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Distant Reading
Franco Moretti - Verso
Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting... |
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The chicken health handbook : a complete guide to maximizing flock health and dealing with disease
Gail Damerow - Storey Publishing
Format: Print book : English : 2nd editionView all editions and formats
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Healthy chickens are happy chickens. This one-of-a-kind reference book covers the health problems that plague chickens of all breeds and ages. Practical charts identify common symptoms and causes of infection, while an alphabetic listing of diseases provides advice on treatment. You'll... |
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College and Career Ready: Helping All Students Succeed Beyond High School
David T. Conley - Jossey-Bass; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Giving students the tools they need to succeed in college and workCollege and Career Ready offers educators a blueprint for improving high school so that more students are able to excel in freshman-level college courses or entry-level jobs-laying a solid foundation for lifelong growth and success.... |
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The Meursault Investigation
Kamel Daoud - Other Press
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 - Michiko Kakutani, The Top Books of 2015, New York Times - TIME Magazine Top Ten Books of 2015 - Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year - Financial Times Best Books of the Year"A tour-de-force reimagining of Camus's... |
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GRE Prep 2018: Practice Tests Proven Strategies Online
KAPLAN. - Kaplan Publishing
Format: Paperback
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GRE Prep 2018 is an online and book prep system that covers the essentials of the GRE to help you score higher on Test Day. You'll get one-year access to an online center with realistic practice tests to help you score higher on the GRE. GRE Prep 2018 features: * Full-length practice... |
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Artsy Toddler Storytimes: A Year's Worth of Ready-To-Go Programming
Carol Garnett Hopkins - ALA Neal-Schuman
Format: Paperback
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Here are 52 ready-to-go storytimes with a difference art activities for use with toddlers ages 1 to 3 years old. Each plan is based around a theme familiar to children including bears, bugs, springtime, community workers, clothing and hats, flowers and gardens, weather, music, pets, transportation,... |
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Scholarship
Boy Scouts of America - Boy Scouts of Amer
Format: Paperback
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Part of the Boy Scouts of America Merit Badge Series: Scholarship. |
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50 Best College Majors for a Secure Future
Laurence Shatkin Ph.D. - Jist Works; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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50 Best College Majors for a Secure Future guides the reader to the 50 best college majors that connect to more than 100 recession-proof careers. This is the 17th book in the JIST's Best Job series. |
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The College Application Essay
Sarah Myers McGinty - College Board; Fifth Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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A winning college application essay takes admission officers beyond the numbers and shows them what a student really cares about, how heshe thinks and who heshe really is. The College Application Essay by Sarah Myers McGinty is an easy-to-follow guide shows students how to maximize the opportunity... |
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Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language
Seth Lerer - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Why is there such a striking difference between English spelling and English pronunciation? How did our seemingly relatively simple grammar rules develop? What are the origins of regional dialect, literary language, and everyday speech, and what do they have to do with you? Seth Lerer's... |
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Cosplay in Libraries: How to Embrace Costume Play in Your Library
Ellyssa Kroski - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: eBook
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Cosplay, comics, anime, and geek culture have exploded into the mainstream over recent years and have resulted in a thriving community of costume enthusiasts and pop culture fans. Today's cosplayers find inspiration on the pages of comics, classic literature, and even history, as well... |
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Mandarin Chinese English Bilingual Visual Dictionary (DK Visual Dictionaries)
DK Publishing - DK ADULT; Bilingual edition
Format: Paperback
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The newest addition to the Visual Bilingual Dictionary series, this title will help the international visitor absorb essential vocabulary in Mandarin Chinese. Thematic presentation of all aspects of modern living and comprehensive indexes facilitate swift and accurate access to words. |
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Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs
Noam Chomsky - South End Press
Format: Paperback
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ContentsRogues' Gallery: Who Qualifies? Rogue States Crisis in the Balkans East Timor Retrospective "Plan Colombia" Cuba and the US Government: David vs. Goliath Putting on the Pressure: Latin America Jubilee 2000 "Recovering Rights": A Crooked Path The United States... |
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Love & logic solutions for kids with special needs
David Funk - Love and Logic Press
Format: Book
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In some way, we all touch the lives of special needs kids. Dave Funk helps us understand these unique individuals and the important part we play in their lives. Each page of this book provides: Tools and insights for those teaching special need kids. Learning at its best through stories... |
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Supercharged Storytimes: An Early Literacy Planning and Assessment Guide
Kathleen Campana - Amer Library Association, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Based on the groundbreaking research of VIEWS2 the first systematic study of storytimes done to date this book recommends simple interactive ways to emphasize early literacy techniques and encourage children to use and practice their pre-reading skills while preserving the delight inherent... |
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Crash Course in Time Management for Library Staff
Brenda Hough - Libraries Unlimited
Format: Paperback
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This book offers time management tools, tips, and techniques for busy librarians, so they can better serve their communities and feel greater satisfaction with work and life.* Provides invaluable information for any librarian who struggles with managing "too much to do" on a daily... |
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Master The Mechanical Aptitude and Spatial Relations Test
Peterson's - Peterson''''s; 7 edition
Format: Paperback
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Master the Mechanical Aptitude & Spatial Relations Tests provides the key to test-prep success on exams measuring spatial relations, symbol reasoning, and mechnical aptitude for training and employment opportunities in the military, civil service, technical schools, and private industry.... |
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Becoming a U.S. Citizen: A Guide to the Law, Exam & Interview
Ilona Bray J.D. - NOLO; 5 edition
Format: Paperback
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Seeking citizenship? Heres everything you need to know! The path from green card to U.S. citizenship can be a long and winding one -- and bureaucratic hassles are inevitable. But with Becoming a U.S. Citizen, you can shave months or years off the time it takes to become a citizen. Find... |
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Geek Physics: Surprising Answers to the Planet's Most Interesting Questions
Rhett Allain - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Have you ever wondered whether a human could really fly with wings like a bird's? What about how many zombies you could actually drive through? Or whether airplanes could save fuel by using iPads instead of paper safety manuals? How about whether Superman could really punch someone... |
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Studying for a Drivers License
Francis C Kenel
Format: Book
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Sample questions based on the New York state driver's manual help new drivers review traffic regulations and safe driving procedures for their written driver's test |
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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
Chris Hedges - Nation Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Two years ago, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco set out to take a look at the sacrifice zones, those areas in America that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of profit, progress, and technological advancement. They wanted... |
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Rich, Free, and Miserable: The Failure of Success in America
John Brueggemann - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Compared to much of the rest of the world, America and its citizens are rich. But many people are also deeply miserable--at work, at home, or both. In this provocative book, author John Brueggemann unpacks why so many people are struggling, both emotionally and financially, in a nation... |
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Kaplan NCLEX-RN Medications You Need to Know for the Exam
Kaplan - Kaplan Publishing; 4th Edition edition
Format: Print book
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The most detailed, portable, and easy-to-use drug guide to help students pass the NCLEX-RN! Prospective nursing students looking for the best guide on the market to help prepare them for the NCLEX-RN are turning to Kaplan. Nursing students are constantly on-the-go, and they need study materials... |
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CDL - Commercial Drivers License Exam (CDL Test Preparation)
Editors of REA - Research & Education Association
Format: Fifth Edition, Revised
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REAs Commercial Drivers License(CDL) Test Prep Puts You in the Drivers Seat! Updated 5th Edition Looking to get your CDL and start a new and profitable career? REA can get you headed in the right direction! Commercial drivers are needed across the country, and a high score on the CDL improves... |
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Beat Your Ticket: Go to Court & Win
David W. Brown - Nolo; Seventh Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Fight an unfair ticket in any state! We've all received one -- a traffic ticket that seems completely unfair, the result of an officer's evening quota rather than a serious moving violation. But do you have to pay the penalty and watch your driving record crash and burn? Not if you choose... |
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Corrections Officer Exam Study Guide 2015
Corrections Officer Exam Team - Trivium Test Prep
Format: Print book
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Think all Corrections Officer study guides are the same? Think again! With easy to understand lessons and practice test questions designed to maximize your score, you'll be ready. You don't want to waste time - and money! - retaking an exam. You want to accelerate your education,... |
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Parents Have the Power to Make Special Education Work: An Insider Guide
Judith Canty Graves - Jessica Kingsley Pub; 192 edition
Format: Paperback
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Written by parents who have been through the US special education system, this book cuts through the jargon to provide other parents with a no-nonsense road map full of valuable first-hand insights and tried-and-tested advice. The authors clearly describe: * the special education process,... |
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The Annotated African American Folktales
Henry Louis Gates Jr. - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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These nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature.Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, The Annotated African American Folktales... |
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Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform
Paul Starr - Yale University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In no other country has health care served as such a volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America has endured a century of rancorous debate on health insurance, and despite the passage of legislation in 2010, the battle is not yet over. This book is a history of how and why the United... |
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Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Transforming Systems, and Changing Lives
Deborah Padgett - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Hardcover
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This book is the first to chronicle the story of Housing First (HF) , a paradigm-shifting evidence-based approach to ending homelessness that began in New York City in 1992 and rapidly spread to other cities nationally and internationally. The authors report on the rise of a 'homeless... |
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Start a Revolution: Stop Acting Like a Library
Ben Bizzle - Editions
Format: Paperback
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But this is how we've always done it! Objections to taking a fresh tack are about as common as budget shortfalls, and the two are more closely related than you might think. At the Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library in Arkansas, Bizzle and his colleagues defied common practices... |
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The Constitution and 9/11: Recurring Threats to America's Freedoms
Louis Fisher - University Press of Kansas
Format: Hardcover
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The announced purpose of U.S. antiterrorist policies after 9/11 was to bring democracy and the rule of law to the Middle East. At home, those values were regularly threatened by illegal, unconstitutional, secret, and unaccountable programs. The Bush administration claimed that terrorists... |
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EMT Basic Exam Study Guide: Test Prep and Practice Questions for the EMT-B
EMT Basic Study Guide Team - Trivium Test Prep
Format: Print book
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Think all EMT-B study guides are the same? Think again! With easy to understand lessons and practice test questions designed to maximize your score, you'll be ready. You don't want to waste time - and money! - having to study all over again because you didn't get effective studying... |
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LSAT For Dummies
Amy Hackney Blackwell - For Dummies; 2nd Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Increase your score on the LSATIf you're preparing for law school, your single biggest hurdle is the Law School Admission Test or LSAT. This three and a half hour exam consisting of five multiple choice sections and one timed writing sample can make or break your legal aspirations.Fortunately,... |
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The Poems of Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz - New Directions; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Here at last is the first retrospective collection of Paz's poetry to span his entire writing career, from the first published poem, at age seventeen, to his magnificent last poem; the whole is assiduously edited and translated by acclaimed essayist Eliot Weinberger - who has been translating... |
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Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education
SUSAN WISE BAUER - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A best-selling expert on education shows how to make the school system work for your child.Our K-12 school system is an artificial product of market forces. It isn't a good fit for all -- or even most -- students. It prioritizes a single way of understanding the world over all others, pushes... |
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Creating Your Library Brand
Elisabeth Doucett - American Library Association
Format: Paperback
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From McDonald's arches to Nike's swoosh, logos are part of the everyday landscape. These are the visual representations of brands' extensive marketing stories, defining the meaning and message of the company.Branding is one part of the marketing process that focuses on developing... |
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Chapter 13 Bankruptcy: Keep Your Property & Repay Debts Over Time
Robin Leonard J.D. - NOLO; 9 edition
Format: Paperback
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Reduce your debts, save your property -- and start over! Are you behind on your mortgage, taxes or other bills? Are creditors threatening foreclosure or repossession? This book will show you how to save your house, car and other assets with Chapter 13 Bankruptcy. It lets you cancel your... |
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Mosby's Review for the Pharmacy Technician Certification Examination, 2e
James J. Mizner BS MBA RPh - Mosby; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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This complete review includes everything you need to study for and pass the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) and ExCPT exams! Review the content you'll see on the exam with handy outlines and helpful electronic flash cards, then prepare for the exam with a section on test-taking... |
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Engaging babies in the library : putting theory into practice
Debra J Knoll - ALA Editions
Format: Print book
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Public libraries across the nation continue to transform themselves into learning centers for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. There are many resources available to help librarians create baby-friendly play spaces and enhanced storytimes, but until now there has been gap in the literature... |
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This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
Marilyn Johnson - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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In This Book is Overdue!, acclaimed author Marilyn Johnson celebrates libraries and librarians, and, as she did in her popular first book, The Dead Beat, discovers offbeat and eloquent characters in the quietest corners. In defiance of doomsayers, Johnson finds librarians more vital and necessary... |
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Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits
Donalyn Miller - Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
Format: Paperback
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In Reading in the Wild, reading expert Donalyn Miller continues the conversation that began in her bestselling book, The Book Whisperer. While The Book Whisperer revealed the secrets of getting students to love reading, Reading in the Wild, written with reading teacher Susan Kelley, describes... |
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The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Creative Writing
Alice LaPlante - W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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A Los Angeles Times bestseller: wonderfully lucid and illuminating, Alice LaPlante’s guide to writing fiction “recalls Francine Prose’s bestseller, Reading Like a Writer” (Library Journal).The Making of a Story is a fresh and inspiring guide to the basics of creative... |
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Campus Visits and College Interviews
The College Board - College Board; Third Edition edition
Format: Book
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Campus Visits and College Interviews from The College Board teaches you how to get the most out of your campus visits, and get the stress out of your college interviews.Updated to give the pros and cons of college Web sites and "virtual visits," and reformatted with easy-to-use... |
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The Waste Land
T S Eliot - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Hardcover
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The first edition of T. S. Eliot's masterpiece reappears with a major introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Muldoon.The Waste Land is arguably the most important poem of the twentieth century. First published in the United States by Boni & Liveright in 1922, this landmark reissue... |
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CNA Exam Preparation 2018-2019: CNA Study Guide Review Book and Practice Test Questions
Trivium Test Prep (Firm) - Trivium Test Prep
Format: Paperback
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Trivium Test Prep's CNA Exam Preparation 2018-2019: CNA Study Guide Review Book and Practice Test Questions offers: A detailed overview of what you need to know for CNA, so that you know exactly what to expect on the CNA exam A CNA review of all the subjects over which you will be tested... |
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Understanding Toxicology: A Biological Approach
Steven D Mercurio - Jones & Bartlett Learning
Format: Paperback
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Understanding Toxicology is a comprehensive study of toxicants and their impact on all levels of biology--from cell, to complex organism, to ecosystem. Unlike other texts of its kind, this text is uniquely structured by biological system, making it easy for readers to understand the impact... |
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Library 2020: Today's Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow's Library
Joseph Janes - Scarecrow Press
Format: Paperback
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Thinking about the future of libraries, librarianship and the work librarians do is as old as libraries themselves. (No doubt seminars were organized by the Alexandria Librarians Association on the future of the scroll and what to do about the rising barbarian tide.) At no time in our memory,... |
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The new librarianship field guide
R David Lankes - The MIT Press
Format: Print book
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This book offers a guide for librarians who see their profession as a chance to make a positive difference in their communities -- librarians who recognize that it is no longer enough to stand behind a desk waiting to serve. R. David Lankes, author of The Atlas of New Librarianship,... |
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
JESSICA BRUDER - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The end of retirement?From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short,... |
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Wisconsin's Early French Habitants
Jo Bartels Alderson - Heritage Books
Format: Paperback
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his new work concentrates on an often overlooked portion of North American history--the French exploration and "settlement" of South Central Canada and North Central U.S., namely the state of Wisconsin. The book follows the path of French explorers like Champlain and La Salle,... |
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Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
Tina Chang - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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A landmark anthology, providing the most ambitious, far-reaching collection of contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry available.Language for a New Century celebrates the artistic and cultural forces flourishing today in the East, bringing together an unprecedented selection of works... |
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Cosplay in Libraries: How to Embrace Costume Play in Your Library
Ellyssa Kroski - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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Cosplay, comics, anime, and geek culture have exploded into the mainstream over recent years and have resulted in a thriving community of costume enthusiasts and pop culture fans. Today's cosplayers find inspiration on the pages of comics, classic literature, and even history, as well... |
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Fiske Guide to Colleges 2018
EDWARD B FISKE - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback
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"The best college guide you can buy."-USA TodayEvery college and university has a story, and no one tells those stories like former New York Times education editor Edward B. Fiske. That's why, for more than 30 years, the Fiske Guide to Colleges has been the leading guide to 320 four*... |
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Lean Library Management: Eleven Strategies for Reducing Costs and Improving Services
Warren Graham - Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc.; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Libraries today face reduced budgets, increased customer expectations, and aggressive competition from web-based information sources. Management guru John Huber, a pioneer and leader in the Lean Manufacturing movement, has worked as a consultant with libraries across North America. In this... |
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Barron's GRE, 22nd Edition
Sharon Weiner Green M.A. - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Print book
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This newly revised and updated manual presents a test overview, test-taking advice, and a timetable for a typical computer-based GRE test. Added features include: A diagnostic test with an answer key and answer explanationsA verbal reasoning review with practice questions in sentence completion... |
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