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  Cause: And How It Doesn't Always...

  Gregory Smithsimon

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  When we try to understand our world, we ask "why?" a specific event occurred. But this profoundly human question often leads us astray. In Cause, sociologist Gregory Smithsimon brings us a much sharper understanding of cause and effect, and shows how we can use it to approach some of our most daunting collective problems. 
  Smithsimon begins by explaining the misguided cause and effect explanations that have given us tragically little insight on issues such as racial discrimination, climate change, and the cycle of poverty.  He then shows unseen causes behind these issues, and shows how we are hard-wired to overlook them. Armed with these insights, Smithsimon explains how we can avoid these mistakes, and begin to make effective change. 
  Combining philosophy, the science of perception, and deeply researched social factors, Cause offers us a new way to ask "why?" and a hope that we may improve our society and ourselves.

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  A History of Women in Medicine -...

  Sinéad Spearing

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  A study of the female healers of centuries past, and how they went from respected to reviled.  Witch is a powerful word with humble origins. Once used to describe an ancient British tribe known for its unique class of female physicians and priestesses, it grew into something grotesque, diabolical, and dangerous. A History of Women in Medicine reveals the untold story of forgotten female physicians, their lives, practices, and subsequent denomination as witches.   Originally held in high esteem in their communities, these women used herbs and ancient psychological processes to relieve the suffering of their patients, often traveling long distances, moving from village to village. Their medical and spiritual knowledge blended the boundaries between physician and priest. These ancient healers were the antithesis of the witch figure of today; instead they were knowledgeable therapists commanding respect, gratitude, and high social status.   In this pioneering work, Sinéad Spearing draws on current archeological evidence, literature, folklore, case studies, and original religious documentation to bring to life these forgotten healers. By doing so she also exposes the Church’s efforts to demonize them in the eyes of the world, leading female healers to be labeled witches and persecuted in the ensuing hysteria known today as the European witch craze.

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  The Year's Work in the Oddball...

  Joseph Campana, Theodore Bale,...

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  “By playing with notions of collecting and cataloging, this anthology offers a range of investigations into detritus and forgotten ephemera.”—Colin Dickey, coeditor of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology   The modern age is no stranger to the cabinet of curiosities, the freak show, or a drawer full of odds and ends. These collections of oddities engagingly work against the rationality and order of the conventional archive found in a university, a corporation, or a governmental holding. In form, methodology, and content, The Year’s Work in the Oddball Archive offers a counterargument to a more reasoned form of storing and recording the avant-garde (or the post-avant-garde), the perverse, the off, the bent, the absurd, the quirky, the weird, and the queer. To do so, it positions itself within the history of mirabilia launched by curiosity cabinets starting in the mid-fifteenth century and continuing to the present day. These archives (or are they counter-archives?) are located in unexpected places—the doorways of Katrina homes, the cavity of a cow, the remnants of extinct animals, an Internet site—and they offer up “alternate modes of knowing” to the traditional archive. “An unruly―and much-needed―model for how to do the archive differently.”—Scott Herring, author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture “It was a pleasure to read through this collection, and I suspect some of the essays, if not the entire book, will find itself on the syllabus for my Archive and Ephemera graduate course.”—Museum Anthropology Review “A finely wrought collection of curiosities . . . A vital intervention into how we talk about the stuff that surrounds us.”—Colin Dickey, coeditor of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology

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  Summary Analysis and Review of...

  Start Publishing Notes

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  Summary, Analysis, and Review of Carol S. Dweck's Mindset : The New Psychology of Success PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Carol S. Dweck's Mindset: The New Psychology of Success includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success is the result of decades of research by Stanford University professor & psychologist Carol S. Dweck. In the book, she argues that a person's mindset-that is, how they view their own abilities and approach challenges-is the primary predictor of one's success. She classifies mindset as a simple binary: although there is a middle ground, you either have a predominant fixed mindset or a predominant growth mindset. The fixed mindset is the belief that one's qualities and abilities are immutable and cannot be changed. In contrast, the growth mindset is the idea that a pe

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  Wind in the Willows The (version 5)

  Kenneth Grahame

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  A children's classic, this is the story of Rat and Mole, who have many adventures both on and off their beloved river, with their friends Toad and Badger. This version has been read in a whisper and is perfect for night-time listening in a quiet room. The low volume is intentional! (Summary by Cori Samuel)

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  Learn Korean - Level 9: Advanced...

  Innovative Language Learning

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  Feeling confident in your Korean? Take the challenge at the Advanced level.Welcome to Advanced Korean: Volume 2The advanced series dives straight into dialogue about anything and everything Korean.This series is focused on exposing you to native speaking style. Start speaking Korean in minutes, and learn key vocabulary, phrases, and grammar in just minutes more with Advanced Korean.Here are a few topics covered in this audiobook: - Korean Foods- Korean Tourist Destinations- Korean Special Events- Cultural Tips and More!This isn't stale textbook material - it's fun, effective, and practical! You learn advanced Korean conversation that you can use immediately!What you get in Advanced Korean:- 170+ pages of Korean learning material- 25 Audio Lesson Tracks (completely in Korean)- 25 Audio Review Tracks (practice new words and phrases)Interactive. Effective. And FUN!Discover or rediscover how fun learning a language can be with the future of language learning.Buy this now and start speaking Korean instantly! Download the PDF and read along:https://bit.ly/3ncawTP

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