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All the ways we kill and die : an elegy for a fallen comrade and the hunt for his killer / by Castner, Brian,author.(CARDINAL)399418;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-340)."When Brian Castner, an Iraq War vet, learns that his friend and EOD brother Matt has been killed by an IED in Afghanistan, he goes to console Matt's widow, but he also begins a personal investigation. Is the bomb maker who killed Matt the same man American forces have been hunting since Iraq, known as the Engineer? In this nonfiction thriller Castner takes us inside the manhunt for this elusive figure, meeting maimed survivors, interviewing the forensics teams who gather post-blast evidence, the wonks who collect intelligence, the drone pilots and contractors tasked to kill"--Dust jacket flap.

Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Schwartz, Matthew, 1977-2012.; Castner, Brian.; United States. Air Force; Afghan War, 2001-2021; Improvised explosive devices; Ordnance disposal units; Afghan War, 2001-2021;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5

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Callings [large print] : the purpose and passion of work / by Isay, David,author.(CARDINAL)390505; Millett, Maya,author.(CARDINAL)625868;

StoryCorps founder Dave Isay presents unforgettable stories from people doing what they love. Some found their paths at a very young age, others later in life; some overcame great odds or upturned their lives to pursue what matters to them. Together they demonstrate how work can be about much more than just making a living, that chasing dreams and finding inspiration in unexpected places can transform a vocation into a calling. Callings is a tribute to rewarding work and the American pursuit of happiness.

Subjects: Large print books.; Oral histories.; Case studies.; Anecdotes.; Biographies.; Interviews.; Working class; Vocation; Work; Interviews;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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The electrocution of Baby Lawrence : a murder that shook a New England town / by Overmyer, James E.,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."Was it a 'mercy killing?' Was it an accident? Was it murder? Read the full account of the death of baby Lawrence Noxon and subsequent arrest, trial, and conviction that divided a 1940s small town. With no witnesses and destroyed evidence, questions still surround the mysterious death of baby Lawrence Noxon. This the account of the 1940s murder case, arrest, trial, and conviction of John Noxon as well as a story of changing city and state. It's not every day that a prominent citizen, a highly successful lawyer, no less, is arrested for murder. The case itself drew in newspaper readers from coast to coast, and Lawrence's death was often characterized as a 'mercy killing,' at a time when euthanasia societies were publicly advocating for the selection out of mental defectives from American society. Noxon consistently maintained the electrocution was accidental, although admittedly due to his own negligence but the prosecution was pushing for the death penalty. Based on scientific, or forensic evidence, they recreated some of the lost evidence and called upon university medical faculty, chemists, and electrical engineers to show the death could not have been an accident. The defense, of course, had its own cadre of witnesses from those disciplines to testify just the opposite. Despite the complicated technicalities of the evidence, the jury deliberated only about five hours before finding Noxon guilty of first-degree murder, which, at the time carried an automatic death penalty." --

Subjects: Noxon, John F., Jr. (John Franklin), 1896-1972.; Massachusetts State House (Boston, Mass.); Trials (Murder); Noxon, Lawrence Swift.; Sentences (Criminal procedure); Parole;

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How'd you score that gig? : a guide to the coolest jobs--and how to get them / by Levit, Alexandra,1976-(CARDINAL)468818;

Includes bibliographical references (page 329338).

Subjects: Job hunting.; Occupations.; Vocational guidance.;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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How the world eats : a global food philosophy / by Baggini, Julian,author.(CARDINAL)665544;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Part 1. Land. The hunter-gatherers ; The outliers ; Humanity's greatest mistake? ; The intensive turn -- Part 2. People. From food to commodity ; Hard labour ; The big business of food ; Who governs? ; Culture and identity -- Part 3. Other animals. From extensive grazing to exploding chickens ; Out of the blue ; Animals at the crossroads ; Unnatural born killers -- Part 4. Technology. Editing nature ; The waste lands ; Dietary engineering ; The good, the bad, and the processed ; Conclusion: A global food philosophy."How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing and eating food around the world, such as the hunter-gatherer Hadza in Tanzania whose sustainable lifestyle is under threat in a crowded planet, or Western societies whose food is farmed or bred in vast intensive enterprises. And most of us now rely on a complex global food web of production, distribution, consumption and disposal, which is now contending with unprecedented challenges. The need for a better understanding of how we feed ourselves has never been more urgent. In this wide-ranging and definitive book, philosopher Julian Baggini expertly delves into the best and worst food practises in a huge array of different societies, past and present. His exploration takes him from cutting-edge technologies, such as new farming methods, cultured meat, GM and astronaut food, to the ethics and health of ultra processed food and aquaculture, as he takes a forensic look at the effectiveness of our food governance, the difficulties of food wastage and the effects of commodification. Extracting essential principles to guide how we eat in the future, How the World Eats advocates for a pluralistic, humane, resourceful and equitable global food philosophy, so we can build a food system fit for the twenty-first century and beyond." --

Subjects: Food supply; Food; Food industry and trade.; Food habits.; Food supply.;

Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 11

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Callings : the purpose and passion of work / by Isay, David,author.(CARDINAL)390505; Millett, Maya,author.(CARDINAL)625868;

A collection of StoryCorps interviews that demonstrates "how work can be about much more than just making a living, that chasing dreams and finding inspiration in unexpected places can transform a vocation into a calling. [The participants'] shared sense of passion, honor, and commitment brings deeper meaning and satisfaction to every aspect of their lives"--Dust jacket flap.HL790L

Subjects: Oral histories.; Biographies.; Anecdotes.; Case studies.; StoryCorps (Project); Vocation; Interviews;

Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 11

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Careers for your characters : a writer's guide to 101 professions from architect to zookeeper / by Obstfeld, Raymond,1952-(CARDINAL)770908; Neumann, Franz,1971-;

Advertising -- Director -- Creative Director -- Art Director -- Copywriter -- Graphic Designer -- Web Designer -- Production Artist -- Programmer -- Production Manager -- Traffic Coordinator -- Media Director -- Media Buyer -- Research Executive -- Independent Contractor -- Account Executive -- Client -- Architecture -- Architect -- Intern Architect -- Architectural Drafter -- Building Contractor -- Interior Designer -- Landscape Architect -- Civil Engineer -- Urban Planner -- Clergy -- Roman Catholic Priest -- Roman Catholic Nun -- Protestant Minister -- Jewish Rabbi -- Jewish Cantor -- Correctional Chaplain -- Military Chaplain -- Instant Minister -- Courtroom Professionals: Lawyers -- Criminal Attorney -- Public Defender -- Civil Attorney -- District Attorney -- Judge -- Bailiff -- Denistry -- Dentist -- Dental Hygienist -- Dental Assistant -- Orthodontist -- Forensic Dentist -- Odontologist -- Education -- K-12 Teacher -- Teacher's Aide -- Principal -- College Professor -- College Teaching Assistant -- Firefighting -- Arson Investigator (aka Fire Investigator) -- Smoke Jumper -- Fire Dispatcher -- Fire Chief -- Journalism -- Editor -- Reporter -- Publisher -- Photo Editor -- Copyeditor -- Law Enforcement -- Police Officer -- Prison Warden -- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Agent -- Secret Service Agent -- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Agent -- Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) Agent -- Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Agent -- Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) Agent -- Life Sciences -- Zoologist -- Biologist -- Microbiologist -- Animal Behaviorist -- Animal Caretaker -- Biochemist -- Botanist -- Medical Sciences -- Emergency Room Doctor -- Obstetrician Gynecologist (OB-GYN) -- Pediatrician -- Surgeon -- Plastic Surgeon -- Physician Assistant -- Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) -- Registered Nurse (RN) -- Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) -- Modeling -- Agent -- Talent Scout -- Model -- Artist's Model -- Stylist -- Fashion Photographer -- Moviemaking -- Producer -- Director -- Scriptwriter -- Actor -- Talent Agent -- Literary Agent -- Reader -- Casting Director -- Art Director -- Cinematographer/Camera work -- Editor -- Political Sciences -- President -- Member of the House of Representatives -- Senator -- Congressional Aide or Staffer -- Lobbyist -- Political Scientist -- Political Cartoonist -- Sex Industry -- Prostitute -- Exotic Dancer -- Stripper -- Phone Sex Operator -- Web Camera Model -- Porn Star.Creating realistic, well-developed characters that readers can believe in is one of the biggest challenges authors face. Selecting a character's profession is an important part of this process. The profession implies a lot about the character and spares the reader a lot of pace-hindering narrative. A character's profession may be the catalyst for the story's plot. It allows the writer to texture the story with interesting insider details of the character's daily life. Also, a story's theme is often directly related to the protagonist's profession. This book makes it easier than ever by providing detailed descriptions for the 99 most written-about professions--everything from ad executives to waiters. Each entry consists of a written description and a breakdown of the fine details, including education, salary, jargon, hazards, rewards and a typical daily schedule. Packed with informative sidebars and call-outs, this reader-friendly, interactive reference enables writers of any skill level to create characters whose professional lives resonate with realistic details and insider insights.--Adapted from book cover and introduction.

Subjects: Characters and characteristics in literature.; Occupations in literature.;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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Latinitas : celebrating 40 big dreamers / by Menéndez, Juliet,author,illustrator.(CARDINAL)840097;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 84-101).Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (writer, scientist, and philosopher) México 1651-1695 -- Juana Azurduy de Padilla (military leader) Perú and Bolivia 1780-1862 -- Policarpa Salavarrieta (spy) Colombia 1795-1817 -- Rosa Peña de González (teacher and founder of schools) Paraguay 1843-1899 -- Teresa Carreño (pianist, composer, and conductor) Venezuela 1853-1917 -- Zelia Nuttall (archaeologist) México and United States 1857-1933 -- Antonia Navarro (topographical engineer) El Salvador 1870-1891 -- Matilde Hidalgo (doctor and councilwoman) Ecuador 1889-1974 -- Gabriela Mistral (writer, educator, and diplomat) Chile 1889-1957 -- Juana de Ibarbourou (poet, writer, and teacher) Uruguay 1895-1979 -- Pura Belpré (librarian, puppeteer, and writer) Puerto Rico 1903-1982 -- Gumercinda Páez (teacher, playwright, and congresswoman) Panama 1904-1991 -- Frida Kahlo (artist) México 1907-1954 -- Julia de Burgos (poet) Puerto Rico 1914-1953 -- Chavela Vargas (singer) Costa Rica and México 1919-2012 -- Alicia Alonso (ballerina) Cuba 1920-2019 -- Victoria Santa Cruz (dancer, choreographer, and poet) Perú 1922-2012 -- Claribel Alegría (writer and activist) Nicaragua and El Salvador 1924-2018 -- Celia Cruz (singer) Cuba 1925-2003 -- Dolores Huerta (activist) México 1930-present -- Rita Moreno (dancer, actress, and singer) Puerto Rico 1931-present -- Maria Auxiliadora da Silva (artist) Brazil 1935-1974 -- Mercedes Sosa (singer and activist) Argentina 1935-2009 -- Isabel Allende (writer) Chile 1942-present -- Susana Torre (architect) Argentina 1944-present -- Julia Alvarez (writer) Dominican Republic 1950-present -- Sandra Cisneros (writer) México and United States 1954-present -- Sonia Sotomayor (US Supreme Court justice) Puerto Rico 1954-present -- Rigoberta Menchú Tum (peace activist) Guatemala 1959-present -- Mercedes Doretti (forensic scientist and activist) Argentina 1959-present -- Sonia Pierre (activist) Haiti and Dominican Republic 1963-2011 -- Justa Canaviri (chef, television host, and activist) Bolivia 1963-present -- Evelyn Miralles (virtual reality engineer) Venezuela 1966-present -- Selena Quintanilla (singer) México and United States 1971-1995 -- Berta Cáceres (activist) Honduras 1971-2016 -- Serena Auñón (surgeon and astronaut) Cuba and United States 1976-present -- Wanda Díaz Merced (inventor and astrophysicist) Puerto Rico 1982-present -- Marta Vieira da Silva (soccer star) Brazil and Sweden 1986-present -- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (congresswoman and activist) Puerto Rico 1989-present -- Simone Biles (Olympic gymnast) United States and Belize 1997-present -- More Latinitas -- Leona Vicario (leader in Mexican independence) México 1789-1842 -- Petronila Angélica Gómez (educator, feminist, and writer) Dominican Republic 1883-1971 -- Hermelinda Urvina (first woman pilot in South America) Ecuador 1905-2008 -- Eva Perón (political leader) Argentina 1919-1952 -- Mirabal sisters (activists) Dominican Republic 1924-1960 -- Sylvia Mendez (first Latino to integrate in schools) México and United States 1936-present -- Gloria E. Anzaldúa (writer, philosopher, and activist) México and United States 1942-2004 -- Sara Gómez (filmmaker) Cuba 1943-1974 -- Verónica Michelle Bachelet (first woman president in Latin America) Chile 1951-present -- Gloria Estefan (musician and producer) Cuba 1957-present -- Ellen Ochoa (astronaut) México and United States 1958-present."Discover how 40 influential Latinas became the women we celebrate today. They followed their dreams--and just might encourage you to follow yours!" -- Back cover.Ages: 8-12Grades: 4-61000LAccelerated Reader ARA Junior Library Guild selection.

Subjects: Biographies.; Instructional and educational works.; Women; Hispanic American women; Women; Women.; Womyn.;

Available copies: 26 / Total copies: 28

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Tor and the dark art of anonymity / by Henderson, Lance.;

"The NSA hates Tor. So does the FBI. Even Google wants it gone, as do Facebook and Yahoo and every other soul-draining, identity-tracking vampiric media cartel that scans your emails and spies on your private browsing sessions to better target you. But there's hope. This manual will give you the incognito tools that will make you a master of anonymity! Other books tell you to install Tor and then encrypt your hard drive... and leave it at that. I go much deeper, delving into the very engine of ultimate network security, taking it to an art form where you'll receive a new darknet persona - how to be anonymous online without looking like you're trying to be anonymous online. Covered in Tor: - Browse the Internet Anonymously - Darkcoins, Darknet Marketplaces & Opsec Requirements - Tor Hidden Servers - How to Not Get Caught - Counter-Forensics the FBI Doesn't Want You to Know About - Windows vs. Linux - Which Offers Stronger Network Security? - Cryptocurrency (Real Bitcoin Anonymity) - Supercookies & Encryption - Preventing Marketers and Debt Collectors From Finding You - How to Protect Your Assets - i.e., How to Be Invisible and even Hide from the Internet itself! - How to Hide Anything Scroll back up and click "Look Inside" and Take Back Your Life Today"--From the Publisher.

Subjects: Computer security.; Data encryption (Computer science);

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Ghosts of Hiroshima / by Pellegrino, Charles R.,author.(CARDINAL)526304;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-298) and index.Prologue: By accidental connections, or by spooky action at a distance? -- Chapter 1: sunrise -- Chapter 2: Butterfly, butterfly -- Chapter 3: profiles of the future -- Chapter 4: neutron star -- Chapter 5: surfing the improbability curve -- Chapter 6: all this has happened before; all this may happen again -- Chapter 7: the fallen sky -- Chapter 8: is it dusk already? -- Epilogue: island in the stream of stars -- The shadow people project -- Appendix: key eyewitnesses (alphabetic guide).For all humanity, it was, literally and figuratively, childhood's end. No one recognized the flashes of bright light that filled the sky. Survivors described colors so new that they couldn't be named. The blast wave that followed seemed to strike with no sound at all. In that silence came the dawn of atomic death for two hundred thousand souls in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On August 6, 1945, twenty-nine-year-old naval engineer Tsutomu Yamaguchi was on the last day of a business trip and looking forward to returning home to his wife and their infant son when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. He survived the atomic blast and got on a train to Nagasaki, only to be bombed and live through the nuclear devastation of that city. Jacob Beser, a Manhattan Project engineer, looked down from Hiroshima's atomic strike plane and saw the entire ground boiling. Years afterward, he'd refer to what he'd witnessed as "the most bizarre and spectacular two events in the history of man's inhumanity to man." From that first millionth of a second, people began to die in previously unimaginable ways. Near Hiroshima's hypocenter, teeth were scattered on the ground, speckles of incandescent blood were converted to carbon steel, a child's marbles melted to blobs of molten glass. A mile away, nature's mysterious shock-cocoon effect spared two young siblings while the world around them was stamped flat. Ship designer Tsutomu Yamaguchi was similarly cocooned. All three fled Hiroshima and arrived in Nagasaki, just in time to face the second atomic bombing. Another child of Hiroshima, Tomiko Morimoto, had run off to her work detail after yelling at her mother and slamming the door. She would never see her house or her mother again. In regret for the rest of her life, she would tell everyone willing to listen never to leave home with mean words, never to leave without expressing at least some small sign of love. From the bombs were born radioactive substances that mimicked, among other things, calcium in growing bones and which, ten years after, filled entire hospitals with a shocking lesson: Nuclear weapons, more than anything else invented by human minds, were child-killers. Based on years of forensic archaeological research combined with interviews of more than two hundred survivors and their families, Ghosts of Hiroshima is a you-are-there account of ordinary human beings thrust into extraordinary events, during which our modern civilization entered its most challenging phase -- a nuclear adolescence that, unless we are very wise and learn from our past, we may not survive.

Subjects: Personal narratives.; Atomic bomb victims; Atomic bomb; World War, 1939-1945; Forensic archaeology;

Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 32

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