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Patrizia Pallaro
Authentic Movement: Moving the Body, Moving the Self, Being Moved: A Collection of Essays - Volume Two
Praise for the first volume: 'It is very valuable to have [this collection of articles] all together in one place…a rich repository of insights and experiences for all the somatic disciplines. It is a wonderful collection of articles.' - Somatics This second volume on Authentic Movement - a new ...
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Gloria Petgrave Scoggins
Through a Trail of Tears: A Black Family's Story of Generational Wealth
The United States and the world are inundated with social media, books, magazines and televised media about the plight of African American families and communities, and their quest for universal freedom. The fight for Black freedom and dignity has its roots in the race riots of Oklahoma, the Timothy...
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Daniel Goleman
Ecoliterate: How Educators Are Cultivating Emotional, Social, and Ecological Intelligence
A new integration of Goleman's emotional, social, and ecological intelligence   Hopeful, eloquent, and bold, Ecoliterate offers inspiring stories, practical guidance, and an exciting new model of education that builds - in vitally important ways - on the success of social and emotional learning b...
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Nikki Shannon Smith
Sarah Journeys West: An Oregon Trail Survival Story (Girls Survive)
In the midst of the California Gold Rush, twelve-year-old Sarah and her family are living in the North as free Black people. Seeking a better life, Sarah's parents decide they will venture west on the Oregon Trail. On the trail, Sarah and her family face all kinds of hardship, including racism, extr...
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Madeleine Dunphy
Here Is the Tropical Rain Forest (Web of Life, 1)
Using cumulative verse, this colorful picture book introduces children to the swinging monkeys, upside-down-hanging sloths, graceful caimans and stalking jaguars that make up the Amazon rainforest, while giving young readers an understanding of the interdependency of life. Exotic environments like...
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Veeda Bybee
Lily and the Great Quake: A San Francisco Earthquake Survival Story (Girls Survive)
Lily is a twelve-year-old Chinese American girl living in San Francisco's Chinatown when an earthquake destroys her home and sets her neighborhood on fire. Separated from her parents, Lily must help her younger brother and neighbor escape San Francisco. As the city burns, Lily struggles to keep her ...
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Jasmine Guillory
Royal Holiday
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and a “rising star in the romance genre” ( Entertainment Weekly ) comes a dazzling novel about a spontaneous holiday vacation that turns into an unforgettable romance. Vivian Forest has been out of the country a grand total of one ...
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Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet: Deluxe Illustrated Edition
A special and deluxe illustrated hardcover edition of the inspirational, million-copy bestselling classic. The perfect gift for anyone journeying and questioning on the road of life. Few books can be described as universal. And yet, The Prophet , by Lebanese-American author Kahlil Gibran, ca...
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Jamie L. Jones
Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling
Through the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to lubricate and illuminate the country. The Pennsylvania petroleum boom of the 1860s brought cheap and plentiful petroleum into the market, decimating whale oil’s popul...
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LaJuan Payne
Mr.FourAM’s Guide to Acquisition Artistry: Building Wealth through Strategic Acquisitions
Transform Your Life Through Strategic Business Acquisition - The Underground Playbook Wall Street Doesn't Want You to Know Are you tired of building someone else's dream? Ready to own a profitable business without starting from scratch? While big firms fight over $100 million deals, savvy entreprene...
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Chris Hedges
Requiem for Gaza
In a profound and elegiac work of investigative journalism, the writer Chris Hedges and the cartoonist Joe Sacco collaborate to present the testimony of displaced Palestinians who lived through the genocide. In the spring of 2025 the cartoonist Joe Sacco, author of Palestine and Footnotes in Gaz...
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Douglas Futuyma
Evolution
The gold standard in undergraduate-level evolutionary biology textbooks. This new fifth edition presents the field of evolution as a living, breathing science. Extensively revised for clarity and currency, Evolution , Fifth Edition, includes updated coverage of evolutionary genetics and genomics ...
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Johnny Terrell
Perception Vs Reality: Every Day Life Of A Black Man
Perception vs. Reality by Johnny Terrell is a powerful memoir and call to action that explores the journey of overcoming systemic obstacles and the "double consciousness" experienced by Black men in America. Starting his life in the foster care system with a statistical 99% chance of failure, Terre...
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Mr Ralph F. Mantela
Capes of Milford...: remembered
Capes of Milford... remembered provides memories of a time when folks living in western Oakland County, MIchigan visited Mr. Cape's Ice Cream Parlor... located in Milford, MI... when they were in the mood for a really great ice cream treat. Also provided are memories from the author... and othe...
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Bill Smoot
San Quentin Exodus
James, a still-water-runs-deep boy, struggles to navigate the rough streets of Oakland, California, in the 80s. His only friend is a pit bull he rescues from dog fighting. On the cusp of college, James commits a crime that results in a prison term of thirty to life. Allison, a young Indiana girl ...
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Yana Parker
The Damn Good Resume Guide, Fifth Edition: A Crash Course in Resume Writing
One of the best-selling resume books of all time and a trusted resource for job-seekers for nearly three decades, this edition of The Damn Good Resume Guide has been completely revised and updated for today’s marketplace. The Shortest Distance Between You and Your Next Job For hundreds of ...
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Terry Shames
A Killing at Cotton Hill: A Samuel Craddock Mystery
In this award-winning debut mystery novel, the chief of police of a small town is also an unreliable drunk. So when Dora Lee Parjeter is murdered, her old friend and former police chief Samuel Craddock steps in to investigate. He discovers that a lot of people may have had it in for Dora Lee—the c...
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Tonguebreaker
In their fourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class queer brown femme survivorhood and desire. Tonguebreaker is about surviving the unsurvivable: living through hate crimes, the suicides of q...
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Maureen Groden
When a Loved One Is Dying: Conversations About Care, Connection, and Coping
A compassionate guide to navigating the emotional and practical realities of supporting a loved one at life's end. When faced with a loved one's serious illness, many families find themselves overwhelmed, uncertain, and afraid. In this compassionate guide, hospice nurse and educator Maureen Groden, ...
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Barry Schwartz
Choose Wisely: Rationality, Ethics, and the Art of Decision-Making
A leading psychologist and philosopher challenge the shortcomings of rational choice theory—and propose a new framework for understanding decision-making   For many decision scientists, their starting point—drawn from economics—is a quantitative formula called rational choice theory, allow...
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