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Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies: How to Find Trustworthy Information in the Digital Age

Donald A Barclay - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Are you overwhelmed at the amount, contradictions, and craziness of all the information coming at you in this age of social media and twenty-four-hour news cycles? Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies will show you how to identify deceptive information as well as how to seek out the most...
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Earth in Human Hands: The Rise of Terra Sapiens and Hope for Our Planet

David Grinspoon - Grand Central Pub
Format: Print book

For the first time in Earth's history, one species--humans--is knowingly altering our planet's evolution, exerting increasing influence and attempting stewardship. How we handle this juncture may very well determine the fate not just of our species, but of life, and the planet. Without...
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Life and Death in Rikers Island

Homer Venters - JHUP
Format: Paperback

Kalief Browder was 16 when he was arrested in the Bronx for allegedly stealing a backpack. Unable to raise bail and unwilling to plead guilty to a crime he didn't commit, Browder spent three years in New York's infamous Rikers Island jail"two in solitary confinement"while...
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Stories, Songs, and Stretches!: Creating Playful Storytimes with Yoga and Movement

Katie Scherrer - Amer Library Assn Editions
Format: Paperback

Young children love to move and that's a great thing! Because in addition to supporting early learning, storytime can provide young children with opportunities to explore physical movement. The centuries-old contemplative movement practice known as yoga is more than just a passing trend;...
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Dead End

Nancy Mehl - Bethany House Publishers
Format: Paperback

When a body is discovered in a field in Iowa, the police uncover fourteen additional corpses ranging from 20 years old to recent. The remains point to a serial killer with an MO the authorities have seen before--Ed Oliphant, a man who has been in prison for over 20 years . . . and is Special...
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Managing the Digital You: Where and How to Keep and Organize Your Digital Life

Melody Condron - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Managing the Digital You: Where and How to Keep and Organize Your Digital Life is a much-needed guide for those struggling with how to manage and preserve their digital items. Starting with a values assessment, this book helps readers identify what items are important to them personally...
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BOY MISSING: The Search for Kyron Horman

Rebecca Morris

It's one of the most shocking unsolved missing-child cases in the world. Where is Kyron Horman? Why hasn't the woman who police suspect is responsible for his 2010 disappearance - Kyron's stepmother - been charged? That the seven-year-old disappeared from his grade school got the attention...
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Write Your Way In: Crafting an Unforgettable College Admissions Essay

Rachel Toor - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

Writing, for most of us, is bound up with anxiety. It's even worse when it feels like your whole future - or at least where you'll spend the next four years in college - is on the line. It's easy to understand why so many high school seniors put off working on their applications...
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Sensory Perceptual Issues in Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Second Edition: Different Sensory Experiences - Different Perceptual Worlds

Olga Bogdashina - Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Format: Paperback

Completely revised and updated, this book focuses on sensory perceptual problems as identified by individuals on the autism spectrum. Despite frequently being identified by individuals with autism as one of the main problems they face, sensory perceptual issues are still often overlooked...
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Sun Broken

Yasmine Galenorn - Independently published
Format: Paperback

Sometimes, all you can hope for is to make it through the storm intact ... Typhon, the Father of Dragons, is rising, and in his wake so are throngs of the departed. Amid the fallout, a serial killer who has been possessed by Typhon emerges, targeting necromancers, psychics, and anyone...
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