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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The presidential inaugural poet--and unforgettable new voice in American poetry--presents a collection of poems that includes the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
326 p.
Language
English
Description
"An exuberant work of popular history: the story of how streets got their names and houses their numbers, and why something as seemingly mundane as an address can save lives or enforce power. When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won't get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
viii, 332 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organise your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. None of us are prepared. As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
xvi, 336 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Why does the brain create music? In Beethoven's Anvil, cognitive scientist and jazz musician William Benzon finds the key to music's function in the complexity of musical experience. A coordination of mental functions (symbol-processing capacities, motor skills, and emotional and communicative skills) underlies our deep need to create and participate in music.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The car that we know - petrol or diesel-driven and operated by a human - will soon be replaced by electric cars which, in turn, will become self-driving. The reign of the car, which began in the late nineteenth century, will have lasted at most 150 years. More than any other technology - more than television, mobile phones, more even than the Internet - cars have transformed our culture. On the streets we notice people talking on their phones, but...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Go
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
v, 282 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
All the Gold Stars looks at how the cultural, personal, and societal expectations around ambition are driving the burnout epidemic by funneling our worth into productivity, limiting our imaginations, and pushing us further apart. Through the devastating personal narrative of her own ambition crisis, Stauffer discovers the common factors driving us all, peeling back layers of family expectations, capitalism, and self-esteem that dangerously tie up...
Author
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
ix, 254 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming human society in fundamental and profound ways. Not since the Age of Reason have we changed how we approach security, economics, order, and even knowledge itself. In the Age of AI, three deep and accomplished thinkers come together to consider what AI will mean for us all" --
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 313 pages ; illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Far from being a lifeless ornament in the sky, the Moon holds the answers to some of science's central questions. Silent, dry, and barren, Earth's 4.34-billion-year-old companion is essential to life on earth. Its gravity stabilized the Earth's orbit, and, as it once guided evolution, its tide stirring up nutrients that fostered complex life, it now influences everything from animal migrations and reproduction to the movements of plants' leaves. More...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet Pipher shows most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic, and wise people they have always wanted to be. Here she offers a timely examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 520 pages : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
For too long, scientists have focused on the dark side of our biological heritage: our capacity for aggression, cruelty, prejudice, and self-interest. But natural selection has given us a suite of beneficial social features, including our capacity for love, friendship, cooperation, and learning. Beneath all our inventions such as our tools, farms, machines, cities, and nations, we carry with us innate proclivities to make a good society.
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
231 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Join the conversation with more than one hundred women restaurateurs, activists, food writers, home cooks, and professional chefs, including Carla Hall, Ruth Reichl, Julia Turshen, Dorie Greenspan, Priya Krishna, Leah Penniman, Rachel Khong, Osayi Endolyn, Bonnie Tsui, and many others-all of whom are changing the world of food. Featuring essays, profiles, recipes, and more, Why We Cook is curated and illustrated by author and artist Lindsay Gardner,...
Author
Publisher
The Senator John Heinz History Center
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
First ed.
Physical Desc
312 p. : ill., map ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
The authors have provided a long needed photographic history of the Keystone State worthy of its importance and its sacrifices during the American Civil War.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
xv, 303 pages : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Opening Kickoff relates the story of the formative period of American football between 1890 and 1915 with its physical brutality and controversies in academics, recruiting and finances.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Although it was then perceived as a far-off and inconclusive engagement, the Korean War was a decisive and deeply destructive conflict. American forces dropped 635,000 tons of bombs over Korea --- more than the entire Pacific campaign of World War II --- and millions of Koreans perished. Today, mass graves still litter the countryside and two nuclear-armed forces stand at odds. In Ghost Flames, Charles Hanley adds new color and urgency by telling...
Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Physical Desc
562 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Matae eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems, chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise. Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has high blood pressure. In Europe, hypertension is diagnosed in more than 30 percent of the population. And everywhere,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The phrase "skin in the game" is one we have often heard but have rarely stopped to truly dissect. It is the backbone of risk management, but it's also an astonishingly complex worldview that, as Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows in this book, applies to literally all aspects of our lives. In his inimitable style, Taleb pulls on everything from Antaeus the Giant to Hammurabi to Donald Trump to Seneca to the ethics of disagreement to create a jaw-dropping...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A timely and impassioned exploration of how our society has commodified feminism and continues to systemically shut out women of color, perfect for fans of White Fragility and Good and Mad.
Join the important conversation about race, empowerment, and inclusion in the United States with this powerful new feminist classic and rousing call for change. Koa Beck, writer and former editor-in-chief of Jezebel, boldly examines the history of feminism, from...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
In Tools and Weapons, Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne take us into the cockpit of one of the world's largest and most powerful tech companies as it finds itself in the middle of some of the thorniest emerging issues of our time. These are challenges that come with no preexisting playbook, including privacy, cybercrime and cyberwar, social media, the moral conundrums of artificial intelligence, big tech's relationship to inequality, and the challenges...