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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Barack Obama’s lucid vision of America’s place in the world and call for a new kind of politics that builds upon our shared understandings as Americans, based on his years in the Senate
“In our lowdown, dispiriting era, Obama’s talent for proposing humane, sensible solutions with uplifting, elegant prose does fill one with hope.”—Michael...
“In our lowdown, dispiriting era, Obama’s talent for proposing humane, sensible solutions with uplifting, elegant prose does fill one with hope.”—Michael...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Description
"From the eponymous subject of the beloved classic Tuesdays with Morrie comes an insightful, poignant masterpiece on staying vibrant and connected for life. Who am I really? What have I done? What is important and meaningful to me? What difference does it make that I have lived? What does it mean to be truly human, and where am I on that scale? Morrie Schwartz, the beloved subject of the classic, multimillion-copy number one bestseller Tuesdays with...
Author
Language
English
Description
The brilliant mind that presented the world with A Brief History of Time offers more insights into the mysteries of the universe.
Based on a series of lectures given at Cambridge University, The Theory of Everything presents the most complex concepts of physics- both past and present- in a clear and accessible manner. Acclaimed physicist and author of A Brief History of Time- which has sold more than 25 million copies- Stephen Hawking enlightens...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After more than thirty years in the classroom, award-winning teacher Phil Done decided that it was time to retire. His days of teaching schoolchildren may have come to an end, but a teacher's job is never truly done, and he set out to write the greatest lesson of his career: a book for educators and parents that would pass along everything he learned about working with kids. The result is this delightful and insightful teaching bible, The Art of...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Already a classic, this landmark study of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. In The Dream of Reason, Anthony Gottlieb looks afresh at the writings of the great thinkers, questions much of conventional wisdom, and explains his findings with unbridled brilliance and clarity. From the pre-Socratic philosophers through the celebrated days of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, up to Renaissance visionaries...
Author
Series
Folk of the air volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
As seneschal to High King Cardan, Jude must fight to keep control of the Faerie throne while her younger brother, Oak, enjoys the childhood she never knew.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The renowned psychoanalyst Erich Fromm has helped millions of men and women achieve rich, productive lives by developing their hidden capacities for love. In this astonishly frank and candid book, he explores the ways in which this extraordinary emotion can alter the whole course of your life. Most of us are unable to develop our capacities for love on the only level that really counts--a love that is compounded of maturity, self-knowledge, and courage....
10) Bridge to Haven
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having been abandoned as a newborn and found and raised by Pastor Ezekiel Freeman in the small California town of Haven, Abra Matthews feels like she doesn't belong and at the age of seventeen runs off to Hollywood, becoming starlet Lena Scott.
Author
Publisher
Artisan, a division of Workman Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Why do we make things by hand? And why do we make them beautiful? Led by the question of why working with our hands remains vital and valuable in the modern world, author and maker Melanie Falick went on a transformative, inspiring journey. Traveling across continents, she met quilters and potters, weavers and painters, metalsmiths, printmakers, woodworkers, and more, and uncovered truths that have been speaking to us for millennia yet feel urgently...
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Series
Publisher
CreateSpace
Pub. Date
[no date]
Language
Español
Description
La Fenomenología del Espíritu es una de las obras más importantes del filósofo alemán Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Publicada en 1807, en ella se discuten problemáticas filosóficas anteriores al materialismo alemán, como son el ideal del absoluto, el espíritu humano como amor a la sabiduría en lo práctico, entre otros.
"The Phenomenology of Spirit is one of the most important works of the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel....
15) Wisdom of the West: a historical survey of Western philosophy in its social and political setting
Author
Publisher
Macdonald
Pub. Date
[1959]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the world-renowned physicist, co-founder of the World Science Festival, and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes this utterly captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose. Brian Greene takes readers on a breathtaking journey from the big bang to the end of time and invites us to ponder meaning in the face of this unimaginable expanse. He shows us how, from its original orderly state the universe has been...
18) Inside Cat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Told in rhyming text, Inside Cat views the world through many windows, watching the birds, squirrels, and people go by--but when the door opens it discovers a whole new view.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
From five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author and radio host, Mark R. Levin comes a searing plea for a return to America's most sacred values.
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...
Author
Series
My weirdest school volume 6
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the teachers of Ella Mentry School go on strike, A. J. and the gang meet a new principal who does not believe in rules and says that the students do not have to learn anything if they do not want to.
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