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"Transition to a plant-based diet without giving up meat and dairy completely. If you're concerned about your health and the environment but aren't quite ready to commit to a fully vegetarian or vegan lifestyle, a flexitarian diet will work for you. Modern Flexitarian features 100 healthy, adaptable veg-based recipes alongside quick twists and suggestions that give you the freedom to enjoy meat, fish, or dairy from time to time. Complete with tips for getting started, nutritional and dietar...
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Advice on preparing a good tax return answers the question "What can I deduct?" with strategies and ideas to reduce payments to the minimum while keeping in compliance with the law....
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"Todays home cooks turn to their Instant Pots for comforting meals and beat-the-clock convenienceand now theyre using these popular appliances to eat healthy, too! Its trueyou can serve up the hearty favorites you crave quickly and easilyand without an ounce of guilt. Taste of Home Skinny Instant Pot Cookbook makes it a snap to enjoy stick-to-your-ribs mainstays that are lower in calories, fat, sodium and/or carbs."--Amazon.com....
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#MeToo in the corporate world : power, privilege, and the path forward
Hewlett, Sylvia Ann, 1946-
"Sylvia Ann Hewlett blends vivid stories with powerful new data in assessing the impact of the #MeToo movement in corporate America and provides concrete action to help executives and companies create more inclusive and safe work environments for women, people of color, and LGBTQ employees"-- Publisher's description....
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1774 : the long year of Revolution
Norton, Mary Beth
"A book on the American Revolution that looks at the critical "long year" of 1774, and the revolutionary change that took place from December 1773 to mid-April 1775, from the Boston Tea Party and the first Continental Congress to the Battle of Lexington and Concord."-- Provided by publisher....
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A house in the mountains : the women who liberated Italy from fascism
Moorehead, Caroline
"In the late summer of 1943, when Italy broke with the Germans and joined the Allies after suffering catastrophic military losses, an Italian Resistance was born. Four young Piedmontese women—Ada, Frida, Silvia and Bianca—living secretly in the mountains surrounding Turin, risked their lives to overthrow Italy’s authoritarian government. They were among the thousands of Italians who joined the Partisan effort to help the Allies liberate their country from the German invaders and their Fascis...
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A very stable genius : Donald J. Trump's testing of America
Rucker, Philip
"A Washington Post national investigative reporter and the White House bureau chief share personal revelatory insights into Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, its consequences, and the underlying patterns beneath a deceptively chaotic Trump administration." -- Provided by publisher....
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A world without work : technology, automation, and how we should respond
Susskind, Daniel
"From mechanical looms to the combustion engine to the first computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. For centuries, such fears have been misplaced, and many economists maintain that they remain so today. But as Daniel Susskind demonstrates, this time really is different. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds of jobs are increasingly at risk."--Book flap....
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An underground guide to sewers, or : down, through & out in Paris, London, New York, &c
Halliday, Stephen
Lose yourself in the vast sewer networks that lie beneath the world's great cities - past and present. Let detailed archival plans, maps and photographs guide you through these subterranean labyrinths - previously accessible only to their builders, engineers and, perhaps, the odd rogue explorer. This execrable exploration traces the evolution of waste management from the ingenious infra-structures of the ancient world to the seeping cesspits and festering open sewers of the medieval period. It i...
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Behind the privets : classic Hamptons houses
Barons, Richard I.
"For every lavish, state-of-the-art, over-the-top home under construction in the Hamptons, there is an equally compelling, culturally significant home that has been restored and maintained its original designs. This fascinating glimpse inside these classic homes aims to capture the illustrious architecture and design of the Hamptons historic houses"-- Provided by publisher....
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Chanel's Riviera : glamour, decadence, and survival in peace and war, 1930-1944
De Courcy, Anne
"In this captivating narrative, Chanel's Riviera explores the fascinating world of the Cote d'Azur during a period that saw the deepest extremes of luxury and terror in the twentieth century. The Cote d'Azur in 1938 was a world of wealth, luxury, and extravagance, inhabited by a sparkling cast of characters including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Joseph P. Kennedy, Gloria Swanson, Colette, the Mitfords, Picasso, Cecil Beaton, and Somerset Maugham. The elite flocked to the Riviera each yea...
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Comeback careers : rethink, refresh, reinvent your success - at 40, 50, and beyond
Brzezinski, Mika
So many women hit midlife and realize: it's time for a career change. Maybe you're yearning to try something new, or you're sensing that layoffs are coming and you need a backup plan. Perhaps you paused, or downsized your career to raise children, and you're ready to rejoin the workforce. How do you reboot, relaunch, return to, or reinvent a career at age 40? Or 50? Or 60? And how can you create a career and life that will provide you with purpose and financial security for years to come? In Com...
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Cured : the life-changing science of spontaneous healing
Rediger, Jeffrey
"When it comes to disease, who beats the odds - and why? When it comes to spontaneous healing, skepticism abounds. Doctors are taught that "miraculous" recoveries are flukes, and as a result they don't study those cases or take them into account when treating patients. Enter Dr. Jeff Rediger, who has spent over 15 years studying spontaneous healing, pioneering the use of scientific tools to investigate recoveries from incurable illnesses. Dr. Rediger's research has taken him from Ame...
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Easy keto breakfasts : 60+ low-carb breakfasts to jump-start your day
Ketchum, Carolyn
Modern life may be fast-paced and furious, but everyone needs a healthy and delicious home-cooked meal. From her hundreds of thousands of social media followers and website visitors, low carb food blogger Carolyn Ketchum hears the same question time and again: Is this recipe easy to make? With this book, Carolyn invites readers into her kitchen, this time to deliver mouthwatering keto dinners that are quick and simple to prepare....
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Extreme economies : what life at the world's margins can teach us about our own future
Davies, Richard (Economics adviser)
To predict our future, we must look to the extremes. So argues the economist Richard Davies, who takes readers to the margins of the modern economy and beyond. These extreme economies illustrate the forces that test human resilience, drive societies to failure, and promise to shape our collective future. Reviving a foundational idea from the medical sciences, Extreme Economies turns the logic of modern economics on its head by arguing that these outlier societies can teach us more about our own ...
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Food fix : how to save our health, our economy, our communities, and our planet--one bite at a time
Hyman, Mark
"Our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics, and revive economies is food. In Food Fix, #1 bestselling author Mark Hyman explains how our food and agriculture policies are unfairly influenced by money and lobbies that drive our biggest global crises: the spread of obesity and food-related chronic disease, climate change, poverty, violence, educational achievement gaps, and more. Pairing the latest developments in nutri...
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Franklin & Washington : the founding partnership
Larson, Edward J. (Edward John)
Theirs was a three-decade-long bond that, more than any other pairing, would forge the United States. Vastly different men, Benjamin Franklin—an abolitionist freethinker from the urban north—and George Washington—a slaveholding general from the agrarian south—were the indispensable authors of American independence and the two key partners in the attempt to craft a more perfect union at the Constitutional Convention, held in Franklin’s Philadelphia and presided over by Washington. And yet their ...
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Half broke : a memoir
Gaffney, Ginger
"An alternative prison ranch in New Mexico conducts a daring experiment: setting the troubled residents out to retrain an aggressive herd of horses. The horses and prisoners both arrive at the ranch broken in one way or many- the horses often abandoned and suspicious, the residents, some battling drug and alcohol addiction, emotionally, physically, and financially shattered. Ginger Gaffney's job is to retrain the untrainable. With time, the horses and residents form a profound bond, and teac...
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How to make your money last : the indispensable retirement guide
Quinn, Jane Bryant
"Will you run out of money in your older age? That's the biggest worry for people newly retired or planning to retire. Fortunately, you don't have to plan in the dark. Jane Bryant Quinn tells you how to squeeze a higher income from all your assets--including your social security account (get every dollar you're entitled to), a pension (discover whether a lump sum or a lifetime monthly income will pay you more), your home equity (sell, rent, or take a reverse mortgage?), savings (how to use t...
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How we learn : why brains learn better than any machine ... for now
Dehaene, Stanislas
"In today's technological society, with an unprecedented amount of information at our fingertips, learning plays a more central role than ever. In How We Learn, Stanislas Dehaene decodes its biological mechanisms, delving into the neuronal, synaptic, and molecular processes taking place in the brain. He explains why youth is such a sensitive period, during which brain plasticity is maximal, but also assures us that our abilities continue into adulthood, and that we can enhance our learning a...
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In the land of men : a memoir
Miller, Adrienne
"At twenty-two, a naïve Midwesterner, Adrienne Miller got a lucky break when she was hired as an editorial assistant at GQ. The mid-nineties were still the golden age of print journalism, and a publication like GQ then seemed the red-hot center of the literary world, even if their sensibilities were manifestly mid-century-the martinis, the male egos, and the unquestioned authority of kings. Still, Adrienne learned to hold her own in a man's world, and three years later she forged her own pat...
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Love yourself like your life depends on it
Ravikant, Kamal
"The bestselling self-published phenomenon that sold over 300,000 copies addresses our urgent need for self-love in the world today-now expanded with new reader oriented lessons, and a powerful and transformative personal story of the practice in action"-- Provided by publisher....
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Murder your darlings : and other gentle writing advice from Aristotle to Zinsser
Clark, Roy Peter
From one of America's most influential teachers, a collection of the best writing advice distilled from fifty language books -- from Aristotle to Strunk and White. With so many excellent writing guides lining bookstore shelves, it can be hard to know where to look for the best advice. Should you go with Natalie Goldberg or Anne Lamott? Maybe William Zinsser or Stephen King would be more appropriate. Then again, what about the classics -- Strunk and White, or even Aristotle himself? Thankfully, y...
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My war criminal : personal encounters with an architect of genocide
Stern, Jessica
"Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a prison cell in The Hague with Radovan Karadzic, a Bosnian Serb former politician who had been indicted for genocide and other war crimes during the Bosnian War and who became an inspiration for white nationalists. Though Stern was used to interviewing terrorists in the field in an effort to understand their hidden motives, the conversations she had with Karadzic would profoundly...
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Plant-based meal prep : simple, make-ahead recipes for vegan, gluten-free, comfort food
Tornatore, Stephanie
"Vegan twists on comfort food favorites from YouTube's most popular meal preppers. Eating a plant-based diet is one of the easiest ways to improve your health. Whether you're ready to go entirely vegan or just want to eat more plant-based dishes, Steph and Adam will show you how to plan and prep ahead, so your meals are ready to go when you're ready to eat. Fast--six quick prep day plans guide you through each sep, with pro tips and strategies for meal prep success. Flexible--more than 7...
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Ready or not : preparing our kids to thrive in an uncertain and rapidly changing world
Levine, Madeline
The author was an early identifier of the deficits parents create when they give kids of privilege too much of the wrong things and not enough of the right things. Here, she continues the discussion, showing how these same parenting practices, combined with a desperate need to shelter children from discomfort and anxiety, are setting future generations up to fail spectacularly.Increasingly, the world we know has become disturbing, unfamiliar, and even threatening. In the wake of uncertainty and ...
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Rebuild : five proven steps to move from diagnosis to recovery and be healthier than before
Zembroski, Robert
Offering customized, step-by-step guidance that fits your lifestyle, Rebuild is a roadmap to lead you from a diagnosis to optimal health. In Rebuild, Dr. Z gives you a customizable food plan, exercise protocols, sleep optimization techniques, and expert advice that you need to look beyond confusing medical opinions and diagnostic errors, and take full control of your own health. A must-read for anyone looking to restore their body’s wellness after disease, reverse chronic health issues, prevent ...
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Smacked : a story of white-collar ambition, addiction, and tragedy
Zimmerman, Eilene
"Eilene Zimmerman's ex-husband, Peter, had it all: He was a partner at a prestigious law firm, lived in a $2 million house by the beach, and had two great kids. Maintaining a friendly relationship, Eilene and Peter talked and saw each other frequently. But a few years after their divorce she started noticing erratic behavior: absenteeism, weight loss, constant exhaustion and sickness. Peter explained it away as stress from the pressures of his job, but Eilene couldn't shake the feeling that ...
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Something that may shock and discredit you
Ortberg, Daniel Mallory
"Daniel Mallory Ortberg is known for blending genres, forms, and sources to develop fascinating new hybrids--from lyric rants to horror recipes to pornographic scripture. In his most personal work to date, he turns his attention to the essay, offering vigorour and loug-out-loud funny account of both oppular and highbrow culture while mixing in meditations on gender transition, relationship dynamics, and the many meanings of faith." -- Book jacket....
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Stop missing your life : how to be deeply present in an un-present world
Muscara, Cory
In Stop Missing Your Life, mindfulness teacher Cory Muscara takes us on a journey into the heart of what is required for real change, growth, and happiness. He exposes how the phrase "be present" has become little more than a platitude, imbued with the misguided message to be present just for the sake of being present, and reveals how to achieve true Presence: a quality of being that is unmistakably attractive about a person, and one that only comes when we've peeled back the layers of g...
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The anarchy : the relentless rise of the East India Company / William Dalrymple ;
Dalrymple, William
"In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected taxes through means of a ruthless private army -- what we would now call an act of involuntary privatization. The East India Company's founding charter authorized it to 'wage war' and it had always used violence to gain its ends. But the creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Co...
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The dirty, lazy, keto cookbook : bend the rules to lose the weight!
Laska, Stephanie
"You don't have to be perfect to be successful at weight loss-now you can bend the rules and still lose the weight. If your version of the keto diet includes a Diet Coke, low-carb beer, or the occasional chocolate-covered protein bar, The DIRTY, LAZY, KETO Cookbook is your roadmap for results. Bestselling author Stephanie Laska explains her flexible, honest, and real-world approach to losing weight with the keto diet and inspires you to cook your way to weight loss, maintenance, and beyond w...
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The foraged home
Maclennan, Oliver
Anyone can create a beautiful home without expensive store-bought pieces simply by foraging and salvaging. Discarded objects can be restored, recycled, or repurposed to fill any space with style. Presenting the techniques and philosophies?such as beachcombing, forest hunting, and urban salvaging?of savvy foragers from across the globe, this book showcases how they created comfortable and stylish homes by breathing new life into what most would consider waste. In an era when sustainability, livin...
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The founding fortunes : how the wealthy paid for and profited from America's revolution
Shachtman, Tom
"In The Founding Fortunes, historian Tom Shachtman offers an in-depth look at a time when money became as vital as guns in securing victory on the Revolutionary War's battlefields, and how some of America's wealthiest men risked their fortunes to aid the new country even as they reaped benefits from its independence. While history teaches that successful revolutions depend on participation by the common man, the establishment of a stable and independent United States first required wealthy c...
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The great rift : Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, and the broken friendship that defined an era
Mann, Jim
"A sweeping history of the intertwined careers of Dick Cheney and Colin Powell, whose rivalry and conflicting views of U.S. national security color our political debate to this day. Dick Cheney and Colin Powell emerged on the national scene more than thirty years ago, and it is easy to forget that they were once allies. It was Cheney who pressed for Powell's appointment as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, over the initial skepticism of the White House. And the two men collaborated clos...
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The last Negroes at Harvard : the class of 1963 and the eighteeen young men who changed Harvard forever
Garrett, Kent
"The untold story of the Harvard class of '63, whose Black students fought to create their own identities on the cusp between integration and affirmative action. In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited eighteen "Negro" boys as an experiment, an early form of affirmative action. Four years later they would graduate as African Americans. Some fifty years later, one of these trailblazing Harvard grads, Kent Garrett, began to reconnect with his classmates and explore their vastly differen...
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The longing for less : living with minimalism
Chayka, Kyle
Everywhere we hear the mantra. Marie Kondo and other decluttering gurus promise that shedding our stuff will solve our problems. We commit to cleanse diets and strive for inbox zero. Amid the frantic pace and distraction of everyday life, we covet silence-and airy, Instagrammable spaces in which to enjoy it. The popular term for this brand of upscale austerity, "minimalism," has mostly come to stand for things to buy and consume. But minimalism has richer, deeper, and altogether more val...
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The math of life & death : 7 mathematical principles that shape our lives
Yates, Kit
"We are all doing math all the time, from the way we communicate with each other to the way we travel, from how we work to how we relax. Many of us are aware of this. But few of us really appreciate the full power of math - the extent to which its influence is not only in every office and every home, but also in every courtroom and hospital ward. In this eye-opening and extraordinary book, Kit Yates explores the true stories of life-changing events in which the application - or misapplicatio...
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The new class war : saving democracy from the managerial elite
Lind, Michael
"In both Europe and North America, populist movements have shattered existing party systems and thrown governments into turmoil. The embattled establishment claims that these populist insurgencies seek to overthrow liberal democracy. The truth is no less alarming but is more complex: Western democracies are being torn apart by a new class war. In this controversial and groundbreaking new analysis, Michael Lind, one of America’s leading thinkers, debunks the idea that the insurgencies are p...
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The ones we've been waiting for : how a new generation of leaders will transform America
Alter, Charlotte
"A new generation is stepping up. There are now twenty-six millennials in Congress--a fivefold increase gained in the 2018 midterms alone. They are governing Midwestern cities and college towns, running for city councils, and serving in state legislatures. They are acting urgently on climate change (because they are going to live it); they care deeply about student debt (because they have it); they are utilizing big tech but still want to regulate it (because they understand how it w...
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The scientist and the spy : a true story of China, the FBI, and industrial espionage
Hvistendahl, Mara
"A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is convicted of trying to steal U.S. trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. In September 2011, sheriff's deputies in Iowa encountered three neatly dressed Asian men at a cornfield that had been leased by Monsanto to grow corn from patented hybrids. What began as a routine inquiry into potential trespassing blossomed into a federal court case that saw one of the men -- Mo Hailong, also...
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The second chance club : hardship and hope after prison
Hardy, Jason
"A former parole officer shines a bright light on a huge yet hidden part of our justice system through the intertwining stories of seven parolees striving to survive the chaos that awaits them after prison in this illuminating and dramatic book"-- Provided by publisher....
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These fevered days : ten pivotal moments in the making of Emily Dickinson
Ackmann, Martha
"An engaging, intimate portrait of Emily Dickinson, one of America's greatest and most-mythologized poets, that sheds new light on her groundbreaking poetry. On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, "All things are ready"-and with this resolute statement, her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely "at home" (the occupation listed on her death certificate), Dickinson's interior world was extraordinary. She loved passionately, was ambivalent t...
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Think outside the building : how advanced leaders can change the world one smart innovation at a time
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss
"To address the big social and environmental issues of our day--from poverty, to race and gender disparities, to climate change--we need a different kind of leadership. Good leadership can help solve problems and guide an organization to success. Over a decade ago, Kanter cofounded and has since directed Harvard's breakthrough Advanced Leadership Initiative. In this book, she combines extraordinary stories from the business world with a pragmatic tool kit to deliver a new theory of leadershi...
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Why we're polarized
Klein, Ezra
A journalist, political commentator and cofounder of Vox explains how today’s rigidly partisan politics came to be, why we all participate in it and what it means for America’s future....
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Wilmington's lie : the murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy
Zucchino, David
"By 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina, was a shining example of a mixed-race community-a bustling port city with a thriving African American middle class and a government made up of Republicans and Populists, including black alderman, police officers, and magistrates. But across the state-and the South-white supremacist Democrats were working to reverse the advances made by former slaves and their progeny. They were plotting to take back the state legislature in the November 8th election and t...
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