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Data protection Law and legislation Data protection Law and legislation United States Environmental responsibility Human ecology Information warfare (International law) Nature Effect of human beings on Privacy, Right of Privacy, Right of United States United States Wolves BehaviorMannix, Kathryn
Summary: A palliative care physician draws on stories from her own practice to explain how to enable a gentle and peaceful death and how modern medicine, augmented by traditional palliative approaches, can restore dignity, humanity, and meaning to the end of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304 MANJarvis, Jeff
Summary: Argues that the growth of social networking and increased openness online is beneficial in the digital age and can lead to increased collaboration and changes in the way people organize, govern, teach, and learn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.3 JARMiller, Karl Hagstrom
Summary: Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, Miller chronicles how southern music--a fluid complex of sounds and styles in practice--was reduced to a series of distinct genres linked to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 MILO'Hagan, Andrew
Summary: "The slippery online ecosystem of encrypted messages, leaked documents, black markets, cryptocurrencies, and fake Facebook profiles (68 million of them) is the perfect breeding ground for identities. Some are true, some are false, and some lie in between. The old Internet shorthand IRL--"in real life"--now seems naïve. We no longer question the reality of online experiences, but rather the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.3 OHAMcLaughlin, Kathleen
Summary: "Bad Blood meets Dreamland in this kaleidoscopic investigation into the shadowy and vampiric blood business and the dangerous limits of demand for the crucial resource that runs through our very veins. Every year, about twenty million Americans sell blood plasma for cash in a barely regulated market dominated by private industry and off-the-grid trafficking. These commercial efforts prey on an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.17 MCLTudge, Colin.
Contents: What is a tree? -- How trees became -- Wood -- All the trees in the world: Trees without flowers: the conifers -- Trees with flowers: magnolias and other primitives -- From palms and screw pines to yuccas and bamboos -- The monocot trees -- Thoroughly modern broadleaves -- From oaks to mangoes: the glorious invention of rose-like eudicots -- From handkerchief trees to teak: the daisy-like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 582 TUDDougherty, Nancy
Summary: "A biography of Reinhard Heydrich and his wife, Lina von Osten Heydrich"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEYDRICH, REINHARD DOURedmond, Rich
Summary: "Rich Redmond, drummer for superstar Jason Aldean, provides a shot of inspiration for those interested in jump-starting a music career. Filled with practical advice, stories of how Redmond did it himself, and insights from a chorus of other musicians, this is the ultimate behind-the-scenes and fun-to-read book looking at the country music industry"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.23 REDShadbolt, Nigel
Summary: The smart-machines revolution is reshaping our lives and our societies, but we are not about to be elbowed aside by a rebel army of super-intelligent robots of our own creation. We were using tools before we became Homo Sapiens, and will continue to build and master them, no matter how complicated they become. How we exercise that control - in our private lives, in employment, in politics - and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 006.301 SHAFrank, Robert
Summary: An educational psychologist and family therapist draws on his own experiences as a dyslexic to help parents understand their own dyslexic child and their fears, frustrations, and goals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92 FRABailar, Schuyler
Summary: "Just a few years ago, Schuyler Bailar rose to national and international prominence when he became the first openly transgender athlete to compete on an NCAA Division 1 team in any sport. A top high school prospect, Schuyler had been recruited by Harvard for the women's team, but after taking a gap year to address mental health and ultimately to transition, Schuyler swam instead for Harvard's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 BAICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 BAIVigna, Paul.
Summary: "Bitcoin became a buzzword overnight. A cyber-enigma with an enthusiastic following, it pops up in headlines and fuels endless media debate. You can apparently use it to buy anything from coffee to cars, yet few people seem to truly understand what it is. This raises the question: Why should anyone care about bitcoin? In The Age of Cryptocurrency, Wall Street journalists Paul Vigna and Michael...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332 VIGLock, Deborah
Summary: Discover what life was like--from where people lived, how and what they hunted, how plants were used, art, medicine, and spiritual rituals. From camps to cave paintings to megaliths, discover the Stone Age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LOCRadinger, Elli H.
Summary: Love your family, care for your those around you, never give up and always find time to have fun -- these are the golden rules of wolves. These remarkably intelligent animals take empathetic care of their old and injured, bring up their young lovingly and are able to forget everything when playing. They think, dream, make plans, communicate intelligently with one another -- and behave more like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michael Joseph 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.773 RADCooper, Gregory M.
Contents: Victimology and the predatory mind -- There's always a story -- Crimes against children : the worst kind of crime -- Terrorism -- Crimes against the elderly -- Sexual assault -- Domestic violence -- Kidnapping -- The end-all : homicidal predators.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 COOBirkerts, Sven.
Summary: "In The Art of Time in Memoir, critic, editor, and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. "Memoir is, for better and often for worse, the genre of our times," Birkerts writes. But what makes one memoir memorable and another self-serving? What determines the difference between graceful disclosure and sensational self-exposure? Birkerts argues that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.93592 BIRBeyer, Kurt.
Summary: Hopper made herself "one of the boys" in Howard Aiken's wartime Computation Laboratory at Harvard, then moved on to the Eckert and Mauchly Computer Corporation. Both rebellious and collaborative, she was influential in male-dominated military and business organzations at a time when women were encouraged to devote themselves to housework and childbearing. Her greatest technical achievement was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOPPER, GRACE BEYChertoff, Michael
Summary: "Chertoff [posits] that our laws and policies surrounding the protection of personal information, written for an earlier time, need to be ... overhauled in the Internet era. On the one hand, the collection of data--more widespread by business than by government, and impossible to stop--should be facilitated as an ultimate protection for society. On the other, standards under which information...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 343 CHECitron, Danielle Keats
Summary: "The essential road map for understanding-and defending-your right to privacy in the twenty-first century. Privacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, the details of our lives once relegated to pen and paper have joined the slipstream of new technology. As a MacArthur fellow and distinguished professor of law at the University of Virginia, acclaimed civil rights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 CITOesterheld, H. G. (Héctor Germán)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUEVARA, CHE OESCorso, Phil
Summary: "The martial art of tae kwon do is based on more than 5,000 years of Korean tradition. It's a combat system that focuses not only on physical performance but also on mental and spiritual wellness. The name of this martial art loosely means foot, fist, and discipline, and tae kwon do combines the strength of the body with the agility of the mind. Today, tae kwon do is a popular martial art for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.815 CORLawrence, Tim
Summary: "As the 1970s gave way to the '80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. [This book] chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and social eruptions that took place in the city's subterranean party venues as well as the way they cultivated breakthrough movements in art, performance, video, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2016
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Summary: "The internet as we know it is broken. Here's how we can seize back control of our lives from the corporate algorithms that have poisoned our digital information system and create a third-generation Internet that uplifts humanity-before it's too late"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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Summary: "We once disposed of our dead in earth-friendly ways--no chemicals, biodegradable containers, dust to dust. But over the last 150 years death care has become a toxic, polluting, and alienating industry in the United States. Today, people are slowly waking up to the possibility of more sustainable and less disaffecting death care, reclaiming old practices in new ways, in a new age. Greening...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2015