Moss, Candida R.
Summary: Like many evangelical Christians, the Green family of Oklahoma City believes that America was founded as a Christian nation, based on a "biblical worldview." But the Greens are far from typical evangelicals in other ways. The billionaire owners of Hobby Lobby, a huge nationwide chain of craft stores, the Greens came to national attention in 2014 after successfully suing the federal government...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 260 MOSMoss, Marissa R.
Summary: "Her Country is veteran Nashville journalist Marissa R. Moss's story of how in the past two decades, country's women fought back against systems designed to keep them down, armed with their art and never willing to just shut up and sing: how women like Kacey Musgraves, Mickey Guyton, Maren Morris, The Chicks, Miranda Lambert, Rissi Palmer, Brandy Clark, LeAnn Rimes, Brandi Carlile, Margo Price...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.642 MOSWalker, Sally M
Summary: "When Harry Colebourn saw a baby bear at a train station, he knew he could care for it. Harry was a veterinarian. But he was also a soldier in training during World War I. Harry named the bear Winnie, short for Winnipeg, his company's home town, and he brought her along to the military camp in England. Winnie followed Harry everywhere and slept under his cot every night. Before long, she became...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WINSunstein, Cass R.
Summary: "In this fun, erudite, and often moving book, Cass R. Sunstein explores the lessons of Star Wars as they relate to childhood, fathers, the Dark Side, rebellion, and redemption. As it turns out, Star Wars also has a lot to teach us about constitutional law, economics, and political uprisings. Sunstein tells the story of the films wildly unanticipated success and explores why some things succeed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 791.43 SUNCross, Charles R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 787.87 CROSunstein, Cass R.
Summary: "The U.S. Supreme Court has eliminated the right to abortion and is revisiting other fundamental questions today--about voting rights, affirmative action, gun laws, and much more. Once-arcane theories of constitutional interpretation are profoundly affecting the lives of all Americans. In this brief and urgent book, Harvard Law School professor Cass Sunstein provides a lively introduction to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7302 SUNSunstein, Cass R.
Summary: "Cass Sunstein considers actual and imaginable arguments for a president's removal, explaining why some cases are easy and others hard, why some arguments for impeachment are judicious and others not. In direct and approachable terms, he dispels the fog surrounding impeachment so that all Americans may use their ultimate civic authority wisely"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2017
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Summary: Draws on behavioral psychology and economics to trace U.S. policy changes that reflect smarter and simpler government practices while preserving freedom of choice in areas ranging from mortgages and student loans to food labeling and health care.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 SUNSummary: Offers science fiction and fantasy stories from American authors, including Alix E. Harrow, Stephen Graham Jones, chosen by editor R. F. Kuang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Summary: A neuroscience professor and a Harvard law professor team up in this groundbreaking work, based on decades of research in the psychological and biological sciences, that shows how disrupting our routines can lead to seeing, feeling and noticing again--and embracing much-needed change to live happier, more fulfilling lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers, Atria 2024
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Summary: Since the original publication of Nudge more than a decade ago, the word "nudge" has entered the vocabulary of businesspeople, policymakers, engaged citizens, and consumers everywhere. The book has given rise to more than 200 "nudge units" in governments around the world and countless groups of behavioral scientists in every part of the economy. It has taught us how to use thoughtful "choice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.01 THAKahneman, Daniel
Summary: Discusses why people make bad judgements and how to make better ones by reducing the influence of "noise"--variables that can cause bias in decision making--and draws on examples in many fields, including medicine, law, economic forecasting, forensic science, strategy, and personnel selection
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2021
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Summary: "An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., June 18-October 3, 1999"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, in association with Yale University Press 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 813.52 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST VOSMoss, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSThaler, Richard H.
Summary: Offering a study of the application of the science of choice, a guide that uses examples from all aspects of life demonstrates how it is possible to design environments that make it more likely for us to act in our own interests.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009
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Summary: Presents a variety of unusual and noteworthy details about animal and human waste products and other bodily functions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Childs World 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J502.07 COSFoss, Ben.
Summary: "Finally, a groundbreaking book that reveals what your dyslexic child is experiencing--and what you can do so that he or she can thrive More than thirty million people in the United States are dyslexic--a brain-based genetic trait, often labeled as a "learning disability" or "learning difference," that makes interpreting text and reading difficult. Yet even though children with dyslexia may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 618 FOSHoss, Kami
Summary: Your mouth is the gateway to your body and the most critical organ for improving your health. From its microbiome to its shape, it impacts your physical and mental well-being in countless ways. Hoss connects the dots between oral health and whole-body health. He offers a roadmap to a longer, more successful future for you and your family. - adapted from jacket
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 617.6 HOSMoss, Charlotte
Summary: Celebrated interior designer and renowned tastemaker Charlotte Moss turns her eye to the garden as a resource for interiors, entertaining, and good living. Charlotte Moss's greatest muse is the garden, and this book shows the myriad ways the garden provides inspiration every day -- indoors and outdoors. Touring readers through her own gardens, Moss offers insights on how to bring the garden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli 2015
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Summary: "As a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early 20th century, Lise Meitner had to fight for an education, a job, and equal treatment in her field, like having her name listed on her own research papers. Meitner made groundbreaking strides in the study of radiation, but when Hitler came to power in Germany, she suddenly had to face not only sexism, but also life-threatening...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MEIMoss, Michael
Summary: The author explores his theory that the food industry's used three essential ingredients to control much of the world's diet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 MOSMoss, Otis
Summary: A guide to uplift our spirits as we work for justice in these politically turbulent times--from Reverend Otis Moss, III, Senior Pastor at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ and one of the country's most renowned and beloved spiritual and civil rights leaders. Once again, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. first observed in the 1960s, it is midnight in America--a dark time of division and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.4 MOSMoss, Robert
Summary: "Explores the time, place, and consciousness travel experienced in 'near-death' episodes (NDEs) and dreams, through examples from the author's childhood and experience teaching 'active dreaming.' Presents tools, including dreamwork and shamanic practices, for understanding NDEs, heaven, and extraterrestrial life, and for visiting one's own past, present, and future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOSS, ROBERT MOSForrest, Barbara
Contents: How the wedge began -- The wedge document: a design for design -- Searching for the science -- Paleontology lite and Copernican discoveries -- A conspiracy hunter and a Newton -- Everything except science I -- Everything except science II -- Wedging into power politics -- Religion first - and last.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2004