Packer, Sarit

Summary: Offers a selection of accessible Middle Eastern recipes from the restaurateurs, including spreads and dips, salads, one-pan dishes, soups, Persian entrées, tagines of North Africa, sofritos of Jerusalem, and stews of Iran.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015

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Packer, George

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005

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Packer, George

Summary: In this collection of essays from the past extraordinary decade, from September 11 to the rise of Barack Obama, journalist Packer brings insight and passion to his accounts of the war on terror, Iraq, troubled societies, political writers, and the 2008 election.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009

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Packer, George

Summary: Paints a picture of the last thirty years of life in America by following several citizens, including the son of tobacco farmers in the rural south, a Washington insider who denies his idealism for riches, and a Silicon Valley billionaire.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013

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Packer, George

Summary: This book recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It brings to life the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war policy and led America to the Assassins' Gate--the main point of entry into the American zone in Baghdad. The consequences of that policy are shown in the author's reporting on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005

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Packer, George

Summary: A National Book Award-winning author examines America's current descent into a failed state and discusses the ways we can leverage this moment to forge a new path forward that overcomes injustice, legislative paralysis, and political divides.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021

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Packer, George

Summary: "From the award-winning author of The Unwinding--the vividly told saga of the ambition, idealism, and hubris of one of the most legendary and complicated figures in recent American history, set amid the rise and fall of U.S. power from Vietnam to Afghanistan. Richard Holbrooke was brilliant, wholly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites. Admired and detested, he was...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019

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Packer, Alex J.

Summary: This book takes the principles of the 12 step recovery programs and applies them to the task of raising children.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hazelden Informational Educational Services 1999

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Van Bavel, Jay J.

Summary: "A revolutionary new understanding of identity, showing how our groups have a powerful influence on our feelings, beliefs, and behavior--and how these shared identities can inspire both personal change and social movements"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown Spark 2021

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Orwell, George

Contents: The spike -- Clink -- A hanging -- Shooting an elephant -- Bookshop memories -- Marrakech -- My country right or left -- War-time diary -- England your England -- Dear Doktor Goebbels, your British friends are feeding fine! -- Looking back on the Spanish war -- As I please, 1 -- As I please, 2 -- As I please, 3 -- As I please, 16 -- Revenge is sour -- The case for the open fire -- The sporting...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2008

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Summary: The story of psychedelic chemists Robert "Tim" Scully and Nicholas Sand, and how their positive experiences with LSD motivated them to become major players in the 1960s drug counterculture by creating ultrapure "Orange Sunshine" acid.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MVD Visual 2018

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Hacker, Andrew.

Summary: "Andrew Hacker's 2012 New York Times op-ed questioning our current mathematics requirements instantly became one of the the paper's most widely circulated articles. Why, he wondered, do we inflict algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and even calculus on all young Americans, regardless of their interests or aptitudes? The Math Myth expands Hacker's scrutiny of many widely held assumptions, such as...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2016

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Pacer, Ron

Summary: Mind Over A Guide to Anger Management for the Modern Adult" is a comprehensive self-help book that offers practical techniques to help readers manage their anger in a healthy and productive way. With the growing stress and pressure of modern life, many people find it challenging to control their emotions, leading to destructive outbursts and damaged relationships. This book offers a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ron Pacer 0000

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Hacker, Marilyn

Summary: "Celebrated poets Marilyn Hacker and Karthika Naïr compose a collaborative poem marking a year of friendship through stillness and grief"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2021

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Hacker, Rick

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Winchester 1981

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Ducker, Chris.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014

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Packard, Susan.

Summary: "The co-founder of HGTV shows how women can achieve their career goals using techniques of gamesmanship. New Rules of the Game provides insights, tips and direction to women in business, based on experiences from author and HGTV co-founder Susan Packard's own 30 year career, along with a dozen other prominent executives. Packard advocates for a revolutionary new perspective for businesswomen,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Perigee 2015

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Panzer, Mary.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery 1997

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Parkes, Clara

Summary: Clara Parkes presents a fast-paced account of the year she spent transforming a 676-pound bale of wool into commercial yarn, and the people and vanishing industry she discovered along the way.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2019

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Tasker, Elizabeth

Summary: "The Planet Factory tells the story of exoplanets, planets orbiting stars outside of our solar system. Discover the specks of dust that circle a young star come together in a violent building project that can form colossal worlds hundreds of times the size of the Earth; the changing orbits of young planets that risk dooming the life forming on neighboring worlds or, alternatively, that can...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2017

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