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  Bryan Callen: Complicated Apes

  Bryan Callen

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  Bryan Callen goes against our tendencies to turn each other into nouns like black, white, immigrant, Muslim, gay, straight, man, woman and instead suggests that the best way to navigate our current culture war is to think outside the box.

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  The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa...

  American Classics

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  "The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another" by Ainissa Ramirez provides a fascinating glimpse into how inventions have shaped human history and personal experience. This audiobook summary encapsulates Ramirez's exploration of the profound interactions between humans and materials, focusing on eight pivotal inventions that have altered our world: clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips. 
  Learn how you can apply the main lessons & principles in a quick, easy listen. This audio captures the key takeaways found in the original book, removing all fluff and unnecessary information to save you hours of time. Whether you're revisiting Ramirez's captivating narratives to cement the most important lessons, or you're new to her insights on the intersection of science, technology, and society, this summary delivers all the practical information you can apply. 
  Ramirez, a scientist and science communicator, adeptly narrates the stories behind the materials that have transformed our lives, highlighting the unforeseen consequences and benefits of technological advancements. From the woman who sold time to the inventor who inspired Edison, "The Alchemy of Us" uncovers the human stories behind the innovations that have defined the modern era. 
  If you're intrigued by the ways in which simple materials have crafted complex societal shifts, "The Alchemy of Us" offers a compelling and accessible journey through the science and history behind everyday technologies. This audiobook summary ensures that you grasp the significant impact of these inventions, providing a unique perspective on how they continue to shape our lives and our future.

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  The Domain-Matrix - Performing...

  Sue-Ellen Case

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  "This book demonstrates Case's continued dominance of the field of lesbian performance studies. . . . Case's dense, rich, and complex work very likely will be a central text for anyone interested in debating the changing theoretical landscape for performance studies and queer theory. All readers interested in what the future might hold for scholarship in the humanities should study Case's thought-provoking work, which is an essential addition to any college or university's collection." —Choice". . . this is a book that is enormously provocative, that will make you think and feel connected with the latest speculation on the implications of the electronic age we inhabit." —Lesbian Review of Books". . . definitely required reading for any future-thinking lesbian." —Lambda Book ReportThe Domain-Matrix is about the passage from print culture to electronic screen culture and how this passage affects the reader or computer user. Sections are organized to emulate, in a printed book, the reader's experience of computer windows. Case traces the portrait of virtual identities within queer and lesbian critical practice and virtual technologies.

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  Why Karen Carpenter Matters

  Karen Tongson

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  A Pitchfork Best Music Book of 2019: A look at what the beloved pop singer meant to fans, written with “nostalgic affection and astute critical thinking” (Los Angeles Times). 
   
  In the ’60s and ’70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. At the same time, the uplifting harmonies and sunny lyrics that propelled Karen Carpenter and her brother, Richard, to international fame belied a different sort of tragedy—the underconsumption that led to Karen’s death at age thirty-two from the effects of an eating disorder. 
   
  In Why Karen Carpenter Matters, Karen Tongson (whose Filipino musician parents named her after the pop icon) interweaves the story of the singer’s rise to fame with her own trans-Pacific journey between the Philippines—where imitations of American pop styles flourished—and Karen Carpenter’s home ground of Southern California. Tongson reveals why the Carpenters’ chart-topping, seemingly whitewashed musical fantasies of “normal love” can now have profound significance for her—as well as for other people of color, LGBT+ communities, and anyone outside the mainstream culture usually associated with Karen Carpenter’s legacy. This hybrid of memoir and biography excavates the destructive perfectionism at the root of the Carpenters’ sound, while finding the beauty in the singer’s all too brief life.

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  Build From Now

  Damon Brown

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  Our biggest hurdle today isn’t finding the right hack to more output, but understanding that accepting our limitations actually improves our results. The follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Bring Your Worth, Build From Now shows how each and every one of us has four different resources: focus, agility, time, and energy. We have more or less of each, depending on where we are in our lives. Know your strengths and you’ll be able to be productive, creative, and inspired. Forever. Like Damon Brown’s best-selling Bite-Sized Entrepreneur series, Build From Now shows you how to take the resources you have already have to help create the world you want to see. Audio exclusives: Preview of the #BringYourWorth theme song produced by Purple Fluorite, now available on all music platforms! Damon's popular TED Talk "How To Build Power Wherever You Are" The powerful keynote "Why Your Side Hustle Matters More Than Ever"

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  New York's Original Penn Station...

  Paul M Kaplan

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  The story of the spectacular and much-lamented train terminal whose destruction inspired a new passion for historic preservation. Includes photos.   In early twentieth-century New York, few could have imagined a train terminal as grand as Pennsylvania Station. Yet, executives at the Pennsylvania Railroad secretly bought up land in Manhattan's infamous Tenderloin District to build one of the world's most spectacular monuments.    Sandhogs would battle the fiercest of nature to build tunnels linking Manhattan to New Jersey and Long Island. For decades, Penn Station was a center of elegance and pride. But the ensuing rise of the airplane and automobile began to diminish train travel. Consequently, in the mid-1960s, the station was tragically destroyed. The loss inspired the birth of preservation laws in the city and the nation that would save other landmarks—such as New York’s Grand Central, just blocks away.    Here, Paul Kaplan recounts the trials and triumphs of New York's Penn Station, with extensive photos and illustrations.

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