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The Adventures of Quint, the Bookmobile : the big move to Roneyville. / by Quinton, Kathleen.; Eminence System, illustrator.;
Subjects: Fiction.; Bookmobiles; Moving, Household; Libraries;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The adventures of Quint the Bookmobile. by Quinton, Kathleen,author.; Eminence System,illustrator.;
Quint the Bookmobile moves from his home at the big red shop to join Ms. Morris, the librarian, at his new home, the Tremell Library in Roneyville. An interactive book with hidden keys to find.004-008.
Subjects: Fiction.; Bookmobiles; Libraries; Moving, Household;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 5
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The lupus book : a guide for patients and their families / by Wallace, Daniel J.(Daniel Jeffrey),1949-author(CARDINAL)751957;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction and definitions -- Inflammation and immunity -- What causes lupus? -- Where and how can the body be affected by lupus? -- The management of Lupus Erythematosus."Lupus, a disease of the immune system, can be quite deadly, claiming the lives of thousands of patients yearly. Dr. Daniel J. Wallace is one of the world's leading authorities on this disorder, an eminent clinician who has treated over 3,000 lupus patients, the largest such practice in America. The Lupus Book, originally published in 1995, immediately established itself as the most readable and helpful book on the disease. Now Dr. Wallace has once again completely revised The Lupus Book, incorporating a wealth of new information. The sixth edition of The Lupus Book offers these patients and their families an abundance of reliable, information that will help them manage the disease and live a happier life."
Subjects: Informational works.; Systemic lupus erythematosus;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 12
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Jupiter / by Sheehan, William,1954-author.(CARDINAL)354762; Hockey, Thomas A.,author.(CARDINAL)354764;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-182) and index.Prologue -- The Jovian planets -- Jupiter: a primer for a giant planet -- Superficial matters -- Atmospherics -- The Great Red Spot becomes great -- A bewildering phantasmagoria: Jovian meteorology -- Above Jupiter -- Jupiter in collision -- Juno to Jupiter -- Observing Jupiter -- Appendices: I. Jupiter by the numbers -- II. Conjunctions of Jupiter -- III. The Galilean satellites by the numbers -- IV. Space probes to Jupiter.Majestic and untwinkling, Jupiter is the grandest of all planets. It is the largest planet in our solar system and among the brightest objects in the night sky. It shines with a noble, steady luster, and its calming presence has inspired humans for centuries. Jupiter was the "beloved star" of the first serious observers of the planets, the ancient Sumerians and Babylonians, and has inspired poetic utterances from eminent writers such as William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman. It also continues to inspire contemporary astronomers and stargazers, and this beautifully illustrated volume brings our understanding of Jupiter right up to date.
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The punishment imperative : the rise and failure of mass incarceration in America / by Clear, Todd R.(CARDINAL)150979; Frost, Natasha A.,1974-(CARDINAL)637177;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The beginning of the end of the punishment imperative -- The contours of mass incarceration -- The punishment imperative as a grand social experiment -- The policies of the punishment imperative -- Two views on the objectives of the punishment imperative -- Assessing the punishment imperative -- Dismantling the punishment imperative."Over the last 35 years, the United States penal system has grown at a rate unprecedented in U.S. history, five times larger than in the past and grossly out of scale with the rest of the world. This growth was part of a sustained and intentional effort to "get tough" on crime, and characterizes a time when no policy options were acceptable save for those that increased penalties. In this book, the authors, both eminent criminologists argue that America's move to mass incarceration from the 1960s to the early 2000s was more than just a response to crime or a collection of policies adopted in isolation; it was a grand social experiment. Tracing a wide array of trends related to the criminal justice system, the book charts the rise of penal severity in America and speculates that a variety of forces, fiscal, political, and evidentiary, have finally come together to bring this great social experiment to an end. The book cautions that the legacy of the grand experiment of the past forty years will be difficult to escape. However the authors suggest that the U.S. now stands at the threshold of a new era in the criminal justice system, and they offer several practical and pragmatic policy solutions to changing the approach to punishment."--Publisher information.
Subjects: Imprisonment; Corrections; Criminal justice, Administration of;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The soul of care : the moral education of a husband and a doctor / by Kleinman, Arthur,author.(CARDINAL)512731;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-262)."When Dr. Arthur Kleinman, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and social anthropologist, began caring for his wife, Joan, after she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, he found just how far the act of caregiving extended beyond the boundaries of medicine. In The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor, Kleinman delivers a deeply humane and inspiring story of his life in medicine and his marriage to Joan, and he describes the practical, emotional and moral aspects of caretaking. He also writes about the problems our society faces as medical technology advances and the cost of health care soars but caring for patients no longer seems important. Caregiving is long, hard, unglamorous work-at moments joyous, more often tedious, sometimes agonizing, but it is always rich in meaning. In the face of our current political indifference and the challenge to the health care system, he emphasizes how we must ask uncomfortable questions of ourselves, and of our doctors. To give care, to be "present" for someone who needs us, and to feel and show kindness are deep emotional and moral experiences, enactments of our core values. The practice of caregiving teaches us what is most important in life, and reveals the very heart of what it is to be human." -- book jacket
Subjects: Social medicine.; Medical ethics.; Caregivers.; Patients; Patients;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Against the great reset : eighteen theses contra the new world order / by Walsh, Michael,1949-editor.(CARDINAL)755389;
Includes bibliographical references.The problem -- The political -- The economic -- The personal -- The practical -- The ineffable."Much more than a collection of essays by eminent writers, Against the Great Reset is intended to kick off the intellectual resistance to the sweeping restructuring of the western world by globalist elites. In June 2020, prominent business and political leaders gathered for the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, under the rubric of "The Great Reset." In the words of WEF founder Klaus Schwab, the Great Reset is a "unique window of opportunity" afforded by the worldwide COVID-19 panic to build "a new social contract" ushering in a utopian era of economic, social, and environmental justice. But beneath their lofty and inspiring words, what are their actual plans? In this timely and necessary book, Michael Walsh has gathered trenchant critical perspectives on the Great Reset from eighteen eminent writers and journalists from around the world. These writers see the goal of the Great Reset as not just a world without racism, disease, economic inequality, or fossil fuels-but rather, a world with no individual autonomy and power in which our betters rig the system for their own purposes. Find out what the Great Resetters ultimately have in store for you, and join the intellectual resistance-before it's too late."--
Subjects: Essays.; World Economic Forum.; World politics.; International economic relations.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Dividing lines : how transportation infrastructure reinforces racial inequality / by Archer, Deborah N.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-239) and index.Killing two birds with one stone -- Substance over form -- It's just a highway -- Berlin Walls -- Still at the back of the bus -- The white man's right of way -- The limited reach of traditional legal tools -- The goal is justice."From an eminent legal scholar and the president of the ACLU, an essential account of how transportation infrastructure--from highways and roads to sidewalks and buses--became a means of protecting segregation and inequality after the fall of Jim Crow"--Our nation's transportation system is crumbling: highways are collapsing, roads are pockmarked, and commuter trains are unreliable. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer warns in Dividing Lines, before we can think about rebuilding and repairing, we must consider the role race has played in transportation infrastructure, from the early twentieth century and into the present day. As Archer demonstrates, the success of the Civil Rights movement and the fall of Jim Crow in the 1960s did not mean the end of segregation. The status quo would not be so easily dismantled. With state-sanctioned racism no longer legal, officials across the country-not just in the South-turned to transportation infrastructure to keep Americans divided. A wealthy white neighborhood could no longer be "protected" by racial covenants and segregated shops, but a multilane road, with no pedestrian crossings, could be built along its border to make it difficult for people from a lower-income community to visit. Highways could not be routed through Black neighborhoods based on the race of their residents, but those neighborhoods' lower property values-a legacy of racial exclusion-could justify their destruction. A new suburb could not be for "whites only," but planners could refuse to extend sidewalks from Black communities into white ones. Drawing on a wealth of sources, including interviews with people who now live in the shadow of highways and other major infrastructure projects, Archer presents a sweeping, national account-from Atlanta and Houston to Indianapolis and New York City-of our persistent divisions. With immense authority, she examines the limits of current Civil Rights laws, which can be used against overtly racist officials but are less effective in addressing deeper, more enduring, structural challenges. But Archer remains hopeful, and in the final count describes what a just system would look like and how we can achieve it.
Subjects: Transportation; Discrimination; Segregation; Sociology.; Civil rights.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The third revolution : Xi Jinping and the new Chinese state / by Economy, Elizabeth,1962-author.(CARDINAL)640231;
Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction -- 2. Heart of Darkness -- 3. Chinanet -- 4. The Not-So-New Normal -- 5. Innovation Nation -- 6. War on Pollution -- 7. The Lion Awakens -- 8. The Road Forward.In The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth Economy provides an incisive look at the world's most populous country. Inheriting a China burdened with slowing economic growth, rampant corruption, choking pollution, and a failing social welfare system, President Xi has reversed course, rejecting the liberalizing reforms of his predecessors. At home, the Chinese leadership has reasserted the role of the state into society and enhanced Party and state control. Beyond its borders, Beijing has recast itself as a great power and has maneuvered itself to be an arbiter--not just a player--on the world stage. Through an exploration of Xi Jinping's efforts to address top policy priorities--fighting corruption, controlling the internet, reforming state-owned enterprises, improving the country's innovation capacity, reducing the country's air pollution, and elevating its presence on the global stage--Economy identifies the tensions, shortcomings, and successes of Xi's first five years in office. Xi's ambition, she argues, provides new opportunities for the United States and the rest of the world to encourage greater Chinese contribution to global public goods but also necessitates a more proactive and coordinated effort to counter the rapidly expanding influence of an illiberal power within a liberal world order. This is essential reading for anyone interested in both China under Xi and how America and the world should deal with this vast nation in the coming years.
Subjects: Xi, Jinping.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The lupus book : a guide for patients and their families / by Wallace, Daniel J.(Daniel Jeffrey),1949-(CARDINAL)751957;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-278) and index.Introduction and definitions -- Inflammation and immunity -- What causes Lupus? -- Where and how can the body be affected by Lupus? -- The management of Lupus Erythematosus."Lupus, a disease of the immune system, can be quite deadly, claiming the lives of thousands of patients yearly. Dr. Daniel J. Wallace is one of the world's leading authorities on this disorder, an eminent clinician who has treated over 2000 lupus patients, the largest such practice in America. HisThe Lupus Book, originally published in 1995, immediately established itself as the most readable and helpful book on the disease. Dr. Wallace will do a thorough updating of the previous edition, adding new drug information and newly discovered information about the pathology of the disease. "--"Lupus, a disease of the immune system, can be quite deadly, claiming the lives of thousands of patients yearly. Dr. Daniel J. Wallace is one of the world's leading authorities on this disorder, an eminent clinician who has treated over 3000 lupus patients, the largest such practice in America. His The Lupus Book, originally published in 1995, immediately established itself as the most readable and helpful book on the disease. Now Dr. Wallace has once again completely revised The Lupus Book, incorporating a wealth of new information. This Fifth Edition discusses new drug information and newly discovered information about the pathology of the disease--all laid out in user-friendly language that any patient could understand. In particular, Wallace discusses the first drug for Lupus to be approved by the FDA--belimumab (Benlysta)--as well as other drugs in clinical trials. Readers will also discover fully updated sections on the science of lupus and breakthroughs in research. And as in past editions, the book provides absolutely lucid answers to such questions as: What causes lupus? How and where is the body affected? Can a woman with lupus have a baby? And how can one manage this disease? Indeed, Dr. Wallace has distilled his extensive experience, providing the most up-to-date information on causes, prevention, cure, exercise, diet, and many other important topics. There is also a glossary of terms and an appendix of lupus resource materials compiled by the Lupus Foundation of America. Over a million Americans have lupus. The new Fifth Edition offers these patients and their families an abundance of reliable, up-to-date information that will help them manage the disease and live a happier life"--
Subjects: Systemic lupus erythematosus;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 9
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