Parker, Stevie
Contents: Never be -- Blue -- Without you -- Stay -- Fall -- This ain't right -- Better off -- Prey -- Eden -- The cure -- I've been waiting -- This time.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: " A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media?Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care? In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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Summary: "Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it explain why there seems to be so much irrationality in the world, including, let's be honest, in each of us? These are the goals of Steven Pinker's follow-up to Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates's "new favorite book of all time"). Humans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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Summary: Psychologist Pinker explains how the mind works in a completely new way--by examining how we use words. Every time we swear, we reveal something about human emotions. When we use an innuendo to convey a bribe, threat, or sexual come-on (rather than just blurting it out), we disclose something about human relationships. Our use of prepositions and tenses tap into peculiarly human concepts of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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Summary: "In Words and Rules, Pinker explains the profound mysteries of language by picking a deceptively single phenomenon and examining it from every angle. The phenomenon - regular and irregular verbs - connects an astonishing array of topics in the sciences and humanities: the history of languages; the theories of Noam Chomsky and his critics; the attempts to simulate language using computer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 415.21 PINPinker, Steven.
Summary: The author of The New York Times bestseller The Stuff of Thought offers a controversial history of violence. Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2011
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Summary: We've all asked, "What is the world coming to?" But we seldom ask, "How bad was the world in the past?" In this startling new book, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the past was much worse. Evidence of a bloody history has always been around us: genocides in the Old Testament, gory mutilations in Shakespeare and Grimm, monarchs who beheaded their relatives, and American founders who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.609 PINPinker, Steven
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1997
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow and Co. 1994
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Summary: The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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Summary: Steve Pinker discusses the idea that language is an instinct, as innate to us as flying is to geese. This book covers the biological origin, acquisition by children and the grammatical structure of human language.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Folio Society 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 401 PINSummary: Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY BADSummary: "A young F.B.I. agent is assigned watchdog duty over a fellow agent, but finds herself drawn into his investigations of paranormal and unexplained phenomena."
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV XParker, Steve
Summary: A Brief Illustrated History of Life on Earth' charts the evolution of living species all the way from 2.5 billion years ago, through the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods and right through to today. With stunning full-color images and illustrations, this beautiful book is sure to fascinate and charm the young reader.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 576 PARParker, Steve
Summary: "Take a plunge into the dephts and encounter speedy swimmers, deep divers, and bottom feeders. From stealthy sharks to curious catfish, find out fantastic fishy facts about how these underwater creatures hunt, hide, drive, and glide."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK/Penguin Random House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597 PARParker, Steve
Summary: Discusses the evolution, structure, and function of the human and animal skeletal systems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1988
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 596.0471 PARParker, Steve.
Summary: An atlas providing an overview of the Earth's continents, earthquakes, volcanoes, mountains, ice peaks, rivers, valleys, lakes, weather, resources, animals, and pollution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 1999
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 912 PARParker, Steve
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miles Kelly 2002
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Summary: Explores the diverse systems of the human body and their functions, the major organs, and how the different parts of the body work together. Reveal the inner workings of the human body with this illustrated atlas. An exciting visual guide that maps the entire human body-- inside and out. Find out what happens to food after you swallow it, how each beat of your heart pumps blood around your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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Summary: "Have you ever wondered what's in space? Take a journey through the solar system and beyond to discover the secrets of our amazing universe"--Page [4] of cover. Contains quiz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: QEB Publishing, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 520 PARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Space ParkerParker, Steve
Contents: Beliefs and traditions, to 900 -- The rise of scientific medicine, 900-1820 -- Medicine in the Industrial Age, 1820-1920 -- Modern medicine, 1920-2000 -- Genes and future dreams, 2000-present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.9 PARParker, Steve
Summary: Surveys different types of ships and submarines, discussing how they operate and what they do.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest Publishers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J 623.82 PARParker, Steve
Summary: Space is all around us, but how much do we know? Where do we even begin? Space Kids is the building block upon which children can learn about our universe. Covering topics such as stars, planets, moons and rockets as well as the basics of gravity and how astronauts eat and sleep in space, Space Kids moves through complex ideas with an accessibly fresh and original style.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Gestalten 2018