Nothing to prove: why we can stop trying so hard [First edition] 9781601429612, 9781601429636, 9780735290884, 0735290881, 1601429614, 9781601429629, 1601429622

Nature That Makes Us Human: Why We Keep Destroying Nature and How We Can Stop Doing So 9780197628430, 9780197628454, 0197628435

Climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, resource depletion, new emerging diseases: scientists have raised awarenes

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Hit so hard: a memoir [First edition] 9780306825071, 0306825074

"Patty Schemel's story begins with a childhood surrounded by the AA meetings her parents hosted in the family

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So Rich, So Poor: Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America 9781595588043

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So rich, so poor: why it's so hard to end poverty in America 9781595588043, 1595588043

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A snapshot of our current mess -- What we have accomplished -- Why are we stuck? -- J

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Why We Elect Narcissists and Sociopaths: And How We Can Stop! 9781523085279, 9781523085286, 9781523085293, 9781523085316

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Retirement and Its Discontents: Why We Won't Stop Working, Even If We Can 9780231547925

Michelle Pannor Silver considers how we confront the mismatch between idealized and actual retirement. She follows docto

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Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals 9780062010704, 9780061730863, 0062010700

Combining the intellect of Malcolm Gladwell with the irreverent humor of Mary Roach and the paradigm-shifting analysis o

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Trying not to notice [First edition] 9781937541286, 1937541282

Will Dinski returns with a character study told through a prism of foils, each novel-worthy in their own right.

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Beckett and Nothing: Trying to understand Beckett 9781526146458

The volume explores the paradoxes at the core of Beckett’s poetics through the notion of ‘nothing’, analysed in its many

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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America [First edition] 9781250135995, 1250135990

Call to worship -- Hymns of praise -- Invocation -- Scripture reading -- Sermon : Repenting of whiteness : Inventing whi

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