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The Clutter-Busting Handbook
Clean It Up, Clear It Out, and Keep Your Life Clutter-Free
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
The Clutter Busting Handbook is a streamlined guide to uncluttering your life from the best-selling author of The Procrastinator's Handbook.We are the clutter generation, inundated by a seemingly daily or weekly influx of clothes, accessories, gadgets, catalogs, mail, and e-mail. Clutter crowds our...
Dirty Words
A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
This witty reference steps in where time-honored discussions of the birds-and-the-bees typically fall short. Each of the 90-some entries are formally defined and further explained through reflective and ribald definitions, essays, and stories by some of today's most exciting writers. Everything from...
by Professor Antonia Darder
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
This book serves as an important companion to Freire's seminal work, providing powerful insights into both a philosophically sound and politically inspired understanding of Freire's book, supporting application of his pedagogy in enacting emancipatory educational programs in the world today.
Antonia...
Blur
How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Amid the hand-wringing over the death of "true journalism" in the Internet Age-the din of bloggers, the echo chamber of Twitter, the predominance of Wikipedia-veteran journalists and media critics Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel have written a pragmatic guide to navigating the twenty-first...
by Professor Darren Hudson Hick
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
'Place in garden, lawn, to beautify landscape.'
When Don Featherstone's plastic pink flamingos were first advertised in the 1957 Sears catalogue, these were the instructions. The flamingos are placed on the cover of this book for another reason: to start us asking questions. That's where philosophy...
The Art of Living
The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Ancient philosophy was conceived as a way of life or an art of living, but if ancient philosophers did think that philosophy should transform an individual's way of life, then what conception of philosophy stands behind this claim? John Sellars explores this question through a detailed account of...
Bozo Sapiens
Why to Err is Human
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
The New York Times called Chances Are, the authors' look at the application of probability in everyday life, a "dizzying, exhilarating ride." In Bozo Sapiens, they take us on a another funhouse journey, exploring the surprising, or alarming, number of ways that humans can make bad judgments...
Merchants of Doubt
How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small...
Before the Fallout
From Marie Curie to Hiroshima
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
On December 26, 1898, Marie Curie announced the discovery of radium and observed that "radioactivity seems to be an atomic property." A mere 47 years later, "Little Boy"exploded over Hiroshima. Before the Fallout is the epic story of the intervening half century, during which an exhilarating quest...
Storms of My Grandchildren
The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
In Storms of My Grandchildren, Dr. James Hansen-the nation's leading scientist on climate issues-speaks out for the first time with the full truth about global warming: The planet is hurtling even more rapidly than previously acknowledged to a climatic point of no return.
Although the threat...
A Supremely Bad Idea
Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
It began with a weekend house; then weekend trips. Then the occasional meeting rearranged in favor of a morning in Central Park, just while the spring migration was on. Before Luke Dempsey knew it, he had spiraled down into full-on birding mania - finding himself riding along with two like-minded...
E=mc2
A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Generations have grown up knowing that the equation E=mc2 changed the shape of our world, but never understanding what it actually means, why it was so significant, and how it informs our daily lives today--governing, as it does, everything from the atomic bomb to a television's cathode ray tube to...
Welcome to Your Brain
Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Does drinking really kill brain cells? Does listening to Mozart make your baby smarter? For all the mileage we've gotten from our own brains, most of us have essentially no idea how they work. We're easily susceptible to myths (like the "fact" that we use only 10% of our brains) and misconceptions...
Lost Cat
A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
A Finalist for the 26th Lambda Literary Award
Caroline Paul was recovering from a bad accident and thought things couldn't get worse. But then her beloved cat Tibia disappeared. She and her partner, illustrator Wendy MacNaughton, mourned his loss. Yet weeks later, Tibia waltzed back into their...