A Guide to Making Wiser and More Thoughtful Decisions
Making decisions intelligently, rationally and with a sense of personal investment requires a considerable degree of critical thinking. To choose badly based on disinformation or high emotionality, rather than on the intelligent interpretation of data, leads us down a path from which there is often no safe return. Thomas Jefferson wrote that a ......
The US Military's Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Age
For decades, US military operations have been contaminating the Pacific region with toxic substances, including plutonium, dioxin, and VX nerve agent. Hundreds of thousands of service members, their families, and residents have been exposed-but the United States has hidden the damage and refused to help victims. After World War II, the United ......
Reenvisioning Approaches Within a Global Framework
Reenvisioning Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution in Islam examines the variety of strategic peacebuilding and conflict resolution activities conducted by Muslim practitioners and nongovernmental organizations in Muslim-majority communities. Qamar-ul Huda explores ways that Muslim scholars, civil society members, and communities interpret ......
Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in Teen Supernatural Serials
This book is a collection of 13 essays centering on supernatural serials such as television programs, video games, anime, and manga, featuring teen protagonists and marketed to teen audiences. These essays provide discussions of characters in teen supernatural serials who disrupt white, cisgender social narratives, and addresses possible ways that ......
Building on the success and impact of Library 2020: Today's Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow's Library by Joseph Janes, Library 2035: Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries updates, expands upon, and broadens the discussions on the future of libraries and the ways in which they transform information services to best serve their ......
We must establish our world order on the principles of human dignity if we want a credible future for humanity. This book shows how and why this is so. It investigates the meaning of human dignity in relation to current scholarly work as well as in terms of the depths of our subjective lives from which the concept of dignity arises. It contrasts ......
An Action Plan for Saving the Economy and the Planet by 2050
Defines the challenges facing climate goals and offers achievable solutions to meet these goals by 2050--without sacrificing economic growth. Climate change and other environmental dangers are considered an existential threat, yet mankind is falling further behind in addressing these challenges. Policies aimed at fixing these issues have ......
Vacation Strategies for Parents of the Anxious, the Inflexible, and the
The award-winning travel bible for parents of children with autism spectrum disorder and/or mood and distraction disorders. "An essential read, not only for parents of autistic or otherwise neurodivergent children but for all families."--Library Journal, Starred Review Traveling with children is always challenging, but for parents of ......
Scholars in the field of children's literature studies began taking an interest in the concept of "liminal spaces" around the turn of the 21st century. For the first time, Liminal Spaces in Children's and Young Adult Literature: Stories from the In Between brings together in one volume a collection of original essays on this topic by leading ......
