Summary: This documentary explores the powerful struggle of conscience experienced by several people from traditional farming backgrounds who come to question the basic assumptions of their way of life. A riveting story of transformation and healing, the documentary portrays the farmers' sometimes amazing connections with the animals under their care, while also providing insight into the complex web of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Tribe of Heart 2012

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O'Brien, Joanne

Summary: Maps the current nature, extent, and influence of each of the major religions and shows, country by country, how religions are spread through broadcasting, missionary work, schooling, and banking; how they relate to government, laws, and world hunger; and the role they play in wars. It traces the emergence of new religious movements, the survival of traditional beliefs, and the presence of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2007

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McCoy, Ann C.

Summary: Today's classrooms are full of routines. Although we often think of routines as being used for organization, routines can also be used to enhance instruction. In this book, the authors present seven easily implemented mathematical routines that may be used effectively at a variety of grade levels and with a variety of mathematical content. The book also includes ideas for infusing mathematics...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: NCTM, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2013

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Sullivan, Nell Jane Barnett

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Printed by G. Little Press 1970

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Blanton, DeAnne

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 2002

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Stillman, Deanne

Summary: In this noirish mother-son tale playing out across the Wild West of mid-twentieth century America, published on the 60th anniversary of the JFK assassination, a critically acclaimed writer investigates the short, troubled life of the ordinary man and his mother who took down the leader of the so-called Free World.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2023

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Giles, Jenne.

Summary: Giles combines innovative felting techniques with dye colors, fiber combinations, and patterns to make captivating felt fabric, from which she designs and constructs pieces that are truly wearable art.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quarry Books 2010

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Vanasco, Jeannie

Summary: "Jeannie Vanasco has had the same nightmare since she was a teenager. She startles awake, saying his name. It is always about him: one of her closest high school friends, a boy named Mark. A boy who raped her. When her nightmares worsen, Jeannie decides--after fourteen years of silence--to reach out to Mark. He agrees to talk on the record and meet in person. "It's the least I can do," he says....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2019

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Marshall, Jeannie.

Summary: "A lively story about food, family and identity that will make even the most inexperienced among us want to start chopping and cooking. When journalist Jeannie Marshall moved to Rome with her husband, she immersed herself in Italy's famous culinary traditions. But when the couple's son was born a few years later, Marshall began to see how Italy's great food culture was eroding, especially...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2013

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Mebane, Jeanie

Summary: Freshwater marshes are found throughout the United States and in many countries around the world. And in every marsh, there is an opportunity to view dozens of species of animal life. Written in a rhyming cumulative style like The House that Jack Built, At the Marsh in the Meadow portrays the wetlands food chain, showing how all forms of life, from the mud at the bottom of the marsh to the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2016

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Smialek, Jeanna

Summary: "The marble halls of the Federal Reserve have always held secrets; for decades the Fed did the utmost to preserve its room to maneuver, operating behind the scenes as much as possible. Yet over the past two decades, this elite world of bankers and economists speaking a language that only monetary experts could understand has been forced to change its ways. Amid rising inequality, weakening...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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Bartlett, Rosamund.

Summary: Traces the lives and legacies of some of Russia's foremost writers, discussing their role in the spiritual, political, and intellectual lives of their readers while touring some of Russia's most significant literary museums and historical sites.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2006

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Bergstrom, Jenne

Summary: Readers can step back in time and imagine themselves at the March family table. In addition to recipes, there are timeless illustrations, favorite passages, and historical trivia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ulysses Press 2019

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Brown, Leanne

Summary: "By showing that kitchen skill, and not budget, is the key to great food, Good and Cheap will help you eat well--really well--on the strictest of budgets. Created for people who have to watch every dollar--but particularly those living on the U.S. food stamp allotment of $4.00 a day--Good and Cheap is a cookbook filled with delicious, healthful recipes backed by ideas that will make everyone...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2015

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Bartlett, Jamie.

Summary: In Radicals Chasing Utopia, Jamie Bartlett, one of the world's leading thinkers on radical politics and technology, takes readers inside the strange and exciting worlds of the innovators, disrupters, idealists, and extremists who think we can do better-and believe they know how. Bartlett introduces us to some of the most influential movements today: techno-futurists questing for immortality,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2017

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Bartlett, John

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2002

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Bartlett, Karen

Summary: "Architects of Death tells the astonishing story of how the gas chambers and crematoria that facilitated the murder and incineration of more than one million people in the Holocaust were designed not by the Nazi SS, but by a small respectable family firm of German engineers. Topf and Sons designed and built the crematoria at the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Belzec,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018

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Stillman, Deanne

Summary: Documents the unlikely friendship between Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull, tracing the events of their brief but important collaboration during Cody's 1880s Wild West Show, the impact of Little Big Horn, and Sitting Bull's assassination in 1890.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017

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Stillman, Deanne.

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2001

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Bartlett, John

Summary: A completely revised and updated edition provides a sweeping overview of the cultural influence of inspirational language and includes new contributions by such authors as the Dalai Lama, Steve Jobs and Desmond Tutu.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012

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Gaffigan, Jeannie

Summary: "In 2017, Jeannie's life came to a crashing halt when she was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor. As the mother of 5 kids-6 if you include her husband-sat in the neurosurgery department in star-covered sweats too whimsical for the seriousness of the situation, all she could think was "Am I going to die?" Thankfully, Jeannie and her family were able to survive their time of crisis,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019

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