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Mothers united Mothers united Andrea Dyrness "In urban American school systems, the children of recent immigrants and low-income parents of color disproportionately suffer from overcrowded classrooms, lack of access to educational resources, an… OL16132591W
Redefining realness Redefining realness Janet Mock With unflinching honesty and moving prose, Janet Mock relays her experiences of growing up young, multiracial, poor, and trans in America, offering readers accessible language while imparting vital i… OL16814401W
Exporting Africa Exporting Africa Sam Wangwe This book looks at firms which have developed export trade in Sub-Saharan economies, and how they have sustained their competitiveness in the face of rapid technological change in the international e… OL16928819W
Library Management for the Digital Age Library Management for the Digital Age Julie Beth Todaro This revolutionary introduction to library management is the first conceived in and written for a digital age. Julie Todaro, one of America’s leading management experts, posits a new paradigm for pla… OL17076640W
Managing Emotion In Design Innovation Managing Emotion In Design Innovation Amitoj Singh This book presents an emotion centered research framework titled "emoha" for design innovation. It defines emoha and underlines the importance of the developed framework in culturalization of technol… OL17581789W
Architecture Competitions and the Production of Culture, Quality and Knowledge Architecture Competitions and the Production of Culture, Quality and Knowledge Jean-Pierre Chupin,Carmela Cucuzzella,Bechara Helal This book comprises a series of 22 case studies by renowned experts and new scholars in the field of architecture competition research. It currently constitutes the most comprehensive survey of the d… OL17627111W
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Oliver Sacks,Margarida Trias,Jonathan Davis In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable w… OL1811898W
Love in a global village Love in a global village Jessie Carroll Grearson,Lauren B. Smith "Jessie Grearson and Lauren Smith offer Love in a Global Village: A Celebration of Intercultural Families in the Midwest, an account of the triumphs of fifteen intercultural families and the persever… OL18144959W
Winning in Asia, U.S. style Winning in Asia, U.S. style Vinod K. Aggarwal "Despite the regional currency crisis of 1997-1998, Asia-Pacific economies continue to be among the most attractive markets in the world. Japanese, American, and European firms have invested heavily … OL18531588W
Deadline! Deadline! Dan Carrison "At 9:00 on a summer morning, the phone rang in the kitchen of a comfortable California home. The homeowner answered in his usual chipper tone, "Hello?"" ""We have your son."" "Within hours, the FBI … OL1919179W
Fray Fray Julia Bryan-Wilson In 1974, women in a feminist consciousness-raising group in Eugene, Oregon, formed a mock organization called the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society. Emblazoning its logo onto t-shirts, the g… OL19732936W
A killing in Amish country A killing in Amish country Gregg Olsen "At just 30 years old, with dark-blonde hair and freckles, Barbara Weaver was as pretty as the women depicted on the covers of her favorite "bonnet" stories - romance novels set in Amish America. Bar… OL20030794W
Violent conflict and the transformation of social capital Violent conflict and the transformation of social capital Michelle L. Cullen,Nat J. Colletta In an effort to better understand the interactions between violent conflict and social capital, the authors undertook an exploratory investigation f four conflict-affected countries-Cambodia, Rwanda,… OL20555419W
Creative margins Creative margins Alison L. Bain "Suburbs can be incubators of creativity: innovative and complex, but all too often underappreciated. In Creative Margins, Alison L. Bain documents the unique role of Canadian artists and cultural wo… OL22329462W
L'accompagnement d'un enfant différent au quotidien L'accompagnement d'un enfant différent au quotidien Manon Couture J'ai choisi volontairement pour ce livre de relater une histoire vécue à mes tout débuts comme intervenante psycho-sociale. Un diplôme collégial en poche, mais tout à apprendre (vous verrez...). Mon … OL24276050W
Small stories, big changes Small stories, big changes Lyle Estill Voices from the vanguard of environmental change. OL24684741W
Encerrado con el diablo Encerrado con el diablo James Keene "James Keene creció en las afueras de Chicago en el seno de una familia media y se convirtió en una gran promesa del fútbol [americano]. Hijo de un policía, durante la adolescencia inició su relación… OL28170442W
Disorder in the court Disorder in the court George Robb This collection of eleven essays by historians and literary scholars examines the role of the state in regulating sexual morality in France, England and the British Empire. Each essay focuses on a tr… OL28757852W
Transnational policy flows in European education Transnational policy flows in European education Daniel Sundberg,Andreas Nordin This book provides an in-depth analysis of the development of international large-scale assessments. The life and achievements of transnational educational experts who paved the way for these assessm… OL28770413W
Caring for patients from different cultures Caring for patients from different cultures Geri-Ann Galanti What happens when a Cherokee patient summons a medicine man to the hospital, or when an Anglo nurse refuses to take orders from a Japanese doctor? Why do Asian patients rarely ask for pain medication… OL3297325W
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