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The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks
Ben Cohen - Custom House
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant and buoyant investigation into the existence (or not) of streaks, from a rising star at the Wall Street Journal.For decades, statisticians, social scientists, psychologists, and economists (among them Nobel Prize winners) have spent massive amounts of precious time thinking... |
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Sonny: The Last of the Old Time Mafia Bosses, John Sonny Franzese
S. J. Peddie - ?Citadel
Format: Hardcover
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Based on exclusive interviews before his death in 2020 at age 103, SONNY is the first and only authorized biography of legendary mob boss John "Sonny" Franzese, the head of the Columbo crime family and financier of the infamous film Deep Throat. An old school Mafioso, he kept... |
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Wild Spring Plant Foods: The Foxfire AMericana Library (7)
Fox Fire Students - Anchor
Format: Hardcover
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A handy illustrated guide to the edible plant life available in Appalachia and other temperate areas during the spring. From sassafras to rhubarb, each entry includes instructions on where to find the plant, how to spot it, and the ways it is best eaten, often with recipes. Plants... |
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Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
Reuben Jonathan Miller - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Each year, more than half a million Americans are released from prison and join a population of twenty million people who live with a felony record. Reuben Miller, a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago and is now a sociologist studying mass incarceration, spent years alongside... |
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I Am the Storm: Inspiring Stories of People Who Fight Against Overwhelming Odds
Janice Dean - HarperCollins
Format: book
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After her acclaimed memoir, Always Sunny, Janice Dean figured she was done trying to survive or bring down awful men. Then she found herself taking on Governor Andrew Cuomo on social media and then at rallies. What at first seemed like a futile fight ended with Cuomo’s historic resignation.... |
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Between Hope and Fear: A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity
MICHAEL KINCH - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A smart and compelling examination of the science of immunity, the public policy implications of vaccine denial, and the real-world outcomes of failing to vaccinate. If you have a child in school, you may have heard stories of long-dormant diseases suddenly reappearing -- cases of measles,... |
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Fundamentals of Physics II: Electromagnetism, Optics, and Quantum Mechanics
R Shankar - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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R. Shankar, a well-known physicist and contagiously enthusiastic educator, was among the first to offer a course through the innovative Open Yale Course program. His popular online video lectures on introductory physics have been viewed over a million times. In this second book based on his online... |
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A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining
Rachel E. Cargle - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover
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From a highly lauded modern voice in feminism and racial justice comes a deeply personal and insightful approach to the power of reimagining to dismantle the frameworks and systems that no longer serve us while building liberating new ones.There are breaking points in all our lives when... |
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The Art of Thinking Clearly
Rolf Dobelli
Format: electronic resource
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Have you ever . . . Invested time in something that, in hindsight, just wasn't worth it? Paid too much in an eBay auction? Continued to do something you knew was bad for you? Sold stocks too late, or too early? Taken credit for success, but blamed failure on external circumstances? Backed... |
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Go Woke, Go Broke: The Inside Story of the Radicalization of Corporate America
Charles Gasparino - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestselling author and veteran Fox Business financial journalist's explosive deep-dive into the progressive madness that has infected and corrupted the world's biggest corporations, threatening the stability of the global economy - and life as we know it. How did a bunch... |
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