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Mashup Score: 2Yellow Rain: Poems a book by Mai Der Vang - 3 year(s) ago
A reinvestigation of chemical biological weapons dropped on the Hmong people in the fallout of the Vietnam War In this staggering work of documentary, poetry, and collage, Mai Der Vang reopens a wrongdoing that deserves a new reckoning. As the United States abandoned them at the end of the Vietnam War, many Hmong refugees recounted stories of a mysterious substance that fell from planes during…
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Mashup Score: 0TRANScestors Navigating LGBTQ+ Aging, Illness and End of Life Decisions: Generations of Hope - 3 year(s) ago
This volume (and the ones that follow) have been in the works for some time. What finally emerges after many months of assiduous advertising, recruiting, editing, and organizing is a volume of intimate, nuanced, and heartfelt stories that reflect the wide diversity in the ways in which trans, non-binary, and Two-Spirit people have come to recognize, signify, embody, and celebrate their difference…
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At next week's Generations Forum, Advancing #Equity in #Aging, activist & author (https://t.co/VioVqT7ruR) Jude Patton is speaking about discrimination against #trans people, how it can manifest in aging services & what we can do to end it. Join us: https://t.co/3sagVIuWwe https://t.co/ThGa6ZK5Tx
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Mashup Score: 77Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World - 3 year(s) ago
Bullshit isn’t what it used to be. Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misinformation and think clearly in a world of fake news and bad data. “A modern classic . . . a straight-talking survival guide to the mean streets of a dying democracy and a global pandemic.”–WiredMisinformation, disinformation, and fake news abound and it’s increasingly difficult to know what’s true….
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For a couple of months it was difficult to get a hardback copy because of a printing shortage, but _Calling Bullshit_ is now out in paperback and in stock at bookstores everywhere. It's fun to see it in this format. https://t.co/PKevchxciA https://t.co/I6W12WT95I
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Mashup Score: 0Pallimed Bookshop - 3 year(s) ago
Sharing books about living with serious illness, palliative care, and hospice. Listing does not mean that the content is recommended or endorsed, except where explicitly stated. www.pallimed.org
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Excellent! Added to the @pallimed store on @Bookshop_Org https://t.co/JcJUJxrNUC #hapc https://t.co/qE5KjC8pV8
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Mashup Score: 27
Author of the international bestsellers The Diabetes Code and The Obesity Code Dr. Jason Fung returns with an eye-opening biography of cancer in which he offers a radical new paradigm for understanding cancer–and issues a call to action for reducing risk moving forward. Our understanding of cancer is slowly undergoing a revolution, allowing for the development of more effective treatments. For…
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RT @drjasonfung: Excited for the release of The Cancer Code next week. Pre-order here at https://t.co/Noj3dPTgxJ https://t.co/x6Xwh7m2jp
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Mashup Score: 9Vrx: How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine - 4 year(s) ago
A leading doctor unveils the groundbreaking potential of virtual medicine.Brennan Spiegel has spent years studying the medical power of the mind, and in VRx he reveals a revolutionary new kind of care: virtual medicine. It offers the possibility of treating illnesses without solely relying on intrusive surgeries or addictive opioids.Virtual medicine works by convincing your body that it’s…
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So psyched! After years of writing my new book on medical #VR, I just saw a copy of #VRx in the local bookshop, @ChevaliersBooks, which I've been frequenting since I was a kid. Truly gratifying to see my book in the shelves! Order from Chevalier's here: https://t.co/8di4C6usJx https://t.co/Iz2AVtQZ0q
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Mashup Score: 0Separated: Inside an American Tragedy - 4 year(s) ago
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe award-winning NBC News correspondent lays bare the full truth behind the Trump administration’s systematic separation of families at the US-Mexico borderIn June 2018, Donald Trump’s most notorious decision as president had secretly been in effect for months before most Americans became aware of the astonishing inhumanity being perpetrated by their own government….
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Strongly recommend buying or reserving @jacobsoboroff’s book at the library (@chipublib) or a local bookstore Here’s a link to @SemicolonChi in case you need one! It’s the only Black female owned bookstore in Chicago #AAP2020 https://t.co/YiWQgjX5IQ
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Mashup Score: 1Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents - 4 year(s) ago
OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK – The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions. “An instant American classic.”–Dwight Garner, The New York Times “As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater,…
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Be right back. Going to order @Isabelwilkerson’s new book, Caste, from my local, Black woman-owned bookstore @SemicolonChi #NationalBookLoversDay https://t.co/U7Joqtt79i
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Mashup Score: 1How to Be an Antiracist - 4 year(s) ago
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society–and in ourselves. “The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.”–The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book…
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"Pain is usually essential to healing. When it comes to healing America of racism, we want to heal America without pain but without pain there is no progress." - @DrIbram sharing lessons learned during his chemo treatment. https://t.co/E7Q8MvtCEa
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Mashup Score: 0The Spinster Diaries - 4 year(s) ago
Our heroine, a moderately successful TV writer in L.A., wants her life to be as sunny and perfect as a Hollywood rom-com: a cool job, a wacky best friend, and lots of age-appropriate hot guys just dying to date her. Instead, she’s a self-described spinster who is swimming in anxiety and just might have a tiny little brain tumor. So she turns to an unlikely source for inspiration: the…
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I cannot wait to dive in to @ginafattore’s first book. She’s one of the cleverest writers I know - and my wife wouldn’t let me touch her copy until she’d finished! It’s all mine now! | The Spinster Diaries https://t.co/TaW76JYPKu https://t.co/gXiZHTmE5C
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A long time ago I wrote a dissertation on Yellow Rain A few years later a Hmong American poet reached out Many years later, she published a book It is an amazing piece of work. Yellow Rain by @maider_vang https://t.co/ofMTSlDTvR (h/t @betsytobin re: https://t.co/alLv9FG424) https://t.co/bUQ4XT1Vg8