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Content: Eswatini achieved a 44% decrease in new HIV infections from 2014 to 2019 through substantial scale-up of testing and treatment. However, it still has one of the highest rates of HIV incidence in the world, with 14 infections per 1,000 adults 15-49 years estimated for 2017. The Government of Eswatini has called for an 85% reduction in new infections by 2023 over 2017 levels. To make further progress towards this target and to achieve maximum health gains, this study aims to model optimized investments of available HIV resources

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ISBN: 9781786787606

Content: " A non-judgemental guide to becoming &ldquo,oberish&rdquo, Helps millennials and Gen Z ,reate , relationship with alcohol that works for them using evidence-based tools and expert advice. Are you ready to take your power back from alcohol? Whether you&rsquo,e looking to go booze free or want to make informed adjustments to your drinking habits, this inclusive and non-judgemental guide gives you the scientifically backed tools you need to create a relationship with alcohol that works for you, from cold exposure therapy to sound healing and beyond. You will explore the roots of your drinking behaviours and triggers, hear from leading industry experts, including addiction and nutrition therapists, learn to overcome backsliding behaviours, receive tips and advice on real-life scenarios, like sticking to your goals in a party environment, get advice on recreating your self-identity, and create a personalized plan of action to guide you on your soberish journey."

Content: Biographisches: "Kayla ,yons ,s the founder of Join Soberish and 1,000 Hours Dry (The Dry Club), inclusive online communities dedicated to those looking to change their relationship with alcohol. She is also a founding team member of Reframe App and co-host of the Generation Dry podcast. ,ayla ,as been in recovery from substance abuse since 2016 and is an active advocate for more affordable, accessible treatment and resources." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: July 3, 2023 Lyons, founder of the online community 1,000 Hours Dry, debuts with a smart how-to manual that encourages readers to embrace a “soberish” lifestyle by “writ your own narrative when it comes to the relationship you have with alcohol.” Unlike traditional 12-step programs that center a higher power, Lyons frames recovery as a process “based within your own sphere of control,” whether that means abstaining from drinking or simply cutting back. Readers should first look inward to pinpoint the emotional function alcohol serves in their lives, whether it’s fighting shyness or reducing stress,“once we find the root,” Lyons writes, “we can address it and make some tangible, positive changes.” To that end, she offers a sobriety “toolkit” of “new... habits to replace the old ones that were negatively impacting your wellbeing,” among them eating well, identifying and avoiding emotional triggers, adopting an “abundance mindset,” and practicing “intuitive movement” by “express... ourselves physically without tying ourselves to exercise milestones.” Based in sound psychological principles and addiction research, Lyons’s advice is ideal for those who wish to rethink their relationship with alcohol without adhering to prescriptive principles or moralizing judgments (“You get to... choose what works best for you... and how you’d like to move forward”). It’s ideal for the sober-curious." Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: August 1, 2023 This work from the founder of Join Soberish and 1,000 Hours Dry (The Dry Club) aims to assist individuals in establishing healthier relationships with alcohol. Lyons reveals her struggles with alcohol and her journey to address them. The author suggests employing empowering and inclusive terminology such as alcohol-use disorder, or using no labels at all, as the term alcoholic has negative connotations. She defines soberish as a positive label or lifestyle that takes power away from alcohol and enables readers to find healing pathways in their alcohol use, offering advice, tools, and exercises to assist readers in achieving a soberish lifestyle. Sections discuss the neurological and physical effects of alcohol and the benefits of limiting or abstaining from drinking. Every chapter includes simple reflections and exercises to establish goals and design a soberish action plan. Techniques include identifying triggers, mindfulness and meditation, intuitive movement, cryotherapy, sound healing, journaling, and creating support systems through social media or online forums. The book has interviews with experts (nutritionists, yoga instructors) and concludes with advice from other individuals that complements the author's message. VERDICT A useful guide to establishing a healthy relationship with alcohol. --Erica Swenson DanowitzCopyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. "

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Content: " Winner of the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political WritingOne of Slate's Ten Best Books of 2023 8226 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice 8226 A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2023The gripping story of a collective passion for freedom that shook the world.In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organized a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. But this was not an ordinary picnic8212 it was located on the dangerous militarized frontier known as the Iron Curtain. Tacit permission from the highest state authorities could be revoked at any moment. On wisps of rumor, thousands of East German vacationers packed Hungarian campgrounds, awaiting an opportunity, fearing prison, surveilled by lurking Stasi agents. The Pan-European Picnic set the stage for the greatest border breach in Cold War history: hundreds crossed from the Communist East to the longed-for freedom of the West. Drawing on dozens of original interviews8212 including Hungarian activists and border guards, East German refugees, Stasi secret police, and the last Communist prime minister of Hungary8212 Matthew Longo tells a gripping and revelatory tale of the unraveling of the Iron Curtain and the birth of a new world order. Just a few months after the Picnic, the Berlin Wall fell, and the freedom for which the activists and refugees had abandoned their homes, risked imprisonment, sacrificed jobs, family, and friends, was suddenly available to everyone. But were they really free? And why, three decades since the Iron Curtain was torn down, have so many sought once again to build walls? Cinematically told, The Picnic recovers a time when it seemed possible for the world to change. With insight and panache, Longo explores the opportunities taken8212 and the opportunities we failed to take8212 in that pivotal moment. "

Content: Biographisches: " Matthew Longo is assistant professor of political science at Leiden University and award-winning author of The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 . A native New Yorker, he lives in the Netherlands." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: September 15, 2023 An oral history of the 1989 picnic that became the first great breach of the Iron Curtain. In the late 1980s, the Soviet Union was weakening, reformers had risen to power in Hungary, and people were fleeing East Germany. Longo, a professor of political science at Leiden University (Netherlands) and author of The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen After 9/11, draws on interviews with those involved--as well as insights from relevant political philosophers such as Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin--to tell the story of the Pan-European Picnic held on Aug. 19, 1989. Orchestrated by a group of Hungarian activists, the goal was to create a giant open-air party celebrating Europe togetherness and freedom, and the event was to include the symbolic--and temporary--opening of a gate between Hungary and Austria. At the time, Hungary was filled with refugees from East Germany, and when they arrived at the picnic site that morning, the gate seemed to be the only barrier between them and liberty. They burst through and, with the Hungarian border guards hesitant to act, between 600 and 1,000 people fled. The picnic came to symbolize the possibility of evading the oppression of Soviet-style communism and achieving a better life. Citizens of Warsaw Pact countries under Soviet control had been denied personal autonomy and deprived of communal solidarity. They aspired to a sense of collective belonging, Longo argues, rather than the individualism and consumerism of the West. Deftly weaving together the geopolitical and the personal, Longo offers a counter-narrative to the current fixation on the global rise and spread of xenophobic and authoritarian regimes, including that of Viktor Orb�n in Hungary. Extensively documented, well written, and thoughtful in its consideration of what freedom means, this book is an informative and engaging history of the event, its origins, and the aftermath. A much-needed reminder of the inexhaustibility of the human quest for personal and collective freedom. COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: September 25, 2023 Political scientist Longo ( The Politics of Borders ) delivers a stunning recap of the “greatest breach of the border in Cold War history.” The Pan-European Picnic took place on Aug. 19, 1989, in Sopron, Hungary, on the border with St. Margarethen, Austria. High-ups in the Hungary Communist Party—sensing the Soviet Union under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev was loosening its grip on its satellite countries in Eastern Europe—had given permission to the picnic organizers to open a “small, gated crossing” in a muddy field on the border, allowing Austrians and Hungarians to freely mingle and celebrate “European togetherness and freedom.” But the event quickly turned into “utter chaos” when some 600–1,000 East Germans saw the picnic as their chance to escape East Germany’s repressive regime. Longo traces the heart-wrenching stories of these freedom-seekers and interviews the Hungarian commanding officer who was under orders to shoot them but refused. His impressive research reveals “a shadow archive of secret decisions,” showing not only how closely the secret police were watching the picnic organizers, but also how reformists within the Party paved the way for it to happen, even as they received death threats from the hard-line opposition. This captivating narrative brings an underreported Cold War turning point into focus."

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Content: " New York Times Bestseller The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as his slave. In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history. Posing as master and slave, while sustained by their love as husband and wife, they made their escape together across more than 1,000 miles, riding out in the open on steamboats, carriages, and trains that took them from bondage in Georgia to the free states of the North. Along the way, they dodged slave traders, military officers, and even friends of their enslavers, who might have revealed their true identities. The tale of their adventure soon made them celebrities, and generated headlines around the country. Americans could not get enough of this charismatic young couple, who traveled another 1,000 miles criss-crossing New England, drawing thunderous applause as they spoke alongside some of the greatest abolitionist luminaries of the day8212 among them Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown. But even then, they were not out of danger. With the passage of an infamous new Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, all Americans became accountable for returning refugees like the Crafts to slavery. Then yet another adventure began, as slave hunters came up from Georgia, forcing the Crafts to flee once again8212 this time from the United States, their lives and thousands more on the line and the stakes never higher. With three epic journeys compressed into one monumental bid for freedom, Master Slave Husband Wife is an American love story8212 one that would challenge the nation's core precepts of life, liberty, and justice for all8212 one that challenges us even now."

Content: Biographisches: "Ilyon Woo is the 〈i 〉New York Times bestselling author of 〈i 〉Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom and 〈i 〉The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times. Her writing has appeared in 〈i 〉The 〈i 〉Boston Globe , 〈i 〉The Wall Street Journal ,〈i 〉Time , and 〈i 〉The New York Times , and she has received support for her research from the Whiting Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Antiquarian Society, among other institutions. She holds a BA in the Humanities from Yale College and a PhD in English from Columbia University." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: September 19, 2022 Historian Woo ( The Great Divorce ) seamlessly knits together an in-depth portrait of antebellum America and a thrilling account of an enslaved couple’s escape to freedom. In 1848, William and Ellen Craft, a dark-skinned cabinet maker and his wife, a light-skinned maid owned by her half-sister, escaped from Macon, Ga., to Philadelphia by hiding in plain sight. Ellen disguised herself as a young and wealthy, yet sickly, white gentleman, while William posed as her servant. Traveling more than 1,000 miles in four days on steamships, carriages, and trains, the couple experienced close calls (William’s employer searched their train before it left Macon, but did not recognize Ellen in her disguise and ran out of time before reaching William in the “Negro car”) and amusing ironies (two young women accompanying their elderly father swooned over Ellen). After the Crafts reached New England and joined the abolitionist lecture circuit, their former enslavers tried to reclaim them through the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, but the couple fled to Canada and then England. Throughout, Woo expertly portrays the gruesome details of slave auctions,the rigors of the antislavery lecture circuit, where protestors subjected speakers to the “abolitionist baptism” of “rotten eggs and fist-sized stones”,and the exploits of antislavery activists including William Still and Mifflin Wistar Gibbs. This novelistic history soars. Agent: Julie Barer, the Book Group. " Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from April 1, 2023 Woo ( The Great Divorce ) presents the story of William and Ellen Craft's extraordinary journey out of enslavement into freedom. The couple began their road to self-emancipation in Macon, GA. Ellen's light skin color enabled her to pose as a wealthy white male painter accompanied by a servant, William. The couple traveled north on steamboats, stagecoaches, and railroads, buttressed by their undying love. Upon reaching freedom, they began sharing their story on the abolitionist lecture circuit. When the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850 made their situation too dangerous, the Crafts escaped to Canada and eventually to England. Narrators Janina Edwards and Leon Nixon bring out the suspense in this thrilling story, while movingly describing the couple's enduring love and commitment. Their dramatic reading enhances Woo's meticulously crafted work, which draws upon rare historical sources, supplemented by the Crafts' 1860 book, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom . The author wisely recommends further scholarly research and analysis to fill in the gaps in the Crafts' original memoir, which mainly focuses only on their escape experiences and not their entire lives. VERDICT This inspirational, exhilarating work, undoubtedly destined for a Hollywood adaptation, is an essential purchase for all libraries. --Dale FarrisCopyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. "

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Edition: 1st ed. 2022.

ISBN: 9781349960569

Series Statement: The Statesman's Yearbook

Content: Flags of the World/Map of the World -- Key World Facts -- Chronology of World Events -- PART I International Organizations -- PART II: COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD A-Z -- Key Historical Events -- Territory and Population -- Social Statistics -- Climate -- Constitution and Government -- Government Chronology -- Recent Elections -- Current Government -- Current Leaders -- Defence -- Economy -- Energy and Natural Resources -- Environment -- Industry -- International Trade -- Communications -- Social Institutions -- Culture -- Diplomatic Representatives -- Further Reading -- Sources -- Abbreviations -- Place and International Organizations Index -- Index of Current leaders. .

Content: This classic reference work presents a political, economic and social account of every country of the world together with facts and analysis. The 2023 edition includes: Revised and updated biographical profiles of all current leaders Extensive updates to national economic overviews Accurate historical introductions Comprehensive coverage of major international organizations and think tanks Every country ranked for the ease of doing business REVIEWS OF PREVIOUS EDITIONS ‘… an indispensable reference work that any library should have. It deciphers the alphabet soup of international organizations and provides essential basic information on countries …’ Dennis Jett, Professor of International Affairs, Penn State University ‘For more than a century and a half The Statesman’s Yearbook has provided scholars and practitioners with reliable and accurate political and economic information about the ever more complex world in which we live. Even in the age of the internet such a balanced and trustworthy resource remains essential.’ Roger E. Kanet, University of Miami and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (retd) ‘Over 1,000 pages of essential facts. Just as current but more reliable than the internet, I consult it almost daily.’ Professor R. N. Lebow, King’s College London ‘… this remains the preeminent and most comprehensive ready-reference source for current material about countries worldwide. Highly recommended.’ Donald Altschiller, Boston University Library ‘The fact that so much information can be crammed into one volume is a testament to the care and research involved.’ The Diplomat ‘All you need to know about the population of various states and countries, officials, exports, constitutions, governments, diplomatic representatives, religion, finance and basic histories.’ The New York Times.

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Content: " &ldquo,n essential American history&rdquo,( The Wall Street Journal ) that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today &ldquo, feat of both scholarship and storytelling.&rdquo,mdash,laudio Saunt, author of Unworthy Republic Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways that reverberated globally. And, as award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal vividly recounts, when Europeans did arrive, no civilization came to a halt because of a few wandering explorers, even when the strangers came well armed. A millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the world in size. Then, following a period of climate change and instability, numerous smaller nations emerged, moving away from rather than toward urbanization. From this urban past, egalitarian government structures, diplomacy, and complex economies spread across North America. So, when Europeans showed up in the sixteenth century, they encountered societies they did not understand&mdash,hose having developed differently from their own&mdash,nd whose power they often underestimated. For centuries afterward, Indigenous people maintained an upper hand and used Europeans in pursuit of their own interests. In Native Nations, we see how Mohawks closely controlled trade with the Dutch&mdash,nd influenced global markets&mdash,nd how Quapaws manipulated French colonists. Power dynamics shifted after the American Revolution, but Indigenous people continued to command much of the continent&rsquo, land and resources. Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa forged new alliances and encouraged a controversial new definition of Native identity to attempt to wall off U.S. ambitions. The Cherokees created institutions to assert their sovereignty on the global stage, and the Kiowas used their power in the west to regulate the passage of white settlers across their territory. In this important addition to the growing tradition of North American history centered on Indigenous nations, Kathleen DuVal shows how the definitions of power and means of exerting it shifted over time, but the sovereignty and influence of Native peoples remained a constant&mdash,nd will continue far into the future."

Content: Biographisches: " Kathleen DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches early American and American Indian history. Her previous work includes Independence Lost, which was a finalist for the George Washington Prize, and The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent. She is a coauthor of Give Me Liberty! and coeditor of Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America. " Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: November 1, 2023 Historian DuVal (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution ) spent five years researching this sweeping yet detailed account of Indigenous history that considers 1,000 years of sovereignty, power dynamics, global influence, governing systems, and adaptation. Prepub Alert. Copyright 2023 Library JournalCopyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from January 22, 2024 This prodigiously researched and enlightening study from University of North Carolina historian DuVal ( Independence Lost ) recenters the past 1,000 years of Native North American history around the political power exercised by Indigenous governments. Beginning with the civilizations that established large cities a millennium ago in the Mississippi Valley—with pyramids, castles, and major road and river systems—she explains that agricultural instability during the Little Ice Age (c. 1250) prompted a turn away from urbanization. Native governments morphed into smaller-scale, more egalitarian organizations that encouraged “shared prosperity and shared decision making.” These smaller states developed complex and advanced systems of diplomacy, economics, and governance that, DuVal argues, perplexed, intrigued, and often outmatched the first several centuries of European settlers. One fascinating example is the Mohawk government’s regulation of trade with the Dutch in the 17th century. “Hardly the passive consumers the colonial planners hoped for,” the Mohawks artificially inflated the price of furs so the Dutch could only turn a profit by paying with guns, the Mohawks’ most sought after European good. Tracing numerous Native governments across the ensuing centuries—including the 19th century’s Cherokee republic and alliance of Great Plains nations—DuVal provides a profoundly empowered history of Native America. This keen reframing will appeal to fans of David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything . (Apr.) Correction: An earlier version of this review misidentified the century in which the Cherokee republic existed. " Rezension(4): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from February 1, 2024 A historical survey of Native America's political autonomy. In this impressive history, DuVal, author of Independence Lost and The Native Ground, offers a long-term view of how Indigenous peoples in North America flourished both before and long after the arrival of Europeans, leveraging their power and negotiating their place alongside or within settler culture amid increasing existential threats. The author covers the last 1,000 years, sketching a trajectory of resistance, adaptability, and endurance and countering other historians who emphasize the victimization and steady disappearance of Indigenous peoples. Focusing on decisive periods involving individual nations, DuVal presents a selection of examples and trends of Native North American sovereignty, politics, economics, diplo-macy, and war. In doing so, she provides a compelling record of Indigenous agency and provides a rich context for understanding the survival of--and the political challenges still faced by--hundreds of Native nations today. The colonization of the continent, she demonstrates, was neither rapid nor fated, and alternative historical outcomes in which Native America maintained control of large territories are plausible. Nothing was inevitable, writes DuVal, about the rise of the United States. A highlight of this work is the author's revision of conventional understandings of the scale of pre-contact Indigenous communities. DuVal points out the sophistication and vitality of urban centers, which resembled their European counterparts in size and population density a millennium ago, before gradually dissolving in response to climatic and political shifts. Also cogent are the author's summaries of the collective values and traditions that emerged out of this shift to smaller-scale societies. Throughout, DuVal is clear and cogent, and her foregrounding of Indigenous achievements and careful delineation of ongoing struggles for personal and collective autonomy offer a useful and illuminating corrective to past histories. A revelatory account of the power and influence of Indigenous peoples in North America. COPYRIGHT(2024) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "

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Content: " Ken Jaworowski's Small Town Sins is a gripping Rust Belt thriller that captures the characters of a down-and-out Pennsylvania town, revealing their troubled pasts and the crimes that could cost them their lives. In Locksburg, Pennsylvania, a former coal and steel town whose best days seem long past, five thousand residents have toughed it out, and have reasons for both worry and hope as this neglected place teeters between decay and renewal. For some of them, their biggest troubles have just arrived. After years of just scraping by, three restless souls have their lives upended: Nathan, a volunteer fireman who uncovers a secret stash of money in a burning building and takes it,Callie, a nurse whose tender patient may not have long to live, despite the girl's fundamentalist parents' ardent beliefs,and Andy, a recovering heroin addict who undertakes a nightmare mission to hunt down and stop a serial predator. Before long, Nathan's stolen riches threaten to destroy everyone around him as he tries to cover his haphazard trail of lies. Callie risks her career to grant her young patient a final, and likely illegal, wish. And Andy's hunger for vigilante justice becomes a fierce obsession that may end in violence. As their stories barrel toward unexpected ends, Nathan, Callie, and Andy struggle to endure8212 or escape. They each face their pasts and gamble on their futures, and confront the underside of their rough Rust Belt town. Riveting, evocative, and unforgettable, Small Town Sins is a debut novel that marks the arrival of a major new talent. "

Content: Biographisches: " Ken Jaworowski is an editor at the New York Times . He graduated from Shippensburg University and the University of Pennsylvania. He grew up in Philadelphia, where he was an amateur boxer, and his plays have been produced in New York and Europe. He lives in New Jersey with his family. Small Town Sins is his first novel." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: March 1, 2023 In a declining Pennsylvania coal and steel town, the actions of three people reveal their broken pasts and possibly threaten their lives. Volunteer fireman Nathan steals money he's found in a burning building, nurse Callie risks illegality when she grants a dying young patient her final wish, and Andy, who's recovering from heroin addiction, sets out to challenge a serial predator. From playwright Jaworowski, a staff editor at the New York Times ,a debut novel with a 125,000-copy first printing. Prepub Alert. Copyright 2023 Library JournalCopyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from May 8, 2023 New York Times editor Jaworowski shines in his artful debut, which interweaves the stories of several struggling residents in the Rust Belt town of Locksburg, Pa. When Nathan was 17, he impregnated the first girl he slept with and had to come up with the $1,000 she needed to get an abortion. He resorted to pawning his disabled mother’s wedding ring, but when its disappearance was noted, the search for it ended tragically. Decades later, Nathan is a volunteer firefighter whose marriage is troubled by his wife’s fertility issues. His fortunes change when he stumbles on millions in cash while saving a man from a burning building and chooses to keep the loot. Violent complications ensue, and Jaworowski weaves them with the stories of other desperate town residents, including the former-addict father of a disabled child and a nurse with a congenital facial disfigurement who hopes to give a girl with terminal cancer her dying wish, even if doing so would break the law. Jaworowski skillfully toggles between his plot threads, never sacrificing character development for cheap thrills. Admirers of Scott Smith’s A Simple Plan will be eager for more from this talented storyteller." Rezension(4): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: July 1, 2023 In a lonesome town, three locals embark on treacherous paths toward adventure. In Locksburg, Pennsylvania, a backwater where nothing much happens, folks keep to themselves and keep their heads down,they wrestle with despair and heartbreak and struggle in the clutches of multiplying problems. This includes locals Andy Devon, a former junkie whose wife and child have recently died,lonely, disfigured nurse Callie, who tends a dying girl at the close of stage 4 cancer,and volunteer fireman Nathan Stultz, the kind of nice guy who's always tried to do the right thing and only ever suffered for it. But then, fate intervenes. Andy stumbles upon a briefcase full of child pornography and sees a way to save his life and make it worthwhile by catching the pedophile priest responsible. Callie decides to risk her career to make her patient's final wish come true: to drive across the state and see the ocean. And Nathan, in a burning house with his arms full of a man he's trying to rescue, finds $2 million in stolen drug money, a windfall that could finally allow him to leave the town that's been holding him back for so long. In a suspenseful, intertwining narrative, Jaworowski crafts a tale of three souls grasping at slippery chances, finding themselves with no way out other than to keep pushing forward into new, disturbing places. Andy's plan to catch a predator goes horribly awry. Callie's jaunt to the sea quickly turns more perilous than she could have ever foreseen. And Nathan's secreted stash, just waiting for him to finalize his plans to high-tail it out of town, releases a former lover's spite and destructive vindictiveness. Locksburg, for all its remoteness, its staleness and vacuity, never seemed so full of dangerous, teeming forms of life. And death. A satisfying thriller with finely drawn, highly sympathetic characters. COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "

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Content: " NATIONAL BESTSELLER &bull,&ldquo, riveting feat of science writing that recasts that most familiar of celestial objects into something eerily extraordinary, pivotal to our history, and awesome in the original sense of the word.&rdquo,mdash,d Yong, New York Times bestselling author of An Immense WorldA New York Times Book Review Editors&rsquo,Choice Many of us know that the Moon pulls on our oceans, driving the tides, but did you know that it smells like gunpowder? Or that it was essential to the development of science and religion? Acclaimed journalist Rebecca Boyle takes readers on a dazzling tour to reveal the intimate role that our 4.51-billion-year-old companion has played in our biological and cultural evolution.160 Our Moon&rsquo, gravity stabilized Earth&rsquo, orbit&mdash,nd its climate. It drew nutrients to the surface of the primordial ocean, where they fostered the evolution of complex life. The Moon continues to influence animal migration and reproduction, plants&rsquo,movements, and, possibly, the flow of the very blood in our veins.160 While the Sun helped prehistoric hunters and gatherers mark daily time, early civilizations used the phases of the Moon to count months and years, allowing them to plan farther ahead. Mesopotamian priests recorded the Moon&rsquo, position in order to make predictions, and, in the process, created the earliest known empirical, scientific observations. In Our Moon, Boyle introduces us to ancient astronomers and major figures of the scientific revolution, including Johannes Kepler and his influential lunar science fiction. Our relationship to the Moon changed when Apollo astronauts landed on it in 1969, and it&rsquo, about to change again. As governments and billionaires aim to turn a profit from its resources, Rebecca Boyle shows us that the Moon belongs to everybody, and nobody at all."

Content: Biographisches: " Rebecca Boyle is a columnist at Atlas Obscura and a contributor to Scientific American , Quanta Magazine, The Atlantic , The New York Times, Popular Science, Smithsonian&rsquo, Air &,Space Magazine, and many other publications. She is a member of the group science blog The Last Word on Nothing . Boyle was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is the recipient of numerous writing awards. Her work has been anthologized three times in The Best American Science &,Nature Writing . She is a former Space Camp attendee and lifelong Moon enthusiast." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: August 1, 2023 A well-known Scientific American and Atlantic contributor, science journalist Boyle moves from the first days of the swirling universe to the Artemis launches to tell us everything we ever wanted to know about Our Moon . Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from October 2, 2023 Science writer Boyle debuts with an excellent exploration of how the moon has shaped life on Earth. She explains that the moon likely formed from debris loosed after a Mars-size planet collided with Earth in the early days of the solar system, and that the moon’s gravitational pull on Earth stabilizes the planet’s tilt and keeps seasonal change consistent. Noting the moon’s central role in early religion, Boyle argues that a god associated with the moon and worshipped in ancient Mesopotamia “was one of the first gods in human history, if not the very first.” The moon was also central to the development of modern science, Boyle contends, examining how systematic observations of the moon made by early astronomers Thomas Harriot, Johannes Kepler, and Galileo in the late 17th and early 18th centuries established a new approach for studying the natural world. Throughout, Boyle’s dexterous blend of science and cultural history is elevated by her spry prose (“The entire horizon dims to a livid red glow as Earth begins to moan and tremble, shockwaves rattling through its crust and deep into its mantle,” she writes of the cosmic collision that created the moon). This illuminates." Rezension(4): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: November 1, 2023 The moon in myth, history, and reality. Science and nature journalist Boyle opens in 1943 with the Marine invasion of the Japanese-held island of Tarawa. Planners expected high tide to allow landing craft to pass over the reefs. Stuck, the soldiers were forced to wade to shore under fire, and more than 1,000 were killed. The lesson: Ignore the Moon at your peril. Most readers know that the Moon influences the tides, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. Rewinding the clock, the author delves deeply into prehistoric artifacts, monuments, cave art, and cryptic etchings on bones and stones, and she agrees with archaeologists that these markers mostly functioned as time reckoners for ceremonies and seasonal planning. Then, as the first literate civilizations arose in Mesopotamia and Egypt, the Moon became...a recorder of events,a predictor of fates,an instrument of might,and a god in its own right. In the final 100 pages, Boyle turns from calendars and myth to astronomy. Greek thinkers delivered an occasional insight, but it was Enlightenment figures who determined that the Moon was a physical body no less than the Earth. Because of its huge relative size (compared to other planet satellites), astronomers consider the Earth-Moon a dual planetary system. The Moon's gravity stabilizes Earth's rotation and wobble, which means that it stabilizes the climate. Boyle emphasizes that life may have been impossible without the Moon, and it plays an essential role in the growth, mating, feeding, and reproduction of countless plants and animals. The author does not treat the Apollo moon landing as an expensive technological spectacular but a scientific triumph. Rocks brought back turned out to be identical with those on Earth, suggesting that the Moon was torn from the Earth, likely from a planetary collision, and has evolved in predictable ways. A solid education on our closest celestial neighbor. COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(5): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: December 1, 2023 Science writer Boyle divides this examination into three sections: the scientific creation of the Moon and its relation to Earth's atmosphere,the Moon's philosophical meaning and the advent of measured time,and contemporary exploration efforts. She chronicles the Moon's impact on Earth's oceans, coral reefs, lunar standstills, human behavior, and even menstruation. The second section is the most enlightening,it showcases archaeological findings related to the Moon and its meaning for ancient civilizations like the Sumerians and the Babylonians. The lunar-related work of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, Julius Caesar, and Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (a scientist/philosopher who predates Socrates) rounds out these chapters. The book also discusses astronomer Johannes Kepler's correlations between the Moon and ocean tides, the work of French novelist/poet/playwright Jules Verne, and details of the 1969 U.S. Apollo 11 mission,the descriptions will engage readers, especially if their only reference point is a Neil Armstrong quote or sound bite. Boyle ends by expressing concern about the privatization of contemporary space exploration. VERDICT A solid biography of the Moon. There's plenty here for readers who enjoy planetary and earth science books. --Tina PanikCopyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(6): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: December 1, 2023 Despite being more than 238,000 miles away from Earth, the moon exerts enormous influence over our planet and its inhabitants. Science writer Boyle reviews how the moon was created and the composition of Moon rocks, how human life has been shaped by it (sleep patterns, maybe menstrual cycles, timekeeping), and what a fundamental symbol the moon is, especially in mythology and culture. The moon's gravity is responsible for the ebbs and flows of tides. The moon steadies the Earth's tilted axis. It sways migrations and illuminates the night's sky. Boyle's prose can really pop. Her admiration of Earth's silvery sister and silent eternal companion is striking. She describes the lonely, lifeless moonscape as a crater-pocked wasteland that smells of doused firecrackers. Her exuberant retellings of the adventures of intrepid Apollo astronauts and moonwalkers are particularly enjoyable. The history of astronomy and its luminaries (Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler) receive abundant attention. The moon's place in our art, music, and literature, including lunar sf, are noted. An appealing literary trip to the moon and an appreciation of the moon's immense importance. COPYRIGHT(2023) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "

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Series Statement: Speaker's Corner

Content: "An insightful and humorous look into the complex issues of censorship, Jamie LaRue's book is at times intellectually and emotionally challenging—like all of the best books should be. —R. Alan Brooks, Comics Creator and Professor, Professor of Graphic Narrative, Regis University In America today, more books are being banned than ever before. This censorship is part of a larger assault on such American institutions as schools, public libraries, and universities. In On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the US , respected long-time public librarian James LaRue issues a balanced and reasonable call to action for all citizens. LaRue, who served as director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom and executive director of the Freedom to Read Foundation, highlights the dangers of book banning and censorship in our public and educational spaces. Synthesizing his more than twenty-five years of experience on the front lines of these issues, he takes the reader through attempts he encountered to remove or restrict access to ideas, while placing the debate in the greater context about the role of libraries and free expression in a democratic society. LaRue covers topics such as: The role of the library in American culture and community The consequences of cancel culture Seven things citizens can do to quell book banning and censorship attempts By examining past efforts at censorship and their dangerous impacts, LaRue asks the reader to reflect on how those times are not so different from today. This book is essential reading for all those who believe in free expression, who support libraries, and who cherish the central freedoms that American democracy represents."

Content: Biographisches: " James LaRue has been a public library director for many years, as well as a weekly newspaper columnist and cable TV host. From January 2016 to November 2018, he was director of the Freedom to Read Foundation, and ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom. He has written, spoken, and consulted extensively on intellectual freedom issues, leadership and organizational development, community engagement, and the future of libraries. He lives in Glenwood Springs, Colorado." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: July 31, 2023 LaRue ( The New Inquisition ), a librarian and former president of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, serves up an uneven exploration of the motivations, methods, and results of censorship in regional libraries. Most censorship attempts, he argues, stem from parents’ quixotic wish to protect children from “the darker or more complicated sides of adult life” and from “current demographic majorities seeking to suppress writings based on the experiences” of LGBTQ individuals and people of color. Illuminating the challenges librarians face, LaRue notes that public libraries’ obligation “to serve the whole community” can lead to conflict, as when he purchased for his Colorado library a children’s book “about a man who leaves his wife and child to live with another man” for a mother in a similar situation, who wished to read it with her young son, only for another patron to take offense and rip the book apart. Such stories offer revealing on-the-ground insights into how censorship plays out in individual libraries, but the book’s second half loses steam as it offers conventional takes on the importance of public libraries refusing to privilege particular faiths in its selections and the perils of trying to bar problematic books from shelves (“The constitution does not guarantee the right not to be offended”). The results are hit or miss." Rezension(3): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: September 15, 2023 This inspirational defense of intellectual freedom and critical analysis of cancel culture should be required reading for every aspiring and active information specialist. Part of the Speaker's Corner, a series of book-length essays on current topics, the book offers a nuanced and engaging overview of recent censorship trends in the United States followed by components and conditions that can result in cancel culture. Author LaRue certainly has the chops to address these issues, having over 25 years of experience as a public library director plus spending 201618 as the executive director of ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom. Drawing heavily on his own experience (LaRue figures he's dealt with roughly 1,000 library-censorship attempts), he analyzes types of complaints, types of complainers, case studies, outcomes, and lessons learned, identifying effective strategies and helpful resources (board-approved policies, written responses, legislation, allies). He offers insightful profiles of typical adherents of cancel-culture campaigns along with evaluations of their motives, tactics, and backers. LaRue's practical advice will be welcomed by information practitioners who work faceto-face with the public, and his thoughtful observations make this an excellent choice for professional-reading groups. This is a worthy addition to the intellectual-freedom canon. COPYRIGHT(2023) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "

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Content: " An authoritative history of Europe's largest military conflict since World War II, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Gates of Europe.Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war8212 and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? Ukrainians have resisted a superior military,the West has united, while Russia grows increasingly isolated. Serhii Plokhy, a leading historian of Ukraine and the Cold War, offers a definitive account of this conflict, its origins, course, and the already apparent and possible future consequences. Though the current war began eight years before the all-out assault8212 on February 27, 2014, when Russian armed forces seized the building of the Crimean parliament8212 the roots of this conflict can be traced back even earlier, to post-Soviet tensions and imperial collapse in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Providing a broad historical context and an examination of Ukraine and Russia's ideas and cultures, as well as domestic and international politics, Plokhy reveals that while this new Cold War was not inevitable, it was predictable. Ukraine, Plokhy argues, has remained central to Russia's idea of itself even as Ukrainians have followed a radically different path. In a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post8211 Cold War international order, and a resurgence of populist nationalism, Ukraine is now more than ever the most volatile fault line between authoritarianism and democratic Europe. "

Content: Biographisches: " Serhii Plokhy , Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, is a leading authority on the history of the Cold War. He is the author of Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters and Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis , among many other works. He lives in Burlington, Massachusetts." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: March 15, 2023 An insightful and discouraging study of a conflict that goes back further than February 2022. A prolific, lucid scholar with a host of books about Russia and Ukraine under his belt, Plokhy opens his latest with a chronicle of the 1,000-year rise of the Russian/Soviet empires. In the remainder of the narrative, he examines the past three decades, during which the empire collapsed, declined into misery and a failed democracy. Plokhy emphasizes that Vladimir Putin considers the Soviet collapse a tragedy and yearns to reestablish Russia--if not as an empire, at least as a rival power to America and China with a vast sphere of influence. Putin's vision has been no secret to its newly independent neighbors, who yearned for NATO's protection. Seven of these Eastern European nations joined NATO in 2004. America supported Ukraine's application, but France and Germany, uneasy about Putin's fierce opposition, vetoed it. At first, Putin attempted to win over Ukraine by the same means he used in Russia, but, although chaotic and corrupt, Ukraine remained a democracy. Amenable to Putin's pressures, its president could do little without parliament's consent, and unlike Russia's curiously well-behaved opposition, Ukrainian protesters turned out in massive numbers. In 2014, a frustrated Putin annexed Crimea and two eastern Ukrainian provinces. This had the unexpected consequence of eliminating most Russian-speaking sympathizers and uniting the remaining Ukrainian people. Plokhy identifies that annexation as the beginning of the current war. Putin invaded under the delusion (shared by America in earlier invasions) that the enemy would welcome his army,it was the first of many disappointments. Plokhy devotes half his text to the conflict itself, and so far, no unexpected surprises have turned up in the news. Russia's initial advances were followed by successful Ukrainian counterattacks, and the war seems to have settled into a brutal, high-tech slog. The text includes maps. Readers aiming to follow the fighting should read the daily news, but for a complete picture, this is the book. COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: April 3, 2023 Imperial nostalgia and miscalculation precipitated the war in Ukraine, according to this wide-ranging study. Harvard historian Plokhy ( Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front ) spends the book’s first half on the historical background of the 2022 Russian invasion, surveying Russia’s domination of Ukraine from the Middle Ages through the Soviet era, recent wranglings over Ukraine’s bids to join NATO and the European Union, and the course of the low-level war that followed Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and its support of Russian separatist militias in the Ukrainian Donbas. The book’s second half recaps the present conflict from the initial attack on Kiev to Ukraine’s counteroffensives in Kharkiv and Kherson, covering major battles,the killings of civilians by Russian occupiers,the charismatic leadership of Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenski,Putin’s poor military planning and delusional expectations, and more. Plokhy’s narrative is lucid, well-crafted, and judicious—he’s especially good on the complexities of the failed Minsk accords that sought to end the war in the Donbas—and vividly conveys the war’s destruction through Ukrainians’ firsthand experiences. (“It seems to be flying straight for your head,” one woman recalls of an attacking Russian warplane,“not even into your head but right through it.”) The result is an essential account of the conflict that manages to make sense of its obscure and tangled origins."

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