Richards, Shola
Summary: Making Work Work focuses on inspiring current and future leaders to start a movement that will banish on-the-job bullying, put meaning back into work, and enhance coworkers' happiness and engagement. Richards, whose popular blog has a worldwide following, explains why inaction is insane, why we must move forward with positivity, and why the "abc" employees (asshats, bullies, and complainers)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Ethos 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Business RichardsShah, Sonia.
Summary: Traces the centuries-long battle to treat and prevent malaria in numerous regions of the world while revealing how hundreds of millions of people are infected annually in spite of available preventions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 SHAShah, Tahir.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 963 SHAShah, Amy
Summary: "A guide to conquering burnout and increasing your energy from a leading medical doctor and nutrition expert"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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Summary: "A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting--predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change. The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands, creeping, swimming, and flying in a mass exodus from their past habitats....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.809 SHAShah, Rajiv Janardan
Summary: "Rajiv J. Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and former administrator of President Barack Obama's United States Agency for International Development, shares a dynamic new model for creating large scale change, inspired by his own involvements with some of the largest humanitarian projects of our time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Element 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4 SHASummary: They fix spacecraft, dance, tell jokes, and even clean your carpet! From the tiniest robo-bees to gigantic factory machines, robotics is all around you. This technology isn't just for science-fiction anymore -- it's real and more relevant than ever. With stunning visuals and energetic, impactful design, readers won't stop until they've learned everything there is to know about robotics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in the previous year, including works by such authors as Julia Rosen, Kashmir Hill, and Lucy Sherriff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 BESShlaim, Avi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.04 SHLGhosh, Amitav
Summary: "The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis frames climate change and the Anthropocene as the culmination of a history that begins with the discovery of the New World and of the sea route to the Indian Ocean. Ghosh makes the case that the political dynamics of climate change today are rooted in the centuries-old geopolitical order that was constructed by Western colonialism. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 GHOGhosh, Amitav
Summary: When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote about were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on those currents: opium. Most surprising of all, however, was the discovery that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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Summary: "Khabaar is a food memoir/narrative braiding global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration and indenture focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners asking the simple question of what it means to belong, and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country. This question is braided into the author's own immigration journey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Iowa Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 GHOIslam, Farhana
Summary: "Meet a handful of the men and women that helped shape the early life of Prophet Muhammad. In these pages, you will find his mother, Amina bint Wahb; the women that loved and protected him like their very own, Halimah Sa'diyyah and Barakah (Umm Ayman); and his beloved grandfather Abd al-Muttalib, alongside his uncle Abu Talib. This beautifully illustrated book introduces readers to Prophet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Islamic Foundation 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 297.63 ISLShone, Tom
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 SHOShoup, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 ShoupMaher, Sanam
Summary: "In 2016, Pakistan's first social media celebrity, Qandeel Baloch, was murdered in a suspected honor killing. Her death quickly became a media sensation. It was both devastatingly routine and breathtakingly brutal, and in a new media landscape, it couldn't be ignored. Qandeel had courted attention and outrage with a talent for self-promotion that earned her comparisons to Kim Kardashian--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALOCH, QANDEEL MAHShlain, Leonard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 SHLZichy, Shoya.
Summary: The key to both enjoying and succeeding at work lies in knowing your core strengths-- and making the most of them. The authors give you a clear blueprint for using your natural abilities more effectively, and reenergizing your professional life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650 ZICShlaes, Amity.
Summary: A brilliant and provocative reexamination of America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COOLIDGE, CALVIN SHAShors, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 SHOShlaes, Amity.
Summary: It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression--only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand it. These people are at the heart of this reinterpretation of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century. Author Shlaes presents the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 SHLStosz, Sandra
Summary: "Today, our nation is like a ship being tossed in tumultuous seas. The winds and waves of change have divided and distanced our society, threatening to wash away the very principles our nation was founded upon. Now more than ever, our nation needs leaders with the moral courage to stand strong and steady-leaders capable of uniting people in support of a shared purpose by building the trust and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Köehlerbooks 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 STOShore, Zachary
Summary: What kind of country is America? Zachary Shore tackles this polarizing question by spotlighting some of the most morally muddled matters of WWII. Should Japanese Americans be moved from the west coast to prevent sabotage? Should the German people be made to starve as punishment for launching the war? Should America drop atomic bombs to break Japan's will to fight? Surprisingly, despite wartime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 SHOShook, Kerry
Summary: "Kerry and Chris Shook's grandson, Jude, lived for only one day after he was born. That one day changed the way they now live every day. Now they share their lessons of faith and hope. As they recount the compelling true story of Jude's short but inspiring life, Kerry and Chris reveal the transformative insights they learned when tragedy struck their family. Told with humility and transparency,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook 2020