Along with showing that she’s done diligent research, the backmatter includes an inventory of camping supplies for would be squatchers (including a “camera-to get blurry blobsquatch photos”) and a quick list of Bigfoot relatives worldwide. On more personal notes, she records an exciting (but fruitless) overnight expedition with a group of experienced “squatchers” and the (negative) results of a DNA test on a sample taken from one of the aforementioned nests.
And while Krantz acknowledges the so far total lack of “irrefutable proof,” she highlights the importance of keeping an open mind and recognizing that there are still unsolved mysteries in the world.
Not quite convincingly trying to position herself on the side of science, podcaster and science journalist Krantz opens with lucid discussions of taxonomy and human evolution but then runs through the circumstantial evidence-“thousands” of outsized footprints, “thousands” of sightings in every state except Hawaii, numerous blurry photos dubbed “blobsquatches” by aficionados, a set of mysterious ground “nests” discovered in Washington state. Trots in all the tropes except the cherry tree, but the rosy glow may not be misplaced considering his predecessor.Ī case study in the tension between scientific objectivity and human nature. The narrative ends the weekend after Election Day with an analysis of the challenges ahead. Joe Biden had spoken without thinking.” Side looks at relevant topics from trickle-down economics to the Electoral College inelegantly interrupt the text but serve to fill in some of the historical background, and the tactics and failures of the Trump administration, particularly to address the Covid-19 pandemic, get a good airing. The author presents Biden’s early positions on, for instance, same-sex marriage or crime as either evolving or errors acknowledged in retrospect, dismisses allegations of sexual harassment, and frames his verbal gaffes as just foibles: “Obama was ‘the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.’ Oops. The author mixes frank accounts of the latter with heartwarming family stories like the time his sons, then 6 and 7, sat him down in 1976 and told him to marry Jill Jacobs. Gormley portrays his career as a heroic march to the White House past both political challenges and wrenching personal tragedies. Focusing as she goes on values or character-revealing anecdotes and sound bites (including multiple early predictions that he would grow up to be president), she turns his father’s motto “if you get knocked down, get up” into a thematic mantra. Gormley begins with Biden’s working-class origins, then retraces his development as a “natural leader” from roguish, family-centered senior class president to responsible and still family-centered national one. Global statements addressed directly at “you” may make some readers feel seen while alienating those to whom these generalizations do not apply.Ī cutely illustrated, chaotically disorganized, and jargon-heavy repackaging of behavioral therapies for anxiety.Ī hagiographic portrait of the United States’ newest president-elect. Exercises hop from concept to concept, too heavily packed with acronyms, coinages, and techniques.
The use of Jackie Robinson to convey the idea that inner strength can defeat racism feels tone-deaf. While the exercises may be helpful for many anxiety sufferers, case studies focusing on self-esteem and perfectionism won’t speak to readers worried about serious illness, coming out, violence, or deportation. The overly tidy framing doesn’t do readers any favors: Adolescence can be scary and dangerous, and contemporary tweens and teens often face serious crises. The problems the sample kids face are straightforward: Will I fail my math test? Will I fit in at this new school? Their anxieties are usually unfounded, which they learn through following the techniques.
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Fictionalized case studies populate each lesson, illustrated with dynamic, cartoonlike young people drawn with a variety of skin colors and hair textures. How should kids manage the discomfort and panic that accompany anxiety? Worksheets and exercises teach readers the basics of many common anxiety management techniques in use today, drawing heavily from behavioral therapies for managing anxiety’s cognitive distortions. A celebrity psychologist and the founder of a company that sells emotional learning programs team up for a workbook about managing anxiety.
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