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  Not So Pink

  Tenzim Norzom

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  This couple started their second venture to offer inclusive western workwear for women amidst the pandemic

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  In Their Names - The Untold...

  Lenore Anderson

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  When twenty-six-year-old recent college graduate Aswad Thomas was days away from starting a professional basketball career in 2009, he was shot twice while buying juice at a convenience store. The trauma left him in excruciating pain, with mounting medical debt, and struggling to cope with deep anxiety and fear. That was the same year the national incarceration rate peaked. Yet, despite thousands of new tough-on-crime policies and billions of new dollars pumped into "justice," Aswad never received victim compensation, support, or even basic levels of concern. In the name of victims, justice bureaucracies ballooned while most victims remained on their own. 
   
   
   
  In In Their Names, Lenore Anderson offers a close look at how the political call to help victims in the 1980s morphed into a demand for bigger bureaucracies and more incarceration, and cemented the long-standing chasm that exists between most victims and the justice system. She argues that the powerful myth that mass incarceration benefits victims obscures recognition of what most victims actually need, including addressing their trauma, which is a leading cause of subsequent violent crime. 
   
   
   
  A solutions-oriented, paradigm-shifting book, In Their Names argues persuasively for closing the gap between our public safety systems and crime survivors.

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  Girl Archaeologist - Sisterhood...

  Alice Beck Kehoe

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  Girl Archaeologist recounts Alice Kehoe's life, begun in an era very different from the twenty-first century in which she retired as an honored elder archaeologist. She persisted against entrenched patriarchy in her childhood, at Harvard University, and as she did fieldwork with her husband in the northern plains. A senior male professor attempted to quash Kehoe's career by raping her. Her Harvard professors refused to allow her to write a dissertation in archaeology. Universities paid her less than her male counterparts. Her husband refused to participate in housework or childcare. 
   
   
   
  Working in archaeology and in the histories of American First Nations, Kehoe published a series of groundbreaking books and articles. Although she was denied a conventional career, through her unconventional breadth of research and her empathy with First Nations people she gained a wide circle of collaborators and colleagues. Throughout her career Kehoe found and fostered a sisterhood of feminists—strong, bright women archaeologists, anthropologists, and ethnohistorians who have been essential to the field. 
   
   
   
  Girl Archaeologist is the story of how one woman pursued a professional career in a male-dominated field during a time of great change in American middle-class expectations for women.

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  A Bit of a Writer - Brendan...

  Brendan Behan

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  Brendan Behan wrote over one hundred articles for Irish newspapers between 1951 and 1956 as he rose to international fame, with most of them written in a weekly column in the Irish Press. The articles reveal a serious writer capable of great comic set pieces and amusing yarns as well as thoughtful reflections on cultural and historical issues. They reflect his passion for working-class Dublin life and the history and folklore of the city, as well as his travels in Ireland and Europe.
  
  
  This edition gathers all the articles and essays that Behan published in newspapers from 1951 to his death in 1964. Selections of Behan's articles have been published since his death (Hold Your Hour and Have Another, 1965; After the Wake, 1981; The Dubbalin Man, 1997). However, there has been no complete edition of Behan's prose, and no edition has provided a detailed biographical and literary introduction, explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading. This volume is intended for publication during the centenary celebrations of Behan's birth in 2023, with his birthday being 9 February.

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  Are We Bodies or Souls?

  Richard Swinburne

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  What are humans? What makes us who we are? 
   
    
   
  Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by being conscious. In Are We Bodies or Souls? Richard Swinburne comes to the defense of the soul and presents new philosophical arguments that are supported by modern neuroscience. When scientific advances enable neuroscientists to transplant a part of brain into a new body, he reasons, no matter how much we can find out about their brain activity or conscious experiences we will never know whether the resulting person is the same as before or somebody entirely new. Swinburne thus argues that we are immaterial souls sustained in existence by our brains. Sensations, thoughts, and intentions are conscious events in our souls that cause events in our brains. While scientists might discover some of the laws of nature that determine conscious events and brain events, each person's soul is an individual thing and this is what ultimately makes us who we are.

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  The Innovative Animal -...

  Nizar M. Benazzouz PhD

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  🏅Award-Winning Book 
  🥇 Best launch on Amazon (September 2023) 
  "The journey to enlightenment and fulfillment begins with the first step of understanding. The deeper you delve into wisdom, the closer you come to the light of true fulfillment."- by Digital Transformation Manager & Innovation Professor: Nizar M. Benazzouz, PhD 
  Picture a world where newness is everywhere and nothing is casual or stable ! Through this audiobook, you will be exploring how everything around us, inert or animated, is connected in surprising ways. To achieve this ambitious goal, we will focus on the creative/destructive concept of innovation by:Redefining the vast ocean of innovation beyond the typical business and technological boundaries, to include any natural or human, physical or mental creation serving a purposeDiving into the deep waters of "change", and how this fundamental concept is intertwined with the existence of everything & everyoneChallenging and superposing western science and progress (quantum physics, industrial revolutions, etc.) and eastern philosophies and beliefs (Yin & Yang, religions, etc.) to build a comprehensive picture of why and how new objects and concepts come to beExploring the five components of the timeless innovative pattern: Need, Motivation, Creativity, Technology and Value.Providing a thought-provoking outlook into the state-of-the-art of modern human societies and where the wind of change seems to be leading us as individuals and a species.BONUS: Demonstrating how you are subconsciously innovating your reality every second and how to take control of this process to your and others’ benefit.

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