Catalog Search Results
2) Waiting
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
An owl, puppy, bear, bunny, and pig wait for marvelous things to happen.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"...Robinson has plumbed the depths of the human spirit in her award-winning novels, and in her new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern predicament and the mysteries of faith. These seventeen essays examine the ideas that have inspired and provoked one of our finest writers throughout her life. Whether she is investigating how the work of the great thinkers of the past--Calvin, Locke, Bonhoeffer, and Shakespeare--can infuse...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this book, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. Brooks looks at a range of people who have lived joyous, committed lives, and who have embraced the necessity and beauty of dependence. He gathers their wisdom on how to choose a partner,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have brought millions of readers to his New York Times column and his previous bestsellers, David Brooks has consistently illuminated our daily lives in surprising and original ways. In The Social Animal, he explored the neuroscience of human connection and how we can flourish together. Now, in The Road to Character, he focuses on the deeper values that should inform our lives. Responding...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A freewheeling romp through the world of imagery and metaphor, this quietly startling collection of thirty poems, framed by the four elements, is about art and reality, fact and fancy. Look around: what do you see? A clown balancing a pie in a tree, or an empty nest perched on a leafless branch? As poet Connie Wanek alludes to in her afterword--a lively dialogue with former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser--sometimes the simplest sights and sounds "summon...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A contrarian scientist wrestles with the big questions that modern physics raises, and what physics says about the human condition Not only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. The notion that there are universes within particles, or that particles are conscious, is ascientific, as is the hypothesis that our universe is a computer simulation. On the other hand, the idea that...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Description
"A monumental work on the flow of time, from the universe's creation to "Now," by the best-selling author of Physics for Future Presidents. "Now" is a simple concept--you're reading this sentence now. Yet a real definition of "now" has eluded even the great Einstein. We know that time stretches and is affected by gravity and velocity. Yet, as eminent physicist Richard A. Muller points out, it is only today that we have all the physics at hand--relativity,...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In Rediscovering Americanism, Mark R. Levin revisits the founders’ warnings about the perils of overreach by the federal government and concludes that the men who created our country would be outraged and disappointed to see where we've ended up.
Levin returns to the impassioned question he's explored in each of his bestselling books: How do we save our exceptional country? Because our values are in such a precarious state, he argues that a restoration...
11) School rules!
Author
Language
English
Description
When Pinkalicious brings her imaginary unicorn, Goldie, to school and teaches him the rules, he helps her and the other students to become better friends.
Author
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An A.I. learned to win chess by making moves human grand masters had never conceived. Another A.I. discovered a new antibiotic by analyzing molecular properties human scientists did not understand. Now, A.I.-powered jets are defeating experienced human pilots in simulated dogfights. A.I. is coming online in searching, streaming, medicine, education, and many other fields and, in so doing, transforming how humans are experiencing reality."--
Author
Publisher
The Open Field/Penguin Life
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A guide to defining and then creating a flourishing life, based on the popular class at Yale What makes a good life? The question is inherent to the human condition, asked by people across generations, professions, and social classes, and addressed by all schools of philosophy and religions. This search for meaning, as Yale professors Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz argue, is at the crux of a crisis that is facing Western...
Author
Publisher
Disney * Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Ian always follows the rules and his sister, Jenny, never does but when she angers some monsters while breaking all the rules of their vacation house in the woods, Ian first runs away, then realizes there should be a rule about protecting your sister from being eaten by monsters.
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon and Shuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Walls are going up. Nationalism and identity politics are on the rise once more. Thousands of miles of fences and barriers have been erected in the past ten years, and they are redefining our political landscape. ; There are many reasons why we erect walls, because we are divided in many ways: wealth, race, religion, politics. In Europe the ruptures of the past decade threaten not only European unity, but in some countries liberal democracy itself....
20) Like
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In a series of amusing comparisons, a boy shows how humans are much more like each other than we are like any other thing on Earth.
Make a purchase suggestion
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request