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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Wildfires have been part of the American landscape for thousands of years. Forests need fire--it's as necessary to their well-being as soil and sunlight. But some fires burn out of control, destroying everything and everyone in their path. In this book, you'll find out about how and why wildfires happen, how different groups . . . have managed forests and fire, the biggest wildfires in American history--how they began and . . . stories of both rescue...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
We don't need Big Pharma to keep us feeling young: we already have the tools. Greger breaks down the science of aging and chronic illness, and explains how to help avoid the diseases most commonly encountered in our journeys through life. Physicians have long treated aging as a malady, but getting older does not have to mean getting sicker: there are eleven pathways for aging in our bodies' cells and we can disrupt each of them. Greger presents simple,...
4) Skinny liver: a proven program to prevent and reverse the new silent epidemic--fatty liver disease
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Life Long
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the silent health crisis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, whose symptoms often don't manifest themselves until the liver is seriously compromised, and how to prevent or reverse it through a combination of healthy eating and exercise.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Narcissism is one of the most difficult disorders to treat in adults, but many of the symptoms and tendencies begin in childhood when it's easier to address and curtail such behaviors. Mary Ann Little helps parents recognize the symptoms and develop parenting practices that can reverse those behaviors before they become entrenched.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In recent years, workplace toxicity, industry volatility, and technology-driven turnover have threatened the psychological well-being of employees. When we can't flourish at work, both personal success and corporate productivity suffer. As we sit on the cusp of some of the most turbulent economic changes in history, many of us wonder how we can not only survive but flourish in our careers. Now, Tomorrowmind provides essential plans and actionable...
Author
Series
Frenchman volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Alec de Payns, espionage operative of the Y Division of the DGSE, France’s famed foreign intelligence service, is tasked with tracking down an agent of influence sending highly classified material against the Kremlin to embassies all over Europe. The clues lead to a secret meeting of businessmen, terrorists, and mercenaries on a luxury yacht in the Mediterranean, which de Payns must infiltrate. What he discovers sets off a Europe-wide manhunt in...
Author
Publisher
AutumnBloom Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Nick, a kindhearted nineteen-year-old, walked from his college campus to a tall bridge and jumped into the Mississippi. The lost body, the subsequent jumpers...suddenly the unthinkable became unfathomable. Linda Pacha takes you on a powerful journey through her son's heartbreaking life story--including ongoing bullying, not fitting in, and ultimately suffering from mental health issues--as well as her family's grief process, offering guidance to save...
Author
Series
Frenchman volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Alec de Payns is an undercover operative in the ultra-elusive French Y Division of the DGSE, a foreign intelligence service equivalent to the CIA or MI6. Code named Aguilar, de Payns is one of the division's most accomplished agents working to neutralize international threats on a daily basis while simultaneously trying to balance his home life as a husband and father. When a routine mission to infiltrate a dangerous terrorist group unexpectedly goes...
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
Un conmovedor libro biográfico sobre el chef José Andrés, quien, junto con su organización World Central Kitchen, seguramente inspirará a los niños a ayudar en sus propias comunidades. El amor de José Andrés por la cocina comenzó cuando era un niño en España, mientras recogía la leña para hacer el fuego que cocinaría la paella perfecta. A José le encantaba cada aspecto: el chisporroteo del aceite de oliva, los montones de vegetales...
11) Dead man's hand
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
To finally end the war between their nations, a rogue Ukrainian band of partisans known as the Wolves teams up with members of Russia's military intelligence to assassinate Vladimir Putin. But Putin is aware of the traitors in his midst and assigns the loyal commander of the Russian national guard to root them out. It's a mission Victor Petrov is expected to undertake after he prevents Sweden from joining NATO, by assassinating a deputy minister of...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Oluo aims to show how people across America are working to create real positive change in our structures. Looking at many of our most powerful systems -- like education, media, labor, health, housing, policing, and more -- she highlights what people are doing to create change for intersectional racial equity. She also illustrates various ways in which the reader can find entryways into change in these same areas, or can bring some of this important...
13) Anonymity
Author
Series
Publisher
ALA Neal-Schuman
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This book explores the roles and ramifications of anonymity. In the virtual realm, anonymity means that such bedrock values of librarianship as privacy, free speech, and intellectual freedom coexist uneasily with the proliferation of fake news, sexist and racist sentiments, and repugnant ideologies. The book covers apps and forums that promote anonymity as a central feature, and how anonymous content has become valuable fodder for news organizations...
14) Self-defense
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Providing a self-defense system that actually works in the real world, this action-packed guide to avoiding attacks, neutralizing attackers and protecting yourself and your loved ones helps you to sharpen your instincts and respond proactively to impending danger, master hand-to-hand combat basics and more.
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Drawing on cutting-edge research and decades of clinical experience, a leading expert on the emerging science of microbiome-brain communication offers a comprehensive look at the link between the gut microbiome and the development of our most common chronic diseases as well as our susceptibility to infectious diseases like COVID-19.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Growing older is a blessing. But the slow decline and the loss of functionality associated with aging has led us to treat the process like a disease. These negative effects of aging, however, are not inevitable. Rather, they're largely the result of environmental and lifestyle factors that, when properly addressed, can be reversed through a process called Autojuvenation. Packed with accessible, innovative tips and techniques, this must-read guide...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first and only book to ever be written by a member of America's most secret military unit--an explosive and unlikely story of immigration, service, and sacrifice. Inside our military is a team of operators whose work is so secretive that the name of the unit itself is classified. Highly-trained in warfare, self-defense, infiltration, and deep surveillance, "the Unit," as the Department of Defense has asked us to refer to it, has been responsible...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
On a rainy October night in Kentucky, recently divorced therapist Tallie Clark is on her way home when she spots a man precariously standing on the edge of a bridge. Without a second thought, Tallie pulls over and jumps out of the car into the pouring rain. She convinces the man to join her for a cup of coffee, and he eventually agrees to come back to her house, where he finally, reluctantly, shares his first name: Emmett. Over the course of the emotionally-charged...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In the final season of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Jack is promoted to the new CIA Acting Deputy Director and finds himself on his most dangerous mission yet! He is appointed with the daunting task of unearthing internal corruption. As he investigates, Jack discovers the convergence of a drug cartel with a terrorist organization, ultimately revealing a conspiracy much closer to home and testing our hero's belief in the system he has always fought to protect....
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