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  The Random Factor - How Chance...

  Mark Robert Rank

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  UNCOVERS HOW TRULY RANDOM THE WORLD IS BY CHALLENGING NOTIONS OF PREDICTABILITY AND RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM 
   
  It’s comforting to think that we can be successful because we work hard, climb ladders, and get what we deserve, but each of us has been profoundly touched by randomness. Chance is shown to play a crucial role in shaping outcomes across history, throughout the natural world, and in our everyday lives. In The Random Factor, Mark Robert Rank draws from a wealth of evidence, including interviews and research, to explain how luck and chance play out and reveals how we can use these lessons to guide our personal lives and public policies.  
   
  This book traverses luck from macro to micro, from events like the Cuban Missile Crisis to our personal encounters and relationships. Rank also delves into the class and race dynamics of chance, emphasizing the stark disparities it brings to light.  
   
  This transformative book prompts a new understanding of the twists and turns in our daily lives and encourages readers to fully appreciate the surprising world of randomness in which we live. 
   
  “A fantastic read. Mark Robert Rank deftly brings together insights from a wide range of studies and everyday experiences to show the underappreciated role that randomness plays in all aspects of social life. Accessible and entertaining, the book provides a valuable new perspective on contemporary inequality.”—Michael Sauder, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Iowa

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  Health Communism - A Surplus...

  Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie...

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  A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast Death Panel 
   
   
   
  Written by cohosts of the hit Death Panel podcast and longtime disability justice and healthcare activists Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie, Health Communism first examines how capital has instrumentalized health, disability, madness, and illness to create a class seen as "surplus," regarded as a fiscal and social burden. Demarcating the healthy from the surplus, the worker from the "unfit" to work, the authors argue, serves not only to undermine solidarity but to mark whole populations for extraction by the industries that have emerged to manage and contain this "surplus" population. Health Communism then looks to the grave threat capital poses to global public health, and at the rare movements around the world that have successfully challenged the extractive economy of health. 
   
   
   
  Ultimately, Adler-Bolton and Vierkant argue, we will not succeed in defeating capitalism until we sever health from capital. To do this will require a radical new politics of solidarity that centers the surplus, built on an understanding that we must not base the value of human life on one's willingness or ability to be productive within the current political economy. Capital, it turns out, only fears health.

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  The DBT Workbook to Stop Walking...

  Randi Kreger, PhD Corrine...

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  Evidence-based dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills for surviving and thriving when a family member has BPD. 
   
   
   
  If you have a family member who struggles with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you're probably familiar with the concept of walking on eggshells. Your loved one may experience intense emotions that are difficult to predict, leaving you feeling stressed, drained, and on edge. So, how can you support your loved one while also taking care of and protecting yourself? 
   
   
   
  From a leading DBT expert and the author of Stop Walking on Eggshells—which has helped nearly a million people successfully navigate their relationships with BPD sufferers—this workbook harnesses the power of DBT, the gold standard for treating BPD. You'll learn to better understand and empathize with your loved one's internal experiences and symptoms, and discover strategies to help you manage your own emotions and stay calm in stressful or upsetting situations. You'll also discover tools for improving communication, tips for boosting self-compassion, and skills for setting healthy boundaries with your loved one. If you're ready to stop walking on eggshells and start minimizing conflict, connecting with empathy, and making sure your own needs are met, this workbook can help you get started—step by step.

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  Sometimes I Feel

  Kim Mitzo Thompson, Karen Mitzo...

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  How do you feel today? Young learners will realize that all the different feelings they experience throughout the day are common! From feeling happy to sad, to silly or mad, this narration demonstrates different feelings in an appropriate way for young children.    Learn simple Spanish words and phrases with the corresponding version A Veces Me Siento.

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  The Flying Boy 1 & 2

  John Lee

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  The Flying Boy is a record of one man’s journey to find his “true masculinity” and his way out of co-dependent and addictive relationships. It’s for all men and women who grew up in dysfunctional families and are now ready for some fresh insights into their past and their pain.
   
  This audio is also about grieving, a very misunderstood process often confused with self-pity. The Flying Boy opens doors to understanding — men will understand themselves and each other, and women will more deeply understand men, learn how to be with wounded men and still take care of themselves.
   
  This book combines John's experience, strength and hope with awareness gained from years of working with men's groups and Adult Children. It offers a unique and fresh insight into co-dependency, fears of intimacy, abandonment and commitment and how to overcome them.
   
  John Lee has taught Religious Studies at Austin Community College and Literature, Humanities and American Studies at The University of Texas and the University of Alabama. With a private counseling practice specializing in masculine psychology and men’s issues, co-dependency and adult children of alcoholics, he also is the director of the Austin Men’s Center.

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  Caribbean Herbalism -...

  Aleya Fraser

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  For millennia, people have utilized plants as foods, medicines, hallucinogens, clothing, shelter, perfumes, dyes, and even poisons. In the Caribbean, medicinal and practical use of plants began with its first inhabitants, the Amerindians. New plants and knowledge were introduced through both triangular trade with Asia, Africa, and Europe and the enslavement of Africans and Indians from Southeast Asia, culminating in the modern-day system of Caribbean herbalism.Caribbean Herbalism tells the rich and complex stories of Caribbean people and the plants that have sustained them. Inside you'll find: 
  A practical guide to a meaningful selection of herbs and their traditional usesBotanical field notes and drawings that tell the stories of the Indigenous, African, East Indian, and European plants that inhabit the regionCulturally important traditions, remedies, and recipesInterviews with Caribbean people 
   
  This book offers practical tools you need to build a relationship with plants and make common Caribbean herbal remedies like bush teas, bush baths, herbal wines, infused alcohols and oils, and more!

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