Catalog Search Results
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Everything you need to help score a perfect 5. Ace the AP World History: Modern Exam with this comprehensive study guide. Includes 3 full-length practice tests with answer explanations, content reviews for every test topic, strategies for every question type, and access to online extras. Techniques That Actually Work: Tried-and-true strategies to help you avoid traps and beat the test; Tips for pacing yourself and guessing logically; Essential tactics...
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Ghostly encounters, alien abduction, reincarnation, talking to the dead, UFO sightings, inexplicable coincidences, out-of-body and near-death experiences. Are these legitimate phenomena? If not, then how should we go about understanding them? In this fascinating book, Chris French investigates paranormal claims to discover what lurks behind this "weird shit." French provides authoritative evidence-based explanations for a wide range of superficially...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Like many people today, Brigid Delaney was searching for answers to timeless questions: How can we be good? Find inner peace? Properly grieve? Tame our insecurities, such as the fear of missing out? Determine what truly matters? Centuries ago, the Stoics pondered many of these same questions. And so, at an important inflection point in her own life, Brigid decided to let these ancient philosophers be her guide. Brigid is rash where the Stoics are...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Kensington, Philadelphia, is distinguished only by its poverty. It is home to Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel, three Puerto Rican children who live among the most marginalized children and families in the United States. This is their coming-of-age story. It is also the story of families beset by violence--the violence of homelessness, hunger, incarceration, stray bullets, sexual and physical assault, the hypermasculine logic of the streets, and the...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Where does math come from? From a textbook? From rules? From deduction? From logic? Not really, Eugenia Cheng writes in Is Math Real?: it comes from curiosity, from instinctive human curiosity, "from people not being satisfied with answers and always wanting to understand more." And most importantly, she says, "it comes from questions": not from answering them, but from posing them. Nothing could seem more at odds from the way most of us were taught...
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Korean American teens Bobby and Winter reluctantly go on a college visit road trip together, the sworn mortal enemies discover they might actually be a perfect pair.
"Winter Park and Bobby Bae are Korean American high school juniors whose families have been friends since the kids were making crayon art. They, however, are repulsed by each other. Winter is MIT-bound, comfortable keeping people at arm's length, and known by others as responsible,...
67) Faux paws
Author
Series
Dogmothers volume 8
Publisher
South Street Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
At a personal and career crossroads he never expected, Navy nuclear engineer Theo Santorini faces the fact that his once charmed existence isn't so charmed anymore. Then, on a cross country trip, he saves a desperate and abused dog, hoping he can turn around both their lives. When he arrives at Waterford Farm in North Carolina with his rescue, Clementine, Theo's matchmaking grandmother and her best friend immediately launch a plan to help both man...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking account of the power of our thoughts to improve our health-by the "mother of mindfulness" and first female tenured professor of psychology at Harvard When it comes to our health, too many of us think that a medical diagnosis describes a static or worsening condition. We then live our lives as though our ailments-our stiff knees or frayed nerves or failing eyesight-can only change in one direction: for the worse. Ellen J. Langer's...
Author
Publisher
Writer's Digest Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Just as a compass provides direction for an explorer, so does motivation provide direction for characters in fiction. The 'compass' of character motivation is composed of four points: Lack, Yearning, Resistance, and Desire. In The Compass of Character, you'll learn to deeply consider the key question 'What does my character want?' and learn techniques to answer that question by writing realistic and empathetic characters without falling into formulaic,...
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Stay sharp all summer long with activities, games, and storybooks designed to improve memory and logic, practice math skills, advance reading comprehension, and more!"
It's never too early to improve vocabulary skills! 3rd Grade Vocabulary Prep was designed for the student and family looking for an advantage in solidifying word skills. Study anywhere and learn hundreds of vocabulary words at your own pace. Specifically appropriate words chosen at...
Publisher
SAGE
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This provocative new edition examines the mass media as economic and cultural institutions that shape our social identities, particularly regarding gender, race and class. A comprehensive introductory section outlines the book's integrated approach to media studies, which incorporates three distinct but related areas of investigation: the political economy of production, textual analysis and audience response.
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2019
Language
Français
Description
Following the destruction of their ship, the young Willy is separated from his parents with whom he traveled in space. His space capsule lands on a wild and unexplored planet. With the help of Buck, a survival robot, he will have to hold on until the arrival of a rescue mission.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase or request to borrow from another library outside of the Yavapai Library Network via inter-library loan (ILL). Suggest a purchase or ILL