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742) Weeds in the urban landscape: where they come from, why they're here, and how to live with them
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"Bad habits can take a hefty toll on your health and happiness. In The Here-and-Now Habit, mindfulness expert Hugh Byrne provides powerful practices based in mindfulness and neuroscience to help you rewire your brain and finally break the habits that are holding you back from a meaningful life.Have you found yourself doing something and thinking, Why do I keep doing this? We all have an unhealthy habit--or two, or three. Yours may be as simple as...
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A pioneer in the battle to establish birth control as a basic human right and a founder of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Sanger - a nurse who witnessed first-hand the devastating effects of unwanted pregnancy - triumphed over arrest, indictment, and exile. Her autobiography is a classic of women's studies.
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The city of Juárez is ground zero for the drug war that is raging across Mexico and has claimed close to 60,000 lives since 2007. Almost a quarter of the federal forces that former President Felipe Calderón deployed in the war were sent to Juárez, and nearly 20 percent of the country's drug-related executions have taken place in the city, a city that can be as unforgiving as the hardest places on earth. It is here that the Mexican government came...
750) All these sons
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On Chicago's South and West sides, gun violence is destroying countless lives. Two men dedicate their lives to educating, empowering, and healing young Black men at high risk of being victims or perpetrators of shootings.
751) Square wave
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"Carl Stagg, a writer researching imperial power struggles in 17th century Sri Lanka, ekes out a living as a watchman in a factionalized America where confidence in democracy has eroded. Along his nightly patrol, Stagg finds a beaten prostitute, one in a series of monstrous attacks. Suspicious of his supervisor's intentions, Stagg partners with a fellow part-time watchman, Ravan, to seek the truth. Ravan hails from a family developing storm-dispersal...
753) Sphero
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Sphero is a robotic ball that can be controlled using a tablet or smartphone. With this book, students learn the art of innovation through detailed explanations and hands-on activities built to foster creativity and problem solving. Fun, engaging text introduces readers to new ideas and builds on maker-related concepts they may already know. Additional tools, including a glossary and an index, help students learn new vocabulary and locate information....
754) Easy to love, difficult to discipline: the seven basic skills for turning conflict into cooperation
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Have you ever opened your mouth to discipline your child and your parents' nastiest words tumble out? In an era when most parenting books focus on the child, this book supports parents in dealing more positively with themselves as well as their toddler-to-school-age children, offering specific tools to stop policing and pleading with kids and start being the parents we want to be. Based on Dr. Bailey's more than 25 years of work with children, this...
755) Pest
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High school senior and pest control technician Hallie Mayhew is desperate to trade her home in Santa Barbara for any east coast college that will take her away from her divorced, bickering parents and her dad's extermination business, but she fears that a rigged scholarship competition, wily thieves, and the handsome boy next door will contrive to keep her in California.
757) Space drones
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Scientists need special tools and devices to explore space. Drones help them learn more about asteroids as well as other planets and moons. Space Drones explains how these drones work and the role they may play in space exploration now and in the future. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, an infographic, a glossary, additional resources, and an index....
760) In organic we trust
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In Organic We Trust is a documentary that reveals the true meaning of organic. When corporations went into the business and organic became a brand, the philosophy and the label grew apart. Director R. Kiplin Pastor looks beyond the label and unearths inspiring solutions for our health and environmental problems. Individual citizens and communities are taking matters into their own hands, and change is coming from the soil up.