Science Identity

Vital research is starting to challenge long-standing assumptions about gender identity and biological sex, such as work that indicates the brain is a “mosaic” of traits rather than a “male” and “female” brain. Growing knowledge of the genetic complexities of sexual determination is changing the way the medical community treats intersex individuals, and in this audiobook, The New Science of Sex and Gender, we not only examine the latest studies in biology, medicine, and psychology but also, more importantly, their bearing on healthcare, identity, and access.

Most Evil II is Steve Hodel's follow-up investigation (2009-2015) into his father's potential murders and introduces new evidence and additional linkage obtained by him over the past six years. Included in that evidence is the solving of the Zodiac's 45-year-cryptic cipher, which gives us the answer to the question asked in Most Evil: Were Black Dahlia Avenger and Zodiac the same serial killer?

Happiness has become a serious business. Where 20th-century psychology focused on depression and illness, in the new millennium scientists have begun focusing on "positive psychology" - the study of happiness. Ariel Gore first became intrigued by this subject when she discovered that a class on positive psychology was the most popular course on the Harvard campus.

Ersula J. Ore scrutinizes the civic roots of lynching, the relationship between lynching and white constitutionalism, and contemporary manifestations of lynching discourse and logic today. From the 1880s onward, lynchings, she finds, manifested a violent form of symbolic action that called a national public into existence, denoted citizenship, and upheld political community.

Las consecuencias de la masculinidad tradicional nos afectan en todas las áreas de nuestras vidas. No sólo las sufren las mujeres, sino también nuestros amigos, familiares, compañeros y, sobre todo, nosotros mismos. También han afectado a Justin Baldoni, que ha decidido explorar algunas de las facetas más importantes de la experiencia masculina —el valor, el éxito, la raza, la sexualidad, las relaciones o la paternidad— para entender cómo la concepción social de «ser un hombre» nos hace daño y limita.

Action, adventure, and more in three great superhero books! For the first time ever, get the first three Minimum Wage Sidekick books in one convenient package! In "First Job," sixteen-year-old Alex Fry (Beams) gets his first job as a sidekick and must decide where his loyalties lie; in "First Date," Beams must evade a supervillain assassin hired to take him down; and in "First Offer," Beams gets a job offer from a new superhero in town, but there is more than meets the eye to his new superhero and Beams must find out what it is before it's too late.

A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew. Lee hikes mountains home to Formosan flamecrests, birds found nowhere else on earth, and swims in a lake of drowned cedars. Throughout, Lee unearths surprising parallels between the natural and human stories that have shaped her family and their beloved island.

In this short story from the novel “SuperHero – Retirement”, a recently retired SuperHero gives a young SuperHero lessons on humility.

Luke Gillis is barely dragging himself through college. Of course, if he wrote term papers the way he thrashed bank robbers, he’d probably be a doctor by now. His mentor is the Miracle Worker. Yes, that Miracle Worker. Some say he’s more outlaw than hero, but beggars can’t be choosers. Still, Luke must be doing something right. The U.S. Army has invited his alter ego—the dashing speedster Spitball—on a top-secret mission. With the country’s premier superhero team missing-in-action, this could be his big break.

Sixteen-year-old Treehugger is looking forward to visiting the newly opened school for young superhumans along with her teammates. In particular, she's been looking forward to seeing a particularly handsome young superhero who she's had a crush on for a long time, though her feelings for him are also mixed with anxiety at the idea of actually talking to him. But when Treehugger is kidnapped by members of an interdimensional agency, she soon discovers a new threat from beyond the universe which seeks to not only capture her for its own nefarious purposes, but also destroy the Earth itself. ...

In Neurology Rounds with the Maverick, clinical neurologist Dr. Bernard M. Patten recounts his most profound, entertaining, and uncommon experiences with patients throughout his 34-year medical career...Neurology Rounds with the Maverick presents an authentic look inside some of the most complex, strange, and fascinating neurological cases of the last half-century of medicine. Listen it to appreciate the good, the bad, the terrible, and the densely human anecdotes that document the past and light the way for the future of medicine.

Can they guard their secret to stay alive? Pure of heart and a little unsure of himself, Troy is longing for a life of excitement. Shortly after he and his twin brother, Erick, turn sixteen they embark on the traditional coming of age expedition, the Banner Quest. As they set sail for Shazarland, land of the Elves, they are joined by the talented and fearless Princess Summer, with whom Troy is instantly captivated. Summer, daughter of the High Queen, quickly takes charge of what starts out as an intriguing and thrilling adventure, the likes of which they have always wanted.

Novelist Porochista Khakpour's family moved to Los Angeles after fleeing the Iranian Revolution, giving up their successes only to be greeted by an alienating culture. Growing up as an immigrant in America means that one has to make one's way through a confusing tangle of conflicting cultures and expectations. And Porochista is pulled between the glitzy culture of Tehrangeles, an enclave of wealthy Iranians and Persians in LA, her own family's modest life and culture, and becoming an assimilated American.

My Korean Identity and Quest for Understanding, edited by Sora Yang of Sydney, Australia, is a very important book in the area of Korean studies. This ground-breaking book contains 13 articles by Korean youth from around the world, in India, Africa, Australia, and the USA.

The Ash Loop A Psychological Thriller Where Memory Burns and Choice Is the Final Weapon Elise Archer was supposed to be erased. Instead, she became something Carmine never predicted—unwritten. Now, hunted by the final fragments of the looping system that tried to define her, Elise enters the Ash Loop: a recursive hell built from grief, fire, and memory so corrupted it rewrites the minds trapped inside. Everywhere she turns, she sees pieces of herself—versions she never lived, lives she never chose, and people the system never let go. The loops are collapsing. The archive is imploding. ...

The Echo State: Book Two of The Echo Continuum The recursion didn’t end. It evolved. Five years after Elena Wren vanished into the Veil, a new kind of signal begins to bloom—one that doesn’t need technology to propagate. It grows through people. Kira Sayen has never touched the Veil, but it remembers her. Dreams that aren’t hers. Symbols she’s never seen, drawn in her own hand. And a voice from a sister she’s never met… whispering her name. As recursion spreads across minds and systems, a secret faction called the Refractors races to sever it at the root—before the human ...

After graduating high school in Scarborough, Morris spent four years in the U.S. on multiple football scholarships and, having spent that time in the States experiencing “the Mecca of hip hop and Black culture,” returned home with a newfound perspective. Now an elementary school teacher himself in Toronto, Morris explores the tension between his consumption of Black culture as a child, his teenage performances of the ideas and values of the culture that often betrayed his identity, and the ways society and the people guiding him received those performances.

What if the greatest equation ever written was not one that explained the universe, but one that questioned existence itself? Elias Voltaire was a man who believed that everything could be calculated—every force, every motion, even human thought itself. But in his final moments, as he crossed the threshold of life and death, he found himself in a realm that defied all mathematical logic. Instead of nothingness, he encountered an infinite field of information, a vast and ever-changing ocean where knowledge flowed endlessly—yet he himself was dissolving into it. With no body, no form, and...

A message for hopeless romantics, romantic idealists, and developing men and women who seek the passionate depths of their natural masculine and feminine qualities.

Daniel Hill will never forget the day he heard these words: "Daniel, you may be white, but don't let that lull you into thinking you have no culture. White culture is very real. In fact, when white culture comes in contact with other cultures, it almost always wins. So it would be a really good idea for you to learn about your culture." Confused and unsettled by this encounter, Hill began a journey of understanding his own white identity. Today he is an active participant in addressing and confronting racial and systemic injustices.