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Free Radicals

The Secret Anarchy of Science

by Michael Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012

“An exuberant tour through the world of scientists behaving badly” (The New York Times). They may have a public image as cool, logical, levelheaded types. But in reality, scientists will do pretty much anything—take drugs, follow mystical visions, lie, and even cheat—to make a discovery. In...

Freud Verbatim

Quotations and Aphorisms

by Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014

The founder of psychoanalysis and one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers, in his own words. Sigmund Freud is on the very short list of historical figures who have profoundly influenced—perhaps even revolutionized—the way we think and the way we see the world and ourselves....

The Cardinal's Hat

Money, Ambition, and Everyday Life in the Court of a Borgia Prince

by Mary Hollingsworth
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006

“A riveting portrait of the day-to-day life of a wealthy, worldly Renaissance prince” as he pursues power and influence in the Catholic church (USA Today).   The second son of Alfonso d’Este and Lucretia Borgia, the Duke and Duchess of Ferrara, Ippolito d’Este was made the archbishop of Milan...

The National Team

The Inside Story of the Women Who Changed Soccer

by Caitlin Murray
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019

The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team has won three World Cups and four Olympic gold medals, set record TV ratings, drawn massive crowds, earned huge revenues for FIFA and U.S. Soccer, and helped to redefine the place of women in sports. But despite their dominance, and their rosters of superstar...

It's Not Over 'Til It's Over

The Stories Behind Most Magnificent Heart-Stopping Sports Miracles of Our Time

by Al Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2004

Find inspiration in these “enjoyable” accounts of historic last-minute victories—both legendary and little-known—in the world of sports (Booklist).   From a former editor of Sport magazine, this book is a journey through a century of athletic endeavor, from baseball to boxing and beyond—filled...

Invisible Women

Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

by Caroline Criado Perez
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019

Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical,...

Getting There

A Book of Mentors

by Gillian Zoe Segal
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015

                                  The path to success is rarely easy or direct, and good mentors are hard to find. In Getting There, thirty leaders in diverse fields share their secrets to navigating the rocky road to the top. In an honest, direct, and engaging way,...

Economix

How Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work), in Words and Pictures

by Michael Goodwin
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

Stimulus plans: good or bad? Free markets: How free are they? Jobs: Can we afford them? Occupy Wall Street . . . worldwide! Everybody’s talking about the economy, but how can we, the people, understand what Wall Street or Washington knows—or say they know? Read Economix. With clear, witty writing...

Grocery

The Buying and Selling of Food in America

by Michael Ruhlman
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017

In Grocery, bestselling author Michael Ruhlman offers incisive commentary on America's relationship with its food and investigates the overlooked source of so much of it—the grocery store. In a culture obsessed with food—how it looks, what it tastes like, where it comes from, what is good...

The Art of Nothing

25 Years of Mutts and the Art of Patrick McDonnell

by Patrick McDonnell, Lynda Barry
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019

Timed for the 25th anniversary of the comic strip Mutts, The Art of Nothing celebrates the work of author and illustrator Patrick McDonnell Mooch, the curious cat, and Earl, the ever-trusting dog, are just two of the characters who inhabit the world of Mutts. In The Art of Nothing: 25 Years...

Good Riddance

An Illustrated Memoir of Divorce

by Cynthia Copeland
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013

When you think you live in a Norman Rockwell painting—married 18 years, three kids, beautiful old house in the country, successful career as a writer—you don’t expect there’s another side to the canvas. Until you read a lovesick e-mail to your husband . . . that didn’t come from you! Good...

Drawing Power

Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival

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Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019

More than 60 female comics creators share their personal experiences with sexual violence and harassment through new and original comics Inspired by the global #MeToo Movement, Drawing Power: Women’s Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival is a collection of original, nonfiction...

Commute

An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame

by Erin Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019

An intimate, clever, and ultimately gut-wrenching graphic memoir about the daily decision women must make between being sexualized or being invisible In Commute, we follow author and illustrator Erin Williams on her daily commute to and from work, punctuated by recollections of sexual encounters...
by Octavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017

Octavia E. Butler’s bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format. More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity caused by slavery in the United States,...
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