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Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
[First edition].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 audio file (11 hr., 21 min.))
Language
English
Description
"Conversations about gender equity in the workplace accelerated in the 2010s, with debates inside Hollywood specifically pointing to broader systemic problems of employment disparities and exploitative labor practices. Compounded by the devastating #MeToo revelations, these problems led to a wide-scale call for change. The Value Gap traces female-driven filmmaking across development, financing, production, film festivals, marketing, and distribution,...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
[First edition].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 audio file (11 hr., 49 min.))
Language
English
Description
How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered three answers: "stimulate growth first," "build good institutions first," or "some fortunate nations inherited good institutions that led to growth." Yuen Yuen Ang rejects all three schools of thought and their underlying assumptions: linear causation, a mechanistic worldview, and historical determinism. Instead, she launches a new paradigm grounded...
13583) Dancing with the golden bear
Author
Series
Rendezvous novels volume 3
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
8 CDs (9 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sam Morgan and his wife Meadowlark accompany legendary mountain man Jedediah Smith on an expedition into Mexican California territory. But while filled with adventure, their trek is also marked by hardships and tragedy.
13584) A golden age: a novel
Author
Series
Haque family trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
As she plans a party for her son and daughter, Rehana Haque's life will be transformed in a story of one family caught in the middle of the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence, as they face changes and decisions that will have a profound impact on their lives.
13585) Locked on
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English
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"Jack Ryan Jr. is training with a Special Forces drill instructor to transition his work with in the campus from intelligence analysis to eliminating terrorists - even as Jack Ryan Sr. campaigns for re-election as President. But the political and personal have become equally dangerous. A devout enemy for Jack Sr. is attempting to discredit him by connecting Jack Sr. to a mysterious killing in the past by John Clark, his long time ally. A shadow mercenary...
13586) The two-bear mambo
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English
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Ex-convict Hap Collins and his buddy, Leonard Pin, tangle with redneck racists and a voodoo graveyard while trying to solve a grim mystery.
13587) Death's excellent vacation
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English
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With an all-new Sookie Stackhouse story and twelve other original tales, editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner bring together a stellar collection of tour guides who offer vacations that are frightening, funny, and touching for the fanged, the furry, the demonic, and the grotesque.
Author
Publisher
Manning Publications
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 sound file)
Language
English
Description
An Airflow bible. Useful for all kinds of users, from novice to expert. Rambabu Posa, Sai Aashika Consultancy A successful pipeline moves data efficiently, minimizing pauses and blockages between tasks, keeping every process along the way operational. Apache Airflow provides a single customizable environment for building and managing data pipelines, eliminating the need for a hodgepodge collection of tools, snowflake code, and homegrown processes....
Author
Publisher
Findaway World
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 audio file)
Language
English
Description
What if a company did everything in its power to create a culture in which everyone could overcome their own internal barriers to change and use errors and vulnerabilities as prime opportunities for personal and company growth?Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey have found and studied such companies-Deliberately Developmental Organizations. A DDO is organized around the conviction that organizations will best prosper when they are more deeply aligned...
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English
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A high-stakes suspense as timely as tomorrow’s headlines.
While home on break, a seventeen-year-old Senate page takes her dog out for a walk and never returns. The resulting media firestorm quickly ensnares television reporter Cassidy Shaw, Federal Prosecutor Allison Pierce, and FBI Special Agent Nicole Hedges. Together, these life-long friends call themselves The Triple Threat—a nickname derived from their favorite
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English
Description
What originally began as a manuscript for a travel guide to the Thames Valley became "Three men in a boat, " a fictionalized story following Harris, George, an unnamed narrator, and Montmorency the dog as they embark on an amazing boat trip from London to Oxford.
13593) King of capital: the remarkable rise, fall, and rise again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
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Language
English
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An exploration of the private equity firm Blackstone Group that discusses its history, control of corporations around the world, controversies, founders, and other related topics.
13594) The forest house
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Series
Avalon series volume 4
Language
English
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A story set during the Roman occupation of Britain in the 1st Century. The protagonists are a Druid girl in training to be a priestess, and a Roman officer pacifying her country. Love unites them, religion and politics separate them.
13595) A case of crooked letters
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English
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Morning Shade is another hotbed of intrigue. Stella's on the case, not too worry. Chain letters, mail fraud, the town prankster, and a house full of animals combine to make one chain of events that just might drive the Diamond women over the brink.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 14
Language
English
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Amid the splendor and elegance of the city of Salamanca, Sharpe stalks the infamous Leroux--under direct orders from Napoleon--whose target is "El Mirador," the spymaster whose network provides key information to the British.
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English
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Chronicles the life and times of the lesser-known Information Age intellect, revealing how his discoveries and innovations set the stage for the digital era, influencing the work of such collaborators and rivals as Alan Turing, John von Neumann and Vannevar Bush.
13598) Before the sword
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English
Description
An original tale, inspired by legends of Mulan Hua and popularized by Disney. When her sister is bitten by a poisonous spider, Mulan travels with a healer to find a flower from which the antidote can be made to save her sister's life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Katz presents the story of two dogs that profoundly affected his life and work. Skittish border collie Izzy pushes him into rewarding work with Hospice. And black lab Lenore's gentle spirit helps remind him why he wanted to work with animals in the first place.
13600) Theodore Boone: the scandal
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 6
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone knows every judge, police officer, and court clerk in Strattenburg. He has even helped bring a fugitive to justice. But even a future star lawyer like Theo has to deal with statewide standardized testing. When an anonymous tip leads the school board to investigate a suspicious increase in scores at another local middle school, Theo finds himself thrust in the middle of a cheating scandal. With insider knowledge and...
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