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Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The startling new science behind sudden acts of violence committed by ordinary, sane people from a leading neurobiologist According to R. Douglas Fields, PhD, we all have a rage circuit we can't fully control once it is engaged. The daily headlines are filled with examples of otherwise rational people with no history of violence or mental illness suddenly snapping in a domestic dispute, barroom brawl, or road rage attack. We all wish to believe that...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"The Internet is often hyped as a means to enhanced consumer power: a hypercustomized media world where individuals exercise unprecedented control over what they see and do. That is the scenario media guru Nicholas Negroponte predicted in the 1990s, with his hypothetical online newspaper The Daily Me - and it is one we experience now in daily ways. But, as media expert Joseph Turow shows, the customized media environment we inhabit today reflects...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Encompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, A Burglar's Guide to the City offers an unexpected blueprint to the criminal possibilities in the world all around us. You'll never see the city the same way again. At the core of A Burglar's Guide to the City is an unexpected and thrilling insight: how any building transforms when seen through the eyes of someone hoping to break into it. Studying architecture the way...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A renowned doula and co-founder of Moms in Color shares powerful lessons on healing and thriving through the murky seasons of life in this moving, intimate guide to self-care, identity, mental health, and radical joy. Safe spaces, communion, knowing that we are loved-these are the things we long for. Brandi Sellerz-Jackson found them when she started exploring her encounters with loss and trauma as a way to confront her own grief, and she ended up...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Why do sports captivate people? They allow us to watch human beings achieve peak performance, but, beyond physical strength and skill, what's really impressive is an athlete's mental prowess--their will to succeed, engagement with their environment, and self-confidence. Sport psychology is the study of how to develop, improve, and maintain thoughts and behaviors that lead to peak athletic performance. Until now, these techniques have primarily been...
326) Paranoid: exploring suspicion from the dubious to the delusional (no, this book is not about you)
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From the pathological killers who gunned down the innocents at Sandy Hook and Virginia Tech to the average citizen who suspects the government is monitoring phone calls, the signs of paranoia are all around us. In this comprehensive overview of an increasingly serious problem, an experienced neuropsychologist and researcher describes what paranoia is, how and why it manifests itself, and the many forms it takes, including stalking, pathological jealousy,...
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Immerse yourself in fascinating facts about water! This comprehensive yet accessible exploration of water will help young readers understand many aspects of one of our planet's most precious resources - and how they can protect it. A friendly water droplet character guides children through topics ranging from melting and freezing to the ways in which water literally shapes the Earth. Tales by storytellers from around the world are sprinkled through...
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From University of Washington professor Chantel Prat comes The Neuroscience of You, a rollicking adventure into the human brain that reveals the surprising truth about neuroscience, shifting our focus from what's average to an understanding of how every brain is different, exactly why our quirks are important, and what this means for each of us. With style and wit, Chantel Prat takes us on a tour of the meaningful ways that our brains are dissimilar...
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A Beginner's Guide to House Plants teaches you how to bring your indoor spaces alive with lovely and easy-to-maintain plants -- and how to keep them healthy. It provides detailed instructions on how you can unleash the power of plants to energize and relax you, and how to promote well-being by greening your environment. In this book you'll find hundreds of useful tips, including: How to select the right plants for your spaces and lifestyle -- Practical...
330) Hadoop for dummies
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Let Hadoop For Dummies help harness the power of your data and rein in the information overload. Big data has become big business, and companies and organizations of all sizes are struggling to find ways to retrieve valuable information from their massive data sets without becoming overwhelmed. Enter Hadoop and this easy-to-understand For Dummies guide. Hadoop For Dummies helps readers understand the value of big data, make a business case for using...
331) Tower of god
Author
Series
Tower of God volume 1
Publisher
Webtoon Unscrolled, a division of Wattpad Corp
Pub. Date
2022-
Language
English
Description
Twenty-Fifth Bam must journey skyward in a mysterious tower if he has any chance of reuniting with his best friend Rachel, even if that means facing his own death. Before mysteriously disappearing into the tower gates before his very eyes, Rachel cautions Bam to forget all about her. Unwilling to lose her, Bam enters the Tower completely surrounded by Shinsu -- a divine and magical water, at his own peril. The Tower itself contains multitudes of floors...
Author
Publisher
Bernan Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Overview: Published annually by the Federal Government since 1878, The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the best-known statistical reference publication in the country, and perhaps, the world. You'll find it behind nearly every reference desk in U.S. libraries as the authoritative go-to source. Librarians value the Statistical Abstract as both an answer book and a guide to statistical sources. As a carefully selected collection of statistics...
333) Focused fundraising
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Fundraisers and their employers play an essential part in the fabric of society. Too often, resources are scarce, priorities are shifting, and efforts are ineffective or inefficient. This book will provide the reader with the tools needed to tackle their challenges and increase their impact on their nonprofit missions. The theme of this book is learning to focus in an age of heightened distraction to deliver better results. The authors' approach...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The complete guide to fundraising planning, tools, methods, and more Fundraising Principles and Practice provides a unique resource for students and professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of fundraising in the current nonprofit environment. Based on emerging research drawn from economics, psychology, social psychology, and sociology, this book provides comprehensive analysis of the nonprofit sector. The discussion delves into donor behavior,...
335) Nanotechnology
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"This title addresses various issues related to nanotechnology, including what the relationship between public perception and nanotechnology is, how nanotechnology will affect health, how nanotechnology will affect the environment, and how nanotechnology will affect international relations"--
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Biophilic design is an innovative way of designing the places where we live, work, and learn. We need nature in a deep and fundamental fashion, but we have often designed our cities and suburbs in ways that both degrade the environment and alienate us from nature. The recent trend in green architecture has decreased the environmental impact of the built environment, but it has accomplished little in the way of reconnecting us to the natural world,...
Author
Publisher
Familius
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Only doesn't mean lonely. Families come in all shapes and sizes, and even a family with one child is complete and whole. But every family is unique, and raising an only child can seem daunting. As a therapist, the mother of an only child, and an only child herself, Rebecca Greene is an expert in the variety of issues that surround raising an only child, and she knows that parenting an only child is a complex endeavor, no matter how you came to be...
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"As author Gene Logsdon puts it, 'We are all tree huggers.' But not just for sentimental or even environmental reasons. Humans have always depended on trees for our food, shelter, livelihood, and safety. In many ways, despite the Grimm's fairy-tale version of the dark, menacing forest, most people still hold a deep cultural love of woodland settings, and feel right at home in the woods. In this latest book, A Sanctuary of Trees, Logsdon offers a loving...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Almuzara
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
El suicidio anualmente se cobra alrededor de 1.000.000 de vidas en el mundo, y por cada persona que lo consigue más de veinte lo intentan. Además, el número de allegados a los que afecta es incontable. Sin embargo apenas hablamos de ello, y este silencio dificulta que quien se plantea esa salida como última alternativa encuentre la ayuda que necesita. El estigma asociado a la salud mental, los mitos sobre el suicidio o los tabúes generados en...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Stronghold tells the story of Guido Rahr, a passionate and eccentric environmentalist who has single-mindedly dedicated his life to saving the environment, working to preserve the world's last pristine stronghold (habitat) for salmon in Russia's Far East--a landscape of ecological richness and diversity that is rapidly being developed for oil, gas, minerals, and timber in the Putin era. A high school drop-out and rebel more at home in the natural...