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Inside the Well: The Midland, Texas Rescue of Baby JessicaOn October 14, 1987, eighteen-month-old Jessica McClure fell into a well, igniting a 56-hour sprint to free her. The oil boomtown of Midland, Texas, supplied a ragtag crew of rescuers. Firemen, policemen, roofing contractors, oil drillers, mining engineers, cowpokes, and nosy neighbors all worked...
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In Our Words: Stories from the Intersection of LGBTQIA+ Identity and DisabilityWhat can we learn from the lived experiences of Disabled people identifying as LGBTQIA+?Through a series of personal reflections, In Our Words follows the difficult journeys of a number of Queer and Disabled authors from coming out to arriving at a place of positive...
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Inappropriation: The Contested Legacy of Y-Indian GuidesIn 1926, Harold Keltner, a YMCA Boys Work secretary from St. Louis, and Joe Friday, a member of the Canadian Ojibwe First Peoples, channeled white middle-class fascination with Native Americans into what became the Y-Indian Guides youth program, engaging over a half million participants...
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Impossibly Cute Boys: The Healing Power of Shota Comics in JapanImpossibly Cute Boys is the first book in English about Japanese shota comics and their fans. Shota features cute boy characters, but little is known about this manga genre and its readers since research is lacking, both in and outside of Japan. Based on...
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I Like Your Chutzpah: And Other Yiddish Words You'll LikeThe first in a stylish, current, and multifaceted series of Jewish-themed board books for curious young readers. This modern and whimsical Jewish-themed board book series is the first of its kind incorporating both Jewish traditions and Jewish culture, offering a unique depiction of Judaism....
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HungaryFrom the bustling city of Budapest to peaceful lakeside retreats, Hungary is presented to readers in incredible detail in this eye-catching guide. Vibrant photographs immerse readers in the natural beauty of this European nation and introduce them to its people at work and play....
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How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and DoomThe long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is a fact of life. In the wake of the 2014 Ferguson riots, and...
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How the Brain WorksThe brain is generally considered the most complex part of the body. Although scientists understand its basic anatomy, much remains uncertain about how the brain impacts behavior, sensation, emotion, intelligence, and consciousness. This volume explores what is currently known about the brain's functions and...
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Herstories in Graphic Design: Dialogue, Continuity, Self-Empowerment. Women Graphic Designers from 1880 Until Today / Dialoge, Kontinutitäten, SelbsBilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) By and large, women have been left out of the history of graphic design. Yet if we look beyond the surface of this familiar account, what becomes clear is the influence women graphic designers have had on...
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Healing Wounded HeartsStories, poems, and artwork that illustrate the struggles and strengths that this Aboriginal author exhibits, living everyday in intersecting, parallel, and sometimes colliding sociocultural realities are brought together in this personal memoir. The author shares her personal, painful, and spiritual discoveries of how life...
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Great BritainGreat Britain is a place where the past and present often seem to exist alongside each other--where medieval castles can be found a short drive from modern cities and where traditional British cuisine is sometimes served in the same restaurant as the latest culinary...
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Good News about Injustice Bible StudyGod's heart for justice resonates through Scripture. With Good News About Injustice, Gary Haugen helped thousands of Christians catch this vision and be empowered to join God's work around the world. Now the Good News About Injustice Bible Study guides you deeper into biblical...
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Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for GeorgiaGeorgia, the last of Britain's American mainland colonies, began with high aspirations to create a morally sound society based on small family farms with no enslaved workers. But those goals were not realized, and Georgia became a slave plantation society, following the Carolina model....
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Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for GeorgiaGeorgia, the last of Britain's American mainland colonies, began with high aspirations to create a morally sound society based on small family farms with no enslaved workers. But those goals were not realized, and Georgia became a slave plantation society, following the Carolina model....
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Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public AmusementsDavid Nasaw has written a sparkling social history of twentieth-century show business and of the new American public that assembled in the city's pleasure palaces, parks, theaters, nickelodeons, world's fair midways, and dance halls. The new amusement centers welcomed women, men, and children, native-born...
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Generative Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)"AI expert Jerry Kaplan explains how generative AI will revolutionize virtually every human activity. Highly recommended." - Francis Fukuyama, Political scientist and author of The End of History and the Last Man Advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) have created a new class of...
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Gay Aliens and Queer Folk: How Russell T Davies Changed TVDirectly explores the queer narratives present throughout Russell T Davies' extensive work in television and how he broke down barriers to show the truth and joy of queer identities. The television writing of Russell T Davies defies easy categorization, ranging from children's programs, Shakespeare,...
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From the Courtroom to the Boardroom: Privatizing Justice in the Neoliberal United StatesThe era of mass incarceration has been associated with the idea of "law and order," referring to the carceral regime in which politicians exploited public anxieties over crime and funneled resources into policing and prisons. As important as this system has been and remains...
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Food and Power in Hawai'i: Visions of Food DemocracyIn Food and Power in Hawai i, island scholars and writers from backgrounds in academia, farming, and community organizations discuss new ways of looking at food policy and practices in terms of social justice and sustainability. Each of the nine essays describes Hawai i's...
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First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll, America's First Jewish Woman Stand-Up ComedianBefore Hacks and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was the comedienne who started it all First Lady of Laughs tells the story of Jean Carroll, the first Jewish woman to become a star in the field we now call stand-up comedy. Though rarely mentioned...
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