Abraham, Nikhil
Summary: See all the things coding can accomplish The demand for people with coding know-how exceeds the number of people who understand the languages that power technology. Coding All-in-One For Dummies gives you an ideal place to start when you're ready to add this valuable asset to your professional repertoire. Whether you need to learn how coding works to build a web page or an application or see...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 005 ABRGoyal, Nikhil
Summary: "Kensington, Philadelphia, is distinguished only by its poverty. It is home to Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel, three Puerto Rican children who live among the most marginalized children and families in the United States. This is their coming-of-age story. It is also the story of families beset by violence--the violence of homelessness, hunger, incarceration, stray bullets, sexual and physical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 GOYSaval, Nikil.
Summary: Drawing from popular books, movies, comic strips and an abundance of management literature and business history, this surprising "secret history" shows how the white-collar world came to be, from the mid-19th century to today, and reveals what it might become.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 651.09 SAVDivakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books/Doubleday 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 DIVBanerjee, Abhijit V.
Summary: "Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world's poor. But much of the work they do is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, flat out harmful misperceptions at worst. Banerjee and Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials in development economics. Work based on these principles,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.46 BANHasler, Nikol.
Summary: Discusses all aspects of sexuality and sexual behavior, including sexual orientation, masturbation, birth control, and sexually transmitted diseases, and answers teenagers' questions on sex in a straightforward and in-depth manner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 613.9071 HASDekel, Mikhal
Summary: "The extraordinary true story of Polish-Jewish child refugees who escaped the Nazis and found refuge in Iran. More than a million Jews escaped east from Nazi occupied Poland to Soviet occupied Poland. There they suffered extreme deprivation in Siberian gulags and "Special Settlements" and then, once "liberated," journeyed to the Soviet Central Asian Republics. The majority of Polish Jews who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 DEKBanerjee, Abhijit V.
Summary: "Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life as we have known it. Immigration and inequality, globalization and technological disruption, slowing growth and accelerating climate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 BANKhodorkovsky, Mikhail
Summary: Profiles Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former Russian oligarch and prisoner who became a political dissident speaking out against the Putin regime, and explores the relationship between oligarchy and government and its effect on democracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CITNichol, Jeff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice Hall 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 NICKhodorkovskiĭ, Mikhail
Summary: "An urgent analysis of the battle between Russia and the West and an exposé of Putin's Russia, by a former Kremlin insider. "I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get wound up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my head. The announcement didn't quite say 'dead or alive'. But it came...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 KHOZygarʹ, Mikhail
Summary: "Charting the transformation of Vladimir Putin from a passionate fan of the West and a liberal reformer into a hurt and introverted outcast, All the Kremlin's Men is a historical detective story, full of intrigue and conspiracy. This is the story of the political battles that have taken place in the court of Vladimir Putin since his rise to power, and a chronicle of friendship and hatred...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 ZYGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Pol ZygarMikhail, Alan
Summary: Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel. As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Osman's empire grew, it, too, covered the earth. This is the most widely accepted foundation myth of the longest-lasting empire in the history of Islam, and offers a telling clue to its unique legacy. Underlying every aspect of the Ottoman Empire's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 MIKZygarʹ, Mikhail
Summary: "In his time as a journalist, prominent independent Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar has interviewed President Zelensky and had access to many of the major players--from politicians to oligarchs. As an expert on Putin's moods and behavior, he has spent years studying the Kremlin's plan regarding Ukraine, and here, in clear, chronological order he explains how we got here. In 1996 to 2004,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.47 ZYGNishi, Gene.
Summary: This innovative text for self-study presents Japanese in a logical and systematic way by restricting focus to a limited number of core sentence patterns and by using flow charts to help clarify the complexities of verb conjugations. Japanese scripts (kanji, kana) are introduced alongside roomaji transliteration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2000
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Summary: Translation of: Nihon kenchiku no katachi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha International 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 NishiAmar, Akhil Reed
Summary: "From Illinois to Alabama, and from Florida to Utah, our laws and legal debates arise from distinctive local settings within our vast and varied nation. As the renowned scholar Akhil Amar explains, Abraham Lincoln's argument against the legality of succession can be traced to his Midwestern upbringing, just as a close look at the Florida legislature and state Supreme Court reveals the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 AMAChanani, Nidhi
Summary: When her granddaughter Aria comes to stay with her, making it her mission to turn her boba cafae around, Jing Li, who is the secret keeper of the monster of San Francisco, is overrun with customers while Aria sneaks away to reason with the earthquake-causing monster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
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Summary: "A leading legal scholar addresses the most important constitutional controversies of the past two decades and illuminates the Constitution's spirit and ongoing relevance When the stories that lead our daily news involve momentous constitutional questions, present-minded journalists and busy citizens cannot always see the stakes clearly. In The Constitution Today, Akhil Reed Amar, America's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 AMASummary: Werner Herzog and Andre Singer's riveting documentary, filled with unforgettable archive materials and based on three never before seen interviews, provides incredible access to, arguably, the world's greatest living politician. Now 88 and battling illness, the visionary Gorbachev, the former General Secretary of the U.S.S.R, is still gently but resolutely pushing towards his goals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MEESummary: Historian Michael Wood chronicles the history of the Indian subcontinent, focusing especially on the diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes. The world's largest democracy and a rising economic giant, India is now as well known across the globe for its mastery of computer technology as it is for its many-armed gods and its famous spiritual traditions. But India is also the world's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Vision International 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STOSummary: The Soviet leader was acclaimed as the architect of Glasnost and Perestrolka, policies that gave the citizens of the Soviet Union, what Ronald Reagan called 'the Evil Empire,' a chance to be free. He even tore down the Berlin Wall. But at the same time, under his rule, the Chernobyl nuclear facility exploded and its destruction was concealed. Citizens demanding independence in the Baltic states...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GORGorbachev, M. S. (Mikhail Sergeevich)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.085 GORAmar, Akhil Reed.
Summary: Explores the little-understood relationship between the written Constitution and the many external factors that shape the interpretations of this foundational document.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012