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Lexicon of the Old Testamenjt | title A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testamenjt | author Gesenius, Wilhelm | isbn | isbn13 | asin B00HQSEC08 | num pages 0pp | avg rating 3.90 | num ratings 10 | date pub Dec 31, 1952 | date pub edition unknown | Zefyr's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Oct 02, 2024 | owned | format Hardcover | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings | title Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings | author Grondzik, Walter T. | isbn 0470195657 | isbn13 9780470195659 | asin 0470195657 | num pages 1,766pp | avg rating 3.80 | num ratings 90 | date pub Jan 01, 1971 | date pub edition Jan 01, 2009 | Zefyr's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Oct 02, 2024 | owned | format Hardcover | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Organic Chemistry | title Organic Chemistry | author Loudon, Marc | isbn 0195119991 | isbn13 9780195119992 | asin 0195119991 | num pages 1,421pp | avg rating 3.51 | num ratings 77 | date pub Jan 01, 1984 | date pub edition Dec 27, 2001 | Zefyr's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Oct 02, 2024 | owned | format Hardcover | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Sexualis '95 | title Sexualis '95 | author Sternberg, Jacques | isbn | isbn13 | asin B006ZBHZAQ | num pages 0pp | avg rating 3.00 | num ratings 1 | date pub unknown | date pub edition Jan 01, 1967 | Zefyr's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Sep 13, 2024 | owned | format Paperback | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica: Recent Findings and New Perspectives (Conflict, Environment, and Social Complexity, 5) | title Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica: Recent Findings and New Perspectives(Conflict, Environment, and Social Complexity, 5) | author Mendoza, Rubén G. | isbn 3031365992 | isbn13 9783031365997 | asin 3031365992 | num pages 542pp | avg rating 0.00 | num ratings 0 | date pub unknown | date pub edition Mar 02, 2024 | Zefyr's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Aug 19, 2024 | owned | format Hardcover | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover In Cold Blood | title In Cold Blood | author Capote, Truman | isbn 0812994388 | isbn13 9780812994384 | asin 0812994388 | num pages 396pp | avg rating 4.09 | num ratings 679,817 | date pub 1959 | date pub edition Feb 19, 2013 | Zefyr's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Aug 19, 2024 | owned | format Hardcover | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Fluids | title Fluids | author Leitz, May | isbn | isbn13 9798353869887 | asin B0BNVC96N5 | num pages 191pp | avg rating 3.42 | num ratings 1,659 | date pub Mar 13, 2022 | date pub edition Mar 13, 2022 | Zefyr's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Aug 08, 2024 | owned | format Paperback | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover The Free People's Village | title The Free People's Village | author Kern, Sim * | isbn 1646142667 | isbn13 9781646142668 | asin 1646142667 | num pages 400pp | avg rating 4.13 | num ratings 1,326 | date pub Sep 12, 2023 | date pub edition Sep 12, 2023 | Zefyr's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Jul 24, 2024 | owned | format Hardcover | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott | title Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott | author Alcott, Louisa May | isbn 0688003389 | isbn13 9780688003388 | asin 0688003389 | num pages 281pp | avg rating 3.80 | num ratings 1,512 | date pub 1867 | date pub edition Sep 11, 1995 | Zefyr's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Jul 24, 2024 | owned | format Hardcover | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Killing Mr. Griffin | title Killing Mr. Griffin | author Duncan, Lois | isbn 0440945151 | isbn13 9780440945154 | asin 0440945151 | num pages unknown | avg rating 3.62 | num ratings 12,375 | date pub 1978 | date pub edition Feb 2021 | Zefyr's rating really liked it | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review I went into this book with a bunch of misinformation! So:* The movie Teaching Mrs. Tingle is not based on this book. I'd be shocked if Williamson, who I went into this book with a bunch of misinformation! So:* The movie Teaching Mrs. Tingle is not based on this book. I'd be shocked if Williamson, who wrote the movie, didn't at some point encounter this book and have some idea of the plot, but the two stories are pretty wildly different takes on the same core idea of a teacher hated enough by their students that some students contrive a plot to scare the teacher. I'm a fan of the movie, which was considered a flop. This book is fun too, though Susan is the only character that really gets a meaningful story arc.* The book has been banned several times for its content, and was republished with edits in 2010 to bring it up to the times. For some reason I had the impression that those edits had to do with sensitivity around school shootings, which have become quite common in the US since this book came out originally, because we are terrible. My impression was wrong. The republishing was to insert cell phones and change slang, making sufficient minimal edits to allow for renewing the copyright. This was a bad idea that turns it from a dated but good book to a dated and badly edited version of a good book by a dated person trying to do a Hello Fellow Kids meme. Try to get hold of the original version.Otherwise, effective and fun story of a teenager's downfall just as she thinks she's finally working things out. I particularly appreciated how Duncan handles each of the characters navigating the conflict between thoughts and actions. ...more | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 1 | date started not set | date read Jan 03, 2024 | date added Jul 01, 2024 | owned | format Paperback | actions view (with text) | | | | | checkbox | position | cover The Jewish Annotated Apocrypha | title The Jewish Annotated Apocrypha | author Klawans, Jonathan | isbn 0190262486 | isbn13 9780190262488 | asin 0190262486 | num pages 744pp | avg rating 4.50 | num ratings 18 | date pub unknown | date pub edition Oct 01, 2020 | Zefyr's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Jul 01, 2024 | owned | format Hardcover | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity | title Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity | author Price, Devon * | isbn 0593235231 | isbn13 9780593235232 | asin 0593235231 | num pages 304pp | avg rating 4.43 | num ratings 17,281 | date pub Apr 05, 2022 | date pub edition Apr 05, 2022 | Zefyr's rating liked it | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review I'm really mixed on this book, and ultimately recommend people treat it as a fluff/pop science book, and with caution.Price is a social psychologist, I'm really mixed on this book, and ultimately recommend people treat it as a fluff/pop science book, and with caution.Price is a social psychologist, which is a different kind of psychology. A fair bit of the content here reflects this mismatch. In particular, the exercises in here are extrapolated from his experience and not based on research, and including them in a text that is presenting as personal psychology/guide to personal development as an autistic person is concerning. I found the exercises deeply alienating, though also very informative about which autistics Price is writing to. Additionally, and I'm not sure if this is due to this mismatch or due to Price's writing style or something else, a lot is presented as solved fact in the book which is actually open theory. This isn't a good science book, even though a lot of the content is good.The book is specifically about autistic people who mask to the point of generally being excluded from/missed by historical research, diagnosis, and popular awareness of autism. I say historical not because this is now resolved but because things are now in heavy flux, and this book is part of that current moment. So the book's focus is important and I appreciate that. At the same time I took two major issues with how it handles this focus. One is that in the process, despite often trying to do otherwise, it often represents this group of autistic people as all autistic people. When it doesn't, it can be quite stigmatizing of autistic people who are low or non masking. I think that's generally contextually relevant due to personal stories of fears of being perceived as like these autistic people, which is relevant to why people mask. But it isn't generally balanced out by actual humanization of those low/non-masking autistic people; for the most part there's mainly just humanization of the people masking to avoid looking like them. My other major issue with the book's handling of the masking focus is that it looks at what I think is a significantly limited subset of autistic people who mask: namely those who have a substantial amount of their social support needs and resources met, but who still struggle. This is an important group, but it's far from everyone.And that leads into my biggest frustration with the book. It's presenting itself as a guide to unmasking, but its scope is quite limited. There's actually a fair bit of research and theory on masking already, by autistic people and both autistic and allistic researchers, that isn't touched on; the advice is generally "give yourself permission to stop hiding stims" and "think about what you value" and "find autistic community" which isn't bad advice, it's just not much to speak of.Price includes a brief description of masking in which he uses terms from Livingston, Shah, and Happé’s 2019 paper “Compensatory strategies below the behavioural surface in autism: a qualitative study.” They break it down into camouflaging (essentially, hiding things that indicate you are autistic) and compensation (essentially, managing the impact of autism on your life due to neuronormative expectations). Price's book generally focuses on the first and assumes it is always present in a particular form. And one of the biggest discoveries for me in reading this book, as someone newly figuring this out for myself, is that for me that's been less strong. This isn't to say I don't engage or haven't engaged in camouflaging behaviors, but rather for me compensation has been a much bigger part of my experience, and as a result I've had a substantially different lived experience from what this book is largely getting at, despite theoretically being in its target audience.I found the first half ish of the book more helpful for its broad overview, and felt less great about that as I learned more later about what was actually known vs theory. The later half is weaker and more focused on people's personal stories, which would be fine, but they tend to be used as representative experiences, which was strange.That all said, my biggest concern with these issues has to do with how this book is held up as a bible in a subset of the autistic community that sees itself exactly in its words. This subcommunity is heavily represented on social media, which helps in promoting the book, and it's a subcommunity that is heavily prone to talking over higher support needs and low/no masking autistic people. Anecdotally, it seems like people hyping this book have read only it, and don't seek further information. And I want to be clear, I don't blame Price for their behavior directly, and I do think he made reasonable effort to acknowledge that these aren't all autistic people. But I think the book's flaws have an outsized impact because of this audience.Anyway, if you read this book and find that it feels hollow or not relevant or whatever, it's not just you. ...more | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 1 | date started not set | date read Feb 17, 2024 | date added Jul 01, 2024 | owned | format Hardcover | actions view (with text) | | | | | checkbox | position | cover I Think I Might Be Autistic: A Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis and Self-Discovery for Adults | title I Think I Might Be Autistic: A Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis and Self-Discovery for Adults | author Kim, Cynthia * | isbn 0989597113 | isbn13 9780989597111 | asin 0989597113 | num pages 112pp | avg rating 4.22 | num ratings 1,685 | date pub Jun 08, 2013 | date pub edition Aug 09, 2013 | Zefyr's rating really liked it | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review Short introductory text about learning you might be autistic as an adult. The best part of this book is how it goes through the process of accessing d Short introductory text about learning you might be autistic as an adult. The best part of this book is how it goes through the process of accessing diagnosis, including exploring reasons why a diagnosis may or may not be worth getting; what an assessment may be like; and how to go about the process to ensure you're not just getting a yes or no on the diagnosis but also getting the resources you need for moving forward. There's also a brief overview of the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria along with questions to articulate those criteria, and Kim's narrative of her own experience with self and then formal diagnosis. ...more | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 1 | date started not set | date read Mar 06, 2024 | date added Jul 01, 2024 | owned | format Paperback | actions view (with text) | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Autism: A New Introduction to Psychological Theory and Current Debate | title Autism: A New Introduction to Psychological Theory and Current Debate | author Fletcher-Watson, Sue | isbn 1138106127 | isbn13 9781138106123 | asin 1138106127 | num pages 194pp | avg rating 4.40 | num ratings 83 | date pub unknown | date pub edition Feb 25, 2019 | Zefyr's rating really liked it | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review Brief but broad overview of the history and development of autism as a diagnosis and autistic people as a community, and summary of current (as of the Brief but broad overview of the history and development of autism as a diagnosis and autistic people as a community, and summary of current (as of the book's publication) open questions and theories. Authors are not autistic but include commentary from autistic writers and activists, and the authors' commentary itself is thoughtful and humanizing. A lot of people seem to be going for Unmasking Autism as their intro book on autism and I wish more would start here; definitely a good next step if that's what you've read.That said, it's definitely written for a more research-literate audience, so it can be a bit more challenging to read at times. I also found a couple areas where the book made one statement but the cited source didn't seem to support that, so I'm not sure if that's my own gap in understanding or an error on the writers' part. ...more | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 1 | date started not set | date read Apr 12, 2024 | date added Jul 01, 2024 | owned | format Paperback | actions view (with text) | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Fallen | title Fallen | author Maine, David * | isbn 0312328508 | isbn13 9780312328504 | asin 0312328508 | num pages 256pp | avg rating 3.66 | num ratings 688 | date pub 2005 | date pub edition Sep 05, 2006 | Zefyr's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added May 22, 2024 | owned | format Paperback | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Redemption in Indigo | title Redemption in Indigo | author Lord, Karen | isbn 0593724380 | isbn13 9780593724385 | asin 0593724380 | num pages 288pp | avg rating 3.88 | num ratings 2,874 | date pub Jul 06, 2010 | date pub edition Jun 11, 2024 | Zefyr's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Apr 09, 2024 | owned | format Paperback | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover The Princess of 72nd Street | title The Princess of 72nd Street | author Kraf, Elaine | isbn 0593731808 | isbn13 9780593731802 | asin 0593731808 | num pages 160pp | avg rating 3.96 | num ratings 285 | date pub 1979 | date pub edition Aug 06, 2024 | Zefyr's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Apr 08, 2024 | owned | format Hardcover | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Meditations | title Meditations | author Marcus Aurelius | isbn 0812968255 | isbn13 9780812968255 | asin 0812968255 | num pages 256pp | avg rating 4.28 | num ratings 273,439 | date pub 180 | date pub edition May 06, 2003 | Zefyr's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Apr 07, 2024 | owned | format Paperback | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Middlegame (Alchemical Journeys, #1) | title Middlegame(Alchemical Journeys, #1) | author McGuire, Seanan * | isbn 1250195519 | isbn13 9781250195517 | asin B07HF2ZK75 | num pages 492pp | avg rating 4.01 | num ratings 30,034 | date pub May 07, 2019 | date pub edition May 07, 2019 | Zefyr's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Mar 15, 2024 | owned | format Kindle Edition | actions view | | | |

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