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"A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyders bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting Americas arc toward authoritarianism, featuring the visual storytelling talents of renowned illustrator Nora Krug. Timothy Snyders New York Times bestseller On Tyranny uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Nazism to Communism, to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. Among the twenty include a warning...
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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"A gripping narrative of a fearless paleontologist, the founding of America's most loved museums, and the race to find the largest dinosaurs on record. In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a privileged socialite whose reputation rests on the museum's success, and intrepid Kansas-born fossil...
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2023
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English
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"When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to...
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YMAA Publication Center
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Experience the flowing movements of tai chi with master teacher David-Dorian Ross. His unique teaching method allows viewers to simply follow the mirror-view movements from side to side and gradually become familiar with them without having to memorize anything.
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Libros Del Asteroide
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Español
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"Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich es una joven estudiante de derecho que trabaja en un despacho especializado en representar a condenados a muerte cuando oye hablar de uno de sus clientes, Ricky Langley, un ped̤filo convicto y confeso. Hasta entonces hab̕a estado en contra de la pena de muerte, pero en ese momento sus convicciones empiezan a tambalearse. Asombrada por su reacci̤n, se ver̀ obligada a afrontar los duros recuerdos de su nįez. A medida...
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New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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The classic board game that has been played by over a billion people in the last 75 years, Monopoly is a worldwide cultural phenomenon. This documentary captures stories about the game and those who play it, and follows the colorful players who come together to compete for the title of Monopoly World Champion.
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"Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten explores the events of a random day in U.S. history, offering a diorama of American life that illuminates all that has changed--and all that hasn't--in the past three decades. On New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day--chosen completely at random--turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986,...
11) Knuckle
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ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Go inside the brutal, secretive, and exhilarating bare-knuckle fighting lives of an Irish Traveller community and hear the history of violent feuding between rival families. Follow the story of the Quinn brothers, as they fight for their reputations and the honor of their family name.
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What is the role of literature in an era when one political party wages continual war on writers and the press? What is the connection between political strife in our daily lives, and the way we meet our enemies on the page in fiction? How can literature, through its free exchange, affect politics? In this galvanizing guide to literature as resistance, Nafisi seeks to answer these questions. Drawing on her experiences as a woman and voracious reader...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"By an experimental physicist who works on the Large Hadron Collider, a mind-altering look at the foundational questions bedeviling modern physics, among them: Where does matter come from? Carl Sagan famously said, "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." But what fundamental matter is the universe made of? What banged in the Big Bang? And how did that matter arise from nothing into the world we now know?...
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Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature.
“[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.”—The New York Times
In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism,...
“[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.”—The New York Times
In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.
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Passion River
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Tech innovators strike a raw nerve as banks and network pundits rush to condemn volatile cryptocurrencies and their underlying blockchain technology. Why are banks terrified while UNICEF Ventures embraces it to help refugee children? Award-winning filmmaker Alex Winter reveals that proponents of blockchain are already using the technology to change the world, fighting income inequality, the refugee crisis, and world hunger.
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English
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When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she'd been told about herself and the habits and defenses she'd developed over years of trying to meet others' expectations. Blending investigative...
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