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The Coffeehouse Resistance
Part coming-to-America story, part lyrical memoir, and yet another part activist's call to action, The Coffeehouse Resistance: Brewing Hope in Desperate Times is timely, funny, and poignant. Writing as a mother, immigrant, new American, coffeehouse owner, and international nonprofit leader, Prabasi's story weaves between Nepal, Ethiopia, and the United States. When Prabasi and her husband move from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to New York City with their young daughter in 2011, they start a thriving coffee business, grow their family, and are living their American Dream. After the 2016 election, they are suddenly unsure about their new home. Reclaiming the tradition of coffee houses throughout history, their coffeehouses become a hub for local organizing and action. Moving from despair to hope, this story is ultimately about building community, claiming home, and fighting for our dreams.
Blooming Fiascoes
Blooming Fiascoes is a collective of verse that deconstructs identity. We are beautiful and monstrous. We live in a beautiful and monstrous world. Ellen Hagan poetically mirrors these metaphoric adversaries, drawing on her experiences as a woman, an artist, a mother, a transplanted southerner, and above all, a human being. She plumbs origins in history, body, and living to question how we reckon our whole selves in the catacombs of a world gone mad: We mourn, we bless, / we blow, we wail, we / wind—down, we sip, / we spin, we blind, we / bend, bow & hem. We / hip, we blend, we bind, / we shake, we shine, / shine. We lips & we / teeth, we praise & protest. In these poems, Assyrian, Italian, and Irish lines seep deeper into a body that is growing older but remains engaged with unruly encounters: the experience of raising daughters, sexual freedom, and squaring body image against the body’s prohibitions. This is a work where the legacy is still evolving and always asking questions in real time. Blooming Fiascos spindles poetry that is not afraid to see itself and the lives it inhabits.
Clean
SOAP SAVES LIVES. But did you know that excessive use of soap and skin-care products is harming our health and the environment? Apart from in hand-washing there is no need to use soap on our bodies at all? Doctor and preventative medicine expert James Hamblin gave up showering five years ago and only ever uses soap on his hands. In Clean, he takes us on an irreverent and entertaining journey through our complex relationship with our bodies and cleanliness. Drawing on the latest science, he introduces a new way to think about cleanliness - one that is cheaper, simpler and better for our skin, our immunity and the world in which we live. * With a new afterword by the author * 'Fun, interesting and credible' New York Times 'Persuasive... Clean made me chuckle and then left me thoughtful' Daily Telegraph
Don't Call Me a Hurricane
An affecting and resonant YA novel in verse that explores family, community, the changing ocean tides, and what it means to fall in love with someone who sees the world in a different way. It's been five years since a hurricane ravaged Eliza Marino's life and home in her quiet town on the Jersey shore. Now a senior in high school, Eliza is passionate about fighting climate change-starting with saving Clam Cove Reserve, an area of marshland that is scheduled to be turned into buildable lots. Protecting the island helps Eliza deal with her lingering trauma from the storm, but she still can't shake the fear that something will come along and wash out her life once again. When Eliza meets Milo H...
All That Shines
A contemplative novel in verse that questions what it means to lose everything you once treasured and rediscover yourself, falling in love along the way. Chloe Brooks has only ever known what it's like to have everything. Her parents' wealth and place in society meant she had all she wanted, and friends everywhere she turned. Until it all crashes down: Her father is arrested in the middle of the night, under investigation for fraud. Bankrupt and facing foreclosure, Chloe must forgo her lavish summer plans as she and her mom are forced to move into one of the rundown apartments they still own, just outside Lexington, Kentucky. Without her riches, Chloe loses her friends, her comfort, her conf...
거품의 배신
비눗방울 같은 21세기 화학 물질이 우리 피부를 닦아내며 미생물의 서식지를 파괴하는 일을 잠시 멈추면 어떤 일이 일어날까? 출간 즉시 아마존 베스트셀러로 주목받은 제임스 햄블린의 《거품의 배신》은 씻고 바르는 습관에서 벗어나기 위해 5년간 직접 거품 샤워를 멈춘 경험에 과학적인 연구와 취재를 더해 위생 산업의 진실에 대해 심도 깊게 풀어낸 책이다. 청결에 관해서는 피부 건강부터 환경 이슈, 그리고 떼려야 뗄 수 없는 관련 산업의 역사, 과학적 근거 등에 이르는 광범위한 이야기를 다루어야 한다. 때문에 영향력 ...
Si nuestra piel hablara
¡Lo que tu rutina de skincare necesitaba! Cremas hidratantes, jabones, serum, bloqueadores, tónicos... ¿cuáles son los mejores productos y cómo combinarlos para tener esa piel limpia y radiante? ¿Y si se requiriera de menos productos para cuidarnos? Estas y más preguntas nos acechan con regularidad, porque los mensajes sanitarios son confusos; y los de la industria de la belleza, contradictorios. En Si nuestra piel hablara, el periodista y especialista en medicina preventiva, James Hamblin, pone sobre la mesa soluciones duraderas y científicas. Para llegar a ellas conversó con dermatólogos, microbiólogos, alergólogos, inmunólogos, esteticistas, entusiastas de los jabones de barr...
Natürlich waschen!
Das Geschäft mit gesunder, schöner Haut boomt: Gut 15 Milliarden Euro werden in Deutschland jährlich für Körperpflegeprodukte ausgegeben. Doch es herrscht kaum Einigkeit darüber, was unsere Haut wirklich pflegt, nährt und was ihr schadet. Die Forschung auf diesem Gebiet ist nur selten unabhängig von den Großkonzernen der Kosmetikindustrie. Um herauszufinden, wie wir unsere Haut am besten schützen und versorgen, widmet sich Journalist und Arzt James Hamblin der Kulturgeschichte unserer Körperpflege und der Wissenschaft von der Haut. Er spricht mit Mikrobiologen, Allergologen, Genetikern, Ökologen, Kosmetikfachleuten, Seifenfans, Venture-Capital-Unternehmen, Historikern, Entwicklungshelfern, sogar mit ein paar waschechten Betrügern und erfährt, dass sich unsere Vorstellung von sauber und rein gerade grundlegend verändert. Um die Haut und ihr Mikrobiom gesund zu halten, ist weniger oft mehr.
