Katie's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 09 Jan 2025 08:42:40 -0800 60 Katie's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Wool - Holston (Wool, #1) 12287209
Or you'll get what you wish for.]]> 56 Hugh Howey Katie 5 4.14 2012 Wool - Holston (Wool, #1)
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]]> Emergency Skin 49669410
An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others among the planet¡¯s finest, fled centuries ago. The mission comes with a warning: a graveyard world awaits him. But so do those left behind¡ªhopeless and unbeautiful wastes of humanity who should have died out eons ago. After all this time, there¡¯s no telling how they¡¯ve devolved. Steel yourself, soldier. Get in. Get out. And try not to stare.

N. K. Jemisin¡¯s Emergency Skin is part of Forward, a collection of six stories of the near and far future from out-of-this-world authors. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.]]> 38 N.K. Jemisin 1542093570 Katie 0 to-read 4.02 2019 Emergency Skin
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]]> Having and Being Had 51041284
¡°My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts,¡± Eula Biss writes, ¡°the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after.¡± Having just purchased her first home, she now embarks on a roguish and risky self-audit of the value system she has bought into. The result is a radical interrogation of work, leisure, and capitalism. Described by The New York Times as a writer who ¡°advances from all sides, like a chess player,¡± Biss brings her approach to the lived experience of capitalism. Playfully ranging from IKEA to Beyonc¨¦ to Pokemon, across bars and laundromats and universities, she asks, of both herself and her class, ¡°In what have we invested?¡±]]> 336 Eula Biss 0525537473 Katie 0 to-read 3.87 2020 Having and Being Had
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]]> <![CDATA[A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)]]> 226004 A Fire Upon The Deep, this is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the interstellar trading fleet of the Queng Ho. The Queng Ho and the Emergents are orbiting the dormant planet Arachna, which is about to wake up to technology, but the Emergents' plans are sinister.]]> 775 Vernor Vinge 0812536355 Katie 5 4.31 1999 A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Lost on the Appalachian Trail (Triple Crown Trilogy (AT, PCT, CDT) Book 1)]]> 26047325 371 Kyle Rohrig Katie 0 to-read 4.28 2015 Lost on the Appalachian Trail (Triple Crown Trilogy (AT, PCT, CDT) Book 1)
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]]> <![CDATA[System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)]]> 65211701 Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.

Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back.

Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there¡¯s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can¡¯t have the planet, they¡¯re sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize.

But there¡¯s something wrong with Murderbot; it isn¡¯t running within normal operational parameters. ART¡¯s crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranza¡¯s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, they¡¯re going to have to hope Murderbot figures out what¡¯s wrong with itself, and fast.

Yeah, this plan is... not going to work.]]> 245 Martha Wells 1250826977 Katie 0 to-read 4.19 2023 System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
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]]> <![CDATA[Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder: Relieve Your Suffering Using the Core Skill of Dialectical Behavior Therapy]]> 32681620 0 Blaise A. Aguirre 1515964884 Katie 0 4.26 2013 Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder: Relieve Your Suffering Using the Core Skill of Dialectical Behavior Therapy
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]]> <![CDATA[Running on Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships with Your Partner, Your Parents & Your Children]]> 36523227 Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect, many thousands of people have learned that invisible Childhood Emotional Neglect, or CEN, has been weighing on them their entire lives, and are now in the process of recovery. Running on Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships will offer even more solutions for the effects of CEN on people¡¯s lives: how to talk about CEN, and heal it, in relationships with partners, parents, and children.]]> 245 Jonice Webb Katie 0 to-read 4.23 Running on Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships with Your Partner, Your Parents & Your Children
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]]> <![CDATA[Baltimore Revisited: Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U.S. City]]> 41839995 ?
To help untangle these apparent paradoxes, the editors of Baltimore Revisited have assembled a collection of over thirty experts from inside and outside academia. Together, they reveal that Baltimore has been ground zero for a slew of neoliberal policies, a place where inequality has increased as corporate interests have eagerly privatized public goods and services to maximize profits. But they also uncover how community members resist and reveal a long tradition of Baltimoreans who have fought for social justice.
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The essays in this collection take readers on a tour through the city¡¯s diverse neighborhoods, from the Lumbee Indian community in East Baltimore to the crusade for environmental justice in South Baltimore. Baltimore Revisited examines the city¡¯s past, reflects upon the city¡¯s present, and envisions the city¡¯s future.]]> 378 P. Nicole King 0813594014 Katie 0 to-read 4.32 Baltimore Revisited: Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U.S. City
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]]> <![CDATA[Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space]]> 57802456 Many societies have imagined going to live in space. What they want to do once they get up there¡ªwhether conquering the unknown, establishing space ¡°colonies,¡± privatising the moon¡¯s resources¡ªreveals more than expected. In this fascinating radical history of space exploration, Fred Scharmen shows that often science and fiction have combined in the imagined dreams of life in outer space, but these visions have real implications for life back on earth.

For the Russian Cosmists of the 1890s space was a place to pursue human perfection away from the Earth. For others, such as Wernher Von Braun, it was an engineering task that combined, in the Space Race, the Cold War, and during World War II, with destructive geopolitics. Arthur C. Clarke, in his speculative books, offered an alternative vision of wonder that is indifferent to human interaction. Meanwhile NASA planned and managed the space station like an earthbound corporation. Today, the market has arrived into outer space and exploration is the plaything of superrich technology billionaires, who plan to privatise the mineral wealth for themselves. Are other worlds really possible?

Bringing these figures and ideas together reveals a completely different story of our relationship with outer space, as well as the dangers of our current direction of extractive capitalism and colonisation.]]> 272 Fred Scharmen 1786637359 Katie 0 to-read 3.72 Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space
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]]> Space Settlements 43215080 208 Fred Scharmen 1941332498 Katie 0 to-read 4.47 Space Settlements
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]]> <![CDATA[Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)]]> 52381770
It worries about the fragile human crew who've grown to trust it, but only where no one can see.

It tells itself that they're only a professional obligation, but when they're captured and an old friend from the past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action.

Drastic action it is, then.

]]> 350 Martha Wells 1250229863 Katie 0 currently-reading 4.44 2020 Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
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]]> 11/22/63 10644930
In 2011, Jake Epping, an English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, sets out on an insane ¡ª and insanely possible ¡ª mission to prevent the Kennedy assassination.

Leaving behind a world of computers and mobile phones, he goes back to a time of big American cars and diners, of Lindy Hopping, the sound of Elvis, and the taste of root beer.

In this haunting world, Jake falls in love with Sadie, a beautiful high school librarian. And, as the ominous date of 11/22/63 approaches, he encounters a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald...]]> 849 Stephen King 1451627289 Katie 0 to-read 4.33 2011 11/22/63
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]]> <![CDATA[The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11]]> 43821581
Read by a 45-person cast, with Holter Graham and the author

Over the past eighteen years, monumental literature has been published about 9/11, from Lawrence Wright¡¯s The Looming Tower to The 9/11 Commission Report. But one perspective has been missing up to this point¡ªa 360-degree account of the day told through firsthand.

Now, in The Only Plane in the Sky, Garrett Graff tells the story of the day as it was lived¡ªin the words of those who lived it. Drawing on never-before-published transcripts, declassified documents, original interviews, and oral histories from nearly five hundred government officials, first responders, witnesses, survivors, friends, and family members, he paints the most vivid and human portrait of the September 11 attacks yet.

Beginning in the predawn hours of airports in the Northeast, we meet the ticket agents who unknowingly usher terrorists onto their flights, and the flight attendants inside the hijacked planes. In New York, first responders confront a scene of unimaginable horror at the Twin Towers. From a secret bunker under the White House, officials watch for incoming planes on radar. Aboard unarmed fighter jets in the air, pilots make a pact to fly into a hijacked airliner if necessary to bring it down. In the skies above Pennsylvania, civilians aboard United 93 make the ultimate sacrifice in their place. Then, as the day moves forward and flights are grounded nationwide, Air Force One circles the country alone, its passengers isolated and afraid.

More than simply a collection of eyewitness testimonies, The Only Plane in the Sky is the historic narrative of how ordinary people grappled with extraordinary events in real time: the father and son caught on different ends of the impact zone; the firefighter searching for his wife who works at the World Trade Center; the operator of in-flight telephone calls who promises to share a passenger¡¯s last words with his family; the beloved FDNY chaplain who bravely performs last rites for the dying, losing his own life when the Towers collapse; and the generals at the Pentagon who break down and weep when they are barred from trying to rescue their colleagues.

At once a powerful tribute to the courage of everyday Americans and an essential addition to the literature of 9/11, The Only Plane in the Sky weaves together the unforgettable personal experiences of the men and women who found themselves caught at the center of an unprecedented human drama. The result is a unique, profound, and searing exploration of humanity on a day that changed the course of history, and all of our lives.]]> 513 Garrett M. Graff Katie 0 currently-reading 4.73 2019 The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
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]]> <![CDATA[The Future of Work: Compulsory]]> 56033969
A short story published in Wired magazine as part of a series "The Future of Work" on December 17, 2018.]]> 2 Martha Wells Katie 0 to-read 4.07 2018 The Future of Work: Compulsory
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]]> <![CDATA[Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)]]> 53205854 No, I didn¡¯t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn¡¯t dump the body in the station mall.

When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people¡ªwho knew?)

Yes, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans!

Again!]]> 168 Martha Wells 1250765374 Katie 0 to-read 4.25 2021 Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
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]]> <![CDATA[Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)]]> 57623348 Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory was originally given free to readers who pre-ordered Martha¡¯s Murderbot novel, Network Effect, the fifth entry in the series. The events occur just after the fourth novella, Exit Strategy.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> 19 Martha Wells 125083886X Katie 0 to-read 4.03 2020 Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)
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]]> <![CDATA[Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique]]> 13690329
Although the central essays of the book focus on a critical social realism about gender and race, these accounts function as case studies for a broader critical social realism. To develop this broader approach, several essays offer reworked notions of ideology, practice, and social structure, drawing on recent research in sociology and social psychology. Ideology, on the proposed view, is a relatively stable set of shared dispositions to respond to the world, often in ways that also shape the world to evoke those very dispositions. This looping of our dispositions through the material world enables the social to appear natural.

Additional essays in the book situate this approach to social phenomena in relation to philosophical methodology, and to specific debates in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language. The book as a whole explores the interface between analytic philosophy and critical theory.]]> 512 Sally Haslanger 0199892628 Katie 0 to-read 4.30 2012 Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique
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]]> Transgender Marxism 49019120
No one is spared gendered enculturation, but the contributors to this collection argue that transgender people face particular pressures, oppressions, and state persecution. The first part of the book explores particular movements, and lives, through a Marxist lens. The second section emphasises the 'Marxism' in Transgender Marxism, exploring the particular experience of surviving as trans in light of the totality of gendered experience under capitalism. The contributors also consider how the particular case of transgender life offers opportunities to revise and renew Marxist theorising more generally. The final part twins Marxism with other schools of thought, such as psychoanalysis, mainstream psychology, phenomenology, and Butlerian performativity, to offer clearer insight into transgender experience.]]> 320 Jules Joanne Gleeson 0745341667 Katie 0 to-read 3.90 2021 Transgender Marxism
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]]> Never Let Me Go 6334 288 Kazuo Ishiguro 1400078776 Katie 0 to-read 3.85 2005 Never Let Me Go
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]]> <![CDATA[Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia]]> 40604343 Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester's Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.

For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever lived there. Both the most closely related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the era of mass migration, Polynesians can trace their roots to a group of epic voyagers who ventured out into the unknown in one of the greatest adventures in human history.

How did the earliest Polynesians find and colonize these far-flung islands? How did a people without writing or metal tools conquer the largest ocean in the world? This conundrum, which came to be known as the Problem of Polynesian Origins, emerged in the eighteenth century as one of the great geographical mysteries of mankind.

For Christina Thompson, this mystery is personal: her Maori husband and their sons descend directly from these ancient navigators. In Sea People, Thompson explores the fascinating story of these ancestors, as well as those of the many sailors, linguists, archaeologists, folklorists, biologists, and geographers who have puzzled over this history for three hundred years. A masterful mix of history, geography, anthropology, and the science of navigation, Sea People combines the thrill of exploration with the drama of discovery in a vivid tour of one of the most captivating regions in the world.]]> Christina Thompson 0062897578 Katie 3 3.99 2019 Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
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]]> <![CDATA[The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin]]> 12382651 The Man Without a Face is the chilling account of how a low- level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress and made his country once more a threat to her own people and to the world.

Handpicked as a successor by the "family" surrounding an ailing and increasingly unpopular Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin seemed like a perfect choice for the oligarchy to shape according to its own designs. Suddenly the boy who had stood in the shadows, dreaming of ruling the world, was a public figure, and his popularity soared. Russia and an infatuated West were determined to see the progressive leader of their dreams, even as he seized control of media, sent political rivals and critics into exile or to the grave, and smashed the country's fragile electoral system, concentrating power in the hands of his cronies.

As a journalist living in Moscow, Masha Gessen experienced this history firsthand, and for The Man Without a Face she has drawn on information and sources no other writer has tapped. Her account of how a "faceless" man maneuvered his way into absolute-and absolutely corrupt-power has the makings of a classic of narrative nonfiction.]]> 304 Masha Gessen 1594488428 Katie 0 3.78 2010 The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
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]]> <![CDATA[Underland: A Deep Time Journey]]> 53121631 Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth¡¯s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. Traveling through the dizzying expanse of geologic time¡ªfrom prehistoric art in Norwegian sea caves, to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap, to a deep-sunk "hiding place" where nuclear waste will be stored for 100,000 years to come¡ªUnderland takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind.

Global in its geography and written with great lyricism, Underland speaks powerfully to our present moment. At once ancient and urgent, this is a book that will change the way you see the world.]]> 496 Robert Macfarlane 0393358097 Katie 5 4.23 2019 Underland: A Deep Time Journey
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average rating: 4.23
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]]> <![CDATA[The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August]]> 18295861 416 Claire North 0316399612 Katie 4 3.93 2014 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
author: Claire North
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average rating: 3.93
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]]> The Container Guide 25531668
Almost everything you own or consume has at some point traveled in a shipping container. As of 2009, 90% of the world's non-bulk cargo is moved in containers stacked on transport ships. The top 100 shipping companies together manage more than 17,000,000 containers worldwide. These massive, globe-spanning businesses and corporate alliances shape economies yet they're rarely discussed in popular media.

The Container Guide, drawing inspiration from classic Audubon birding guides, is a practical field guide to identifying containers and the corporations that own them. Inside you'll find virtually every major shipping concern brought to life in full-color on durable, tear- and water-resistant paper. The included photographs, logos, and container colors will help you quickly identify the corporation behind almost any container you spot in the wild. Each company's corresponding entry provides rich historical background and data on their revenue, trade routes, and habits.

The Container Guide features informative essays about the impact and finer points of the container spotting hobby:

Rose George, Ninety Percent of Everything
Nicola Twilley, Edible Geography
Luke Iseman, Y Combinator and Boxouse

Accompanying cargo sighting tips, global trade maps, and informative diagrams will make this the most comprehensive field guide to shipping container companies commercially available. The guide is a perfect gift for the experienced shipping container spotter, the budding infrastructure enthusiast, and the casual reader.]]> 140 Craig Cannon 0986382000 Katie 0 to-read 3.82 2015 The Container Guide
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]]> <![CDATA[Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster]]> 17290891
In the first definitive account of the Fukushima disaster, two leading experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists, David Lochbaum and Edwin Lyman, team up with journalist Susan Q. Stranahan, the lead reporter of the Philadelphia Inquirer 's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Three Mile Island accident, to tell this harrowing story. Fukushima combines a fast-paced, riveting account of the tsunami and the nuclear emergency it created with an explanation of the science and technology behind the meltdown as it unfolded in real time. Bolstered by photographs, explanatory diagrams, and a comprehensive glossary, the narrative also extends to other severe nuclear accidents to address both the terrifying question of whether it could happen elsewhere and how such a crisis can be averted in the future.]]> 320 David Lochbaum 1595589082 Katie 0 3.55 2013 Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
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]]> <![CDATA[Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age]]> 348190 For the fiftieth anniversary of Sputnik, the behind-the-scenes story of the fierce battles on earth that launched the superpowers into space
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The spy planes were driving Nikita Khrushchev mad. Whenever America wanted to peer inside the Soviet Union, it launched a U-2, which flew too high to be shot down. But Sergei Korolev, Russia's chief rocket designer, had a riposte: an artificial satellite that would orbit the earth and cross American skies at will. On October 4, 1957, the launch of Korolev's satellite, Sputnik, stunned the world.


In Red Moon Rising, Matthew Brzezinski takes us inside the Kremlin, the White House, secret military facilities, and the halls of Congress to bring to life the Russians and Americans who feared and distrusted their compatriots as much as their superpower rivals. Drawing on original interviews and new documentary sources from both sides of the Cold War divide, he shows how Khrushchev and Dwight Eisenhower were buffeted by crises of their own creation, leaving the door open to ambitious politicians and scientists to squabble over the heavens and the earth. It is a story rich in the paranoia of the time, with combatants that included two future presidents, survivors of the gulag, corporate chieftains, rehabilitated Nazis, and a general who won the day by refusing to follow orders.


Sputnik set in motion events that led not only to the moon landing but also to cell phones, federally guaranteed student loans, and the wireless Internet. Red Moon Rising recounts the true story of the birth of the space age in dramatic detail, bringing it to life as never before.]]> 336 Matthew Brzezinski 080508147X Katie 4 4.10 Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age
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]]> <![CDATA[Freedom from the Market: America¡¯s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand]]> 54703796
¡°Mike Konczal [is] one of our most powerful advocates of financial reform, [a] heroic critic of austerity, and a huge resource for progressives.¡± ¡ªPaul Krugman

Health insurance, student loan debt, retirement savings, child care, work-life balance, access to home ownership¡ªthese are the issues driving America¡¯s current political debates. And they are all linked, as this brilliant and timely book reveals, by a single question: should we allow the free market to determine our lives?

In the tradition of Naomi Klein¡¯s Shock Doctrine, noted economic commentator Mike Konczal answers this question with a resounding no. Freedom from the Market blends passionate political argument and a bold new take on American history to reveal that, from the earliest days of the republic, Americans have defined freedom as what we keep free from the control of the market. With chapters on the history of Homestead Act and land ownership, the eight-hour work day and free time, social insurance and Social Security, World War II day cares, Medicare and desegregation, free public colleges, intellectual property, and the public corporation, Konczal shows how citizens have fought to ensure that everyone has access to the conditions that make us free.

At a time when millions of Americans¡ªand more and more politicians¡ªare questioning the unregulated free market as un-American, Freedom from the Market offers a new narrative, and new intellectual ammunition, for the fight that lies ahead.]]> 256 Mike Konczal 1620975378 Katie 0 to-read 4.15 2021 Freedom from the Market: America¡¯s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand
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]]> <![CDATA[Reservoir Hill (Images of America: Maryland)]]> 15931491 128 Kelly Dale Terrill 0738597619 Katie 0 to-read 0.0 2013 Reservoir Hill (Images of America: Maryland)
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]]> <![CDATA[Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America¡¯s Black Cities]]> 43985050 268 Andre Perry 0815737270 Katie 0 to-read 4.22 2020 Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America¡¯s Black Cities
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]]> <![CDATA[Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through]]> 53166200 5 T. Fleischmann 1974990176 Katie 0 to-read 3.50 2019 Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
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]]> <![CDATA[In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action]]> 53916759 A fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy.


Looting -- a crowd of people publicly, openly, and directly seizing goods -- is one of the more extreme actions that can take place in the midst of social unrest. Even self-identified radicals distance themselves from looters, fearing that violent tactics reflect badly on the broader movement.
But Vicky Osterweil argues that stealing goods and destroying property are direct, pragmatic strategies of wealth redistribution and improving life for the working class -- not to mention the brazen messages these methods send to the police and the state. All our beliefs about the innate righteousness of property and ownership, Osterweil explains, are built on the history of anti-Black, anti-Indigenous oppression.
From slave revolts to labor strikes to the modern-day movements for climate change, Black lives, and police abolition, Osterweil makes a convincing case for rioting and looting as weapons that bludgeon the status quo while uplifting the poor and marginalized. In Defense of Looting is a history of violent protest sparking social change, a compelling reframing of revolutionary activism, and a practical vision for a dramatically restructured society.]]> Vicky Osterweil 1549161199 Katie 0 currently-reading 4.00 2020 In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action
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]]> <![CDATA[Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory]]> 30460948 A young mortician goes behind the scenes, unafraid of the gruesome (and fascinating) details of her curious profession.

Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty¡ªa twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre¡ªtook a job at a crematory, turning morbid curiosity into her life¡¯s work. Thrown into a profession of gallows humor and vivid characters (both living and very dead), Doughty learned to navigate the secretive culture of those who care for the deceased.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes tells an unusual coming-of-age story full of bizarre encounters and unforgettable scenes. Caring for dead bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, Doughty soon becomes an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. She describes how she swept ashes from the machines (and sometimes onto her clothes) and reveals the strange history of cremation and undertaking, marveling at bizarre and wonderful funeral practices from different cultures.

Her eye-opening, candid, and often hilarious story is like going on a journey with your bravest friend to the cemetery at midnight. She demystifies death, leading us behind the black curtain of her unique profession. And she answers questions you didn¡¯t know you had: Can you catch a disease from a corpse? How many dead bodies can you fit in a Dodge van? What exactly does a flaming skull look like?

Honest and heartfelt, self-deprecating and ironic, Doughty's engaging style makes this otherwise taboo topic both approachable and engrossing. Now a licensed mortician with an alternative funeral practice, Doughty argues that our fear of dying warps our culture and society, and she calls for better ways of dealing with death (and our dead).]]> 8 Caitlin Doughty 1490657584 Katie 0 4.13 2014 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
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]]> <![CDATA[When You Find My Body: The Disappearance of Geraldine Largay on the Appalachian Trail]]> 50804023
This book tells the story of events preceding Geraldine Largay's vanishing in July 2013, while hiking the Appalachian Trail in Maine, what caused her to go astray, and the massive search and rescue operation that followed. Her disappearance sparked the largest lost-person search in Maine history, which culminated in her being presumed dead. She was never again seen alive. The author was one of the hundreds of volunteers who searched for her. Gerry's story is one of heartbreak, most assuredly, but is also one of perseverance, determination, and faith. For her family and the searchers, especially the Maine Warden Service, it is also a story of grave sorrow.]]> D. Dauphinee Katie 3 3.64 2019 When You Find My Body: The Disappearance of Geraldine Largay on the Appalachian Trail
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As a hiker I was interested in this account. (Also as a true crime fan but, as others have noted, the book is not in the true crime genre despite its marketing.) It provides a valuable, tragic lesson about what to do -- and not do -- if you get lost in the wilderness. What it doesn't do, unfortunately, is provide a fluent narrative or even a book's worth of material. The account could make a reasonable long-form article or podcast episode, but the copious padding in this book is glaring and clunky. It seemed to me that the prose's tone started dry, which is hard to avoid with filler material on the history of the Appalachian Trail, and became increasingly overwrought when it got to descriptions and especially speculations about the personal experiences of its subjects. In more writerly hands this material would have been compelling.
]]> <![CDATA[Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession]]> 306598 184 Janet Malcolm 1568213425 Katie 0 to-read 4.21 Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
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]]> Solutions and Other Problems 51323365
Solutions and Other Problems includes humorous stories from Allie Brosh¡¯s childhood; the adventures of her very bad animals; merciless dissection of her own character flaws; incisive essays on grief, loneliness, and powerlessness; as well as reflections on the absurdity of modern life.

This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features all-new material with more than 1,600 pieces of art.]]> 519 Allie Brosh 1982156945 Katie 0 currently-reading 4.21 2020 Solutions and Other Problems
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]]> <![CDATA[Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries & Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy]]> 40890214 In this important sequel to Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, author Lindsay Gibson offers powerful tools to help you step back and protect yourself at the first sign of an emotional takeover, make sure your emotions and needs are respected, and break free from the coercive control of emotionally immature parents.

Growing up with emotionally immature (EI) parents can leave you feeling lonely and neglected. You may have trouble setting limits and expressing your feelings. And you may even be more susceptible to other emotionally immature people as you establish adult relationships. In addition, as your parents become older, they may still treat your emotions with mockery and contempt, be dismissive and discounting of your reality, and try to control and diminish your sense of emotional autonomy and freedom of thought. In short, EIs can be self-absorbed, inconsistent, and contradictory. So, how can you recover from their toxic behavior?

Drawing on the success of her popular self-help book, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, author Lindsay Gibson offers yet another essential resource. With this follow-up guide, you¡¯ll learn practical skills to help you recognize the signs of an EI, protect yourself against an emotional takeover, reconnect with your own emotions and needs, and gain emotional autonomy in all your relationships. This is a how-to book, with doable exercises and active tips and suggestions for what to say and do to increase emotional autonomy and self-awareness.

If you¡¯re ready to stop putting your own needs last, clear the clutter of self-doubt, and move beyond the fear of judgment and punishment that¡¯s been instilled in you by emotionally immature parents, this book will help you find the freedom to finally live your life your way.]]> 224 Lindsay C. Gibson 1684032520 Katie 0 4.38 2019 Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries & Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy
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]]> <![CDATA[If You Love Baltimore, It Will Love You Back: 171 Short, But True Stories]]> 54375211 406 Ron Cassie 1627203087 Katie 0 to-read 3.95 If You Love Baltimore, It Will Love You Back: 171 Short, But True Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible]]> 18210783
Like King, many ostensibly ¡°nonviolent¡± civil rights activists embraced their constitutional right to self-protection¡ªyet this crucial dimension of the Afro-American freedom struggle has been long ignored by history. In This Nonviolent Stuff¡¯ll Get You Killed, civil rights scholar Charles E. Cobb Jr. describes the vital role that armed self-defense played in the survival and liberation of black communities in America during the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s. In the Deep South, blacks often safeguarded themselves and their loved ones from white supremacist violence by bearing¡ªand, when necessary, using¡ªfirearms. In much the same way, Cobb shows, nonviolent civil rights workers received critical support from black gun owners in the regions where they worked. Whether patrolling their neighborhoods, garrisoning their homes, or firing back at attackers, these courageous men and women and the weapons they carried were crucial to the movement¡¯s success.

Giving voice to the World War II veterans, rural activists, volunteer security guards, and self-defense groups who took up arms to defend their lives and liberties, This Nonviolent Stuff¡¯ll Get You Killed lays bare the paradoxical relationship between the nonviolent civil rights struggle and the Second Amendment. Drawing on his firsthand experiences in the civil rights movement and interviews with fellow participants, Cobb provides a controversial examination of the crucial place of firearms in the fight for American freedom.]]> 294 Charles E. Cobb Jr. 0465033105 Katie 0 to-read 4.21 2014 This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
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]]> <![CDATA[I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad]]> 49776565 I Got a Monster is the explosive true story of the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), America¡¯s most corrupt police squad, which terrorized the embattled, deeply-segregated city of Baltimore, robbing dealers of their cash and stealing their stash, putting the drugs back onto the streets.

Leading this group of cops-turned-criminals was Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, who was at once a decorated detective and a criminal mastermind, waging war on the city he was supposed to serve and protect. Defense lawyers tried to bring the super cop¡¯s misconduct to light, but Jenkins was ¡°untouchable¡± because of his connections within the department. One defense attorney, Ivan Bates, had been battling Jenkins for years. Then in March 2016, when Jenkins stole over $100,000 from one of Bates¡¯ clients, the lawyer believed he finally found a way to bring down the cop who had been called the ¡°prince of the city.¡±

When the federal government finally indicted the GTTF in 2017, the stories of their victims began to come out, revealing a criminal enterprise inside the Baltimore Police Department and shedding a cold, hard light on the realities of the justice system.

AUDIO LENGTH: 8hrs. and 45mins.

?2020 Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg (P)2020 Macmillan Audio]]> Baynard Woods Katie 0 currently-reading 4.33 2020 I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad
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]]> The Seep 45448133
Trina and her wife, Deeba, live blissfully under The Seep¡¯s utopian influence¡ªuntil Deeba begins to imagine what it might be like to be reborn as a baby, which will give her the chance at an even better life. Using Seep-tech to make this dream a reality, Deeba moves on to a new existence, leaving Trina devastated.

Heartbroken and deep into an alcoholic binge, Trina chases after a young boy she encounters, embarking on an unexpected quest. In her attempt to save him from The Seep, she will confront not only one of its most avid devotees, but the terrifying void that Deeba has left behind.]]> 203 Chana Porter 1641290862 Katie 4 3.64 2020 The Seep
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]]> <![CDATA[The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America]]> 54320814 The Black Butterfly¡ªa reference to the fact that Baltimore's majority-Black population spreads out on both sides of the coveted strip of real estate running down the center of the city like a butterfly's wings¡ªLawrence T. Brown reveals that ongoing historical trauma caused by a combination of policies, practices, systems, and budgets is at the root of uprisings and crises in hypersegregated cities around the country.

Putting Baltimore under a microscope, Brown looks closely at the causes of segregation, many of which exist in current legislation and regulatory policy despite the common belief that overtly racist policies are a thing of the past. Drawing on social science research, policy analysis, and archival materials, Brown reveals the long history of racial segregation's impact on health, from toxic pollution to police brutality. Beginning with an analysis of the current political moment, Brown delves into how Baltimore's history influenced actions in sister cities like St. Louis and Cleveland, as well as its adoption of increasingly oppressive techniques from cities like Chicago.

But there is reason to hope. Throughout the book, Brown offers a clear five-step plan for activists, nonprofits, and public officials to achieve racial equity. Not content to simply describe and decry urban problems, Brown offers up a wide range of innovative solutions to help heal and restore redlined Black neighborhoods, including municipal reparations. Persuasively arguing that because urban apartheid was intentionally erected it can be intentionally dismantled, The Black Butterfly demonstrates that America cannot reflect that Black lives matter until we see how Black neighborhoods matter.]]> 384 Lawrence T. Brown 1421439875 Katie 0 to-read 4.32 2021 The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
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]]> <![CDATA[Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World¡¯s Most Dangerous Man]]> 53318245
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald¡¯s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world¡¯s health, economic security, and social fabric.

Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents¡¯ large, imposing house in the heart of Queens, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse. She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald.

A first-hand witness to countless holiday meals and family interactions, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humor to sometimes grim, often confounding family events. She recounts in unsparing detail everything from her uncle Donald¡¯s place in the family spotlight and Ivana¡¯s penchant for re-gifting to her grandmother¡¯s frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump¡¯s favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer¡¯s.

Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists, and journalists have sought to parse Donald J. Trump¡¯s lethal flaws. Mary L. Trump has the education, insight, and intimate familiarity needed to reveal what makes Donald, and the rest of her clan, tick. She alone can recount this fascinating, unnerving saga, not just because of her insider¡¯s perspective but also because she is the only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the world¡¯s most powerful and dysfunctional families.

Narrated by the author.]]> 8 Mary L. Trump 1797113860 Katie 5 3.80 2020 Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World¡¯s Most Dangerous Man
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]]> Whose Names Are Unknown 32063149 Whose Names Are Unknown tells an intimate story of the High Plains farmers who fled drought and dust storms during the Great Depression. Written with empathy for the farmers' plight, this powerful narrative is based upon the author's firsthand experience.

This clear-eyed and unsentimental story centers on the fictional Dunne family as they struggle to survive and endure while never losing faith in themselves. In the Oklahoma Panhandle, Milt, Julia, their two little girls, and Milt's father, Konkie, share a life of cramped circumstances in a one-room dugout with never enough to eat. Yet buried in the drudgery of their everyday life are aspirations, failed dreams, and fleeting moments of hope. The land is their dream.

The Dunne family and the farmers around them fight desperately for the land they love, but the droughts of the thirties force them to abandon their fields. When they join the exodus to the irrigated valleys of California, they discover not the promised land, but an abusive labor system arrayed against destitute immigrants. The system labels all farmers like them as worthless "Okies" and earmarks them for beatings and worse when hardworking men and women, such as Milt and Julia, object to wages so low they can't possibly feed their children. The informal communal relations these dryland farmers knew on the High Plains gradually coalesce into a shared determination to resist. Realizing that a unified community is their best hope for survival, the Dunnes join with their fellow workers and begin the struggle to improve migrant working conditions through democratic organization and collective protest.

Babb wrote Whose Names Are Unknown in the 1930s while working with refugee farmers in the Farm Security Administration (FSA) camps of California. Originally from the Oklahoma Panhandle area herself, Babb, who had first come to Los Angeles in 1929 as a journalist, joined FSA camp administrator Tom Collins in 1938 to help the uprooted farmers. As Lawrence R. Rodgers notes in his foreward, Babb submitted the manuscript for this book to Random House for consideration in 1939. Editor Bennet Cerf planned to publish this "exceptionally fine" novel but when John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath swept the nation, Cerf explained that the market could not support two books on the subject.

Babb has since shared her manuscript with interested scholars who have deemed it a classic in its own right. In an era when the country was deeply divided on social legislation issues and millions drifted unemployed and homeless, Babb recorded the stories of the people she greatly respected, those "whose names are unknown." In doing so, she returned to them their identities and dignity, and put a human face on economic disaster and social distress.]]> 9 Sanora Babb 1470392895 Katie 0 currently-reading 4.11 2004 Whose Names Are Unknown
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood]]> 30652247 gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don't realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as vibrant, equitable spaces hangs in the balance.

Peter Moskowitz's How to Kill a City takes readers from the kitchen tables of hurting families who can no longer afford their homes to the corporate boardrooms and political backrooms where destructive housing policies are devised. Along the way, Moskowitz uncovers the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification in New Orleans, Detroit, San Francisco, and New York. The deceptively simple question of who can and cannot afford to pay the rent goes to the heart of America's crises of race and inequality. In the fight for economic opportunity and racial justice, nothing could be more important than housing.

A vigorous, hard-hitting expose, How to Kill a City reveals who holds power in our cities-and how we can get it back

]]> 272 Peter Moskowitz 1568585233 Katie 0 to-read 4.09 2017 How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
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]]> <![CDATA[Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States]]> 27131078 224 Maya Schenwar 1608466124 Katie 0 to-read 4.27 2016 Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States
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]]> <![CDATA[Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement]]> 51778952 This is How We Survive focuses on concrete alternatives to policing and prisons. From practical tool-kits and personal essays, to supporting people in mental health crises, to community-based murder investigations, this text delves deeply into the ¡°how to¡± of transformative justice. Along the way, this volume documents the history of this radical movement, creating space for long time organizers to reflect on victories, struggles, mistakes, and transformations.]]> 347 Ejeris Dixon 184935362X Katie 0 to-read 4.54 2020 Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
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]]> <![CDATA[100 Beautiful Words in the Way of Tea]]> 54301390 100 Beautiful Words in the Way of Tea

Japanese and English bilingual.]]> 112 Bruce Hamana Sosei Katie 0 to-read 4.67 100 Beautiful Words in the Way of Tea
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]]> <![CDATA[Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval]]> 40180089 A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century.

In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs about courtship, love, and marriage. Hartman narrates the story of this radical social transformation against the grain of the prevailing century-old argument about the crisis of the black family.

In wrestling with the question of what a free life is, many young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship that were indifferent to the dictates of respectability and outside the bounds of law. They cleaved to and cast off lovers, exchanged sex to subsist, and revised the meaning of marriage. Longing and desire fueled their experiments in how to live. They refused to labor like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of work.

Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives recreates the experience of young urban black women who desired an existence qualitatively different than the one that had been scripted for them¡ªdomestic service, second-class citizenship, and respectable poverty¡ªand whose intimate revolution was apprehended as crime and pathology. For the first time, young black women are credited with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. Through a melding of history and literary imagination, Wayward Lives recovers their radical aspirations and insurgent desires.]]> 464 Saidiya Hartman 0393285677 Katie 0 to-read 4.45 2019 Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
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]]> <![CDATA[Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet]]> 183845 The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet an oddly dressed woman who had just crossed the border from Tibet into China. Xinran made the trip and met the woman, called Shu Wen, who recounted the story of her thirty-year odyssey in the vast landscape of Tibet.

Shu Wen and her husband had been married for only a few months in the 1950s when he joined the Chinese army and was sent to Tibet for the purpose of unification of the two countries. Shortly after he left she was notified that he had been killed, although no details were given. Determined to find the truth, Shu Wen joined a militia unit going to the Tibetan north, where she soon was separated from the regiment. Without supplies and knowledge of the language, she wandered, trying to find her way until, on the brink of death, she was rescued by a family of nomads under whose protection she moved from place to place with the seasons and eventually came to discover the details of her husband's death.

In the haunting Sky Burial, Xinran has recreated Shu Wen's journey, writing beautifully and simply of the silence and the emptiness in which Shu Wen was enveloped. The book is an extraordinary portrait of a woman and a land, each at the mercy of fate and politics. It is an unforgettable, ultimately uplifting tale of love, loss, loyalty, and survival.]]> 210 Xinran 0385515480 Katie 0 to-read 4.11 2004 Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
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]]> <![CDATA[Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Theory and Practice for Treating Disorders of Overcontrol]]> 33776094
While traditional dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) has shown tremendous success in treating people emotion dysregulation, there have been few resources available for treating those with overcontrol disorders. OC has been linked to social isolation, aloof and distant relationships, cognitive rigidity, risk aversion, a strong need for structure, inhibited emotional expression, and hyper-perfectionism. And yet perhaps due to the high value our society places on the capacity to delay gratification and inhibit public displays of destructive emotions and impulses problems linked with OC have received little attention or been misunderstood. Indeed, people with OC are often considered highly successful by others, even as they suffer silently and alone.

RO-DBT is based on the premise that psychological well-being involves the confluence of three factors: receptivity, flexibility, and social-connectedness. RO-DBT addresses each of these important factors, and is the first treatment in the world to prioritize social-signaling as the primary mechanism of change based on a transdiagnostic, neuroregulatory model linking the communicative function of human emotions to the establishment of social connectedness and well-being. As such, RO-DBT is an invaluable resource for treating an array of disorders that center around overcontrol and a lack of social connectedness such as anorexia nervosa, chronic depression, postpartum depression, treatment-resistant anxiety disorders, autism spectrum disorders, as well as personality disorders such as avoidant, dependent, obsessive-compulsive, and paranoid personality disorder.

Written for mental health professionals, professors, or simply those interested in behavioral health, this seminal book along with its companion, Radically-Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Manual (available separately) provides everything you need to understand and implement this exciting new treatment in individual therapy including theory, history, research, ongoing studies, clinical examples, and future directions.

"]]> 600 Thomas R. Lynch 1626259283 Katie 0 currently-reading 4.29 Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Theory and Practice for Treating Disorders of Overcontrol
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]]> Good Morning, Midnight 27405740
At the same time, Mission Specialist Sullivan is aboard the Aether on its return flight from Jupiter. The astronauts are the first human beings to delve this deep into space, and Sully has made peace with the sacrifices required of her: a daughter left behind, a marriage ended. So far the journey has been a success, but when Mission Control falls inexplicably silent, Sully and her crew mates are forced to wonder if they will ever get home.

As Augustine and Sully each face an uncertain future against forbidding yet beautiful landscapes, their stories gradually intertwine in a profound and unexpected conclusion. In crystalline prose, Good Morning, Midnight poses the most important questions: What endures at the end of the world? How do we make sense of our lives?

Duration: 8 hr., 39 min., 33 sec.]]> 9 Lily Brooks-Dalton 0735205698 Katie 0 to-read 3.55 2016 Good Morning, Midnight
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]]> The Space Between the Stars 35927309
All Jamie Allenby ever wanted was space. Even though she wasn¡¯t forced to emigrate from Earth, she willingly left the overpopulated, claustrophobic planet. And when a long relationship devolved into silence and suffocating sadness, she found work on a frontier world on the edges of civilization. Then the virus hit...

Now Jamie finds herself dreadfully alone, with all that¡¯s left of the dead. Until a garbled message from Earth gives her hope that someone from her past might still be alive.

Soon Jamie finds other survivors, and their ragtag group will travel through the vast reaches of space, drawn to the promise of a new beginning on Earth. But their dream will pit them against those desperately clinging to the old ways. And Jamie¡¯s own journey home will help her close the distance between who she has become and who she is meant to be...]]> Anne Corlett 1524779318 Katie 0 to-read 3.17 2017 The Space Between the Stars
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]]> <![CDATA[Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide for You and Your Relationship: Manage, Treat and Recover BPD Through the Power of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy]]> 50781091 More than 4 million people suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) in the US. It¡¯s a serious issue that can significantly impact the quality of life both for those suffering from it and their loved ones.

BPD negatively impacts daily functioning, relationships, and self-image and can lead to destructive behavior.

Primarily caused by trauma in childhood, symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder most frequently show up in teenage years and early adulthood.

Do you recognize problems such as:

fear of abandonment? erratic behavior? poor self-image? disproportionate emotional response? self-harm?

For example, your partner might tell you about something they¡¯re not happy about, and in your mind, this is just the prelude to them leaving you.

Your natural response to every scenario in life is an extremely self-sabotaging behavior that doesn?t allow you to maintain healthy relationships.

If you or a loved one is suffering from BPD, there¡¯s no need to explain how serious or difficult your life is right now. Fortunately, there is one highly effective treatment option that has been scientifically proven to work.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) has a 77% success rate in the first year, eliminating the behaviors that classify Borderline Personality Disorder.

Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide for You and Your Relationship educates you on the causes and conditions of BPD while providing a variety of powerful strategies and new techniques you or your loved one can put to use to start feeling better immediately.

Here is just a small fraction of what you will discover in Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide for You and Your Relationship:

How to support someone suffering from BPD while also maintaining healthy boundaries of acceptable behavior Which BPD symptoms require immediate attention and how to recognize them The long-term fix to stop the overwhelming-ness of intensive feeling and your most challenging triggers How to avoid the common pitfall of jumping to conclusions and never think ¡°How did this happen?¡± again How the that Selena Gomez says ¡°completely changed my life¡± works The most essential techniques to live a healthy romantic relationship Practical DBT strategies and techniques for quick relief in less than 60 minutes Alternative treatment modalities for BPD you haven?t heard of How to customize your treatment method based on your dominant symptoms and personality

And much more.

Many people suffering from BPD hesitate to try available treatments because the problem can be painful to face. They may also resist because they tried treatment unsuccessfully in the past.

The good news about treatment options for BPD is that they are solution-oriented. You can quickly determine if one works or not and do it without having to dredge up a lot of past details.

If you want immediate relief from your BPD symptoms, scroll up and click the ¡°Add to Cart¡± button.
]]> 113 Julie Griffiths Katie 0 4.33 Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide for You and Your Relationship: Manage, Treat and Recover BPD Through the Power of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
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]]> The Racial Contract 440704 The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory to extraordinary radical use.

With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged "contract" has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence "whites" and "non-whites," full persons and sub-persons, how it influences white moral theory and moral psychology; and how this system is imposed on non-whites through ideological conditioning and violence.

The Racial Contract argues that the society we live in is a continuing white supremacist state. Holding up a mirror to mainstream philosophy, this provocative book explains the evolving outline of the racial contract from the time of the New World conquest and subsequent colonialism to the written slavery contract, to the "separate but equal" system of segregation in the United States. According to Mills, the contract has provided the theoretical architecture justifying an entire history of European atrocity against non-whites, from David Hume's and Immanuel Kant's claims that blacks had inferior cognitive power, to the Holocaust, to the kind of imperialism in Asia that was demonstrated by the Vietnam War.

Mills suggests that the ghettoization of philosophical work on race is no accident. This work challenges the assumption that mainstream theory is itself raceless. Just as feminist theory has revealed orthodox political philosophy's invisible white male bias, Mills's explication of the racial contract exposes its racial underpinnings.]]> 192 Charles W. Mills 0801484634 Katie 5 4.38 1997 The Racial Contract
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]]> The Adventurer's Son 46041442
In the predawn hours of July 10, 2014, twenty-seven-year-old Cody Roman Dial, the son of preeminent Alaskan scientist and National Geographic Explorer Roman Dial, walked alone into Corcovado National Park, an untracked rainforest along Costa Rica¡¯s remote Pacific Coast that shelters miners, poachers, and drug smugglers. He carried a light backpack and machete. Before he left, he emailed his father: "I am not sure how long it will take me, but I¡¯m planning on doing 4 days in the jungle and a day to walk out. I¡¯ll be bounded by a trail to the west and the coast everywhere else, so it should be difficult to get lost forever."

They were the last words Dial received from his son.

The Adventurer¡¯s Son recreates the author¡¯s two-year quest to learn the truth about his child¡¯s disappearance. Immediately after Cody Roman¡¯s planned departure date passed without a word from him, Dial set off for Costa Rica. As he trekked through the dense jungle, interviewing locals and searching for clues¡ªthe authorities suspected murder¡ªthe desperate father was forced to confront the deepest questions about his own life. Roman had raised his son to be fearless, to seek out adventure amid earth¡¯s wildest places. Was he ultimately responsible for his son¡¯s fate?

A harrowing story of drama, adventure, and a father¡¯s love for his son, set in the most beautiful and dangerous reaches of the planet, The Adventurer¡¯s Son is a mystery, the memoir of a father and his son, and an unforgettable story of love and profound loss.

The Adventurer¡¯s Son?includes 25 color photographs.]]> 368 Roman Dial 0062876600 Katie 0 to-read 3.89 2020 The Adventurer's Son
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]]> Beacon 23 27264937
In the 23rd century, this job has moved into outer space. A network of beacons allows ships to travel across the Milky Way at many times the speed of light. These beacons are built to be robust. They never break down. They never fail.

At least, they aren't supposed to.]]> 7 Hugh Howey Katie 2 3.57 2015 Beacon 23
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average rating: 3.57
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rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[Rediscovering Rikyu: And the Beginnings of the Japanese Tea Ceremony]]> 1347868 232 Herbert E. Plutschow 1901903354 Katie 0 currently-reading 4.08 2003 Rediscovering Rikyu: And the Beginnings of the Japanese Tea Ceremony
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]]> To Be Taught, If Fortunate 51068918
Ariadne is one such explorer. As an astronaut on an extrasolar research vessel, she and her fellow crewmates sleep between worlds and wake up each time with different features. Her experience is one of fluid body and stable mind and of a unique perspective on the passage of time. Back on Earth, society changes dramatically from decade to decade, as it always does.

Ariadne may awaken to find that support for space exploration back home has waned, or that her country of birth no longer exists, or that a cult has arisen around their cosmic findings, only to dissolve once more by the next waking. But the moods of Earth have little bearing on their mission: to explore, to study, and to send their learnings home.

Carrying all the trademarks of her other beloved works, including brilliant writing, fantastic world-building and exceptional, diverse characters, Becky's first audiobook outside of the Wayfarers series is sure to capture the imagination of listeners all over the world.]]> 5 Becky Chambers 1473697158 Katie 4 4.03 2019 To Be Taught, If Fortunate
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]]> Attachment in Psychotherapy 224832 366 David J. Wallin 1593854560 Katie 5 4.35 2007 Attachment in Psychotherapy
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]]> <![CDATA[This Is How You Lose The Time War]]> 42996336 Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters¡ªand fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal-El Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading.

Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There¡¯s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war. That¡¯s how war works. Right?

Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space.]]> 5 Amal El-Mohtar 1508287058 Katie 0 currently-reading 3.62 2019 This Is How You Lose The Time War
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]]> The Dazzle of Day 750524 256 Molly Gloss 031286437X Katie 0 to-read 3.57 1997 The Dazzle of Day
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]]> Shinto: The Kami Way 194852 "An excellently rounded introduction by an eminent Shinto scholar."¡ªLibrary Journal

Shinto, the indigenous faith of the Japanese people, continues to fascinate and mystify both the casual visitor to Japan and the long-time resident. Relatively unknown among the religions of the world, Shinto: The Kami Way provides an enlightening window into this Japanese faith.

In its general aspects Shinto is more than a religious faith. It is an amalgam of attitudes, ideas, and ways of doing things that through two millennia and more have become an integral part of the way of the Japanese people. Shinto is both a personal faith in the kami¡ªobjects of worship in Shinto and an honorific for noble, sacred spirits¡ªand a communal way of life according to the mind of the kami. This introduction unveils Shinto's spiritual characteristics and discusses the architecture and function of Shinto shrines. Further examination of Shinto's lively festivals, worship, music, and sacred regalia illustrates Shinto's influence on all levels of Japanese life.

Fifteen photographs, numerous drawings and Dr. Ono's text introduce the reader to two millennia of indigenous Japanese belief in the kami and in communal life.

Chapters include:
The Kami Way
Shrines
Worship and Festivals
Political and Social Characteristics
Some Spiritual Characteristics]]> 128 Sokyo Ono 0804835578 Katie 0 to-read 3.74 1962 Shinto: The Kami Way
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]]> <![CDATA[The Undersea Network (Sign, Storage, Transmission)]]> 23214145 The Undersea Network Nicole Starosielski follows these cables from the ocean depths to their landing zones on the sandy beaches of the South Pacific, bringing them to the surface of media scholarship and making visible the materiality of the wired network. In doing so, she charts the cable network's cultural, historical, geographic and environmental dimensions. Starosielski argues that the environments the cables occupy are historical and political realms, where the network and the connections it enables are made possible by the deliberate negotiation and manipulation of technology, culture, politics and geography. Accompanying the book is an interactive digital mapping project, where readers can trace cable routes, view photographs and archival materials, and read stories about the island cable hubs.]]> 312 Nicole Starosielski 0822357550 Katie 4 3.85 2015 The Undersea Network (Sign, Storage, Transmission)
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]]> <![CDATA[Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know]]> 43848929 Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers -- and why they often go wrong.

How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true?

While tackling these questions, Malcolm Gladwell was not solely writing a book for the page. He was also producing for the ear. In the audiobook version of Talking to Strangers, you'll hear the voices of people he interviewed--scientists, criminologists, military psychologists. Court transcripts are brought to life with re-enactments. You actually hear the contentious arrest of Sandra Bland by the side of the road in Texas. As Gladwell revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, and the suicide of Sylvia Plath, you hear directly from many of the players in these real-life tragedies. There's even a theme song - Janelle Monae's "Hell You Talmbout."

Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world.]]> 388 Malcolm Gladwell 0316478520 Katie 0 to-read 4.00 2019 Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
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]]> <![CDATA[Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution]]> 25810399 An empowering road map for rethinking, reinvigorating, and redesigning our cities, from a pioneer in the movement for safer, more livable streets

As New York City¡¯s transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan managed the seemingly impossible and transformed the streets of one of the world¡¯s greatest, toughest cities into dynamic spaces safe for pedestrians and bikers. Her approach was dramatic and effective: Simply painting a part of the street to make it into a plaza or bus lane not only made the street safer, but it also lessened congestion and increased foot traffic, which improved the bottom line of businesses. Real-life experience confirmed that if you know how to read the street, you can make it function better by not totally reconstructing it but by reallocating the space that¡¯s already there.

? ? ?Breaking the street into its component parts, Streetfight demonstrates, with step-by-step visuals, how to rewrite the underlying ¡°source code¡± of a street, with pointers on how to add protected bike paths, improve crosswalk space, and provide visual cues to reduce speeding. Achieving such a radical overhaul wasn¡¯t easy, and Streetfight pulls back the curtain on the battles Sadik-Khan won to make her approach work. She includes examples of how this new way to read the streets has already made its way around the world, from pocket parks in Mexico City and Los Angeles to more pedestrian-friendly streets in Auckland and Buenos Aires, and innovative bike-lane designs and plazas in Austin, Indianapolis, and San Francisco. Many are inspired by the changes taking place in New York City and are based on the same techniques.? Streetfight deconstructs, reassembles, and reinvents the street, inviting readers to see it in ways they never imagined.]]> 368 Janette Sadik-Khan 0525429840 Katie 0 to-read 4.27 2016 Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
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]]> The Water Dancer 43982054 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here and here.

Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her¡ªbut was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he¡¯s ever known.

So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia¡¯s proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the Deep South to dangerously idealistic movements in the North. Even as he¡¯s enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram¡¯s resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures.

This is the dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and children¡ªthe violent and capricious separation of families¡ªand the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. Written by one of today¡¯s most exciting thinkers and writers, The Water Dancer is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen.]]> 416 Ta-Nehisi Coates Katie 0 to-read 4.03 2019 The Water Dancer
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]]> <![CDATA[Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed]]> 37570546 From a psychotherapist, and national advice columnist comes a thought-provoking new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world -- where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).

One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.

As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives -- a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys -- she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.

With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is revolutionary in its candor, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.]]> 415 Lori Gottlieb 1328662055 Katie 5 4.36 2019 Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
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]]> The Argonauts 22929741
Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson's account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, offers a firsthand account of the complexities and joys of (queer) family-making.

Writing in the spirit of public intellectuals such as Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, Nelson binds her personal experience to a rigorous exploration of what iconic theorists have said about sexuality, gender, and the vexed institutions of marriage and child-rearing. Nelson's insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry of this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.]]> 160 Maggie Nelson 1555977073 Katie 0 4.04 2015 The Argonauts
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]]> Jane: A Murder 101453 224 Maggie Nelson 1932360719 Katie 0 to-read 4.32 2005 Jane: A Murder
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don't]]> 38532183 The former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant, funny, and deeply moving first book.

Lane Moore is a rare performer who is as impressive onstage¡ªwhether hosting her iconic show Tinder Live or being the enigmatic front woman of It Was Romance¡ªas she is on the page, as both a former writer for The Onion and an award-winning sex and relationships editor for Cosmopolitan. But her story has had its obstacles, including being her own parent, living in her car as a teenager, and moving to New York City to pursue her dreams. Through it all, she looked to movies, TV, and music as the family and support systems she never had.

From spending the holidays alone to having better ¡°stranger luck¡± than with those closest to her to feeling like the last hopeless romantic on earth, Lane reveals her powerful and entertaining journey in all its candor, anxiety, and ultimate acceptance¡ªwith humor always her bolstering force and greatest gift.

How to Be Alone is a must-read for anyone whose childhood still feels unresolved, who spends more time pretending to have friends online than feeling close to anyone in real life, who tries to have genuine, deep conversations in a roomful of people who would rather you not. Above all, it¡¯s a book for anyone who desperately wants to feel less alone and a little more connected through reading her words.]]> 224 Lane Moore 1501178830 Katie 0 3.67 2018 How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don't
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]]> Borne (Borne, #1) 31451186
At first, Borne looks like nothing at all¡ªjust a green lump that might be a Company discard. The Company, although severely damaged, is rumoured to still make creatures and send them to distant places that have not yet suffered Collapse.

Borne somehow reminds Rachel of the island nation of her birth, now long lost to rising seas. She feels an attachment she resents; attachments are traps, and in this world any weakness can kill you. Yet when she takes Borne to her subterranean sanctuary, the Balcony Cliffs, Rachel convinces her lover, Wick, not to render Borne down to raw genetic material for the drugs he sells¡ªshe cannot break that bond.

Wick is a special kind of supplier, because the drug dealers in the city don¡¯t sell the usual things. They sell tiny creatures that can be swallowed or stuck in the ear, and that release powerful memories of other people¡¯s happier times or pull out forgotten memories from the user¡¯s own mind¡ªor just produce beautiful visions that provide escape from the barren, craterous landscapes of the city.

Against his better judgment, out of affection for Rachel or perhaps some other impulse, Wick respects her decision. Rachel, meanwhile, despite her loyalty to Wick, knows he has kept secrets from her. Searching his apartment, she finds a burnt, unreadable journal titled ¡°Mord,¡± a cryptic reference to the Magician (a rival drug dealer) and evidence that Wick has planned the layout of the Balcony Cliffs to match the blueprint of the Company building. What is he hiding? Why won¡¯t he tell her about what happened when he worked for the Company?]]> 323 Jeff VanderMeer 0374115249 Katie 0 to-read 3.93 2017 Borne (Borne, #1)
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]]> Walkaway 40604388
Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza¡ªknown to his friends as Hubert, Etc¡ªwas too old to be at that Communist party.

But after watching the breakdown of modern society, he really has no where left to be¡ªexcept amongst the dregs of disaffected youth who party all night and heap scorn on the sheep they see on the morning commute. After falling in with Natalie, an ultra-rich heiress trying to escape the clutches of her repressive father, the two decide to give up fully on formal society¡ªand walk away.

After all, now that anyone can design and print the basic necessities of life¡ªfood, clothing, shelter¡ªfrom a computer, there seems to be little reason to toil within the system.

It¡¯s still a dangerous world out there, the empty lands wrecked by climate change, dead cities hollowed out by industrial flight, shadows hiding predators animal and human alike. Still, when the initial pioneer walkaways flourish, more people join them. Then the walkaways discover the one thing the ultra-rich have never been able to buy: how to beat death. Now it¡¯s war ¨C a war that will turn the world upside down.

Fascinating, moving, and darkly humorous, Walkaway is a multi-generation science fiction thriller about the wrenching changes of the next hundred years¡­and the very human people who will live their consequences.]]> 384 Cory Doctorow Katie 0 currently-reading 3.76 2017 Walkaway
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]]> <![CDATA[Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language]]> 36739320 A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language.

Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. What's more, social media is a vast laboratory of unedited, unfiltered words where we can watch language evolve in real time.

Even the most absurd-looking slang has genuine patterns behind it. Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch explores the deep forces that shape human language and influence the way we communicate with one another. She explains how your first social internet experience influences whether you prefer "LOL" or "lol," why ~sparkly tildes~ succeeded where centuries of proposals for irony punctuation had failed, what emoji have in common with physical gestures, and how the artfully disarrayed language of animal memes like lolcats and doggo made them more likely to spread.

Because Internet is essential reading for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are.]]> 327 Gretchen McCulloch 0735210934 Katie 0 4.03 2019 Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
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]]> <![CDATA[Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City]]> 7489945 336 Antero Pietila 1566638437 Katie 0 to-read 4.06 2010 Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City
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]]> Heavy 42848412 In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse.

Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer. In his essays, personal stories combine with piercing intellect to reflect both on the state of American society and on his experiences with abuse, which conjure conflicted feelings of shame, joy, confusion and humiliation. Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of growing up in a nation wholly obsessed with progress yet wholly disinterested in the messy work of reckoning with where we¡¯ve been.

In Heavy, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. From his early experiences of sexual violence, to his suspension from college, to his trek to New York as a young college professor, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother, grandmother, anorexia, obesity, sex, writing, and ultimately gambling. By attempting to name secrets and lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding, Laymon asks himself, his mother, his nation, and us to confront the terrifying possibility that few in this nation actually know how to responsibly love, and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually becoming free.

A personal narrative that illuminates national failures, Heavy is defiant yet vulnerable, an insightful, often comical exploration of weight, identity, art, friendship, and family that begins with a confusing childhood¡ªand continues through twenty-five years of haunting implosions and long reverberations.]]> 7 Kiese Laymon Katie 5 4.52 2018 Heavy
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]]> <![CDATA[Your Illustrated Guide To Becoming One With The Universe]]> 22524237 A hand-drawn path to inner peace!

Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with the Universe will set you free on a visual journey of self-discovery. Set against a surreal backdrop of intricate ink illustrations, you will find nine metaphysical lessons with dreamlike instructions that require you to open your heart to unexplored inner landscapes. From setting fire to your anxieties to sharing a cup of tea with your inner demons, you will learn how to let go and truly connect with the world around you.

Whether you need a little inspiration or a completely new life direction, Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with the Universe provides you with the necessary push to find your true path--and a whimsical adventure to enjoy on the way there.]]> 160 Yumi Sakugawa 1440582637 Katie 5 4.26 2013 Your Illustrated Guide To Becoming One With The Universe
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]]> <![CDATA[A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)]]> 37794149
Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her Station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansion¡ªall while navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret¡ªone that might spell the end of her Station and her way of life¡ªor rescue it from annihilation.]]> 448 Arkady Martine 1529001587 Katie 0 to-read 4.08 2019 A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
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]]> Starfarers 445653 512 Poul Anderson 0812545990 Katie 0 to-read 3.53 1998 Starfarers
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]]> Resist Fascism 42479510
The world is in turmoil. The world is always in turmoil, but in recent years, people have seen violence and hatred become proud instead of ashamed. What meager rights we've fought for are being deliberately eroded. And the vulnerable have any help stripped away. All of this is happening openly and without fear of reprisal. And the worst perpetrators are some of the largest governments of the world.

Resisting the spread of fascism is as important now as it was 75 years ago. And there are many effective ways to resist.

RESIST FASCISM is a micro-anthology of science fiction and fantasy tales that explore the many and varied ways people can fight back. From helping promote low-income housing, to fighting fascists hand-to-hand, to burning it all down. Best of all, RESIST FASCISM shows that you don't have to be a hero to advance change.]]> 115 Bart R. Leib 0991392159 Katie 0 to-read 4.17 Resist Fascism
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]]> <![CDATA[Falling Free (Vorkosigan Saga, #4)]]> 61915 Leo Graf adopted a thousand quaddies---now all he had to do was teach them to be free.

Falling Free takes place approximately 200 years?before?the events in?Cordelia's Honor?and does not share settings or characters with the main body of the series.

]]> 288 Lois McMaster Bujold 1886778531 Katie 3 3.84 1988 Falling Free (Vorkosigan Saga, #4)
author: Lois McMaster Bujold
name: Katie
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1988
rating: 3
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]]> The Lady Astronaut of Mars 22154436 33 Mary Robinette Kowal 1466873825 Katie 5 4.11 2012 The Lady Astronaut of Mars
author: Mary Robinette Kowal
name: Katie
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2012
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[So You Want to Talk About Race]]> 35099718 In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide

In So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor at Large of The Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word. Perfectly positioned to bridge the gap between people of color and white Americans struggling with race complexities, Oluo answers the questions readers don't dare ask, and explains the concepts that continue to elude everyday Americans.

Oluo is an exceptional writer with a rare ability to be straightforward, funny, and effective in her coverage of sensitive, hyper-charged issues in America. Her messages are passionate but finely tuned, and crystalize ideas that would otherwise be vague by empowering them with aha-moment clarity. Her writing brings to mind voices like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay, and Jessica Valenti in Full Frontal Feminism, and a young Gloria Naylor, particularly in Naylor's seminal essay "The Meaning of a Word."]]> 248 Ijeoma Oluo 1580056776 Katie 0 to-read 4.48 2018 So You Want to Talk About Race
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]]> <![CDATA[Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)]]> 35519109
Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr. Mensah¡ªits former owner (protector? friend?)¡ªsubmit evidence that could prevent GrayCris from destroying more colonists in its never-ending quest for profit.

But who¡¯s going to believe a SecUnit gone rogue?

And what will become of it when it¡¯s caught?]]> 163 Martha Wells Katie 0 4.38 2018 Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
author: Martha Wells
name: Katie
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind]]> 23692271 512 Yuval Noah Harari Katie 2 4.33 2011 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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If I had paid money for this book (instead of borrowing it from the library), I would have asked for my money back. I did actually enjoy the beginning of the book, with its overview of the various species of humans before Sapiens came to dominate and its critique of the agricultural revolution. From then on, though, it's a colonialist apologia with conservative splashes of transphobia, anti-communism, devil's-advocating, and similar garbage.
]]> <![CDATA[Menial: Skilled Labor in Science Fiction]]> 16151463
MENIAL: Skilled Labor in Science Fiction presents seventeen stories about the people who aren¡¯t afraid to get their hands dirty.

From the literal guts of a spaceship, to the energy-starved lands of a future Earth, to the inhospitable surfaces of other planets, MENIAL explores the stories of people who understand and maintain the building blocks of civilization. They work hard, live hard, and love hard. They¡¯re not afraid to build the future they want to live in, even knowing the often high human cost of hard labor.]]> 142 Kelly Jennings 0615705618 Katie 0 currently-reading 3.90 2013 Menial: Skilled Labor in Science Fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)]]> 18077752
Meanwhile, Acceptance tunnels ever deeper into the circumstances surrounding the creation of Area X¡ªwhat initiated this unnatural upheaval? Among the many who have tried, who has gotten close to understanding Area X¡ªand who may have been corrupted by it?

In this last installment of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, the mysteries of Area X may be solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound¡ªor terrifying.]]> 341 Jeff VanderMeer 0374104115 Katie 0 3.66 2014 Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)]]> 35519101
And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good.

]]> 158 Martha Wells 1250191785 Katie 5 4.21 2018 Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
author: Martha Wells
name: Katie
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2018
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive]]> 39218350
Maid explores the underbelly of upper-middle class America and the reality of what it¡¯s like to be in service to them. ¡°I¡¯d become a nameless ghost,¡± Stephanie writes about her relationship with her clients, many of whom do not know her from any other cleaner, but who she learns plenty about. As she begins to discover more about her clients¡¯ lives-their sadness and love, too-she begins to find hope in her own path.

Her writing as a journalist gives voice to the "servant" worker, and those pursuing the American Dream from below the poverty line. Maid is Stephanie¡¯s story, but it¡¯s not her alone..

An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780316505116 can be found here.]]> 289 Stephanie Land Katie 4 3.81 2019 Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
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average rating: 3.81
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rating: 4
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]]> Leviathan Wakes (Expanse, #1) 12667419 19 James S.A. Corey Katie 3 4.14 2011 Leviathan Wakes (Expanse, #1)
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average rating: 4.14
book published: 2011
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Feck Perfuction: Dangerous Ideas on the Business of Life (Business Books, Graphic Design Books, Books on Success)]]> 40605526
Begin before you're ready and other lessons on living a happy and creative life : Renowned designer and professional hell-raiser James Victore wants to drag you off your couch and throw you headfirst into a life of bold creativity. In Feck Perfuction , Victore will guide you through all the twists, trials, and triumphs of starting your creative career, from finding your voice to picking the right moment to start a project ( It's now ). Bring your biggest, craziest, most revolutionary ideas, and he will give you the kick in the pants you need to make them real. Fans of Austin Kleon's Keep 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad and Steal Like an 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative will love James Victore's inspiring book on embracing authenticity and unleashing your creative self.

Begin before you're ready, live dangerously, take a risk, and other lessons on living a purpose-driven life]]> 160 James Victore 1452166366 Katie 0 to-read 4.01 Feck Perfuction: Dangerous Ideas on the Business of Life (Business Books, Graphic Design Books, Books on Success)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Cosmos in Stone: Interpreting Religion and Society Through Rock Art (Archaeology of Religion)]]> 1313152 336 James David Lewis-Williams 0759101965 Katie 0 to-read 4.55 2002 A Cosmos in Stone: Interpreting Religion and Society Through Rock Art (Archaeology of Religion)
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]]> <![CDATA[Images of Mystery: Rock Art of the Drakensberg]]> 2216057 127 James David Lewis-Williams 191993006X Katie 5 4.50 2003 Images of Mystery: Rock Art of the Drakensberg
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I really enjoyed this book on the interpretation of rock art created by the San peoples in Drakensberg, a geologically striking area that was¡ªunsurprisingly, sadly¡ªlost to them during colonization. Amidst large full-color plates depicting the rock art, the text dives into history and historiography, art and altered states of consciousness. I lack a background in any of these areas, so I can't judge the soundness of the author's speculation on the meanings of the rock art imagery. I can just say that they're fascinating and presented in an accessible, engaging way. One of my favorite quotes: "Description and interpretation are inseparable: there is an element of interpretation in even the simplest description."
]]> Do You Dream of Terra-Two? 35436043
Have you ever hoped you could leave everything behind?
Have you ever dreamt of a better world?
Can a dream sustain a lifetime?

A century ago, an astronomer discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a nearby star. She predicted that one day humans would travel there to build a utopia. Today, ten astronauts are leaving everything behind to find it. Four are veterans of the twentieth century¡¯s space-race.

And six are teenagers who¡¯ve trained for this mission most of their lives.

It will take the team twenty-three years to reach Terra-Two. Twenty-three years locked in close quarters. Twenty-three years with no one to rely on but each other. Twenty-three years with no rescue possible, should something go wrong.

And something always goes wrong.]]> 520 Temi Oh Katie 0 to-read 3.61 2019 Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
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]]> Here If You Need Me: A Memoir 9946607
Stunned and grieving, Kate decided to continue her husband's dream and became a minister herself. And in that capacity she found a most unusual mission: serving as the minister on search and rescue missions in the Maine woods, giving comfort to people whose loved ones are missing, and to the wardens who sometimes have to deal with awful outcomes. Whether she is with the parents of a 6-year-old girl who had wandered into the woods, with wardens as they search for a snowmobile rider trapped under the ice, or assisting a man whose sister left an infant seat and a suicide note in her car by the side of the road, Braestrup provides solace, understanding, and spiritual guidance when it's needed most.

Here if You Need Me is the story of Kate Braestrup's remarkable journey from grief to faith to happiness. It is dramatic, funny, deeply moving, and simply unforgettable, an uplifting account about finding God through helping others, and the tale of the small miracles that occur every day when life and love are restored.]]> 0 Kate Braestrup 1594839301 Katie 0 to-read 4.29 2007 Here If You Need Me: A Memoir
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]]> <![CDATA[Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?]]> 6763725 81 Mark Fisher 1846943175 Katie 0 to-read 4.20 2009 Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
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]]> The Weird and the Eerie 29845449
Perhaps a proper understanding of the human condition requires examination of liminal concepts such as the weird and the eerie. These two modes will be analysed with reference to the work of authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, H.G. Wells, M.R. James, Christopher Priest, Joan Lindsay, Nigel Kneale, Daphne Du Maurier, Alan Garner and Margaret Atwood, and films by Stanley Kubrick, Jonathan Glazer and Christoper Nolan.]]> 134 Mark Fisher 1910924385 Katie 0 to-read 4.05 2016 The Weird and the Eerie
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fast Track to Your Technician Class Ham Radio License: Covers all FCC Technician Class Exam Questions July, 1, 2018 until June, 30, 2022 (Fast Track Ham License Series)]]> 44170241
Memorizing answers is hard. Learning is easy! The Fast Track to Your Technician Ham Radio License explains the reasoning and technology behind each correct answer on the Amateur Radio exam so you'll understand and remember the subject matter. Created by an experienced ham and adult educator, it's like having your own, patient, experienced, good-humored mentor for the exam.

Technician is the entry-level ham radio license that lets you operate on all ham channels from 30 MHz up, which includes the very popular VHF and UHF bands. To get your license you must pass a multiple-choice test.

The Technician license test consists of 35 questions drawn from a pool of about 350. Memorizing the answers to 350 questions is difficult, but The Fast Track makes getting your license easy by explaining the logic behind each correct answer, and by arranging the questions so they form a logical progression toward mastery of the material.

It's simple: When you understand the subjects, you remember the answers and pass the test.

Best of all, once you've passed your exam you'll have a solid grounding in ham radio basics.

- Includes every possible question and every answer
- Correct answers clearly marked in bold
- Precise instructions for how to locate a testing session, how to prepare, and even what to bring -- and what not to bring -- to the test.
- All technical topics explained in clear, plain language, most with illustrations
- Step by step instructions to solve all the math problems, complete with exactly which keys to press on your calculator for each problem
- Test taking strategies
- Hints to easily solve many questions and avoid the traps in the test
- Written in "learning order", not just the order of the official question bank.
- Full index of topics and questions(print edition)
- Covers all questions that can be used until July 1, 2022.
- Nearly 300 pages packed with information

Rave reviews for The Fast Track Ham License series:

"This is a great book. So many of the study guides are just question dumps and it's a horrible way to learn, at least for me. I need an explanation and something to keep my interest and Mr. Burnette's book fit the bill perfectly."

"Michael Burnette's ham radio exam prep book is the most useful and comprehensive book that I have found on this subject and makes getting ready for this exam not only easy, but fun. I have learned so much since studying this guide and fell ready to take this exam at a moment's notice."

"Thank you! Thank you a thousand times over. I bought your book in order to study for my tech license, and the audiobook and I loved them!"

"I have now purchased approx 8 books on this specific subject. Not to include wasted many months of 'trying to understand'. Yet, this being a topic in which I am passionate about, I can't seem to ever actually quit trying. I have spent years dabbling in the content trying to make good sense of it. Even had some formal training over the years.

After all of that *** This ended up being the only book I really needed for Technician!!!! The sad part, it was the last unique book in a stack I have purchased. Really wished I had tried this one 1st, maybe my review is useful to save you from a similar mistake like that. Start here, with Michael Burnette."

]]> Michael Burnette Katie 5
Even though the title of the book says it's the "fast track," I don't think this would be the fastest way to pass the exam¡ªjust the fastest and most enjoyable way to actually learn the material so you understand it in ways you can apply after you get your license. It's entirely possible I could have performed just as well on the exam solely by studying the question pool, but there's no doubt that would have left me with only the thinnest grasp, if any, of any material I wasn't already familiar with.]]> 5.00 The Fast Track to Your Technician Class Ham Radio License: Covers all FCC Technician Class Exam Questions July, 1, 2018 until June, 30, 2022 (Fast Track Ham License Series)
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I just aced my exam (in half the time of the other examinees) after using this book to learn the material. But more importantly, I can see myself coming back to this book later, to review the author's tips on setting up and troubleshooting equipment and descriptions and advice on many different aspects of the hobby. The author's friendly, approachable attitude and personal anecdotes made this eminently readable.

Even though the title of the book says it's the "fast track," I don't think this would be the fastest way to pass the exam¡ªjust the fastest and most enjoyable way to actually learn the material so you understand it in ways you can apply after you get your license. It's entirely possible I could have performed just as well on the exam solely by studying the question pool, but there's no doubt that would have left me with only the thinnest grasp, if any, of any material I wasn't already familiar with.
]]> <![CDATA[The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child (Infrastructures)]]> 43969497 A fascinating examination of technological utopianism and its complicated consequences.

In The Charisma Machine, Morgan Ames chronicles the life and legacy of the One Laptop per Child project and explains why--despite its failures--the same utopian visions that inspired OLPC still motivate other projects trying to use technology to "disrupt" education and development.

Announced in 2005 by MIT Media Lab cofounder Nicholas Negroponte, One Laptop per Child promised to transform the lives of children across the Global South with a small, sturdy, and cheap laptop computer, powered by a hand crank. In reality, the project fell short in many ways--starting with the hand crank, which never materialized. Yet the project remained charismatic to many who were captivated by its claims of access to educational opportunities previously out of reach. Behind its promises, OLPC, like many technology projects that make similarly grand claims, had a fundamentally flawed vision of who the computer was made for and what role technology should play in learning.

Drawing on fifty years of history and a seven-month study of a model OLPC project in Paraguay, Ames reveals that the laptops were not only frustrating to use, easy to break, and hard to repair, they were designed for "technically precocious boys"--idealized younger versions of the developers themselves--rather than the children who were actually using them. The Charisma Machine offers a cautionary tale about the allure of technology hype and the problems that result when utopian dreams drive technology development.]]> 328 Morgan G. Ames 0262537443 Katie 0 to-read 4.16 The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child (Infrastructures)
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]]> <![CDATA[City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City]]> 815790 216 Ian Lambot 1873200137 Katie 0 to-read 4.61 1993 City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City
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