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Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
278 pages
Language
English
Description
The coronavirus pandemic conferred enormous power on certain government officials. They have no intention of giving it up.
In the space of a few weeks in early 2020, Americans witnessed the imposition of previously unimagined social controls by the biomedical security state—the unelected technocrats who suddenly enjoyed nearly absolute power to incarcerate, isolate, and medicate the entire population. In this chilling new book, a dissident scientist...
302) Climate: a new story
Author
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Flipping the script on climate change, Eisenstein makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction"--
303) Sun house
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A random bolt from a DC-8 falls from the sky, killing a child and throwing the faith of a young Jesuit into crisis. A boy's mother dies on his fifth birthday, sparking a lifetime of repressed anger that he unleashes once a year in reckless duels with the Fate, God, or Power who let the coincidence happen. A young woman on a run in Seattle experiences a shooting star moment that pierces her with a love that will eventually help heal the Jesuit, the...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (10.5 hours) : digital, MP3 ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In 2016 and 2018 acclaimed author and conservationist William deBuys joined extended medical expeditions into Upper Dolpo, a remote, ethnically Tibetan region of northwestern Nepal, to provide basic medical services to the residents of the region. Having written about climate change and species extinction, deBuys went on those journeys seeking solace. He needed to find a constructive way of living with the discouraging implications of what he had...
305) Warrior princesses strike back: how Lakota twins fight oppression and heal through connectedness
Author
Publisher
The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Warrior Princesses Strike Back, Lakhota twin sisters Sarah Eagle Heart and Emma Eagle Heart-White recount growing up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and overcoming odds throughout their personal and professional lives. Woven throughout are self-help strategies centering women of color, that combine marginalized histories, psychological research on trauma, perspectives on "decolonial therapy," and explorations on the possibility of healing...
Author
Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
viii, 291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this beautifully written memoir, a daughter travels to her mother's Tibetan homeland and finds both her own deep connections to her heritage and a people trying to maintain its cultural integrity despite Chinese occupation. After her mother dies in a car accident in India, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa decides to take a handful of her ashes back to her homeland in Tibet. Her mother left Tibet in her youth as a refugee and lived in exile the rest of her...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures traveling across the deserts of the American West in an orange van named Bertha and reflects on an unconventional approach to life. A woman defined by motion, Brianna Madia bought a beat-up bright orange van, filled it with her two dogs Bucket and Dagwood, and headed into the canyons of Utah with her husband. Nowhere for Very Long is her deeply felt, immaculately...
Author
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xi, 415 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Most of us relate to our emotions by either running from the difficult ones or clinging to the pleasant ones. Karla McLaren suggests a radical new perspective: that all of our emotions are equally important messengers, ready to assist us in acting with full awareness and integrity. With The Language of Emotions, this empathic counselor and researcher gives us a breakthrough guide toward a new and empowering relationship with our feeling states. As...
310) Flags of our fathers
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima.
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiv, 315 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Over the past several years, Dr. Becky Kennedy—known to her followers as “Dr. Becky”—has been sparking a parenting revolution. Millions of parents, tired of following advice that either doesn’t work or simply doesn’t feel good, have embraced Dr. Becky’s empowering and effective approach, a model that prioritizes connecting with our kids over correcting them.
Parents have long been sold a model of childrearing that simply doesn’t work....
Series
Arthouse films volume 003
Publisher
Arthouse Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 74 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
"Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But when 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a local filmmaker brings him to her home, the two embark on a journey to confront Jimmy's painful past. An intimate exploration of the lingering wounds of war and the healing powers of community and art ..."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Fireside Book
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
358 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Guided by Covey's remarkable step-by-step program, readers can find more meaning and satisfaction in relationships, be better able to achieve personal and professional goals, and can look forward to lasting happiness and success. "A wonderful book that could change your life". - Tom Peters, author of "In Search of Excellence"
Author
Publisher
Desiderata Institute
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xxxii, 145 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mental training is scarcely covered in the climbing literature, yet it is as important to performance as strength, flexibility, and technique. In his unique approach to mental training, Arno Ilgner draws essential elements from the rich "warrior" literature, as well as from sports psychology, and combines these with his extensive climbing experience to create The Warrior’s Way ®. Here is a comprehensive program for learning how to focus your mental...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
A memoir in which the author, barely out of college, discusses the unrelated deaths of his parents within months of one another, and tells how he came to take responsibility for his eight-year-old brother, while also working to create the satirical magazine "Might."
Author
Publisher
Deseret Book
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (ca. 10 hrs. 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John Bytheway has been entertaining and inspiring Latter-day Saint teenagers, young adults, and their parents for fifteen years! Now, for the first time, Bytheway fans can find ten of John's bestselling audio talks in one convenient CD collection. Teach the gospel with humor, and inspire your whole family with these popular favorites.
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xxii, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Food addiction is real. Our body’s built-in reward system, driven by the chemical dopamine, tells us to do things that give us pleasure: Creative energy, falling in love, entrepreneurship — even the continued procreation of the human race — are driven by this system. Unfortunately, so is the urge to overeat. In The Hunger Fix, Dr. Pam Peeke uses the latest neuroscience to explain how, with repeated exposure coupled with life stresses, any food...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
163 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Analyzes the lives of four of America's founding fathers, including George Washington, George Mason, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson, in an attempt to discover how these men, who were so dedicated to the freedom of the nation, could support slavery.
320) My sisters
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When sisters Margaret, Rose, and Quincy Lansing receive the tragic news that a car accident has claimed the life of their mother, they must return to their childhood home -- and to one another's company. Although they are shocked and heartbroken, none of the Lansing sisters are eager to be back. For the painful memories they thought they'd left behind have suddenly resurfaced...The Lansings were never a close or loving family. And each sibling had...
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