Nuila, Ricardo
Summary: "Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In The People's Hospital, physician Ricardo Nuila's stunning debut, we follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for survival leads them to a hospital where insurance comes second to genuine care. Each patient eventually lands at Ben Taub, the county hospital where Dr. Nuila...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.11 NUIRicard, Matthieu.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3437 RICRicard, Matthieu
Summary: "The author of the international bestseller Happiness makes a passionate case for altruism--and why we need it now more than ever,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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Summary: In this groundbreaking book, Matthieu Ricard makes a passionate case for happiness as a goal that deserves at least as much energy as any other in our lives. Wealth? Fitness? Career success? How can we possibly place these above true and lasting well-being? Drawing from works of fiction and poetry, Western philosophy, Buddhist beliefs, scientific research, and personal experience, Ricard weaves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2007
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 954.96 OSEGalland, Leo.
Summary: Dr. Galland explains how to work closely with your doctor through patient-centered diagnosis to identify the mediators, triggers, and antecedents of your illness. A mediator is anything that produces your symptoms, causes damage to your body, or changes your behavior. As Dr. Galland reveals, mediators need not be merely biochemical (e.g., stress hormones) - how we think and feel can mediate our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 GALGillard, Julia
Summary: "In conversation with some of the world's most powerful and interesting women, Women and Leadership explores gender bias and explores the barriers to women's participation in politics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2021
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Summary: "Shrill meets Brotopia in this personal and researched look at women's rights and issues through the lens of sports, from an award-winning sports journalist and women's advocate"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
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Summary: "Our global economy faces unprecedented challenges in the next few months. But whether we sink or swim depends on how prepared we are - and what we do now to thwart the coming collapse"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.8 RICRickards, James.
Summary: Drawing on a mix of economic history, network science, and sociology, "Currency Wars" provides a rich understanding of the increasing threats to U.S. national security, from dollar devaluation to collapse in the European periphery, failed states in Africa, Chinese neomercantilism, Russian adventurism, and the current scramble for gold.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.4 RICCole, Juan Ricardo.
Summary: "The ... blogger and Middle East expert Juan Cole illuminates the role of today's Arab youth--who they are, what they want, and how they will affect world politics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 953 COLSicard, Cheri.
Summary: A guide for female cannibis connoisseurs covers the aspects of cannabis that matter most to women, including growing a garden, recipes, and smoke-free options.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615 SICGordon, Lewis R. (Lewis Ricardo)
Summary: "In this original and penetrating work, Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and anti-Blackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized Blackness, the problems this kind of consciousness produces, and the many creative responses from Black and non-Black communities in contemporary struggles for dignity and freedom"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 GORPicard, André
Summary: "It took the coronavirus pandemic to open our eyes to the deplorable state of so many of the nation's long-term care homes: the inhumane conditions, overworked and underpaid staff, and lack of oversight. In this timely new book, esteemed health reporter André Picard reveals the full extent of the crisis in eldercare, and offers an urgently needed prescription to fix a broken system. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Canada 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.6 PICIcard, Michelle
Summary: "Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen will explain the why and how of the fourteen surprising but essential conversations parents should have with their child before he or she enters high school"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.874 ICAGalland, Leo
Summary: Takes an in-depth look at how we can balance immunity through nutrition and lifestyle in order to reverse allergies without drugs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.1 GALSicard, Tristan
Summary: "A Field Guide to Cheese is the ultimate guide to the world of cheese and the only fully illustrated cheese reference. This tour de fromage begins with a history lesson on the creation of cheese, offers a primer of the many types of milks and categories of cheeses, and then leads readers to an encyclopedic survey of over 400 global cheeses. There are cheeses we all love like feta and fontina,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan, a division of Workman Publishing Co., Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.373 SICPicard, Marc
Summary: "Monsieur Picard, who has previously written about the etymologies of the French migrants who settled Quebec and Acadia in the 17th and 18th centuries, now follows the spread of those surnames to various English-speaking parts of North America. Besides its derivations and Anglicizations, this resource references the first French-Canadian settlers bearing the names found in the dictionary....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.4 PicardIcard, Michelle
Summary: "Every child messes up, sometimes in ways that seem sure to wreck their futures: a bad report card, poor sportsmanship, underaged drinking. These are tough moments for parent and child alike, often complicated by the fear that the misstep is also an indictment of our parenting. But what each of these "fails" has in common for our kids is the precious silver lining of a chance for character...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.4 ICARinard, Judith E.
Summary: Summary: The major milestones in flight history illustrated from the collections of the National Air and Space Museum. Includes the development of flight and diagrams explaining flight science and technology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2007
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Summary: "Queer critique, queer practice: embodied teachings for healing from trauma and social injustice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: B.P. Chadwick 1983
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Summary: Removes the complexity from investing by encouraging readers to identify deeply personal goals and to use a series of simple, focused steps to help set up and attain a workable, meaningful financial plan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2015
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Summary: "For the first time, readers have access to [an] ... account of the crucial moments leading up to Jackson's demise. Drawing on court documents and testimonials, [the book] presents a multi-perspective tracking of every individual involved and the part they played as the tragedy unfolded, examining forensically the mystery of the 83 minutes that elapsed from the moment Dr. Murray suggested he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2016