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A scientist goes through the data on one of the greatest public policy disasters in history--the lockdown response to COVID. How many COVID deaths were prevented by the lockdowns? How many people did the lockdowns throw into depression or kill by deaths of despair? What if we focused the energy we showed in lockdowns instead on happiness?

In the eleven linked short stories of How to Make Your Mother Cry, Sejal Shah builds a shrine gleaming with memory and myth. Keys, rocks, photographs, fairy tales, fables, and relics all add texture and meaning to an exploration of growing up and living as a diasporic Gujarati woman in a culture that excuses the behavior of men. Throughout, girls and women contend with the expectations, limitations, and challenges of becoming the heroine of on...

A light, literary take on an animal book for grown-ups, a tongue-in-cheek self-help column with lessons drawn from nature, a sort of hitchhiker's guide to the more-than-human world--Isaac Yuen's Utter, Earth is a celebration, through wordplay and earthplay, of our planet's riotous wonders. In a time of dirges and elegies for the natural world, Utter, Earth features odes to sloths, tributes to trilobites, and ringing endorsements for lichen. Fo...

A field guide that allows you to easily identify wild plants of the Twin Cities area and upper midwest generally, from their leaves, allowing you to identify most plants even when they do not have flowers. Over 250 species, including all trees that grow wild in the Twin Cities area and the large majority of wildflowers.

Call of Doody is the first installment of The S.N.O.T.S., a graphic novel series about incredible superpowers, space robots, Bad Dudes, and a regular kid who gets the call to save the world--with video games!

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In the third installment of The Stitch Clique, Gracie feels great: she's spending more time with her crush, Ali Mansourian, and she's starting a business with her Passion for Fashion friends! But when starting a business together starts to strain her Passion for Fashion friend group, Gracie wonders if she'll be able to keep it all together.

As Zee prepares for spring term at The Hollows, the school buzzes with energy as a real-life princess arrives on campus as its newest transfer student"--

An AMERICAN PATRIOT'S history lesson. A book every American should own and read. "The PEOPLE are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our LIBERTY." Thomas Jefferson"A HOUSE DIVIDED against itself cannot stand." Abraham Lincoln"FREEDOM of SPEECH is a principal pillar of a free government, When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and TYRANNY is erected on its ruins." Benjamin Franklin

Goodbye, London--hello, Los Angeles! Ring in the holidays with Zee as she returns to California in Book 4 of The Zee Files, the spin-off series to the bestselling Mackenzie Blue books!"The Zee Files by Tina Wells expands with Girl/Friend and A Very Malibu Vacay."--Publishers Weekly, Fall Children's AnnouncementsThe Carmichaels are back in California for winter break! Zee can't wait to see the old Brookdale crew and reunite with her best friend...

Includes an excerpt from book 3 in the series, Girl/Friend.

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With the aim of overcoming the disciplinary and national fragmentation that characterizes much research on nuclear energy, Engaging the Atom brings together specialists from a variety of fields to analyze comparative case studies across Europe and the United States. It explores evolving relationships between society and the nuclear sector from the origins of civilian nuclear power until the present, asking why nuclear energy has been more cont...

A multigenerational story about a young girl who learns from her grandmother about the enduring nature of love, the strength in rejecting labels, and the wisdom in standing with those who are different. The town's annual flower contest is coming soon, and a young girl puts her heart into growing a lively bunch of flowers she finds in a meadow. As her grandmother guides her in nurturing a garden, the girl learns that winning isn't the true rew...

More than a century of research has sought to identify the causes of stut­tering, describe its nature, and enhance its clinical treatment. By contrast, studies directly focused upon public and professional attitudes toward stuttering began in the 1970s. Recent work has taken this research to new levels, including the development of standard attitude measures, ad­dressing the widely reported phenomena of teasing, bullying, and dis­crimination a...

Agrarian social movements are at a crossroads. Although these movements have made significant strides in advancing the concept of food sovereignty, the reality is that many of their members remain engaged in environmentally degrading forms of agriculture, and the lands they farm are increasingly unproductive. Whether movement farmers will be able to remain living on the land, and dedicated to alternative agricultural practices, is a pressing q...

The Opioid Epidemic and US Culture brings a new set of perspectives to one of the most pressing contemporary topics in Appalachia and the nation as a whole. A project aimed both at challenging dehumanizing attitudes toward those caught in the opioid epidemic and at protesting the structural forces that have enabled it, this edited volume assembles a multidisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners to consider the ways that people have...