Morris County Library New Non-Fiction
Newsletter # 404 - 10/8/2021
Here is a selection of new non-fiction that we have added to our collection. If any of these titles sparks your interest, just click on the title to be taken to our online catalog for more information. Happy reading!
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2021
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
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Publisher, Date: New York : Other Press, 2021.
Description: 183 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary: "An intimate look at America's historically rooted struggle to adequately educate vulnerable children, and a call to action to those in positions of power who are able to open doors of opportunity. You wouldn't guess it by listening to our elected officials, but education is the civil rights issue of our day. At the root of every important problem we face, from mass incarceration to income inequality, is an education system influenced by our nation's fraught history. Just as past generations fought to ensure that all Americans could enjoy the right to fully participate in our democracy, so must we rally tirelessly to advance an educational agenda that promotes equity and inclusion. With the gap between white academic achievement and that of students of color widening, now is the time to turn our attention to the basics, and few would argue with the fact that the single most essential aspect of a good education is literacy. Beyond reading and writing, literacy encompasses a whole host of skills that allow us to develop our potential and succeed in society, including critical thinking, self-discipline, curiosity, leadership, and motivation. Helping all our nation's young people, especially those who live in low-income communities, improve their literacy skills should be a top priority. Numerous programs are operating around the country to address the issue of underperformance in light of the shortcomings of our public school system. Through one such program, Freedom Readers, Tracy Swinton Bailey has honed an approach to strengthening communities and the prospects of all children that invites those with the benefit of a good education into low-income areas for the purpose of growing literacy skills together. In Forever Free, she outlines clearly and persuasively how it has worked in the rural South, and how it can work across the US. This book will inspire and empower readers, and should be placed in the hands of educators and organizers at every level"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
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Publisher, Date: West Virgina : Abingdon Press , 2021.
Description: 157 pages ; 21 cm.
Summary: Jesus provided his disciples teachings for how to follow Torah, God's word; he told them parables to help them discern questions of ethics and of human nature; he offered them beatitudes for comfort and encouragement. But sometimes Jesus spoke words that followers then and now have found difficult. He instructs disciples to hate members of their own families (Luke 14:26), to act as if they were slaves (Matthew 20:27), and to sell their belongings and give to the poor (Luke 18:22). He restricts his mission (Matthew 10:6); he speaks of damnation (Matthew 8:12); he calls Jews the devil's children (John 8:44). In The Difficult Words of Jesus, Amy-Jill Levine shows how these difficult teachings would have sounded to the people who first heard them, how have they been understood over time, and how we might interpret them in the context of the Gospel of love and reconciliation. |
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2021
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
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Publisher, Date: Downers Grove, IL : IVP Academic, [2021]
Description: 372 pages ; 23 cm
Summary: "Christian Zionism influences global politics, especially U.S. foreign policy, and has deeply affected Jewish-Christian and Muslim-Christian relations. With a fair-minded, longitudinal study of this dynamic yet controversial movement, Donald M. Lewis traces its lineage from biblical sources through the Reformation to various movements of today"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Local Availability: 0 (of 1)
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Publisher, Date: New York : New York University Press, [2021]
Description: xviii, 245 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Summary: "In 1576 a catastrophic epidemic devastated Indigenous Mexican communities and left the colonial church in ruins. With its horrific final symptom of hemorrhage from the nose, the unfamiliar disease, which the Nahua named cocoliztli, took almost two million lives. In the crisis and its immediate aftermath, Spanish missionaries and surviving pueblos de indios held radically different visions for the future of church in the Americas"-- Provided by publisher.
Series: North American religions |
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2021
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
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Edition: Second edition
Publisher, Date: Cambridge : O'Reilly, 2021.
Description: 711 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm |
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2021
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
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Edition: Second edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Apress, 2021.
Description: 380 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cm |
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2021
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Publisher, Date: New York : Apress, 2021.
Description: xvii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Summary: This book is for anyone who wants to learn Microsoft Teams. To get the most out of the book, a basic understanding of Microsoft 365 and a subscription, including a Microsoft Teams license, is useful. |
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2021
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 2)
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Publisher, Date: New York : Portfolio/Penguin, [2021]
Description: xvi, 220 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: "The unforgettable true story of how a janitor struggling to put food on the table invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos in a secret test kitchen, breaking barriers and becoming the first Latino executive at Frito-Lay. Richard Montañez wasn't supposed to have big dreams. Born to migrant farm workers and mired in grinding generational poverty, he left school in the sixth grade, eventually taking a job mopping floors at Frito Lay's California factory to support his young wife and family. Everything changed when one night, at 28, Montañez took his future in his hands: he used his wife's recipe for chili sauce to season a bag of plain Cheetos he'd snuck home. After an intense process of experimenting and testing, and an incredibly risky call to the company's CEO, breaking with protocol, Montañez launched Flamin' Hot Cheetos. He never expected the onslaught of discrimination, backstabbing, and attempted sabotage-or the chip's explosive success. Flamin' Hot shares the inside story of the world's hottest snack food. Montañez not only disrupted the food industry with some much-needed spice, but also shook up a corporate culture in which everyone stayed in their lane. When a top food scientist at Frito-Lay sent out a memo telling sales and marketing to kill the new product before it made it to the store shelves-jealous that someone with no formal education beyond the sixth grade could do his job-Montañez was forced to go rogue once again to save his idea. Through creative thinking, community building, and a few powerful mindset shifts, he outsmarted the naysayers who tried to get in his way. This is the inspiring story of a man who made a science out of walking through closed doors. It's also an empowerment manual for anyone stuck in a dead-end job or facing a system stacked against them. Flamin' Hot provides hope that your present circumstances don't have to dictate your future, carving a new path to the American Dream"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 3 (of 4)
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Publisher, Date: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]
Description: xiv, 278 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Summary: "No one needs another book about how to lead Millennials-what we need is a book about harnessing the untapped potential from the diversity of thought in a multigenerational workforce. "Gentelligence" is that book. It presents a transformative way to end the generational wars once and for all"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Local Availability: 0 (of 1)
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Basic Books, 2021.
Description: xvi, 282 pages ; 25 cm
Summary: "Corporate boards have never been under greater pressure. Scandals and malpractice at companies like Theranos, WeWork, Uber, and Wells Fargo have raised serious, justified questions about the quality of corporate governance among regulators, shareholders, and society at large. Activists are pressing corporations and their boards to assume new responsibilities on issues from pay equity to climate change. A global pandemic and a profound economic crisis have only accelerated a mounting backlash against globalization and capitalism itself. In How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World, prize-winning economist and veteran corporate director Dambisa Moyo offers an insider's view of corporate boards' struggles to meet the challenges of our perilous times. Boards, she argues, must take bold steps to reform their practices and exert far stronger leadership if global corporations hope to survive the perilous years ahead. Many people--including even many shareholders and executives--understand little about what boards do, how they work, and the fiduciary responsibilities they must fulfill. Drawing on Moyo's decade of experience serving on corporate boards, How Boards Work takes readers inside corporate board rooms as boards face ever-louder demands to broaden their traditional mandate--choosing the CEO and endorsing corporate strategy--by weighing in on questions of racial and gender equity, data privacy, and other cultural and social issues. It describes how the challenges facing boards will only grow in the coming decade as globalization ebbs, short-term thinking dominates investor behavior, and competition for talent becomes more intense. Corporations must fundamentally rethink how they do business, Moyo argues, and boards must equip themselves to lead the way through a radical program of modernization. Corporations need boards that are more transparent, more knowledgeable, more diverse, and much more deeply involved in setting the strategic course of the companies they lead. The survival and success of global corporations is crucial to the global economy. How Boards Work offers a road map for how boards can steer companies through tomorrow's challenges and ensure they can thrive to the benefit not only of their employees and shareholders but also that of society at large"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Local Availability: 0 (of 1)
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Edition: 9th edition
Publisher, Date: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley and Sons, Incorporated, [2021]
Description: xviii, 440 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary: "Investing for your future is wise and essential. Of course, you want to make solid investment choices and minimize mistakes. This updated, best-selling guide educates you on investing concepts and lingo so you can make the best decisions in all economies and markets. Understanding how to find and make smart investments is a skill that can be learned, and this book by money-pro Eric Tyson will help you by discovering how to weigh risk vs. return, offering tips on choosing stocks and funds, getting started in real estate and small business, and so much more."--Back cover
Series: --For dummies |
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2021
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 4 (of 7)
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Publisher, Date: New York : Viking, [2021]
Description: pages cm
Summary: "As if Annie Dillard walked into THE WORLD WITHOUT US: a beautiful, lyrical exploration of the places where nature is flourishing in our absence Some of the only truly feral cattle in the world wander a long-abandoned island off the northernmost tip of Scotland. A variety of wildlife not seen in many lifetimes has rebounded on the irradiated grounds of Chernobyl. A lush forest supports thousands of species that are extinct or endangered everywhere else on earth in the Korean peninsula's narrow DMZ. Cal Flyn, an investigative journalist, exceptional nature writer, and promising new literary voice visits the eeriest and most desolate places on Earth that due to war, disaster, disease, or economic decay, have been abandoned by humans. What she finds every time is an "island" of teeming new life: nature has rushed in to fill the void faster and more thoroughly than even the most hopeful projections of scientists. ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT is a tour through these new ecosystems, in all their glory, as sites of unexpected environmental significance, where the natural world has reasserted its wild power and promise. And while it doesn't let us off the hook for addressing environmental degradation and climate change, it's a case that hope is far from lost, and is ultimately a story of redemption. The most polluted spots on Earth can be rehabilitated through ecological processes, and in fact they already are"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Description: viii, 404 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit-and the insidious ways this realm harms us all"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 2)
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Twelve, 2021.
Description: xv, 478 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Summary: An award-winning investigative journalist presents an account of the life and confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, featuring interviews with his accusers and evidence of his deceptions amongst the Republican Party's drive toward the far right. |
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2021
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
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Publisher, Date: New York : The New Press, 2021.
Description: 312 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary: "Immigration Matters brings together key movement leaders and academics in the immigration space to share cutting-edge approaches to the question of America's borders-who should be allowed in, and who, if anyone, should be kept out. The book delves into topics including new ways to frame immigration issues, fresh thinking on key aspects of policy, challenges of integration, workers' rights, family re-unification, legalization, paths to citizenship, and humane enforcement. This collection makes accessible an immigration policy that both remediates the harm done to immigrant workers and communities under Trump and advances a bold new vision for the future"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2021.
Description: 262 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Summary: "Insanity Defense is an insider's account of America's ineffectual approach to some of the hardest defense and intelligence issues in the three decades since the Cold War ended"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
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Publisher, Date: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]
Description: xxi, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary: "The tools of our information age-from search engines to data mining to smart appliances-grew directly out of conflicts from World War I to the present day. Explore how today's Information Society reflects a worldview shaped by a century of war"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 13 (of 13)
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Publisher, Date: [New York] : Viking, 2021.
Description: xvi, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary: "Mazie Hirono is one of the most fiercely outspoken Democrats in Congress, but her journey to the U.S. Senate was far from likely. Raised poor on her family's rice farm in rural Japan, Hirono was seven years old when her mother left her abusive husband and sailed with her two elder children to the United States, crossing the Pacific in steerage in search of a better life. Though the girl then known as "Keiko" did not speak English when she entered school in Hawaii, she would go on to hold state and national office, winning election to the U.S. Senate in 2012. This intimate and inspiring memoir traces her remarkable life from her upbringing in Hawaii, where the family first lived in a single room in a Honolulu boarding house while her mother worked two jobs to keep them afloat; to her emergence as a highly effective legislator whose determination to help the most vulnerable was grounded in her own experiences of economic insecurity, lack of healthcare access, and family separation. Finally, it chronicles her evolution from dogged yet soft-spoken public servant into the fiery critic and advocate we know her as today. For the vast majority of Mazie Hirono's five decades in public service, even as she fought for the causes she believed in, she strove to remain polite and reserved. Steeped in the non-confrontational cultures of Japan and Hawaii, and aware of the expectation that women in politics should never show an excess of emotion, she had schooled herself to bite her tongue, even as her male colleagues continually underestimated her. After the 2016 election, however, it was clear that she could moderate herself no longer. In the face of an autocratic administration, Hirono was called to at last give voice to the fire that had always been inside her. The moving and galvanizing account of a woman coming into her own power over the course of a lifetime in public service, and of the mother who encouraged her immigrant daughter's dreams, Heart of Fire is the story of a uniquely American journey, written by oneof those fighting hardest to ensure that a story like hers is still possible"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Local Availability: 0 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 6 (of 7)
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Publisher, Date: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2021]
Description: 352 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "In the tradition of bestselling explainers like The Tipping Point, the first popular book based on cutting edge science that breaks down the idea of extreme conflict, the kind that paralyzes people and places, and then shows how to escape it"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 7 (of 8)
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021.
Description: 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary: "A street smart, inspiring, practical and utterly honest book for renewing or resuming your career. Millions of mid- and late-career professionals are wondering why our careers are dying. We've been fired, downsized, job-eliminated, or we've left work voluntarily to raise children, care for loved ones, or go to school. Our unemployment rate is more than three times the national average. It takes twice as long to get hired, usually for far less money than we were making. Is it age discrimination? Maybe. But it's not that simple. So many of us have lagged on skills and technology, shrugged off social media, or ignored the rate of change and let younger people become the face of our profession's future. Our "track record" really doesn't matter. We want to come back, but we aren't ready. Coming Back offers clear advice, including: -Make yourself visible and relevant by sharing articles and information on your field with colleagues and on social media. -Use LinkedIn to build your network in your industry and identify decision makers. -Tell interviewers about what you will do-don't rely on what you have done. -Stop grousing about "those millennials" and start working with them. -Volunteer strategically to build leadership skills and networks. Coming Back shows how you can save a career if still employed or get one back if cast out. Fawn Germer, one of the nation's most popular leadership experts and global motivational speakers, has personally interviewed more than 300 CEOs, senior executives, professors, lawyers, organizational experts, industry leaders and professionals. The result is a tactical, tough-love call to action: to learn, re-tool, connect, grow, and get ready to work again"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 2)
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Publisher, Date: New York : HarperCollins Leadership, an imprint of HarperCollins Focus LLC, [2021]
Description: xx, 233 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "Introverts across the world have been sold a lie: One of the biggest myths that plagues the business world today is that our ability to network depends on having the zgift of gaby. This is nonsense. You don't have to be outgoing to be successful at networking. You don't have to become a relentless self-promoter. In fact, you don't have to act like an extrovert at all. The truth is, introverts make the best networkers...when armed with a plan that lets them be their authentic selves."--Amazon. |
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2021
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Local Availability: 0 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 2)
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Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp., [2021]
Description: vii, 262 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "This decade opened with a global health crisis, mass unemployment, political disruptions, federal budget deficits, and unprecedented economic uncertainty, with even the most optimistic predictions anticipating delayed economic recovery and uncertainty into the 2030s. The Covid-19 pandemic has both decimated the job market and permanently changed the future of the workplace, with tens of millions of qualified, competent, and loyal employees fired, furloughed, job eliminated, or restructured. Getting a new job is more competitive than ever. Headhunter Rob Barnett has the answer. Next Job, Best Job goes beyond the tired, old job search methods and provides a blueprint to easily rewriting your entire work history and building a resume and LinkedIn profile that will sell you better than ever. Barnett shares the secrets of how to master the perfect, 30-minute job interview, and imparts priceless advice on how to negotiate the best offer and close like a pro. With a mix of straight talk, much-needed humor, and compassion, Next Job, Best Job offers concrete steps that job seekers can take to best position themselves in a transformed marketplace. With a steady dose of love and practical wisdom, Rob Barnett will inspire readers to stop whining, start winning, and find the job of their dreams"-- Provided by publisher |
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2021
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Local Availability: 0 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 4)
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Publisher, Date: London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2021.
Description: 320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
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2021
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Local Availability: 0 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 3)
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Edition: First US edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Basic Books, 2021.
Description: 326 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary: "An esteemed mathematician shows how math powers the world, from technology to health care and beyond"-- Provided by publisher |
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2021
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 3 (of 7)
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Publisher, Date: New York : Doubleday, [2021]
Description: 385 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary: "By an experimental physicist who works on the Large Hadron Collider, a mind-altering look at the foundational questions bedeviling modern physics, among them: Where does matter come from? Carl Sagan famously said, "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." But what fundamental matter is the universe made of? What banged in the Big Bang? And how did that matter arise from nothing into the world we now know? In How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch, Harry Cliff--aUniversity of Cambridge particle physicist, researcher on the Large Hadron Collider, and acclaimed science presenter--sets out in pursuit of answers. He ventures to the largest underground research facility in the world, deep beneath Italy's Gran Sasso mountains, where scientists look into the heart of the Sun using the most elusive of particles, the ghostly neutrino. He visits CERN in Switzerland to behold the 'Antimatter Factory,' where this stuff of science fiction is manufactured daily (and we're close to knowing whether it falls up). Cliff illuminates the history of physics and chemistry that brought us to our present understanding--and misunderstandings--of the world, while offering readers a front row seat to the dramatically unfolding quest to unlock, at long last, the secrets of our universe. A transfixing deep-dive into the origins of the world, How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch investigates not just the makeup of our universe, but the awe-inspiring, improbable fact that it exists at all"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Local Availability: 0 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 4 (of 23)
Current Holds: 27 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Description: 308 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary: "Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) Mary Roach on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? As New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology. Roach tags along with animal attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict specialists, bear managers, and "danger tree" faller-blasters. She travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalaya to St. Peter's Square in the early hours before the Pope arrives for Easter Mass, when vandal gulls swoop in to destroy the elaborate floral display. Along the way, Roach reveals as much about humanity as about nature's lawbreakers. Combining little- known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows, langur impersonators, and mugging macaques, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Local Availability: 0 (of 0)
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Edition: First.
Publisher, Date: White River Junction, Vermont : Chelsea Green Publishing, [2021]
Description: pages cm
Summary: "Meet the intelligent insects, marvelous minibeasts, and inspirational invertebrates that help shape our planet-and discover how you can help them help us by rebugging your attitude today! Remember when there were bugs on your windshield? Ever wonder where they went? We need to act now if we are to help the insects survive. Robin Wall Kimmerer, David Attenborough, and Elizabeth Kolbert are but a few voices championing the rewilding of our world. Rebugging the Planet explains how we are headed toward "insectageddon" with a rate of insect extinction eight times faster than that of mammals or birds, and gives us crucial information to help all those essential creepy-crawlies flourish once more. Author Vicki Hird passionately demonstrates how insects and invertebrates are the cornerstone of our global ecosystem. They pollinate plants, feed birds, support and defend our food crops, and clean our water systems. They are also beautiful, inventive, and economically invaluable-bees, for example, contribute an estimated $235 to $577 billion to the US economy annually, according to Forbes. Rebugging the Planet shows us small changes we can make to have a big impact on our littlest allies: Learn how to rewild parks, schools, sidewalks, roadsides, and other green spaces. Leave your garden to grow a little wild and plant weedkiller-free, wildlife-friendly plants. Take your kids on a minibeast treasure hunt and learn how to build bug palaces. Make bug-friendly choices with your food and support good farming practices Begin to understand how reducing inequality and poverty will help nature and wildlife too-it's all connected. So do your part and start rebugging today! The bees, ants, earthworms, butterflies, beetles, grasshoppers, ladybugs, snails, and slugs will thank you-and our planet will thank you too"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Local Availability: 0 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 8 (of 9)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First Adams Media trade paperback edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Adams Media, 2020.
Description: 127 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Summary: An infographic guide breaks down the complicated rules and guidelines for writing the English language and makes them clear and straightforward. |
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2021
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 2)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: 第1版. / Di 1 ban.
Publisher, Date: 北京 : 北京联合出版社, 2021. / Beijing [China] : Lian he chu ban she, 2021.
Description: 311 pages ; 22 cm
Language: In simplified Chinese. |
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2021
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Local Availability: 0 (of 1)
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Publisher, Date: Beijing : Xin xing chu ban she, 2021.
Description: 244 pages ; 22 cm. |
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2020
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 2)
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Edition: 初版. / Chu ban.
Publisher, Date: 台北市 : 方智出版社股份有限公司, 2020. / Xinbeishi : Fang zhi chu ban she gu fen you xian gong si, 2020.
Description: 218 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Series: 方智好讀 ; 128. / Fang zhi hao du ; 128.
Language: In traditional Chinese. |
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2020
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Local Availability: 0 (of 1)
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Current Holds: 1 |
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Edition: 第1版. / Di 1 ban.
Publisher, Date: 香港 : 联书店[香港]有限公司, 2020. / Xianggang [Hong Kong] : Lian shu dian [Xianggang] you xian gong si, 2020.
Description: 270 pages : charts, illustrations ; 19 cm
Summary: Raising children well from the beginning. |
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2020
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Local Availability: 0 (of 1)
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Current Holds: 2 |
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Edition: 第1版. / Di 1 ban.
Publisher, Date: 北京 : 化学工业出版社, 2020. / Beijing [China] : Hua xue gong ye chu ban she, 2020.
Description: 245 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary: "This book Teaches how to organize your possessions and store them; written especially for people living in small homes." -- Cataloger's judgment
Language: In simplified Chinese. |
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2020
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Local Availability: 0 (of 0)
Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 4)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First US edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Basic Books, 2020.
Description: xxviii, 319 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Summary: Few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song order once we've learned it as children. And yet the order of the alphabet, that simple knowledge that we take for granted, plays far more of a role in our lives than we usually consider. From the school register to the telephone book, from dictionaries and encyclopaedias to the library shelves, our lives are ordered from A to Z. This magical system of organization not only guides us to the correct bus route or train schedule or the jar of coriander seeds between the cinnamon and the cumin in the supermarket, but it also, in the library or the bookshop, gives us the ability to sift through centuries of thought and writing, of knowledge and literature. Alphabetical order allows us to sort, to file and to find the information we have, and to locate the information we need. In this entirely original new book, Judith Flanders draws our attention both to the neglected ubiquity of the alphabet and the long and complex history of its rise to prominence. |
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2018
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Publisher, Date: Tokyo : Tuttle Publishing, [2018]
Description: 95 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Summary: This Mandarin picture dictionary covers the 1500 most useful Mandarin Chinese words and sentences. Each word and sentence is given in Chinese characters with Hanyu Pinyin pronunciation and English definition. The words are grouped into 37 themes or topics. Each theme has 25 to 35 words and 5 to 8 sentences and is richly illustrated with color photographs. A free CD contains audio recordings by native Mandarin speakers of all the vocabulary and sentences. A brief introduction to Chinese pronunciation and tones is included, and indexes at the back allow you to quickly look up any of the words or characters in the book. Since this dictionary covers all the words for the AP Chinese Language and Culture Exam as well as the Chinese HSK Levels 1 & 2, it is an ideal test prep resource for a visual learner.--Publisher's description.
Language: Text in English and Mandarin Chinee. |
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2021
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: California : Ten Speed Press, 2021.
Description: 233 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary: When used properly, plants provide a wealth of healing powers. Adaptogens (plant extracts that help the body adapt to stress) and herbs are some of the most potent sources of such energy and immunity--plus they have a host of additional health benefits. Cookbook author and blogger Jennifer McGruther of Nourished Kitchen expertly guides readers through the properties of herbal energetics and how to gain the most from these dynamic sources. Jennifer explains each function and application, and how to extract their benefits into tinctures, infused oils, teas and tisanes, vinegars, and more. And while store-bought adaptogenic powders and elixirs from popular retailers may be a hefty investment, Jennifer's creations cost only a few dollars to make at home. Vibrant Botanicals provides more than 70 recipes for helping you feel your best when using herbal infusions. You'll discover how cacao and licorice naturally awaken the body and can be incorporated into granolas, beverages, and breakfasts to jump-start your day. Garlic, astragalus, reishi, and more are showcased in homemade broth and fire cider to help build immunity; while passionflower, ashwagandha, and chamomile are mixed into creamy milk blends and teas to ensure peaceful sleep. Whether you are looking to fortify digestion, lift your spirits, or just enjoy a good night's rest, Vibrant Botanicals provides the natural solution, through nourishing and herbal-rich recipes. |
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2021
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Description: viii, 323 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: A comprehensive reference for parents and educators explains the origins of substance abuse while offering advice for how to identify risk factors and take steps to prevent vulnerable teens from developing an addiction disorder. |
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2021
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton and Company, [2021]
Description: xv, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary: "The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics. The term "home economics" may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken cakes. But obscured by common conception is the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists, and businesspeople that were otherwise foreclosed. In The Secret History of Home Economics, Danielle Dreilinger traces the field's history from small farms to the White House, from Victorian suffragists to Palo Alto techies. Home economics followed the currents of American culture even as it shaped them; Dreilinger brings forward the racism within the movement along with the strides taken by Black women who were influential leaders and innovators. She also looks at the personal lives of home economics' women, as they chose being single, shared lives with women, or tried for egalitarian marriages. This groundbreaking and engaging history restores a maligned subject to its rightful importance"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Description: xv, 222 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: "Into the maelstrom of unprecedented contemporary debates about immigrants in the United States, this perfectly timed book gives us a portrait of what the new immigrant experience in America is really like. Written as a "guide" for the newly arrived, and providing "practical information and advice," Roya Hakakian, an immigrant herself, reveals what those who settle here love about the country, what they miss about their homes, the cruelty of some Americans, and the unceasing generosity of others. She captures the texture of life in a new place in all its complexity, laying bare both its beauty and its darkness as she discusses race, sex, love, death, consumerism, and what it is like to be from a country that is in America's crosshairs. Her tenderly perceptive and surprisingly humorous account invites us to see ourselves as we appear to others, making it possible for us to rediscover our many American gifts through the perspective of the outsider."-- Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Publisher, Date: Boston : America's Test Kitchen, [2020]
Description: xvi, 432 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Summary: "This book isn't meant to be a sequential cooking course, so dip into it wherever and however you like. Try one of the simple essentials that will make your everyday life easier and more enjoyable, like simmering a great tomato sauce or making a pan sauce for cutlets. Or invite some friends over to share in the success of a kitchen project you've always wanted to tackle, like achieving genuine Texas-style barbecue in a regular kettle grill or baking a New York deli-style cheesecake. We hope you think of 100 Techniques as your guidebook to a lifetime of cooking success."-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Description: viii, 322 pages ; 25 cm
Summary: Honoring to the medical professionals around the country who've risked their lives to fight the virus, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author provides essential information--and fascinating historical parallels--examining the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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2021
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]
Description: 295 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: Weaving together in-depth interviews with doctors, their diaries, and notes, this page-turning account follows the medical students who received their degrees early to help treat thousands of critically ill COVID-19 patients in New York City during the height of the pandemic. |
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2021
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2021.
Description: viii, 408 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary: Draws on centuries of traditional Chinese, Ayurvedic, and biblical medicine to identify specific dietary choices, medicinal herbs, and mind-body practices for more than seventy common conditions, from hypothyroidism to autoimmune diseases. |
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2021
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021.
Description: viii, 324 pages ; 25 cm
Summary: "A comprehensive and revelatory book on one of today's most prevalent illnesses. In 2019, 5.8 million Americans had Alzheimer's, and more than half a million will die of Alzheimer's disease dementia. 16 million caregivers are responsible for paying as much as half of the $226 billion annual costs of their care. As more people live beyond their seventies and eighties, the number of patients will rise to an estimated 13.8 million by 2025. Part case studies, part meditation on the past, present and future ofthe disease, The Disease of the Century traces Alzheimer's disease from its discovery and tells the story of the biomedical breakthroughs that may allow it to finally be prevented and treated by medicine. While it is a scathing indictment of our health care system, it is also an argument for how we can live with dementia; the ways patients can reclaim their autonomy and redefine their sense of self, how families can support their loved ones, and the innovative reforms we can make as a society that wouldgive caregivers and patients better quality of life. Rich in science, history, and characters, The Disease of the Century takes us inside cutting edge laboratories, patients' homes, caregivers' support groups, progressive assisted living facilities, and Jason Karlawish's own practice at the Penn Memory Center"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Publisher, Date: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2021.
Description: xxii, 399 pages ; : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Summary: "The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat-and what it means for how we should. The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg-a cousin of the famous finance Warburgs-was widely regarded in his day as one of the most important biochemists of the twentieth century, a man whose research was integral to humanity's understanding of cancer. He was also among the most despised figures in Nazi Germany. As a Jewish homosexual living openly with his male partner, Warburg represented all that the Third Reich abhorred. Yet Hitler and his top advisors dreaded cancer, and protected Warburg in the hope that he could cure it"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Custom House, [2021]
Description: 294 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Shepherd's Life chronicles his family's farm in England's Lake District across three generations, revealing through this intimate lens the profound global transformation of agriculture and of the human relationship to the land"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Publisher, Date: Guilford : FalconGuides, 2021-
Description: volumes : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm |
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2013
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Publisher, Date: Guilford, Conn. : FalconGuides, [2013]-
Description: volumes : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Series: Falcon guide. |
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2019
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Edition: Third edition
Publisher, Date: Guilford, Connecticut : FalconGuides, 2019.
Description: xx, 73 pages : maps ; 18 cm.
Summary: Best Easy Day Hikes Joshua Tree National Park includes detailed maps and concise descriptions for twenty easy-to-follow hikes in gorgeous Joshua Tree National Park. From the High View Nature Trail to Silver Bell Mine, you will discover some of the best desert hiking California has to offer.
Series: Best easy day hikes series. |
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2021
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Publisher, Date: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2021.
Description: xx, 237 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 22 cm
Summary: "A history of the Wyeth family artists, those who influenced them, and the environs in which they worked, combined with six walking and driving tours that allow readers to visit the places that the Wyeths painted in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: Stockbridge, MA : Norman Rockwell Museum ; New York : Abbeville Press Publishers, [2020]
Description: 232 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Summary: "This highly-illustrated volume reveals how artists have brought to life mythology, fables, and fairy tales, as well as modern epics"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Description: 655 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Summary: Reports on the Supreme Court's most divisive case, Roe v. Wade, and the unknown lives at its heart. |
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2021
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2021.
Description: xiii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary: "Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court allows the perpetuation of racist policing by presuming that suspects, especially people of color, are guilty. Presumed Guilty, like the best-selling The Color of Law, is a "smoking gun" of civil rights research, a troubling history that reveals how the Supreme Court enabled racist policing and sanctioned law enforcement excesses. The fact that police are nine times more likely to kill Black men than other Americans is no accident; it is the result of an elaborate body of doctrines that allow the police and courts to presume that suspects are guilty before being charged. Demonstrating how the prodefendant Warren Court was a brief historical aberration, Erwin Chemerinsky shows how this more liberal era ended with Nixon's presidency and the ascendance of conservative justices, whose rulings-like Terry v. Ohio and Los Angeles v. Lyons-have permitted stops and frisks, limited suits to reform police departments, and even abetted the use of chokeholds. Presumed Guilty concludes that an approach to policing that continues to exalt "Dirty Harry" can be transformed only by a robust court system committed to civil rights"-- Provided by publisher. |
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