Hacker, Andrew.
Summary: "Andrew Hacker's 2012 New York Times op-ed questioning our current mathematics requirements instantly became one of the the paper's most widely circulated articles. Why, he wondered, do we inflict algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and even calculus on all young Americans, regardless of their interests or aptitudes? The Math Myth expands Hacker's scrutiny of many widely held assumptions, such as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 HACHacker, Marilyn
Summary: "Celebrated poets Marilyn Hacker and Karthika Naïr compose a collaborative poem marking a year of friendship through stillness and grief"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 HACHacker, Diana
Summary: "The eighth edition of A Pocket Style Manual covers everything you need for college writing - especially researched writing. New step-by-step advice applies to writing assignments in any course. There's also new advice for revision, summary, paraphrase, and quotation. When you add all that great new help to Pocket's tested, trusted grammar and style advice plus more than 300 documentation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Winchester 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2 HACHacker, Jacob S.
Summary: "A groundbreaking account of how the dangerous alliance of right-wing plutocrats and populists threatens the very pillars of American democracy. We often assume that the Republican Party is divided between a tax-cutting old guard and a white-nationalist vanguard-and that with Donald Trump's ascendance, the upstarts are winning. Yet as New York Times best-selling authors Jacob S. Hacker and Paul...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 HACHacker, Jacob S.
Summary: We are witnessing a massive transfer of economic risk from broad structures of insurance onto the fragile balance sheets of American families. This text explains the causes and consequences of 'The Great Risk Shift' and what can be done to reverse it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 HACSmith, Jeremy N.
Summary: When she arrived at MIT in the 1990s, Alien wanted to study aerospace engineering, but she was soon drawn to the school's venerable tradition of high-risk physical trespassing: the original 'hacking.' Within a year, one of her hallmates was dead, two others were on trial, and two had been institutionalized. And Alien's adventures were only just beginning. After a stint at the storied, secretive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ALIEN SMIDiCicco, Tony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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Summary: Path of Blood tells the gripping and horrifying true story of the underground army which Osama Bin Laden created in order to attack his number one target: his home country, Saudi Arabia. His aim was to conquer the land of the Two Holy Mosques, the land from where Islam had first originated, and, from there, to reestablish an Islamic Empire that could take on the West and win. Thomas Small and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 SMAPacker, Sarit
Summary: Offers a selection of accessible Middle Eastern recipes from the restaurateurs, including spreads and dips, salads, one-pan dishes, soups, Persian entrées, tagines of North Africa, sofritos of Jerusalem, and stews of Iran.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.554 PACThacker, Holly.
Summary: Offers advice for women who are going through menopause, providing information on hormone therapy, vitamins, and supplements as well as tips on understanding the myths about menopause.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kaplan Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Wom ThackerPacker, George
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 956.7044 PACBacher, Lindsay.
Summary: This title examines the role and theme of Biblical allusions in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Matrix, Lord of the Flies, and The Lion King. It features four analysis papers that consider Biblical allusions, each using different critical lenses, writing techniques, or aspects of the theme.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 809 BACBackes, Laura.
Contents: Where do I start? -- When bribes fail: how to help your child learn to love reading -- Finding your way: a road map to the children's book department -- Taking the first step -- Keeping it simple -- Making the transition -- Stretching it out -- Ready for anything -- Further recommended reading -- Resources for parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prima Pub. 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 028.162 BACFackler, Elizabeth
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: W FACHafner, Katie.
Summary: A health and technology journalist documents her efforts to promote family bonds and healing during a haphazard year spent sharing a home in San Francisco with her complicated octogenarian mother and teenage daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAFNER, KATIE HAFHauter, Wenonah.
Summary: Through meticulous research, Hauter presents a shocking account of how agricultural policy has been hijacked by lobbyists, driving out independent farmers and food processors in favor of the likes of Cargill, Tyson, Kraft, and ConAgra. She demonstrates how the impacts ripple far and wide, from economic stagnation in rural communities at home, to famines in poor countries overseas. In the end,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 HAUHosker, Ian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guild of Master Craftsman Publications 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 674.833 HOSTasker, Greg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.402 TASPacker, George
Summary: This book recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It brings to life the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war policy and led America to the Assassins' Gate--the main point of entry into the American zone in Baghdad. The consequences of that policy are shown in the author's reporting on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 PACDucker, Chris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 658 DUCHalber, Deborah.
Summary: In America today, upwards of forty thousand people are dead and unaccounted for. These murder, suicide, and accident victims, separated from their names, are being adopted by the bizarre online world of amateur sleuths. It's DIY CSI. The web sleuths pore over facial reconstructions (a sort of Facebook for the dead) and other online clues as they vie to solve cold cases and tally up personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 HALHarmer, Tom
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.78 HARThackery, Jimmy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1994