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Closet Clarity
The Working Mom’s Guide to a Stress-Free Wardrobe, Smarter Outfits, and Simplified Style After 30
2025
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Do you stand in front of your closet every morning and feel like you have “nothing to wear”?For working moms over 30, a messy, overcrowded wardrobe doesn’t just waste time—it drains energy, confidence, and joy. Between career, kids, and endless to-do lists, you don’t need the extra stress of fashion overwhelm. The good news: a simple, organized wardrobe can make your mornings faster, lighter, and more confident.Closet Clarity is a step-by-step guide designed specifically fo...
2025
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When tension spikes, you don’t need a lecture—you need a tiny move that changes the moment. Pocket Ease gives first‑timers a friendly, step‑by‑step rhythm for turning scattered energy into steady presence in just a few minutes. Using plain language and zero jargon, you’ll learn how to notice the first signs of swirl, settle your body quickly, and choose a next action that creates relief you can feel.Inside you’ll practice a simple loop: Spot what’s happening (name the cue), Soothe ...
The Philosophy of Transhumanism
A Critical Analysis
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- Emerald Points
2020
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Transhumanism is an international cultural movement which seeks to fundamentally transform the human condition through radical technological enhancement. Transhumanists claim that we are already in transition to a new phase of humanity where the limitations of mortality, ignorance, and suffering will soon be altered or even completely erased. The Philosophy of Transhumanism: A Critical Analysis presents the central ideas of transhumanist philosophy and offers a lens through which ...
Dead End
Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism
2014
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More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens for a reason. As an activist and a scholar, Benjamin Ross is uniquely placed to diagnose why this is so. Dead End traces how the ideal of a safe, green, orderly retreat where hardworking ...
Funeral for a Dog
A Novel
- Translated by
- Ross Benjamin
2011
EN
"A smart and rewarding debut marked by accomplished writing, a slick translation, and intelligent takes on the absurdities of contemporary life." — Publishers WeeklyJournalist Daniel Mandelkern leaves Hamburg on assignment to interview Dirk Svensson, a reclusive children's book author who lives alone on the Italian side of Lake Lugano with his three-legged dog. Mandelkern has been quarreling with his wife (who is also his editor); he suspe...
The Polluters: The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment
The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment
2010
EN
The chemical pollution that irrevocably damages today's environment is, although many would like us to believe otherwise, the legacy of conscious choices made long ago. During the years before and just after World War II, discoveries like leaded gasoline and DDT came to market, creating new hazards even as the expansion and mechanization of industry exacerbated old ones. Dangers still felt today--smog, pesticides, lead, chromium, chlorinated solvents, asbestos, even global warming--were al...
The Polluters
The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment
2010
EN
The chemical pollution that irrevocably damages today's environment is, although many would like us to believe otherwise, the legacy of conscious choices made long ago. During the years before and just after World War II, discoveries like leaded gasoline and DDT came to market, creating new hazards even as the expansion and mechanization of industry exacerbated old ones. Dangers still felt today--smog, pesticides, lead, chromium, chlorinated solvents, asbestos, even global warming--were al...
2010
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Benjamin Ross and Steven Amter here tell the story of how the chemical industry, abetted by a compliant government, set loose a plague of pollution that began in the years before and directly following World War II, a plague that still lingers today. The advent of new synthetic chemical products such as Nylon and DDT created new hazards just as the expansion and mechanization of industry exacerbated old ones. Environmental dangers well known today--smog, pesticides, lead, chlorinated solvents...
- Translated by
- Ross Benjamin
2011
EN
An Orthodox Jew encounters his biggest test of faith after moving from Tsarist Russia to New York City in this “pure, perfect” retelling of the Book of Job (Stefan Zweig)Job is the tale of Mendel Singer, a pious, destitute Eastern-European Jew and children’s Torah teacher whose faith is tested at every turn. His youngest son seems to be incurably disabled, one of his older sons joins the Russian Army, the other deserts to America, and his daughter is runni...
We Are All Stardust
Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know
- Translated by
- Ross Benjamin
2015
EN
"The dazzling clutch of scientific minds caught in mid-thought here makes for a read that provokes thought in its turn. Delights abound." —Nature"What distinguishes scientists, in your eyes?" —Stefan Klein"First and foremost, curiosity." —Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Prize–winning chemistWhen Stefan Klein, an acclaimed journalist, sits down to talk with 18 of the world's leading scientists, he finds they're driven by, above all, curiosity. When they talk abou...
You Should Have Left
A Novel
- Translated by
- Ross Benjamin
2017
EN
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • From the internationally bestselling author of The Director, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse“Mind-bending. . . . Part horror, part science fiction.” —The New York Times Book Review"This is a story about a marriage in trouble, and about a seemingly impossible desire to protect a young child . . . but also about something else, something unavoidable and pow...
War Games
A History of War on Paper
- Translated by
- Ross Benjamin
2012
EN
The convergence of military strategy and mathematics in war games, from medieval to modern times.For centuries, both mathematical and military thinkers have used game-like scenarios to test their visions of mastering a complex world through symbolic operations. By the end of World War I, mathematical and military discourse in Germany simultaneously discovered the game as a productive concept. Mathematics and military strategy converged in World War II when mathemat...











