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When your cousin tells you he's gonna teach you about life...Get out of the truck and run as fast as you can. No, it's not what you think. But it's still pretty bad.

Longtime fly fisherman Quinn Grover had contemplated the “why” of his fishing identity before, more recently, becoming focused on the “how” of it. He realized he was a dedicated fly fisherman, in large part, because public lands and public waterways in the West made it possible. In Wilderness of Hope Grover recounts his fly-fishing experiences with a strong evocation of place, connecting those experiences to the ongoing national debate over public lands.

Epic wildfire. Devastating drought. Cataclysmic flooding. Extreme weather in the wake of climate change threatens to turn the American West into a region hostile to human habitation—a “Great American Desert,” as early US explorers once mislabeled it. As Bruce E. Cain suggests in this timely book, the unique complex of politics, technology, and logistics that once won the West must be rethought and reconfigured to win it anew in the face of a widespread accelerating threat.

Buying a manufactured or modular home? Get the numbers, the financing rules, and the resale reality—before you sign anything. Most buyers walk into this process with outdated assumptions and an incomplete cost picture—and it costs them. Buying Smart is a clear, no-nonsense guide to what manufactured and modular homes actually cost from factory to foundation, how financing really works when a home isn't classified like a traditional house, what land and zoning decisions do to your long-term value, and what separates a home that holds its value from one that becomes a financial regret.

The age of AI is not what you think. Rather than ushering in a fourth Industrial Revolution, AI has become a crucial social infrastructure of everyday life. It's embedded in the tools, platforms, and systems that organize our most intimate lives and our interactions with the most fundamental institutions of society, from government agencies to banks and schools. In these linkages are embedded assumptions about who we are, what we can do, and where we belong.

Looking at the emergence of generative AI, Language Machines presents a new theory of meaning in language and computation, arguing that humanistic scholarship misconstrues how large language models (LLMs) function. Seeing LLMs as a convergence of computation and language, Leif Weatherby contends that AI does not simulate cognition, as widely believed, but rather creates culture.

Fifteen lives. Fifteen crossings. Fifteen answers to the question: what does it cost to move? *Voices in Motion * is a collection of interconnected stories drawn from a decade of interviews with actual migrants — an Ecuadorian night janitor who studies law between shifts; a Colombian engineer in Silicon Valley whose visa is a leash; a DACA recipient who has never seen the country she is supposed to belong to; a trafficking survivor who rebuilt herself in the language of her captors; a man who died in ICE detention, told through the eyes of those who loved him. Each story stands alone.

A Danish smokehouse master and his reluctant apprentice. A Hong Kong cartographer and the student who will eventually surpass her. A Bogotá healer whose plant knowledge exists nowhere but inside her. A Kyoto restorer who can only teach by doing. A Pacific Northwest memory-gardener who is running out of time. Common Ground is a literary short story collection built around a single obsession: what we owe our teachers, and what is lost when we fail to pay that debt.

From social theorist and psychotherapist Rabbi Michael Lerner comes a strategy for a new socialism built on love, kindness, and compassion for one another. Revolutionary Love proposes a method to replace what Lerner terms the "capitalist globalization of selfishness" with a globalization of generosity, prophetic empathy, and environmental sanity.

In an era when democracy is at critical risk, is it reasonable to expect the education system, already buckling under the ordeal of a global pandemic, to solve the converging problems of inequality, climate change, and erosion of trust in government and science? Will more civics instruction help? In Can Schools Save Democracy? Michael J. Feuer offers a new approach to addressing these questions with a strategy for improving the process and substance of civic education.

In Liquid Asset, Barton H. Thompson, Jr. examines the growing position of the private sector in the "business of water." Thompson seeks to understand the private sector's involvement in meeting the water needs of both humans and the environment, looks at the potential risks that growing private involvement poses to the public interest in water, and considers the obstacles that private organizations face in trying to participate in a traditionally governmental sector.

This is the fifth collection of 15 Cooper stories in audio format.

This is another compilation of the earliest Cooper stories.

Finger Man is a collection of five short stories, soon to be available in audio format.

This package consists of Matt Cooper stories 13-45.

Life-Enhancing Anxiety makes a bold proposal: It is not less anxiety that we need today, but more, at least of a certain kind. The book comprises a collection of original and previously published essays that converge on what Schneider calls life-enhancing anxiety. Life-enhancing anxiety is the invigorating degree of anxiety needed to become passionately engaged, ethically attuned, and creatively enriched. Set against our anxiety-avoidant times, life-enhancing anxiety enables us to "live with and make the best of the depth and mystery of existence."

The Cooper Saga 44 is a collection of ten Cooper, P.I. stories.

This package consists of Matt Cooper stories 16-30....

Religious Appeals in Power Politics examines how states use, or attempt to use, confessional appeals to religious belief and conscience to advance political strategies and objectives. Through case studies of the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Russia, Peter S. Henne demonstrates that religion, although not as high profile or well-funded a tool as economic sanctions or threats of military force, remains a potent weapon in international relations.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Is That You and experience five compelling worlds.