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  Polished - College Class and the...

  Melissa Osborne

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  An illuminating look at the emotional costs of mobility faced by first-generation and low-income college students. 
    
  While college initiates a major transition in all students’ lives, low-income and first-generation students attending elite schools are often entering entirely new worlds. Amid the financial and academic challenges of adapting to college, their emotional lives, too, undergo a transformation. Surrounded by peers from different classes and cultural backgrounds, they are faced with an impossible choice: turn away from their former lives to blend in or stay true to themselves and remain on the outside. 
   
  An ethnography that draws on in-depth interviews with one hundred and fifty first-generation and low-income students across eighteen elite institutions, Polished uncovers the hidden consequences of the promise of social mobility in today’s educational landscape. Sociologist Melissa Osborne reveals how the very support designed to propel first-generation students forward can unexpectedly reshape their identities, often putting them at odds with their peers and families. Without direct institutional support, this emotional journey can lead to alienation, mental health challenges, poor academic outcomes, and difficult choices between upward mobility or maintaining authenticity and community. Whether you’re an educator, advocate, or student, Polished provides a powerful perspective on the uncharted challenges of social mobility and personal identity during college.

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  Release - A Woman’s Guide to...

  Juliana Leamen

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  If you are a woman over 40, tired of being unhappy with your body when you step on the scale or look in the mirror, then Release is the one book you must read BEFORE your next diet. This is NOT another weight loss book, another diet trend or magical secret you have not tried yet. Instead, Release is a rebellion against hating our bodies and trying to change who we are, after all your body got your back!  
  By learning the proven Release Method™, you will:  
  · Re-write your weight story: Gain a better understanding of what is changing in your body as you age, look at body fat differently (which is quite freeing!) and discover how to become your body's best friend in midlife 
  · Age gracefully: Learn a step-by-step method for achieving an optimal weight during peri-menopause and post-menopause, the natural way 
  · Find freedom in your body: Get into deep alignment with your essence, release the scale and get back in control of your weight 
  · Exit the comparison trap: Learn how to stop comparing your progress and release the need for external validation, finding confidence from within  
  · Activate your inner motivator: Find deep support to help you gain and keep the momentum long-term, in a safe container of deep release 
  · Become unapologetically you: Re-assess your priorities, make time to focus on the things you love, such as your family, travel... no matter how busy life gets, guilt-free!  
  As a Board Certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, Juliana Leamen is trusted by women from around the world to help them regain control of their weight in midlife. Her super-power is that she deeply cares, sharing a compassionate, yet empowering take on healthy aging so you can become the leader of your own health.

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  Summary - The Girl Who Played...

  Library Of Stories

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  SUMMARY 
    
  THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE 
  BASED ON THE BOOK BY STIEG LARSSON 
    
  SUMMARY WRITTEN BY: LIBRARY OF STORIES 
    
  CONTENT 
  Introduction to Lisbeth Salander 
  The Millennium Team 
  Dag Svensson's Investigative Report 
  The Murder of Dag Svensson and Mia Johansson 
  Salander's Past Comes to Light 
  The Quest for Zalachenko 
  Blomkvist's Role in Uncovering the Truth 
  The Conspiracy Unfolds 
  The Final Showdown 
  General Analysis 
    
  ABOUT THE ORIGINAL BOOK 
  The Girl Who Played with Fire is a gripping thriller that follows the complex lives of Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist. Salander, a brilliant but troubled hacker, is drawn into a dangerous web of corruption, crime, and betrayal. When two journalists investigating human trafficking are murdered, Salander becomes a key suspect, while Blomkvist works to uncover the truth. The novel explores themes of power, justice, and vengeance, delving into the dark undercurrents of Swedish society. It examines the consequences of abuse, both personal and institutional, and highlights the resilience of its protagonist in the face of overwhelming adversity.

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  The Life and Death of Ryan White...

  Paul M. Renfro

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  In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan White emerged as the face of the epidemic. Diagnosed with hemophilia at birth, Ryan contracted HIV through contaminated blood products. In 1985, he became a household name after he was barred from attending his Indiana middle school. As Ryan appeared on nightly news broadcasts and graced the covers of popular magazines, he was embraced by music icons and well-known athletes, achieving a curious kind of stardom. Analyzing his struggle and celebrity, Paul M. Renfro's powerful biography grapples with the contested meanings of Ryan's life, death, and afterlives. 
   
   
   
  As Renfro argues, Ryan's fight to attend school forced the American public to reckon with prevailing misconceptions about the AIDS epidemic. Yet his story also reinforced the hierarchies at the heart of the AIDS crisis. Because the "innocent" Ryan had contracted HIV "through no fault of his own," as many put it, his story was sometimes used to blame presumably "guilty" populations for spreading the virus. Reexamining Ryan's story through this lens, Renfro reveals how the consequences of this stigma continue to pervade policy and cultural understandings of HIV/AIDS today.

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  The Couple Skills Workbook -...

  PsyD Betsy Chung

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  Boost your relationship IQ, and learn essential skills for relationship success! 
   
   
   
  Do you ever feel like your romantic partner is on a completely different page? Are your arguments becoming more frequent and difficult to recover from emotionally? Do you feel disconnected, and long for that trust, intimacy, and connection you once shared? Despite our culture's obsession with effortless, fairy tale romances, the real truth is that most relationships take work. 
   
   
   
  Written by a psychologist and based on the most effective couples therapies, The Couple Skills Workbook will show you how to boost your "relationship IQ" by cultivating greater self-awareness, as well as an increased awareness of your partner's needs. With this how-to guide, you'll learn how to better navigate conflict, reconnect after fights, nurture intimacy, and build a solid foundation for a secure and loving relationship. 
   
   
   
  By showing empathy, being both an active listener and an assertive communicator, and embracing your own vulnerability, you can increase your relationship IQ, gain a deeper understanding of your partner, and set the stage for lasting bliss. This workbook will show you how, step by step.

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  Success Without School -...

  Jean Proffitt Nunnally

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  Consequences of the ongoing pandemic have seriously affected educational systems in the U.S. and around the world. School closures and the opportunities or nightmares of remote learning have caused many parents to reconsider options for schooling their children. Alternatives to conventional school are currently hot topics, strongly motivated by growing racism and the social bullying that confront many youngsters and teens in todays school environment. (New Yorker Magazine, June 21, 2021, "The Rise of Black Homeschooling") 
  Jean Nunnally's memoir of her trials and triumphs in unschooling her two children from birth to college provides an enlightening insight into the innate learning ability of humans, showing how self-esteem, trust and personal responsibility were preserved and strengthened for herself and her kids. "Unschooling" the author says, "is the way we have learned throughout time and the way adults learn when they are free to pursue their interests." Her book gives an overview of unschooling or self-directed learning, but so much more. Jean not only did the work, but her son and daughter are proof that unschooling works. They were each accepted in and graduated from prestigious U.S. colleges and testify, in personal reflections at the end of the narrative, to the happiness and fulfillment of their elementary and high school years following their passions, their hobbies, their music, their dreams, often in stark contrast to the struggles with traditional forms their peers were required to submit to. 
  Success Without School addresses myths and misperceptions of unschoolers. She explains how her view of school changed, and changed her, as she proceeded to unschool her children. She leaves the reader with an encouraging description of the three jobs of an unschooling parent: exposure, facilitation, and modeling; and offers her unique approach to preparing an unschooled teen for college, and the specific challenges that required.

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