Garcia, Damon
Summary: "For thousands of years, religious messages have been used to either uphold the status quo or upend it. And while we are all very familiar with the kind of conservative Christianity that suppresses liberation and justifies oppression, progressive Christians are just as guilty of upholding unjust systems when we prioritize harmony and unity over justice. True justice requires us to choose sides...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadleaf Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 232 GARAcemoglu, Daron
Summary: Artificial intelligence and other innovative technologies won't guarantee a rising standard of living for workers, according to this lucid manifesto. MIT economists Acemoglu and Johnson explore historical instances of new technology failing to pay off for workers: improved agricultural practices and equipment in medieval Europe conferred few benefits on peasants while lords and churchmen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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Summary: Evaluates the reasons that some nations are poor while others succeed, outlining provocative perspectives that support theories about the importance of institutions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 ACEDanon, Danny.
Summary: Outlines a plan for Israel's future, arguing against any acquiescence to U.S. foreign policy and discussing such topics as the "two state/one state" stalemate, nationalism, and the potential for severing the bond between Israel and the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.053 DANDuffy, Eamon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press, in association with S4C 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 262.13 DUFSearls, Damion
Summary: "In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind: a set of ten carefully designed inkblots. For years, he had grappled with the theories of Freud and Jung while also absorbing the aesthetic movements of the day, from Futurism to Dadaism. A visual artist himself, Rorschach had come to believe that who we are is less a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 SEATweedy, Damon
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat comes a powerful and urgent call to center psychiatry and mental health care into the mainstream of medicine As much as we all might wish that mental health problems, with their elusive causes and unsettling behaviors, simply did not exist, millions of people suffer from them, sometimes to an extreme extent. Many others...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 TWEBrown, Damon
Summary: An author, two-time start-up founder and four-time TED speaker offers testimonials, plans of action, and road-tested insight to encourage job seekers to use their existing skills and resources to change careers, manage transitions, and thrive in the current job market.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.14 BRONelson, Ramon
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Publisher / Publication Date: S. Jennings Press 1990
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 289.9 NELDiamond, Jason
Summary: "In Searching for John Hughes, Jason tells how a Jewish kid from a broken home in a Chicago suburb--sometimes homeless, always restless--found comfort and connection in the likewise broken lives in the suburban Chicago of John Hughes’ oeuvre. He moved to New York to become a writer. He started to write a book he had no business writing. In the meantime, he brewed coffee and guarded cupcake...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIAMOND, JASON DIADanson, Ted
Summary: Most people know Ted Danson from television and movies, but fewer realize that over the course of the past two and a half decades, Danson has tirelessly devoted himself to the cause of heading off a looming global catastrophe--the massive destruction of our planet's oceanic biosystems and the collapse of the world's major commercial fisheries. Here, Danson details his journey from joining a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.95 DANKamen, Henry.
Summary: "Since the sixteenth century, the Spanish inquisition has been synonymous with terror, bigotry, and persecution. In this book, a renowned historian sweeps away old misconceptions and presents a new view of this notorious and fascinating period." "Henry Kamen reassesses the significance and consequences of the expulsion of the Jews and also argues that there is little evidence for the alleged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 272.2 KAMShea, Ammon
Summary: "The author of Reading the OED presents an eye-opening look at language "mistakes" and how they came to be accepted as correct-or not. English is a glorious mess of a language, cobbled together from a wide variety of sources and syntaxes, and changing over time with popular usage. Many of the words and usages we embrace as standard and correct today were at first considered slang, impolite, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428 SHEAhearn, Allen.
Summary: A guide to market values of collectible books in the United States as of 2001, featuring alphabetically arranged entries that list the author, title, place and date of publication, and other information as needed, and including discussion of how to identify first editions of books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill & Brush 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 002.075 AHEDakin, Karla.
Contents: Sources of inspiration -- Shapes and patterns -- Creating living spaces -- Wildlife friendly spaces -- Plant-driven environments -- The predesign phase -- Site analysis -- Program -- Master planning and conceptual design -- Design development and construction documents -- Contracts, construction, and maintenance -- The evolving frontier of landscape design.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9671 DAKDayen, David
Summary: "In the depths of the Great Recession, a cancer nurse, a car dealership worker, and an insurance fraud specialist helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history-a scandal that implicated dozens of major executives on Wall Street. They called it foreclosure fraud: millions of families were kicked out of their homes based on false evidence by mortgage companies that had no legal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press, The 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 DAYSwade, Doron.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1971
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Summary: " In this much-anticipated follow-up to Fifty Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food, renowned nutrition expert and New York Times best-selling author of Eat Q, Susan Albers delivers fifty more highly effective ways to help you soothe yourself without eating-leading to a healthier, happier life! If you're an emotional overeater, you may turn to food to cope with stress and sadness, enhance joy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 AlbCaron, 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 CARDaston, Lorraine
Summary: "We are, all of us, everywhere, always, enmeshed in a web of rules and constraints. Rules fix the beginning and end of the working day and the school year, direct the ebb and flow of traffic on the roads, dictate who can be married to whom and how, place the fork to the right or the left of the plate, lay down the meter and rhyme scheme of a Petrarchan sonnet, and order the rites of birth and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Self-Counsel Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.83 DOMDuncan, Dayton.
Summary: In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world's first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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Summary: "You may get dressed every day without really thinking about what you're putting on, but did you know that what you wear has a powerful effect on how you feel? Or that your clothes influence the way others perceive you? By making a few adjustments to your wardrobe, and learning to style from the inside out, [you may] not only elevate your look, but level up your entire life"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2020