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Failed princesses. 2 /

Ajiichi,


Reads from right to left. Translation of: Dekisokonai no himegimi tachi. After her makeover, Kurokawa continues her journey to cuteness, and Fujishiro tells her something she never expected to hear.
Date Published:2020

The whole-brain child workbook : practical exercises, worksheets and activities to nurture developing minds

Siegel, Daniel J., 1957-,


The Whole-Brain Child Workbook has a unique, interactive approach that allows readers not only to think more deeply about how the ideas fit their own parenting approach, but also develop specific and practical ways to implement the concepts -- and bring them to life for themselves and for their children.
Date Published:2015

Every brain needs music : the neuroscience of making and listening to music

Sherman, Larry S.,


First movement : what is music, and why does it exist? -- Second movement : how your brain composes music -- Third movement : practicing music, part i: the partnership of motivated music students and motivated music teachers -- Fourth movement : practicing music, part ii: understanding the neuroscience -- Fifth movement : practicing music, part iii: changing your brain to get it right -- Sixth movement : how your brain performs music -- Seventh movement : how your brain listens to music -- Eight movement : why your brain likes music -- Coda : the final jam with Dennis and Larry: a reflective improvisation. This book explores the processes of teaching, learning, practicing, listening, composing, improvising, and performing music from the standpoints of behavioral, cellular and molecular neuroscience as well as the perspective of music pedagogy. The book surveys current neuroscience literature in the context of musical learning and teaching experience to explore how music literally changes the structures of our brains.
Date Published:2024

First movement : what is music, and why does it exist? -- Second movement : how your brain composes music -- Third movement : practicing music, part i: the partnership of motivated music students and motivated music teachers -- Fourth movement : practicing music, part ii: understanding the neuroscience -- Fifth movement : practicing music, part iii: changing your brain to get it right -- Sixth movement : how your brain performs music -- Seventh movement : how your brain listens to music -- Eight movement : why your brain likes music -- Coda : the final jam with Dennis and Larry: a reflective improvisation. This book explores the processes of teaching, learning, practicing, listening, composing, improvising, and performing music from the standpoints of behavioral, cellular and molecular neuroscience as well as the perspective of music pedagogy. The book surveys current neuroscience literature in the context of musical learning and teaching experience to explore how music literally changes the structures of our brains.

Date Published:2024

Play it as it lays : a novel

Didion, Joan.


A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul-it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.--Amazon.
Date Published:2005

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul-it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.--Amazon.

Date Published:2005

If I did it : confessions of the killer

Simpson, O. J., 1947-


On t.p. the word "if" is partly obscured by typographic treatment ; Fred Goldman and Kim Goldman are on front cover. "With a brand new introduction exclusively for the paperback by the Goldman Family"--Cover. Prologue by Pablo F. Fenjves. Afterword by Dominick Dunne. Epilogue by Peter Haven. "Resources": pages [235]-240. Publisher's note: This is an exact replication of the original "If I did it" manuscript. "O.J. read the book, his book, several times. I made every change he asked for, and he signed off on it ... (I)f there are errors in the book, it's because O.J. didn't correct them, or worse, he fed them to me."--Pablo F. Fenjves, p. lxviii. He did it / by the Goldman family -- Prologue / by Pablo F. Fenjves -- The luckiest guy in the world -- So happy together -- Period of confusion -- The two Nicoles -- Things fall apart -- The night in question -- The interrogation -- The fight of my life -- Afterword / by Dominick Dunne -- "Following the law" / by Peter T. Haven -- Resources. In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California. O.J. Simpson was tried for the crime in a case that captured the attention of the American people, but was ultimately found not guilty of criminal charges. The victims' families brought civil cases against Simpson, and he was found liable for willfully and wrongfully causing the deaths of Ron and Nicole by committing battery with malice and oppression. In 2006, HarperCollins announced the publication of a book in which O.J. Simpson told how he hypothetically would have committed the murders. In response to public outrage that Simpson stood to profit from these crimes, HarperCollins canceled the book. A Florida bankruptcy court awarded the rights to the Goldmans in August 2007 to partially satisfy the unpaid civil judgment, which has risen, with interest, to over $38 million. The Goldman family views this book as his confession, and has worked hard to ensure that the public will read this book and learn the truth. This is the original manuscript approved by O.J. Simpson, with up to 14,000 words of key additional commentary.--From publisher's description.
Date Published:2008

On t.p. the word "if" is partly obscured by typographic treatment ; Fred Goldman and Kim Goldman are on front cover. "With a brand new introduction exclusively for the paperback by the Goldman Family"--Cover. Prologue by Pablo F. Fenjves. Afterword by Dominick Dunne. Epilogue by Peter Haven. "Resources": pages [235]-240. Publisher's note: This is an exact replication of the original "If I did it" manuscript. "O.J. read the book, his book, several times. I made every change he asked for, and he signed off on it ... (I)f there are errors in the book, it's because O.J. didn't correct them, or worse, he fed them to me."--Pablo F. Fenjves, p. lxviii. He did it / by the Goldman family -- Prologue / by Pablo F. Fenjves -- The luckiest guy in the world -- So happy together -- Period of confusion -- The two Nicoles -- Things fall apart -- The night in question -- The interrogation -- The fight of my life -- Afterword / by Dominick Dunne -- "Following the law" / by Peter T. Haven -- Resources. In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California. O.J. Simpson was tried for the crime in a case that captured the attention of the American people, but was ultimately found not guilty of criminal charges. The victims' families brought civil cases against Simpson, and he was found liable for willfully and wrongfully causing the deaths of Ron and Nicole by committing battery with malice and oppression. In 2006, HarperCollins announced the publication of a book in which O.J. Simpson told how he hypothetically would have committed the murders. In response to public outrage that Simpson stood to profit from these crimes, HarperCollins canceled the book. A Florida bankruptcy court awarded the rights to the Goldmans in August 2007 to partially satisfy the unpaid civil judgment, which has risen, with interest, to over $38 million. The Goldman family views this book as his confession, and has worked hard to ensure that the public will read this book and learn the truth. This is the original manuscript approved by O.J. Simpson, with up to 14,000 words of key additional commentary.--From publisher's description.

Date Published:2008

Mastermind : mental training for climbers

Moffatt, Jerry,


A practical guide to mental training for climbers, helping athletes harness their mental potential to enhance performance under pressure.
Date Published:2022

The fix : soccer and organized crime

Hill, Declan



Date Published:2010

Hidden potential : the science of achieving greater things

Grant, Adam, 1981-


Includes index. Prologue: Growing roses from concrete -- I. Skills of character: getting better at getting better -- Creatures of discomfort: embracing the unbearable awkwardness of learning -- Human sponges: building the capacity to absorb and adapt -- The imperfectionists: finding the sweet spot between flawed and flawless -- II. Structures for motivation: scaffolding to overcome obstacles -- Transforming the daily grind: infusing passion into practice -- Getting unstuck: the roundabout path to forward progress -- Defying gravity: the art of flying by our bootstraps -- III. Systems of opportunity: opening doors and windows -- Every child gets ahead: designing schools to bring out the best in students -- Mining for gold: unearthing collective intelligence in teams -- Diamonds in the rough: discovering uncut gems in job interviews andcollege admissions -- Epilogue: Going the distance. We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and the amount of ground that we can gain. When opportunity doesn't knock, there are ways to build a door. Hidden Potential offers a new framework for reaching aspirations and exceeding expectations. Realizing potential isn't about being a workaholic or a perfectionist. What matters most is not how hard we work, but how well we learn. It's not about being a genius-growth depends more on developing character skills than cognitive skills. The character skills that propel progress include the proactivity to absorb and adapt to new information, the courage to embrace discomfort, and the determination to find the beauty in imperfections. Mastering those skills doesn't require us to find the one perfect mentor or expert coach to guide us. Often we just need to borrow a compass to begin charting our own path. And we can clear the path for more people by building better systems of opportunity in our schools, teams, and workplaces. Many writers have chronicled the habits of superstars who accomplish great things.
Date Published:2025

Includes index. Prologue: Growing roses from concrete -- I. Skills of character: getting better at getting better -- Creatures of discomfort: embracing the unbearable awkwardness of learning -- Human sponges: building the capacity to absorb and adapt -- The imperfectionists: finding the sweet spot between flawed and flawless -- II. Structures for motivation: scaffolding to overcome obstacles -- Transforming the daily grind: infusing passion into practice -- Getting unstuck: the roundabout path to forward progress -- Defying gravity: the art of flying by our bootstraps -- III. Systems of opportunity: opening doors and windows -- Every child gets ahead: designing schools to bring out the best in students -- Mining for gold: unearthing collective intelligence in teams -- Diamonds in the rough: discovering uncut gems in job interviews andcollege admissions -- Epilogue: Going the distance. We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and the amount of ground that we can gain. When opportunity doesn't knock, there are ways to build a door. Hidden Potential offers a new framework for reaching aspirations and exceeding expectations. Realizing potential isn't about being a workaholic or a perfectionist. What matters most is not how hard we work, but how well we learn. It's not about being a genius-growth depends more on developing character skills than cognitive skills. The character skills that propel progress include the proactivity to absorb and adapt to new information, the courage to embrace discomfort, and the determination to find the beauty in imperfections. Mastering those skills doesn't require us to find the one perfect mentor or expert coach to guide us. Often we just need to borrow a compass to begin charting our own path. And we can clear the path for more people by building better systems of opportunity in our schools, teams, and workplaces. Many writers have chronicled the habits of superstars who accomplish great things.

Date Published:2025

The subtle art of not giving a f*ck : a counterintuitive approach to living a good life

Manson, Mark.


Don't try -- Happiness is a problem -- You are not special -- The value of suffering -- You are always choosing -- You're wrong about everything (but so am I) -- Failure is the way forward -- The importance of saying no -- ... And then you die. Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek.
Date Published:2016

Don't try -- Happiness is a problem -- You are not special -- The value of suffering -- You are always choosing -- You're wrong about everything (but so am I) -- Failure is the way forward -- The importance of saying no -- ... And then you die. Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek.

Date Published:2016

Privilege and punishment : how race and class matter in criminal court

Clair, Matthew K.,


This book explores how the attorney-client relationship favors the privileged in criminal court―and denies justice to the poor and to working-class people of color.
Date Published:2022

Global esports : transformation of cultural perceptions of competitive gaming


Global eSports explores the recent surge of eSports in the global scene and comprehensively discusses people's understanding of this spectacle. By historicizing and institutionalizing eSports, the contributors analyze the rapid growth of eSports and its implications in culture and digital economy.
Date Published:2022

We breed lions : confronting Canada's troubled hockey culture

Westhead, Rick,


In We Breed Lions, award-winning journalist Rick Westhead gives voice to those who have been sexually assaulted by hockey players, revealing the struggles they've had with local police officials in their efforts to seek justice. He also goes inside the dressing room to find out how attitudes of misogyny and homophobia continue to flourish, and speaks to former players who were forced to perform degrading acts of initiation in order to join the team. Westhead offers hope for hockey's future, profiling those individuals and organizations who are committed to educating players around issues of consent, putting an end to hazing and redefining what it means to be a man on and off the ice.
Date Published:2025

In We Breed Lions, award-winning journalist Rick Westhead gives voice to those who have been sexually assaulted by hockey players, revealing the struggles they've had with local police officials in their efforts to seek justice. He also goes inside the dressing room to find out how attitudes of misogyny and homophobia continue to flourish, and speaks to former players who were forced to perform degrading acts of initiation in order to join the team. Westhead offers hope for hockey's future, profiling those individuals and organizations who are committed to educating players around issues of consent, putting an end to hazing and redefining what it means to be a man on and off the ice.

Date Published:2025

Atomic habits : tiny changes, remarkable results : an easy & proven way to build good habits & break bad ones

Clear, James,


Introduction: My story -- The fundamentals: Why tiny changes make a big difference -- The 1st law: Make it obvious -- The 2nd law: Make it attractive -- The 3rd law: Make it easy -- Advanced tactics: How to go from being merely good to being truly great -- Conclusion: The secret to results that last. James Clear, an expert on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. He draws on proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible.
Date Published:2018

Introduction: My story -- The fundamentals: Why tiny changes make a big difference -- The 1st law: Make it obvious -- The 2nd law: Make it attractive -- The 3rd law: Make it easy -- Advanced tactics: How to go from being merely good to being truly great -- Conclusion: The secret to results that last. James Clear, an expert on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. He draws on proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible.

Date Published:2018

The age of surveillance capitalism : the fight for a human future at the new frontier of power

Zuboff, Shoshana, 1951-,


Includes index. Will the digital future be our home? -- The collision -- Who knows? -- The foundations of surveillance capitalism -- The origins of surveillance capitalism -- The elaboration of surveillance capitalism : kidnap, corner, compete -- The reality business -- Rendition : from map to territory -- Make them dance -- The right to the future tense -- The contest for the future tense -- Big other and the rise of instrumentarian power -- Instrumentarian power for a third modernity -- Of life in the hive. Shoshana Zuboff's book In the Age of the Smart Machine foresaw the consequences of a then-unfolding era of computer technology. Now, three decades later she asks why the once-celebrated miracle of digital is turning into a nightmare. Zuboff tackles the social, political, business, personal, and technological meaning of "surveillance capitalism" as an unprecedented new market form. It is not simply about tracking us and selling ads, it is the business model for an ominous new marketplace that aims at nothing less than predicting and modifying our everyday behavior--where we go, what we do, what we say, how we feel, who we're with. The consequences of surveillance capitalism for us as individuals and as a society vividly come to life in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism's pathbreaking analysis of power. The threat has shifted from a totalitarian "big brother" state to a universal global architecture of automatic sensors and smart capabilities: A "big other" that imposes a fundamentally new form of power and unprecedented concentrations of knowledge in private companies--free from democratic oversight and control.
Date Published:2020

Includes index. Will the digital future be our home? -- The collision -- Who knows? -- The foundations of surveillance capitalism -- The origins of surveillance capitalism -- The elaboration of surveillance capitalism : kidnap, corner, compete -- The reality business -- Rendition : from map to territory -- Make them dance -- The right to the future tense -- The contest for the future tense -- Big other and the rise of instrumentarian power -- Instrumentarian power for a third modernity -- Of life in the hive. Shoshana Zuboff's book In the Age of the Smart Machine foresaw the consequences of a then-unfolding era of computer technology. Now, three decades later she asks why the once-celebrated miracle of digital is turning into a nightmare. Zuboff tackles the social, political, business, personal, and technological meaning of "surveillance capitalism" as an unprecedented new market form. It is not simply about tracking us and selling ads, it is the business model for an ominous new marketplace that aims at nothing less than predicting and modifying our everyday behavior--where we go, what we do, what we say, how we feel, who we're with. The consequences of surveillance capitalism for us as individuals and as a society vividly come to life in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism's pathbreaking analysis of power. The threat has shifted from a totalitarian "big brother" state to a universal global architecture of automatic sensors and smart capabilities: A "big other" that imposes a fundamentally new form of power and unprecedented concentrations of knowledge in private companies--free from democratic oversight and control.

Date Published:2020

Shake hands with the devil : the failure of humanity in Rwanda

Dallaire, Roméo



Date Published:2003

Punishment without crime : how our massive misdemeanor system traps the innocent and makes America more unequal

Natapoff, Alexandra,


"Updated with a new afterword" -- Cover. This book offers a new perspective on inequality and injustice in the United States of America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: misdemeanors. Alexandra Natapoff reveals the inner workings of a massive petty offense system that produces over thirteen million criminal cases each year, over 80 percent of the national total.
Date Published:2023

Sisterhood of the squared circle : the history and rise of women's wrestling

Laprade, Pat,


Documenting the rise of women's wrestling from sideshow to WWE main event. Sisterhood of the Squared Circle presents the fascinating history of women's wrestling, from the carnival circuit of the late 1800s to today's hugely popular matches. With more than 100 wrestler profiles, find out how backstage politics, real-life grudges, and incredible personalities shaped the business. The careers of many well-known trailblazers, including Mildred Burke, the Fabulous Moolah, Mae Young, Penny Banner, Wendi Richter, Trish Stratus, Chyna, and Lita, are celebrated alongside today's stars, like Charlotte, Sasha Banks, and Bayley.
Date Published:2017

Documenting the rise of women's wrestling from sideshow to WWE main event. Sisterhood of the Squared Circle presents the fascinating history of women's wrestling, from the carnival circuit of the late 1800s to today's hugely popular matches. With more than 100 wrestler profiles, find out how backstage politics, real-life grudges, and incredible personalities shaped the business. The careers of many well-known trailblazers, including Mildred Burke, the Fabulous Moolah, Mae Young, Penny Banner, Wendi Richter, Trish Stratus, Chyna, and Lita, are celebrated alongside today's stars, like Charlotte, Sasha Banks, and Bayley.

Date Published:2017

How to sound smart at parties : an evening of fun facts & curious conversations

McBride, Michael,


Welcome to the most interesting dinner party you've ever attended! Join seven friends for an evening of trivia, myth-busting, and camaraderie. Packed with over 150 fun facts spanning the topics of ancient civilizations, animal behavior, natural science, outer space, human accomplishments, pop culture, and more, this book ensures you'll always have something clever to contribute to the conversation.
Date Published:2024

Welcome to the most interesting dinner party you've ever attended! Join seven friends for an evening of trivia, myth-busting, and camaraderie. Packed with over 150 fun facts spanning the topics of ancient civilizations, animal behavior, natural science, outer space, human accomplishments, pop culture, and more, this book ensures you'll always have something clever to contribute to the conversation.

Date Published:2024

Girl on girl : how pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves

Gilbert, Sophie (Sophie G.)


Index. Girl power, boy rage: music and feminism in the 1990's -- Show girl: overexposure in the new millennium -- Girls on film: sex comedies from the multiplex to the manosphere -- Girl fight: regression and representation in the early years of reality television -- Beautiful girl: the goldmine of impossible expectations -- Final girl: extreme sex, art, and violence in post/911 America -- Gossip girls: the degredation of women and fame in the twenty-first-century media -- Girl on girls: the confessional auteur and her detractors -- Girl boss: the making over of female ambition -- Girls on top: rewriting a path toward power. A critique of how early-aughts pop culture turned women and girls against each other--and themselves--with disastrous consequences.
Date Published:2025

Index. Girl power, boy rage: music and feminism in the 1990's -- Show girl: overexposure in the new millennium -- Girls on film: sex comedies from the multiplex to the manosphere -- Girl fight: regression and representation in the early years of reality television -- Beautiful girl: the goldmine of impossible expectations -- Final girl: extreme sex, art, and violence in post/911 America -- Gossip girls: the degredation of women and fame in the twenty-first-century media -- Girl on girls: the confessional auteur and her detractors -- Girl boss: the making over of female ambition -- Girls on top: rewriting a path toward power. A critique of how early-aughts pop culture turned women and girls against each other--and themselves--with disastrous consequences.

Date Published:2025

The let them theory : a life-changing tool that millions of people can't stop talking about

Robbins, Mel, 1968-


Learn how to be free from the opinions, drama, and judgments of others and the exhausting cycle of trying to manage everything and everyone around you.
Date Published:2024