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- Iron & silk / by Salzman, Mark.(CARDINAL)185048;
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- Subjects: Autobiographies.; Salzman, Mark; Martial arts;
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- For the Union dead. by Lowell, Robert,1917-1977.(CARDINAL)139420;
Water -- The old flame -- Middle age -- The scream -- The mouth of the Hudson -- Fall 1961 -- Florence -- The lesson -- Those before us -- Eye and tooth -- Alfred Corning Clark -- Child's song -- Epigram -- Law -- The public garden -- Lady Ralegh's lament -- Going to and fro -- Myopia: a night -- Returning -- The drinker -- Hawthorne -- Jonathan Edwards in western Massachusetts -- Tenth muse -- The neo-classical urn -- Caligula -- The severed head -- Beyond the Alps -- July in Washington -- Buenos Aires -- Dropping south: Brazil -- Soft wood -- New York 1962: fragment -- The flaw -- Night sweat -- For the union dead.Selected poems about the problems of modern life, inspired by historical sights or impressions of existence throughout the world. The title poem of For the Union Dead concerns the death of the Civil War hero (and Lowell ancestor) Robert Gould Shaw, but it also largely centers on the contrast between Boston's idealistic past and its debased present at the time of its writing, in the early 1960's. Throughout, Lowell addresses contemporaneous subjects in a voice and style that themselves push beyond the accepted forms and constraints of the time.- Subjects: Poetry.;
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- The West : an illustrated history / by Ward, Geoffrey C.(CARDINAL)173322; Duncan, Dayton.(CARDINAL)186891;
Includes bibliographical references (page 435) and index.Preface / by Stephen Ives and Ken Burns -- The northern mystery : Other wests / by Richard White -- The most avid nation : The mission at Waiilatpu : a meeting place for western women / by Julie Roy Jeffrey -- Seeing the elephant : Myth and myopia : Hispanic peoples and western history / by David G. Gutiíerrez -- A hell of a storm : Believing in the American West / by Patricia Nelson Limerick -- The grandest enterprise under God : Great migrations : the pioneer in the American West / by John Mack Faragher -- Rivers run backward : Wilderness and the West / by T.H. Watkins -- The great die-up / The American West and the burden of belief / by N. Scott Momaday -- The outcome of our earnest endeavors : Monument Valley / by Dayton Duncan.- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Flyover lives : a memoir / by Johnson, Diane,1934-(CARDINAL)645784;
I. In France -- A Weekend with Generals -- II. Flyover Country -- Moline, pop. 34,000 -- My Moline -- Myopia -- Pastimes -- Economies -- Books -- III. Eighteenth-Century Beginnings -- How We All Descend from Greatness -- Ranna -- Anne and God -- Huts -- 1800 -- John Perkins Too Sees God -- Some Stories from the Life of Catharine Perkins -- The Story of Catharine Continued -- The Inappropriate Letter -- Catharine's Romance -- The Affair of the Locket -- Rascals -- The Elusive Eleazer -- Wedding Journey -- Bloomingburg -- Women's Work : Quilts -- Eleazer the Doctor -- Sorrow -- Depression -- Wars -- IV. Modern Days -- Watseka, Chenoa -- Rich in Uncles -- Summer -- In God We Trusted... -- The Dark Shadow -- Flyover -- Mademoiselle -- California -- Writer -- Silver Screen -- Uncle Bill -- Divorce -- London -- Emancipation Proclamation -- Defeat -- Yellow Morgan -- Chagrin -- Epilogue."From the New York Times bestselling author of Le Divorce, a dazzling meditation on the mysteries of the "wispy but material" family ghosts who shape us. Growing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of floating down the Mississippi and off to see the world. Years later, at home in France, a French friend teases her: 'Indifference to history--that's why you Americans seem so naive and don't really know where you're from.' The j'accuse stayed with Johnson. Were Americans indifferent to history? Her own family seemed always to have been in the Midwest. Surely they had got there from somewhere? In digging around, she discovers letters and memoirs written by generations of stalwart pioneer ancestors that testify to more complex times than the derisive nickname 'The Flyover' gives the region credit for. With the acuity and sympathy that her novels are known for, she captures the magnetic pull of home against our lust for escape and self-invention. This spellbinding memoir will appeal to fans of Bill Bryson, Patricia Hampl, and Annie Dillard"--- Subjects: Autobiographies.; Johnson, Diane, 1934-; Pioneers; Home; Novelists, American;
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- Quit : the power of knowing when to walk away / by Duke, Annie,1965-author.(CARDINAL)472597;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-296) and index.Section I. The case for quitting. The opposite of a great virtue is also a great virtue ; Quitting on time usually feels like quitting too early ; Should I stay, or should I go? -- Interlude I. Quitting while the world is watching -- Section II. In the losses. Escalating commitment ; Sunk cost and the fear of waste ; Monkeys and pedestals -- Interlude II. Gold or nothing -- Section III. Identity and other impediments. You own what you've bought and what you've thought: Endowment and the status quo bias ; The hardest thing to quit is who you are: Identity and dissonance ; Find someone who loves you but doesn't care about hurt feelings -- Interlude III. The ants go marching ... mostly -- Section IV. Lessons from forced quitting ; The myopia of goals."From the bestselling author of Thinking in Bets comes a toolkit for mastering the skill of quitting to achieve greater success Business leaders, with millions of dollars down the drain, struggle to abandon a new app or product that just isn't working. Governments, caught in a hopeless conflict, believe that the next tactic will finally be the one that wins the war. And in our own lives, we persist in relationships or careers that no longer serve us. Why? According to Annie Duke, in the face of tough decisions, we're terrible quitters. And that is significantly holding us back. In Quit, Duke teaches you how to get good at quitting. Drawing on stories from elite athletes like Mount Everest climbers, founders of leading companies like Stewart Butterfield, the CEO of Slack, and top entertainers like Dave Chappelle, Duke explains why quitting is integral to success, as well as strategies for determining when to hold em, and when to fold em, that will save you time, energy, and money. You'll learn: How the paradox of quitting influences decision making: If you quit on time, you will feel you quit early What forces work against good quitting behavior, such as escalation commitment, desire for certainty, and status quo bias How to think in expected value in order to make better decisions, as well as other best practices, such as increasing flexibility in goal-setting, establishing "quitting contracts," anticipating optionality, and conducting premortems and backcasts Whether you're facing a make-or-break business decision or life-altering personal choice, mastering the skill of quitting will help you make the best next move"--- Subjects: Self-help publications.; Failure (Psychology); Choice (Psychology); Persistence.; Success.;
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- The best American science & nature writing. by Zimmer, Carl,1966-editor.(CARDINAL)325907; Green, Jaime,editor.(CARDINAL)839326; Svoboda, Elizabeth,contributor.(CARDINAL)404143; Zhang, Sarah,contributor.(CARDINAL)879333; Wolchover, Natalie,contributor.; Fox, Douglas C.(Douglas Claughton),1906-1979,contributor.(CARDINAL)227288; Imbler, Sabrina,contributor.(CARDINAL)861630; Gilman, Sarah,contributor.(CARDINAL)357360; McColough, Josh,contributor.; Gregory, Vanessa,contributor.; Jabr, Ferris,1987-contributor.(CARDINAL)879643; McKenna, Maryn,contributor.(CARDINAL)463851; MacKinnon, J. B.(James Bernard),1970-contributor.(CARDINAL)282429; Aguirre, Jessica Camille,contributor.; Renault, Marion,contributor.; Reveley, Fletcher,contributor.; Benson, Emily,contributor.; Koerth, Maggie,contributor.(CARDINAL)489255; Mauk, Ben,contributor.(CARDINAL)879884; Whitcomb, Isobel,contributor.; Parshley, Lois,contributor.; Lowrey, Annie,contributor.(CARDINAL)417785;
20 science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022.The essays in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing probe at the ordinary and urge us to think more deeply about our place in the world around us. From a hopeful portrait of a future for people with Alzheimer's disease, to a fascinating exploration of the rise of nearsightedness in children, to the heroic story of a herd of cows that evaded a hurricane, these selections reveal how science and nature shape our everyday lives. With tremendous intelligence, clarity, and insight, this anthology offers an expansive look at where we are and where we are headed.- Subjects: Essays.; Literature.; Science; Nature;
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- Biography of a germ / by Karlen, Arno.(CARDINAL)175591;
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- Subjects: Borrelia burgdorferi.; Lyme disease.;
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- The laws of human nature / by Greene, Robert,author.(CARDINAL)652609;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-592) and index.Master your emotional self: The law of irrationality -- Transform self-love into empathy: The law of narcissism -- See through people's masks: The law of role-playing -- Determine the strength of people's character: The law of compulsive behavior -- Become an elusive object of desire: The law of covetousness -- Elevate your perspective: The law of shortsightedness -- Soften people's resistance by confirming their self-opinion: The law of defensiveness -- Change your circumstances by changing your attitude: The law of self-sabotage -- Confront your dark side: The law of repression -- Beware the fragile ego: The law of envy -- Know your limits: The law of grandiosity -- Reconnect to the masculine or feminine within you: The law of gender rigidity -- Advance with a sense of purpose: The law of aimlessness -- Resist the downward pull of the group: The law of conformity -- Make them want to follow you: The law of fickleness -- See the hostility behind the friendly façade: The law of aggression -- Seize the historical moment: The law of generational myopia -- Mediate on our common morality: The law of death denial.Robert Greene's bestselling 48 Laws of Power (1988) distilled ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding, and mastery. Now he turns to understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves. We are social animals. Our very lives depend on our relationships with people. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess. Drawing from the ideas and examples of Pericles, Queen Elizabeth I, Martin Luther King Jr, and many others, Greene teaches us how to detach ourselves from our own emotions and master self-control, how to develop the empathy that leads to insight, how to look behind people's masks, and how to resist conformity to develop your singular sense of purpose.- Subjects: Self-help publications.; Self-actualization (Psychology); Self-control.; Motivation (Psychology); Success.;
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- Antisemitism : here and now / by Lipstadt, Deborah E.,author.(CARDINAL)157988;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-273) index.I. Antisemitism: a conversation. The perplexed ; A delusion ; A definition ; A spelling -- II. A taxonomy of the antisemite. The extremist: from the streets to the internet ; Beyond the extremist ; Antisemitic enablers ; The dinner party antisemite ; The clueless antisemite -- III. Contextualizing antisemitism. A cognitive failure? ; Delegitimizing antisemitism: Jews can't be victims ; Antisemitism and racism: the same yet different ; A time to panic? -- IV. "Yes, but": rationalizing evil. The ominous case of Salman Rushdie ; Pixilating the problem ; Parisian tragedies -- V. Holocaust denial: from hard-core to soft-core. A matter of antisemitism, not history ; Inverting victims and perpetrators ; Branding victims as collaborators ; De-Judaizing the Holocaust -- VI. The campus and beyond. Toxifying Israel ; BDS: antisemitism or politics? ; Campus groupthink: Not-so-safe zones ; Progressivism and Zionism: antisemitism by subterfuge? ; Responding to the progressive "critique" ; Myopia: Seeing antisemitism only on the other side -- VII. Oy versus joy: rejecting victimhood. Missing the forest for the trees: a dental school and a fraternity ; Speaking truth to friends: beyond victimhood ; Celebrating the good in the face of the bad."The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the political right and left, andon what can be done about it. When newsreels depicting the depredations of the Holocaust were shown in movie theaters to a horrified American public immediately after World War II, it was believed that the antisemitism that was part of the fabric of American culture in the 1920s and 1930s was finally going to be laid to rest. In the ensuing decades, Gregory Peck received an Academy Award for playing a journalist who passed as a Jew to blow the lid off genteel Jew hatred, clauses restricting where Jews could live were declared illegal, the KKK was pretty much litigated out of existence, and Joe Lieberman came within five electoral votes of becoming America's first Jewish vice president. And then the unthinkable began to happen. Over the last decade, there has been a noticeable uptick in antisemitic rhetoric and incidents by left-wing groups targeting Jewish students and Jewish organizations on American college campuses. Jews in countries throughout Europe have been attacked by terrorists. And the re-emergence of the white nationalist movement in America, complete with Nazi slogans and imagery, has brought to mind the fascist displays of the 1930s. Where is all this hatred coming from? Is there any significant difference between left-wing and right-wing antisemitism? What role has the anti-Zionist movement played? And what can be done to combat this latest manifestation of an ancient hatred? In a series of letters to an imagined college student and imagined colleague, both of whom are perplexed by this resurgence, Deborah Lipstadt gives us her own superbly reasoned, brilliantly argued, and sure-to-be-controversial responses to these troubling questions"--- Subjects: Antisemitism;
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- How the West was lost : fifty years of economic folly--and the stark choices ahead / by Moyo, Dambisa.(CARDINAL)354149;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-212) and index."In How the West Was Lost, the New York Times bestselling author Dambisa Moyo offers a bold account of the decline of the economic supremacy of the West. She examines how the West's flawed financial decisions and blinkered political and military choices have resulted in an economic and geopolitical seesaw that is now poised to tip in favor of the emerging world. As Western economies hover on the brink of recession, emerging economies post double-digit growth rates. And whereas in the past, emerging economies lived and died by America's economic performance, now they look to other emerging countries to buy their goods and fuel their success. Formerly a consultant for the World Bank and an investment banker specializing in emerging markets at Goldman Sachs, Moyo daringly claims that the West can no longer afford to simply regard the up-and-comers as menacing gate-crashers. How the West Was Lost reveals not only the economic myopia of the West but also the radical solutions that it needs to adopt in order to assert itself as a global economic power once again"--"One of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people of 2009 asks: Can the decline of the West be reversed?"--- Subjects: Economic forecasting; Economic forecasting;
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