Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"We gravitate toward people like us; it's human nature. Race, class, and gender affect this social identity, but one overlooked factor can be even more powerful: the way we speak. As pioneering psychologist Katherine Kinzler reveals in How You Say It, that's because our speech largely reflects the voices we heard as children. We can change how we speak to some extent, whether by "code-switching" between dialects or learning a new language. But for...
9) Landmarks
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Explores the landscape of the British Isles through its ancient place names, interspersed with biographical essays on some of the author's favorite writers who have paid close attention to the natural world."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"What makes you the way you are--and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell traces human diversity and individual differences to their deepest level: in the wiring of our brains. Deftly guiding us through important new research, including his own groundbreaking work, he explains how variations in the way our brains develop before birth strongly influence our...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. Gaston Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 or so billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He sets out to explore these top twenty world languages, which range from the familiar (French, Spanish) to the surprising (Malay, Javanese, Punjabi). [This book]...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Joel Sartore's portraits highlight the amazing features and behaviors of the world's insects, spiders, and kin"--
"When the pandemic year forced photographer Joel Sartore to stay home in Nebraska instead of traveling to zoos and wildlife centers around the world, what did he do? He went outside and explored bugs. This book reveals more than 100 species of insects, spiders, and related creatures--some exotic, but many common in fields, forests, and...
Interlibrary Loan Request
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Des Moines Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? If the item was published recently, submit a purchase suggestion. Submit Request