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Carry On, Warrior
Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not AvailableBe inspired and empowered by Carry on, Warrior by Glennon Melton. Here's my hunch: nobody's secure, and nobody feels like she completely belongs. Those insecurities are just job hazards of being human. But some people dance anyway, and those people have more fun. On my deathbed, I'm not gong to wish I had danced like JLo; I'm just going to... more...
Urban Landscapes
Springer 2013; US$ 109.99Today, more than 50% of the worlds population lives in cities and is subject to particular environmental and economic impacts against the backdrop of an evolving planetary crisis. This book explores the intimate relationship between the quality of life of city dwellers and the quality of urban landscapes, including those regenerated through green... more...
The Social Worlds of the Unborn
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 38.00Human embryos and foetuses are highly public and contested figures. Their visual images appear across a wide range of forums. They have become commercial commodities as part of the IVF industry and are the focus of intense debates regarding concepts of personhood. This book discusses these issues, drawing on social and cultural theory and research.... more...
Second Suns
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 27.00From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors?one from the United States, the other from Nepal?united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness. In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, gifted ophthalmologists... more...
Surviving Hitler
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 5.99"Think of it as a game, Jack. Play the game right and you might outlast the Nazis." Caught up in Hitler's Final Solution to annihilate Europe's Jews, fifteen-year-old Jack Mandelbaum is torn from his family and thrown into the nightmarish world of the concentration camps. Here, simple existence is a constant struggle, and Jack must learn to live... more...
Leadership in the Open
CRC Press 2013; US$ 69.95As a relatively young field, emergency management has already undergone considerable evolution and change. And now that Web 2.0 technologies and social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter have become inherently ingrained in all facets of our lives, emergency managers must once again re-evaluate best practices and standardized approaches. Providing... more...
Soul Recovery
Hay House, Inc. 2013; US$ 15.95Ester Nicholson s foundational process that shes termed Soul Recovery unlocks the code of dependence as it manifests in substance, relationship, and behavioral addictions, among others. As youre guided through a 12-week process of study and practice, the author courageously shares her inspiring journey that has ultimately led to a... more...
Too High, Too Far, Too Soon
Random House Group Ltd 2013; US$ 16.01Too High, Too Far, Too Soon is the humorous, tragic and searingly honest memoir of a man who survived childhood tragedy, Catholic boarding school and chronic drug addiction. Simon Mason graphically details his experience of teenage angst in a tatty seaside town before he ran away to London and then onwards to the crack-infested streets... more...
The Material Gene
NYU Press 2013; US$ 75.00In 2000, the National Human Genome Research Institute announced the completion of a "draft" of the human genome, the sequence information of nearly all 3 billion base pairs of DNA. In the wake of this major scientific accomplishment, the focus on the genetic basis of disease has sparked many controversies as questions are raised about radical... more...
A Bed for the Night
Simon & Schuster 2013; US$ 24.95Timely and controversial, A Bed for the Night reveals how humanitarian organizations trying to bring relief in an ever more violent and dangerous world are often betrayed and misused, and have increasingly lost sight of their purpose. Humanitarian relief workers, writes David Rieff, are the last of the just. And in the Bosnias, the Rwandas, and... more...









