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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries' GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years. This isn't science fiction--it's reality. Humans are venturing up and out, and we're taking our competitive spirit with us. Soon, what happens in space will shape human history as much the mountains, rivers, and seas have impacted civilizations around the world. It's no coincidence that Russia, China, and the USA are leading...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.2 - AR Pts: 26
Physical Desc
xxx, 446 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author traces the rise of the processed food industry and how addictive salt, sugar, and fat have enabled its dominance in the past half century, revealing deliberate corporate practices behind current trends in obesity, diabetes, and other health challenges.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A quarterback like Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers gambles with a Hail Mary pass at the end of a football game when he has nothing to lose - the risky throw might turn defeat into victory, or end in a meaningless interception. Rodgers may not realize it, but he has much in common with figures such as George Washington, Rosa Parks, Woodrow Wilson, and Adolph Hitler, all of whom changed the modern world with their risk-loving decisions. In The Power of Nothing...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Updated edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 312 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offering a study of the application of the science of choice, this guide uses examples from all aspects of life to demonstrate how it is possible to design environments that make it more likely for us to act in our own interests.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Since its publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline. Todays agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the land -- from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it. Sadly, his arguments and observations are...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Look at a map of the world and you’ll see a colorful checkerboard of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. Over the last decade, globalization has shattered the map into different legal spaces: free ports, tax havens, special economic zones. With the new spaces, ultracapitalists have started to believe that it is possible to escape the bonds of democratic government and oversight altogether.
Crack-Up Capitalism follows the...
9) Food fix: how to save our health, our economy, our communities, and our planet-- one bite at a time
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Pairing the latest in nutritional and environmental science with an unflinching look at the dark realities of the global food system and the policies that make it possible, Food Fix is a hard-hitting manifesto that provides solutions for citizens, businesses, and policymakers to create a healthier world, society, and planet. It will forever change the way you think about and eat food.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the beloved author of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend comes a wonderful new novel about a struggling man, written entirely in lists. Daniel Mayrock's life is at a crossroads. He knows the following to be true: 1. He loves his wife Jill... more than anything. 2. He only regrets quitting his job and opening a bookshop a little (maybe more than a little) 3. Jill is ready to have a baby. 4. The bookshop isn't doing well. Financial crisis is imminent....
Author
Publisher
Tiller Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Tiller Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
277 p.
Language
English
Description
For readers of Mary Roach and Adam Diamond, an innovative look at the histories of different epidemics and what it meant for society, alongside what lessons different diseases have to teach us as society battles the novel Coronavirus.
Throughout history, there have been numerous epidemics that have threatened mankind with destruction. Diseases have the ability to highlight our shared concerns across the ages, affecting every social divide from national...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
322 p.
Language
English
Description
From the author of EXPECTING BETTER, an economist's guide to the early years of parenting With Expecting Better, award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the information they needed to make the best decision for their own pregnancies. By digging into the data, Oster found that much of the conventional pregnancy wisdom was wrong. In Cribsheet, she now tackles an even great challenge: decision...
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
328 p.
Language
English
Description
Triumphant wins, gut-wrenching losses, last-second shots, underdogs, competition, and loyalty--it's fun to be a fan. But when a football player takes a hit to the head after yet another study has warned of the dangers of CTE, or when a team whose mascot was born in an era of racism and bigotry takes the field, or when a relief pitcher accused of domestic violence saves the game, how is one to cheer? Welcome to the club for sports fans who care too...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
355, 8 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After serving time for a crime she didn't commit, Evangeline returns home to a cold welcome. Her mother blames her for her father's death, and her brothers want her out of their way. When Evangeline learns she's solely responsible for their failing ranch, putting her family's future squarely on her shoulders, she'll have to find a creative way to save their home before they lose it all. Her only ally: the cop who sent her away. Chris Chambers is positive...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
248 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"American policy-makers have long been locked in a heated battle over whether, how many, and what kind of immigrants to allow to live and work in the country. Those in favor of welcoming more immigrants often cite humanitarian reasons, while those in favor of more restrictive laws argue the need to protect native citizens. But economist Bryan Caplan adds a new, compelling perspective to the immigration debate: He argues that opening all borders could...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Ways and Means, journalist Roger Lowenstein reveals the unlikely story of how Abraham Lincoln used the urgency of financing the Civil War to transform a union of states into one united nation. Through a financial lens, he explores how this second American revolution, led by Lincoln, his cabinet, and his congress, changed the direction of the country"--
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 422 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness Fiona Hill reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia--and shows how we can return hope to our forgotten places. In this deeply personal account, she shares what she has learned, and explains that only by expanding opportunity can we save our democracy.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the North Dakota beet fields to California's National Forest campgrounds to Amazon's Texas CamperForce program, employers have discovered a new low-cost labor pool: transient older Americans. With Social security coming up short, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands, forming a growing community of migrant laborers dubbed "workampers." In a secondhand vehicle christened "Van Halen,"...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
To the Promised Land challenges the reader to think about what it would mean to truly fulfill King's legacy and move toward his vision of "the Promised Land" in our own time.