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Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A witty and wide-ranging exploration of a book that has perplexed and delighted people for centuries: the Talmud. For numerous centuries, the Talmud--an extraordinary work of Jewish ethics, law, and tradition--has compelled readers to grapple with how to live a good life. Full of folk legends, bawdy tales, and rabbinical repartee, it is inspiring, demanding, confounding, and thousands of pages long. As Liel Leibovitz enthusiastically explores the...
3) Baker makers
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A young boy is determined to create the perfect cake, but when his baking doesn't go quite as planned, he learns to embrace the unexpected"--
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Offering examples of how to make medicine better for the healers and those they serve, If I Betray These Words profiles clinicians across the country who are tough, resourceful, and resilient, but feel trapped between the patient-first values of their Hippocratic oath and the business imperatives of a broken healthcare system"--
Author
Publisher
Dutton D
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A warm, personal guide to building a strong ethical and moral compass in the midst of today's confusing, scary, global problems. The moral challenges of today are unfamiliar in the history of philosophy. Climate change is the paradigm example of what Travis Rieder calls "The Puzzle" in the way your choices can seem at odds with what the planet urgently needs. How do we decide the right thing to do in the face of a massive collective challenge? Should...
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A beautifully illustrated story designed to start the much-needed conversation about consent. Cassie is a little girl full of life and imagination who loves singing, playing in mud, dancing, and especially reading. Today, she reads a story about kissing to an audience of her stuffed animals and toys. She answers all of their assumed questions while she reads: Who can I kiss? Who can kiss me? How should a kiss make me feel? Are there different types...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With real questions from Shameless Sex podcast listeners -- and the best advice and most trusted tools drawn from interviews with hundreds of doctors, sex educators, therapists, coaches, and other experts -- hosts Amy Baldwin and April Lampert address the most-asked questions around sex"--
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever wondered why Bernie Madoff thought he could brazenly steal his clients' money? Or why investors were so easily duped by Elizabeth Holmes? Or how courageous people like Jeffrey Wigand are willing to become whistleblowers and put their careers on the line? Fraud is everywhere-from Nigerian "princes," embezzlers, and Ponzi schemers to corporate giants like Enron and Volkswagen. And fraud is costly. Each year, consumers, small businesses,...
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"We raise our children in a fragile world. Climate change, pandemics, superbugs resistant to antibiotics. Extreme inequality, endemic poverty, institutionalized racism and sexism. What does it mean to be a "good parent" in the face of all this? This book is one woman's quest for an answer, as a philosopher and as a mother"--
Author
Publisher
Brandeis University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Guardianship, sometimes called conservatorship, is an ever-growing phenomenon. Some of these arrangements are truly beneficial, but countless others are unwanted, unnecessary, and violate constitutionally protected human rights. Award winning journalist, Diane Dimond, dissects the mysterious, ever-expanding, and complicit cottage industry of individuals who profit off the confinement of others"--
Author
Series
Dead Sea squirrels volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Michael learns that--like the Thessalonians in the Bible--he will prosper if he works hard when Pearl the 2,000-year-old squirrel helps him study for his math test." --
15) Oh, Panda
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Panda tries to follow a butterfly over a mountain, but the slippery, snowy slope makes it difficult to climb.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sonny Lamb is an affable, if floundering, rancher with the unfortunate habit of becoming a punchline in his Texas hometown. Most recently, he bought his own bull at auction, saving it from being sold to a slaughterhouse. But when a fire breaks out at a neighbors farm, Sonny makes headlines in another way: Not waiting for help, he bolts to the farm and heroically saves the family's daughter and her horse, riding the animal out of their burning barn....
17) The power of one: how I found the strength to tell the truth and why I blew the whistle on Facebook
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The inside story of one woman's battles against Big Tech, by the Facebook whistleblower who is determined to help us all retake control of our lives."--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Imagine you are a leader in a large company, and you volunteer at a local soup kitchen, helping the needy who can't afford warm meals. On your way out, the director stops you and says, "I just need you to know that many of the people visiting our services are actually your employees." This really happened. The leader was shocked. He assumed that because the company paid market rate, the company was doing right by its employees. But market rate isn't...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Brad Braxton and Anthony Pinn represent two traditions -- Christianity and Secular Humanism respectively -- that have for centuries existed in bitter opposition. For too long, people with different worldviews have disparaged and harmed one another. Instead of fighting each other, Braxton and Pinn talk with, listen to, and learn from one another. Their wide-ranging conversation demonstrates the possibility of fruitful exchange that accounts for --...
Author
Publisher
DW Books, a division of the Daily Wire
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
"Does your workplace have too few black people in top jobs? It's racist. Does the advanced math and science high school in your city have too many Asians? It's racist. Does your local museum employ too many white women? It's racist, too. After the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, prestigious American institutions, from the medical profession to the fine arts, pleaded guilty to "systemic racism." How else explain why blacks are overrepresented...
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