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Written for people who strive to make a positive difference in the world, this book researches a variety of approaches for creating a bridge between inner lives and outer action. The 20 essays show lessons leaders can take to access the best parts of themselves and meet challenges.

A cult classic from its first appearance, this ambitious novel is a rich and comic blend of physics, feminism, and political farce. Brilliant physicist Amanda Jaworski is in training to be the first person to journey to Mars. With her magic cat, Schrodinger, Amanda soon finds herself doing battle with the greatest seductress of all, the Eleven Million Mile High Dancer, a being from 40 million light years away.

The New York Times–bestselling author discusses her crime-solving hacker heroine, “surely one of the genre’s oddest and most interesting creations” (Chicago Tribune). When the NYPD detective and sociopath known simply as Mallory made her series debut, John Sandford called her “one of the most interesting new characters to come along in years.” A homeless wild child who was taken in by a New York City cop and grew up to follow in his footsteps, she possesses a skill set—including a talent for computer hacking—that allows her to track down her prey like no one else. In this insightful essay, author Carol O’Connell shares fascinating insights about her origins, her psychology, and her strikingly different sense of right and wrong. “Mallory is not your usual plucky and generally wholesome mystery solver. Jane Marple would probably cross the street to avoid making eye contact with her.” —The Washington Post Book World “Mallory is a marvelous creation.” —Jonathan Kellerman, New York Times–bestselling author of the Alex Hunter novels

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Biography of the marine biologist and nature writer.

Karen Barad (b. 1956) is a professor of feminist studies, philosophy, and history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and codirector of the Science & Justice Graduate Training Program, funded by the National Science Foundation. As a feminist-physicist-philosopher, her influence in the fields of new materialism, new material feminism, science studies, queer studies, and posthumanism has been profound. Barad's PhD in theoretical particle physics was awarded by the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1984 with her thesis titled, "Fermions in Lattice Gauge Theories." Her work has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Hughes Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2016, she was awarded an ...

Dahles interests are intricately bound to one institutional ethos: that of the museum. Her research has focused on historical and contemporary representations of animals, decorative art and craft practices that intersect with fine art, and the role of the museum in the construction of knowledge. Her collection emphasizes abandoned hobby craft projects such as nave paintings, knitted animals and paint-by-numbers. It also includes natural objects such as bark, birds nests, antlers, bones and so on. These objects are altered in various ways, transforming them into things of peculiar and ambiguous beauty.