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Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications." It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or develop new theories. A research project may also be an expansion on past work in the field. Research projects can be used to develop further knowledge on a topic, or in the example of a school research project, they can be used to further a student's resea ...more

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The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic

The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker

The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World

Heretic: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God

Just One Thing: How simple changes can transform your life

How Migration Really Works: A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond

The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders

The Japanese Myths: A Guide to Gods, Heroes and Spirits

Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America

Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein

Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership

The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster

To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment

Ornithography: An Illustrated Guide to Bird Lore & Symbolism

Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation

They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy

The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow

Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch

The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women

Love + Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life

The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation

The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth

Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe – How Charlemagne's Dynasty Fell and Why It Matters for Understanding Political Collapse

Poison: The History of Potions, Powders and Murderous Practitioners

Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism

The Chinese Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Legends

The Lost Book of Remedies - Discover The Forgotten Power of Plant

The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain: The Immersive and Brilliant Historical Guide to Regency Britain

After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep

Witch Queens, Voodoo Spirits, and Hoodoo Saints: A Guide to Magical New Orleans

In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder

The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America

Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain

Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange

Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism

Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid

Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

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In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked

California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid

The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic

The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Piracy

"You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption

How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain

Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief

Botanical Curses and Poisons: The Shadow-Lives of Plants

The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives

Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania

Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet – A Powerful Memoir from the School of American Ballet and the Women Who Survived It

The Culture of Knighthood in Medieval Romance

Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization

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Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

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“ This stated, “Dear Mr. Prime Minister, I am delighted by the decision of your government to provide an infantry battalion for service in South Vietnam at the request of the Government of South Vietnam” The simple fact about this was that no such request was ever received by the Australian Government. ”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

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“ Nothing can illustrate these observations more forcibly, than a recollection of the happy conjuncture of times and circumstances, under which our Republic assumed its rank among the Nations; The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period, the researches of the human mind, after social happiness, have been carried to a great extent, the ...more ”
― George Washington, Writings

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