Editorial: Gibbs Smith
Hot Button: Teaching Sensitive Social Studies Content explores the difficulty, delicacy, and ethical obligations of teaching accurate history to all students. It features contributions from Alysha Butler, Kelly Reichardt, Gerardo Muñoz, Chris Dier, and accomplished author Bart King.
I Used to Be a Miserable F*ck has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.Ver libro
Final Break follows Ellis ending her relationship with Katie after being pulled into her lies about an unexpected sexual tryst. Then Ellis is confronted by the new partner, who does not yet know that Katie lied to her about it as well. Ellis is trying to move forward with a new romantic interest, Lynn, when she is visited by Paula, a newly single friend who is also on the prowl. What will happen to Ellis next? Will it be more shattered hearts or a forever more.Ver libro
‘Based on meticulous research in original sources … Goodman illustrates vividly how adept [Banks] was … Shining a light on individuals whose achievements are relatively uncelebrated’ Jenny Uglow, New York Review of Books A bold new history of how botany and global plant collecting – centred at Kew Gardens and driven by Joseph Banks – transformed the earth. Botany was the darling and the powerhouse of the eighteenth century. As European ships ventured across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans, discovery bloomed. Bounties of new plants were brought back, and their arrival meant much more than improved flowerbeds – it offered a new scientific frontier that would transform Europe’s industry, medicine, eating and drinking habits, and even fashion. Joseph Banks was the dynamo for this momentous change. As botanist for James Cook’s great voyage to the South Pacific on the Endeavour, Banks collected plants on a vast scale, armed with the vision – as a child of the Enlightenment – that to travel physically was to advance intellectually. His thinking was as intrepid as Cook’s seafaring: he commissioned radically influential and physically daring expeditions such as those of Francis Masson to the Cape Colony, George Staunton to China, George Caley to Australia, William Bligh to Tahiti and Jamaica, among many others. Jordan Goodman’s epic history follows these high seas adventurers and their influence in Europe, as well as taking us back to the early years of Kew Gardens, which Banks developed devotedly across the course of his life, transforming it into one of the world’s largest and most diverse botanical gardens. In a rip-roaring global expedition, based on original sources in many languages, Goodman gives a momentous history of how the discoveries made by Banks and his collectors advanced scientific understanding around the world. This biography of Joseph Banks, one of Britain's top environmentalists and naturalists, is a testament to his scientific prowess and his unparalleled contributions to botany. His expeditions, driven by a thirst for knowledge and discovery, have left an indelible mark on the world, influencing not just the field of science, but also technology, medicine, and even fashion. For fans of Tristan Gooley (How To Read Water), Lucille Clerc (Around the World in 80 Plants), Peter Frankopan (The First Crusade), Colm Tóibín (The Master), and Sathnam Sanghera (Tonight the Music Seems So Loud).Ver libro
Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.Ver libro
This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. rauma is karma. Karma is trauma. This equation changes everything. What you call character flaws are conditioned survival patterns. The rage that erupts when coffee spills. The freeze when your boss criticizes. The helplessness you feel when you "cannot act otherwise." These are not fate. These are not punishment. These are neural pathways, carved deep, firing in milliseconds. Between impulse and action lies a window. Inside that span, freedom lives. In this groundbreaking work, physician and philosopher Fritz H. Hemmerich reveals how trauma and karma are two languages for the same deep conditioning, and demonstrates why our deepest patterns can be interrupted using cutting-edge neuroscience and ancient wisdom. Discover the power of laminar breathing that calms your system in seconds, learn why trauma heals more effectively when we keep the benefit for others in view (Karma Burning), and understand how epigenetic changes can dissolve generations of conditioning. Through trainable practices such as vital-belt awareness and praeemption, you will learn to interrupt automatic patterns — anger, withdrawal, collapse, people-pleasing — and replace them with grounded presence. This isn't another self-help book. It's a roadmap to neurological liberation, with practical 2-minute exercises, moving case studies, and scientific precision that guides you from automatic reacting to conscious responding — from surviving to thriving.Ver libro
Andrew Carnegie wrote his original "Gospel of Wealth" in 1889, during the height of the gilded age, when the country's 4,000 richest families held almost as much wealth as the other 11.6 million American families combined. His essay laid the foundation for modern philanthropy. Today, we find ourselves in a new gilded age—defined by levels of inequality that far surpass those of Carnegie's time. The widening chasm between haves and have-nots demands our immediate attention. Now is the time for a new "Gospel of Wealth." In From Generosity to Justice: A New Gospel of Wealth, Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, articulates a bold vision for philanthropy in the twenty-first century. With contributions from an array of thinkers, activists, and leaders including Ai-jen Poo, Laurene Powell Jobs, David Rockefeller Jr., and Dr. Elizabeth Alexander, Walker challenges and emboldens readers to consider philanthropy as a tool for achieving economic, social, and political justice. That task requires humility, moral courage, and an unwavering commitment to democratic values and institutions. It demands that all members of society recognize their own privilege and position, address the root causes of social ills, and seek out and listen to those who live amid and experience injustice. What began in Carnegie's day as a manual for generosity now becomes a guide that moves us closer to justice—a guide that helps each of us find a way to contribute. Justice is calling. It's time we answer.Ver libro
