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Sally Adee

Science journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of bioelectricity—the electric currents that run through our bodies and every living thing—its misunderstood history, and why new discoveries will lead to new ways around antibiotic resistance, cleared arteries, and new ways to combat cancer.You may be familiar with the idea of our body's biome: the bacterial fauna that populate our gut and can so profoundly affect our health. In We Are Electric we cross ...

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Ilham Sadi, Sally Ades

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Literacy for Active Citizenship

The Literacy for Active Citizenship series aims to support non-EU women to develop their skills and confidence in English and to take an active part in everyday life in the UK. The series of readers for learners, and other adults also settling in the UK, include stories about funny, personal and less typical aspects of everyday life in the UK.Peanuts and Pollen is Entry 2+ Level

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Sally Adee

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Sally Adee

Science journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of bioelectricity—the electric currents that run through our bodies and every living thing—its misunderstood history, and why new discoveries will lead to new ways around antibiotic resistance, cleared arteries, and new ways to combat cancer.You may be familiar with the idea of our body's biome: the bacterial fauna that populate our gut and can so profoundly affect our health. In We Are Electric we cross ...

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Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science

This is an open access book. We would like to warmly welcome you to the 6th FIRST 2022 International Conference. This conference is organized by Politeknik Negeri Sriwijaya, Indonesia. The 6th FIRST 2022 International Conference was held in Palembang, South Sumatera Province, Indonesia, on October 19-20th, 2022.The 6th FIRST 2022 International Conference offers the researchers in academics, industries, and governments, a conference, for exchanging, sharing, following up, and discus...

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Richard Parker

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Timothy Andrés Pabon

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A Southwest Book of the Year “Top Pick”“American history did not begin in the Northeast. It began in the Southwest,’ Parker asserts, in this sweeping history.” —The New YorkerA revelatory work of Southwest history that recenters the American origin story two-thousand miles west of Plymouth Rock, in El Paso, Texas—heart of Indigenous power and resistance, locus of Spanish coloniz...

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Brian Lowery

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Aaron Goodson

Social psychologist and Stanford professor Brian Lowery presents a provocative, powerful theory of identity, arguing that there is no essential ""self""—our selves are social creations of those with whom we interact —exploring what that means for who we can be and who we allow others to be.There’s nothing we spend more time with, but understand less, than ourselves. You’ve been with yourself every waking moment of your life. But who—or, rather, what—are you? In...

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Diane Rosenfeld

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Elisabeth Rodgers

Foreword by Ashley Judd“Rosenfeld’s tour-de-force takes the power of female alliances to a higher level, giving us a road map for a new vision of women’s equality through the relationships and bonds we form among one another. The gift of this book is that it gives us hope.”—Valerie Jarrett, New York Times bestselling author of Finding My Voice, and former senior advisor to President Barack ObamaThe Bonobo ...

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Kelly Clancy

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Patty Nieman

**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST AND THE GUARDIAN“Absorbing. . . . A revealing look at the hidden role that games have played in human development for centuries.” —Kirkus“By turns philosophical and polemical, this is a provocative and fascinating book.” —The EconomistA wide-ranging intellectual history that reveals how important games have been to human progress, and what’s at stake when we forget what games we’re ...

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Michael R. Burke

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Michael R. Burke

A guide to intuitive animal communication with a human-first approach, detailing how to do personal work in order to improve your communication with animals, and diving into specific tools for communication and how to co-create and manifest with your animal.Have you ever wondered what your animal is thinking and feeling? Or wanted to know what you can do to help them live their best life?Here, celebrated animal communicator and animal behaviorist Michael R....

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Yoni Appelbaum

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Ari Fliakos

How did America cease to be the land of opportunity?LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARDWe take it for granted that good neighborhoods—with good schools and good housing—are only accessible to the wealthy. But in America, this wasn’t always the case.Though for most of world history, your prospects were tied to where you were born, Americans came up with a revolutionary idea: If you didn’t like your lot in life, you coul...

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Cutter Wood

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Josh Bloomberg

Bill Bryson’s The Body meets Mary Roach’s Gulp (with a dash of What’s Your Poo Telling You?)in this delightfully weird, richly informative, and unexpectedly lyrical tour of our bodily emissions—revealing that the very parts of us that we seek to hide in embarrassment are actually an essential part of human health, with fascinating social history.In biology class, we learn that the body is a fundamentally cohesive organism, a collection of...

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Jeff Wetzler

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Gary Tiedemann

**Globally recognized expert on learning and leadership, Jeff Wetzler offers a hands-on, surprisingly effective way to find out what others really think, know, and feel, leading to smarter decisions, more creative solutions, and deeper relationships."Invaluable ... required reading." —Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor and Radical Respect**Too often, we don’t find out what’s truly on others’ hearts and minds because we don’t know how to ask the right ques...