Harris, Thomas A
Summary: A self-help book that uses the principles of Transactional Analysis to guide a person toward an understanding of his behavior and to help him in attaining more rational behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 HARShilling, A. Gary.
Summary: "Top economist Gary Shilling shows you how to prosper in the slow-growing and deflationary times that lie ahead. While many investors fear a rapid rise in inflation, author Gary Shilling, an award-winning economic forecaster, argues that the global economy is going through a long period of de-leveraging and weak growth, which makes deflation far more likely and a far greater threat to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 SHIWalker, Jerald
Summary: "Personal essays exploring identity, family, and community through the prism of race and black culture. Confronts the medical profession's racial biases, shopping while black at Whole Foods, the legacy of Michael Jackson, raising black boys, haircuts that scare white people, racial profiling, and growing up in Southside Chicago"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 WALLeopold, Aldo
Summary: A Sand County almanac is often hailed as a foundational work of the modern environmental movement. Here, it is paired with over fifty other pieces by Leopold: uncollected articles, essays, speeches, and other writings that chart the evolution of his ideas over the course of three decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.73 LEOQueens of the Stone Age
Contents: Regular John -- Avon -- If only -- Walkin on the sidewalks -- You would know -- The bronze -- How to handle a rope (a lesson in the lariat) -- Mexicola -- Hispanic impressions -- You can't quit me baby -- These aren't the droids you're looking for -- Give the mule what he wants -- Spiders and vinegaroons -- I was a teenage hand model.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ipecac Recordings/Rekords Rekords 2010
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK QUEZeigler Dendy, Chris A.
Contents: 1. What is attention deficit disorder? -- 2. Causes : understanding ADD/ADHD and the brain -- 3. Diagnosis of ADD or ADHD -- 4. Moving behind guilt, anger, and fear to optimism! -- 5. Treatment of ADD and ADHD in adolescents -- 6. The medication dilemma : should your teen take medicine? -- 7. Attention disorders and coexisting conditions -- 8. Raising a healthy, well-adjusted teenager -- 9....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Woodbine House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents ZeiglerO'Gorman, Patricia A.
Summary: Lowdown is an easy-to-use book on a complex subject: how to break the cycle of addiction in high-risk families. Used in conjunction with the 12 steps AA, it shows that being a parent or caregiver and being in recovery can be a win/win situation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Child & Family Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 O'GOEvening, Martin.
Contents: Introducing Adobe Photoshop lightroom -- Importing photos -- Navigating the library module -- Managing photos in the library module -- Working with catalogs -- Develop module image editing -- The art of black and white -- Sharpening and noise reduction -- The Photoshop connection -- Printing -- Presenting your work -- Appendix A : lightroom preferences -- Appendix B : lightroom settings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adobe Press/Peachpit 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 006.6 LIGHTROOM EVEVerghese, A. (Abraham)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9792 VERDruckerman, Pamela
Summary: Author Pamela Druckerman leads us on a quest for wisdom, self-knowledge and the right pair of pants. A witty dispatch from the front lines of the forties, There Are No Grown-ups is a (midlife) coming-of-age story, and a book for anyone trying to find their place in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DRUCKERMAN, PAMELA DRUEllis, Michael A.
Summary: When your child is diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder, you have questions. As ASD parents themselves, Michael and Lori Ellis provide a holistic view of what comes after diagnosis, answer the most commonly asked questions, discuss what medications and therapies are available, and examine the global impact ASD has on the child's environment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
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Contents: Staff Sergeant Robert Bales and the massacre in Afghanistan -- Major Nidal Malik Hasan and malignant psychic dissociation -- The strange case of Dr. Timothy V. Jorden, Jr -- What is posttraumatic stress disorder? -- Diagnosing and understanding the brainabnormalities of PTSD -- Neuropsychiatric assessment of psychological stress and trauma -- What happened at joint base McChord/Fort Lewis? --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8521 LiebertDickinson, Amy.
Summary: In The Mighty Queens of Freeville, Amy Dickinson, syndicated advice columnist and weekly National Public Radio celeb, shares her remarkable story--a tale of Amy and her daughter and the people who helped raise them after Amy found herself a reluctant single parent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 DICHeinzel, Kenneth A.
Summary: College students and recent grads: Want to nail the interview and get the job of your dreams? Read on. What you will learn in Private Notes of a Headhunter is as important as any course you've taken or will ever take: insider tips, tools and techniques tailored expressly to your needs ... information that will help give you an edge in one of the most challenging job search environments in many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pythian House Publishing 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650 HEISjursen, Daniel A.
Summary: A combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan examines the history of the United States through an alternate lens that emphasizes our history of slavery, indigenous genocide, and militarist imperialism to present a more balanced view of the American story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Truth to Power, an imprint of Steerforth Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SJUWiles, Richard A.
Summary: "On October 15, 1900, the people living peacefully in Indian Point, Cheboygan County, Michigan, were suddenly and violently thrown from their homes by white settlers. Their village, held in trust for them by a government treaty, was burned to the ground. Efforts to right this wrong, still on-going, are chronicled by author Richard A. Wiles in this book."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 WILWilkinson, Toby A. H.
Summary: "A thrilling history of the West's scramble for the riches of ancient Egypt by the foremost Egyptologist of our time. From the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later, the uncovering of Egypt's ancient past took place in an atmosphere of grand adventure and international rivalry. In A World Beneath...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 932.009 WILSmith, Patrick A.
Contents: "...no woods to travel far back into" : last great places in Jim Harrison's Wolf: a false memoir -- "Thoreau only pretended to loaf" : philosophies of conservation in Jim Harrison's A good day to die and Sundog -- "...the Orient was totally out of the question" : conflict, place, and the regional novel in Jim Harrison's Farmer -- "...to eat well and not die from it" : the dubious art of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2002
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 813.54 SMIMort, T. A. (Terry A.)
Summary: In the summer of 1874, Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer led an expedition of some 1000 troops and more than one hundred wagons into the Black Hills of South Dakota. This fascinating work of narrative history tells the little-known story of this exploratory mission and reveals how it set the stage for the climactic Battle of the Little Bighorn two years later. What is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 MORSummary: Patterns of urbanization and poverty are playing an increasingly heavy role in the debate over globalization and market regulation. In a hard-hitting analysis of the issues, this program assembles a wide-ranging set of opinions from scholars and experts-as well as from ordinary individuals around the world who face urban hardships and obstacles to their livelihoods every day. Commentators...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Moss, David A.
Summary: Historian David Moss adapts the case study method made famous by Harvard Business School to revitalize our conversations about governance and democracy and show how the United States has often thrived on political conflict. These 19 cases ask us to weigh choices and consequences, wrestle with momentous decisions, and come to our own conclusions.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.4 MOSGrunenwald, Jill A.
Summary: "In December 2008, twentysomething Jill Grunenwald graduated with her master's degree in library science, ready to start living her dream of becoming a librarian. But the economy had a different idea. As the Great Recession reared its ugly head, jobs were scarce. After some searching, however, Jill was lucky enough to snag one of the few librarian gigs left in her home state of Ohio. The catch?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 GRUNENWALD, JILL A GRUMichaels, Mark A.
Summary: "Most of us long for an intimate relationship, and though texting and emailing may keep us superficially connected and feeling momentarily sexy, it ultimately cannot create the kind of intimacy necessary to sustain a deep, fulfilling, and lasting partnership. With the divorce rate reaching a staggering 50 percent in 2013 and the breakup rate among unmarried long-term couples even higher, it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 MICShors, Tracey
Summary: "A neuroscientist explores how trauma impacts the brain, especially for women-and how we can learn to heal ourselves Everyone experiences trauma. Whether a specific harrowing event or a series of stressful moments that culminate over time, trauma can echoand etch itself into our brain as we remember it again and again throughout our lives. In Everyday Trauma, neuroscientist Dr. Tracey Shors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021