Sacks, Oliver
Summary: Oliver Sacks, a scientist and a storyteller, is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories (Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars) in which he introduced and explored many now familiar disorders--autism, Tourette's syndrome, face blindness, savant syndrome. He was also a memoirist who wrote with honesty and humor about the remarkable and strange encounters and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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Summary: "Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; whose limbs seem alien to them; who lack some skills yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1997
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Summary: An investigation into the types, physiological sources, and cultural resonances of hallucinations traces everything from the disorientations of sleep and intoxication to the manifestations of injury and illness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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Summary: Includes stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and faculties: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, and the sense of sight. This book is a testament to the complexity of vision and the brain and to the power of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2010
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Summary: Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does--humans are a musical species. Oliver Sacks's compassionate,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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Summary: "From ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) to ZS (Zellweger Syndrome) - there are alphabet disorders for almost every medical condition, from those caused by serious, rare genetic diseases to more common learning disabilities that hinder children's academic and social progress." "Alphabet Kids have disorders that are often concurrent, interconnected or mistaken for one another, for example, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 WOLOlivera, Lisa
Summary: This guide will help you identify, understand, and reframe your life story in order to live a more whole and meaningful life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 OLIHanks, Patrick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1988
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.42 HANAnderson, Olive M. (Olive Mary)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alger County Historical Society 1989
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Summary: "Phyllis Weliver was in the vanguard of those who first became ill from the novel coronavirus. Ten months later, she had recovered enough to return to work. Moving from the city to a woodland cottage above a glacier lake in order to regain health, Weliver reflects on the process of integrating mind/body health with the natural world. As she recovers from long-haul COVID, the author draws...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: The author, a strategy professor and management consultant, shares forty methods for improving an organization's decision-making process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.403 SIBBalis, Andrea
Summary: Describes the events, personalities, and issues involved in the Watergate Affair, featuring quotes from primary source materials.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.924 BALOliva, Alejandra
Summary: In this powerful and deeply felt memoir of translation, storytelling, and borders, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a powerful chronical of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border. Having worked with asylum seekers since 2016, she knows all too well the gravity of taking someone's trauma and delivering it to the warped demands of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 OLIBalko, Radley
Summary: Relates the stories of two innocent men who were wrongly accused and convicted of crimes due largely to the legally condoned failures perpetrated by invalid forensic science and institutional racism. --Publisher. "A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: The author defines what the vision thing is all about. Successful leaders know that nothing drives an organization like an attractive, worthwhile, achievable vision for the future. The author shows why vision is the key to leadership and demonstrates how any leader can use a logical, step-by-step process to create and implement a powerful new sense of direction in his or her organization. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4092 NANGlover, Lorri
Summary: Floundering from two years of warfare with Indians and dissent among the settlers, the Virginia Company was about to collapse. To rescue the doomed colonists and restore order, the company chose a new leader, Thomas Gates. Nine ships left Plymouth in the summer of 1609--the largest fleet England had ever assembled--and sailed into the teeth of a storm.... The inspiration for Shakespeare's The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.21 GLOAbanes, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Four Walls Eight Windows 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 291.23 ABABales, Kevin.
Summary: In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern day slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States. In "The Slave Next Door "we find that slaves are all around us, hidden in plain sight: the dishwasher in the kitchen of the neighborhood restaurant, the kids on the corner selling cheap...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 BALBaskas, Harriet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Pequot Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 069.5 BASBinns, Barbara
Summary: "The Tuskegee Airmen heroically fought for the right to be officers of the US military so that they might participate in World War II by flying overseas to help defeat fascism. However, after winning that battle, they faced their next great challenge at Freeman Field, Iowa, where racist white officers barred them from entering the prestigious Officers' Club that their rank promised them. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2022
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Summary: "The stunningly beautiful Gorongosa National Park, once the crown jewel of Mozambique, was nearly destroyed by decades of civil war. It looked like a perfect place for Western philanthropy: revive the park and tourists would return, a win-win outcome for the environment and the impoverished villagers living in the area. So why did some researchers find the local communities actually getting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2017
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Summary: A certified business coach and deception-detection expert shares science-based information on reading people, outlining a seven-day program for using body-language cues to promote personal and professional goals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.69 DRIBackes, 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