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August 2010
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Warren Bennis talks about his memoir, Still Surprised.
Write the SAT Essay Right! Ten Secrets to Add 100 Points to Your Score Laura Wilson
Write the SAT Essay Right! gives college-bound students the skinny on the ten best-kept secrets to raise SAT scores. Students will learn a variety of effective strategies to help them save time on test day by preparing effective and persuasive essays in advance—even before knowing what the essay question will be. In an easy step-by-step way, students learn proven secrets, and then practice their newfound skills. Sample tests to study and evaluate, key strategies, and lots of score-raising tips make this a must-have resource for conquering the SAT essay.
Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book
The Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book has been an American favorite since 1930, selling 40 million copies through fourteen editions. This new 15th Edition is the best yet, with hundreds of all-new recipes and a fresh, contemporary style.
Silence Not, a Love Story Cynthia L. Cooper
There is less written about the time period in Germany from the 1920s and the early 1930s, when the Nazis were building theIr power base, than is written about the period that followed. Silence Not, a Love Story gives you an opportunity to enter that world just before the Nazis came to power.
The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles Gregory Bassham (Editor)
A philosophical exploration of the entire seven-book Harry Potter series. Packed with interesting ideas and insights, The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy is an ideal companion for anyone interested in unraveling the subtext and exploring the greater issues at work in the story.
A New York Memoir Richard Goodman
"Richard Goodman's rapturous book will make you miss New York City even if you've never been there."--Rebecca Walker, author of Black White and Jewish and Baby Love
A New York Memoir is, essentially, a long love letter to the city. It begins in 1975, with author Richard Goodman’s arrival in New York, an intimidated newcomer. It follows him through the years as he encounters some of the remarkable people one meets in New York, while harkening back to the inspiration the city provides.
Anytime Reading Readiness: Fun and Easy Family Activities That Prepare Your Child to Read Cathy Puett Miller
Anytime Reading Readiness helps families integrate early literacy activities throughout their busy day—at home, in the car, and even during chores. Author and children’s literacy consultant Cathy Puett Miller makes reading readiness flexible and stress-free. Parents can take advantage of the learn-through-play style of their preschooler/kindergartener, match their child’s reading-readiness level with easy and engaging games and activities, and get the most out of reading a book out loud with their child.
Star Island Carl Hiaasen
Carl Hiaasen takes us back to Florida in a wholly Hiaasenian tale of celebrity, vanity, greed, and the zaniest courage imaginable.
Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership
Warren Bennis
An intimate look at the founding father of the modern leadership movement. Warren Bennis is an acclaimed American scholar, successful organizational consultant and author, and an expert in the field of leadership. His much awaited memoir is filled with insights about the successes and failures from his long and storied life and career.
Chilton 2010 Service Manuals
Chilton 2010 Service Manuals now include even better graphics and expanded procedures! Chilton's editors have put together the most current automotive repair information available to assist your patrons. These manuals help users accurately diagnose and repair late-model cars and trucks. Coverage includes 2008 and 2009 models plus available 2010 models.
The Truth about Leadership: The No-fads, Heart-of-the-Matter Facts You Need to Know
James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner
A fresh look at what it means to lead from two of the biggest names in leadership. Drawing from cases spanning three generations of leaders from around the world, this is a book leaders can use to do their real and necessary work-bringing about the essential changes that will renew organizations and communities.
The Chocolate Therapist Julie Pech
The Chocolate Therapist has everything a person needs to know to select the best chocolate for health. Both informative and entertaining, it includes alphabetized ailments, each with a chocolate recommendation, followed by supporting research as to how and why it helps the body.
Sears List of Subject Headings, 20th Edition
This essential resource features:
- Agreement with the Dewey Decimal Classification system to ensures that subject headings conform with library standards
- Easy-to-use thesaurus
- Canceled and replacement headings
New headings reflect areas such as ecology and the environment, acrylic painting, wire craft, & social networking represented by entries like Twitter (website) & Facebook (website).
Headings referring to people and places have also been reorganized to reflect modern political sensibilities.
Library of Congress Subject Headings 32nd Edition 2010-2011
Over 308,000 total headings and references.
New in this edition:
- 17,000 new and 16,000 changed subject headings
- All subject headings through February 2009
- LCSH 31 is now enlarged to 6 volumes. The new volume, Supplementary Vocabularies, includes free-floating subdivisions, genre/form headings, and children's subject headings
- Includes the full subdivision record
An alphabetical list of all subject headings, cross-references and subdivisions in verified status in the LC subject authority file.
Amazing Hands-On Literature Projects for Secondary Students Deirdre Godin
Here’s all you need to make literature response engaging, fun, and thoughtful! Twelve comprehensive project ideas, step-by-step directions, templates, photos, and assessment rubrics give middle and high school teachers a ready-to-go resource for creating Amazing Hands-on Literature Projects for Secondary Students. By applying core standards and different levels of critical thinking to assignments, you’ll create learners who read, analyze, and synthesize while using multiple intelligences and different forms of writing to comprehend and respond to text.
Postcard Killers James Patterson, Liza Marklund
NYPD detective Jack Kanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her boyfriend were murdered in Rome. Since then, young couples in Paris, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and Stockholm have become victims of the same sadistic killers. Every killing is preceded by a postcard to the local newspaper-and Kanon may know where the next victims will be.
From Doon With Death Ruth Rendell
Margaret Parson’s life looked very dull –she had been a "good" woman -- religious, old-fashioned and respectable. But it was not her life that interested Chief Inspector Wexford, it was her death -- passionate, violent and unfathomable.
Earth Capitalism: Creating a New Civilization through a Responsible Market Economy
Patrick U. Petit, Editor, With a foreword by Bill Gates
Today, a deepening global economic crisis impels us to create a responsible capitalism, one that benefits all living beings on this planet. It reminds us to live a simpler life based on true well-being and life-satisfaction. Earth Capitalism’s contributors present leading edge economic concepts, business models, and best practices that show the path toward creation of responsible capitalism—a viable scenario emerging from the current global economic and financial crisis.
Decline & Revival of Higher Education Herbert I. London
This outstanding collection of essays is an analysis of higher education in the past half century, a period of dramatic change and democratization. The work follows the personal evolution of the author, while at the same time, describes the devolution of university standards in such institutions as Columbia, Duke, the University of California at Berkeley, and New York University.
The Jatakas: Lives and Times of a Bodhisattva
Focuses on the origin and development of the Mahayana ideal of a Bodhisattva. As the Jataka stories recount, Gautama travelled a very long journey of inner-struggle, self-discipline, determination, and reflection, to achieve his goal—Nirvana.
Discusses the Theravada ideal of an Arhat, Apotropaic and Esoteric aspects of Buddhism. the Buddhist doctrine of Anatta and the five skandhas. The work concludes with an in-depth study of the Doctrine of Karma and Re-birth from both Hindu and Buddhist perspectives.
Live to Tell Lisa Gardner
In New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner’s most compelling work of suspense to date, the lives of these three women unfold and connect in unexpected ways, as sins from the past emerge—and stunning secrets reveal just how tightly blood ties can bind.
The Cookbook Collector Allegra Goodman
National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has compelled and delighted hundreds of thousands of readers. Now, in her most ambitious work yet, Goodman weaves together the worlds of Silicon Valley and rare book collecting in a delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and fulfillment.
The War to End All Wars Russell Freedman
Russell Freedman gives a succinct and authoritative account of World War I—heroism and slaughter, patriotism and politics, and the international maneuvering that laid the groundwork for World War II. Drawing on eyewitness accounts and archival photographs, many shot on the battlefields and in the trenches, Freedman paints an unforgiving picture of a war that wasn’t destined to be the last.
Betti on the High Wire Lisa Railsback
Heartbreaking and hilarious, Betti on the High Wire is a book about family, the meaning of home—and most of all, about one brave and imaginative (and completely unforgettable) little girl.
Magnificent Folly Iris Johansen
Why was Andrew Ramsey watching her daughter? Lily Deslin she was terrified he'd try to take her beloved child from her. But it was Lily whom Andrew wanted, Lily he longed for -- and the beautiful, lonely Lily he was determined to have.
Encyclopedia of Revolutionary America
The new three-volume Encyclopedia of Revolutionary America is the definitive reference to everything students need to know about this pivotal moment in American history. Written by a preeminent scholar in the field, with a foreword by the esteemed Gary B. Nash, this comprehensive A-to-Z encyclopedia not only includes discussion of the continental U.S., but contains coverage of the Atlantic world and the North American continent as well.
The World Almanac® for Kids 2011
The World Almanac® for Kids is the best-selling reference book for kids, with more than 3.5 million copies sold. Filled with thousands of fun, fascinating facts and essential homework help on a wide range of subjects, this full-color almanac has been completely updated and redesigned, with hundreds of new photographs, dozens of completely new features, and a wealth of puzzles, games, activities, maps, Web sites, and much more.
Sports in America: A Decade-by-Decade History set
Now in full color, this fascinating nine-volume set chronicles the history of American athletics, decade by decade, from 1900 through 2009, with the unique slant of examining sports as social history. Covering historical high points, scandals, records, championships, and the rise of professional athletics, this engaging set captures the excitement of the game while looking at how sports have impacted culture, shaped race relations, influenced world events, and much more.
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2011 Canadian Almanac & Directory
Foolproof Ways to Find a Job: Sharpening Job Hunting Techniques
International Directory of Arts 2011, 35th Edition
The Case for Rational Optimism
Multi-Secularism, A New Agenda
Persuasion Points: 82 Strategic Exercises for Writing High-Scoring Persuasive Essays
Teaching Graphic Novels: Practical Strategies for the Secondary ELA Classroom
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Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center
Known for its unprecedented depth of coverage and variety of user-friendly content formats, the critically acclaimed Ferguson's Career Guidance Center is the indispensable career research database. The authoritative, wide-ranging content covers nearly 3,400 jobs and 94 industries, essential job-hunting and workplace skills, and invaluable career and industry resources. Recently added is a brand-new Career Interest Assessment Tool, which helps guide users to careers that dovetail with their interests and personalities.
Video Reviews for Public, School, Academic, and Special Libraries
Video Librarian is the video review magazine for public, school, academic, and special libraries, as well as video fans who are interested in a wider variety of titles than what's found in the average video store. Written by staff, librarians, teachers, and film critics, Video Librarian offers over 225 critical reviews per issue, alerting readers to upcoming new releases of special-interest, documentary, and video movie titles. In addition, we inform our subscribers of video bargains (and free videos) and track technological trends.
U.S. Government: How It Works (6-part series)
While the complexities of the American political system have never been greater, the right visual aid can help students sift through them—and even develop a passion for the subject. This six-part series is an ideal tool for introducing and exploring key aspects of U.S. government and public policy. Using a combination of eye-catching graphics, dynamic video footage, and interviews with legal and political scholars, each episode celebrates a particular dimension of American democracy while equipping students to candidly discuss political issues. Topics range from the Constitution and the three branches of government to the electoral process and the responsibilities of citizenship. Viewable/printable instructor’s guides are available online. A Films for the Humanities & Sciences Production. (6-part series, 21-26 minutes each.) Closed captioned. © 2010. DVD (also available on VHS and as streaming video).
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