Ritchie, Andrea J
Summary: Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. Placing stories of individual women?such as Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, Dajerria Becton, Monica Jones, and Mya Hall?in the broader context of the twin epidemics of police violence and mass incarceration, it documents the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 RITRitchie, Stuart (Stuart J.)
Summary: "Science is how we understand the world. Yet critical flaws in peer review, statistical methods, and publication procedures have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless-or worse, badly misleading. Drawing on surprising new data from "meta-science" (the science of how science works), Science Fictions documents the errors that have distorted our knowledge on issues as varied as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 RITPettie, Andrew (Andrew J.)
Summary: "Be astounded, amused, and inspired by Britannica's ultimate collection of lists. Powerful rockets, tiny dinosaurs, lost treasures, smart dogs, spy gadgets, invincible sports teams, unusual jobs: you'll discover them all in this gloriously geeky guide to the universe."--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 032.02 PETEvans, Walker
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Paul Getty Museum 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 972.91 EVASherman, Andrew J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Management Association 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.8 SHEBacevich, Andrew J
Summary: "A thought provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump, from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power. When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment felt it had prevailed in a world-historical struggle. Our side had won, a verdict that was both decisive and irreversible. For...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.23 BACBacevich, Andrew J.
Summary: "A bold and urgent perspective on how American foreign policy must change in response to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 BACCohen, Stephanie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Pub. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.932 COHBacevich, Andrew J
Summary: A critical assessment of America's foreign policy in the Middle East throughout the past four decades evaluates and connects regional engagements since 1990 while revealing their massive costs. From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Greater Middle East. Since 1990, virtually no American soldiers have been killed in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 BACBacevich, Andrew J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.02 BACBlackbird, Andrew J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 BLAScott, Andrew J.
Summary: The authors of the best-selling "The 100-Year Life" share practical advice based on three fundamental principles for helping governments, corporations and educational institutions flourish in a world transformed by longevity and technology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.26 SCOJudd, Sandra J. (EDT)
Summary: "Provides basic consumer health information about alternative and complementary medical therapies. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics, Inc. 2006
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 616 COMSummary: Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 POERitchie, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.22 RITLim, Audrea
Summary: "An eye-opening examination of how treating land as a source of profit has a massive impact on racial inequality and the housing, gentrification, and environmental crises. Climate change, gentrification, racial discrimination, and corporate greed are some of the most urgent problems facing our society. They are traditionally treated as unrelated issues, but they all share a common root: the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 CODCodrescu, Andrei
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1993
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.371 GALRitchie, Hannah
Summary: In this bold, radically hopeful book, a data scientist, drawing on the latest research, practical guidance and eye-opening graphics, gives us the tools for understanding our current environmental crisis and making lifestyle changes that actually have an impact.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.9 RITRobertson, Ritchie
Summary: A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness. One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech and the press, of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 190.9 ROBChevat, Richie
Summary: "Through engrossing narratives, letters, drawings, poems, and more, the book encourages young readers, of all identities, to feel pride at the accomplishments of the LGBTQ people who came before them and to use history as a guide to the future.The storieshe shares include those of: Thomas Morton, who celebrated same-sex love in Boston's Puritan community in the 1620s; Albert D.J. Cashier, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 306.7 CHERichie, Donald
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Pub. 2010
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 952.135 RICPinkney, Andrea Davis
Summary: Loretta, Roly, and Aggie B. Little relate their Mississippi family's struggles and triumphs from 1927 to 1968 while struggling as sharecroppers, living under Jim Crow, and fighting for Civil Rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020