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Author
Publisher
Row House Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xvii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
She signed up for the sisterhood, free cars, and the promise of a successful business of her own. Instead, she ended up with an addiction, broken friendships, and the rubble of a toppled pyramid . . . scheme. Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing is the eye-opening, funny, and dangerous personal story of author Emily Lynn Paulson rising to the top of the pyramid in the multilevel marketing (MLM) world,...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
x, 253 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? These are some of the questions considered in this book by Stephen Hawking, known to be one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists.
5) Sorting
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
Updated edition.
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explains to the young reader how things are sorted and grouped in order to organize them.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (7 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
An urgent yet hopeful analysis of the surge in dehumanization, and how we can reverse it. The unprecedented access to other humans that technology provides has ironically freed us from engaging with them. Thanks to social media, we can know a campaigning politician's platform; an avid traveler's restaurant recommendations; and the daily emotional fluctuations of our friends without ever even picking up the phone. According to social psychologist Adam...
Author
Series
An Evan Ryder novel volume 4
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Evan Ryder is an extraordinary intelligence field agent now working for the security arm of Parachute, a private company and the world's leader in the application of quantum technology. In the past, Ryder has done lethal battle in the modern global wars of power politics, extremist ideology, corrosive disinformation, and outrageous greed. But now she finds herself in a battle arena whose dangers, while less obvious, are greater than anything the...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
x, 253 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A journalist who has followed the rise of QAnon explains what it is, how it has gained a mainstream following among Republican lawmakers and ordinary citizens, the threat it poses to democracy, and how we can reach those who have embraced the conspiracy and are disseminating its lies.
Author
Series
Publisher
Checkerboard Library
Pub. Date
c2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explore the beginning of the universe, the big bang theory, galaxies, and black holes! Learn about key astronomers and their contributions to space exploration! Examine the Hubble Space Telescope and the Large Hadron Collider!
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
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Description
"The bestselling author of Give and Take and Originals examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your beliefs and to know what you don't know, which can position you for success at work and happiness at home. The difficulty of rethinking our assumptions is surprisingly common--maybe even fundamentally human. Our ways of thinking become habits that we don't bother to question, and mental laziness leads us to prefer the ease of old...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike.
14) Stack the cats
Author
Publisher
Abrams Appleseed
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A counting book illustrating how a group of cats can be organized into different size groupings.
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
340 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Regarded as one of the brightest young scientists of his generation, Lewis Dartnell proposes that the key to preserving civilization in an apocalyptic scenario is to provide a quickstart guide adapted to cataclysmic circumstances. The Knowledge is an original guide to the fundamentals of science and how it built our modern world, as well as a thought experiment about the very idea of scientific knowledge itself.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
1909
Physical Desc
376 p.
Language
English
Description
Ann Veronica is a New Woman novel by H.G. Wells. Ann Veronica describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, "a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty," against her middle-class father's stern patriarchal rule. The novel dramatizes the contemporary problem of the New Woman. It is set in Victorian era London and environs, except for an Alpine excursion. Ann Veronica offers vignettes of the Women's suffrage movement in Great Britain and features a chapter...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
Before the universe was formed, before time and space existed, there was ... nothing. But then ... BANG! Stars caught fire and burned so long that they exploded, flinging stardust everywhere. And the ash of those stars turned into planets. Into our Earth. And into us. The author takes readers from the trillionth of a second when our universe was born to the singularities that became each one of us, while illustrations capture the void before the Big...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A how-to volume filled with fun activities that can be done at home, as well as simple programs, and information about some of the most famous coders of all time. Includes glossary.
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...