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The Meaning of Human Existence
The Meaning of Human Existence

Edward O. Wilson · Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

National Book Award Finalist. How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, Why? In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most...
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The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo

Clea Koff · Random House; 1 edition
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In the spring of 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since World War II to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-three-year-old forensic anthropologist analyzing prehistoric skeletons in the safe confines of Berkeley, California, was one of sixteen...
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Useful, Usable, Desirable: Applying User Experience Design to Your Library
Useful, Usable, Desirable: Applying User Experience Design to Your Library

Aaron Schmidt · Amer Library Assn Editions
Format: Book

Useful, useable, desirable like three legs of a stool, if your library is missing the mark on any one of these its bound to wobble. Every decision you make affects how people experience your library. In this useful primer, user experience UX librarians Schmidt and Etches identify 19 crucial...
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Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land
Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land

Sandy Tolan · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

It is an unlikely story. Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan, a child from a Palestinian refugee camp, confronts an occupying army, gets an education, masters an instrument, dreams of something much bigger than himself, and then, through his charisma and persistence, inspires scores of others to work...
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