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Summary: It's not just computers--hacking is everywhere. Legendary cybersecurity expert and New York Times best-selling author Bruce Schneier reveals how using a hacker's mindset can change how you think about your life and the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4834 SCHScheiner, Ethan
Summary: At the height of the Cold War, a group of small-town men led their Czechoslovakian hockey team against the powerful Soviet team. At the same time, they inspired their nation's resistance to a Soviet invasion, finding a way to fight back against the authoritarian forces seeking to crush their society. At the heart of this story is the Holík family, who loved hockey and desired freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.9620 SCHSchneider, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.17 SCHSchneider, Peter
Contents: Everyone can grow roses -- A rose for every purpose -- Roses that can stand alone -- Growing roses in harmony with other plants -- Bedding and cutting roses -- Miniature roses -- Climbing roses -- Tree roses -- Roses in containers -- Getting started: buying and planting roses -- The basics of care: food, water, mulch -- Dealing with problems: insect and animal pests, blind shoots, and diseases...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9 SCHSchneider, Howard.
Summary: Volume packed full of information that illuminates key atstronomical concepts along side the history and legends surrounding the stars and planets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Science Space SchneiderSchneer, Jonathan.
Summary: In May 1940, with France on the verge of defeat, Britain alone stood in the path of the Nazi military juggernaut. Survival seemed to hinge on the leadership of Winston Churchill, whom the King reluctantly appointed Prime Minister as Germany invaded France. Churchill’s reputation as one of the great twentieth-century leaders would be forged during the coming months and years, as he worked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 SCHSchweizer, Peter
Summary: "Conventional wisdom holds that Washington is broken because outside special interests bribe politicians. The reverse is true: politicians have developed a new set of brass-knuckle legislative tactics designed to extort wealthy industries and donors into forking over big donations... Until now, Washington's extortion racket has gone unreported. Yet thanks to an extraordinary effort by Peter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 SCHSchweizer, Peter
Summary: "The #1 bestselling author of Profiles in Corruption and Secret Empires, Peter Schweizer, is back with his next blockbuster. This time, the six-time bestselling author will expose how foreign governments influence Washington"-- That the Chinese government seeks to infiltrate American institutions is hardly surprising. Schweizer shows that a number of American elites are eager to help the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 SCHSchneider, Anny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.321 SCHSchneider, Jack
Summary: "A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door is about the right-wing agenda to dismantle public education, assessing the myriads of ways our education system is being eroded with privatization measures that exacerbate inequality"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.973 SCHScheyder, Ernest
Summary: Tough choices loom if the world wants to go green. The United States and other countries must decide where and how to procure the materials that make our renewable energy economy possible. To build electric vehicles, solar panels, cell phones, and millions of other devices means the world must dig more mines to extract lithium, copper, cobalt, rare earths, and nickel. But mines are deeply...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2024
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Summary: "A journalist's powerful and incisive account of the forces steering the fate of his sprawling Filipinx-American family reframes how we comprehend the immigrant experience. Nearing the age at which his mother had migrated to the U.S., part of the wave ofnon-Europeans who arrived after immigration quotas were relaxed in 1965, Albert Samaha began to question the ironclad belief in a better future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SAMSchneider, Norbert
Contents: The great age of the portrait -- Origins of the portrait -- Early portrait of a ruler -- Portraits of Renaissance women -- The psychological portrait -- Portraits and caricatures -- Portraits of Renaissance humanists -- Mythologising portraits -- Portraits of popes and cardinals -- Portraits of artists and collectors -- Artists' self-portraits -- Portrait of a friend -- "Teste composte" --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Benedikt Taschen 1994
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 757.094 SCHSchneider, Peter
Summary: "A vibrant look at Berlin--perhaps Europe's most exciting city--since the fall of the Wall"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943 SCHSchneider, David
Summary: The Invention of Surgery explains this dramatic progress and highlights the personalities of the discipline's most dynamic historical figures. It links together the lives of the pioneering scientists who first understood what causes disease, how organs become infected or cancerous, and how surgery could powerfully intercede in people's lives, and then shows how the rise of surgery intersected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617 SCHSchneider, Dorothy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 SCHSchneider, Pat
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.042 SCHSchneider, Paul.
Contents: Eastham -- Telico, Texas -- Cement city -- Under the viaduct -- West Dallas -- Root Square, Houston -- Waco -- Middletown, Ohio -- Waco, again -- Huntsville, Texas -- Burning hell -- The tank -- Back in business -- Fun while it lasted -- The beginning of the road -- Merry Christmas and a happy new year -- Joplin, Missouri -- The middle of the road -- Platte city -- Sowers -- Eastham, again --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 SCHJacobovici, Simcha.
Summary: An account of the discovery of ossuaries that appear to refer to Jesus, Mary Magdalene, the Virgin Mary, and the son of Jesus examines key DNA findings and draws on the perspectives of top scholars to evaluate their significance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 232.96 JacoboviciSchweizer, Peter
Summary: "Washington insiders operate by a proven credo: when a Peter Schweizer book drops, duck and brace for impact. For over a decade, the work of five-time New York Times bestselling investigative reporter Peter Schweizer has sent shockwaves through the political universe."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 SCHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 SCHSchweizer, Peter
Summary: "Peter Schweizer investigates the apathy American elites' have about China's undermining of American society"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: The cohost of the podcast "No Such Thing as a Fish" investigates the world's most mind-boggling, thought-provoking, and downright hilarious theories about time travel, aliens, ghosts, mysterious creatures, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 032.02 SCHRumer, Masha
Summary: "A candid portrait of the realities, challenges, and joys many contemporary immigrants confront while raising a new generation of Americans"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 RUMIssenberg, Sasha
Summary: "On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal throughout the United States. But the road to victory was much longer than many know. In this seminal work, SashaIssenberg takes us back to Hawaii in the 1990s, when that state's supreme court first started grappling with the issue, and traces the fight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2020