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"This best-selling textbook meets the needs of students who will be directly or indirectly involved in the activities of merchandising and buying at the retail level. Mathematics for Retail Buying explains the essential concepts, practices, procedures, calculations, and interpretations of figures that relate to producing profitable retail buying and selling operations. This edition introduces a new co-author and a thoroughly updated approach that incorporates actual retail scenarios and concepts that are relevant to the fashion industry today. The book has been reorganized to begin with an introduction to profitability, and includes more linear chapter titling to make the book easy to use and navigate. The chapter on dollar planning and control has been expanded to include more coverage of six month planning process and assortment planning. The new edition integrates current retail business metrics and a range of sample data sets for student practice. An additional section in each chapter explains how the next chapter builds on the previous, and cumulative problems connect each chapter concept. More than 250 practice problems and 20 case studies apply industry concepts and terminology in realistic merchandising situations. A companion website contains all practice problems from the text, plus brand new case studies and allows hands-on practice computing retail buying functions and setting up formulas in spreadsheet format.New to This Edition: - Reorganized Units I and VI reflect the order of prior editions and open the textbook with the discussion of "merchandising for profit" and profit and loss concepts - Retitled "Units" to "Chapters" to make the book more user-friendly - Updates problems in all units and case studies for currency and relevancy to the industry today, including at least 25% new practice problems and 50% new case studies - Expanded chapter on "Dollar Planning and Control" to include more on sales planning and comprehensive coverage of the six month planning process and assortment planning - Explains how retailers do this in today's world, not only for brick and mortar but for omni-channel, including a sampling of problems from all retail sectors should be included - Includes criteria necessary for determining when to take markdowns in that chapterPLEASE NOTE: Purchasing or renting this ISBN does not include access to the STUDIO resources that accompany this text. To receive free access to the STUDIO content with new copies of this ...

Part 1: Justice is Needed in Three Governance Orders -- Chapter 1: Small-Scale Fisheries in the Blue Economy -- Chapter 2: Justice in Three Orders -- Part 2: Justice Issues Have Deep Historical Roots -- Chapter 3: Coastal Small-Scale Fisheries in Brazil: Resentment against Policy Disarray -- Chapter 4: Social (In)Justice for Small-Scale Fisherfolk in the Turks And Caicos Islands: Struggling to Stay Afloat in a Tax Haven -- Chapter 5: Governance for Blue Justice: Examining Struggles and Contradictions in Atlantic Canada's Small-Scale Fisheries -- Part 3: Justice Issues Stem from Old and New Conflicts -- Chapter 6: Conflicts in the Artisanal Fishing Industry of Ghana: Reactions of Fishers to Regulatory Measures -- Chapter 7: Blue Justice and Small-Scale Fisher Migration: A Case Study from Sri Lanka -- Chapter 8: Marginalization and Reinvention of Small-Scale Fisheries: A Finnish Case Study of Social Justice -- Part 4: Justice is Systemic and Multi-Dimensional -- Chapter 9: An Evaluation of Multidimensional Conflicts in Small-Scale Fisheries in Nigeria -- Chapter 10: Perception and Reality of Justice in the Small-Scale Fisheries of Nigeria -- Chapter 11: Making Sense Of Multidimensional Injustice for Creating Viable Small-Scale Fisheries in Chilika Lagoon, Bay of Bengal -- Part 5: Justice Is a Territorial and Spatial Issue -- Chapter 12: Legalized Injustices: Old Providence Island (Colombia) Small Scale Fisheries in the Context of Geopolitical Disputes and State Power -- Chapter 13: Social Conflicts and Fishery Governance Systems in the Estuary and Coast of Pará, Amazonia, Brazil -- Chapter 14: Flagging Justice Matters in EU Fisheries Local Action Groups (FLAGs) -- Part 6: Justice is Competitive in Alternative Livelihoods -- Chapter 15: Adopting a Blue Justice Lens for Japanese Small-Scale Fisheries: Important Insights from the Case of Inatori Kinme Fishery -- Chapter 16: Feeling the Pinch: Perceived Marginalization of Small-Scale Commercial Crab Fishers by an Expanding Recreational Sector -- Chapter 17: Making Pescatourism Just for Small-Scale Fisheries: The Case of Turkey and Lessons for Others -- Part 7: Justice is an Imminent Issue for Inland Fisheries -- Chapter 18: Exploring Challenges of "Blue Justice" in Landlocked Mountainous Countries: The Case of Nepal -- Chapter 19: Blue Justice and Inland Fisheries: How Justice Principles Could Support Transformative Knowledge Production in the Mekong Region -- Chapter 20: Navigating Conflicts to Improve Livelihoods of Traditional Communities Impacted by Hydroelectric Dams -- Part 8: Justice Issues Are More Evident when in Crisis -- Chapter 21: The 2019 Brazilian Oil Spill: Perceptions of Affected Fishers -- Chapter 22: Small-Scale Fishers in the Time of Covid-19: Reinforcing the Inequalities in the Food, Economic and Governance Systems in South Africa and Zimbabwe -- Chapter 23: Vulnerability and Social Justice among Fishing Households Headed by Women in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka -- Part 9: Justice is a Priori Condition for Sustainable Development -- Chapter 24: Understanding Vulnerability of Urban Waterfront Communities to Rapid Development: the Case of Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria -- Chapter 25: Mariculture Parks in the Philippines Push Small-Scale Fishers out of, or far into, the Waters -- Chapter 26: Incentives to Mariculture Development in Brazil: Environmental Injustice on Traditional Fishing Communities -- Chapter 27: Pescastemic Rights for Blue Justice: Aquaculture and Coal Power Complexes in Chile -- Part 10: Justice Is about Going beyond Claims -- Chapter 28: Institutionalizing Injustice? Aligning Governance Orders in Swedish Small-Scale Fisheries -- Chapter 29: Navigating Institutional Change in the French Atlantic Fishing Sector: How do Artisanal Fishers Obtain and Secure Fishing Opportunities? -- Chapter 30: Blue Justice and Small-Scale Fisher Mobilizations in Istanbul, Turkey: Justice Claims, Political Agency and Alliances -- Part 11: Justice Needs a Strong Knowledge Foundation -- Chapter 31: Transdisciplinarity and Blue Justice: The Alianza Nuquí, a Research-Action Platform for Wellbeing and Reflexive Governance in the Colombian Pacific Coast -- Chapter 32: Strengthening Capabilities of Individuals and Communities through a Small-Scale Fisheries Academy -- Chapter 33: Understanding Gender Equality in Small-Scale Fisheries and its Role in Enhancing Blue Justice -- Part 12: Justice is Better Understood from Experience -- Chapter 34: Collective Experiences, Lessons and Reflections about Blue Justice -- Chapter 35: Towards Blue Justice for Small-Scale Fisheries.

List of Figures -- Preface / David L. Eng -- Journeys, Itineraries, Horizons: An Introduction / Martin F. Manalansan IV, Alice Y. Hom, and Kale Bantigue Fajardo -- Enduring Spaces and Bodies. 1. "Shanghai, Hong Kong, Egg Fu Yung, Fortune Cookie Always Wrong" / Danni Lin -- 2. All the Pinays are straight, all the queers are Pinoy, but some of us / Kimberly Alidio -- 3. The Hybridity of Race: Science, Geopolitics, and the Queer Genealogy of the "Chinese Jew" / Jih-Fei Cheng -- 4. "Sewing Patches through Performance" and "Courses in Brown Love" / D'Lo -- 5. nine genealogies (of un/belonging) / Patti Duncan -- 6. Lateral Diasporas and Queer Adaptations in Fresh Off the Boat and The Family Law / Douglas S. Ishii -- Queer Unsettlings: Geographies, Sovereignties. 7. "Khmer Alphabet," "Galaxies Like Blood," "Teeth and Chairs (Phnom Penh)," "Pornography of Days," "LDR (Amsterdam ssà San Francisco) (for Wai)," "Samsara," "'Eighteen Levels of Hell' (Đại Nam Amusement Park, Sài Gòn)," "Impossible Poem" / Việt Lê -- 8. You're Here, You're Queer, But You're Still a Tourist / Kim Compoc -- 9. Filipinx and Latinx Queer Critique: Houseboys and Housemaids in the US-Mexican Borderlands / Sony Coráñez Bolton -- 10. Queer South Asian Desire, Blackness, and the Apartheid State / Vanita Reddy -- 11. Pinkwashing, Tourism, and the (In)visibility of Israeli State Violence / Jennifer Lynn Kelly -- 12. Asian Settler Abstraction and Administrative Aloha / Reid Uratani -- Building Justice: Queer Movements in Asian North America. 13. In All Our Splendid Selves: A Roundtable Discussion on Queer API Activism in Three Political Moments / Eric Estuar Reyes and Eric C. Wat -- 14. Manservants to Millenials: A Brief Queer APA History / Amy Sueyoshi -- 15. From Potlucks to Protests: Reflections from Organizing Queer and Trans API Communities / Sasha Wijeyeratne -- 16. Sing Freedom, Sing / Kim Tran -- 17. Building a Queer Asian Movement: Building Communities and Organizing for Change / Glenn D. Magpantay -- Messing up the Archives and Circuits of Desire. 18. inspector of journals makes introductions: Fan & Basket plot escape from Peabody Essex Museum / Ching-In Chen -- 19. On (En)countering the Archival Sidekick / Joyce Gabiola -- 20. Camp Objects: Orientalist Kitsch and Trashy Re-Collections of the Japanese American Incarceration / Chris A. Eng -- 21. Asian Men and the Construction of Racial Desire on Craigslist / C. Winter Han -- 22. "I Think I'll Be More Slutty": The Promise of Queer Pilipinx/a/o/American Desire on Mobile Digital Apps in Los Angeles and Manila / Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza -- 23. Re/Generations: A Queer Korean American Diasporic Response / Anthony Yooshin Kim and Margaret Rhee -- Burning Down the House-Institutional Queerings. 24. Model/Minority Veteran: The Queer Asian American Challenge to Post-9/11 US Military Culture / Long T. Bui -- 25. Disrupting normative choreographies: queer Asian Canadian interventions making a mess with/in a "Too Asian" university / John Paul Catungal -- 26. Open in Emergency: on Queer(ing) Asian American Mental Health / Mimi Khúc -- 27. Religion and Ritual in the Lives of Queer Filipinx in Canada / May Farrales -- 28. Coming Back Around to a Place of Grace: A personal theological reflection and journey by a 1.5 generation Korean American transman / Sung Won Park -- 29. "Save the Thai Temple": Wat Mongkolratanaram, Thai America, and the Heteronormative Logics of South Berkeley / Pahole Sookkasikon -- Mediating Queer. 30. In which I watch Youtube to watch fan video edits of you For Nico Minoru on Marvel's Runaways / Kay Ulanday Barrett -- 31. PhilippinExcess: Queerness, Multiraciality, Midwesternness, and the Cultural Politics of Legibility / Thomas Xavier Sarmiento -- 32. Balang's Dance: Puro Arte as Queer Affect / Casey Mecija -- 33. "I Will Always Love You": Queer Filipino Performances of Blackness, Death, and Return / Thea Quiray Tagle -- 34. The Opposite of Performance: M. Butterfly in 2017 / Emily Raymundo -- 35. The Craft: QTPOC Tarot in Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki's Skim / Christine "Xine" Yao -- Finding One's Way: Routes of Lives and Bodies. 36. Loving Our Children, Finding Our Way / Marsha Aizumi -- 37. Needles + Cushions: a reflection on memory / Syd Yang -- 38. Queercore Prepped Me For Cancer / Leslie Mah -- 39. This One Body / Maiana Minahal -- 40. Mamang Or Death in Vegas / Karen Tongson -- 41. To Fukaya Michiyo / traci kato-kiriyama.

From 2012 to 2016, more black women in New York City had abortions than gave birth -- The U.S. government awarded $100 million in tax dollars for contracts to the aborted baby tissue industry -- Black and Hispanic students are more underrepresented at America's top colleges and universities than before affirmative action -- American's most deadly and dangerous cities are run by Democrats -- The Obama administration knew that up to two-thirds of Americans might not be able to keep their healthcare plans under Obamacare -- 97.8% of mass shootings since 1950 occurred in 'gun-free zones' -- Drug overdoses kill more Americans than gun violence -- Falling and the flu are far deadlier than mass shootings -- The U.S. resettled more refugees in 2018 than any other nation -- 80% Of Central American women, girls are raped crossing into the U.S. illegally -- Obama deported more people than any other president -- The IRS documented 1.2 million identity thefts committed by illegal aliens in 2017 -- There are no jobs Americans won't do. -- For every dollar a Netflix employee donates to a Republican, $141 gets donated to Democrats -- Half of federal arrests are immigration-related -- Amazon paid $0 in taxes on $11.2 billion in profits in 2018 -- America has spent $22 trillion fighting the War on Poverty -- America's trade deficit grew 600 percent after NAFTA -- Taxpayers doled out $2.6 billion in food stamps to dead people -- 1700 private jets flew to Davos to discuss the impact of global warming -- 90 percent of plastic waste comes from Asia and Africa -- Nearly 70 percent (or 1.2 billion) Muslims support Sharia law -- Jihadists from Iran, Palestine, and Syria took home billions in U.S. money, weapons during the Obama Era -- The taxpayer cost of illegal immigration will exceed $1 trillion by 2028 -- America protects and foots the bill for border walls around the world -- Hillary Clinton supported a "strong, competent, prosperous, stable Russia" before blaming it for her election loss -- Hillary and Bill Clinton made millions and Russia got 20 percent of all U.S. uranium -- President Obama and Hillary Clinton encouraged U.S. investors to fund tech research used by Russia's military -- Top Democrats blamed Obama for doing little to stop Russia's 2016 election meddling -- Donald Trump won the 2016 election by winning Michigan, a state Russia didn't attempt to hack -- Google could swing an election by secretly adjusting its search algorithm, and we would have no way of knowing -- Google works with the oppressive Chinese government to build a censorious search engine but refuses to work with the U.S. government -- Facebook changed its algorithm leading to a 45% drop in users interacting with President Trump -- Google and Facebook enlisted biased "fake news" fact-checker who were often wrong -- Facebook receives your most sensitive personal info from your phone's other apps -- Americans pay billions to large corporations to not hire U.S. citizens. -- Nearly three-quarters of Silicon Valley workers are foreign-born -- Black and Hispanic unemployment hit records lows under Trump -- Venezuela was the wealthiest country in Latin America before socialism -- American cities with the largest homeless populations are all Democrat-run enclaves -- Muslims account for 1 percent of the U.S. population of, but radical Islamist extremists accounted for more the 50 percent of deaths by extremists -- China is holding up to two million Muslims in internment camp sweatshops -- Economists predicted a Trump victory would crash the stock market, instead it hit a record high the week after he was elected -- Family separation and detention of illegal aliens at the border exploded under President Obama and DHS secretary Jeh Johnson -- Illegal immigration may have cost black Americans over 1 million jobs -- There have been more than 630 examples of Left-wing political violence & threats against Trump supporters -- Dick's Sporting Goods anti-gun policy resulted in a $150 million loss for the company, but the left's approval is worth more -- Christianity is the world's most persecuted religion.

Machine generated contents note: Foreword FORMER GOVERNOR OF OHIO TED STRICKLAND Introduction DANIEL SKINNER AND BERKELEY FRANZ PART ONE: ESTABLISHING PLACE 1 Ode to the Corner of the Drug House Down the Gravel Road Off the Two-Lane Highway DARREN C. DEMAREE (COLUMBUS) Reflections of a Recovery Writer ANNIE HIGHWATER (GROVE CITY) 6 3 A Place for "Total Recovery" MEMBERS OF TOLEDO RESTORATION CHURCH (TOLEDO) > 4 Building Community in the B. Riley Sober House RAFAEL "TONY" CORREA (CLEVELAND) 16 Walking Past Abandoned Houses, I Think of Eric BARBARA COSTAS-BIGGS (PORTSMOUTH) 20 6 How Are the Children? JOY EDGELL (BELPRE) A Haven from Human Trafficking and Addiction JEFF BARROWS (ZANESFIELD) 26 8 A New Home MARY LYNN ST. LAWRENCE (ATHENS) 30 CONTENTS v i C ontents 9 Collaboration in Middletown TRAVIS BAUTZ (MIDDLETOWN) 33 10 Defiance, Ohio Is the Name of a Band HANIF ABDURRAQIB (COLUMBUS) 37 11 A Heartache Not My Own CAITLIN SEIDA (THE PLAINS) 40 PART TWO: PROCESSING LOSS 12 What Addiction Gave Me TONY ANDERS (UPPER ARLINGTON) 47 13 The Stories Make It Real: A Mayor in the Heart of the Opioid Epidemic NAN WHALEY (DAYTON) 51 14 Jane's Story KERRI MONGENEL (ASHTABULA) 55 15 A Coach's Regrets MATT DENNISON (NEW PHILADELPHIA) 16 An Individual's Addiction, A Family's Loss AJ, JENNA, SHERIE, AND ALAN STEINBERGER (HIGHLAND HEIGHTS) 65 17 The Pain of Wanting to Help ANONYMOUS 71 18 My Reality at the Bedside HANK ROSSITER (KIDRON) 74 19 What Happens Under the Overpass NEIL CARPATHIOS (PORTSMOUTH) 78 20 Community and Vulnerability BRIAN SCHWEITZER (COLUMBUS) 80 21 Remaking a Family CHRIS, ESTELLA, AND TYLER FERRELL (MINFORD) 85 22 Dear Travis VICKI SCHARBACH (OLMSTED FALLS) 92 23 Despair GERALD E. GREENE (DAYTON) 98 C ontents v i i PART THREE: MAKING SENSE 24 A Predictable and Utterly Preventable Catastrophe MICHAEL HENSON (CINCINNATI) Standing Proud ERIC UNGARO (POLAND) 112 26 Uncle Sugar ANISI DANIELS-SMITH (HIRAM) 118 27 Potential Energy APRIL DEACON (WHEELERSBURG) 122 28 The Road to Recovery ALEX DRIEHAUS (CINCINNATI) 129 29 From Felon to Law Enforcement: A Retrospective BRANDY E. MORRIS-HAFNER (CHILLICOTHE) 141 30 A Little Too Close to Home KEITH F. DURKIN (ADA) 147 31 Deluded MARTY HELMS (CINCINNATI) 152 32 Opioid Encounters: Fragments from Training and Practice JENNY ZAMOR (COLUMBUS) 161 33 An Awakening JOE GAY (ATHENS) 165 PART FOUR: DEVISING SOLUTIONS This Is Not the Medicine I Want to Practice: One Physician's Journey to Heal, Not Harm KATY KROPF (ATHENS) 175 35 Problem-Solving in Colerain Township DANIEL MELOY (CINCINNATI) 182 36 The Buck Fifty DAVE HUGGINS, CHRIS SCOTT, AND ANGIE FERGUSON (CHILLICOTHE) Plans after Prison JONATHAN BECKER (AKRON) 194 v i i i C ontents 38 Avoiding the Abyss SHARON PARSONS (BEXLEY) 197 39 All the Narcan in the World DAVID KESEG (COLUMBUS) 201 40 Pause for Change NANCY POOK (DAYTON) 206 Reconnecting through Rhythm: A Symphony and Recovery WARREN W. HYER (DELAWARE) 211 42 Rural Challenges, Rural Solutions STEVEN MARTIN, AMY FANOUS, AND KATIE WESTGERDES (ADA) A Way Forward for Moms and Babies RICHARD MASSATTI (COLUMBUS) 223 44 From the Front Pages to the Front Lines DARREN ADAMS (PORTSMOUTH) 230 PART FIVE: CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS 45 A Good Family CHRISTINE HUNT (RUSSELLS POINT) Feral JESSICA HARPER AND SARAH BENEDUM (MADISON) Recovery Should Be Celebrated, Not Judged LACEY WHITLATCH (ATHENS) 247 48 Serve and Protect DENNIS WHALEY (TOLEDO) 251 49 What Do Libraries Do? NICK TEPE (ATHENS) 254 50 Confronting Stigma in Portsmouth TRACI MOLLOY 260 51 Everybody Played Along ANONYMOUS (COLUMBUS) 268 52 The Making of a Public Health Emergency YVONKA MARIE HALL (CLEVELAND) 271 53 The Addict, a Human Being STEPHANIE KENDRICK (ALBANY) 276 C ontents i x Acknowledgments 279 Glossary of Drugs 281.

In the last decade advances in statistics, computing power, and data collection has led to an increased interest in forecasting within the field of peace and conflict research and to the adoption of a wide range of methodological approaches for making such forecasts. By making use of these more powerful forecasting methods researchers have been able to produce accurate predictions, as well as better inferences, of many different types of contentious politics events and to create operational early warning systems for such events. Adapting these forecasting methods to the social world in which politics and political behavior operate, however, is not without its challenges. This dissertation explores a number of methodological issues and advances in peace and conflict research, both inferential and forecasting oriented, through a series of four papers. In the first paper, I explore trends in democratization and autocratization using dynamic simulation. In Paper II, my co-author and I take aim at the difficulty of modeling and making forecasts with data which contains both excess zeroes and extreme-values. We propose an extreme-value and zero-inflated regression model which we use to replicate a study on the effects of UN peacekeepers on violence against civilians. Paper III explores latent variable modeling by using Markov models to make forecasts for escalation and de-escalation of armed conflicts. In the last paper, I investigate the effects of missing data and imputation techniques on the predictive performance of models. The four papers of the dissertation make several contributions to the growing literature of forecasting within peace and conflict research. First, the dissertation contributes to the methodological aspects of conflict forecasting by developing new statistical tools, Paper II, and adapting tools from other fields to different processes of armed conflict and contentious politics, Papers I & III, as well as by evaluating the practical effects of common choices in data pre-processing on the performance of forecasts in Paper IV. Second, the dissertation contributes to new ways of drawing inferences about conflict processes by anchoring the inferences in the latent state of the conflict processes in Papers II & III, and through the comparison of aggregated simulations to the historical record in Paper I. Lastly, the dissertation makes a substantive contribution to the broader field of peace and conflict research in Papers I & II by contributing to the debate on the waves of democratization and autocratization, and by nuancing the impact of UN Peacekeepers on violence against civilians.

"Regressive political forces must be countered today and this is best accomplished through radical collaboration around an agenda recognizing the basic economic and political needs of diverse subaltern communities. System negation must become a new general interest. My methodology extends Herbert Marcuse's critical Marxism with Peter McLaren's analysis of today's predatory stage of capitalism and the educative power of struggle. The author discusses core ethical insights from African philosophical sources, indigenous American philosophy, and radical feminist philosophy. Humanity's first teachings on ethics are to be found in ancient African proverbs. These subsequently served also as a critique of colonialism and neocolonialism. Long suppressed indigenous America sources supply a philosophical and political critique of Euro-centric economic and cultural values. They also offer an understanding of humanity's place in nature, the leadership of women, and attest to modes of cooperative and egalitarian forms of community. Feminist anthropology furnishes an historical context for understanding he origins of patriarchy and how to move beyond dominator power to new forms of partnership power. I also find core commonalities in the world's major wisdom traditions including Daoism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Intercultural ethical insights contribute not primarily to a politics of difference, but rather to a universally humanist politics of solidarity and hope. EarthCommonWealth envisions the displacement and transcendence of capitalist oligarchy as such, not simply its most bestial and destructive components. This is a green economic alternative because its ecological vision sees all living things and their non-living earthly surroundings as a global community capable of a dignified, deliberate coexistence. The ecological work of Aldo Leopold also comes into play here. Understanding the earth in global ecological terms Leopold saw it is not merely soil and rock; it is a biotic pyramid, a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of land, minerals, air, water, plants, and animals including the human species. He proposed a dialectical and materialist "land ethic" as a call to conservation and cooperation, in which the individual's rights to private property in land are contrasted unfavorably with historical patterns of communal ownership. EarthCommonWealth Project is searching for a new system of ecological production, egalitarian distribution, shared ownership, and democratized governance having its foundation in the ethics of partnership productivity with an ecosocialist and humanist commitment to living our lives on the planet consistent with the most honorable and aesthetic forms of human social and political fulfillment."--

"Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience, behavioral economic, and social psychology research, acclaimed author, former Harvard professor, and think tank founder Todd Rose reveals how so much of our thinking about each other is informed by false assumptions that drive bad decisions that make us dangerously mistrustful as a society and hopelessly unhappy as individuals. The desire to fit in is one of the most powerful, least understood forces in a society. Todd Rose believes that as human beings we continually act against our own best interests out of our brains' misunderstanding of what we think others believe. A complicated set of illusions driven by conformity bias distorts how we see the world around us. From toilet paper shortages to kidneys that get thrown away rather than used for desperately needed organ transplants, from racial segregation to the perceived "electability" of women for political office, from bottled water to "cancel culture," we routinely copy others, lie about what we believe, cling to tribes, and silence others. We are so profoundly social that when we are incongruent with the group that we do lasting damage to our self-worth, diminish our well-being and never realize our full potential. It's why we all too often chase the familiar trappings of money, fame, and success that leave us feeling empty even when we do achieve them. It's why we'll blindly espouse a viewpoint we don't necessarily believe in so that we blend in with the group. We trap ourselves in prisons of our own making that prevent us from living the happy, fulfilled lives we envision. The question is, Why do we keep believing the lies and hurting ourselves? Todd Rose reveals the answer is deeply hard-wired in our DNA, with brains that are more socially dependent than we realize or dare to accept. Most of us would rather be fully in sync with the social norms of our respective groups than true to who we are. Using originally researched data, Collective Illusions shows us where we get things wrong and just as important, how we can be authentic in forming our opinions while valuing truth. Rose offers a counterintuitive, empowering, and hopeful explanation for how we can bridge the inference gap, make decisions with a newfound clarity, and achieve fulfillment. Only then can we transform ourselves, and ultimately, society"--

"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants -- and the equally powerful taboos Of all the things humans rely on plants for--sustenance, beauty, fragrance, flavor, fiber--surely the most curious is our use of them is to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. Take coffee and tea: people around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. We don't usually think of caffeine as a drug, or our daily use as an addiction, because it is legal and socially acceptable. So then what is a "drug?" And why, for example, is making tea from the leaves of a tea plant acceptable, but making tea from a seed head of an opium poppy a federal crime? In THIS IS YOUR MIND ON PLANTS, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs -- opium, caffeine, and mescaline -- and throws the fundamental strangeness, and arbitrariness, of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs, while consuming (or in the case of caffeine, trying not to consume) them, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants, and the equally powerful taboos with which we surround them. Why do we go to such great lengths to seek these shifts in consciousness, and then why do we fence that universal desire with laws and customs and such fraught feelings? A unique blend of history, science, memoir, as well as participatory journalism, Pollan examines and experiences these plants from several very different angles and contexts, and shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively -- as a drug, whether licit or illicit. But that's one of the least interesting things you can say about these plants, Pollan shows, for when we take them into our bodies and let them change our minds, we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can. Based in part on an essay written more than 25 years ago, this groundbreaking and singular consideration of psychoactive plants, and our attraction to them through time, holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations, the operations of our minds, and our entanglement with the natural world"--

"One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origins. For as long as she could remember, Ashley has put her father on a pedestal. Despite having only vague memories of seeing him face-to-face, she believes he's the only person in the entire world who understands her. She thinks she understands him too. He's sensitive like her, an artist, and maybe even just as afraid of the dark. She's certain that one day they'll be reunited again, and she'll finally feel complete. There are just a few problems: he's in prison, and she doesn't know what he did to end up there. Through poverty, puberty, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley returns to her image of her father for hope and encouragement. She doesn't know how to deal with the incessant worries that keep her up at night, or how to handle the changes in her body that draw unwanted attention from men. In her search for unconditional love, Ashley begins dating a boy her mother hates; when the relationship turns sour, he assaults her. Still reeling from the rape, which she keeps secret from her family, Ashley finally finds out why her father is in prison. And that's where the story really begins. Somebody's Daughter steps into the world of growing up a poor Black girl, exploring how isolating and complex such a childhood can be. As Ashley battles her body and her environment, she provides a poignant coming-of-age recollection that speaks to finding the threads between who you are and what you were born into, and the complicated familial love that often binds them. "Ashley Ford's prose is glass-so clear, sharp and smooth that the reader sees, in vivid focus, her complicated childhood, brilliant mind, and golden heart. The gravity and urgency of Somebody's Daughter anchored me to my chair and slowed my heartbeat-like no book has since Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Ashley Ford is a writer for the ages, and Somebody's Daughter will be a book of the year." -- Glennon Doyle, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed and founder of Together Rising"--

"Based in the author's personal experience, over 30 years of clinical practice, knowledge from leading marriage and remarriage researchers, and 100 in-depth interviews of remarried people, the author offers 10 essential steps to a successful remarriage: Step One: Build a Culture of Appreciation, Respect, and Tolerance. Negativity is toxic to a remarriage. Personal growth and love are possible when partners are nonjudgmental and express tenderness and appreciation through positive words and actions. Step Two: Make Your Remarriage a Top Priority. Never underestimate the power of intentional time with your partner to increase physical and emotional intimacy. Step Three: Ditch the Baggage from Your First Marriage. Learn ways to be more reflective and less reactive to triggers that hit raw spots or vulnerabilities stemming from prior relationships. Step Four: Don't Keep Secrets About Money. Make full disclosure of finances a must, early on in your remarriage. Remarried couples face complicated financial issues such as unequal assets, child support, alimony, and who will pay for a child and/or stepchild's educational expenses. Couples may feel stress related to deciding whether to keep their finances together or separate. Honesty about finances is key to having a successful remarriage. Step Five: Don't Let Mistrust Stop You from Being Vulnerable and Emotionally Intimate. Learn that vulnerability and trust go hand in hand and the steps you can take to be authentic and intimate with your partner so you can achieve long-lasting love. Step Six: Get Sexy and Fall in Love All Over Again. Given the stressors of a second marriage, it can be particularly challenging to stay sexually intimate. Yet moments of connection, such as touching, talking, or having sex, are all part of the glue that holds a second marriage together. Step Seven: Don't Make a Big Deal About Nothing...But Do Deal with Important Issues. Differences in beliefs, expectations, and conversational styles can cause you to blow things out of proportion and tune each other out. Learning how to communicate more effectively will help you overcome these types of misunderstandings and enable you to approach difficult topics calmly and non-defensively. Step Eight: Manage the Flames of Conflict. There are always going to be disagreements. You can't avoid them entirely. What you can do, however, is learn how to manage them successfully to avoid the "blame game" so that they can nourish rather than drain your remarri ...

"How human technological interventions into death and the dead body since the nineteenth century have had a profound impact on today's (and future) end-of-life and human mortality realities. As Director of the Centre for Death and Society, the world's only interdisciplinary studies centre dedicated to researching death, dying, and the dead body, and the son of an American Funeral Director who grew up in the funeral industry, I am uniquely positioned to author a new book on the human corpse and technology. Death and the dead body are both extremely popular topics, and the books being currently published are tapping into that popular appeal. Most of these books, however, cover topics that remain perennially discussed. Indeed, it is striking how so many of the current books on death and dying reflect the same issues raised during the 1970's, a decade during which Publisher's Weekly enthusiastically told its readers "Death is now selling books!" A quick snapshot of some current(ish) death, dying, and dead body books includes, but is certainly not limited to: Mary Roach's Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, which was published in 2003 but remains widely read thirteen-years later; more recent books, such as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, Caitlin Doughty's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and Brandy Schillace's Death's Summer Coat have all tapped into this popular genre. Books by academic authors such as Margaret Schwartz's Dead Matter and Thomas Laqueur's The Work of the Dead present historical and cultural contexts that are equally important. My listing of texts could exceed several pages but what is important about most contemporary death books is that the texts rarely give the history of publishing books on death much analysis. If any death-topic authors' names appear they are usually Jessica Mitford, Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, and Ernest Becker. Sigmund Freud sometimes appears (in connection to Becker) but on the whole these specific authors represent a fraction of the 'death canon.' What I am writing improves on these texts by presenting readers with a more complex and interesting history than most books on death, dying, and the dead body currently pursue. In a nutshell I present a longer view on how human technological interventions into death and the dead body since the nineteenth century have had a profound impact on today's (and future) end-of-life and human mortality realities. It is too easy to sum up most current books on death, dying, and the dead body ...

"A bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades, anchored by a major new Pentagon-commissioned essay about changing power dynamics among China, Eurasia, and America--from the renowned geopolitical analyst and bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy. In the late thirteenth century, Marco Polo began a decades-long trek from Venice to China. The strength of that Silk Road--the trade route between Europe and Asia--was a foundation of Kublai Khan's sprawling empire. Now, in the early twenty-first century, the Chinese regime has proposed a land-and-maritime Silk Road that duplicates exactly the route Marco Polo traveled. In the major lead essay, recently released by the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, Robert D. Kaplan lays out a blueprint of the world's changing power politics that recalls the late thirteenth century. As Europe fractures from changes in culture and migration, Eurasia coheres into a single conflict system. China is constructing a land bridge to Europe. Iran and India are trying to link the oil fields of Central Asia to the Indian Ocean. America's ability to influence the power balance in Eurasia is declining. This is Kaplan's first collection of essays since his classic The Coming Anarchy was published in 2000. Drawing on decades of firsthand experience as a foreign correspondent and military embed for The Atlantic, as well as encounters with preeminent realist thinkers, Kaplan outlines the timeless principles that should shape America's role in a turbulent world: a respect for the limits of Western-style democracy; a delineation between American interests and American values; an awareness of the psychological toll of warfare; a projection of power via a strong navy; and more. From Kaplan's immediate thoughts on President Trump ("On Foreign Policy, Donald Trump Is No Realist," 2016) to a frank examination of what will happen in the event of war with North Korea ("When North Korea Falls," 2006), The Return of Marco Polo's World is a vigorous and honest reckoning with the difficult choices the United States will face in the years ahead. "These essays constitute a truly pathbreaking, brilliant synthesis and analysis of geographic, political, technological, and economic trends with far-reaching consequences. The Return of Marco Polo's World is another work by Robert D. Kaplan that will be regarded as a classic."--General David Petraeus (U.S. Army, Ret.)"--

"An intimate, news-making look at the men who are first in line to the most powerful office in the world--the vice presidents of the modern era--from Richard Nixon and LBJ to Dick Cheney, Joe Biden, and Mike Pence. Bestselling author Kate Andersen Brower took us inside the lives of the White House staff in The Residence. She followed that with an in-depth look at the modern first ladies in First Women. Now, in her signature style, she introduces us to the second-most-powerful men in the world, exploring the lives and roles of thirteen modern vice presidents--eight Republicans and five Democrats. In interviews with more than two hundred people, including all six living former vice presidents, their family members, insiders, and confidants, Brower pulls back the curtain to reveal the sometimes close, often chilly, and always complicated relationship between our modern presidents and their vice presidents.^. - And she shares surprising revelations about the relationship between former vice president Joe Biden and former president Barack Obama, and how Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump interact behind closed doors. As Brower reveals, the president and the vice president, whether they began as allies or rivals, share a very tangible sense of admiration mixed with jealousy and resentment even when the relationship appears to be ideal. Vice presidents owe their position to the president--a connection that affects not only how they are perceived but also their possible future as a presidential candidate, which is tied, for better or worse, to the president they serve. George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan had a famously prickly relationship during the 1980 primary, yet Bush would not have been elected president in 1988 without Reagan's high approval rating.^. - Al Gore's 2000 loss, conversely, could partly be attributed to the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal and Bill Clinton's impeachment. Current vice president Mike Pence is walking a high-stakes political tightrope as he tries to reassure anxious Republicans while staying on his boss's good side. The rich dynamic between the president and the vice president has never been fully explored or understood--until now. Compelling and rigorously reported, grounded in history and politics, and full of deeply personal stories told here for the first time, First in Line lifts the veil of secrecy surrounding this historic political office to offer us a spellbinding portrait of what it is truly like to be a heartbeat away from the most powerful position in the world."--Jacket

"A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist pulls back the curtain on the extraordinary inner lives of America's most obsessive sports fans. There are fans, and then there are fanatics. In this wondrously immersive look at American sports fandom, George Dohrmann travels the country to find out what distinguishes an ordinary, everyday enthusiast from that special breed of supporter known as the superfan. In Minnesota, Dohrmann meets newly minted generals of the Viking World Order, a Minnesota Vikings affinity group organized along military lines. In Oregon, he shares a few beers with a determined soccer fan who amassed--almost singlehandedly--a four-thousand-strong cheering section for the fledgling Portland Timbers. In Illinois, he talks with the parents of a five-year-old boy whose intense hatred of Tom Brady went viral on YouTube. Through these and other intimate profiles, Dohrmann shows us the human faces behind the colored face paint, the real people inside the elaborate costumes who prowl the stands and parking lots at stadiums from coast to coast. In addition to the fans themselves, Dohrmann also talks with the experts who study them. He uses the latest thinking in sports psychology--some of it learned during a spirited round of miniature golf with a group of professors at the annual Sports Psychology Forum--to unravel the answers to such burning questions as: How does fandom begin? What are its effects on everyday life? When does it go too far? For everyone who's ever body-painted their torso with the team colors of their alma mater before heading off to a sports bar--or even just screamed at their television during the final minute of an NBA Finals game, Superfans offers an entertaining and insightful exploration of the many ways human beings find meaning in something bigger than themselves. PRAISE FOR GEORGE DOHRMANN'S PLAY THEIR HEARTS OUT Winner of the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting Winner of the Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Youth Sports "A tour de force of reporting, filled with deft storytelling and vivid character studies."--The Washington Post "Often heartbreaking, always riveting."--The New York Times Book Review "One of the finest sports books of all time."--Harper's Magazine "Amazing stuff. the Friday Night Lights of youth basketball."--Leigh Montville, author of Sting Like a Bee "A landmark achievement in basketball journalism."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Tremendous."--The Plain Dealer "Indispen ...