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  Dismissed - Tackling the Biases...

  Kathy Palokoff, Angela Marshall

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  Health-care providers and their patients are human, and all humans have unconscious biases that affect how we listen, observe, and act. Bias impacts patients when they are at their most vulnerable. Health-care bias can mean the difference not just between suffering and relief, but between life and death. 
   
   
   
  For the first time, an author with the unique perspective of being one of America's top doctors, a woman, and Black, candidly addresses the issue of bias in health care, sharing personal and patient stories and pragmatic solutions. Dr. Angela Marshall, repeatedly named a "Top Doctor" by Washingtonian magazine, draws on extensive research, poignant stories from some of the thousands of patients she has treated, and her own compelling personal experience, to examine the bias from both patients' and health-care providers' points of view. She offers a bold blueprint for change, filled with fresh solutions that can help everyone in our health-care system. 
   
   
   
  Dismissed not only explains what so many people feel so profoundly—that the system is working against them. It also reveals what health-care practitioners, patients, and society in general can do to make it right.

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  Brownies & Bogles - A Compendium...

  Louise Imogen Guiney

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  Over one hundred years since its original publication, Brownies & Bogles by Louise Imogen Guiney is now republished as a wonderful, easy-to-follow guidebook to the fae.   American essayist and poet Louise Imogen Guiney put together a fantastic, poetic book dedicated to the happenings of the fair folk. Now republished for a modern audience with a foreword by Chris Allaun, Brownies & Bogles is the timeless treasure you didn’t realize was missing from your library. Contained within are stories and anecdotes regarding the lives of the Little People, offering insight into the interests and hobbies of those unseen.   Written in language that will resonate with today’s readers, Brownies & Bogles is an entertaining and informative book sure to please the witch who works with fairies.

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  The Art of War

  Sun Tzu

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  More than 2,500 years ago, a Chinese commander, Master Sun—or Sun-tzu—collected together his precepts on generalship to form the kernel of one of the most famous military treatises of all time. Our understanding of strategic warfare that comes out of his writings has yet to be surpassed. Eschewing conventional courage and military might as primary deciding factors, The Art of War is characterised by a profoundly enlightened emphasis on moderation, imagination, good morale and scrupulous forward planning.
  
  Leaders from all centuries and all countries have claimed to have drawn inspiration from the work, and its influence infiltrated popular culture as modern thinkers recognised that its fundamental philosophies apply as much to gaining a competitive edge in day-to-day life as they do to the battlefield.

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  Theatre of the Unimpressed - In...

  Jordan Tannahill

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  How dull plays are killing theatre and what we can do about it.
     
  Had I become disenchanted with the form I had once fallen so madly in love with as a pubescent, pimple-faced suburban homo with braces? Maybe theatre was like an all-consuming high school infatuation that now, ten years later, I saw as the closeted balding guy with a beer gut he’d become. There were of course those rare moments of transcendencethat kept me coming back. But why did they come so few and far between?
     
  A lot of plays are dull. And one dull play, it seems, can turn us off theatre for good. Playwright and theatre director Jordan Tannahill takes in the spectrum of English-language drama – from the flashiest of Broadway spectacles to productions mounted in scrappy storefront theatres – to consider where lifeless plays come from and why they persist. Having travelled the globe talking to theatre artists, critics, passionate patrons and the theatrically disillusioned, Tannahill addresses what he considers the culture of ‘risk aversion’ paralyzing the form.
    
     
  Theatre of the Unimpressed is Tannahill’s wry and revelatory personal reckoning with the discipline he’s dedicated his life to, and a roadmap for a vital twenty-first-century theatre – one that apprehends the value of ‘liveness’ in our mediated age and the necessity for artistic risk and its attendant failures. In considering dramaturgy, programming and alternative models for producing, Tannahill aims to turn theatre from an obligation to a destination.
     
  ‘[Tannahill is] the poster child of a new generation of (theatre? film? dance?) artists for whom "interdisciplinary" is not a buzzword, but a way of life.’ —J. Kelly Nestruck, Globe and Mail
     
  ‘Jordan is one of the most talented and exciting playwrights in the country, and he will be a force to be reckoned with for years to come.’ —Nicolas Billon, Governor General's Award–winning playwright (Fault Lines)

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  When Science Meets Power - 1st...

  Geoff Mulgan

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  Science and politics have collaborated throughout human history and science is repeatedly invoked today in political debates, from pandemic management to climate change. 
   
   
   
  Leading policy analyst Geoff Mulgan here calls attention to the growing frictions caused by the expanding—and unsolicited—authority being heaped upon science. As science increasingly competes with politics, a defined plan of cooperation is urgently needed. 
   
   
   
  Mulgan outlines science and politics as two distinct, imperfect forms of collective intelligence. Whereas science is ordered around what we know and what is, politics engages what we feel and what matters. Politics functions because it recognizes the limits of power, the need for delegation and expert advice. The intellectual logic of science, on the other hand, focuses on detail and depth, struggling to place its knowledge in wider contexts. The crux of the matter, Mulgan argues, is how can we ensure that crucial decisions taken in democracies are both well informed and legitimate? 
   
   
   
  Rooted in understanding that science and politics are not just fields of ideas but also fields of action, this book proposes ways to ensure that the two work effectively together.

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  Study Smart with Binaural Beats...

  Andre Silas Chavez

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  Want more memory retention and focus while studying? Do you desire peak cognitive performance? Are you passionate about academic achievement? 
  Study Smart with Binaural Beats includes over ten hours of binaural beats sessions to improve retention and cognitive performance while studying.    
  Get centered and focused, and develop confidence and efficiency while studying to attain academic achievement and get more out of life. Cultivate the power within you and use Study Smart with Binaural Beats to:Unlock Your Brain’s Full Potential: Alpha, Beta, Theta, & Gamma Soundscapes Improving Memory and Cognitive PerformanceOrchestrate your brain's desired states by selecting specific binaural beats, such as destressing with alpha waves or brainstorming with beta wavesUnderstand that binaural beats have emerged as another tool in the toolbox, offering a unique approach to harnessing the full potential of your cognitive abilities.Start your day with heightened cognitive readiness and creativityDiscover ‘Focus Frequencies’ for turbocharging your studies 
  All you have to do is put your headphones on, select the chapter you need to hear, and let the sound waves infiltrate you while you study.   
  Right now, students are transforming their lives with these unique techniques. Don’t miss out. Become a more focused and successful student, ready to conquer the study day and reap the benefits of academic accomplishment.   

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