Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Ask a question and it is reasonable to expect an answer or a confession of ignorance. But a philosopher may defy expectations. Confronted by a standard question arising from a normal way of viewing the world, a philosopher may reply that the question is misguided, that to continue asking it is, at the extreme, to get trapped in a delusive hall of mirrors. According to Raymond Geuss, this attempt to bypass or undercut conventional ways of thinking,...
Series
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) remains a book of the moment. This Companion builds on successive waves of generational inheritance and debate in the novel's reception by asking new questions about how and why Nineteen Eighty-Four was written, what it means, and why it matters. Chapters on a selection of the novel's interpretative contexts, the literary histories from which it is inseparable, the urgent questions it raises, and the impact...
203) King's gambit
Publisher
Indican Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Bryce Wheeler is a newfound "Herald" whose job in life is to control the world's balance by manipulating events using the mystical journal he inherited from his recently deceased father. He finds it is harder to control the power he has spent his life training for than he expected. As he tilts the scales against himself and goes to extreme lengths playing a risky game, will Bryce end up being the first Herald in history to lose the journal?
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In 'Blueprint', behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin describes how the DNA revolution has made DNA personal by giving us the power to predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses from birth. A century of genetic research shows that DNA differences inherited from our parents are the consistent lifelong sources of our psychological individuality--the blueprint that makes us who we are. This, says Plomin, is a game-changer. It calls for a radical...
206) Paris time capsule
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"1940, Paris. Life is getting desperate for young Isabelle de Florian. Alone with her best friend in her apartment as the Germans tighten their hold on Paris, Isabelle knows that they must seek safety or die. For months she has been playing a dangerous game of secrets with the Nazis, trying to keep the people she loves safe. At last, she secures passage out of the city, packs her best jewels into a small suitcase and steps into the treacherous night...
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and his group, the Earth Guardians, believe that today's youth will play an important role in shaping our future. They know that the choices made right now will have a lasting impact on the world of tomorrow, and people--young and old--are asking themselves what they can do to ensure a positive, just, and sustainable future. We Rise tells the story of the environmental crisis we face and offers solutions to change our course...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A Mind to Stay is a unique and extraordinary historical narrative of generations of a Black family with roots in slavery and in the South. This family won their freedom with emancipation but, instead of fleeing the poverty and oppression of the White plantation, decided to stay on the homeland of their White masters and then to purchase it for themselves within a decade. In a true counterpoint to the predominant tale of the Black exodus north in the...
210) Crímenes Ilustrados
Author
Publisher
Plaza Janes Editores, S.A
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
El juego de redes sociales más viral por fin en formato libro de manos de su creador, el tuitstar Modesto García. Ha llegado el momento de convertirte en el protagonista de tus novelas negras y thrillers favoritos. Incluye casos exclusivos nunca antes vistos en internet. ¿Eres capaz de resolver un asesinato observando simplemente la escena del crimen? Transfórmate en un auténtico detective de homicidios y empieza a atar cabos porque aquí la...
212) Goodfellas
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018], ℗2018
Language
English
Description
Sibling Rivalry by Carl Weber: They say the parent's sins always fall into the children's laps. Twins Kayden and Jayden Vincent have walked in their father's kingpin shadow as two princes fighting for the same throne since they were children. Now, finally at the age where the transition is inevitable, it seems as if the twins are going head to head when it comes to everything around them. What they don't know is that the crown they are fighting for...
Series
Publisher
Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Covers all major areas of science, engineering, technology, as well as mathematics and the medical and health sciences, while providing a comprehensive overview of current scientific knowledge and technology. Entries typically describe scientific concepts, provide overviews of scientific areas and, in some cases, define terms.
Didn't find it?
Didn't find it in the Minuteman Library Network? Request it from other Massachusetts library systems.
Can't find what you are looking for? Recommend it to your local library as a future purchase. Suggest a Purchase
