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Author
Publisher
AltaMira Press
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
Museums and libraries have the power to alter our sense of ourselves and the world around us, but that power carries with it obligations. This thoght-provoking collection of essays challenges us to contemplate both the effects and the responsibilities, to examine the nuances of these experiences.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"For more than three millennia the cultures of Mesoamerica flourished, yielding the first cities of the Western Hemisphere and developing writing systems that could rival those of the East in their creativity and efficiency. The Nahuatl-speaking Aztecs reigned over one of the greatest imperial civilizations the Americas had ever seen, and until now their intricate and visually stunning hieroglyphs have been overlooked in the story of writing. In this...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist. Yet, life behind bars varies in incredible ways. In some facilities, prison officials govern with care and attention to prisoners' needs. In others, officials have remarkably little influence on the everyday life of prisoners, sometimes not even providing necessities like food and clean water. Why does prison social order around...
Series
Reference shelf volume 92, no. 3
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Central points include sentencing issues--mandatory minimums, truth in sentencing laws, and racial disparities; policing reform, including the role of police vs. social workers and health care workers as well as police brutality; reducing overcriminalization, particularly of drug possession; the War on Drugs as a cause of mass incarceration; a focus on rehabilitation vs. punishment in prisons; and juvenile justice reform. Significant recent developments...
2326) Mei you ming zi de ren
Author
Series
Echo volume 36
Publisher
Make Boluo wen hua
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
中文
Description
Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother -- a singer "stolen" to Pyongyang -- and an influential father who runs Long Tomorrows, a work camp for orphans. There the boy is given his first taste of power, picking which orphans eat first and which will be lent out for manual labor. Recognized for his loyalty and keen instincts, Jun Do comes to the attention of superiors in the state, rises in the ranks, and starts on a road from which there will...
2327) Golden days: West's Lakers, Steph's Warriors, and the California dreamers who reinvented basketball
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of Dream Team tells the interconnected stories of the NBA champion Golden State Warriors and the early-1970s Los Angeles Lakers, two extraordinary teams playing in extraordinary times and linked by one extraordinary man: Jerry West. During their 1971-72 championship season, the L.A. Lakers won thirty-three games in a row, a streak that still stands as the longest and greatest in the history of American professional sports....
Author
Publisher
Susan P. Hunter
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In 1966, during the Vietnam War, Joan Hunter, an ordinary housewife, mother of four from the small coastal town of Scituate, MA, spearheads Operation Morale Booster, a mission to ensure that every deployed American G.I. receives mail at weekly mail call. Armed only with her typewriter, she reaches thousands of soldiers and captivates one battle-tested soul, Bob Johnson. She is white, he is black; she is married, he is not. This potentially scandalous...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The Drama-Free Workplace is a hands-on guide filled with proven strategies and guidance for creating and sustaining a cohesive, collaborative workplace culture that enables widespread innovation, increases productivity, and greater revenue."--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Series
Publisher
Demos Health
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is sometimes dismissed as an "all in your head" illness, as there are no tests or other physical signs to diagnose it. A diagnosis is given when a health care practitioner has ruled out other causes for the cluster of symptoms. Still individuals with CFS remain frustrated by the lack of belief and support from health care providers, families, and friends. Bringing validation to the one million sufferers of CFS What Nurses...
Author
Series
Expanse volume 8
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper. In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable....
Author
Publisher
McGraw Hill
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Must Know Middle School ELA provides a fresh approach to learning. As part of our Must Know series, this book makes sure what you really need to know is clear up-front. Rather than starting with goals to be met, chapters begin by telling you the most important concepts about the topic at hand--and then show you exactly how these concepts help you accomplish your goals. Written by a veteran educator with decades of experience, Must Know Middle School...
2334) Shi nü de gu shi
Author
Publisher
Shanghai yi wen chu ban she
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
中文
Description
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to shops whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray for the Commander to make her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived...
2335) Brindille
Author
Publisher
Magnetic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A frail young girl flees a roaring forest fire in the middle of the night desperately taking refuge in a cave where she quickly loses consciousness. She wakes up in a strange, tiny village populated by fairy-like creatures. Her hosts seem intrigued by the sparkles of light that seem to surround her. The village chieftain explains that one of their hunters found her passed out in the forest and brought her back here for treatment. He asks who she is,...
2337) College sports
Series
Reference shelf / H.W. Wilson a Division of EBSCO Information Services Inc volume 93, number 4
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Where should America draw the line between professional and student athletes? This volume examines a variety of scandals and controversies in the college sports world, including admission scandals and the methods that recruiters and school administrators use to find, sign, and groom players. While some celebrate college sports and its role in producing players who go on to play at the professional level, others argue that college athletics denigrates...
Author
Publisher
Potomac Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Morris B. Abram (1918-2000) emerged from humble origins in a rural South Georgia town to become one of the leading civil rights lawyers in the United States during the 1950s. While unmasking the Ku Klux Klan and serving as a key intermediary for the release of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. from prison on the eve of the 1960 presidential election, Abram carried out a successful fourteen-year battle to end the discriminatory voting system in...
Author
Publisher
BookLand Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Iskotew iskwew : poetry of a northern rez girl is a poetry collection written during a period of trauma while the author was working as a statement taker and Counsel to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in 2017. This book portrays the author's lived experience as an indigenous woman raised on the Pelican Narrows Reserve in the 1980s, her memories of the wilderness, and her experiences as a residential school...
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