While working for literary agent Phyllis Westberg, aspiring writer Joanna Rakoff receives personal advice from reclusive author J.D. Salinger.
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"This resource brings together leading library history scholars and new voices to investigate lesser known avenues and historicize library services-finding nontraditional stories and erasing borders between library service subcategories in the general library historiography"-- Pr...
"Two powerful phenomena are simultaneously unfolding on Earth: the rise of the climate movement and the rise of women and girls. The People's Climate March and the Women's March. School strikes for climate and the #MeToo movement. Rebellions against extinction and declarations th...
"An new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to the Reconstruction curated by the Schomburg Center, that makes the case for focusing on the histories of Black people as agents and architects of their own lives and ultimate liberation, with a foreword by Kevin Young. Th...
Describes the formation of sand from materials such as coral, rock, or crystals and shows how it can be moved through water, wind, ice, and other erosion agents.
A comprehensive, "green" guide to home care explains how to create and maintain a nontoxic, hypoallergenic home using safe products, with practical tips on how to alleviate cleaning agents that contain toxic chemicals and how to clean every part of the home.
"In this groundbreaking book, award-winning investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh shows us a John F. Kennedy we have never seen before, a man insulated from the normal consequences of behavior long before he entered the White House. His father, Joe, set the pattern with an ar...
"The most common and important insects, diseases and other damaging agents of forest trees in the Canadian provinces are described in terms of their symptoms and signs, distribution, hosts, disease (life) cycle, and damage.
"In June, 2015, Lewis Kent was just an ordinary twenty-one-year-old college kid who liked to run. By December, 2015, just six months later, he had appeared in ESPN, Buzzfeed, Ellen, and dozens of other major outlets. Videos of him running went viral, and he received daily calls f...
Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and...