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Tough choices loom if the world wants to go green. The United States and other countries must decide where and how to procure the materials that make our renewable energy economy possible. To build electric vehicles, solar panels, cell phones, and millions of other devices means the world must dig more mines to extract lithium, copper, cobalt, rare earths, and nickel. But mines are deeply unpopular, even as they have a role to play in fighting climate...
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"A gripping true-life thriller about the first US submarine to sink a Japanese aircraft carrier-and the sub's tragic twist of fate"--
In 1939 off the New England coast, the submarine USS Squalus accidentally sinks to the bottom of the sea during a training exercise, killing half her crew. Coming to the rescue is the USS Sculpin, in many ways the Squalus's twin. As their oxygen supply dwindles, the remaining crew aboard the Squalus are saved in a...
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"The Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialized, and much portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked. Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone-Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London-reveals how the idea of "industrial murder" is incomplete: many were killed where they lived in the most brutal of ways. He...
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reflects on her 42-year marriage with Dick Goodwin, one the shining stars of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and the journey of going through the letters, diaries, documents and memorabilia he saved over the years.
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Blackstone Publishing
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"What we eat matters--to us, and to the planet. Cool food is a game-changing new food category and way of thinking that can help fix the climate. This ... book will show you how to make simple choices, starting today--in the supermarket, in your kitchen, and in the world--to reduce your environmental impact. Hundreds of cool foods exist, but until now have gone largely uncelebrated for their climate-positive powers. Some of these foods may already...
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"Every organization is plagued by destructive friction-the forces that make it harder, more complicated, or downright impossible to get anything done. Yet some forms of friction are incredibly useful, and leaders who attempt to improve workplace efficiency often make things even worse. Drawing from seven years of hands-on research, The Friction Project by bestselling authors Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao teaches readers how to become "friction fixers,"...
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[2024]
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An impeccably researched, character-driven narrative history recounting the fascinating late-Reconstruction Era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union hero dispatched to the South ten years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black men, who were under siege by violent paramilitary groups like the White League intent on erasing their postwar gains.
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Blackstone Publishing
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If it weren't for her mother Emma, Caryn Johnson would have never become Whoopi Goldberg. When Whoopi lost her mother in 2010--and then her older brother, Clyde, five years later--she felt deeply alone. In this memoir, Whoopi shares many deeply personal stories of their lives together for the first time.
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Teaching Co
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[2010]
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18 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guidebook (vi, 155 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
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Professor Muesse examines the four religious giants both separately and comparatively in an effort to grasp the essential features of their lives and to explore the factors that contributed to their greatness. He discusses the similarities and differences in their messages, in the patterns of their lives, and in the ways they impacted their followers and the rest of the world.
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Ascent Audio
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[2024]
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Unabridged.
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6 audio discs (6 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This book will inspire you to develop your emotional intelligence; influence your colleagues through the science of persuasion; assess your team and enhance its performance; network effectively to achieve business goals and for personal advancement; navigate relationships with employees, bosses, and peers; get support from above; view the big picture in your decision making; and balance your team's work and personal life in a high-intensity workplace....
12) The positivity effect: simple CBT skills to transform anxiety and negativity into optimism and hope
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[2023]
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"Not being anxious is not the same as thriving! Based in cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and positive psychology, psychologist Dan Tomasulo-author of the self-help hit Learned Hopefulness-offers readers powerful skills to shift negative thinking and harness the power of positivity to find instant calm and sustainable peace of mind"--
"Harness the power of positivity to overcome anxiety-and thrive!If you suffer from anxiety, you may feel stuck in...
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HarperCollins
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[2024]
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Unabridged.
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9 audio discs (11 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer disc (PDF ; 4 3/4 in.)
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English
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When we're accustomed to a low energy brain state and lulled by the comfort zone it creates, it's difficult to rouse ourselves to act with intention and create the lives we truly want to lead. Harvard biotech innovator Jeff Karp helps listeners look to nature as a vital source of humankind's best wisdom with radically simple experimental tools to help anyone tap into a high-energy brain state.
14) How to fight
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Mindfulness essentials volume 6
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Unabridged.
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2 audio discs (1 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Turn disagreements and conflicts into opportunities for growth, compassion, and reconciliation. In brief meditations, Nhat Hanh instructs us exactly how to transform our craving and confusion. If we learn to take good care of our suffering, we can help others do the same, and reach reconciliation between family members, coworkers, and even nations.
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Simon & Schuster Audio
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[2023]
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Unabridged.
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7 audio discs (6 hr., 58 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In short chapters, Pence walks us through the principles that he and his wife, Karen, developed to raise their family. He gives credit to his parents for setting the precedent of gathering around the dinner table and for being attentive listeners. He discusses how he and Karen prioritized their relationship, even when they struggled professionally through two failed congressional races and personally with infertility. He reveals how he learned to...
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HarperAudio
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[2024]
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Unabridged.
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9 audio discs (10 3/4 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Joy-Ann Reid traces the extraordinary lives and legacy of civil rights icons Medgar and Myrlie Evers, situating Medgar Evers's assassination as a catalyzing moment in American history.
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Playaway Products, LLC
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[2023]
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1 audio media player (06:57:46) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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As a spy prepared to give away America's biggest secrets after the 9/11 attacks, an FBI agent raced to catch her. U.S. government officials knew they had a spy. But it never occurred to them it was a woman--and certainly not a superstar Defense Intelligence Agency employee known as "the Queen of Cuba." Ana Montes had spent seventeen years spying for the Cubans. She had been raised in a patriotic Puerto Rican household: Her father, a psychiatrist,...
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Playaway Products, LLC
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[2024]
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1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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Español
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El sueno de un nino puede cambiar el mundo entero. Esta es una inspiradora historia, basada en la vida real del autor, sobre el poder de la imaginacion y la fuerza de la determinacion. Cuando una terrible sequia asolo la pequena aldea donde vivia William Kamkwamba, su familia perdio todas las cosechas y se quedo sin nada que comer y nada que vender. William comenzo entonces a investigar en los libros de ciencia que habia en la biblioteca en busca...
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Playaway Products, LLC
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[2023]
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1 Wonderbook (80 pages) : illustrations, digital ; 29 cm
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English
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Throughout history humans have been challenging themselves against each other. Who could be the fastest? The strongest? The cleverest? While this was going on some other people decided to create epic contests that were ... well, a little bit more unusual. Welcome to The Mind-Blowing World of Extraordinary Competitions, introduced by podcaster and expert fact-finder Anna Goldfield! Inside this nonfiction book prepare to get your mind blown by: The...
20) Aloha-ha-ha!
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Junie B. Jones volume 26
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Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 Wonderbook (119pages) : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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Meet the World's Funniest First Grader--Junie B. Jones! Junie B. and her family are going on a vacation to Hawaii! And ha! Mr. Scary is giving Junie a real, actual camera to keep a photo journal of her trip! But taking good vacation pictures is not always easy. 'Cause what if there is an unfortunate inner tube incident at the swimming pool? (And, oh my! Let's not even mention what happens if a tropical bird gets tangled in your hair!) Will Junie B.'s...
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