Wiggins, Chris
Summary: "From facial recognition--capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents--to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn't just appear: they are part of a history that goes back centuries, from the census enshrined in the US...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: For close to three thousand years, Helen of Troy has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to the Greek king Menelaus and the Trojan prince Paris, Helen was held responsible for an enduring enmity between East and West. But who was she? Helen exists in many guises: a matriarch from the Age of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.352 HUGHughes, Bettany
Summary: Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul-- one city, where stories and histories collide. The gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. Hughes takes us on an historical journey from the Neolithic to the present, exploring the ways that Istanbul's influence has spun out to shape the wider world. This is the story not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Wiley 2003
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Contents: Introduction : the scientific method -- A word about calculators -- Apparatus needed for all experiments -- Experiment 1 : Identified flying objects -- Experiment 2 : Updated cannonballs -- ch. 1. How things move : position, velocity, and acceleration -- Experiment 3 : Weight 'til the sun shines, Nellie -- ch. 2. Why things move : forces and their effects -- Experiment 4 : Dropsy -- ch. 3....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 WIGBarry, Bethany
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interweave Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.582 BarryBarton, Bethany
Summary: Entertaining, eye-opening and educational, this deep dive into the microscopic world of germs discusses the microbes in and on our bodies that help us survive, the ones that don't and everything in between.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 579.3 BARMcLean, Bethany.
Summary: This surprising narrative goes back more than twenty years to reveal, in rich, anecdotal detail, how Wall Street, the mortgage industry, and the government conspired to change the way Americans bought their homes, creating a perfect storm. The authors take us inside elusive institutions such as Goldman Sachs, AIG, and Fannie Mae, to reveal who changed the game and why.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio Penguin 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Common Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.122 HUGCorkhill, Betsan.
Summary: Betsan Corkhills book will transform the way you think about your health, wellness and knitting. It rises above other self-help books because it provides an accessible tool which gets you actively involved in improving your health and wellbeing and shows you how to do this any time, anywhere. It quite literally puts the power in your hands. Betsan shares her knowledge of using Therapeutic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 CORMcLean, Bethany
Summary: The technology of fracking in shale rock -- particularly in the Permian Basin in Texas -- has transformed America into the world's top producer of both oil and natural gas. The U.S. is expected to be "energy independent" and a "net exporter" in less than a decade, a move that will upend global politics, destabilize Saudi Arabia, crush Russia's chokehold over Europe, and finally bolster American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Global Reports 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333 .823 MCLBradsher, Bethany
Summary: Presents a brief history of fifty Super Bowl games, profiling the key players and coaches, setting, and events affiliated with each.
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Publisher / Publication Date: JKR Ventures, LLC 2015
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Summary: "What did pioneers eat on the wide-open frontier as they made their way west? What kinds of clothes did people wear during the Civil War? What was school like in colonial America? Daily Life in US History answers all of these questions and more. Take a trip to the past to learn what everyday life was like in the different eras of US history." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978 ONSSaltman, Bethany
Summary: "When professional researcher and writer Bethany Saltman gave birth to her daughter, Azalea, she loved her deeply but felt as if something was missing. Looking back at her lonely childhood, dangerous teenage years, and love-addicted early adulthood, Saltman thought maybe she was broken. Then she discovered the science of attachment, the field of psychology that explores the question of why?from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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Summary: Describes the construction, purpose, daily life, and inhabitants of six Western forts, Fort Clatsop, the Presidio, Fort Leavenworth, Fort Laramie, Fort Sill, and Fort Hood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest Publishers 2003
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Summary: "If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad answers all of kids' most important questions about the Underground Railroad."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 WILBethmann, Laura Donnelly
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey 1996
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 PATBehan, Kevin.
Contents: Pt. 1. Our special relationship with dogs -- pt. 2. My life with dogs -- pt. 3. How dogs work -- pt. 4. The dog in your life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 BEHWilkins, Ebony
Summary: "It's March 2, 1955, and an ordinary 15-year-old girl from Montgomery, Alabama is about to do something extraordinary. When a white bus driver orders Claudette Colvin to give up her seat for a white passenger, she refuses to move. After Claudette is arrested, her brave actions help inspire Civil Rights leaders organize bus boycotts and perform similar acts to defy segregation laws. Eventually,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Pub. 1996
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Summary: "Beijing Rules is a superb expose which reveals how China learned to master capitalism which it now wields in its own authoritarian form to achieve global dominance. As Bethany Allen, the China reporter for Axios, reveals, the long-standing belief that free-trade capitalism is a democratizing force--the assumption underlying much of American and Western policy since World War II--is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: "Provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, wildlife, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religion, and culture of Angola"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2019