Sen, Amartya Kumar.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1999

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Sen, Amartya

Summary: "From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a long-awaited memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to betterment of humanity. The Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is one of a handful of people who may truly be called"a global intellectual" (Financial Times). A towering figure in the field of economics, Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022

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Summary: Including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Omar El Akkad and others, this collection from literary writers around the world offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2022

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Sen, Mayukh

Summary: "America's modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers. Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company, independent publishers since 1923 2022

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Summary: Examines efforts by a group of citizens in West Virginia to hold the industrial giant Du Pont responsible for poisoning the drinking water supply as a result of dumping toxic chemicals.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Sen, Paul

Summary: "Einstein's Fridge tells the incredible epic story of the scientists who, over two centuries, harnessed the power of heat and ice and formulated a theory essential to comprehending our universe. Thermodynamics-the branch of physics that deals with energyand entropy-is the least known and yet most consequential of all the sciences. It governs everything from the behavior of living cells to the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021

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Grimes, Martha.

Summary: The popular mystery writer and her son present a dual account of their struggles with alcoholism and sobriety, a parallel journey marked by poignant episodes of relapse, travel, and friendship.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2013

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Weintraub, Aileen

Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018

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Sen, Sharmila

Summary: At the age of 12, Sharmila Sen emigrated from India to the U.S. The year was 1982, and everywhere she turned, she was asked to self-report her race: on INS forms, at the doctor's office, in middle school. Never identifying with a race in the India of her childhood, she rejects her new "not quite" designation: not quite white, not quite black, not quite Asian, and spends much of her life...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2018

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Kumar, Amitava

Summary: "Every day I write the book, a guide to style and writing for academics, is Amitava Kumar's fifth book of creative nonfiction with Duke University Press. Written in short first-person vignettes, this book melds form and content to explore the writing process both in and out of the academy, while offering a portrait of Kumar's writing life throughout. Kumar, whose background is in literary...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2020

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Kumar, Manjit.

Summary: Presents a history of the golden age of physics in the early twentieth century, focusing on the central conflict between Einstein and Niels Bohr over the nature of reality and the soul of science.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2011

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Komar, Vitaly.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2000

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Frantzis, Bruce Kumar.

Summary: "Bruce Frantzis' comprehensive guide reveals why tai chi is effective at helping millions improve their health, relieve stress and reverse the effects of aging, and helps advanced students upgrade their practice and beginners choose the appropriate style and teacher"--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Snake Books 2006

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Summary: Using interviews and rare archival footage, this chronicles Lewis's 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health care reform, and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, it explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family, and his meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. It also...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Kumar, Sameet M.

Summary: For some people, grief resolves on its own; but for many others, grief can lead to feelings of depression, anxiety, anger, and an intense and inconsolable yearning for the diseased. This workbook offers mindfulness exercises, guided meditations, and healthy lifestyle changes to help you process your grief, manage your intense emotions, and start to finally heal.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Umar, Ousman

Summary: "The inspiring true story of one man's treacherous boyhood journey from a rural village in Ghana to the streets of Barcelona--and the path that led him home. Ousman Umar is a shaman's son born in a small village in Ghana. Though his mother died giving birth, he spent a contented childhood working the fields, setting traps in the jungle, and living off the land. Still, as strange and wondrous...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing 2022

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Wamariya, Clemantine

Summary: "Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. It was 1994, and in 100 days more than 800,000 people would be murdered in Rwanda and millions more displaced. Clemantine and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, ran and spent the next six years...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing 2018

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Ludwick, Amaretta.

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Publisher / Publication Date: The author 1962

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Summary: Filmmaker Ken Burns invited some of country music's finest artists to gather at Ryman Auditorium to celebrate the launch of his PBS series Country Music. Burns curated an evening of selected highlights from the series combined with performances of the music's iconic songs by some of country's finest artists including Dierks Bentley, Rosanne Cash, Vince Gill, Kathy Mattea, Marty Stuart, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Falk, Seb

Summary: "An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through the life of a crusading astronomer-monk. Soaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ages also gave us the first universities, eyeglasses, and mechanical clocks, proving that the Middle Ages were...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020

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McMahon, Seán.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2004

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Send, Joan

Summary: This story describes the many things that happen to grandpa's big brown hat. From keeping the sun off his head and out of his eyes, blowing away or getting caught by a hook, find out what else happens to Grandpa's hat.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Publishing, Inc. 0000

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