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Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
Description
"In this powerful, eloquent story of his return to the classroom, a former teacher offers a rousing defense of his beleaguered vocation Perhaps no profession is so constantly discussed, regulated, and maligned by non-practitioners as teaching. The voices of the teachers themselves are conspicuously missing. Defying this trend, teacher and writer Garret Keizer takes us to school--literally--in this arresting account of his return to the same rural...
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Este libro es para esos pacientes que quieren estar informados antes de ir a la visita médica. Y para los médicos que quieran quitarse la venda y decir 'no, gracias' a los laboratorios y sus tramposas ofertas de viajes y cursos.
This book is for those patients who want to be informed before going to the medical visit. And for the doctors who want to remove the bandage and say 'no thanks' to the labs and their sneaky travel and course offers.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"There are riders willing to die just to win a single leg of the Tour, careening downhill at a suicidal ninety kilometers per hour; now I know there are also riders ready to kill for it. Marc, a French-Colombian professional cyclist with a military past, is on an elite Tour de France team led by his best friend, Steve, an American star and a favorite to win this year's Tour. But the competition takes a dark turn when someone begins eliminating racers...
Author
Publisher
Triumph Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
By the time he was three years old, Tony Parker was already dribbling a basketball in his hometown of Gravelines in France. In his bedroom, surrounded by posters of his idol Michael Jordan, he imagined himself making it to the NBA and leading his team to a championship. Everyone told him to forget it. He was too short, too skinny, too slow. Besides, no NBA team would ever turn its fortunes over to a point guard from Europe. After a 20-year professional...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This fully illustrated history tells the story of women's first "league of their own," the All-American Girl's Professional Baseball League (1943-1954), as told through the engaging voices of the people who knew it best: the players! Author Anika Orrock has collected a range of funny, charming, wince-worthy and heart-warming vignettes as told by the players themselves from their various experiences playing in the AAGBPL, from the very first tryouts...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press HC, The
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Description
"In an age in which the lack of independent public intellectuals has often been sorely lamented, the historian Tony Judt played a rare and valuable role, bringing together history and current events, Europe and America, what was and what is with what should be. In When the Facts Change, Tony Judt's widow and fellow historian Jennifer Homans has assembled an essential collection of the most important and influential pieces written in the last fifteen...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Amid a national backdrop of the call to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, the National Women's Football League was founded as something of a gimmick. However, the league's star team, the Toledo Troopers, emerged to challenge traditional gender roles and amass a win-loss record never before or since achieved in American football. The players were housewives, factory workers, hairdressers, former nuns, high school teachers, bartenders, mail carriers,...
92) Jonrón
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
Ana & Andrew are finally old enough to play team sports! Andrew tries out for the baseball team. When he is nervous before his first game, Papa tells him to think of Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play modern Major League Baseball.
93) Far from normal
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Maddie McPherson is sick of Normal--both her hometown of Normal, Illinois and being the 'normal' sibling. But when she lands a summer internship with a sports marketing firm, she finally has a chance to crawl out of her genius brother's shadow. Not to mention, a glowing letter of recommendation could secure her admission to her dream college"--Amazon.
Author
Series
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"The Artist's Library offers the idea that an artist is any person who uses creative tools to make new things, and the guidance and resources to make libraries of all sizes and shapes come alive as spaces for art-making and cultural engagement. Case studies included in the book range from the crafty (pop-up books) to the community-minded (library galleries) to documentary (photo projects) to the technically complex ('listening' to libraries via Dewey...
Author
Publisher
Barrons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This fully updated book is all you need to succeed on the Core exams. This comprehensive manual includes important information you must know, including: a detailed review of the Core Reading, Writing, and Mathematics tests, including subject reviews with quizzes to help you prepare ; three full-length practice Core tests, complete with answer explanations ; and, test preparation and test-taking strategies, including tips on how to get ready for the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"No matter how hard she tries, Claire can't kick the soccer ball in a straight line. Her coach steps in and places his hand on her shoulder, telling her that she's too pretty to wear a frown. When he tickles her later and asks her to keep it a secret, Claire doesn't know exactly what's wrong, but something just feels "weird." Too much flattery and too much contact gave her that weird, uh-oh feeling. She turns to her friends for help and learns that...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In Do Morals Matter?, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., one of the world's leading scholars of international relations, provides a concise yet penetrating analysis of the role of ethics in US foreign policy during the American era after 1945. Nye works through each presidency from FDR to Trump and scores their foreign policy on three ethical dimensions of their intentions, the means they used, and the consequences of their decisions. Alongside this, he also evaluates...
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