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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 119 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Thai
Description
Whores' glory, the third film in Michael Glawogger's globalization trilogy (following Megacities, Workingman's death), is an explicit and unflinching exposé of global prostitution. Glawogger's latest larger-than-life documentary is an audacious, non-judgmental study of sexuality, politics, human behavior and the effects of capital and religion on both women and men from starkly different cultures.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From ghosts to pink dolphins to a fight club of young women who practice beneath Alaska's aurora borealis, By Light We Knew Our Names examines the beauty and heartbreak of the world we live in. Across thirteen stories, this collection explores the thin border between magic and grief.
5) Horrid Henry
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Horrid Henry and his neighbor Moody Margaret decide to make the most sloppy, slimy, sludgy, sticky, smelly, gooey, gluey, gummy, greasy, gloppy glop possible. Is it the best glop in the world or the worst thing that's ever happened to them? Plus three other stories so funny we can't even mention them here." -- (p.4) of cover.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"...Told through three distinct narrators?Dawn Chapman, the mission?s pretty, young ecologist; Linda Ryu, her bitter, scheming best friend passed over for E2; and Ramsay Roothorp, E2?s sexually irrepressible Wildman?The Terranauts brings to life an electrifying, pressured world in which connected lives are uncontrollably pushed to the breaking point. With characteristic humor and acerbic wit, T.C. Boyle indelibly inhabits the perspectives of the various...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A biohacking program for women, teaching them how to use their natural 28-day cycle to optimize their time, diet, fitness, work, and relationships. Presents a 4-week solution to manage energy and time according to female biochemistry. By working with each phase, you'll support your hormones, unlock peak creativity and performance, and avoid burnout. You'll know exactly when to eat certain foods, clear your social calendar, or ask for a raise--and...
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xx, 332 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In a society in which psychological knowledge is shaped as much, if not more, by supermarket tabloids, talk shows, and self-proclaimed 'self-help gurus' as it is by the latest scientific advances, here is a book that helps students and the public distinguish fact from fiction in the world of psychology. The authors use popular myths as a vehicle for distinguishing science from pseudoscience. Organized around key topic areas of modern psychology such...
12) El ping?ino Taky
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Tacky the penguin does not fit in with his sleek and graceful companions, but his odd behavior comes in handy when hunters come with maps and traps.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 112 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses Taleb's view of modern civilization's hubristic side effects--modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First English-language edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 461 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Challenges popular conceptions of an innately selfish human race to offer new historical and evolutionary perspectives that argue humans are more hardwired for kindness, cooperation and trust.
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