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The Costs of Connection

How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism

By: Nick Couldry,Ulises A. Mejias

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The Costs of Connection

How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism

By: Nick Couldry,Ulises A. Mejias

Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free—it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to generate profit. The Costs of Connection uncovers this process, this "data colonialism," and its designs for controlling our lives—our ways of knowing; our means of production; our political participation. Colonialism might seem like a thing of the past, but this book shows that the historic appropriation of land, bodies, and natural resources is mirrored today in this new era of pervasive datafication. Apps, platforms, and smart objects capture and translate our lives into data, and then extract information that is fed into capitalist enterprises and sold back to us. The authors argue that this development foreshadows the creation of a new social order emerging globally—and it must be challenged. Confronting the alarming degree of surveillance already tolerated, they offer a stirring call to decolonize the internet and emancipate our desire for connection.

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Stanford University Press

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1503609758

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Captain America

Steve Rogers Vol. 1 - Hail Hydra

By: Nick Spencer

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Captain America

Steve Rogers Vol. 1 - Hail Hydra

By: Nick Spencer

He's back! The original Sentinel of Liberty returns, with a new shield, a new team, and a new mission! And he's not the only one who's back! Like the saying goes-- cut off one head, two more will take its place! HAIL HYDRA! COLLECTING: Captain America: Steve Rogers (2016) #1-6, Free Comic Book Day 2016 (Captain America) #1.

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Marvel Entertainment

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1302494791

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The Kaiser's Pirates

Hunting Germany's Raiding Cruisers in World War I

By: Nick Hewitt

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The Kaiser's Pirates

Hunting Germany's Raiding Cruisers in World War I

By: Nick Hewitt

The Kaiser’s Pirates is a dramatic and little-known story of World War I, when the actions of a few men shaped the fate of nations. By1914 Germany had ships and sailors scattered across the globe, protecting its overseas colonies and “showing the flag” of its new Imperial Navy. After war broke out on August 4 there was no hope that they could reach home. Instead, they were ordered to attack Britain’s vital trade routes for as long as possible. Under the leadership of a few brilliant, audacious men, they unleashed a series of raids that threatened Britain’s war effort and challenged the power and prestige of the Royal Navy. The next year saw a battle of wits which stretched across the globe, drawing in ships and men from six empires. By the end, the “Kaiser’s Pirates” were no more, and Britain once again ruled the waves. Including vivid descriptions of the battles of Coronel and the Falklands and the actions of the Emden, the Goeben and the Breslau, the Karsrühe and the Königsberg, The Kaiser’s Pirates tells a fascinating narrative that ranges across the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific, and the Caribbean. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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Simon and Schuster

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1632200120

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9781632200129

The Self-Care Toolkit

Self-Therapy, Freedom From Anxiety, Transform Your Self-Talk, Control Your Thoughts, & Stop Overthinking

By: Nick Trenton

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The Self-Care Toolkit

Self-Therapy, Freedom From Anxiety, Transform Your Self-Talk, Control Your Thoughts, & Stop Overthinking

By: Nick Trenton

Therapist-recommended author Nick Trenton brings you four of his bestselling books in one volume -- to bring calm to your life, change your relationship with yourself, gain self-awareness, and control your emotions. Insight and solutions, from beginning to end to dramatically change your life. Book 1: The Art of Self-Therapy: How to Grow, Gain Self-Awareness, and Understand Your Emotions Your shadow side and how it shows you exactly what your traumas are about Understanding your inner child and how they are trapped inside of you Knowing the attachment style that dictates your adult relationships How to re-program your thoughts to have healthier coping mechanisms Analyzing your thoughts and rewiring your beliefs Book 2: Anxiety is the Enemy: 29 Techniques to Combat Overthinking, Stress, Panic, and Pressure How to understand your emotions and harness them Controlling your mental imagery for relaxation Crushing overthinking with means other than mindfulness How to reframe your entire perspective on stress How acting with role playing or alter egoing can de-tress you Book 3: Transform Your Self-Talk: How to Talk to Yourself for Confidence, Belief, and Calm The real science of self-talk and how it changes your body The true root of negative self-talk and self-esteem -- and what to do about it The role of cognitive behavioral therapy in changing self-talk Thought replacement and positive scripts Everyday self-care practices and exercises Book 4: Anti-Anxious: How to Control Your Thoughts, Stop Overthinking, and Transform Your Mental Habits The cognitive distortions you use everyday without realizing How to analyze your thoughts - right in the moment Growing your self-awareness or how you form your emotions Self-soothing and how to cope with stress and negativity Battling toxic positivity and being real and vulnerable with your negativity Nick Trenton has thousands of 5-star reviews, many from mental health professionals, praising his insight, approach, and actionable advice.

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PKCS Media

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9798890085443

Haeckel's Embryos

Images, Evolution, and Fraud

By: Nick Hopwood

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Haeckel's Embryos

Images, Evolution, and Fraud

By: Nick Hopwood

Emphasizing the changes worked by circulation and copying, interpretation and debate, this book uses the case to explore how pictures succeed and fail, gain acceptance and spark controversy. It reveals how embryonic development was made a process that we can see, compare, and discuss, and how copying - usually dismissed as unoriginal

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University of Chicago Press

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022604694X

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The Space of the World

Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can't?

By: Nick Couldry

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The Space of the World

Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can't?

By: Nick Couldry

Over the past thirty years, humanity has made a huge mistake. We handed over to big tech decisions that have allowed them to build what has become our "space of the world" – the highly artificial space of social media platforms where much of our social life now unfolds. This has proved reckless and has huge social consequences. The toxic effects on social life, young people’s mental health, and political solidarity are well known, but the key factor underlying all this has been missed: the fact that humanity allowed business to construct our space of the world at all and then exploit it for profit. In the process, we ignored two millennia of political thought about the conditions under which a healthy or even a non-violent politics is possible. We endangered the one resource that is in desperately short supply in the face of catastrophic climate change: solidarity. Is human solidarity possible in a world of continuous digital connection and commercially managed platforms, and what if it isn’t? In the first book of his trilogy, Humanising the Future, Nick Couldry offers a radical new vision of how to design our digital spaces so that they build, rather than erode, both solidarity and community. This trenchant and vividly written book stresses that we cannot afford not to care for our space of the world. We need to rebuild it together.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509554742

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9781509554744

Landscape Liturgies

Outdoor worship resources from the Christian tradition

By: Nick Mayhew-Smith

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Landscape Liturgies

Outdoor worship resources from the Christian tradition

By: Nick Mayhew-Smith

Landscape Liturgies offers outdoor worship material drawn from 2,000 years of outdoor Christian practice. It contains prayers, rituals, blessings and liturgies compiled from Anglican, Roman Catholic, Methodist and Orthodox sources, as well as early church material, the desert tradition and monastic spirituality. It includes resources for the blessing of water courses, tree planting, garden blessings, a wide range of churchyard ceremonies, Rogation and other processionary ideas, field and animal blessings, pilgrim and walking prayers, ceremonies at holy wells and sacred grottoes, at hilltops and landmark monuments, and for the ringing of bells which traditionally demarcated sacred space in the landscape. This fascinating and versatile resource will enable urban and rural churches and church schools, retreat houses and pilgrimage centres to conduct a wide variety of services and meditations in the landscape around them.

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Canterbury Press

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1786223805

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9781786223807

Proctor and Hughes' Chemical Hazards of the Workplace

By: Gloria J. Hathaway,Nick H. Proctor

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Proctor and Hughes' Chemical Hazards of the Workplace

By: Gloria J. Hathaway,Nick H. Proctor

The indispensable resource for health professionals on potentially unsafe chemicals--now fully updated Proctor and Hughes' Chemical Hazards of the Workplace, Fifth Edition provides a comprehensive reference text for health professionals who need toxicology data on chemicals that may be encountered in various work settings. Building on the success of the Fourth Edition-already a standard text-this new edition updates and revises the more than 600 entries of that text, and also adds monographs on new compounds. Introductory chapters cover toxicological concepts, clinical manifestations of exposure, the diagnosis of occupational disease, and industrial hygiene aspects of chemical exposures. The rest of the text consists of more than 625 alphabetically arranged entries on individual compounds, each of which includes: * Chemical formula * CAS number * 2003 ACGIH (American Conference of Government Industrial Hygienists) threshold limit value * Synonyms * Physical properties * Sources of exposure * Routes of exposure * Toxicological data The toxicological data includes both acute and chronic effects, especially as related to any known exposure levels. The data emphasizes human studies and cases over animal data whenever sufficient information is available, and addresses any known carcinogenic, mutagenic, fetotoxic, or other reproductive effects. Clinical information is presented in a succinct narrative form to aid in understanding. Easy to use, in-depth, and comprehensive, Proctor and Hughes' Chemical Hazards of the Workplace, Fifth Edition offers occupational health physicians, nurses, industrial hygienists, and other safety professionals an invaluable and up-to-date resource.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471268836

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9780471268833

Chapman & Nakielny's Guide to Radiological Procedures E-Book

By: Ravivarma Balasubramaniam,Nick Watson

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Chapman & Nakielny's Guide to Radiological Procedures E-Book

By: Ravivarma Balasubramaniam,Nick Watson

Chapman & Nakielny's Guide to Radiological Procedures provides a complete guide to all the imaging procedures and techniques that radiology trainees and advanced practice radiographers might be expected to undertake as part of their routine clinical practice. The eighth edition has been fully updated to reflect the continually changing skills, imaging practices and technology that radiology trainees must navigate every day. It clearly describes the optimal imaging methods and intervention techniques required for different clinical scenarios, with information on methods, indications, equipment, patient preparation, technique, aftercare, complications and further reading for each. Along with its sister book, Chapman & Nakielny's Guide to Radiological Diagnosis, this Guide is the most comprehensive text available for trainees to develop the essential skills they need in this fast moving and highly sought after field. - Comprehensive and well-referenced – suitable for trainees in modern Radiology Departments - Fully reviewed and updated throughout to incorporate latest techniques, clinical practice developments and key recent national and international guidelines - Standard headings and sections divided by anatomical regions make the book easy to navigate - Easy explanations – a perfect study aid for FRCR and similar examinations - Detailed description of diagnostic and interventional radiology procedures relevant to daily clinical practice - New chapter on Paediatric Radiology

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323933874

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9780323933872

Computing Taste

Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation

By: Nick Seaver

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Computing Taste

Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation

By: Nick Seaver

Meet the people who design the algorithms that capture our musical tastes. The people who make music recommender systems have lofty goals: they want to broaden listeners’ horizons and help obscure musicians find audiences, taking advantage of the enormous catalogs offered by companies like Spotify, Apple Music, and Pandora. But for their critics, recommender systems seem to embody all the potential harms of algorithms: they flatten culture into numbers, they normalize ever-broadening data collection, and they profile their users for commercial ends. Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork, anthropologist Nick Seaver describes how the makers of music recommendation navigate these tensions: how product managers understand their relationship with the users they want to help and to capture; how scientists conceive of listening itself as a kind of data processing; and how engineers imagine the geography of the world of music as a space they care for and control. Computing Taste rehumanizes the algorithmic systems that shape our world, drawing attention to the people who build and maintain them. In this vividly theorized book, Seaver brings the thinking of programmers into conversation with the discipline of anthropology, opening up the cultural world of computation in a wide-ranging exploration that travels from cosmology to calculation, myth to machine learning, and captivation to care.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226822966

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9780226822969

Buchanan-Smith's Axe Handbook

Knowing, Buying, Using, Hanging, Restoring & Adorning

By: Peter Buchanan-Smith,Ross McCammon,Nick Zdon,Michael Getz

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Buchanan-Smith's Axe Handbook

Knowing, Buying, Using, Hanging, Restoring & Adorning

By: Peter Buchanan-Smith,Ross McCammon,Nick Zdon,Michael Getz

A must-have compendium for the axe-wielding adventurer by one of the industry’s leading tastemakers Buchanan-Smith’s Axe Handbook is a trusted resource for anyone looking to reconnect with handcraft and the outdoors. Beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated, this handbook will inspire readers to rediscover the great outdoors. Peter Buchanan-Smith founded Best Made Co. in 2009 because he loved making things with his hands and wanted to start a company that would not only celebrate the inherent beauty of timeless, utilitarian tools, but would also inspire people to get out from behind their screens and experience the natural world. From the basics and fundamentals of handling and owning an axe to the details on how to find the right axe to everything a reader must know about use and maintenance, this stylish, informative axe guide is ideal for anyone interested in the outdoors. .

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Abrams

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1647000114

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9781647000110

Personal Names, Hitler, and the Holocaust

A Socio-Onomastic Study of Genocide and Nazi Germany

By: I. M. Nick

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Personal Names, Hitler, and the Holocaust

A Socio-Onomastic Study of Genocide and Nazi Germany

By: I. M. Nick

Personal Names, Hitler, and the Holocaust: A Socio-Onomastic Study of Genocide and Nazi Germany provides readers with an increased understanding of and sensitivity to the many powerful ways in which personal names are used by both perpetrators and victims during wartime. This book concentrates on one of the most terrifying and yet fascinating periods of modern history: the Holocaust. In particular, it examines the different ways in which personal names were used by Nationalist Socialists to hunt and destroy the victims of their genocidal ideology. Even before requiring Jewish residents to wear a yellow Star of David and have the letter “J” stamped on their passports, Nazi leaders had decreed that all Jewish women and men must add the names “Sara(h)” and “Israel” to their documentation. It did not take long for the perfidious logic behind this naming (onomastic) legislation to become frighteningly clear: it made it that much easier to pinpoint Jewish residents for discrimination, marginalization, relocation, deportation, and ultimately extermination. Through compelling first-hand accounts from Holocaust survivors, in-depth interviews with descendants of Nazi war criminals, and a plethora of chilling cases extracted directly from the meticulous records kept by the National Socialists, this work presents a harrowing historical account of the way personal names were used during the Third Reich to achieve Hitler’s homicidal vision. Importantly, the use of personal names and naming to target and annihilate victims is not a historical anomaly of World War II but a widespread sociolinguistic practice that has been demonstrated in many modern-day acts of genocide. From Rwanda to Bosnia, Berlin to Washington, when governmental controls are abridged and ethical boundaries are crossed, very quickly, something as simple as a person’s name can determine who lives and who dies.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498525989

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9781498525985

Pulmonary Circulation: From Basic Mechanisms To Clinical Practice

By: J M B Hughes,Nick W Morrell

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Pulmonary Circulation: From Basic Mechanisms To Clinical Practice

By: J M B Hughes,Nick W Morrell

This new book with 35 chapters is a comprehensive account of the important features of the pulmonary circulation which will appeal to (1) clinical and non-clinical students who want a broad-based introduction to the subject, (2) postgraduates involved in or contemplating research on the pulmonary circulation, (3) specialists in chest medicine, cardiology and intensive and critical care whose clinical work concerns diseases affecting the pulmonary blood vessels.Pulmonary circulation is well illustrated with 132 figures, 43 tables and learning points highlighted at the end of each chapter. There are two main sections: “Basic Mechanisms” and “Clinical Practice”. All the important features of the pulmonary circulation are reviewed — genetics, cell biology, vascular remodelling, anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary oedema, etc.

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World Scientific

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1783261463

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9781783261468

Bentley

Contemporary Cuisine

By: Brent Savage,Nick Hildebrandt

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Bentley

Contemporary Cuisine

By: Brent Savage,Nick Hildebrandt

Highly talented and creative young chef Brent Savage and uber sommelier Nick Hildebrandt are the dynamic duo behind one of Sydney's hottest restaurants - Bentley Restaurant & Bar in Surry Hills. This book unveils the secrets behind Brent's creations in an accessible, engaging manner for the aspirational home cook, apprentice chef and seasoned professional alike. With step-by-step photography and instructions on modern cooking techniques, the home cook will be turning out stunning plates with professional flare guaranteed to stun dinner guests.

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Allen & Unwin

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1741968178

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9781741968170

Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads

A Graphic Novel

By: Nick Hayes

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Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads

A Graphic Novel

By: Nick Hayes

The “sepia artwork and lyrical prose” in this graphic novel biography “beat with a love for Guthrie’s music and America’s beauty” (Guardian, UK). Using the sepia tones of the Dust Bowl as his palette, author and artist Nick Hayes tells the story of world-famous folk singer and songwriter Woody Guthrie. The tale starts in the 1920s when Guthrie was a teenager supporting himself in dried-up, post-boomtown Oklahoma. Picking up a harmonica and eventually a battered guitar, Guthrie finds solace in the ancient lineage of folksong. Hayes charts the musician’s course from Oklahoma and Texas towns ravaged by dust and the Depression to boxcars, factory farms, and the migrant camps of California, highlighting Guthrie’s dedication to singing American folk tunes and creating his own modern classics along the way. Hayes ends his portrait in 1940, at the pivotal time when Guthrie makes his way to New York and writes “This Land Is Your Land,” his iconic anthem tinged with both optimism and clear-eyed reality.

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Abrams

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1613129327

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9781613129326

Heart and Brain: Onward to Good Things!

A Heart and Brain Collection

By: Nick Seluk

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Heart and Brain: Onward to Good Things!

A Heart and Brain Collection

By: Nick Seluk

New York Times bestselling author Nick Seluk returns with a charming, hilarious, and inspirational book of comics in which his popular Heart and Brain characters fight through the world's gloom and uncertainty and march toward a brighter, more hopeful future. This book of inspirational and hilarious comics directly addresses the mental health challenges we’ve been through collectively as a species, with specific illustrations and new content that help people feel understood, seen, and encouraged. Delivered with a humorous but sensitive touch, Onward to Good Things contains short graphic novel elements in three sections to tie together the themes and comics in one continuing short story that will help propel the author's millions of fans—and brand-new readers—toward a brighter and more laugh-filled future.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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1524887366

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9781524887360

How I Broke Up with My Colon

Fascinating, Bizarre, and True Health Stories

By: Nick Seluk,The Awkward Yeti

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How I Broke Up with My Colon

Fascinating, Bizarre, and True Health Stories

By: Nick Seluk,The Awkward Yeti

Fascinating, bizarre, and educational true-life medical stories retold in cartoon form by the creator of the bestselling Heart and Brain book series. Mysterious illnesses. Freakish injuries. X-rays revealing something weird that got stuck in your foot. These strange but true stories are among the 24 medical tales retold in hilarious fashion by New York Times bestselling author/illustrator Nick Seluk. Featuring fascinating stories submitted by people all over the world, How I Broke Up with My Colon is an educational and highly entertaining tour through the bizarre workings of the human body.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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1524862053

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The Tree of Life

English and Mandarin

By: Nick Blackburn

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The Tree of Life

English and Mandarin

By: Nick Blackburn

An existential spirit, Spark, is free to choose whatever it wishes to be from the myriad life forms in the universe. The meaning of life, shaped by the passage of time, is explored in this enchanting work of Visual Poetry. In English and Mandarin.

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Petra Books

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198904803X

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