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In Case You Get Hit by a Bus: How to Organize Your Life Now for When You're Not Around Later
By Gene Newman, Abby Schneiderman, Adam Seifer. 2020
A step-by-step program for getting your life in order, so you&’re prepared for the unexpected. The odds of getting…
hit by a bus are 495,000 to 1. But the odds that you&’re going to die some day? Exactly. Even the most disorganized among us can take control of our on- and off-line details so our loved ones won&’t have to scramble later. The experts at Everplans, a leading company in digital life planning, make it possible in this essential and easy-to-follow book. Breaking the task down into three levels, from the most urgent (like granting access to passwords), to the technical (creating a manual for the systems in your home), to the nostalgic (assembling a living memory), this clear, step-by-step program not only removes the anxiety and stress from getting your life in order, it&’s actually liberating. And deeply satisfying, knowing that you&’re leaving the best parting gift imaginable. When you finish this book, you will have:A system for managing all your passwords and secret codesOrganized your money and assets, bills and debtsA complete understanding of all the medical directives and legal documents you need––including Wills, Powers of Attorney, and TrustsA plan for meaningful photos, recipes, and family heirloomsRecords of your personal history, interests, beliefs, and life lessonsAn instruction manual for your home and vehiclesYour funeral planned and obituary written (if you&’re up for it)![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/31c/small/3741981.jpg)
Counseling Children and Adolescents: Cultivating Empathic Connection
By Chad Luke, Rebekah Byrd. 2020
Counseling Children and Adolescents focuses on relationship building and creating a deep level of understanding of developmental, attachment, and brain-based…
information. Chapters place a clear emphasis on building strengths and developing empathy, awareness, and skills. By going beyond theory, and offering a strengths-based, attachment, neuro- and trauma-informed perspective, this text offers real-world situations and tried and true techniques for working with children and adolescents. Grounded in research and multicultural competency, the book focuses on encouragement, recognizing resiliency, and empowerment. This book is an ideal guide for counselors looking for developmentally appropriate strategies to empower children and adolescents.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/451/small/3741969.jpg)
A groundbreaking exploration of a practice tradition that was nearly lost to history.Theravada Buddhism, often understood as the school that…
most carefully preserved the practices taught by the Buddha, has undergone tremendous change over time. Prior to Western colonialism in Asia—which brought Western and modernist intellectual concerns, such as the separation of science and religion, to bear on Buddhism—there existed a tradition of embodied, esoteric, and culturally regional Theravada meditation practices. This once-dominant traditional meditation system, known as borān kammatthāna, is related to—yet remarkably distinct from—Vipassana and other Buddhist and secular mindfulness practices that would become the hallmark of Theravada Buddhism in the twentieth century. Drawing on a quarter century of research, scholar Kate Crosby offers the first holistic discussion of borān kammatthāna, illuminating the historical events and cultural processes by which the practice has been marginalized in the modern era.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/e98/small/3741977.jpg)
This accessible book provides evidence-based guidelines on dyscalculia, offering a thorough explanation of the science behind the disorder. It combines this…
theoretical framework with practical recommendations, offering interventions for managing the condition at home and school and avoiding potential behavioural consequences. Written in a straightforward style, this book provides a concise summary of relevant research to empower the reader to take an informed and positive approach to dyscalculia and those who live with it. The internationally based team of contributors examine the different models that explain the construct of dyscalculia, looking at definitions and theories alongside signs, symptoms and diagnosis. Chapters also explore how to communicate diagnosis to peers, possible cultural differences and sensitivities when related to mathematics education and dyscalculia and the importance of maintaining a proactive attitude when working with children with dyscalculia. Understanding Dyscalculia is essential reading for parents and practitioners in clinical and educational psychology, education professionals and students and researchers of special educational needs, educational psychology and counselling psychology.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/204/small/3741983.jpg)
The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri
By Liz W. Faber. 2020
A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk Although computer-based personal assistants…
like Siri are increasingly ubiquitous, few users stop to ask what it means that some assistants are gendered female, others male. Why is Star Trek&’s computer coded as female, while HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey is heard as male? By examining how gender is built into these devices, author Liz W. Faber explores contentious questions around gender: its fundamental constructedness, the rigidity of the gender binary, and culturally situated attitudes on male and female embodiment.Faber begins by considering talking spaceships like those in Star Trek, the film Dark Star, and the TV series Quark, revealing the ideologies that underlie space-age progress. She then moves on to an intrepid decade-by-decade investigation of computer voices, tracing the evolution from the masculine voices of the &’70s and &’80s to the feminine ones of the &’90s and &’00s. Faber ends her account in the present, with incisive looks at the film Her and Siri herself.Going beyond current scholarship on robots and AI to focus on voice-interactive computers, The Computer&’s Voice breaks new ground in questions surrounding media, technology, and gender. It makes important contributions to conversations around the gender gap and the increasing acceptance of transgender people.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/63b/small/3741976.jpg)
Island Zombie: Iceland Writings
By Roni Horn. 2020
An evocative chronicle of the power of solitude in the natural worldI’m often asked, but have no idea why I…
chose Iceland, why I first started going, why I still go. In truth I believe Iceland chose me.—from the introductionContemporary artist Roni Horn first visited Iceland in 1975 at the age of nineteen, and since then, the island’s treeless expanse has had an enduring hold on Horn’s creative work. Through a series of remarkable and poetic reflections, vignettes, episodes, and illustrated essays, Island Zombie distills the artist’s lifelong experience of Iceland’s natural environment. Together, these pieces offer an unforgettable exploration of the indefinable and inescapable force of remote, elemental places, and provide a sustained look at how an island and its atmosphere can take possession of the innermost self.Island Zombie is a meditation on being present. It vividly conveys Horn’s experiences, from the deeply profound to the joyful and absurd. Through powerful evocations of the changing weather and other natural phenomena—the violence of the wind, the often aggressive birds, the imposing influence of glaciers, and the ubiquitous presence of water in all its variety—we come to understand the author’s abiding need for Iceland, a place uniquely essential to Horn’s creative and spiritual life. The dramatic surroundings provoke examinations of self-sufficiency and isolation, and these ruminations summon a range of cultural companions, including El Greco, Emily Dickinson, Judy Garland, Wallace Stevens, Edgar Allan Poe, William Morris, and Rachel Carson. While brilliantly portraying nature’s sublime energy, Horn also confronts issues of consumption, destruction, and loss, as the industrial and man-made encroach on Icelandic wilderness.Filled with musings on a secluded region that perpetually encourages a sense of discovery, Island Zombie illuminates a wild and beautiful Iceland that remains essential and new.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/45a/small/3741973.jpg)
A Basket of Deplorables: What I Saw Inside the Clinton White House
By Linda Tripp. 2020
A compelling insider&’s look at a political marriage that tore apart the nation and almost destroyed a presidency—from the woman…
who saw it all happen.In this brilliantly written behind-the-scenes account, Linda Tripp along with her co-author, Dennis Carstens, shares her side of the Clinton White House sex scandals for the first time—detailing the behavior of two very flawed people who fooled a nation: Bill Clinton, a sexual predator, and his wife, Hillary, who was his primary enabler. In this exposé, Tripp outlines what the public was not allowed to see: the lengths Clintons&’ protectors would go to lie, deceive, and coverup for them; some of the many women Bill Clinton used his position, privilege, and power as president to sexually abuse; how the former president got away with it thanks to his morally bankrupt, unscrupulous wife and cabal of protectors; and finally, the role party politics played when he was called to task and was almost the first president to be removed from office for perjury and corruption.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/abe/small/3741975.jpg)
Teach Reading with Orton-Gillingham: 65 Classroom-Ready Lessons to Help Struggling Readers and Students with Dyslexia Learn to Love Reading
By Kristina Smith, Heather MacLeod-Vidal. 2021
Give young readers the tools they need to improve reading fluency and master letter-sound relationships with this teacher-friendly book of…
multisensory lessons based on the proven Orton-Gillingham (OG) reading approach. Bringing Orton-Gillingham and multisensory teaching into your classroom has never been easier. With this big book of easy-to-follow lesson plans, you can help your struggling students or those with dyslexia start reading today. Teach Reading with Orton-Gillingham offers research-based suggestions and instructions to make reading multisensory and engaging. Whether it&’s using sand or shaving cream, there are tons of fun, proven ideas and strategies to help your students better understand key concepts like letter-sound relationships. With 9 unique units and 72 different lesson plans, each unit will include lessons, tips, pictures, reference charts, suggested teaching timelines, and more resources. Also included are strategies for customizing this approach, whether you&’re working one-on-one, within small groups, or in a whole-class setting.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/c8e/small/3741960.jpg)
A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures)
By Joel Beinin, Bassam Haddad, and Sherene Seikaly. 2020
This book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa. Challenging conventional…
wisdom on the origins and contemporary dynamics of capitalism in the region, these cutting-edge essays demonstrate how critical political economy can illuminate both historical and contemporary dynamics of the region and contribute to wider political economy debates from the vantage point of the Middle East. Leading scholars, representing several disciplines, contribute both thematic and country-specific analyses. Their writings critically examine major issues in political economy—notably, the mutual constitution of states, markets, and classes; the co-constitution of class, race, gender, and other forms of identity; varying modes of capital accumulation and the legal, political, and cultural forms of their regulation; relations among local, national, and global forms of capital, class, and culture; technopolitics; the role of war in the constitution of states and classes; and practices and cultures of domination and resistance. Visit politicaleconomyproject.org for additional media and learning resources.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/67a/small/3741978.jpg)
Help Yourself with Single-Session Therapy
By Windy Dryden. 2021
Help Yourself with Single-Session Therapy provides an outlook on how you can help yourself with your emotional problems by using…
insights from single-session therapy. Single-session therapy draws upon the skills and strengths of both the therapist and the client. The book will encourage you to develop your own solutions to your problems. Broken down into fourteen accessible chapters, it will help you to identify the problem before guiding you to provide your own goals and solutions. The importance of how to maintain change is also a key part of the process. Help Yourself will be useful for all those who wish to help themselves with their emotional problems and for those who wish to support them. It will also be relevant for counsellors, psychotherapists and students in these disciplines who are interested in the application of very-brief therapy to self-help.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/c1f/small/3741967.jpg)
Toaster Oven Perfection: A Smarter Way to Cook on a Smaller Scale
By America'S Test Kitchen. 2020
Take your toaster oven from sidekick to superhero with 100+ streamlined recipes that save time and energy and make your…
cooking life easier.If you've found yourself only using the toaster oven to toast bread or heat up leftovers, your toaster oven is woefully underutilized. A toaster's abilities are myriad (it can do many things a regular oven can do, and some even air fry), and ATK shows you how to tap into them, from making mini meatloaves, pizza, and a whole roast chicken, to baking individual ramekin desserts. Whether you are a habitual host, the owner of a new toaster oven, or someone with limited space, this is the book for you. Our sheet-pan dinners for two take advantage of every inch of your toaster oven's pan and makes your main dish and sides in one go (think Pork Tenderloin with Green Beans). Or, enlist your toaster oven to... • Roast up a vegetable side dish (no jostling for oven space) with recipes for Brussels sprouts, broccoli, and more • Bake easy appetizers like wings, empanadas, and granola (tastier and fresher than store bought) • Make meals with a range of serving sizes; feeding 1 person to as many as 8 • Embrace the joys of small-batch baking with freeze-and-bake cookies and scones: bake off a couple at a time and they'll always come out hot and fresh.We draw upon our extensive testing of toaster ovens to help you navigate the variety of models and recipes were tested across a range of models to ensure it will work in yours.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/098/small/3741962.jpg)
Embrace the Suck: The Navy SEAL Way to an Extraordinary Life
By Brent Gleeson. 2020
During the brutal crucible of Navy SEAL training, instructors often tell students to "embrace the suck." This phrase conveys the…
one lesson that is vital for any SEAL hopeful to learn: lean into the suffering and get comfortable being very uncomfortable. In this powerful, no-nonsense guide, Navy SEAL combat veteran turned leadership expert Brent Gleeson teaches you how to transform every area of your life--the Navy SEAL way.Can anyone develop this level of resilience? Gleeson breaks it down to a Challenge-Commitment-Control mindset. He reveals how resilient people view difficulties as a Challenge, where obstacles and failures are opportunities for growth. Next, they have a strong emotional Commitment to their goals and are not easily distracted or deterred. Finally, resilient people focus their energy on the things within their Control, rather than fixating on factors they can't impact.Embrace the Suck provides an actionable roadmap that empowers you to expand your comfort zone to live a more fulfilling, purpose-driven life. Through candid storytelling, behavioral science research, and plenty of self-deprecating humor, Gleeson shows you how to use pain as a pathway, reassess your values, remove temptation, build discipline, suffer with purpose, fail successfully, transform your mind, and achieve more of the goals you set![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/e75/small/3741964.jpg)
Drink?: The New Science of Alcohol and Health
By Professor David Nutt. 2020
A world-renowned authority on the science of alcohol exposes its influence on our health, mood, sleep, emotions, and productivity --…
and what we can and should do to moderate our intake.From after-work happy hour to a nightly glass of wine, we're used to thinking of alcohol as a normal part of our daily lives. In Drink?, neuropharmacology professor David Nutt takes a fascinating, science-based look at drinking to unpack why we should reconsider our favorite pastime.Using cutting-edge scientific research and years of hands-on experience in the field, Nutt delves into the long- and short-term effects of alcohol. He addresses topics such as hormones, mental health, fertility, and addiction, explaining how alcohol travels through our bodies and brains, what happens at each stage of inebriation, and how it effects us even after it leaves our systems. With accessible, easy-to-understand language, Nutt ensures that readers recognize why alcohol can have such a negative influence on our bodies and our society. In the vein of This Naked Mind,Drink? isn't preachy; it simply gives readers clear, evidence-based facts to help them make the most informed choices about their consumption.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/d91/small/3741966.jpg)
Child Data Citizen: How Tech Companies Are Profiling Us from Before Birth
By Veronica Barassi. 2015
An examination of the datafication of family life--in particular, the construction of our children into data subjects.Our families are being…
turned into data, as the digital traces we leave are shared, sold, and commodified. Children are datafied even before birth, with pregnancy apps and social media postings, and then tracked through babyhood with learning apps, smart home devices, and medical records. If we want to understand the emergence of the datafied citizen, Veronica Barassi argues, we should look at the first generation of datafied natives: our children. In Child Data Citizen, she examines the construction of children into data subjects, describing how their personal information is collected, archived, sold, and aggregated into unique profiles that can follow them across a lifetime.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/158/small/3741959.jpg)
Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1-3 (Dune)
By Frank Herbert. 1969
Perfect for longtime fans and new readers alike−this eBook collection includes the first three novels in Frank Herbert&’s Dune saga: DUNE,…
DUNE MESSIAH, and CHILDREN OF DUNEDUNE IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Javier Bardem, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgård, and Charlotte Rampling.In the far future, on a remote planet, an epic adventure awaits. Here are the first three novels of Frank Herbert&’s magnificent Dune saga—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction series of all time.The Dune Saga begins on the desert planet Arrakis with the story of the boy Paul Atreides—who would become known as Muad&’Dib—and of a great family&’s ambition to bring to fruition humankind&’s most ancient and unattainable dream....![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/68a/small/3741972.jpg)
Trouble at Table 5 #4: I Can't Feel My Feet (HarperChapters)
By Tom Watson. 2020
From the author of Stick Dog comes the fourth book in a highly illustrated early chapter book series about three best friends…
whose plans, missions, and schemes are sure to shake up their school. The weather outside is frightful! The temperature is dropping fast, and Rosie, Molly, and Simon are determined to come up with a way to keep their feet from freezing off on their walk to school.But can they finish their plan before the next snow-pocalypse? HarperChapters build confident readers one chapter at a time! With short, fast-paced books, art on every page, and milestone markers at the end of every chapter, they're the perfect next step for fans of I Can Read!![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/aa7/small/3741955.jpg)
A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses: Tales of the Feminine Divine from India and Beyond
By Michael Slouber. 2020
Imagining the divine as female is rare—even controversial—in most religions. Hinduism, by contrast, preserves a rich and continuous tradition of…
goddess worship. A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses conveys the diversity of this tradition by bringing together a fresh array of captivating and largely overlooked Hindu goddess tales from different regions. As the first such anthology of goddess narratives in translation, this collection highlights a range of sources from ancient myths to modern lore. The goddesses featured here battle demons, perform miracles, and grant rare Tantric visions to their devotees. Each translation is paired with a short essay that explains the goddess’s historical and social context, elucidating the ways religion adapts to changing times.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/a48/small/3741953.jpg)
Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume IV: Buddhist Studies
By Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki. 2021
Daisetsu Teitar?¯ Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside Japan encountered…
Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed to the ongoing religious and cultural interchange between Japan and the rest of the world, particularly the United States and Europe. This fourth volume of Selected Works of D. T. Suzuki brings together a range of Suzuki’s writings in the area of Buddhist studies. Based on his text-critical work in the Chinese canon, these essays reflect his commitment to clarifying Mahayana Buddhist doctrines in Indian, Chinese, and Japanese historical contexts. Many of these innovative writings reflect Buddhological discourse in contemporary Japan and the West’s pre-war ignorance of Mahayana thought. Included is a translation into English for the first time of his "Mahayana Was Not Preached by Buddha." In addition to editing the essays and contributing the translation, Mark L. Blum presents an introduction that examines how Suzuki understood Mahayana discourse via Chinese sources and analyzes his problematic use of Sanskrit.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/791/small/3741950.jpg)
Understanding Old Testament Theology: Mapping the Terrain of Recent Approaches
By Brittany Kim, Charlie Trimm. 2019
Over the past century the field of Old Testament studies has seen an explosion of theologies of the Old Testament,…
a trend that has only intensified in the past ten or twenty years. This proliferation of literature has made it difficult for students, pastors, laity--and even scholars--to keep up with.In Understanding Old Testament Theology, professors Brittany Kim and Charlie Trimm clearly organize and explain the myriad contemporary approaches to Old Testament theology.The book begins by highlighting the flash points that have produced such a wide range of Old Testament theologies and presents a brief history of the discipline. It then explores various approaches to Old Testament theology in seven chapters, divided into three parts. Part I examines approaches that ground Old Testament theology in history. Part II surveys approaches that foreground Old Testament theme(s). Finally, Part III considers approaches that highlight different contexts for doing Old Testament theology. Each main chapter describes both common features of the approach and points of tension and then offers a test case illuminating how it has been applied to the book of Exodus.Accessible and unique, Understanding Old Testament Theology provides the only summary introduction of its kind to the field of Old Testament biblical theology.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/8b4/small/3741951.jpg)
1 and 2 Thessalonians: Standing Strong Through Trials (Jeremiah Bible Study Series)
By Dr David Jeremiah. 2020
The apostle Paul founded many churches in the Roman Empire, including one in the Greek city of Thessalonica, which he…
visited during his second missionary journey. At that time Paul had been forced to flee the city, so he sent his coworker Timothy back to check on the congregation. Paul was encouraged at Timothy's report but felt compelled to address misconceptions they had about the return of Christ. In each letter, Paul stressed that Jesus is coming back, that believers who are alive at the time will be gathered to Him, and that they needed to maintain a holy life and avoid idleness as they waited. Paul's words likewise reveal to all believers today that Jesus will return—but that we need to keep doing His work in the meantime.David Jeremiah is the founder of Turning Point, an international ministry committed to providing Christians with sound Bible teaching through radio and television, the Internet, live events, and resource materials and books. He is the author of more than fifty books, including A Life Beyond Amazing, Overcomer, and The Book of Signs. Dr. Jeremiah serves as the senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church in San Diego, California, where he resides with his wife, Donna. They have four grown children and twelve grandchildren.