men” who shared their daily experiences with him and two other mobsters who ran a call girl ring. His working relationship with most all the Black leaders in Chicago gives some insight into Black rage of the time. His years as a civil rights investigator will introduce a small-town mayor who claimed his school district would never desegregate and a Minnesota town that went silent on why the Native American students were pulled out and returned to the reservation. His legal defenses before administrative law judges and arbitrators left landmark precedents for federal government workers. Readers will experience his ten years as a practicing alcoholic and his up-and-down life recovering to go on and become a successful real estate operator, only to lose it all in bankruptcy and foreclosure, then recover to go on living one day at a time.

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The Field Guide to the Birds of Blue Heron Nature Preserve is a visual demonstration of the 100 most common species of birds seen at Blue Heron Nature Preserve, a small and thin stretch of greenspace in northwest Atlanta surrounded by commercial areas and residential homes. The preserve is a wild haven for life, including birds, both common resident species, migrants, and even a few uncommon and irregular species. This guide aims to represent the diversity of birds in the preserve with hand-drawn images of the birds, as well as the issues that they face today and how places like Blue Heron support and assist the numerous species of birds that regularly use the park. It is also a good guide for the novice just interested in identifying birds at the preserve, and this field guide is a must-have for anyone who plans to visit.

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Set in the Rocky Mountains, this fictional children’s illustrated story follows the journey of several water drops form their creation as snowflakes in the atmosphere to water drops on land. Their journey is a unique one, as they fall along the Continental Divide and encounter challenges while they move through the watershed from the highest peaks in Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico. Pfeiffer wrote this story in the late 1940s and Shafer, her great-granddaughter, illustrated it in 2021.

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A young woman stands naked and afraid in the South Texas dark. Miles away, an old man climbs into his secret hole, burdened by his Great War bargain. On this night in April 1963, the burden of silence passes from old to young in Bruce’s debut novel (rereleased). And Silent Left the Place is a lyric tale of violence, redemption, and love reclaimed in the cruel, dry land of Texas.