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  Feminist Queer Crip

  Alison Kafer

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  In Feminist, Queer, Crip, Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a pre-determined limit. She juxtaposes theories, movements, and identities such as environmental justice, reproductive justice, cyborg theory, transgender politics, and disability that are typically discussed in isolation and envisions new possibilities for crip futures and feminist/queer/crip alliances. This bold book goes against the grain of normalization and promotes a political framework for a more just world.

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  From Warfare to Welfare -...

  Jennifer S. Light

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  This study of Cold War era urban planning explores how defense technology was employed to reshape America’s cities. 
   
  During the early decades of the Cold War, large-scale investments in American defense and aerospace research and development spawned a variety of problem-solving techniques, technologies, and institutions. From systems analysis to reconnaissance satellites to think tanks, these innovations soon found civilian applications in both the private and public sector. City planning and management were no exception. 
   
  Jennifer Light argues that the technologies and values of the Cold War fundamentally shaped the history of postwar urban America. From Warfare to Welfare documents how American intellectuals, city leaders, and the federal government chose to attack problems in the nation’s cities by borrowing techniques and technologies first designed for military engagement with foreign enemies.  
   
  Experiments in urban problem solving adapted the expertise of defense professionals to face new threats: urban chaos, blight, and social unrest. Tracing the transfer of innovations from military to city planning and management, Light reveals how a continuing source of inspiration for American city administrators lay in the nation’s preparations for war.

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  The Cell - Discovering the...

  Joshua Z. Rappoport PhD

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  Your body has trillions of cells, and each one has the complexity and dynamism of a city. Your life, your thoughts, your diseases, and your health are all the function of cells.But what do you really know about what goes on inside you?The last time most people thought about cells in any detail was probably in high school or a college general biology class. But the field of cell biology has advanced incredibly rapidly in recent decades, and a great deal of what we may have learned in high school and college is no longer accurate or particularly relevant.The Cell: Inside the Microscopic World that Determines Our Health, Our Consciousness, and Our Future is a fascinating story of the incredible complexity and dynamism inside the cell and of the fantastic advancements in our understanding of this microscopic world.Using the latest scientific research, The Cell illustrates the diversity of cell biology and what it all means for your everyday life.

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  Origins of Intelligence - The...

  Sue Taylor Parker, Michael L....

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  A look at the origins of cognitive abilities in primate species. 
   
  Since Darwin’s time, comparative psychologists have searched for a good way to compare cognition in humans and nonhuman primates. In Origins of Intelligence, Sue Parker and Michael McKinney offer such a framework and make a strong case for using human development theory (both Piagetian and neo-Piagetian) to study the evolution of intelligence across primate species. Their approach is comprehensive, covering a broad range of social, symbolic, physical, and logical domains, which fall under the all-encompassing and much-debated term intelligence. 
   
  A widely held theory among developmental psychologists and social and biological anthropologists is that cognitive evolution in humans has occurred through juvenilization—the gradual accentuation and lengthening of childhood in the evolutionary process. In this work, however, Parker and McKinney argue instead that new stages were added at the end of cognitive development in our hominid ancestors, coining the term adultification by terminal extension to explain this process. 
   
  Drawing evidence from scores of studies on monkeys, great apes, and human children, this book provides unique insights into ontogenetic constraints that have interacted with selective forces to shape the evolution of cognitive development in our lineage. 
   
  “The authors’ elegant theory and comprehensive empirical synthesis of how the development of human intelligence and brain evolved opens up cascading heuristic avenues for creatively answering one of the great questions in the human history of ideas.” —Jonas Langer, Human Development 
   
  “A handy source of information on comparative cognitive abilities related to life history and brain variables.” —James Anderson, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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  Amazon FBA for Beginners Series...

  Red Mikhail

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  Learn How to Start Your FBA Business and How to Find the Hottest Products on Amazon. Today, you can learn a simple STEP BY STEP GUIDE that any beginner Amazon seller can implement. If you are tired of the empty promises of the gurus. If you just want a simple step by step system to make money via the Amazon FBA program, then this book bundle is for you. Here's a preview of what you'll discover: BOOK 1 - AMAZON FBA STEP BY STEP The exact plan to follow so you can go from zero to $5,000 per month or more on FBA How to choose a plan of attack, so you'll know exactly what product are you going to look for. The best way to get started with private labels, the checklist to use for choosing a supplier and the entire process of getting your products from initial order to shipping BOOK 2 - FBA PRODUCT RESEARCH 101 The “perfect criteria” that every beginner should follow when they’re searching for their first few products to sell on Amazon What the 5X rule is and why it’ll save you hundreds if not thousands of dollars from potential mistakes BOOK 3 - AMAZON KEYWORD RESEARCH The 6-step process of keyword research that will turn your product into a passive income-producing machine 3 reasons why you shouldn't start your keyword research with tools. Why over-reliance on research tools will make you a terrible online seller Exactly how to know if your keywords are getting indexed by Amazon or not 3 Amazon SEO strategies that will boost your rankings almost overnight Discover a simple, actionable, and beginner-friendly way of starting and growing an AMAZON FBA business. Grab your copy today!

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  Connected Science - Strategies...

  Tricia A. Ferrett, David Geelan,...

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  Informed by the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL), Connected Science presents a new approach to college science education for the 21st century. This interdisciplinary approach stresses integrative learning and pedagogies that engage students through open-ended inquiry, compelling real-world questions, and data-rich experiences. Faculty from a variety of disciplines and institutions present case studies based on research in the classroom, offering insights into student learning goals and best practices in curriculum design. Synthetic chapters bring together themes from the case studies, present an overview of the connected science approach, and identify strategies and future challenges to help move this work forward.

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