rachellandryberdan

rachellandryberdan

she/her | 42 | 🍁 | chaotic good(?) | dog person I have pretty eclectic tastes, but especially love matrilineal magic, found family, rich prose, women's rage and other shenanigans, and justice.

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The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

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A Guide to Shadow Work: A Workbook to Explore Your Hidden Self (Wellness Workbooks)

52 Weeks to a Sweeter Life for Caregivers, Activists and Helping Professionals: A Workbook of Emotional Hacks, Self-Care Experiments and Other Good Ideas

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care (Abolitionist Papers)

Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the Wisdom of What Lies Beneath Us

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A Guide to Shadow Work: A Workbook to Explore Your Hidden Self (Wellness Workbooks)

Stephanie Kirby

Find self-love, self-acceptance, and true growth through understanding the dark and light that coexist in you. Over the course of your life, you push difficult emotions and experiences aside, but they never truly leave you. These elements form your shadow self , the dark side of your personality that most people try to repress. Shadow work is a method of embracing and seeking to understand this darker aspect of yourself so that you can release the pain and trauma of the past and become a more healed and balanced person . A Guide to Shadow Work will be your guide as you walk toward embracing your shadow Darkness and light coexist in every person. Only by doing the hard work of acknowledging the darkness can you begin to heal, love and accept yourself, and truly grow. The Wellness Workbooks series from Wellfleet Press offers guidance on a wide range of self-help and mental health topics. Each book presents a thoughtful, evidence-based collection of straightforward exercises in an accessible, enjoyable format that will keep you engaged and inspired. With a distinctive design and full-color illustrations throughout, these workbooks deliver a practical path to personal growth in a beautiful package. Check out other titles in the Find Your Strength , Find your Calm , Find Good Habits , and Find Your Peace .

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52 Weeks to a Sweeter Life for Caregivers, Activists and Helping Professionals: A Workbook of Emotional Hacks, Self-Care Experiments and Other Good Ideas

Farzana Doctor

A practical guide to self-care, written for helpers—the caregivers, activists, community leaders, mental health and medical professionals who are the first to help others, but the last to seek help themselves. As an activist, community organizer and social worker, Farzana Doctor has preached self-care to hundreds of people struggling with burnout and exhaustion. But for years she couldn’t manage to take her own advice. Many other helpers she knew were the they knew the signs of burnout, and they understood the science of self-care. Maybe they’d taken workshops on vicarious trauma; maybe they’d even taught them. But still they struggled to escape the cycle of overwork, overwhelm and recovery. 52 Weeks to a Sweeter Life is a workbook that speaks directly to these people—the helpers who struggle to pause, set boundaries or put themselves first. The workbook contains fifty-two lessons, one for each week of the year. Each week, readers will find a simple new idea and an experiment for trying it out, with deeper dives into the material provided, but every level of participation celebrated. Throughout, Doctor embraces both community care and self-care at the same time, showing readers the overlap between the two. Beautifully written, direct and insightful, this workbook is a gentle and practical guide to a more balanced life, written for those who need it most.

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Pure comfort.

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A Canadian Writer's Reference with 2020 APA and 2021 MLA Updates

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Very useful and accessible reference.

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The Craft of Research

Wayne C. Booth

With more than 400,000 copies now in print, The Craft of Research is the unrivaled resource for researchers at every level, from first-year undergraduates to research reporters at corporations and government offices. Seasoned researchers and educators Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams present an updated third edition of their classic handbook, whose first and second editions were written in collaboration with the late Wayne C. Booth. The Craft of Research explains how to build an argument that motivates readers to accept a claim; how to anticipate the reservations of readers and to respond to them appropriately; and how to create introductions and conclusions that answer that most demanding question, “So what?” The third edition includes an expanded discussion of the essential early stages of a research task: planning and drafting a paper. The authors have revised and fully updated their section on electronic research, emphasizing the need to distinguish between trustworthy sources (such as those found in libraries) and less reliable sources found with a quick Web search. A chapter on warrants has also been thoroughly reviewed to make this difficult subject easier for researchers Throughout, the authors have preserved the amiable tone, the reliable voice, and the sense of directness that have made this book indispensable for anyone undertaking a research project.

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Role-Playing Game Studies

Jose Zagal

This handbook collects, for the first time, the state of research on role-playing games (RPGs) across disciplines, cultures, and media in a single, accessible volume. Collaboratively authored by more than 50 key scholars, it traces the history of RPGs, from wargaming precursors to tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons to the rise of live action role-play and contemporary computer RPG and massively multiplayer online RPG franchises, like Fallout and World of Warcraft. Individual chapters survey the perspectives, concepts, and findings on RPGs from key disciplines, like performance studies, sociology, psychology, education, economics, game design, literary studies, and more. Other chapters integrate insights from RPG studies around broadly significant topics, like transmedia worldbuilding, immersion, transgressive play, or player-character relations. Each chapter includes definitions of key terms and recommended readings to help fans, students, and scholars new to RPG studies find their way into this new interdisciplinary field.

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Procedural Storytelling in Game Design

Tanya X. Short

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Improv for Gamers

Karen Twelves

This book provides a selection of fun and easy improv exercises designed to take your tabletop or live-action gaming group to a new level. Pick and choose exercises to develop a particular skill, or run through a variety of them at random! No improv experience required. Some of the skills the book highlights include: -Smoothly building on the information provided by other participants -Using one small starting point to build a multi-faceted character -Building authentic relationships between characters -Interacting with invisible objects in a way that is believable -Knowing when and how to end a scene and share the spotlight

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Improv for Gamers

Karen Twelves

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intofolklore

what is a book that everyone loves but you hate?

no judgement zone here! i’m always curious about this and what made the book so bad to someone

mine is between if he had been with me and a thousand boy kisses. these books i was so excited to read but when i did, i absolutely hated them. i cringed way too hard during both of them. i know they are supposed to be heartbreaking, but it’s hard to be hurt by a book that made me want to chuck it across the room because of how bad it was

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A Garden of Marvels: How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants

Ruth Kassinger

In the tradition of The Botany of Desire and Wicked Plants, a witty and engaging history of the first botanists interwoven with stories of today's extraordinary plants found in the garden and the lab. In Paradise Under Glass, Ruth Kassinger recounted with grace and humor her journey from brown thumb to green, sharing lessons she learned from building a home conservatory in the wake of a devastating personal crisis. In A Garden of Marvels, she extends the story. Frustrated by plants that fail to thrive, she sets out to understand the basics of botany in order to become a better gardener. She retraces the progress of the first botanists who banished myths and misunderstandings and discovered that flowers have sex, leaves eat air, roots choose their food, and hormones make morning glories climb fence posts. She also visits modern gardens, farms, and labs to discover the science behind extraordinary plants like one-ton pumpkins, a truly black petunia, a biofuel grass that grows twelve feet tall, and the world's only photosynthesizing animal. Transferring her insights to her own garden, she nurtures a "cocktail" tree that bears five kinds of fruit, cures a Buddha's Hand plant with beneficial fungi, and gets a tree to text her when it's thirsty. Intertwining personal anecdote, accessible science, and untold history, the ever-engaging author takes us on an eye-opening journey into her garden - and yours.

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🚩He is not the love of your life🚩

by sailorsoftgirl

26 books

"He is literally just a guy. Hit him with your car."

AKA, a selection of "book boyfriends" that actually suck. Featuring red flags ranging from an emotionally unavailable Irish lad to a man who locks up his wife in an attic.

Recommendations welcome. No judgment if you enjoy these books; this list was inspired by my own obsession with Heathcliff, toxic lover extraordinaire, as a teen.

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House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1)

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paigesbookshelf

A question for my fellow ADHD friends

Hi all!

I want to know if this is just a me problem. I have ADHD-PI (primarily inattentive) and I have SUCH a hard time getting myself to sit down and read! Books and learning about new books is one of my interests, but unless I’m medicated that day I simply cannot sit and read. It feels like a horrible reading slump. If I do take my medication I suddenly can read again! The executive dysfunction is REAL.

Can anyone relate? I love books with all my heart but it makes me so sad that I can’t get myself to just sit and read whenever I want.

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linnie

cats or dogs?

are you a cat person, or a dog person?

quite a random question, but i'm curious, and i'm wondering if it impacts your book taste?

people like to say dog people are outgoing, extroverted, go getters— and cat people? more reserved, maybe witchy, more slow paced.

i'm both! i've grown up with cats, dogs, ferrets and many other small pets, but i'm still pretty introverted and keep a small circle. i like to go out sometimes, but i'm pretty laid back to be honest. i like creepier, weirder books, preferably fast paced though!

what about you guys? do you think it says anything about your personality?

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“he was six and a half feet tall and had a jaw so straight it made other men question if they were.” i can’t with this bookkkkkk 😭😭😭

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Land Connection from Indigenous Perspectives

by munitum

17 books

Non-fiction books from Indigenous authors focusing on Indigenous science, land stewardship, and connecting to the land from anti-colonial perspectives. Curated by an Ojibwe person who hopes we can save the world 🌎🫶

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Revered Roots: Ancestral Teachings and Wisdom of Wild, Edible, and Medicinal Plants

The Spirit and the Sky: Lakota Visions of the Cosmos (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians)

Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability (New Directions in Sustainability and Society)

Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

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Held by the Land: A Guide to Indigenous Plants for Wellness

Leigh Joseph

Author Leigh Joseph, an ethnobotanist and a member of the Squamish Nation, provides a beautifully illustrated essential introduction to Indigenous plant knowledge. Plants can be a great source of healing as well as nourishment , and the practice of growing and harvesting from trees, flowering herbs, and other plants is a powerful way to become more connected to the land . The Indigenous Peoples of North America have long traditions of using native plants as medicine as well as for food. Held by the Land honors and shares some of these traditions, offering a guide Early chapters will introduce you to responsible ways to identify and harvest plants in your area and teach you how to grow a deeper connection with the land you live on through plants. In the plant profiles section, common plants are introduced with illustrations and information on their characteristics , range , how to grow and/or harvest them , and how to use them topically and as food. Special features offer recipes for food and beauty products along with stories and traditions around the plants. This beautiful, full-color guide to Indigenous plants will give you new insights into the power of everyday plants.

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Plants, fungi, and trees - oh my! 🌿🍄🌳

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Welcome to the wonderful world of Plants! Celebrate the leafy, fungal, flowering world with these non-fiction titles. Through science writing, memoirs, and essays (and more!), learn about the inner workings of plants, explore the interconnected nature of nature, and discover just how vast the mycelium network really is.

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BookishBastet

Trigger or Content Warnings

So I would like to know where people stand on content or trigger warnings given by authors. This on issues like eating disorders, familial or domestic violence, the nature of sexual encounters, etc. What warnings do you think are needed?

If you support them do you think they gave to be at the start of the book or just mentioned there. I won't lie I'm fully for them.

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