Paul Roberts
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Paul Roberts, the best-selling author of The End of Oil, turns his attention to the modern food economy and finds that the system entrusted to meet our most basic need is failing.
In this carefully researched, vivid narrative, Roberts lays out the stark economic realities behind modern food and shows how our system of making, marketing, and moving what we eat is growing less and less compatible with the billions of consumers that system was built...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Petroleum is so deeply entrenched in our economy, politics, and daily lives that even modest efforts to phase it out, are fought tooth and nail. Companies and governments depend on oil revenues. Developing nations see oil as their only means to industrial success. And, the Western middle class refuses to modify its energy-dependent lifestyle.
But, even by conservative estimates, we will have burned through most of the world's accessible oil within...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Drawing on the fields of economics, psychology, history and political philosophy, Roberts shows how we have become so obsessed with "maximizing returns" that we embrace virtually any means--any technology, personal tactic, or corporate strategy--that can deliver, regardless of consequences. Roberts lays out the history and geography of this new social order and charts a clear pathway toward a different and brighter future.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Elmo, Big Bird, and their Sesame Street friends know that good hygiene is more important than ever now. This rhyming book features fun ways for young girls and boys to stay healthy. From the right way to wash your hands-including the lyrics to the Sesame Street Washy Wash song from the popular video!-to leaving six feet between you and others, kids will learn that 'The best way to take care of others is to take care of YOU!'"--Publisher description....
11) Zorgamazoo
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Imaginative and adventurous Katrina eludes her maniacal guardian to help Morty, a member of a vanishing breed of zorgles, with his quest to uncover the fate of the fabled zorgles of Zorgmazoo as well as of other creatures that seem to have disappeared from the earth.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Sakura's dad gets a new job in America, so she and her parents make the move from their home in Japan. When she arrives in the States, most of all she misses her grandmother and the cherry blossom trees, under which she and her grandmother used to play and picnic. She wonders how she'll ever feel at home in this new place, with its unfamiliar language and landscape. One day, she meets her neighbor, a boy named Luke, and begins to feel a little more...
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Description
Chronicles the enduring impact of John F. Kennedy's life on every subsequent US president since his tragic death in 1963. Explores the legacy of Kennedy's politics, life and administration over fifty years. Features archival photos of Kennedy's assassination and funeral, historic moments and interviews with major political and media figures, including Bob Schieffer, Ron Reagan Jr., Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Ari Fleischer, James Carville, Julian Bond,...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[1969]
Description
"The Ideal of the University is a lucid, comprehensive analysis of the rationale, principles, and presuppositions that make contemporary universities what they are.The book begins with four sharp, carefully delineated models of a university. After analyzing such controversial issues as the role of grading in the university and the "myth" of value neutrality. Wolff turns to the crucial question of how the university should be governed. He argues for...
15) You matter to me
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Biscuit the dog is adopted from the shelter and loves his new home and his new human family. The dad, especially, takes good care of Biscuit and is the person who walks him the most. But Biscuit soon realizes that not everyone shares his feelings about his human. His human is Black, and some people in the neighborhood are scared by that. Some people hold their purses closer, or tighten their grip on their children's hands. With honest, age-appropriate...
18) Simon B. Rhymin'
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Series
Formats
Description
Chicago fifth-grader Simon, an aspiring rapper who lacks self-confidence, uses his rhymes to help bring his community together.
Author
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
"In Art Matters, Robert Paul Lamb provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Lamb locates Hemingway's art in literary historical contexts and explains what he learned from earlier artists. including Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Cezanne, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound. Examining how Hemingway developed this inheritance, Lamb insightfully charts the...
