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Summary: "Andrew Hacker's 2012 New York Times op-ed questioning our current mathematics requirements instantly became one of the the paper's most widely circulated articles. Why, he wondered, do we inflict algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and even calculus on all young Americans, regardless of their interests or aptitudes? The Math Myth expands Hacker's scrutiny of many widely held assumptions, such as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 HACHacker, Diana
Summary: "The eighth edition of A Pocket Style Manual covers everything you need for college writing - especially researched writing. New step-by-step advice applies to writing assignments in any course. There's also new advice for revision, summary, paraphrase, and quotation. When you add all that great new help to Pocket's tested, trusted grammar and style advice plus more than 300 documentation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Winchester 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2 HACHacker, Jacob S.
Summary: "A groundbreaking account of how the dangerous alliance of right-wing plutocrats and populists threatens the very pillars of American democracy. We often assume that the Republican Party is divided between a tax-cutting old guard and a white-nationalist vanguard-and that with Donald Trump's ascendance, the upstarts are winning. Yet as New York Times best-selling authors Jacob S. Hacker and Paul...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 HACHacker, Jacob S.
Summary: We are witnessing a massive transfer of economic risk from broad structures of insurance onto the fragile balance sheets of American families. This text explains the causes and consequences of 'The Great Risk Shift' and what can be done to reverse it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 HACSmall, Thomas
Summary: Path of Blood tells the gripping and horrifying true story of the underground army which Osama Bin Laden created in order to attack his number one target: his home country, Saudi Arabia. His aim was to conquer the land of the Two Holy Mosques, the land from where Islam had first originated, and, from there, to reestablish an Islamic Empire that could take on the West and win. Thomas Small and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 SMAThacker, Holly.
Summary: Offers advice for women who are going through menopause, providing information on hormone therapy, vitamins, and supplements as well as tips on understanding the myths about menopause.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kaplan Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Wom ThackerHawker, Olivia
Summary: "1857. Three women -- once strangers -- come together in unpredictable Utah Territory. Hopeful, desperate, and willful, they'll allow nothing on Earth or in Heaven to stand in their way. Following the call of their newfound Mormon faith, Tamar Loader and her family weather a brutal pilgrimage from England to Utah, where Tamar is united with her destined husband, Thomas Ricks. Clinging to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HAWHalber, Deborah.
Summary: In America today, upwards of forty thousand people are dead and unaccounted for. These murder, suicide, and accident victims, separated from their names, are being adopted by the bizarre online world of amateur sleuths. It's DIY CSI. The web sleuths pore over facial reconstructions (a sort of Facebook for the dead) and other online clues as they vie to solve cold cases and tally up personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 HALWarraich, Haider
Summary: "There is no more universal truth in life than death. No matter who you are, it is certain that one day you will die, but the mechanics and understanding of that experience will differ greatly in today's modern age. Dr. Haider Warraich is a young and brilliant new voice in the conversation about death and dying started by Dr. Sherwin Nuland's classic How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.9 WARPacker, George
Summary: A National Book Award-winning author examines America's current descent into a failed state and discusses the ways we can leverage this moment to forge a new path forward that overcomes injustice, legislative paralysis, and political divides.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 PACPacker, George
Summary: "From the award-winning author of The Unwinding--the vividly told saga of the ambition, idealism, and hubris of one of the most legendary and complicated figures in recent American history, set amid the rise and fall of U.S. power from Vietnam to Afghanistan. Richard Holbrooke was brilliant, wholly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites. Admired and detested, he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOLBROOKE, RICHARD PACPacker, George
Summary: This book recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It brings to life the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war policy and led America to the Assassins' Gate--the main point of entry into the American zone in Baghdad. The consequences of that policy are shown in the author's reporting on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 PACBacher, Lindsay.
Summary: This title examines the role and theme of Biblical allusions in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Matrix, Lord of the Flies, and The Lion King. It features four analysis papers that consider Biblical allusions, each using different critical lenses, writing techniques, or aspects of the theme.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 809 BACBackes, 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
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 028.162 BACBaicker, Karen.
Summary: Easy-to-read text and full-color photographs depict the physical characteristics, habitat, and life cycle of raccoons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.7632 BAIBakker, Nienke
Summary: The mental state of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) has been a perennial source of discussion and conjecture since his death by suicide. Was he mentally ill or a genius? What was the precise nature of Van Gogh's illness? Did it influence his work? This intriguing publication examines how Van Gogh's mental condition revealed itself in 1888 and how he struggled with it throughout his life. Van...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mercatorfonds 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VAN GOGH, VINCENT BAKDicker, Katie.
Summary: Provides instructions on drawing different fish, including koi, guppies, and angelfish, in a volume with pet care instructions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 743.67 DICHauter, Wenonah.
Summary: Through meticulous research, Hauter presents a shocking account of how agricultural policy has been hijacked by lobbyists, driving out independent farmers and food processors in favor of the likes of Cargill, Tyson, Kraft, and ConAgra. She demonstrates how the impacts ripple far and wide, from economic stagnation in rural communities at home, to famines in poor countries overseas. In the end,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2012