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Publisher
Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Black Bart was not the Old West's only stagecoach robber, but he quickly became the most famous. To many people, he was a folk hero, a robber who didn't threaten or harm passengers. He was a bandit with a sense of humor who wrote poetry. In robbing at least 28 Wells Fargo stagecoaches across northern California between 1875 and 1883, he never fired a shot or injured anyone. His gun, it turned out, was never loaded. Newspaper stories about the poet...
207222) America is immigrants
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This dazzling volume brings American immigrant stories to life in short biographies written by award-winning writer Sara Nović, with charming full-color illustrations by Alison Kolesar. At a time when public debate is focused on who belongs in America, this book honors the crucial contributions of our friends and neighbors who have chosen to make this country their home. Featured within are war heroes and fashion designers, Supreme Court justices...
207223) Hamas: from resistance to regime
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When the radical Islamist group Hamas was elected to lead Palestine in 2006, the Western world was shocked. How had the majority of Palestinians come to support an extremist organization and how would the group's new political power affect the larger Israel/Palestine conflict? Italian journalist and historian Paola Caridi offers a clear-eyed account of how the conditions in this war-torn region led to the rise of Hamas and an unbiased look at the...
207224) Crystal force
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Series
Publisher
Hot Key Books
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
With enemies on all sides, who can Drake really trust? On the run after escaping from what was supposed to be the world's most secure juvenile facility (and blowing it up in the process), Will Drake knows it's only a matter of time before the sinister Alliance catches up with him. But Drake is in need of an alliance of his own - knowing who to trust is becoming increasingly difficult, and after having been exposed to the highly unstable (and potentially...
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A first-hand account of the remarkable transformation of China over the past forty years. As a 20-year-old exchange student from Stanford in 1981, Pomfret spent a year at Nanjing University in China. His classmates were among those who survived the twin tragedies of Mao's rule--the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution--and whose success in government and private industry today are shaping China's future. Pomfret went on to a career in journalism,...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"London Hughes has come a long way from secretly writing Frasier fan fiction alone in her bedroom. Between her breakout Netflix comedy special, To Catch a D*ck, her dating podcast "London, Actually," and her award-winning TV performances, London the South Londoner has taken the entertainment world by storm. And now, in this sassy, brash, fearless, and funny memoir, London is ready to inspire women of all ages and races with her story-because London...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The complete story of the universe and absolutely everything in it (minus the boring parts). Despite our clever linguistic abilities, humans are spectacularly ill-equipped to comprehend what's happening in the universe. Our senses and intuition routinely mislead us. The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged) tells the story of how we came to suppress our monkey minds and perceive the true nature of reality. Written with wit and humor,...
Author
Publisher
Columbia Univ. Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Television is a form of media without equal. It has revolutionized the way we learn about and communicate with the world and has reinvented the way we experience ourselves and others. More than just cheap entertainment, TV is an undeniable component of our culture and contains many clues to who we are, what we value, and where we might be headed in the future. Media historian Gary R. Edgerton follows the technological developments and increasing cultural...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Examines what happens to the unconscious mind while under the effects of anesthesia, tracing the author's own experiences with surgery and the personal accounts of others who have experienced trauma, hallucinations, and submerged memories while under anesthesia.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In Exposed, Christopher Robertson looks at a widely-shared point of agreement in the political battle over how to reshape U.S. healthcare: Nearly all sides believe that health insurance coverage should be incomplete. Driven by a particular economic theory of valuation, the law now reflects this consensus that patients should bear a substantial part of the costs of their own healthcare. In theory, this strategy empowers patients to make cost-benefit...
Author
Publisher
Anansi International/House of Anansi Press Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through five years of incarceration and exile."--
207237) Tucker peak
Author
Series
Publisher
AM Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Vermont police detective Joe Gunther digs deep for clues that will help him nab a killer, after murder hits the slopes at a posh ski resort.
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 691
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Is the neurophysiology of pain all there is to pain? How do words and mental pictures come to represent things in the world? Do computers think, and if so, are their thought processes significantly similar to our thought processes? Or is there something distinctive about human thought that precludes replication in a computer? These are some of the puzzles that motivate the philosophical discipline called.
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