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Wolfman Librarian

Filip Marinovich · Ugly Duckling Presse
Pages: 89
Format: Print book

Poetry. WOLFMAN LIBRARIAN is an episodic epic poem on impermanence and suffering set in New York City and Paris during recent global spring and fall uprisings. In rattling city speech-trains lovers piece each other together and offer carnivalesque resistance to the status quo in an effort...
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Marketing Your Library's Electronic Resources: A How-to-do-it Manual for Librarians

Marie R Kennedy · Neal Schuman Pub
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

When front line librarians improve awareness of under-utilized resources, thereby increasing demand for more of the same, it can also encourage increased funding for the library. The authors' evidence-based approach to effectively promoting electronic resources made the previous edition...
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Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back

Janice P. Nimura · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

"Surprising and richly satisfying" (Megan Marshall) ; "beautifully crafted . . . subtle, polished, and poised" (Stacy Schiff) .In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help...
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Only the Road / Solo el Camino: Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry

Margaret Randall · Duke University Press
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

Featuring the work of more than fifty poets writing across the last eight decades, Only the Road / Solo el Camino is the most complete bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry available to an English readership. It is distinguished by its stylistic breadth and the diversity of its contributors,...
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1,001 GED Practice Questions For Dummies

Consumer Dummies. · For Dummies
Pages: 456
Format: Paperback

1,001 practice opportunities for passing the GED test Ready to take the GED test? Get a head start on a high score with 1,001 GED Test Practice Questions For Dummies. Inside, you'll find 1,001 practice questions on all four sections of the GED test: Mathematical Reasoning, Science,...
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Senior Court Clerk

National Learning Corporation. · National Learning Corporation
Pages: 200
Format: Plastic Comb

The Senior Court Clerk Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: civil practice...
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Omnibus of Fun: A Treasury of Fun for Recreation Leaders

Helen Eisenberg · Amer Camping Assn

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The Norton History of Technology

Donald Cardwell · W W Norton & Co Inc
Format: Paperback

"'Humans are tool-makers ... and the first record of humankind is that of their tools, ' Donald Cardwell writes in this absorbing history of technology from prehistory to the present, from stone implements, the wheel, and the first geared machines to the transistor and the supercomputer....
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Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620: Volume Two

Robert Sherman · Mayflower Families
Format: Hardcover

Book by Sherman, Robert
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Ebony Pictorial History of Black America

Lerone Bennett · Johnson Pub Co Inc; 1st edition

Chronicles the struggles and achievements of Black Americans since the seventeenth century
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The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative

Florence Williams · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An intrepid investigation into nature's restorative benefits by a prize-winning author.For centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods: Beethoven drew inspiration from rocks and trees; Wordsworth composed while tromping over the heath; and Nikola Tesla...
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1-2-3 Magic in the Classroom: Effective Discipline for Pre-K through Grade 8

Thomas W Phelan · Sourcebooks
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Based on the bestselling parenting book 1-2-3 Magic"If you only have time to read one book about managing student behavior, make it this one.""This book is a great resource for new teachers and veteran teachers."The fastest way to get back to what you love--teaching!Being...
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