Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it, celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it, and TV ads hailed it as the future of money. Hardly anyone knew how it worked-but why bother with the particulars when everyone was making a fortune from Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, or some other bizarrely named "digital asset"? As he observed this frenzy, investigative reporter Zeke Faux had a nagging question: Was it all just a confidence...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Eve is not just a sweeping revision of human history, it's an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. Bohannon's findings, including everything...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
"This down to earth guide is designed to take the mystery out of money. Filled with practical advice on such topics as how to be a smart shopper, how to budget, and how to earn money. It will equip you with the skills you need to manage your money now and in the future."--Cover page 4.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This is a parenting book to help parents live in confidence so their kids can too"--
Anxiety has an amazing ability to spread-- and anxious children usually have at least one very well-intentioned but anxious parent. Groff offers practical tools so that you can uncover the roots of your own anxiety, raise confident kids in healthy ways, and become a worry-free family in an increasingly anxious world--Adapted from back cover.
7) Elf owls
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to elf owls. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography, written in exile, 'I have a pretty thorough knowledge of history, but never, to my recollection, has it produced such madness in such gigantic proportions.' He was referring to the situation in Germany in 1923. It was a 'year of lunacy,' defined by hyperinflation, a political system on the verge of collapse, and separatist movements that threatened Germany's territorial integrity....
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Advance gender equality one family at a time. Pediatrician and mother of four Dr. Shelly Flais gives parents the tools they need to start the lifelong process of raising their boys into men who are mentally healthy, empathetic, and committed to gender equality. Dr. Flais provides concrete techniques for parents to push back against cultural stereotypes and toxic masculinity as they nurture their sons. Because "kids do as they see," the work of being...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Timed to the start of the first trial in March 2024, this essential volume collects the four unprecedented indictments against Donald Trump and features extensive commentary by NYU law professors and MSNBC contributors Melissa Murray and Andrew Weissmann. In the long span of American history, Donald Trump is the first former president to face criminal indictment. He is the subject of a series of explosive charges across four cases: the January 6...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The History of Sketch Comedy will appeal to all kinds of comedy fans as well as fans of Keegan-Michael Key. With epic personal tangents and hilarious asides, their story takes you on an illuminating look at all facets of comedy from the stock characters of commedia del arte in the 16th century, to the rise of vaudeville and burlesque, the golden age of television comedy, the influence of the most well-known comedy schools, and ascension of comedy...
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The 29th edition of this industry-leading baseball annual contains all of the important statistics, player predictions and insider-level commentary that readers have come to expect from Baseball Prospectus. Improvements to several BP-exclusive statistics better isolate the value of each pitch and plate appearance, and enhancements to the modeling system make this year's projections better than ever before. Baseball Prospectus 2024 provides fantasy...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Most parents are not child psychologists and that's why it can be hard to discern what are normal childhood anxieties and what is more problematic. However, even with childhood anxieties, parents can learn how to raise resilient, independent, and healthy children with the help of licensed clinical psychologist, Regine Galanti, PhD. Galanti offers a research-based, practical guide for parenting through all ages and stages with strategies to help build...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Women's sports receive a fraction of the airtime allotted for men's sports, as well as a fraction of the marketing dollars, media coverage, training in budget facilities, and much more. As sports journalist Macaela MacKenzie exposes in Money, Power, Respect, misogyny in women's sports runs deep -- but there is hope at the end of the tunnel. MacKenzie takes us into the world of the women athletes who are championing equal pay, equal rights, and equal...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy classic Airplane! by the legendary writers and directors of the hit film. Airplane! premiered on July 2nd, 1980. With a budget of $3.5 million it went on to make nearly $200 million in sales and has influenced a multitude of comedians on both sides of the camera. Surely You Can't Be Serious is the first-ever oral history of the making of Airplane! by the...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
How is it that Americans are more obsessed with exercise than ever, and yet also unhealthier? Fit Nation explains how we got here and imagines how we might create a more inclusive, stronger future. If a shared American creed still exists, it's a belief that exercise is integral to a life well lived. A century ago, working out was the activity of a strange subculture, but today, it's almost impossible to avoid exhortations to exercise: Walk 5K to cure...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning that the so-called 'anti-racist' movement is driving us--ironically--toward a new kind of racism. As one of the few black students in his philosophy program at Columbia University years ago, Coleman Hughes wondered why his peers seemed more pessimistic about the state of American race relations than his own grandparents--who lived through segregation....
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From a pioneer of the regenerative agriculture movement, a memoir-meets-manifesto on betting the farm on a better future for our food, animals, land, local communities, and our climate. Featured in Food and Country, premiering at Sundance 2023. Raised as a fourth-generation farmer, when Will Harris inherited White Oak Pastures he was a full-time commodity cowboy who played hard and fast with every tool the system offered - chemicals, antibiotics,...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request