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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Acclaimed historian and museum curator Richard Rabinowitz tells the story of his immigrant Jewish family through the everyday objects in their lives, from chairs and bottle openers to jars of perfume. Vivid, absorbing, and powerfully honest, this is a story of one family and one community but also of the simple heirlooms that anchor us all"--
Author
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
What will my life be like? Will I be happy? Will I ever be able to reach the stars? There are no answers to these questions, but in this eloquent picture book Britta Teckentrup lets children know that they are not alone in asking them and gives parents an opportunity to start a conversation with their children about the questions that come up in their lives. A young girl stands on a chair to see what it's like to be tall. A boy stares towards the...
Publisher
Arlington Information Channel 31
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Panel with female community leaders in Arlington, programming for 1998 Women's History Month. 1. Chancellor of Marymont University, Sister Marie Majella Berg, Catholic nun, educator, wanted to support the Arlington community so she connected with other community leaders to create committees to support community. 2. Elizabeth Pfohl Campbell, VP & founder of WETA, former Arlington schoolboard member, campaigned for desegregation of Arlington public...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
"A sparkling life of the monumental fashion designer Cristóbal Balenciaga When Cristóbal Balenciaga died in 1972, the news hit the front page of The New York Times. One of the most innovative and admired figures in the history of haute couture, Balenciaga said that he was the only designer who dared to do as he liked. He was, said Christian Dior, "the master of us all." But despite his extraordinary impact, he was a man hidden from view. Unlike...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When professional researcher and writer Bethany Saltman gave birth to her daughter, Azalea, she loved her deeply but felt as if something was missing. Looking back at her lonely childhood, dangerous teenage years, and love-addicted early adulthood, Saltman thought maybe she was broken. Then she discovered the science of attachment, the field of psychology that explores the question of why?from an evolutionary point of view?love exists between parents...
Author
Publisher
Fortress Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Monica A. Coleman's great-grandfather asked his two young sons to lift him up and pull out the chair when he hanged himself, and that noose stayed in the family shed for years. The rope was the violent instrument, but it was mental anguish that killed him. Now, in gripping fashion, Coleman examines the ways that the legacies of slavery, war, sharecropping, poverty, and alcoholism mask a family history of mental illness. Those same forces accompanied...
8) The apparitionists: a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized Americas imagination. A zspirit photographer,y William Mumler took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of a lost loved one alongside the living subject. Mumler was a sensation: The affluent and influential came calling. Peter Manseau brilliantly captures a nation wracked with grief and hungry for proof of the existence of ghosts and for...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"After he was stabbed, Matthew Nagle, a former high school football star, made scientific history when neurosurgeons implanted a microelectrode in his brain. Using BrainGate technology, Matt could merely think about moving a computer cursor--and it moved. He controlled the lights, manipulated his prosthetic hand, turned the TV off and on, and played video games, all just by thinking. In The Man with the Bionic Brain, Dr. Jon Mukand, Matt's research...
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Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Hyman George Rickover (1900-1986), born Chaim Godalia Rykover in the Polish shtetl of Maków-Mazowiecki in czarist Russia at the dawn of the 20th century, was an almost mythical figure in the United States Navy. A man of ferocious will, engineering brilliance, combative personality, and indefatigable work ethic, he personally oversaw the development of nuclear marine propulsion. During his thirty-five years as chief of Nuclear Reactors, Rickover...
Publisher
Routledge
Language
English
Description
Communication Technology Update and Fundamentals, now in its 17th edition, has set the standard as the single best resource for students and professionals looking to brush up on how communication technologies have developed, grown, and converged, as well as what's in store for the future. The book covers the fundamentals of communication technology in five chapters that explain the communication technology ecosystem, its history, theories, structure,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Like the A-10 aircraft she flew in combat, retired colonel and fighter pilot Martha McSally is a gritty individual who loves our Air Force and personified its core values of excellence, integrity, and service before self, while standing up to make it a better institution for everyone who serves. How to be resolute, do the right thing, persevere, find gratitude, and learn compassion are just some of the lessons in her inspirational life story." ?Ron...
13) The healthy workplace nudge: how healthy people, culture, and buildings lead to high performance
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Discover how healthy buildings, culture, and people lead to high profits Organizations and employees now spend an average of $18,000 per year per employee for health costs, a 61% increase in 10 years. These are direct costs, but the hidden costs of time out of the office, distraction, disengagement, and turnover far exceed the direct costs. The Healthy Workplace Nudge explains the findings of research on 100 large organizations that have tackled...
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"Americans are generous with their pocketbooks, but trying to make a difference and actually making a difference are two different things. Where Am I Giving? by New York Times bestselling author Kelsey Timmerman takes you on a journey to meet people who will inspire you to live a purpose-filled, generous life and make the greatest impact you can through your career, time, consumer dollars, and donations. Starting in his hometown of Muncie, Indiana,...
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Updated to fully align with the 2020 NEC, this trusted on-the-job reference contains plain-language explanations, advice, and analysis for every provision. You will get discussions of the rationale behind specific rules that enhances your understanding of both meaning and application. This handbook features thousands of detailed diagrams and photos as well as in-depth discussions regarding controversial wording and actual errors, together with possible...
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