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Ask a Science Teacher: 250 Answers to Questions You’ve Always Had About How Everyday Stuff Really Works

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

Fun and fascinating science is everywhere, and it’s a cinch to learn—just ask a science teacher!

We’ve all grown so used to living in a world filled with wonders that we sometimes forget to wonder about them: What creates the wind? Do fish sleep? Why do we blink? These are...

Intimacy: Clinical, Cultural, Digital and Developmental Perspectives

Routledge, 2018

Intimacy: Clinical, Cultural, Digital and Developmental Perspectives applies a contemporary, psychoanalytic lens to the many facets of intimacy between people, from romantic and sexual relationships, to friendliness, as well as the ways intimacy is mediated by new digital technologies.

Identifying...

Where the Lost Dogs Go: A Story of Love, Search, and the Power of Reunion

Houghton Mifflin Co, 2019

From a New York Times best-selling author, an important and heartfelt exploration into the world of lost dogs and the power of reunion

One in six dogs go missing at some point in their lives, leaving bereft owners to search high and low, hang missing posters, check shelters, and hope for good news....

Our War Paint Is Writers' Ink: Anishinaabe Literary Transnationalism (SUNY series, Native Traces)

SUNY Press, 2018

The first word of Anishinaabemowin my father ever taught me was “miigwech”—“thank you”—because it is the most important. I have had many opportunities to use the word over the course of writ ing this book, but I would be remiss if I didn’t take the time to say it once...

The Scientific World of Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer: The Entanglement of Science, Religion, and Politics in Nazi Germany (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

In twentieth-century Germany, Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer rose to prominence as a brilliant physical chemist, even as several of his relatives?Dietrich Bonhoeffer among them?became involved in the resistance to Hitler, leading to their executions. This book traces the entanglement of science, religion, and politics in the Third Reich and in...

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Life Lessons from the Dog: 101 Tales of Family, Friendship & Fun

Chicken Soup, 2019

We learn so much from our canine companions, and along the way they keep us company, provide unconditional love, and share in the ups and downs of our lives.

What do we learn from our dogs? Everything. Our dogs make us better people. If we rescued them, they rescue us back. If we’re sad, they comfort us. If we...

Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes

Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2019

An introvert spends a year trying to live like an extrovert with hilarious results and advice for readers along the way.

What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she’d normally avoid at all...

Humanomics: Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society)

Cambridge University Press, 2019

While neoclassical analysis works well for studying impersonal exchange in markets, it fails to explain why people conduct themselves the way they do in their personal relationships with family, neighbors, and friends. In Humanomics, Nobel Prize-winning economist Vernon L. Smith and his long-time co-author Bart J. Wilson bring their study of...

Heirs of the Apostles (Arabic Christianity: Texts and Studies) (English and Arabic Edition)

Brill Academic Publishers, 2018

It is with a profound sense of gratitude that the students, colleagues, and friends of Fr. Sidney H. Griffith offer this Festschrift on the occasion of his 80th birthday. This collection of articles on the Christian Arabic heritage is a small token of appreciation for the gift of his life, faith, and scholarship.

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Towards Digital Enlightenment: Essays on the Dark and Light Sides of the Digital Revolution

Springer, 2018

This new collection of essays follows in the footsteps of the successful volume Thinking Ahead - Essays on Big Data, Digital Revolution, and Participatory Market Society, published at a time when our societies were on a path to technological totalitarianism, as exemplified by mass surveillance reported by Edward Snowden and...

A Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do: A Novel

Counterpoint, 2019

A big-hearted novel “about the grace of friends and family, the true depth and patience of love, and the impossible privilege of what it means to be a father” (Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You).

For young couple Taz and Marnie, their...

IR Theory, Historical Analogy, and Major Power War

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book critically examines elements of America-First nationalism, neo-conservatism, neo-realism, neo-liberalism, environmental theories, and social constructionism by way of developing an “alternative realist” approach to the study of the origins of major power war. The author critiques concepts of “polarity” and...

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