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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 552 SCHSchuman, Nancy.
Summary: In today's tightening job market, the interview is a key stage. But too often in job interviews, candidates freeze and can't find the words they need to make the best impression. Now this clear, concise guide shows the best way to answer all the essential questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.144 SCHSchuman, Michael.
Summary: Discusses the life and career of the thirty-sixth president, whose term was filled with controversy over the civil rights movement and the war in Vietnam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 1998
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB JOHNSON SCHSchuman, Michael
Summary: Schuman, a Hong Kong-based correspondent for Time, traces the lasting influence of Confucianism in China, despite enormous political and social changes in Chinese society. This biography of the important Chinese philosopher describes how his teachings helped shape history, promoted the region's devotion to learning, and still influences the lives of over a billion people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CONFUCIUS SCHScheurmann, Ines
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639.34 SCHSchiman, Stella.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Robinwood Press 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.463 SCH1 available in Genealogy, Call number: NEL RM 977.4635 Schiman
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Summary: "Americans' long-term savings in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, pension funds, and life insurance funds total about $30 trillion. But not even 1 percent of these savings touch local small business-even though roughly half the jobs and the output in the private economy come from them. So, how can people increasingly concerned with the poor returns from Wall Street and the devastating impact of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 SHUEaton, Jil
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Publisher / Publication Date: Breckling Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 EatonShuman, Michael.
Summary: Defenders of globalization, free markets, and free trade insist there's no alternative to mega-stores like Wal-Mart; Michael Shuman begs to differ. In The Small-Mart Revolution, Shuman makes a compelling case for his alternative business model, one in which communities reap the benefits of "going local" in four key spending categories: goods, services, energy, and finance. He argues that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.642 SHULim, Louisa
Summary: "An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased. Lim's deeply researched-and deeply personal-account casts often startling new light on key moments: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations leading to its "return" to China in 1997, the current protests, and the future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 LIMLim, Michael
Summary: The kingdom of fungi has survived all five major extinction events. They are the architects of the natural world, integral to all life. They sustain critical ecosystems, recycling nutrients and connecting plants across vast areas, and help to produce many staples of modern life, such as wine, chocolate, bread, detergent and penicillin. Today, in the face of urgent ecological, societal and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson Australia Pty Ltd 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 579.5 LIMSchulman, Daniel
Summary: "The saga of the German-Jewish immigrants--with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Lehman and Seligman--who built the modern American finance system and shaped the world economy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sons of Wichita. Joseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came Henry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: "Like the Rockefellers and the Kennedys, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of the modern age, but they have never been the subject of a major biography... until now. Not long after the death of his father, Charles Koch, then in his early 30s, discovered a letter the family patriarch had written to his sons. 'You will receive what now seems to be a large sum of money,' Fred...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KOCH BROTHERS SCHSchulman, Andrew
Summary: "The astounding story of a critically ill musician who is saved by music and returns to the same hospital to help heal others."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHULMAN, ANDREW SCHSchulman, Michael
Summary: The first thoroughly researched biography of Meryl Streep -- the "Iron Lady" of acting, nominated for nineteen Oscars and winner of three -- that explores her beginnings as a young woman of the 1970s grappling with love, feminism, and her astonishing talent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STREEP, MERYL SCHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B STREEP SCHSchulman, Michael
Summary: "The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, chronicling the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 SCHSchulman, Miriam
Summary: "No matter what kind of creative artist you are -whether you're a musician, photographer, painter, writer, dancer, singer, or any other medium with aspirations of making a living from your art, this is the perfect time to turn your creative ideas into a successful art business. With gatekeepers no longer controlling the market, anyone with a laptop and a dream can make a thriving living from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Leadership 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700.23 SCHSchulman, Audrey
Summary: "Stage four. Surgery. Recovering." While those are the simple words that once described Dr. Francine Burk's situation, the reality is much more complex. Her new reality is feeling unduly thrilled by her increasing ability to walk across a room without assistance. And it's being offered a placement at a prestigious research institute where she can put to good use her recent award money. With the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHTolentino, Jia
Summary: A writer at The New Yorker examines the fractures at the center of contemporary culture. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine's journey from brave to blank to bitter; and the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 TOLHof, Wim
Summary: "The only definitive book authored by Wim Hof on his powerful method for realizing our physical and spiritual potential"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2020
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Summary: "This book uses the cases of several landmark drugs to discuss the history of the pharmaceutical industry, and discusses what could be next"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 LILim, Sylvia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Self-Counsel Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 LIMRivas, Mim Eichler.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.3 RivLim, Louisa.
Summary: "Despite its emergence from backward isolation into a dynamic world economic power, a quarter-century after the People's Army crushed unarmed protestors--labeled anti-revolutionaries--in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, the defining event of China's modern history remains buried. Memory is dangerous in a country built to function on national amnesia. A single act of public remembrance might...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford Univ Pr 2014