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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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A Day No Pigs Would Die, Speak, Thirteen Reasons Why. These are some of the most beloved, and most challenged, books. Leaving controversial titles such as these out of your collection or limiting their access is not the answer to challenges. While ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom reports more than 4,500 challenges to young adult literature from 2000 through 2009. This handbook gives you the information you need to defend challenged books with...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"In this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of the world's great social scientists and a pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality, offers an inspiring analysis of a central question: What is poverty and how much of it is there around the globe? The persistence of poverty--in rich and poor countries alike--is one of the most serious problems facing humanity. Better measurement of poverty is essential for raising awareness, motivating...
12706) Mockingbird (Mok'ing-bûrd)
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English
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Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
Publisher
Macmillan Reference USA
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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Covers scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the original international edition. Highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and features new articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"The framers of the Constitution chose their words carefully when they wrote of a more perfect union--not absolutely perfect, but with room for improvement. Indeed, we no longer operate under the same Constitution as that ratified in 1788, or even the one completed by the Bill of Rights in 1791--because we are no longer the same nation. In The Revolutionary Constitution, David J. Bodenhamer provides a comprehensive new look at America's basic law,...
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Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
""Elie Ayache is the only person to present arguments about the Black Swan and rare events that I had not thought about. He does what philosophical inquiry has always done: to go the extra mile and look at the world in a deeply philosophical way."--Nassim Nicholas Taleb, PhD, author of the Black Swan, Distinguished Professor, New York University Polytechnic Institute & Principal, Universa Investments." ""Elie Ayache has uniquely straddled the down-to-earth...
12710) Mating for life: a novel
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Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"With pitch-perfect honesty and heartwarming humor, this captivating debut explores marriage, motherhood, identity, and what it takes to love someone--family members, friends, or spouses--for life. Former folk singer Helen Sear was a feminist wild child who proudly disdained monogamy, raising three daughters--each by a different father--largely on her own. Now in her sixties, Helen has fallen in love with a traditional man who desperately wants to...
12711) Smart portfolios: a practical guide to building and maintaining intelligent investment portfolios
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Publisher
Harriman House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
12715) The Irish nanny
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English
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"London 1940. As the war rages in Europe, Rose Brown steps on board a ship bound for America, hoping to escape the danger. She's frightened, but her widowed mammy and three sisters in Ireland need the money she earns as nanny to the rich Townsend family. But while Rose plays with baby Sarah in the salty spray on deck, disaster strikes, and the ocean liner begins to sink. In the chaos, Rose and the baby are separated from the family. Pulled from the...
12716) This fallen prey
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English
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When Casey first arrived at the off-the-grid town, an isolated community built as a haven for people running from their pasts, she had no idea what to expect, with no cell phones, no internet, no mail, and no way of getting in or out without the town council's approval. She certainly didn't expect to be the homicide detective on two separate cases or to begin a romantic relationship with her boss.
The off-the-grid town of Rockton is an isolated community...
Publisher
Zed Books
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
This second edition of this highly-successful glossary provides an exhaustive and authoritative guide to over 200 technical terms used in contemporary scholarly research on poverty. It seeks to make researchers, students and policy makers aware of the multi-dimensional character of this social condition. The new edition includes a range of entries to keep pace with an expanding field of discourse, an expanded set of references and further perspectives...
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English
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. These classic essays address concerns of religious faith from a philosophical perspective. "The Will to Believe" is a defense of the legitimacy of religious faith-though not as a defense of the validity of such faith. James responds to the often corrosive effect of rationality on religious faith by arguing that it is most rational to choose faith. He continues his...
12720) Modern sculpture reader
Publisher
Henry Moore Institute
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Offers a discourse on the medium by a range of artists, writers, critics, and poets, in a variety of genres: poems, lectures, transcribed interviews, newspaper and magazine articles, and artists statements. These diverse text selections offer insight into the development of the critical language of sculpture and its connections to other media in an era of increasingly conceptual artistic practice--From publisher description.
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