Foster, Douglas.

Summary: A professor and leading authority on South Africa discusses the nation's post-apartheid era, drawing on interviews with regular citizens, the emerging black elite, as well as the homeless and those infected with HIV.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Pub. Corporation 2012

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Summary: The nut: Charlie Jackson, is a Greenwich Village character who invents Rube Goldberg-style contraptions. He uses them to please his friends and his sweetheart, Estrell Wynn, but more often than not, they backfire; The mark of Zorro: Don Diego de la Vega is the son of a wealthy Spanish Californian rancher. In reality, Don Diego is the dashed masked-and-caped Zorro, who wages a one-man war to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Flicker Alley 2008

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Summary: Discover the stories, ideas, and methods behind today's most compelling artists; features sixteen artists from North America (Chicago, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Vancouver).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Douglass, Frederick

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lawrence Hill Books 1999

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Oster, Emily

Summary: "In The Family Firm, Brown professor of economics and mom of two Emily Oster offers a classic business school framework for data-driven parents to think more deliberately about the key issues of the elementary years: school, health, extracurricular activities, and more. Unlike the hourly challenges of infant parenting, the big questions in this age come up less frequently. But we live with the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021

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Poster, Donna.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chilton Book Co. 1991

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Oster, Maggie.

Summary: Provides instructions for making herbal vinegar and for adding herbal flavors to bottled vinegar, and shares recipes for vinegar-flavored condiments and dishes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Communications 1994

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Fisher, Lucy.

Summary: In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbucker skills and the ever fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become real heroes of an even greater story when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and takes them on a journey over moonlit rooftops to the lush jungles of Neverland. Wendy and her brothers join Peter...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004

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Frey, Nancy

Summary: How Tutoring Works distills the complexity of strategic moves effective tutors make to build students' confidence and competence. Harnessing decades of Visible Learning(R) research, this easy to read, eye-opening guide details the six essential components of any effective tutoring intervention--establishing a relationship and credibility, addressing student confidence and challenges, setting...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Corwin 2021

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Coster, Theo.

Summary: "In 1941, Theo Coster was a student at the Amsterdam Jewish Lyceum, one in a class of 28 Jewish children that the Nazis had segregated from the rest of the Dutch population. Among Theo's fellow students was a young Anne Frank, whose diary would later become one of the most important documents of the Holocaust. In this remarkable group portrait, Coster and five of his fellow classmates gather...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2011

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Oster, Don.

Contents: Profile of a good hitter -- Batting fundamentals -- Fast pitch, fast bat -- Hitting drills -- Getting ready to bat -- Making your at bat count -- Bunting fundamentals -- Advancing base runners -- Running the bases -- A positive approach to hitting -- Team offense -- Common batter problems -- Final thoughts.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2006

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Oster, Emily

Summary: "From the author of EXPECTING BETTER, an economist's guide to the early years of parenting With Expecting Better, award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the information they needed to make the best decision for their own pregnancies. By digging into the data, Oster found that much of the conventional pregnancy wisdom was wrong. In...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019

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Douglass, Frederick

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2003

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Douglass, Frederick

Summary: Douglass's autobiography traces his birth into slavery, his escape to the North and the beginnings of the career that was to make him the preeminent spokesman for his people.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009

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Douglass, Merrill.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw Hill 1998

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Bradshaw, Thelma Finster.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crane Hill 2001

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Douglass, Frederick

Summary: Edited by Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer David W. Blight, this Library of America edition is the largest single-volume selection of Frederick Douglass’s writings ever published, presenting the full texts of thirty-four speeches and sixty-seven pieces of journalism. (A companion Library of America volume, Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies, gathers his three memoirs.) With startling...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022

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Oster, Don.

Summary: Covers aspects of largemouth behavior, where to find them, how to catch them, and the equipment and techiques to use in various situations.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: C. DeCosse 1983

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Oster, Maggie.

Summary: Looks at different types of herbs and their uses, explains how to incorporate herbs in garden design, provides growing advice for over 150 herbs, and includes recipes and instructions for using herbs for fragrance, health, and beauty.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Meredith Books 1999

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Tougias, Mike

Summary: In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor'easter in years. While the storm raged on the freezing Atlantic, two oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer, found themselves in the same predicament. Not built to withstand those seas, both tankers split in two. This is the gripping, true story of the Coast Guard's valiant attempt to rescue the dozens of men left...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009

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Douglass, Frederick

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1994

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Douglass, Frederick

Summary: Presents the autobiography of Douglass, an American slave, and his journey out of mental and physical bondage.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1991

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Douglass, Frederick

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press 1993

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