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Publisher
Mountaineers Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"In 2013, the first all-African American team of climbers, sponsored by the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), challenged themselves on North America's highest point, the dangerous and forbidding Denali, in Alaska. Mills uses Expedition Denali and its team members' adventures as a jumping-off point to explore how minority populations view their place in wild environments and to share the stories of those who have already achieved significant...
2) How to find a four-leaf clover: what Autism can teach us about difference, connection, and belonging
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
A special-education teacher with thirty years of experience working with autistic people gives readers a deeper understanding of and appreciation for the neurodiverse community and looks at ways we can develop more meaningful connections with others.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2024, 2023
Description
Malaria is one of humanity's oldest and most devastating plagues. In many parts of the world, it remains an ever-present scourge that sickens or kills millions of people each year. What if it could finally be defeated? Now, scientists may be on the verge of a breakthrough with a promising new vaccine.
Author
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
When a friend introduces him to ChatGPT, the new large language chatbot, Andy is as sceptical as he is curious. Can this jumble of algorithms really mimic the spontaneity of human thought? Could it one day replace human authors like him for good? And are we soon to be ruled over by despotic robot overlords.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Far from being a lifeless ornament in the sky, the Moon holds the answers to some of science's central questions. Silent, dry, and barren, Earth's 4.34-billion-year-old companion is essential to life on earth. Its gravity stabilized the Earth's orbit, and, as it once guided evolution, its tide stirring up nutrients that fostered complex life, it now influences everything from animal migrations and reproduction to the movements of plants' leaves....
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Series
Publisher
World Book Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Describes the development and potential impacts of artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, smartphones, brain-computer interface systems, quantum computers, cryptocurrency, and the internet."--
7) Natural me
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Inspired by her hit song "Natural Girl" and featuring charming watercolor illustrations, this joyful picture book from award-winning musician MzVee and debut illustrator Lisbeth Checo is an ode to young girls on their journey to self-empowerment, sisterhood, and embracing their natural selves. With a message that speaks to beauty inside and out, Natural Me invites readers to celebrate all the ways in which they are special."--
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"An eloquent and passionate call for educational reparations, from the New York Times bestselling author"--
When Jonathan Kozol's Death at an Early Age appeared in 1967, it rocked the education world. Based on the Rhodes Scholar's first year of teaching in Boston's Black community, the book described the abuse and neglect of children for no reason but the color of their skin. Since that National Book Award-winning volume, Kozol has spent more than...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
[2024].
Description
An engaging and essential discussion of generative artificial intelligence. In Generative AI: Navigating the Course to the Artificial General Intelligence Future, celebrated author Martin Musiol -- founder and CEO of generativeAI.net and GenAI Lead for Europe at Infosys -- delivers an incisive and one-of-a-kind discussion of the current capabilities, future potential, and inner workings of generative artificial intelligence. In the book, you'll explore...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"One woman fights to hold on to her friends, her family, and all that she holds dear as the battle over a Confederate statue divides her small-town Georgia community in this powerful novel from the author of The Sweet Taste of Muscadines. On the morning after Harry Cline's funeral, a rare ice storm hits the town of Wesleyan, Georgia. The community wakes up to find its controversial statue of Confederate general Henry Benning destroyed-and not by the...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
An astonishing debut from the beloved NPR science correspondent: intimate essays about the intersection of science and everyday life. In this, her debut book, she delivers a wholly original collection of powerful, emotionally raw, and unforgettable personal essays that probe the places where science touches our lives most intimately. Expertly weaving her own experiences of motherhood and marriage with an almost devotional attention to the natural...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"In this explosive tell-all memoir, an Olympic figure skater reveals her battle to survive mental illness, eating disorders, and the self-destructive voice inside that she calls "outofshapeworthlessloser." When Gracie Gold stepped onto center stage (or ice, rather) as America's sweetheart at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, she instantly became the face of America's most beloved winter sport. Beautiful, blonde, Midwestern, and media-trained, she was suddenly...
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