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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Seife takes "us deep into the Internet information jungle and [cuts] a path through the trickery, fakery, and cyber skullduggery that the online world enables. Taking on everything from breaking news coverage and online dating to program trading and that eccentric and unreliable source that is Wikipedia, Seife arms his readers with actual tools--or weapons--for discerning truth from fiction online"--
Author
Series
Preschool curriculum activities library volume unit 3
Publisher
Center for Applied Research in Education
Pub. Date
c1986.
Language
English
44) The mercy rule
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
After overcoming a difficult childhood in foster care, pediatrician Lucy Weiss, a suburban wife and mother, finds herself back in the world of families living on the edge as she begins working with at-risk young patients and their families.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Cameron Bright's reputation can be summed up in one word: b*tch. It's no surprise she's queen bee at her private L.A. high school--she's beautiful, talented, and notorious for her brutal honesty. But when she slips up in front of her crush, Andrew, any affection he may have had for her quickly fades. To win him over, Cameron resolves to tame herself, much like Shakespeare's infamous shrew, Katherine. If she makes amends with everyone she's ever wronged,...
48) Education inc
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
American public education is in controversy. As public schools across the country struggle for funding, complicated by the impact of poverty and politics, some question the future and effectiveness of public schools in the U.S. For free-market reformers, private investors and large education corporations, this controversy spells opportunity in turning public schools over to private interests. Education, Inc. examines the free-market and for-profit...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A psychiatrist suggests ways in which confronting and resolving problems, a painful process most people try to avoid, can lead to greater self-understanding and spiritual growth. Life is difficult he says, and the journey to spiritual growth is a long one. Here he helps us explore the very loving nature of relationships and leads us toward a new serenity and fullness of life. He helps us learn how to distinguish dependency from love, how to become...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until they'd "proven" themselves sane, all...
Author
Publisher
Solution Tree Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Promote student mastery of essential 21st century skills, including collaboration, critical and creative thinking, digital citizenship, and more. Learn the qualities of the most important soft skills and how we can assess and measure them" -- provided by publisher.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
Swedish
Description
The final installment of Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' trilogy. Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life in more ways than one. In an intensive care unit and charged with three murders, she will have to not only prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce the same corrupt government institutions that nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now, Lisbeth Salander is fighting back.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Brill expands his award-winning Time magazine piece on how the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing -- and failing to change -- rampant abuses in the healthcare industry.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Birth, it's a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part of life. More than anything, birth is a business. Compelled to find answers after a disappointing birth experience with her first child, actress Ricki Lake recruits filmmaker Abby Epstein to explore the maternity care system in America.
Author
Series
Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This book suggests a better way to organize the work of designing information literacy instruction and building it--two distinct skillsets and processes. It sheds light on the people, processes, and resources required to create a sustainable portfolio of online instruction. Demystifying the instructional design and development process used to create online learning objects, this book clarifies how instructional design principles and approaches can...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
This four-part television series examines our broken health care system. The films address critical health care issues facing America including patient safety, medical and medication errors, hospital-acquired infections, family-centered care, and the effective management of chronic disease. The program focuses on the advances in improving the quality of patient care and profiles of individuals who are committed to fixing a health care system that...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the author's trip through American higher education, where standardized tests, class rankings and gamesmanship stand in the way of true intellectual fulfillment, revealing the psychic costs of the American educational system.
Author
Series
Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Modular design can help reduce the scramble to keep pace with requests and deadlines. Approaching projects of all sizes with an eye toward future uses helps accomplish broader organizational goals, and intentionally building documentation and structure into the process helps create content that can easily be scaled, modified, adapted, and transformed to meet different learner needs. This book offers project examples of various sizes to illustrate...
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