Rosenzweig, Philip M.
Summary: "A renowned business expert examines decision-making in critical, big-time situations where the outcome shapes the destiny of companies, countries, sports teams, political campaigns, or the military Left Brain, Right Stuff is the book about decision making that takes off where others-Thinking, Fast and Slow, Predictably Irrational, and Decisive-leave off. It captures the essence of real-world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.403 ROSHoose, Phillip M.
Summary: Chronicles a year in the life of rufa red knot B95, also called Moonbird, following him through his migration pattern and discussing the environmental problems that caused the rufa population to collapsed by nearly eighty percent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598.072 HOOHoose, Phillip M.
Summary: "By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten black teens from an Indianapolis school meant to be the centerpiece of racially segregated education in Indiana shattered the myth of their inferiority. Their brilliant coach had fashioned an unbeatable team from a group of boys born in the South and raised in poverty. Anchored by the astonishing Oscar Robertson, a future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 796.323 HOOHoose, Phillip M.
Summary: "The true story of a group of boy resistance fighters in Denmark after the Nazi invasion"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2015
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Summary: "Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melanie Kroupa Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB COLVIN HOOSeib, Philip M.
Summary: "The battle for hearts and minds in the Middle East is being fought not on the streets of Baghdad, but on the newscasts and talk shows of Al Jazeera. The future of China is being shaped not by Communist Party bureaucrats, but by bloggers working quietly in cyber cafes. The next attacks by al Qaeda will emerge not from Osama bin Laden's cave, but from cells around the world connected by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 SEIPhillips, Katrina M.
Summary: "In 1921, Inupait seamstress Ada Blackjack joined a a group of four white men who wanted to establish a trading post on Wrangel Island in the freezing Arctic Ocean. The explorers were stranded on the island when their return ship was forced to turn back due to ice. Facing harsh conditions and dwindling food supplies, the men died one by one, but Ada remained. Find out how she alone managed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.92 PHICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC PHIPhillips, Katrina M.
Summary: "Indigenous Peoples' Day is about celebrating! The second Monday in October is a day to honor Native American people, their histories, and cultures. People mark the day with food, dancing, and songs. Readers will discover how a shared holiday can have multiple traditions and be celebrated in all sorts of ways"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pebble, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 394.264 PHISummary: "He's only getting worse. Donald Trump's erratic behavior throughout his presidential campaign caused many of us to ask: What is wrong with him? After the election, politicians and pundits assured us he would change once he took office and would live up to his role as president. After spending two years in the most powerful position in the world, however, Trump has only gotten worse. He rants....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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Summary: Debunks myths and assumptions about standardized tests, proposes alternative methods for evaluating the success of schools, and offers suggestions for helping to reduce the burden of tests on students.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.26 HAREaton, Gale
Summary: Civilization rearranges nature for human convenience. Clothes and houses keep us warm; agriculture feeds us; medicine fights our diseases. It all works—most of the time. But key resources lie in the most hazardous places, so we choose to live on river flood plains, on the slopes of volcanoes, at the edge of the sea, above seismic faults. We pack ourselves into cities, Petri dishes for germs....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 300 STOPhilips, Katruna
Summary: "Series continuation, biographies of women in history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.72 PHICaron, Lucille.
Summary: "Re-inforce classroom learning of important percent and ratio skills including reducing ratios, the golden rectangle, and the meaning of percents"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 513.26 CARCaron, Lucille.
Summary: A guide to unraveling the mysteries of decimals and fractions, whether you are learning them for the first time or brushing up on your skills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 513.26 CARBender, Robert M. (Robert Morton)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.2 BENPhillips, Whitney
Summary: "Drawing on ecological, social justice and storytelling frameworks, this . . . book discusses how information pollution spreads and why, tackling the topic of internet ethics while empowering readers to create a safe, secure and inclusive digital world"--OCLC.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MiTeen Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 302.3 PHIDrohojowska-Philp, Hunter
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 O'KEEFFE, GEORGIA DROBlom, Philipp
Summary: "An illuminating work of environmental history that chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, which transformed the social and political fabric of Europe. Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of thesixteenth century plummeted so drastically that Mediterranean harbors were covered with ice, birds literally dropped out of the sky, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 BLOBlom, Philipp
Summary: The twentieth century was born not in the trenches of the Somme, but rather in the fifteen years preceding World War I. In this short span of time, a new world order was emerging in ultimately tragic contradiction to the old. The major topics of the day: terrorism, globalization, immigration, consumerism, the collapse of moral values, and the rivalry of superpowers. These were the years in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2008
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Contents: March 13, 2010 -- December 18, 1970 -- February 24, 2004, first sighting -- February 24, 2004, later that day -- March 14, 2005 -- Early spring, 2005 -- Late spring, 2005 -- Summer, 2005 -- January, 2006 -- February, 2006 -- Spring, 2006 -- April, 2006 -- Summer, 2006 -- 2007 -- 2008 -- Last dance, 2009.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2012
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Nature Shaw 2Philipps, Roland
Summary: "Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous spies of the Cold War era, a member of the infamous "Cambridge Five" spy ring. Yet little is known of this shrewd, secretive man. The full extent of his betrayal has never been documented--until now. Drawing on the recent release of previously classified files, A Spy Named Orphan meticulously documents the extraordinary story of a man leading a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MACLEAN, DONALD PHIBondy, Filip.
Summary: Traces the highs and lows of United States participation in international men's soccer, and follows the team's route to qualification for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.334 BONElwood, Phil (Philip)
Summary: "A bridge-burning, riotous memoir by a top PR operative in Washington who exposes the secrets of the $129-billion industry that controls so much of what we see and hear in the media-from a man who used to pull the strings, and who is now pulling back thecurtain. After nearly two decades in the Washington PR business, Elwood wants to come clean, by exposing the dark underbelly of the very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "An account of the making of modern international law and one woman's fight for justice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023