Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Inspired by her popular Wild Thing podcast, journalist Laura Krantz incorporates the scientific method and her journalistic skills to determine if Bigfoot is real. When journalist Laura Krantz discovered that her long-lost cousin, Grover Krantz, a distinguished anthropologist and professor at Washington State University, had devoted much of his career to the search for Bigfoot, she couldn't quite believe it. A natural skeptic and a strong believer...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The United States government is strong. But no single person has all that power. What do you know about checks and balances? Discover the roles of the three branches of government, how their power is divided, and the systems that stop any one part of government from getting too strong. It's key social studies curriculum made approachable for all!"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
" A moving collection of essays on aging and happiness Drawing on more than six decades' worth of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, Willard Spiegelman reflects with candid humor and sophistication on growing old. Senior Moments is a series of discrete essays that, when taken together, constitute the life of a man who, despite Western cultural notions of aging as something to be denied, overcome, and resisted, has continued...
Author
Language
English
Description
Intimate, explosive, revelatory American women talk about having been unfaithful to their primary sexual partners. Why did they cheat? How and where did they manage to meet with their lovers? Were the affairs more sexually satisfying than the women's primary relationships? More emotionally satisfying? Did they feel guilt? Did they keep their affairs secret or admit them to partners or friends? And, whether confessed or not, how did infidelity affect...
Author
Language
Français
Description
La colonisation a laissé des traces indélébiles sur l'histoire de notre humanité. Des caravelles de Christophe Colomb à la vague d'indépendance des années 1960, la conquête de ces nouveaux territoires a redessiné les frontières du monde connu. Elle a aussi bouleversé les sociétés d'ici et d'ailleurs : exploitation des ressources, accroissement des richesses, hiérarchisation de l'espèce humaine, marchandisation des corps, résistances...
Author
Language
English
Description
Despite unprecedented technological developments and material bounty, our nation and the rest of the world face ever-growing moral quandaries. We are still beset with continuous warfare and religious strife along with a litany of other past transgressions. These are all exaggerated by our population growth along with the growing complexity of life. In addition, our technological progress has created even more severe morality quandaries than our ancestors...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Las reflexiones de este libro nacen de la preocupación sobre las dificultades y limitaciones en la producción y en las posibilidades e intenciones de desarrollo que se presentan en Colombia en el campo de la animación durante los últimos años, evidenciadas y experimentadas de manera directa a través del ejercicio inmersivo que el autor ha tenido como animador y docente del área; asimismo, de la certeza acerca de la animación como insumo de...
8) Mount Sinai
Author
Language
English
Description
Amid the high mountains of Egypt's southern Sinai Peninsula stands Jebel Musa, "Mount Moses," revered by most Christians and Muslims as Mount Sinai. (Jewish tradition holds that Mount Sinai should remain terra incognita, unlocated, and does not associate it with this mountain.) In this fascinating study, Joseph Hobbs draws on geography and archaeology, Biblical and Quranic accounts, and the experiences of people ranging from Christian monks to Bedouin...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Desde la década de 1990, Luis Rocca ha recolectado material bibliográfico sobre los japoneses deportados desde el Perú a Estados Unidos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Gracias a dicho material, y a los testimonios de los sobrevivientes y sus familiares recogidos mediante entrevistas hechas por el autor, ha sido posible reconstruir estos hechos, que constituyen una parte ineludible y fundamental de la sociedad japonesa, no solo en el Perú y...
11) Nightfall
Author
Language
English
Description
Included in this collection are a variety of dramatic and spirited poems that contemplate the mysteries of life and celebrate the wild beauty of nature.
Author
Language
English
Description
Where more poignantly than in a small country graveyard can a traveler fathom the flow of history and tradition? During the past twenty years, Terry G. Jordan has traveled the back roads and hidden trails of rural Texas in search of such cemeteries. With camera in hand, he has visited more than one thousand cemeteries created and maintained by the Anglo-American, black, Indian, Mexican, and German settlers of Texas. His discoveries of sculptured stones...
Author
Language
English
Description
Our contemporary world is experiencing a crisis in facts and truth. Conflicting messages or fake news bombard us every day, about religion, politics, and COVID-19 and vaccinations. The daily newspaper, internet news, websites, and social media all compete for our attention, and quite often each insisting on their version of the facts. Made-up news and distorted information, create confusion and a distrust in various religious and political institutions.
How...
Author
Language
Français
Description
Ces dernières années, la question du port du voile a pris de l'ampleur.D'abord centrée sur l'école, cette question a touché successivement le monde du travail et singulièrement la fonction publique, le Parlement, le barreau et même la rue, avec les débats relatifs au port de la burqa. Que s'est-il passé pour qu'un phénomène qui paraissait inexistant en devienne soudain assez central pour que des rentrées scolaires soient perturbées, des...
Author
Language
English
Description
A collection of over 250 documents, fifty biographical sketches, and a timeline that served as the basis for Black Texas Women: 150 Years of Trial and Triumph.
When Black Texas Women: 150 Years of Trial and Triumph was published in 1995, it was acclaimed as the first comprehensive history of black women's struggles and achievements. This companion volume contains the original source materials that Ruthe Winegarten uncovered during her extensive research.
Like...
Author
Language
Español
Description
A lo largo de cuatro años, entre 2017 y 2021, Francisco Mouat se sentó a conversar con el fotógrafo Luis Poirot. No había una pauta determinada; nada parecido a un temario. Lo motivaba la curiosidad de conocer al hombre que había tomado retratos excepcionales de Pablo Neruda, Raúl Ruiz, Ana González, Víctor Jara, Nicanor Parra, Sergio Larraín, José Donoso, Enrique Lihn... tantos y tantos nombres del teatro, el cine, la fotografía y...
Author
Language
English
Description
Child Advocacy Centres (CACs), also known as Child & Youth Advocacy Centres (CYACs), Children's Houses, and Barnahus, are a child-focused trauma-informed approach to improving the multidisciplinary response to abuse and violence in the lives of children and youth. Contemporary and Innovative Practices in Child and Youth Advocacy Centre Models brings an international perspective to contemporary and innovative CAC practices around the world. It provides...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Sostiene el profesor Alfonso Rubio que el paisaje de los estudios históricos colombianos dedicados a la "cultura escrita", es decir, al campo de lo manuscrito y lo impreso, y al universo de las prácticas de escritura y lectura, es minúsculo y plural y todavía carece de orientaciones conceptuales y metodológicas claras, pero –afirma también– es necesario conocerlo para dimensionar las líneas de trabajo existentes y encontrar cómo se abren...
Author
Language
Español
Description
"Y sin embargo se mueve", habría murmurado Galileo Galilei tras pronunciar su discurso abjurando de la idea herética del movimiento de la Tierra alrededor del Sol. Casi cuatro siglos después, el mundo está en pleno movimiento.
Si todo lo sólido se desvanece en el aire, es porque el movimiento se convirtió en el elemento rector de la época moderna. ¿Cómo podemos entender el actual desplazamiento de personas, objetos e ideas? ¿Qué significan...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request