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Book SynopsisSince its acquisition and rebranding in 2018, TikTok has become one of the fastest growing platforms in the world. Moreover, it's the first Chinese-developed platform to find mainstream international success, carving its own niche in the global short video industry. In the first comprehensive exploration of TikTok, Kaye, Zeng, and Wikström provide a history of the emergent genre of short video and situate the platform within the cultures and controversies that have accompanied its dramatic growth. They provide an extensive overview of TikTok's functions and uses, the diverse markets in which the platform operates, and the issues of governance that have impacted its expansion. Once thought to be 'just for kids', the authors illustrate how TikTok is further transforming platform cultures and the dynamics of broader creative industries. TikTok, the authors argue, represents an evolutionary step in the way culture is produced and consumed on digital platforms. This timely book is essential reading for students and scholars in media and communication studies and for anyone who has been captivated by the global growth of TikTok and short video.Trade Review“The rise of TikTok as a short video platform is intriguing, particularly in the context of the American and Chinese ecosystems. This book offers an excellent primer to understand the technological, economic and socio-cultural drivers of this platform. Through the lens of user creativity and critical platform analysis, readers are enlightened about TikTok’s coevolution with other mainstream platforms and their ever-changing affordances. An eye-opening introduction for students!”José van Dijck, University of Utrecht“Wonderfully compact and to the point. In one of the first comprehensive accounts of the short video turn, the authors succeed in grasping the very essence of TikTok.”David B. Nieborg, University of Toronto“the book is a timely contribution to social science literature and a crucial read for both academics and those from outside academia who are interested in exploring the history of short video and TikTok.”European Journal of Communication

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Book SynopsisAccording to some chronicles of the Spanish Conquest, the violent arrival of the Conquerors to the Andes in the sixteenth century led to sex-dissident people who lived outside the dominant European cisheteropatriarchal model being burned at the stake. This act burned more than the flesh; it also charred practices, ways of life, and textualities, leaving an emptiness and a trauma that would mark the future literatures of the Andean region. This book cannot repair those pre-sodomite texts and bodies. It seeks instead to reconsider the value of the ash, a metaphor that allows for a critical and contradictory reading of sexual dissidences in the Andean region in the twentieth century, beyond both multiculturalism and the wake of a globalized LGBTI movement. Through a comparative analysis, and drawing on theoretical perspectives such as anticoloniality, feminisms, and cuir (rather than queer) theories, the book aims to understand the value of a series of complex texts in which dissident subjectivities, practices, and desires help to broaden the understanding of the Andean. Winner of the prestigious Casa de las Américas prize, the book was praised by the jury for the paradoxical and provocative way that it struggles against the abyss of past destruction and reflects on the contribution of the Global South to the often uniformist thinking around the body and its intersections.Trade Review"Working through the remnants of colonial sodomitic tropes, Falconí Trávez offers a new localized queer theory and practice that reimagines what a sexually dissident decolonial culture can be, and brilliantly queers in the process both Euro-American queer theory and the Andean literary canon."Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, Fordham University Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword – Joseph Pierce Instructions for Reading this Book: By Way of an Introduction 1. Re-sent(I)Ment of the Andean Literary Canon: Proposal for a Heterofagcontradictory Reading through Pablo Palacio 2. Mestizaje’s Back Door: Crossings in the Narrative of Jaime Bayly, from Homo to Gay to Bi 3. Julieta Paredes: Rearranging the Lesbian Aymara Body through Devilish Writing 4. Writing at the Andean Limits: Decadence, Migration and Aids-Reciprocity in the Writing of Fernando Vallejo’s I 5. From Queer to Cuy(R)? The Bewitching Proposal to Entundar in the Literature of Adalberto Ortiz

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Book SynopsisNetflix and Streaming Video is the first book to provide a comprehensive foundation for understanding the business of subscriber-funded streaming video and its implications for the role of these services in culture. Drawing on Lotz’s two decades of research, it highlights the similarities and differences among streaming video services (Netflix; Amazon) and video distribution technologies (broadcast; satellite; internet). Making a number of provocative and thought-provoking arguments, the book first reveals how the reliance on subscriber payment and video on demand produces different norms and strategies compared to previous video businesses. It then investigates Netflix and how its particular blend of characteristics distinguishes it from other subscriber-funded video on demand services. The author expertly shows that, by understanding the underlying economic and technological dynamics of these services (and their differences), it is possible to better assess the actions taken by the companies and what the future of video may encompass. The book is a must-read for students and scholars of Media and Communications Studies, as well as those wishing to learn more about Netflix and streaming video services.Trade Review‘In the chaotic world of television, Amanda Lotz has a keen ability to separate noise from signal. Here she drills into the factors and functions that make subscription streaming services distinctive from one another and put Netflix in a class of its own. This is a must-read for students of and professionals in the TV industry.’Evan Shapiro, Producer, Media Cartographer, and Professor at Fordham University and NYU ‘Amanda Lotz is unparalleled at addressing our most vital questions regarding the global streaming video landscape. With Netflix and Streaming Video, Lotz has also introduced a blog-incubated mode of academic query as essential, iterative, asynchronous, and disruptive as the industries she studies.’David Craig, USC Annenberg‘...showcases the wide variety of logics used by film and television producers and distributors today… This book seeks to offer valuable insights to media industry workers and aspirants seeking to understand recent changes in the industry. It will also inform television and media industry scholars including those who research video games, e-books, music, and the many other media industries that are experimenting with subscription forms of funding and distribution.’Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies‘Lotz dispels popular myths about Netflix, for example when she compares the different success logics of classic linear television and Netflix's streaming television. Lotz succeeds in very accurately working out the specifics of the various services and illustrates in detail how Netflix differs from other streaming providers as well as from advertising-financed linear television.’Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft / Journal for Media StudiesTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction Section One: Subscriber-funded streaming services are different from linear services 1. Experience: On Schedules and Viewing Practices 2. Building Libraries: Conglomerating Niches and Beyond? 3. Subscriber Funding: On Success Metrics, Program Strategies, and Demographics 4. Licensing, Labour, Regulation, and Recommendation 5. Scale and Specialization 6. The Discrepant Field of Global Services Section One Conclusion Section Two: Netflix is not like other subscriber-funded streaming video services 7. Netflix Content Concepts and Vocabulary 8. Netflix Library Strategies 9. Netflix Content Strategies 10. Netflix’s Approach to Being Global Section Two Conclusion Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNetflix and Streaming Video is the first book to provide a comprehensive foundation for understanding the business of subscriber-funded streaming video and its implications for the role of these services in culture. Drawing on Lotz’s two decades of research, it highlights the similarities and differences among streaming video services (Netflix; Amazon) and video distribution technologies (broadcast; satellite; internet). Making a number of provocative and thought-provoking arguments, the book first reveals how the reliance on subscriber payment and video on demand produces different norms and strategies compared to previous video businesses. It then investigates Netflix and how its particular blend of characteristics distinguishes it from other subscriber-funded video on demand services. The author expertly shows that, by understanding the underlying economic and technological dynamics of these services (and their differences), it is possible to better assess the actions taken by the companies and what the future of video may encompass. The book is a must-read for students and scholars of Media and Communications Studies, as well as those wishing to learn more about Netflix and streaming video services.Trade Review‘In the chaotic world of television, Amanda Lotz has a keen ability to separate noise from signal. Here she drills into the factors and functions that make subscription streaming services distinctive from one another and put Netflix in a class of its own. This is a must-read for students of and professionals in the TV industry.’Evan Shapiro, Producer, Media Cartographer, and Professor at Fordham University and NYU ‘Amanda Lotz is unparalleled at addressing our most vital questions regarding the global streaming video landscape. With Netflix and Streaming Video, Lotz has also introduced a blog-incubated mode of academic query as essential, iterative, asynchronous, and disruptive as the industries she studies.’David Craig, USC Annenberg‘...showcases the wide variety of logics used by film and television producers and distributors today… This book seeks to offer valuable insights to media industry workers and aspirants seeking to understand recent changes in the industry. It will also inform television and media industry scholars including those who research video games, e-books, music, and the many other media industries that are experimenting with subscription forms of funding and distribution.’Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies‘Lotz dispels popular myths about Netflix, for example when she compares the different success logics of classic linear television and Netflix's streaming television. Lotz succeeds in very accurately working out the specifics of the various services and illustrates in detail how Netflix differs from other streaming providers as well as from advertising-financed linear television.’Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft / Journal for Media StudiesTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction Section One: Subscriber-funded streaming services are different from linear services 1. Experience: On Schedules and Viewing Practices 2. Building Libraries: Conglomerating Niches and Beyond? 3. Subscriber Funding: On Success Metrics, Program Strategies, and Demographics 4. Licensing, Labour, Regulation, and Recommendation 5. Scale and Specialization 6. The Discrepant Field of Global Services Section One Conclusion Section Two: Netflix is not like other subscriber-funded streaming video services 7. Netflix Content Concepts and Vocabulary 8. Netflix Library Strategies 9. Netflix Content Strategies 10. Netflix’s Approach to Being Global Section Two Conclusion Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is a lively and thought-provoking book about how to do creativity, unlock your potential, and make a difference. The artists, musicians, and writers we think of as ’very creative’ are just like us, except that they have spent time developing and realising ideas, and have found the confidence to share them with the world. None of this comes naturally. This wide-ranging book offers research, advice, and philosophy to fuel your understanding and passion for creativity. David Gauntlett draws on his own experiences of making music and experimenting with digital media alongside 25 years of researching creativity. Including insights from a diverse array of creators, this book highlights the vitality of the individual creative voice in a world where social media offers a weird mix of inspiration and suffocation, and our struggles for social justice are equally hopeful and upsetting. Creativity shows how vulnerability, experimentation, and courage can enable us to become bold and engaging creators.Trade Review"Growing up is how we become alienated from ourselves and the creative superpowers we had as children. Gauntlett shows us the way back to play, learning, and the joy of realizing our true creative genius. A must-read."Cecilia Weckstrom, The LEGO Group"This wonderful book makes the impossibly complex process of creativity accessible, emotional, and playful."Clare Twomey, ceramic artist"We’re often told that creativity is a vital gift of the rarefied few, but Gauntlett shows that its magic can be unlocked for all of us. An inspiring, enthusiastic and, for this reader, life-shifting book!"Ben Barry, Dean of Fashion, Parsons School of DesignTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Identity 2. Experimenting 3. Doing 4. Inspiration 5. Diversity 6. Keep going 7. Becoming Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisDigital technologies are having a profound effect on the temporalities of individuals, households and organisations. We now expect to be able to instantly source a vast array of information at any time and from anywhere, as well as buy goods with the click of a button and have them delivered within hours, while time management apps and locative media have altered how everyday scheduling and mobility unfolds.Digital Timescapes makes the case that we have transitioned to an era where the production and experience of time is qualitatively different to the pre-digital era. Rob Kitchin provides a synoptic account of this transition, charting how digital technologies, in a wide range of manifestations, are reconfiguring everyday temporalities. Attention is focused on the temporalities associated with six sets of everyday practices: history and memory; politics and policy; governance and governmentality; mobility and logistics; planning and development; and work and labour. Critically, how to challenge and reorder digitally mediated temporal power is examined through the development of an ethics of temporal care and temporal justice.Conceptually and empirically rich, Digital Timescapes is an essential guide to our new temporal regime. It will be of interest to students and scholars of Media Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Human Geography, and History and Memory Studies, as well as those who are interested in how digital technologies are transforming society.Trade Review"A book rich with insights on the inexorable relationship between time, technology and power. Kitchin maps the unevenness of time in digital culture while he also reveals the inequitable unevenness, and a possible way out, of the types of time that continue to dominate the study of time."—Sarah Sharma, University of Toronto "A much-needed book that updates and rethinks the time-technology nexus. Rob Kitchin provides an eloquent and accessible theory of time from the perspective of human geography. It was about time; we have been waiting far too long."—Anne Kaun, Professor in Media and Communication Studies, Department for Media and Communication Studies, School of Culture and EducationTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Tables Part I: The nature of time and temporalities 1 Time, temporality and timescapes 2 Digital technologies and temporalities Part II: Digital timescapes 3 History and memory 4 Politics and policy 5 Governance and governmentality 6 Mobility and logistics 7 Planning and development 8 Work and labour Part III: Remaking digital timescapes 9 Temporal power and its consequences 10 Transforming temporal power 11 Making sense of digital timescapes References Index

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Book SynopsisExam board: AQALevel: A levelSubject: GermanFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Maximise your students' potential and build the skills needed to succeed with this exam-focused workbook, packed with practice questions for every section of the AQA A-Level German exams.- Encourage rolling revision throughout the two years by developing your students' skills in class and at home- Test each skill with exam-style activities for every section of the exam papers, with all the audio and answers accessible online- Build your students' confidence in vocab and grammar with focused lists, explanations and activities- Target the top grades with sample answers and tips to boost exam performance

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Book SynopsisExam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC/EduqasLevel: A-levelSubject: GermanFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018 Make German grammar second nature with this trusted reference book containing over 300 activities - now completely revised in line with the new A-level specifications.- Supplement key resources in class or encourage independent practice at home, with clear explanations of the grammar points needed at A-level and knowledge-check exercises throughout - Prepare for assessment with longer application activities focused on developing writing skills such as translation and summary - Build confidence as exercises get increasingly more challenging to mirror students' advancement throughout the course - Check students' progress with regular grammar tests and all answers supplied online

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Book SynopsisExam board: AQALevel: A-levelSubject: SpanishFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Essential vocabulary for AQA A-level Spanish, all in one place.- Supplement key resources such as course textbooks with all the vocab students need to know in one easy-to-navigate place, completed updated to match the latest specification - Ensure extensive vocab coverage with topic-by-topic lists of key words and phrases, including a new section dedicated to film and literature - Test students' knowledge with end-of-topic activities designed to deepen their understanding of word patterns and relationships - Develop effective strategies for learning new vocab and dealing with unfamiliar words

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Book SynopsisThis title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education Support knowledge and understanding from the Learner's Book with practical workbooks designed to challenge learners to develop their thinking further.- Save time when planning with ready-made homework or extension exercises.- Challenge learners to develop their learning further with practice activities. - Ensure mastery with clear coverage of key language skills: grammar, spelling, vocabulary, reading and writing.- Develop and expand knowledge, ensuring learners master the skills, language systems and vocabulary from every unit.

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Book Synopsis#1 New York Times Bestseller! Get thousands of facts at your fingertips with this essential resource: sports, pop culture, science and technology, U.S. history and government, world geography, business, and so much more.The World Almanac® is America’s bestselling reference book of all time, with more than 83 million copies sold. For more than 150 years, this compendium of information has been the authoritative source for school, library, business, and home. The 2024 edition of The World Almanac reviews the biggest events of 2023 and will be your go-to source for questions on any topic in the upcoming year. Praised as a “treasure trove of political, economic, scientific and educational statistics and information” by The Wall Street Journal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts will answer all of your trivia needs effortlessly.Features include: Special Feature: Election 2024: A new feature covers all voters need to know going into the 2024 presidential election season, including primary and caucus dates, candidate profiles, campaign finance numbers, and more. 2023—Top 10 News Topics: The editors of The World Almanac list the top stories that held the world's attention in 2023, from wildfires and earthquakes to Israel, Ukraine, and the U.S. Congress. 2023—Year in Sports: Hundreds of pages of trivia and statistics that are essential for any sports fan, featuring complete coverage of the 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup, 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, and 2023 World Series. 2023—Year in Pictures: Striking full-color images from around the world in 2023, covering news, entertainment, science, and sports. 2023—Offbeat News Stories: The World Almanac editors found some of the strangest news stories of the year. World Almanac Editors' Picks: Time Capsule: The World Almanac lists the items that most came to symbolize the year 2023, including a Swiftie-created friendship bracelet and the House Speaker's gavel. The World at a Glance: This annual feature of The World Almanac provides a quick look at the surprising stats and curious facts that define the changing world. Other Highlights: Stats and graphics across dozens of chapters show how the pandemic continues to affect the economy, work, family life, education, and culture. Plus more new data to help understand the world, including housing costs, public schools and test scores, streaming TV and movie ratings, and much more.

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Book SynopsisThe history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information The ubiquity of the filing cabinet in the twentieth-century office space, along with its noticeable absence of style, has obscured its transformative role in the histories of both information technology and work. In the first in-depth history of this neglected artifact, Craig Robertson explores how the filing cabinet profoundly shaped the way that information and data have been sorted, stored, retrieved, and used.Invented in the 1890s, the filing cabinet was a result of the nineteenth-century faith in efficiency. Previously, paper records were arranged haphazardly: bound into books, stacked in piles, curled into slots, or impaled on spindles. The filing cabinet organized loose papers in tabbed folders that could be sorted alphanumerically, radically changing how people accessed, circulated, and structured information.Robertson’s unconventional history of the origins of the information age posits the filing cabinet as an information storage container, an “automatic memory” machine that contributed to a new type of information labor privileging manual dexterity over mental deliberation. Gendered assumptions about women’s nimble fingers helped to naturalize the changes that brought women into the workforce as low-level clerical workers. The filing cabinet emerges from this unexpected account as a sophisticated piece of information technology and a site of gendered labor that with its folders, files, and tabs continues to shape how we interact with information and data in today’s digital world.Trade Review"How we store information reflects the aspirations we have about what to remember. Taking this idea to heart, Craig Robertson's essential history of the filing cabinet is the definitive account of verticality and efficiency as guiding principles for corporate capitalism."—Melissa Gregg, senior principal engineer, Client Computing Group, Intel"Craig Robertson’s book offers a fascinating account of how the humble file cabinet and the associated practice of filing shaped the emergence of modern conceptions of information. These influences continue to reverberate—from the organization of our computer desktops to our assumptions about ‘information’ as a discrete entity that can be stored, manipulated, and retrieved. A significant contribution to media studies and information studies."—Jennifer S. Light, Massachusetts Institute of Technology*"In this fascinating history, Craig Robertson shows how a seemingly mundane thing was central to the rise of modern bureaucracies, information society, and the gendered relations of office labor. Wonderfully researched and full of surprises, The Filing Cabinet explores an object and a system that orchestrated new ways of knowing, remembering, and experiencing the world."—Lynn Spigel, Northwestern University "[The filing cabinet] worked to blur the past into the present with active storage; and the future into the present by encouraging forethought. The Filing Cabinet would be particularly helpful for researchers who want to write about media materialism without getting lost in the minutiae of model numbers."—LSE Review of Books "[Robertson’s] prowess for raiding an archive is formidable, and he has a talent for cherry-picking unusual details."—Washington Examiner "Captivating . . . the filing cabinet, despite its deep roots in our contemporary information architecture, is just one step in our epistemological journey, not its end."—The Atlantic "Timely, incisive, and impressively imaginative."—The New Rambler "If you’re a reader who relishes the unconventional, if you’ve pondered arcane subjects at odd times, or if you want a conversation-breaker at the water cooler, find The Filing Cabinet. Yep, this is the book you need now."—Idaho Press "Robertson persuasively sets out the ways in which domestic furniture and organising practices were reshaped to mirror those found in offices."—Literary Review "A useful and thought-provoking text for those of us dependent on the filing cabinet and the subsequent technologies they inspire, this book deserves a wider readership in both the art historical and cultural studies fields."—College & Research Libraries "Robertson eloquently describes the historical account of the filing cabinet."—International Journal of Communication "Robertson deconstructs and situates the filing cabinet in its historical contexts of use, with the support of a rich apparatus of beautiful images."—H-Net Reviews Table of ContentsContentsPreface: Discovering the Power of the Filing CabinetIntroduction: Making Paper Work EfficientlyPart 1. The Cabinet1. Verticality: A Skyscraper for the Office2. Integrity: A Steel Container for Paper3. Cabinet Logic: A Structure for Efficiency and Information Part II. Filing4. Granular Certainty: Bringing System to the Office5. Automatic Filing: Delegating Memory to a Machine6. The Ideal File Clerk: Controlling Work in the Office7. Planned Storage: Domesticating Cabinet LogicAfterword: File Cabinets, Out of Time and Out of PlaceAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the complexity and the humanity of the opioid epidemic America’s opioid epidemic continues to ravage families and communities, despite intense media coverage, federal legislation, criminal prosecutions, and harm reduction efforts to prevent overdose deaths. More than 450,000 Americans have died from opioid overdoses since the late 1990s. In Opioid Reckoning, Amy C. Sullivan explores the complexity of the crisis through firsthand accounts of people grappling with the reverberating effects of stigma, treatment, and recovery. Nearly everyone in the United States has been touched in some way by the opioid epidemic, including the author and her family. Sullivan uses her own story as a launching point to learn how the opioid epidemic challenged longstanding recovery protocols in Minnesota, a state internationally recognized for pioneering addiction treatment. By centering the voices of many people who have experienced opioid use, treatment, recovery, and loss, Sullivan exposes the devastating effects of a one-size-fits-all approach toward treatment of opioid dependency. Taking a clear-eyed, nonjudgmental perspective of every aspect of these issues—drug use, parenting, harm reduction, medication, abstinence, and stigma—Opioid Reckoning questions current treatment models, healthcare inequities, and the criminal justice system. Sullivan also imagines a future where anyone suffering an opioid-use disorder has access to the individualized care, without judgment, available to those with other health problems. Opioid Reckoning presents a captivating look at how the state that invented “rehab” addresses the challenges of the opioid epidemic and its overdose deaths while also taking readers into the intimate lives of families, medical and social work professionals, grassroots activists, and many others impacted by the crisis who contribute their insights and potential solutions. In sharing these stories and chronicling their lessons, Sullivan offers a path forward that cultivates empathy, love, and hope for anyone affected by chaotic drug use and its harms.Trade Review "From the Land of 10,000 Rehabs comes this generous and heartening testament to the power of empathy and the wisdom of harm reduction. Living with Amy Sullivan’s stories of ‘trauma parenting,’ we are compelled to take stock of how our own lives and losses intertwine with those who people these pages."—Nancy D. Campbell, author of OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose "An important contribution that documents the lives of those faced with America's overdose crisis in the state that originated the twelve-step/abstinence treatment approach. Addiction care must change—and this book shows why."—Maia Szalavitz, author of Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction and Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction "In this timely book, Amy C. Sullivan illuminates how the public health crisis of opioid use disorder cannot be adequately conveyed through abstract statistics. Rather, it is located in childhood bedrooms and around kitchen tables, affecting families and especially mothers. The personal narratives and oral histories Sullivan weaves together tell an indelible story of the trauma, stigma, and, above all, humanity of the experience of addiction and recovery."—Sarah Gollust, University of Minnesota School of Public Health "Dr. Sullivan’s work on behalf of addiction and treatment is remarkable and Opioid Reckoning offers a glimpse into the faces of the epidemic. With heart and soul and considerable scholarship, Sullivan has written a book that offers hope and help for anyone affected by addiction."—Superior Reads "More even than demonstrating empathy for persons affected by abuse, Sullivan models commitment to tackling stigma to best combat the abuse."—CHOICE "Although much of her book tells the stories of Addicts and their families and explores new initiatives in the recovery industry, Sullivan makes clear in the prologue that this isn't only an academic take on an important topic."—Minnesota Alumni Table of ContentsContentsPrologueIntroduction: Opioids, Oral History, and the Rehab State1. Mothering Addiction: Lessons in Trauma Parenting2. Prognosis Cloudy: Who’s to Blame for an Overdose?3. Prescription for Humility: Opioids and Addiction Medicine4. Women of Substance: Harm Reduction in Minnesota5. Dissecting Stigma: Treatment ReimaginedConclusion: My Son, Relapsed and RecoveredAbout the Minnesota Opioid ProjectAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book Synopsis“So often people ask me if there’s a book on story I can recommend. This is the one. I can’t recommend it highly enough.”––Alexa Junge, writer/producer, Friends, Sex and the City, The West Wing A master class of 27 lessons, drawn from 27 diverse narratives, for novelists, storytellers, filmmakers, graphic designers, and more. Author Daniel Joshua Rubin unlocks the secrets of what makes a story work, and then shows how to understand and use these principles in your own writing. The result is “an invaluable resource” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), offering priceless advice like escalate risk, with an example from Pulp Fiction. Write characters to the top of their intelligence, from the Eminem song “Stan.” Earn transformations, from Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home. Attack your theme, from The Brothers Karamazov. Insightful, encouraging, filled with attitude, and, as Booklist puts it, “perfect for any writer looking to ensure their stories operate and resonate at the top of their potential,” this book gives contemporary storytellers of all kinds a lifeline of inspiration and relatable instruction. “[The] new bible of lessons and practices for creators.”––Library Journal “Not a ‘how-to,’ thank God, but a ‘here’s why.’ Writers of all levels of experience will benefit from reading––and then rereading––this elegant exploration of the principles of storytelling.”––Traci Letts, Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning playwright “A godsend for storytellers in all media. It will help you decide what to write and then show you, step by step, how to tackle virtually any problem you face.”––Anna D. Shapiro, Tony Award-winning director, August: Osage CountyTrade Review"Rubin, a playwright and TV scriptwriter, aims with this manual to give writers "enough direction to avoid getting lost, but not so much that it strangles your creativity," and succeeds in creating an invaluable resource... This is a no-brainer for both pro and would-be novelists." --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Seasoned multimedia writer Rubin (NBC, the WB) injects the traditional writing manual with an overdue fix of dash and utility... This new bible of lessons and practices for creators across media will likely appeal to readers curious about behind-the-scenes realities of those who bring to life today's most popular and intelligent entertainment." --Library Journal "Perfect for any writer looking to ensure their stories operate and resonate at the top of their potential." --Booklist

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Book SynopsisPlay the best damn trivia night ever! From one of the pioneers of pub trivia, Jeopardy! champion Austin Rogers, comes the complete resource for playing and running an uproariously entertaining trivia night, whether you’re hanging out with friends and family, spicing up a party, or hosting an official event at your local pub. More than a random collection of facts, The Ultimate Book of Pub Trivia features over 300 rounds of ten-question quizzes. Each one is carefully curated to encourage a night of lively competition. The result? Hours and hours of fun as you and your friends answer challenging questions on everything from Bad Movie Descriptions to Winter sports, Kanye and the Kardashians to Brit Lit.Trade Review“There are probably people who know more about trivia than Austin Rogers, and maybe even a few who know more about bars. But I can't think of anyone who knows more about both. Lazy pub quiz hosts will be cribbing from this fantastic book for decades!” —Ken Jennings, bestselling author and Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time “The only thing more fun than playing against Austin Rogers on Jeopardy! is playing alongside him at pub trivia. This guy really knows his stuff, and this book is a must-have for anyone who is serious about trivia.” —Buzzy Cohen, Jeopardy! Champion and Guest Host, and author of Get Ready: A Champion’s Guide to Preparing for the Moments That Matter "Rogers peppers the work with interesting, clever, and sometimes funny facts and commentary.... A winning collection of brain teasers." —Library Journal

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Book SynopsisMaster storyteller Brad Meltzer counts down and decodes the world’s top 10 most intriguing conspiracies stories. Wanted: the truth. In a riveting collection, Brad Meltzer guides us through the 10 greatest conspiracies of all time, from Leonardo da Vinci’s stolen prophecy to the Kennedy assassination. This richly illustrated book serves up those fascinating, unexplained questions that nag at history buffs and conspiracy lovers: Why was Hitler so intent on capturing the Roman “Spear of Destiny?” Where did all the Confederacy’s gold go? What is the government hiding in Area 51? And did Lee Harvey Oswald really act alone? Meltzer sifts through the evidence, weighs competing theories, separates what we know to be true and what’s still––and perhaps forever––unproved or unprovable, and in the end, decodes the mystery and arrives at the most likely explanation.

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Book SynopsisMake the most succulent pot roast ever with oyster sauce.Transform a broiled salmon filet with miso.Give an irresistible kick to chicken wings with gochujang.Turn out the crunchiest French toast with panko breadcrumbs.Use Mexican chorizo to add depth to a quick skillet chili.Enliven a no-churn ice cream pie with freeze-dried berries.Impart a savory kick to shrimp and grits with sambal oelek.Add coconut milk to banana pudding-it's magical.And even your best ribs will take on a sticky new deliciousness with sweet soy sauce. In more than 120 recipes, here's how-with just a dash here or a tablespoon there-you can elevate your cooking using 65 common pantry items from around the world.Trade Review“This book is a godsend. Now I can work my way through my favorite meals using condiments I already have, and adding in new ones as I learn. Dinner at home just got way more exciting.” —Sarah Copeland, James Beard Award–nominated author of Feast, Every Day Is Saturday, and Instant Family Meals “It’s one thing to talk about the global table but it’s another to successfully equip cooks to partake in it. Ann and Scott meet that challenge with this smart collection of friendly recipes.” —Andrea Nguyen, James Beard Award–winning author of The Pho Cookbook and Ever-Green Vietnamese “The global pantry ingredients here—from miso to lemongrass, tahini to smoked paprika—are served up with user-friendly recipes that will give new ideas to even very experienced cooks.” —Naomi Duguid, author of The Miracle of Salt “Finally, a cookbook that will tell you what the heck else to do with that fish sauce you bought last year for a specific recipe and have not touched since. If you are bored with your own cooking, you must try these recipes.” —Sara Moulton, host of Sara’s Weeknight Meals and cohost of Milk Street Radio"This ingenious collection of tips and recipes by co-authors Ann Taylor Pittman and Scott Mowbray will help you see ingredients like these in a whole new way... a fantastic title to add to your cookbook collection." —Southern Living “This book is a godsend. Now I can work my way through my favorite meals using condiments I already have, and adding in new ones as I learn. Dinner at home just got way more exciting.” —Sarah Copeland, James Beard Award–nominated author of Feast, Every Day Is Saturday, and Instant Family Meals “It’s one thing to talk about the global table but it’s another to successfully equip cooks to partake in it. Ann and Scott meet that challenge with this smart collection of friendly recipes.” —Andrea Nguyen, James Beard Award–winning author of The Pho Cookbook and Ever-Green Vietnamese “The global pantry ingredients here—from miso to lemongrass, tahini to smoked paprika—are served up with user-friendly recipes that will give new ideas to even very experienced cooks.” —Naomi Duguid, author of The Miracle of Salt “Finally, a cookbook that will tell you what the heck else to do with that fish sauce you bought last year for a specific recipe and have not touched since. If you are bored with your own cooking, you must try these recipes.” —Sara Moulton, host of Sara’s Weeknight Meals and cohost of Milk Street Radio"This ingenious collection of tips and recipes by co-authors Ann Taylor Pittman and Scott Mowbray will help you see ingredients like these in a whole new way... a fantastic title to add to your cookbook collection." —Southern Living "Two of the most brilliant food minds wrote a cookbook that promises to improve your everyday cooking" —Outside.com "[I]nspiring.... with this guide, a world of flavor is as close as your cupboard." —The Atlanta Journal Constitution “This book is a godsend. Now I can work my way through my favorite meals using condiments I already have, and adding in new ones as I learn. Dinner at home just got way more exciting.” —Sarah Copeland, James Beard Award–nominated author of Feast, Every Day Is Saturday, and Instant Family Meals “It’s one thing to talk about the global table but it’s another to successfully equip cooks to partake in it. Ann and Scott meet that challenge with this smart collection of friendly recipes.” —Andrea Nguyen, James Beard Award–winning author of The Pho Cookbook and Ever-Green Vietnamese “The global pantry ingredients here—from miso to lemongrass, tahini to smoked paprika—are served up with user-friendly recipes that will give new ideas to even very experienced cooks.” —Naomi Duguid, author of The Miracle of Salt “Finally, a cookbook that will tell you what the heck else to do with that fish sauce you bought last year for a specific recipe and have not touched since. If you are bored with your own cooking, you must try these recipes.” —Sara Moulton, host of Sara’s Weeknight Meals and cohost of Milk Street Radio"The authors are test kitchen superstars, and the book is an encyclopedia of flavors... Delicious!" —NPR “The recipes are mashups that incorporate some of the world’s best culinary shortcuts to create flavor-bomb results." —The Los Angeles Times "This ingenious collection of tips and recipes by co-authors Ann Taylor Pittman and Scott Mowbray will help you see ingredients like these in a whole new way... a fantastic title to add to your cookbook collection." —Southern Living "Two of the most brilliant food minds wrote a cookbook that promises to improve your everyday cooking" —Outside.com "[I]nspiring.... with this guide, a world of flavor is as close as your cupboard." —The Atlanta Journal Constitution "[A] delectable cookbook ... Featuring more than 120 recipes, The Global Pantry Cookbook promises to make dinner way more exciting." —PureWow “This book is a godsend. Now I can work my way through my favorite meals using condiments I already have, and adding in new ones as I learn. Dinner at home just got way more exciting.” —Sarah Copeland, James Beard Award–nominated author of Feast, Every Day Is Saturday, and Instant Family Meals “It’s one thing to talk about the global table but it’s another to successfully equip cooks to partake in it. Ann and Scott meet that challenge with this smart collection of friendly recipes.” —Andrea Nguyen, James Beard Award–winning author of The Pho Cookbook and Ever-Green Vietnamese “The global pantry ingredients here—from miso to lemongrass, tahini to smoked paprika—are served up with user-friendly recipes that will give new ideas to even very experienced cooks.” —Naomi Duguid, author of The Miracle of Salt “Finally, a cookbook that will tell you what the heck else to do with that fish sauce you bought last year for a specific recipe and have not touched since. If you are bored with your own cooking, you must try these recipes.” —Sara Moulton, host of Sara’s Weeknight Meals and cohost of Milk Street RadioTable of ContentsIntroduction: Discovering the Treasures of the Global Pantry Chapter 1: Wow-a-Crowd Snacks and Apps Chapter 2: Crunchy, Vibrant Salads Chapter 3: Soups and Comfort Stews Chapter 4: Rich and Hearty Beef and Lamb Chapter 5: Pork Is an Umami Superstar Chapter 6: Poultry, Mostly Chicken, Entirely Elevated Chapter 7: Irresistible Fish and Seafood (Sustainable, Too) Chapter 8: Meat-Free Mains for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner Chapter 9: Totally Satisfying Sandwiches Chapter 10: Noodles Pasta, Pizzas, and Breads Chapter 11: Easy Vegetables and Starchy Things Chapter 12: Seductive Sweets and Frozen Treats How to Be a Canny Global Shopper Tools, Techniques, Terms Conversion Tables Acknowledgments Index Recipe List Chapter 1: Wow-A-Crowd Snacks and Apps Ann’s Smoky Pimento Kim Cheese Creamiest Ever Quick Hummus with Four Toppings Throwback Baked Brie with Spicy Honey Upgrade Ghee-Basted Hasseltot Appetizers with Various Delightful Toppings Very Slow Tomato Toasts with Fried Capers and Anchovies A Heap of Honey-Glazed, Korean-Spiced Baked Chicken Wings Pan-Seared Shrimp Cocktail with Kicky Sambal-Citrus Sauce Shrimp Boil Hush Puppies with Tabasco Aioli You Fry ‘Em Crackers The Basic Super-Crunchy Wokcorn Recipe Sesame Kettle Wokcorn with Furikake Nacho-ish Wokcorn Tahini-Za’atar Wokcorn White Chocolate–Strawberry Wokcorn Chapter 2: Crunchy, Vibrant Salads Our Lighter Version of the Splendid Wedge Salad Roasted Cauliflower Salad with Quick-Pickled Raisins Cherry-Beet Salad with Hazelnut Gremolata Pear-Arugula Salad with Bitters Vinaigrette Cantaloupe, Cucumber, and Seared Halloumi Salad Salad in the Style of Gado Gado All the Tomato Goodness Very Lively Tomato Salad with Chili Crisp Dressing Chapter 3: Soups and Comfort Stews Spice-Market Tomato Soup with Naan Soldiers Punched-Up Butternut Bisque with Microwave-Crisped Prosciutto Easy and Almost One-Pot “Diner-Style” French Onion Soup Loads-of-Chicken–Flavored Soup with Shrimpy Corn Wontons Genius Bowl of Ramen Pleasure in Less Than an Hour Lightnin’ Fast Weeknight Skillet Chili One-Pot Green Chili with Pork Deeply Rich Beef and Marsala Stew with Dijon Chapter 4: Rich and Hearty Beef and Lamb The Beefiest Beef in Beef Town: Grilled Short Ribs Chuck Roast with Root Vegetables and Oyster Sauce Gravy BBQ Flanken-Cut Short Ribs with Garlicky Sweet Soy Glaze Damn Fine Meatloaf with Spicy Onion Glaze Hamburger Steaks with Rich Onion Gravy Lamb Kebabs with a Garlic Kick and Fragrant Saffron Pilaf Chapter 5: Pork Is an Umami Superstar Grilled Pork on a Stick: Sticky-Sweet Charred Satay Garlicky Citrus Grilled Pork with Sugar-Charred Pineapple Juicy Grilled Pork Tenderloin with a Tangy Basque Herb Sauce Rustic Tomato Galette with Smoky Bacon, Melty Cheese, and Sweet Onions Perfectly Creamy Cold-Pan Scrambled Eggs with Serrano Ham Umami-Rich Napa Cabbage Rolls Stuffed with Rice and Pork Luscious, Chewy Rice Cakes with Pork, Oyster Sauce, and Bok Choy Smoked Gouda Grits Bowl with Andouille and Tomatoes Chapter 6: Poultry, Mostly Chicken, Entirely Elevated Revisiting One of the Great Chicken Recipes of All Time Coca-Cola Chicken with Crispy Togarashi Chicken Skins Grilled Chicken Breasts with Chorizo Relish The Pleasures of Chicken & Rice I: A Quicker Riff on the Hainanese Triumph The Pleasures of Chicken & Rice II: A Big Comfort Buttery Curried Weeknight Casserole Spicy-Honey Popcorn Chicken and the Crispiest Waffles Ever Simply the Best-est and Moist-est Turkey Meatballs Chapter 7: Irresistible Fish and Seafood (Sustainable, Too) Slow-Roasted Salmon with Citrus-Olive Relish Stovetop Smoked Salmon in Miso Sauce Quick Pan-Fried Fish Curry with Coconut Milk and Curry Leaves Fried Catfish and a Quick Chowchow Crabby Fried Rice with a Fiery Sauce in the Thai Style A Nice and Easy Crab Cake Lunch Chile Shrimp and Coconut Grits 10-Minute Pan-Seared Scallops with Yuzu Kosho Butter Chapter 8: Meat-Free Mains for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner Virtuous Vegan Harissa Tofu Bowls with Farro The Creamiest Vegetarian Curry with Paneer Double-Crispy Spicy Eggplant on Cumin-Scented Millet How to Build a Damn Fine Veggie Burger Shakshuka-Style Eggs with Indian Flavors Savory Corn-on-Corn Pancakes with Butter-Basted Eggs Tender Multigrain Pecan Pancakes with Plum Compote Oaty McOatface Chapter 9: Totally Satisfying Sandwiches Mexican Chorizo and Ground Pork Hamburgers with Messy-Good Fixins Ground Beef Bulgogi Sloppy Joes with Fiery Napa Slaw Kebab-Dogs with Spicy Ketchup, Cilantro-Mint Chutney, and Onions Shortcut Birria-Inspired Beef Dip Sandwiches Superfast Smoked Chicken Sandwich with Alabama White Sauce Chicken Salad Sandwiches with preserved Lemon, Dried Apricots, Moroccan Spices, and Black Walnuts Super Croque! Shrimp Rolls with Yuzu Kosho Mayo The Ebi Filet-O: Our Version of the Best McDonald’s Sandwich in the World Hot Dog and Bubbles Party Chapter 10: Noodles Pasta, Pizzas, and Breads Ravioli with Very Slow Tomatoes, Crispy Capers, and Caper Oil Hazelnutty Pasta Aglio e Olio Cold Sesame Noodles with Smashed Mini Cukes Super Mushroomy Tiny Pasta Cooked Creamy Like Risotto (but Easier than Risotto) Easy, Creamy One-Pot Mac & Cheese with Buttery Pecorino Panko A Gorgeous Platter of Indonesia’s Happiest Noodles Emmy’s Big Bowl of Pasta with Breadcrumbs Rigatoni with Rich, Beefy Onion Gravy Pizza-ladiere Korean Fire Chicken Pizza Crunchy Panko Pain Perdu with Bacon Ketchup and Bacon Maple Syrup Quick Moroccan Spice-Market Lamb Flatbreads Easy Mexican “Pizza” in the Style of a Tlayuda Chapter 11: Easy Vegetables and Starchy Things Broiled Leeks with Pine Nut Sauce Roasted Asparagus with a Savory Butter Sauce Singapore-ish Succotash Tomato-Rich Green Beans Cooked Beyond Where You’d Usually Cook Them, Deliciously Green Beans in a Rich Coconut Milk Gravy the Indonesian Way Roasted Squash Anointed with Ghee and Garam Masala Super-Buttery, Super-Simple Irish Cabbage Crispy-Crusty Roast Potatoes Fragrant with Ghee and Aromatic Spices Warm Potato and Leek Salad with Smoky Bacon & Preserved Lemon Slow & Custardy Sweet Potatoes with Melted Butter and a Tangy Sorghum Sauce Chicken-Fried Mississippi Potato Logs (aka Mississippi Party Potatoes) Ultimate Killer Cornbread with Flaky Salt Sorghum Butter Buttery Creamed Corn Chapter 12: Seductive Sweets and Frozen Treats Chewy-Fudgy Almond Butter–Palm Sugar Cookies Mexican Chocolate Brownies Stuffed with Dulce de Leche Lemon-Turmeric Company Cake with a Proper Cake Soak Super-Fruity Strawberry-Rosé Cupcakes Mango Meringue Pie with Chile-Lime Flourish Scott’s Mom’s Sweet and Tangy Butter Tarts Coconutty Banana Pudding with Candied Black Walnuts Salty Tahini & Pine Nut Ice Cream 4-Ingredient No-Churn Ice Cream Spiked with Salty Lemon Splendid Peach Sundaes with No-Churn Coconut Ice Cream and Instant Miso Caramel No-Churn Strawberry Ice Cream Pie with Super-Chocolate Crust Indulgent Choco-Tahini Cream Bar Two-Layer Key Lime Pie Bar Salty Dulce de Leche Bars

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Book Synopsis'Like a best friend giving you essential advice. I can’t wait to give this to every writer I know.' Candice Carty-WilliamsWhy do stories matter? I tell stories to make sense of the world as I see it. The world I have lived and experienced, read about and heard about, and what I want it to be. I tell stories to make sense of myself.Nikesh Shukla, author, writing mentor and bestselling editor of The Good Immigrant, knows better than most the power that every unique voice has to create change. Whether it's a novel, personal essay, non-fiction work or short story – or even just the formless desire to write something – Your Story Matters will hone your skill and help you along the way.This book includes exercises and prompts that will develop your idea, no matter what genre you're writing in. It is practical, to the point and focused on letting you figure out what you want to write, how you want to write and why this is the best use of your voice. Accessible and thought-provoking, Your Story Matters will inspire you to keep thinking about writing, even when you don't have the time to put pen to paper.

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Book SynopsisIn the past, happiness studies has been dominated by the work of philosophers, economists and psychologists, but more recently there has been a growing interest from social scientist into the natures of happiness and wellbeing. This original collection draws on the latest empirical research to explore the practical challenges facing happiness researchers today, such as how to conduct happiness research in different cultural contexts, how to theorise wellbeing or how to operationalise definitions of happiness in qualitative and biographical research. By uniquely combining the critical approach of sociology with techniques from other disciplines, the contributors illuminate new approaches to the study of happiness and well-being.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Developing Qualitative Research into Happiness and Wellbeing - Mark Cieslik, Northumbria University Qualitative Research into Happiness/Wellbeing: Theories, Debates and Issues Chapter 2. Living Well Together: On Happiness, Social Goods and Genuinely Progressive Sociology - Neil Thin Chapter 3. Happiness as an Affective Practice: Self, Suffering and Biography - Nicholas Hill Chapter 4. Personal Happiness, Social Unhappiness: Understanding the Tomplexity of Individual Happiness Accounts - David Tross Qualitative Research into Happiness/Wellbeing: Communities, Biographies and Identities Chapter 5. Developing a Biographical Approach to Happiness and Wellbeing - Mark Cieslik Chapter 6. Considering the Body in Happiness Research - Richard Gibbons Chapter 7. How can Cultural Heritage Contribute to Community Development and Wellbeing - Claire Wallace and David Beel Chapter 8. On Post-Traumatic Growth and ‘Choosing’ to be Happy: Stories of Positive Change from African Refugees and Asylum Seekers -Brianne Wenning Chapter 9. Using Social Wellbeing to Inform Regeneration Strategies in a Former Colliery Town in Northern England - Kelly Johnson and Sarah Coulthard Qualitative Research into Happiness/Wellbeing: Methodological Innovations Chapter 10. A Board Game Approach to Studying the Multi-dimensionality of Life Satisfaction - Barbara Holthus and Wolfram Manzenreiter Chapter 11. Show Me What Makes you Happy at Work’? Visualising Happiness in the Workplace - Ilona Suojanen

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Book SynopsisThis book invites the reader to think about collaborative research differently. Using the concepts of ‘letting go’ (the recognition that research is always in a state of becoming) and 'poetics’ (using an approach that might interrupt and remake the conventions of research), it envisions collaborative research as a space where relationships are forged with the use of arts-based and multimodal ways of seeing, inquiring and representing ideas. The book's chapters are interwoven with ‘Interludes’ which provide alternative forms to think with and another vantage point from which to regard phenomena, pose a question and seek insights or openings for further inquiry, rather than answers. Altogether, the book celebrates collaboration in complex, exploratory, literary and artistic ways within university and community research.Table of ContentsPrologue 1. Introduction Interlude 1: Collaborative Questioning 2. Poetics Interlude 2: Postcards 3. Worldizing Interlude 3: Letting Go 4. Worthiness Interlude 4: Two 5. Enchantment Interlude 5: Demons 6. Embodiment Interlude 6: 'Most People Don’t Believe Me' 7. Hypertext Interlude 7: Failing 8. Unplanning Interlude 8: Notes on the Work

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Book SynopsisThis book invites the reader to think about collaborative research differently. Using the concepts of ‘letting go’ (the recognition that research is always in a state of becoming) and 'poetics’ (using an approach that might interrupt and remake the conventions of research), it envisions collaborative research as a space where relationships are forged with the use of arts-based and multimodal ways of seeing, inquiring and representing ideas. The book's chapters are interwoven with ‘Interludes’ which provide alternative forms to think with and another vantage point from which to regard phenomena, pose a question and seek insights or openings for further inquiry, rather than answers. Altogether, the book celebrates collaboration in complex, exploratory, literary and artistic ways within university and community research.Table of ContentsPrologue 1. Introduction Interlude 1: Collaborative Questioning 2. Poetics Interlude 2: Postcards 3. Worldizing Interlude 3: Letting Go 4. Worthiness Interlude 4: Two 5. Enchantment Interlude 5: Demons 6. Embodiment Interlude 6: 'Most People Don’t Believe Me' 7. Hypertext Interlude 7: Failing 8. Unplanning Interlude 8: Notes on the Work

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Book SynopsisDigital services, platforms and arrangements are often promoted as smooth and convenient, smart or intelligent. When introduced, devices can appear utterly fascinating or awkward, even disquieting. Eventually, however, they soon disappear in the muddle of everyday life. This is how Mundania takes form. Based on original research, this book uses the concept of mundania to better understand technological change. Scholar-artist Robert Willim deftly unpacks the interplay between everyday life and the immense complexity of technological infrastructures. Offering imaginative new insights into our relationship with technology, this book will appeal to readers in a range of fields from science and technology studies and media studies to the arts.Table of Contents1. Arrival 2. Vanishing Points 3. In-between 4. Beyond 5. Beneath 6. Opacity 7. Order Variability Openings

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the evolution of digital platform economies through the lens of online gaming. Offering valuable empirical work on Valve’s ‘Steam’ platform, Thorhauge examines the architecture of this global online videogame marketplace and the way it enables new markets and economic transactions. Drawing on infrastructure, software, platform and game studies, the book interrogates the implications of these transactions, both in terms of their legality, but also in how they create new forms of immaterial labour. Shedding new light on a previously under-explored branch of the study of digital platforms, this book brings a unique economic sociology perspective into the growing literature on videogame studies.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Steam’s tangled markets 2. Platform configurations in gaming 3. Economic sociology and the analysis of platforms as markets 4. Valve corporation and the Steam platform 5. Steam’s business model 6. Shaping market interactions on the Steam platform 7. Economic actors on the steam platform 8. Player trading beyond Steam 9. User monetisation and value creation in tangled markets

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Book SynopsisBringing together an international team of contributors, this volume draws on international political theory and intellectual history to rethink the problem of a pluralistic world order. Inspired by the work of international political theorist Nicholas Rengger, the book focuses on three main areas of Rengger’s contribution to the political theory of international relations: his Augustine-inspired idea of an ‘Anti-Pelagian Imagination’; his Oakeshottian argument for a pluralist ‘conversation of mankind’; and his ruminations on war as the uncivil condition in world politics. Through a critical engagement with his work, the book illuminates the promises and limitations of civility as a sceptical, non-utopian, anti-perfectionist approach to theorizing world order that transcends both realist pessimism and liberal utopianism.Table of Contents1. Rengger’s anti-Pelagianism: international political theory as civil conversation – Vassilios Paipais Part 1: Anti-Pelagianism and the Civil Condition in World Politics 2. Revisiting Rengger’s Anti-Pelagianism – Noel O’Sullivan and Sophia Dingli 3. Poetics and Politics: Rengger, Weber, and the Virtuosi of Religion – John-Harmen Valk 4. ‘Keep your mind in hell, and despair not’: Gillian Rose’s anti-Pelagianism – Kate Schick Part 2: Challenging the Anti-Pelagian Imagination 5. ‘A Dangerous Place to Be’? Nicholas J. Rengger, the English School, and International Disorder – Ian Hall 6. Rengger’s War on Teleocracy – Chris Brown 7. Conservatism, Civility, and the Challenges of International Political Theory – Michael Williams Part 3: The Uncivil Condition in Word Politics 8. Rengger the Reluctant Rule Follower – Anthony Lang Jr. 9. Rengger and the ‘Business of War’ – Caroline Kennedy-Pipe 10. Just War as Tradition in a Civil International Order – Valerie Morkevičius Afterword 11. Rengger, History, and the Future of International Relations – Richard Whatmore

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Book SynopsisIntroduction chapter is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This groundbreaking reader is designed to lower the barriers to interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in research. Edited by experienced researchers from a range of different fields, it paves the way for future scholarship and effective research collaborations across disciplines. Chapters offer extracts from key academic texts on topics such as the design, funding, evaluation and communication of research, providing those new to the field with a thorough grounding. They highlight examples of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary triumphs – and challenges. Concluding each chapter is a commentary provided by practitioners from diverse backgrounds, many of whom are themselves developing new approaches to inter- and transdisciplinarity. The book is: • the first ever comprehensive reader for interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity; • essential reading for those seeking to become effective collaborative researchers; • complete with concise introductions, extracts, commentary and further reading in each chapter. This is a much-needed primer that improves our understanding of the characteristics of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, unlocking their exciting potential in research and teaching within and beyond academia.Table of ContentsForeword: Why Should We Care about Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity? - Jane Ohlmeyer Introductory Essay: Shaping Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research - Bianca Vienni-Baptista, Isabel Fletcher and Catherine Lyall 1. Understanding Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research 2. Developing Collaborative Conditions 3. Co-Creating a Research Project 4. Funding Collaborative Research 5. Evaluating Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research 6. Communicating Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research Findings 7. Improving Research Skills 8. Supporting Collaborative Researchers 9. Developing a Career in Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research Epilogue - Bianca Vienni-Baptista, Catherine Lyall and Isabel Fletcher

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding justice, for many, begins with questions of injustice. Giving insights into real life research practices for scholars at all levels, this book aids our understanding of how to employ and live justice through our work and daily lives.

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Book SynopsisAt a time of contested realities and a renewed focus on the power of personal stories, narrative research is as relevant as ever. But while it has been praised for ‘giving voice’ to individuals and highlighting how they make sense of the social world, critics are starting to question which voices are being heard, or allowed to speak, and which experiences are made to count. Supported by the editors’ popular podcast Narrative Now, this interdisciplinary volume addresses timely concerns about representation, power, voice, and the ethics of storytelling. Contributors explore the capacities and limitations of narrative research, and map out new directions for the field while honouring its legacy.Table of ContentsForeword – Rachel Thomson 1. Narrative Now: Trends and Tensions - Ashley Barnwell and Signe Ravn Part 1: Institutional Authority and Counter-Stories 2. Telling Stories with Ribbons: Visual Acknowledgment in the Wake of Child Sexual Abuse - Dave McDonald 3. Policy Narratives and Policy Change: The Case of Pill Testing - Martin Bortz 4. The Criminalised Other as Storyteller: The Promise and Peril of Bringing ‘Lived Experience’ into the Classroom - Diana Johns Part 2: Tellable and Untellable Stories 5. Ethical Weaving: Creative Narrations of Family Trauma and Resilience - Wajeehah Aayeshah 6. ‘I can’t believe how much I've done’: Joan and The Evolution of Her Life Story - Nikki Henningham Part 3: The Ethics of Representation 7. Songs as Narratives: Ethical Tensions in Midnight Oil’s Dead Heart (1986) and Gadigal Land (2020) - Liz Dean 8. Reading Back as a Way to Give Back? A Narrative Practice-informed Method for Interview-based Research - Sarah Strauven 9. Narrating Women's Life Histories: Voice, Audience, Ethics - Rachael Diprose 10. Narrative Next: Ways Forward for Narrative Research - Ashley Barnwell and Signe Ravn

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Book SynopsisDeath studies typically focus on the death of humans, overlooking the wider factors involved in social and natural processes around death. This edited volume provides an alternative focus for death studies by looking beyond human death, to reveal the complex interconnections among human and more than human creatures, entities and environments. Bringing together a diverse range of international scholars, the book sheds light on topics which have previously remained at the margins of contemporary death studies and death care cultures. Organised around three themes – Knowledge and Mediation, Care and Remembrance, and Agency and Power – this book pushes the boundaries of death studies to explore death and dying from beyond the perspective of a nature/culture binary.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Jesse D. Peterson, Natashe Lemos Dekker, Philip R. Olson Part I: Ontologies & Epistemologies 1. ‘Seeing for real’: Forensic Pathologists Testing the Demonstrative Power of Postmortem Imaging - Céline Schnegg, Séverine Rey, Alejandro Dominguez 2. Death at a Planetary Scale: Mortality’s Materiality in the Context of the Anthropocene - Philip R. Olson 3. Death in the Fields: Microbial ‘Destruction’ in Polluted Soils - Serena Zanzu 4. Can the Baltic Sea Die? An Environmental Imaginary of a Dying Sea - Jesse D. Peterson Part II: Care & Remembrance 5. Viral Flows and Immunological Gestures: Contagious and Dead Bodies in México and Ecuador during COVID-19 - Rosa Inés Padilla Yépez, Anne W. Johnson 6. Advertising the Ancestors: Ghanaian Funeral Banners as Image Objects - Isabel Bredenbroker 7. Dying Apart and Buried Together: COVID-19, Cemeteries, and Fears of Collective Burial - Samuel Holleran 8. Spirit Mediums at the Margins: Materiality, Death, and Dying in Northern Zimbaabwee - Olga Sicilia Part III: Troubling Agencies 9. Rehabilitate or Euthanize?: Biopolitics and Care in Seal Conservation - Doortje Hoerst 10. Troubling Entanglements: Death, Loss and the Dead in and on Television - Bethan Michael-Fox 11. Material Entanglements of the Corpse - Marc Trabsky and Jacinthe Flore 12. The Dead Who Would be Trees and Mushrooms - Hannah Gould, Tamara Kohn, Michael Arnold, Allison Fraser Concluding Discussion 13. Beyond the Norms - Jesse D. Peterson, Natashe Lemos Dekker, Philip R. Olson

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Book SynopsisWe are often expected to trust technologies, and how they are used, even if we have good reason not to. There is no room to mistrust. Exploring relations between trust and mistrust in the context of data, AI and technology at large, this book defines a process of ‘trustification’ used by governments, corporations, researchers and the media to legitimize exploitation and increase inequalities. Aimed at social scientists, computer scientists and public policy, the book aptly reveals how trust is operationalized and converted into a metric in order to extract legitimacy from populations and support the furthering of technology to manage society.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Trust Issues 2. Trustification: Extracting Legitimacy 3. State: Measuring Authority 4. Corporate: Managing Risk 5. Research: Setting Terms 6. Media: Telling Stories 7. Case Study: COVID-19 Tracing Apps 8. Case Study: Tech for Good 9. Case Study: Trusting Faces 10. Conclusion: False Trade-Offs

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Book SynopsisAcademic readers in science and technology studies, sociology, the digital humanities, digital criminology.Trade Review"An unusually incisive and pragmatic approach to what it means to live with information. Synthesizing thinking from a huge range of disciplines and domains from our worlds of plural information, the book effectively provides a guide to how to live, situate, engage or extricate oneself." Adrian Mackenzie, Australian National University "A breath of fresh air, a book about data, but uniquely framed as the lively matter of information -- in the sense of 'being in-formation' - and always bringing us back to what makes all this information matter." David Ribes, University of Washington"A rich resource for anyone concerned with how information – understood as always material and relational – comes to matter, its dominant formations as data, and how data could be made differently." Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University "An intriguing account of how data becomes information and is then taken up in material interventions of surveillance and control. By drawing on a wide range of literature, the book demonstrates the complex and ethical relations involved in making information matter in different worlds." Evelyn Ruppert, Goldsmiths, University of LondonTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Understanding making-information-matter together 3. Studying materializations – a methodology of life cycles Interlude: Four practices of making information matter 4. Association 5. Conversion 6. Secrecy 7. Speculation 8. The ethics of making information matter

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Book SynopsisHow can we achieve digital justice in the age of COVID-19? This book explores how the pandemic has transformed our use and perception of digital technologies in various settings. It also examines the right to resist or reject these technologies and the politics of refusal in different contexts and scenarios. The book offers a timely and original analysis of the new realities and challenges of digital technologies, paving the way for a post-COVID-19 future.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Kuntsman, Martin and Miyake 1. (En)forcing the Tokyo 2020 Olympics: The Racialization of Digital Disengagement and Digital Solutionism - Miyake 2. Digital Engagements and Work-life Balance in Creative Labour - Sezgin 3. '#RoeVsWadeOverturned: Any Idea How Fast Your #PeriodtrackingApp Can Lead to Jail?': Digital Disengagement and the Repeal of Roe vs Wade - Martin 4. #SnailMailRevolution: The Networked Aesthetics of Pandemic Letter-Writing Campaigns - Butkowski 5. Data Minimalism and Digital Disengagement in COVID-19 Hacktivism - Richterich 6. Digital Solutionism Meets Pandemic Imaginaries - Kuntsman 7. State Violence. Digital Harms and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Imagining Refusal, Resistance and Community Self-Defence - Gangaharan, Williams, Kuntsman, Martin and Miyake 8. Epilogue: Digital Disengagement - Questions of Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Digitalities - Kuntsman, Martin and Miyake

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Book Synopsis"A model of popular-science writing" STEVEN POOLEWho was "the first speaker" and what was their first message?An erudite, tightly woven and beautifully written account of one of humanity's greatest mysteries - the origins of language.Drawing on evidence from many fields, including archaeology, anthropology, neurology and linguistics, Sverker Johansson weaves these disparate threads together to show how our human ancestors evolved into language users. The Dawn of Language provides a fascinating survey of how grammar came into being and the differences or similarities between languages spoken around the world, before exploring how language eventually emerged in the very remote human past.Our intellectual and physiological changes through the process of evolution both have a bearing on our ability to acquire language. But to what extent is the evolution of language dependent on genes, or on environment? How has language evolved further, and how is it changing now, in the process of globalisation? And which aspects of language ensure that robots are not yet intelligent enough to reconstruct how language has evolved? Johansson's far-reaching, authoritative and research-based approach to language is brought to life through dozens of astonishing examples, both human and animal, in a fascinatingly erudite and entertaining volume for anyone who has ever contemplated not just why we speak the way we do, but why we speak at all.Translated from the Swedish by Frank PerryTrade ReviewAn elegant intellectual thriller . . . A model of popular-science writing in its imperturbable, reasonable weighing of competing ideas . . . [A] fascinating story in its own right -- Steven Poole * Guardian *Popular science of the highest order. All the necessary ingredients are there: a well-read author, an educational mindset and good, fluent prose. * Svenska Dagbladet *A formidable educational journey . . . This is the book the linguists have needed for so long. * Expressen *Johansson writes with enthusiasm and a desire to impart his knowledge . . . The delight is contagious. * Språktidningen *A fascinating overview of human language * Smålandsposten *Women are central to the story of how humans began to use language, at least according to the fascinating hypothesis advanced by Swedish scientist Sverker Johansson in his magisterial The Dawn of Language . . . but there are many other twists and turns in this detective story of the deep past. * Telegraph *I love a book that teaches me things I didn't know while provoking in me thoughts I never had before, setting my mind racing in new directions. Such a book is The Dawn of Language by Sverker Johansson -- Richard DawkinsA very well-researched and persuasive work on how evolution shaped pre-human development, and our precursors' role in externalising language and bringing it into the world. -- Graham Elliott * The Linguist *

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Book SynopsisAchieve your solo female travel dreams with this empowering guide for women who want to see the world-perfect for anyone who has felt the tug of wanderlust after reading Wild, Eat Pray Love, or What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding.If you''ve ever wanted to travel solo, founder of global women''s travel community Wanderful, Beth Santos, is here to tell you that you''re not alone.Travel isn''t just about how many passport stamps you have-it''s about your mindset. In Wander Woman, Santos busts myths about who can travel, empowering women to uncover the confidence they need to see the world for themselves, by themselves. and giving them the lifelong tools to challenge your preconceptions, try something new, and get out of your comfort zone-whether that''s halfway around the world or just down the street. Readers will also learn...- A new rubric for personal safety that pushes back on traditional ideas of what''s safe for

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Book SynopsisSouthwestern Journal of Theology 2023 Book of the Year With the torrent of publications on the use of the Old Testament in the New Testament, the time is ripe for a dictionary dedicated to this incredibly rich yet diverse field. This companion volume to the well-received Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (CNTUOT) brings together leading evangelical biblical scholars to explore and explain the many facets of how the New Testament writers appropriated the Old Testament. This definitive resource covers a range of interpretive topics and includes summary articles on each biblical book and numerous themes. It also unpacks concepts mentioned in the CNTUOT, demonstrates how the Old Testament uses the Old Testament, and addresses a wide range of biblical-theological, hermeneutical, and exegetical topics. This handy reference book is for all serious students of the Bible as they study how and why Old Testament texts reappear and are reappropriated throughout the Bible.

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Book SynopsisTremper Longman has studied and taught the Old Testament and its interpretation for four decades. Now, in a planned three-book project, he presents his mature thoughts on three ways of approaching the Old Testament text: as literature, as history, and as a source of theology.This first volume explores the importance of reading the Old Testament as literature. Each culture tells its stories and writes its poems in different ways. To read and understand the Old Testament texts the way the ancient authors intended, we need to be aware of the conventions of Hebrew storytelling and poetry that they used. In part 1, dealing with literary theory, Longman investigates how texts create meaning, the history of the study of the Old Testament as literature, and how genre dictates reading strategy. He explores the Hebrew conventions for both narrative and poetry in conversation with contemporary literary approaches. Parts 2 and 3 delve into practice, using the tools gained in part 1 to an

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Book SynopsisSouthwestern Journal of Theology 2023 Book Award (Honorable Mention, Biblical Reference/Biblical Backgrounds) Often students want to maintain their Biblical Greek when they're between courses, but they don't know where to start. This book provides ninety days of guided reading and brief exercises to help students retain or revive their knowledge and skill in reading and interpreting Biblical Greek. Noted language expert Benjamin Merkle guides readers through level-appropriate texts selected from across the New Testament canon, encouraging them to read and analyze one or two verses a day. The book begins with easy texts and gradually increases in difficulty through the 90 days. Each reading ends with a section called "For the Journey," which provides a practical application or reflection on the text, and an answer key so that students can check their work. This follow-up to Merkle's Exegetical Gems from Biblical Greek is ideal for Greek language students after their first year of study and for those who want to revive their knowledge and love of Biblical Greek. A companion volume on Hebrew is forthcoming.Table of ContentsIntroductionJourney 1: EasyRoute 1: John 1:1-9Route 2: John 1:10-18Route 3: Revelation 1:4-9Route 4: Revelation 7:9-17Route 5: Matthew 5:43-48Route 6: John 8:39-44Journey 2: IntermediateRoute 7: Luke 2:1-8Route 8: Luke 2:9-15Route 9: Romans 1:11-17Route 10: Ephesians 2:1-10Route 11: Ephesians 2:11-18Route 12: 1 Timothy 2:1-7Journey 3: DifficultRoute 13: Mark 8:31-37Route 14: James 2:18-26Route 15: 1 Peter 4:12-19Route 16: Jude 17-25Route 17: Hebrews 3:1-6Route 18: Hebrews 13:20-25Appendix: Supplemental VocabularyIndexes

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Book Synopsis"Tackles scripture from a broad-thinking, feminist perspective. . . . Smart and impressive."--Publishers Weekly One reason the Bible has endured for millennia is its ability to reach our common humanness and give uplifting insights about struggle, resilience, and hope. Intertwining academic knowledge and candid, personal, and sometimes humorous stories, Julie Faith Parker helps readers engage biblical texts with both mind and heart--to learn the Bible's stories, explore theological ideas, question common assumptions, develop interpretive skills, and grow in their own faith. The title chapter demonstrates how feminism interprets the Bible with fresh eyes and offers empowering insights, an approach used in the rest of the book. In each chapter, Parker reads biblical texts through a feminist lens. The book discusses both neglected and well-known Old Testament passages with one chapter on the New Testament. Parker's reflections show how vital our readings of the Bible can be as a source of strength, guidance, and joyful defiance. Additional features include questions for conversation or reflection and an overview of the entire Bible, summarizing each book in one line.Table of Contents1. In the Beginning . . .2. Eve Isn't Evil--Why I Love Her and You Should Too3. Think Your Family's a Mess? Biblical Families R Us4. Sex Workers, Slaughters, and Deities without Borders5. Profit from Prophecy6. The job of Job7. Guns and Psalms8. Song of Songs in Sing Sing9. My Favorite Feminist Jew10. Curious, Like Eve? Learn MoreAppendix 1: Bible BasicsAppendix 2: Resources for Further ExplorationIndexes

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Book SynopsisHow rhetoric—the art of persuasion—can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimony The discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over two thousand years. Only recently has its perceived importance faded.  In this book, renowned rhetorical scholar Robin Reames argues that, in today’s polarized political climate, we should all care deeply about learning rhetoric. Drawing on examples ranging from the destructive ancient Greek demagogue Alcibiades to modern-day conspiracists like Alex Jones, Reames breaks down the major techniques of rhetoric, pulling back the curtain on how politicians, journalists, and “journalists” convince us to believe what we believe—and to talk, vote, and act accordingly. Understanding these techniques helps us avoid being manipulated by authority figures who don’t have our best interests at heart. It also grants us rare ins

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Book SynopsisAccording to a leading cognitive scientist, we've been teaching reading wrong. The latest science reveals how we can do it right.In 2011, when an international survey reported that students in Shanghai dramatically outperformed American students in reading, math, and science, President Obama declared it a "Sputnik moment": a wake-up call about the dismal state of American education. Little has changed, however, since then: over half of our children still read at a basic level and few become highly proficient. Many American children and adults are not functionally literate, with serious consequences. Poor readers are more likely to drop out of the educational system and as adults are unable to fully participate in the workforce, adequately manage their own health care, or advance their children's education.In Language at the Speed of Sight, internationally renowned cognitive scientist Mark Seidenberg reveals the underexplored science of reading, which spans cognitive science, neurobiology, and linguistics. As Seidenberg shows, the disconnect between science and education is a major factor in America's chronic underachievement. How we teach reading places many children at risk of failure, discriminates against poorer kids, and discourages even those who could have become more successful readers. Children aren't taught basic print skills because educators cling to the disproved theory that good readers guess the words in texts, a strategy that encourages skimming instead of close reading. Interventions for children with reading disabilities are delayed because parents are mistakenly told their kids will catch up if they work harder. Learning to read is more difficult for children who speak a minority dialect in the home, but that is not reflected in classroom practices. By building on science's insights, we can improve how our children read, and take real steps toward solving the inequality that illiteracy breeds.Both an expert look at our relationship with the written word and a rousing call to action, Language at the Speed of Sight is essential for parents, educators, policy makers, and all others who want to understand why so many fail to read, and how to change that.

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Book SynopsisWith the same intellectual goals as the first edition, this innovative introductory logic textbook explores the relationship between natural language and logic, motivating the student to acquire skills and techniques of formal logic. This new and revised edition includes substantial additions which make the text even more useful to students and instructors alike. Central to these changes is an Appendix, 'How to Learn Logic', which takes the student through fourteen compact and sharply directed lessons with exercises and answers.Trade Review"The book is truly comprehensive, detailed and lucid throughout; in fact it is one of the friendliest introductions to logic I have ever read." Nimrod Bar-Am, Tel Aviv UniversityTable of ContentsPreface to First Edition. Preface to Second Edition. 1. Thinking. 2. Arguments. 3. Strategy. 4. Primitive. 5. Sentential. 6. Decision. 7. Translating into Sentential. 8. The Strategy Applied and Extended. 9. Deduction. 10. Sentential and the Strategy. 11. Predicate: Part I. 12. Predicate: Part II. 13. Translating into Predicate. 14. Validity. 15. Identity, Problems and Prospects. 16. Modal. 17. Truth. Appendix 1: How to Learn Logic. Appendix 2: Truth Trees. Appendix 3: Alternative Notations. Answers to Selected Exercises. Reading List. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Workbook for the Revised 3rd Edition of Japanese for Busy People III offers readers longer and more complex reading passages familiarize you with new vocabulary and the conventions used in Japanese writing. It can be used either in tandem with the main text or as a self-study aid.

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Book SynopsisFind wisdom, inspiration, and new insight in this definitive volume of empowering quotes from the Pan African world. With over 60 quotations—carefully researched by National Black Cultural Information Trust founder, Jessica Ann Mitchell Aiwuyor—Black Voices is your go-to source for powerful words from both famous Black individuals in history and new and lesser-known voices. From this diverse spectrum of perspectives and experiences, gain a deeper understanding of Black culture and history. Some of the inspirational quotes include:“I’m very interested in, ‘What does it mean for us to cultivate together?’ Community that allows for risk, the risk of knowing someone outside your own boundaries, the risk that is love. There is no love that does not involve risk.” —bell hooks, African American feminist scholar“Our youth, our drive, our diversity and openness, our boundless capacity for risk and reinvention means that the future should be ours. But that potential will only be realized if our democracy works. Only if our politics better reflects the decency of our people.” —Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States and the first Black American president Spotlighting Black writers, artists, scholars, politicians, activists, and visionaries from all eras and backgrounds, each quote is accompanied by a short biography of its writer or speaker. This engaging and information-packed book touches on aspects and subjects relevant to Black lives, including and featuring, among many others, the voices of: Culture and History: Werewere Liking, author (Cameroon) Education and Knowledge: Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo, author, poet, and playwright (Kenya) Justice, Civil Rights, and Human Rights: Ida B. Wells, journalist and activist (USA) Race and Racism: Paul Stephenson, civil rights activist (UK) Gender, Feminism, and Womanism: Ketanji Brown Jackson, first Black woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court (USA) Peace and Love: Basetsana Kumalo, businesswoman and television personality (South Africa) Inspiration, Hope, and Perseverance: Dudley Laws, activist (Canada) Freedom and Liberation: Claudia Jones, political activist and cofounder of Notting Hill Carnival (UK) Politics: Francia Márquez, 13th vice president of Colombia Blackness: Walter Rodney, scholar and activist (Guyana) Pan Africanism: Amy Jacques Garvey, Pan Africanist, journalist, and civil rights activist (Jamaica) The book also features the lush, vibrant artwork of six Black artists from around the world: Affen Segun, Nigerian painter (Instagram: @affensegun) Erin K. Robinson, American illustrator (Instagram: @brooklyndolly) Gilles Mayk Navangi, Belgian painter, illustrator, and sculptor (Instagram: @ngm_world) Nicole Collie, Bahamian painter (Portfolio: nicolecollie.com) Rendani Nemakhavhani, South African illustrator, visual artist, and art director (Instagram: @prsdnthoney) Uzo Njoku, Nigerian American visual artist (Portfolio: uzonjoku.com) Black Voices is a must-have reference to Pan African culture and history.

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Book SynopsisTransform leaves, grass, and kitchen scraps into gardener’s gold! This easy-to-use guide shows you how to turn household garbage and backyard refuse into nutrient-filled compost that can nourish your soil and promote a thriving garden. You’ll soon be saving money, minimizing waste, and enjoying bountiful harvests.Table of ContentsHome composting - art or science?; why compost?; how decomposition works; gourmet's delight or pot-luck?; activators; composting methods to activate your imagination; what to consider before building an outdoor pile; bins, barrels and tumblers; some things you can do to speed decomposition; things you might (or should) worry about; the end product and how to use it; the times they are a-changing.

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Book SynopsisAPA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms® helps researchers search the APA databases with maximum precision.Table of ContentsPrefaceHistory of the ThesaurusDevelopment of the Eleventh Edition New Postable Terms Other Changes Table 1: New Postable Terms Table 2: New Nonpostable Terms Table 3: Change in Term Status Table 4: Deleted Terms Table 5: Changes to Spelling or Text of Terms User Guide General Information Relationship Section Rotated Alphabetical Terms Section Term Clusters Section Table 6: Term Cluster/Subcluster Subject Areas Search Guide Introduction Online Searching Example of Boolean Logic Online Thesaurus Explode Features Major Terms Adjusting Your Search Retrieval Content Classification Code Searching Age Group Searching Population Group Searching Publication Type Searching Document Type Searching Methodology Searching Searching for Auxiliary Materials Searching for Geographic Locations Searching for Tests and Measures How to Contact Us Appendix A: Content Classification SystemAppendix B: Sample PsycINFO RecordAppendix C: Sample PsycEXTRA RecordRelationship (Hierarchical) SectionRotated Alphabetical Terms SectionTerm Clusters Section

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Book SynopsisErudite and amusing study of puns.

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