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By Alfonso Martinez Arias
"An ingenious argument" ( Kirkus ) for a "novel thesis" ( Publishers Weekly ) that cells, not DNA, hold the key to understanding life's past and present What defines who we are. For decades, the answer has seemed obvious: our genes, the "blueprint of life. " In The Master Builder , biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias argues we've been missing the bigger picture.
By Mahito Hayashi
By advancing a broad research program for homelessness and poverty, Rescaling Urban Poverty provides the essential understanding of how state rescaling ensnares homeless people and the impoverished in the interplay of the state, domiciled society, public space, class formation, social movements, and capitalism. Its three angles - national states , public and private spaces , and urban social movements - uncover the hidden dynamics of rescaling that emerge, and are resisted, at the fringes of mainstream society and housing regimes. Evidence is drawn from Japanese cities where the author has conducted long-term fieldwork and develops robust urban narratives by drawing upon regulation theory, state theory, metabolism theory, and critical housing theory. The book cross-fertilizes these strands through meticulous efforts to reinterpret both old and new texts. By building bridges between classical and contemporary interests, and between the theories and Japanese cities, this book attracts various audiences in geography, sociology, urban studies, and political economy.
By Richard Hanania
"An analysis of why progressives have come to dominate American society"--
By Todd Rogers, Jessica Lasky-Fink
"We were all taught the fundamentals of writing well in school. But how do we write effectively in today's hyper-interactive world. When The Elements of Style and On Writing Well were published in 1959 and 1976, the internet hadn't been invented. Since then, there has been a radical transformation in how we communicate. The average American adult receives over 120 emails and over 100 text messages each day. With all this correspondence, gaining a busy reader's attention is now a competition. Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink, both behavioral scientists, offer practical writing advice you can use today. They begin by outlining cognitive facts about how busy people read, then detail six research-backed principles for effective writing: Use fewer words, Lower the reading level, Use formatting judiciously, Make the purpose clear for skimmers, Emphasize value for readers, Make responding as easy as possible Including many examples, a checklist and other tools for the most effective writing, this handbook will make you a more effective communicator.
By Gabriel Dozal
A world-bending, lyrically rich poetry collection that reimagines the U. S. -Mexico border as both a real place and a living simulation--and tells the story of a pair of siblings trapped between the two "Word coyote Gabriel Dozal is crossing borders with this story. It's his job: narrative poetry discovering a new language.
By Seamus Bruner
" Controligarchs peers into the future and provides a haunting and revelatory exposé of the globalist elite's playbook for the next five years. " - Peter Schweizer, author of Red-Handed , Clinton Cash , and Profiles in Corruption Imagine a world in which you own nothing and rent everything. Most of the protein in your diet comes from bugs.
By Lesley-Ann Noel, Stanford D School
"Learn how to use design to fight for equity and inclusion, featuring ten strategies for taking creative risks to bring about change-from Stanford University's d.school"--
By Daniel Mason
"When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave--only to discover that the ancient trees refuse to give up their secrets. A lovelorn painter, a sinister conman, a stalking panther, a lusty beetle: as each inhabitant confronts the wonder and mystery around them, they begin to realize that the dark, raucous, beautiful past is very much alive"--
By Zadie Smith
The New York Times bestseller - One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year - One of NPR's Best Books of the Year - Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and BookPage - One of Oprah Daily's Best Novels of 2023 "[A] brilliant new entry in Smith's catalog. . . The Fraud is not a change for Smith, but a demonstration of how expansive her talents are.
By Kelly Cervantes
"Normal Broken was born out of a desire to meet people where they are in their grief journeys, to lend a hand, or maybe to just sit in the dark with them. To acknowledge your brokenness and to feel broken together--never pressured to 'move on' or 'think positive'"--
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