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  The 16 Human Desires That Make...

  Reece Wideman

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  Companionship is one of the most powerful and underestimated human desires. 
  It is the need for shared presence — the feeling that we are not moving through life alone. Beyond romance or friendship, companionship influences how people choose communities, brands, routines, subscriptions, and lifestyles. 
  In this audiobook, Reece Wideman explores what companionship really is, how it shapes behavior and buying decisions, and why people are willing to sacrifice comfort, independence, and even growth to avoid isolation. 
  Listeners will gain insight into how companionship reduces stress, increases resilience, and creates emotional stability — while also learning how to pursue connection without dependence. 
  Designed for creators, entrepreneurs, and anyone seeking clarity around human motivation, Companionship offers a grounded look at why people follow, join, subscribe, and stay.

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  Promoting career-oriented...

  Winnie-Karen Giera

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  This volume presents the results of an intervention study involving 9th-grade high school students and apprentices in the hospitality industry, which empirically examines writing in a professional context. The study focuses on the question of what writing performance the students demonstrate when drafting job applications and advertising letters during the course of the writing project using "self-regulated strategy development". To answer this question, both the written products and the writing processes were recorded and evaluated primarily using quantitative methods. The goal of the study is to improve the writing competencies of the participating students based on the selected text types, as  measured by content, linguistic, and formal aspects.

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  Somebody's Gotta Do It - Why...

  Adrienne Martini

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  A humorous (and instructive) memoir about a progressive woman who 
  runs for very small-town elected office in a red county—and wins (yay!)— 
  and only then realizes the critical importance of the job 
   
  Back in the fall of 2016, before casting her vote for Hillary Clinton, 
  Adrienne Martini, a knitter, a runner, a mom, and a resident of rural Otsego 
  County in snowy upstate New York, knew who her senators were, wasn’t too 
  sure who her congressman was, and had only vague inklings about who her 
  state reps were. She’d always thought of politicians as … oily. Then she spent 
  election night curled in bed, unable to stop shaking, texting her husband, who 
  was at work. And after the presidential inauguration, she reached out to Dave, 
  a friend of a friend, who was involved in the Otsego County Democratic Party. 
  Maybe she could help out with phone calls or fundraising? But Dave’s idea was: 
  she should run for office. Someone had to do it. 
   
  And so, in the year that 26,000 women (up from 920 the year before) 
  contacted EMILY’s List about running for offices large and small, Adrienne 
  Martini ran for the District 12 seat on the Otsego County Board. And became 
  one of the fourteen delegates who collectively serve one rural American 
  county, overseeing a budget of $130 million. Highway repair? Soil and water 
  conservation? Child safety? Want Wi-Fi? Need a coroner? 
   
  It turns out, local office matters a lot to any government by the people for 
  the people.

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  The Transplantable Roots of...

  Susan Karen Burton

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  Since the first 'Welch' sailor set foot on Japanese shores in the seventeenth century to the present-day presence of high-tech Japanese companies in the Valleys, Wales and Japan are two nations with deeply entwined roots.
  
  Captured in this groundbreaking book is a chorus of modern-day Welsh migrants to Japan. There is Catharine who, in 1965, followed her Japanese husband to an 'out of kilter' house in the seaside town of Zushi; Jac, the 'capitalist ski bum', who guides tourists through the bear-infested wilds of snowy Hokkaidō, while on a volcanic island in the Seto Inland Sea, Simon clears jungle vines to develop his vegan farm.
  
  There are also actors, writers, teachers, an ex-bouncer turned martial artist, a filmmaker, a games localiser, and many more. There are even Japanese fans who promote Welsh culture in their homeland. Together they form a polyphonic group portrait based on oral-history techniques, mixing travel writing, character study and reportage, while proving an ear for natural speech.
  
  Fresh, engaging, with a strong sense of space and place, but above all, a knack for crafting a life story, this volume of documentary literature presents universal themes of work, adventure, reinvention and survival. Here are people discovering and negotiating the land, the life and the culture of Japan, and putting down 'transplantable roots'.
  
  INCLUDES 45 B&W IMAGES

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  Radical Politics - On the Causes...

  Peter D. Thomas

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  The last twenty years have witnessed a proliferation of radical social and political movements around the world. From the International Women's Strike and Occupy, to #BlackLivesMatter and direct action against the climate emergency, a series of common questions have re-emerged as immediate and practical challenges. How should radical political movements relate to the state? What makes emancipatory politics fundamentally different from both technocratic and populist models of "politics as usual"? Which forms of organization are most likely to deepen and extend the dynamics that led to the emergence of these movements in the first place? 
   
   
   
  To investigate the goal, nature, method, and organizational forms of radical political engagement against the neoliberal consensus, Peter D. Thomas draws on the work of Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Communist Party leader and political theorist best known for his ideas about hegemony. Offering a new reading of Gramsci, Thomas contends that hegemony is a process of differentiation in which political culture is always changing, and always with the goal of moving toward expanded freedom. Over the course of the book, Thomas looks at the way in which various theorists have approached the dilemma of how to engage productively in radical politics and explains why hegemony is a method of doing politics rather than an end goal.

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  The Big Book of Illinois Ghost...

  Troy Taylor

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  More than 100 stories from haunted locales across the Prairie State. Compiled by Illinois's best-known author on the paranormal, Troy Taylor.

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