Zuckerman, Ethan
Summary: "The rise of mistrust is provoking a crisis for representative democracy-solutions lie in the endless creativity of social movements. From the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street, and from cryptocurrency advocates to the #MeToo movement, Americans and citizens of democracies worldwide are losing confidence in the system. This loss of faith has spread beyond government to infect a broad swath of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 ZUCZuckerman, Phil
Summary: "The author of Living the Secular Life deconstructs the arguments for a morality informed by religion, urging that major challenges like global warming and growing inequality are best approached from a framework of secular morality /In What It Means To Be Moral: Why Religion is Not Necessary for Living An Ethical Life, Phil Zuckerman argues that morality does not come from God. Rather, it comes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2019
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Summary: Advice geared to contemporary living on correct behavior in a wide variety of situations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1995
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Summary: Recounts the author's discovery, consultations, and diagnosis, all while navigating the death of her 103-year-old mother, a performance at the Kenedy Center, and the consolidation of her life via a full-time move to upstate New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: East End Press 2019
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Summary: Chronicles the efforts to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, describing how a small, unlikely group of scientists and executives overcame corporate clashes and unexpected drama to create effective, lifesaving vaccines within a short amount of time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 614.5924 ZUCZuckerman, Gregory.
Summary: "In five years, the United States has seen a historic burst of oil and natural gas production, easing our insatiable hunger for energy. A new drilling process called fracking has made us the world's fastest growing energy power, on track to pass Saudi Arabia by 2020. But despite headlines and controversy, no previous book has shown how the revolution really happened. The Frackers tells the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 ZUCZuckerman, Gregory.
Summary: A superbly written, behind-the-scenes narrative of how hedge fund manager John Paulson foresaw the escalating financial crisis and turned a falling housing market into financial history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2009
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Summary: Publisher description: In August 1914, the German Army invaded the neutral nation of Belgium, violating a treaty that the German chancellor dismissed as a "scrap of paper." The invaders terrorized the Belgians, shooting thousands of civilians and looting and burning scores of towns, including Louvain, which housed the country's preeminent university. The Rape of Belgium recalls the bloodshed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.3493 ZUCZuckerman, Esther
Summary: Beyond the Best Dressed is a first-of-its-kind commemoration of Oscar fashion that perfectly captures the glitz and the glamor for anyone who has ever been to an Oscar watch party (or texted their friends while they watched alone). Fully illustrated with whimsical interpretations of the outfits–including Michelle Williams' golden Versace, Sharon Stone's iconic Gap t-shirt, and Rita Moreno's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.92 ZUCZuckerman, Gregory
Summary: Jim Simons is the greatest money maker in modern financial history. His track record bests those of legendary investors including Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Ray Dalio, and George Soros. Yet Simons and his strategies are shrouded in mystery. Wall Street insiders have long craved a view into Simons's singular mind, as well as the definitive account of how his secretive hedge fund, Renaissance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2019
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Summary: Presents the stories of the sherpas who have acted as expert consultants to Westerners climbing the Himalayas, focusing in particular on Chhiring Dorje Sherpa and Pasang Lama, who survived when eleven other climbers died on K2 in August 2008.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 ZUCZuckerman, Phil.
Summary: During his 2009 inaugural speech, President Obama described the United States as a nation of "Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus--and nonbelievers." It was the first time an American president had acknowledged the existence of this rapidly growing segment of the population in such a public forum. And yet the reasons why more and more people are turning away from religion are still poorly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 277.3 ZUCDickerman, Sara
Summary: Discover the potential of your leftovers! Learn to cook smart, save time and money, and add new variety and flavor to your everyday cooking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.552 DICCodrescu, Andrei
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 CODAndry, Andrew C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1979
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Publisher / Publication Date: Addison-Wesley 1989
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Summary: "So Recently Rent a World gathers new poems and selections from the 16 books of verse that Codrescu has published since arriving in the U.S. as a teen refuge from communist Romania...'So Recently Rent a World let me to put a period on four decades writing and the old culture that the writing reflected."--The Times-Picayune.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2012
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Summary: Reboot your eating habits with Bon Appétit's wildly popular online plan, now expanded for the whole year with four two-week seasonal plans and 140 recipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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Summary: Author Pamela Druckerman leads us on a quest for wisdom, self-knowledge and the right pair of pants. A witty dispatch from the front lines of the forties, There Are No Grown-ups is a (midlife) coming-of-age story, and a book for anyone trying to find their place in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DRUCKERMAN, PAMELA DRUZuckerman, Jocelyn C.
Summary: "Jocelyn C. Zuckerman spent years traveling the globe, from Liberia to Indonesia, India to Brazil, reporting on the human and environmental impacts of this poorly understood plant. The result is Planet Palm, a riveting account blending history, science, politics, and food as seen through the people whose lives have been upended by this hidden ingredient. This groundbreaking work of first-rate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 633.8 ZUCDruckerman, Pamela.
Summary: Shares wisdom and insights with American parents on the most effective practices being used by their French contemporaries, drawing on the author's research to offer essential insights into a range of modern concerns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2013
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Summary: "The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children. When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn't aspire to become a "French parent." French parenting isn't a known thing, like French fashion or French cheese. Even French parents themselves insist they aren't doing anything special. Yet, the French children Druckerman knows sleep through the night at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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Summary: Surveys all forms of dance throughout the world, discussing its cultural and social significance, its costume, its history, and noted dancers and choreographers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley Publishing Inc. 2000