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Human raised : nurturing connection, curiosity, & lifelong learning in the age of AI
Suskind, Dana, author.
As AI enters nurseries, playrooms, and classrooms, parents are being sold a “smart” childhood at every turn. This book is a guide to protecting the most important label of all: human raised. In her groundbreaking book Thirty Million Words, Dr. Suskind revealed the extraordinary power of parent talk and interaction in building children’s brains. Now, with the advent of artificial intelligence, the stakes of that nurturing interaction have become even clearer. New AI applications demonstrate what technology can replicate — but they also illuminate what it cannot: the capacity of human interaction to build not just children’s skills but their very capacity for human connection. Human Raised reveals the possibilities and perils of using AI and related technologies for child-rearing. From monitors that decode cries, to smart cribs that soothe babies to sleep, to interactive chatbots designed to engage an inquisitive toddler, the parenting landscape is shifting fast — and Dr. Suskind helps parents navigate this uncharted territory with clarity and confidence. Readers will learn four guiding principles (H.O.P.E.) for raising children alongside AI: *Human connection is irreplaceable *Own your imperfections *Protect the early years *Enhance — don’t replace — connection. The book also offers a concrete evaluation framework to help parents (and anyone shaping children’s environments) assess individual technologies, along with evidence-based guidance for fostering the skills children will need to thrive in an AI-driven future. Critical thinking, empathy, creativity, and resilience form what Suskind calls the Human Edge — capabilities no algorithm can replicate and no artificial teacher can cultivate. Drawing from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and the lived experience of countless families, Human Raised prepares parents to act as essential guardians to the gateway between AI and their children’s developing minds — keeping human connection, in all its beautiful imperfection, at the center of childhood.....
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Freedom round the globe : a world history of the American Revolution
Pearsall, Sarah M. S., author.
In her powerful new history of the American Revolution, Sarah M. S. Pearsall argues that the American Founding Fathers did not have a unique claim on the revolutionary spirit. The thirteen colonies that became the United States, she reminds us, were not even half of the British colonies that existed in the eighteenth century. In her sparkling and original Freedom Round the Globe, Pearsall uncovers the insurgents, freedom lovers, and dreamers in India, West Africa, North America, Europe, China, and West Indian islands who shaped the nature of American rebellion and nationhood. In each fresh and compelling chapter of Freedom Round the Globe, Pearsall plucks a keyword from the Declaration of Independence--security, happiness, respect--finding its spark in a far-flung place. In an Edinburgh club where women were first invited into philosophical conversations, she explores what the pursuit of happiness meant to women and men of all sorts. She traces how novel forms of slavery provoked a new use of the word liberty in Connecticut petitions as well as in cries of "liberty or death." On a Kolkata street where Indians protested relentless taxes, Pearsall finds a critique of oppressive imperial government that galvanized Americans in their protests and parties against the tea of the English East India Company. In rural Germany, boy soldiers sent abroad to die for Britain complicate who can lay claim to being civilized in a brutal war. In telling the extraordinary tales of Friends of Liberty protesting tyranny around the world, Pearsall restores these individuals and movements to their rightful place in the vital story of the American Revolution and the nation it created. The result is a stirring and surprising revisioning of our history.....
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The homeschool bible : everything you need to build a thriving home education
Davis, Mandy (Educator), author.
Feeling overwhelmed by homeschooling? The Homeschool Bible™ helps parents confidently choose curriculum, simplify learning, and build a home education plan that works. Mandy Davis, MEd and former school principal, wrote this guide to help families navigate every stage of homeschooling, from the first day of learning at home through high school graduation. Whether you’re learning how to homeschool for the first time or looking for a more organized approach, you’ll find straightforward support for creating a learning environment that fits your family’s needs and goals. This is not theory or complicated educational language. It is a clear, straightforward homeschool handbook designed to help parents take action and succeed. Inside, you’ll learn how to *start homeschooling with clear, step-by-step guidance for beginners *choose the right homeschool curriculum and lesson plans for your family *build daily learning rhythms and sustainable routines without burnout *understand homeschool laws, state requirements, and academic milestones *create a home education experience with structure, peace, and stability. You are capable. Your children are capable. You don’t have to figure it all out before you begin. Let The Homeschool Bible™ help you homeschool with greater clarity, vision, and peace of mind.....
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What to cook when you don't feel like cooking : make it fast
Chambers, Caroline, author
Caroline Chambers famously doesn't feel like cooking - and she's built a whole brand on that premise. Her superpowers are eliminating unnecessary steps; minimizing dirty dishes; and making dinnertime as simple, stress-free, and fun as possible. While plenty of obstacles stand between you and a delicious meal, being short on time is probably the biggest one. This exciting follow-up cookbook is once again organized into three time-based chapters. You'll find recipes for 100 dinners, all of which are complete meals and can be made with no more than 30 minutes hands-on time in the kitchen - and yes, that includes chopping, marinating, and all other prep! Every quick and easy recipe features Caro's signature swaps, riffs, tips, and shortcuts to empower you to make these recipes work for you - not the other way around! You'll also find special treasures throughout the book, including anchor recipes you can spin into five different dishes so you can DIY your favorites. Plus, helpful back-of-book indexes allow you to search by both ingredient - useful when, say, you've got ground meat in the freezer - and occasion or mood - like when you cannot be bothered to chop a single thing. Even on the nights when you think there's no way, no how, What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking: Make It Fast will help you get a full, flavorful meal on the table in basically no time.....
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The wisdom of walking in nature : 50 mindful and therapeutic ways to enjoy any walk
Davies, Alison, 1972- author.
Enjoy the physical, mental, and emotional benefits of walking with this delightful daily walking guide. Walking isn't just great for your heart and immune system-it's also proven to reduce stress, ease anxiety, boost mood, and spark creativity. From urban strolls to countryside hikes, dog walks, or even a quick trip to the shops, this daily companion captures the essence of walking therapy, inspiring you to make walking a joyful and restorative habit and encouraging even the most reluctant rambler to enjoy all the benefits of walking in nature.....
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Flip the tables : the everyday disruptor's guide to finding courage and making change
Johnson, Alencia, author.
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! From cultural critic and social impact leader Alencia Johnson comes Flip the Tables: a guide for everyday disruptors ready to find their courage, shake up the status quo, and create a better world from exactly where they are. We all crave lives of meaning and purpose but figuring out how to start can feel overwhelming. The truth? Your unique gifts and perspectives are needed: right now. It just takes a little courage to tap into them. In Flip the Tables, Alencia guides readers through three key stages of disruption: Disruption of Self - Break down barriers and confront the fears that hold you back from stepping into your boldest, most authentic self. Disruption of Vision - Radically reimagine what's possible for your life and the world around you. Disruption of Community - Use your courage and fresh vision to make an impact: becoming the light needed in a dark world. Flip the Tables is the playbook for those who want to create change: right where they are. Full of personal stories, real-world examples, and actionable tools, this guide helps readers ignite transformation by starting with their own lives. Alencia draws from her experiences: overcoming insecurities, fighting for women's rights, and advising top leaders and four presidential campaigns. Through behind-the-scenes insights and inspiring movements, she shows readers how to live with purpose, joy, and the belief that greatness lies within. Because the world doesn't just need disruptors: it needs you.....
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A sudden flicker of light : a revisionist history of movies
Thomson, David, 1941- author.
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Weimar : life on the edge of catastrophe
Hoyer, Katja, author
The Central German town of Weimar is perhaps most familiar to non-Germans for giving its name to the Weimar Republic. After Germany's inglorious defeat in World War I, the signing of a new constitution in Weimar marked the nation's first experiment with full-fledged democracy. And yet this storied town, long known as a center of German culture and tradition, was also the place where Nazis were first welcomed into a local government, a milestone in Adolf Hitler's fateful rise to power. In Weimar, historian Katja Hoyer examines Weimar as a microcosm for the entire German nation between the world wars. The Weimar Republic saw a flourishing in culture and the arts, including the establishment in Weimar of the Bauhaus school of architecture. But after Hitler seized the chancellorship in 1933, the town underwent rapid Nazification, with many ordinary Weimarers basking in the attention they and their town received from the regime and from Hitler personally. Combining gripping narrative with deep historical analysis, Weimar explores both the political upheavals and the rhythms of daily life in one town, revealing how fascism took hold first there, and then across the nation.....
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The plunge : maverick swimmers, an unlikely quest, and the transformative power of cold water
Ballard, Chris, 1973- author.
This work examines the practice of cold-water immersion and ice swimming through historical research, scientific studies, and firsthand reporting. Drawing on travel, interviews, and personal experience, Chris Ballard explores the physiological and psychological effects of cold exposure, the history of cold-water bathing, and the growth of organized ice swimming around the world. The book also considers themes of endurance, health, resilience, and community.....
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Ricochet : guns, greed, and the American way of violence
McIntire, Mike author.
In Ricochet, Mike McIntire provides a bold new road map for understanding our fraught relationship with guns and violence in America. McIntire crafts a gripping narrative of how the imperatives of war, slavery, crime, commerce and politics intertwined with the development of ever-more lethal firearms, leaving the country divided and traumatized. He shares explosive new revelations about the NRA's accumulation of power and turn to radicalism; Wall Street's efforts to turbocharge the market for assault weapons and online gun sales; the gun lobby's secretive campaign to change public attitudes by indoctrinating children; and how dark money, questionable scholarship, and front groups are being used to knock down gun laws. At once a cautionary tale of unfettered liberty, swagger and free markets contributing to our violent undoing, Ricochet also delivers a prescription for how we might yet save ourselves.....
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Gerontocracy in America : how the old are hoarding power and wealth - and what to do about it
Moyn, Samuel, author.
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Hotel exile : Paris in the shadow of war
Rogoyska, Jane, author.
Since its opening in 1910, the Hotel Lutetia has been a grand Paris institution, a meeting place for artists, intellectuals, musicians, and politicians. Andř Gide took his lunch here, James Joyce lived in one of its rooms, Picasso and Matisse were regular guests. But the hotel has a darker history, too--from the years before, during, and after the second World War. In this short period, the Lutetia witnessed some of the most dramatic and terrible events in recent history. In Hotel Exile, Jane Rogoyska evokes in novelistic prose the emotions, dilemmas, and fates of the hotel's patrons. In the 1930s, Europe's bohemian artists and political activists, forced to flee their homes when Hitler came to power, met at the Lutetia with the hope of forming an alternative government. But when war came, Paris was occupied, and the hotel became the headquarters of the German military intelligence service--and the center of their operation to root out enemies of the Reich. In 1945, the Lutetia was requisitioned once more, this time transformed into a reception center for Holocaust survivors who sought refuge after the Liberation. Rogoyska explores what it meant for these three profoundly different groups to live in exile, under the shadow of the dark ideology that dictated the course of their lives. A masterpiece of empathy and concision, Hotel Exile is about what happens at the edges of a war, passing through the doors of a normally functioning hotel, a site under occupation, and, finally, a shelter and place of healing. Jane Rogoyska's extraordinary new book offers us a vision of individual human beings desperately trying to find a path through some of the twentieth century's most devastating events.....
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Catch the devil : a true story of murder, deception, and injustice on the Gulf Coast
Colloff, Pamela, author.
The gripping true story of a serial con man and the innocent man he sent to death row... For more than three decades, Paul Skalnik roamed the Gulf Coast lying about who he was. He passed himself off as a fighter pilot, a high-rolling oilman, a criminal defense attorney, an undercover agent, and a terminal cancer patient. In these guises he married nine women -- some at the same time. When Skalnik got caught, as he invariably did, he would run a different con. Locked up with other men awaiting trial, he claimed they confessed their crimes to him. Then he peddled those stories to prosecutors. In Pinellas County, Florida, he became a frequent witness for the state, thinking nothing of exaggerating men's wrongdoing or implicating the innocent to help prosecutors win convictions. In return, the state rewarded him with his freedom, fueling his growing sense of invincibility. Soon he was not just committing fraud; he was preying on girls in their teens or barely into adolescence. In 1985, Jim Dailey, a down-on-his-luck Vietnam veteran, was implicated in the murder of a fourteen-year-old girl and landed in the Pinellas County Jail with Skalnik. No forensic evidence or motive linked Dailey to the killing, but Skalnik's account of his "confession" helped put Dailey on death row. Skalnik, meanwhile, walked free. More than three decades later, after another man took responsibility for the killing, Pamela Colloff, reporting for the New York Times Magazine and ProPublica, visited Skalnik and asked him if he would recant his testimony. He refused. By then, Skalnik had caused untold damage: to the women and girls he exploited, to the dozens of men he helped imprison, and to Jim Dailey, who went on to receive an execution date. In this mesmerizing debut, Pamela Colloff spins a dark tale of a remorseless and brilliant liar made lethal by a system more concerned with winning convictions than finding the truth.....
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