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When the World Closed Its Doors: The Covid-19 Tragedy and the Future of Borders

By Edward Alden, Laurie Trautman

In When the World Closed Its Doors , Edward Alden and Laurie Trautman tell the story of how nearly every country in the world shut its borders to respond to an external threat during the COVID-19 pandemic. They detail the consequences of the COVID border restrictions and explain why governments used their harshest containment measures on those coming from outside. A sweeping overview of the re-bordering of the world after 2020, this synthetic, wide-angle view of a singular shock to the international systems of travel and migration will be necessary reading for anyone interested in international migration and border policy.

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Weed Empire: How I Battled Gangsters, Investment Banks, and the Department of Justice to Build the Cannabis Industry in America

By Adam Bierman

From the cofounder of MedMen, this is the true, unfiltered inside tale of the mainstreaming of an outlaw industry: the growers, dealers, lobbyists, tycoons, and titans of industry that created corporate cannabis. Adam Bierman wasn't planning on selling weed--or developing a network of cannabis stores, or safeguarding his money in shoeboxes, or facing off with gangbangers in dark corners of parking lots, or taking on the public markets and justice system itself to bring the world America's first public cannabis unicorn.

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Equity Asset Valuation

By Cfa Institute

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Rapid Transformation: The Science of Achieving Impossible Goals

By Benjamin Hardy

Drawing on vast veins of psychological research, organizational psychologist Dr. Benjamin Hardy offers a revolutionary and science-based framework for achieving transformational goals. By following popular behavioral trends like SMART goals and habits that are based on faulty assumptions of time and psychology, most companies and individuals are on the road to mediocrity.

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Conflict Resilience: Negotiating Disagreement Without Giving Up or Giving in

By Robert Bordone, Joel Salinas

Two former Harvard faculty--one an internationally-recognized negotiator and conflict management expert from Harvard Law, the other a leading behavioral neurologist and cutting-edge scientist from Harvard Med--join forces to introduce conflict resilience: the radical act of sitting in and growing from conflict to break the bad habits that sabotage our politics, workplaces, and most important relationships.

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Lawless: The Miseducation of America's Elites

By Ilya Shapiro

"A high-profile law professor who endured cancel culture firsthand discusses radicalism in American law schools"--

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Don't Do Dumb Shit: 49.5 Obvious, Moronic Things That You Have Done or Still Do

By Jeffrey Gitomer

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Painting Us Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies

By Maggie M Cao

A fresh look at the global dimensions of US painting from the 1850s to 1898. Painting US Empire is the first book to offer a synthetic account of art and US imperialism around the globe in the nineteenth century. In this work, art historian Maggie M. Cao crafts a nuanced portrait of nineteenth-century US painters' complicity with and resistance to ascendant US imperialism, offering eye-opening readings of canonical works, landscapes of polar expeditions and tropical tourism, still lifes of imported goods, genre paintings, and ethnographic portraiture.

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A Good Day on the Green

By Jenny Lawson

The True Adventure of Golf Audrey is all set for a beautiful day on the green with her dad, but as a beginner, she's worried she won't play well. Yet as they trundle through the soothing nature of the course, she slowly starts to relax. Teeing up with her best friend, Olivia, Audrey takes her first swing--and misses. On the sidelines, Audrey's dad and Olivia cheer her on, encouraging her to try again. And this time, she makes a superb swing. Audrey, Olivia, and their dads continue to play the game with successes and mistakes alike, all the while enjoying the beautiful nature and each other's company. A Good Day on the Green is an inspirational tale teaching golf etiquette and basic terminology while encouraging beginners not to feel intimidated trying out a new sport. It's not about being the best player but about the joyous, memorable time spent playing outside with your loved ones.

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Solid Starts for Babies: How to Introduce Solid Food and Raise a Happy Eater

By Solid Starts

The definitive guide to introducing real food to babies--from the board-certified pediatric feeding pros trusted by millions of parents around the world. Led by a multidisciplinary team of licensed pediatric feeding professionals, Solid Starts has emerged as the go-to resource for modern families searching for a research-based approach to solid food introduction to babies.