Cataloguing for School Libraries: A Guide to Simplified Form

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Recent Advances in School Librarianship: Recent Advances in Library and Information Services

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Baltimore Civil Rights Leader Victorine Q. Adams: The Power of the Ballot

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Taking Your Library Career to the Next Level: Participating, Publishing, and Presenting

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Librarianship and Human Rights: A Twenty-First Century Guide

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Library management A Complete Guide

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Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi

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Spare the Rod: Punishment and the Moral Community of Schools

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Faculty-Librarian Relationships

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Coretta Scott King: Civil Rights Activist

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Mae Jemison: Trailblazing Astronaut

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Brown v. Board of Education

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Where Everybody Looks Like Me: At the Crossroads of America's Black Colleges and Culture

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A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks

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The Fight for Local Control: Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy

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A Leadership Primer for New Librarians: Tools for Helping Today’s Early-Career Librarians Become Tomorrow’s Library Leaders

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Gloria's Voice: The Story of Gloria Steinem—Feminist, Activist, Leader

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Caribbean Children's Literature, Volume 2: Critical Approaches

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Badass Teachers Unite!: Reflections on Education, History, and Youth Activism

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Web 2.0 and Libraries: Impacts, Technologies and Trends

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Buttermilk Bottom

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What Was Life Like Under Apartheid? History Books for Kids | Children's History Books

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Civic Participation (Seventh Grade Social Science Lesson, Activities, Discussion Questions and Quizzes)

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Beacon to Freedom: The Story of a Conductor on the Underground Railroad

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Summary of Cicely Tyson's Just As I Am

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Visionary Schools: Liberating At-Risk Students, Transforming a Nation

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Cataloguing Without Tears: Managing Knowledge in the Information Society

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From Freedom to Ferguson: The Private Sector Opportunity to Empower Black America

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What Do Jamaican Children Speak?: A Language Resource

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Libraries and Public Perception: A Comparative Analysis of the European Press

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Famous Liberian Folklore

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It's the Way You Say It: Becoming Articulate, Well-spoken, and Clear

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On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction

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Get to the Point!: Sharpen Your Message and Make Your Words Matter

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf

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The Craft of Research, Fourth Edition

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Learn Sign Language in a Hurry: Grasp the Basics of American Sign Language Quickly and Easily

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The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition

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We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter

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Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All

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Verbal Judo, Second Edition: The Gentle Art of Persuasion

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The Everything Sign Language Book: American Sign Language Made Easy... All new photos!

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Show, Don't Tell: How to Write Vivid Descriptions, Handle Backstory, and Describe Your Characters’ Emotions

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Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

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Barron's American Sign Language: A Comprehensive Guide to ASL 1 and 2 with Online Video Practice

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Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft

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The Lost Art of Handwriting: Rediscover the Beauty and Power of Penmanship

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The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives

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A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Ninth Edition: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers

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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

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Metaphors We Live By

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500 Beautiful Words You Should Know

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The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

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The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation

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The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century

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Talk Dirty Spanish: Beyond Mierda: The curses, slang, and street lingo you need to Know when you speak espanol

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Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds

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Speed Reading: How to Read a Book a Day - Simple Tricks to Explode Your Reading Speed and Comprehension

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Easy Spanish Stories For Beginners: 5 Spanish Short Stories For Beginners (With Audio)

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30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary: The 500 Words You Need to Know to Transform Your Vocabulary.and Your Life

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Inseparable Separations: Slavery and Indian Removal: Indian Removal was a brutal and complicated effort that textbooks often simplify. It is also inseparably related to slavery. Enslavers seeking profit drove demand for Indigenous lands, displacing hundreds of thousands of Indigenous people. Some of...

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The aftermath of Brown vs The Board of Education in 'Jim Crow's Pink Slip'

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Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh, "The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South" (UNC Press, 2021): An interview with Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh

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Why Now, White People?: White people are speaking up against racism and showing up to #BlackLivesMatter protests in numbers we haven't seen before. So we asked some of them: What's different this time?

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Colleges as Courageous Spaces: Many college and university leaders recognize the…

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W. Kamau Bell and Kate Schatz: W. Kamau Bell and Kate Schatz talk about their antiracism workbook, Do The Work, which gives readers a hands-on understanding of systemic racism, white privilege, and Black disenfranchisement–and what to do about it all.

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Observing with Presence with Dr. Naama Zoran

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Isar P. Godreau, "Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico" (U Illinois Press, 2015): An interview with Isar Godreau

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WEP 0010: Teach Like a Pirate: Interview with Dave Burgess: An interview with Dave Burgess, author of the widely popular Teach Like a Pirate. Dave tells his story of becoming a pirate and how he is helping educators increase student engagement, boost creativity, and transform lives! Mentioned in this...

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Slavery by Another Name: The Crisis of Human Trafficking in the Black Community: In this week’s episode, we explore the misconceptions, disparities, and prevalence of human trafficking in communities of color from the lens of a survivor and advocate. Founder and Executive Director of Courtney’s House DC, Tina Frundt, talks...

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All American Boys feat. Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely: This week, B & E sit down with Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely, who co-wrote All American Boys, a YA novel about police brutality from the point of view of two teenage boys, one black and one white. Here's a list of the authors and books nam...

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Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee is no stranger to turning anger into activism. She joins the show to discuss how war and destruction during her teenage years fueled her women's movement, which eventually helped end Liberia's 14-year ...

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How Did the Harlem Renaissance Work?

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We Aren't Who We Think We Are

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Koritha Mitchell – Living Out Loud: Koritha Mitchell is an academic and author who expands upon how Black women continually redefine success and citizenship in America

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Teaching Slavery through Children's Literature, Part 1 – w/ Ebony Elizabeth Thomas: Children’s books are often the primary way . But many books about slavery sugarcoat oppression. Professor Ebony Elizabeth Thomas examines what we should consider when it comes to how children’s books portray African Americans and Indigenous...

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Warning! This Episode May Trigger Debate

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July 4, 2020 Installing a Temporary Garden, Dependence Day, Henry Bewley, Mary Dedecker, Lady Joan Margaret Legge, National Meadows Day, The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng, and Calvin Coolidge’s 52nd Birthday: Today we celebrate what I'm calling Dependence Day for Gardeners. We'll also learn about the gutta-percha pioneer - it's a fascinating story. We celebrate the California botanist who is remembered with a plant name and the name of a Canyon - and she...

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July 3, 2019 Clearance Plants, Gilbert Laing Meason, Michael Keens, Lambertus Bobbink, William Henry Davies, Grow in the Dark by Lisa Eldred Steinkopf, Hakonechloa All Gold, Richard Evans Schultes, and Calvin Sperling: Sometimes the plant gods smile on you with a clearance sale featuring something truly spectacular like Japanese Forest Grass or in this case, Hakonechloa 'All Gold'. My local Lowes was clearancing them for $3 a pop - and it was just what the plant...

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April 5, 2019 Garden Dreams, Birkenhead Park, Lord Viscount Morpeth, Matthias Schleiden, Algernon Swinburne, Joseph Paxton, Garden Picture Day, Edward Kemp: It’s decision time in the garden. What will your projects be this year? Often, we have no idea if our dreams for our gardens will come true.  Gardeners may dream bigger dreams than emperors, but we can often get stuck, too. We put plants in the...

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#256 DUMBO: Life on Brooklyn's Waterfront

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Designs Through the Decades Part 1: This is something we’ve had on the list to do for a very long time. There’s so much to talk about because we’ve just seen so many things come and go through the ages. We talk about each of the decades and kind of what influenced them to be in fashion...

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Arts of the Year 2018: TLS editors discuss some memorable arts events from the past twelve months; plus, food and drink in literature and a preview of the TLS's Christmas double issue, including how to do German food, M. F. K. Fisher, French food slang, pub stories, and...

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High Point Market October 2019 Design Trends: 1. INTRO  We weren’t able to make it to the October High Point Furniture Market show because we had just returned from our adventures at the Roundtop Antiques Fair and had to get down to business.  Good thing we have lots of talented and...

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Episode 32: Social Forces, States, and Clydeside Whisky: Robert Cox's landmark article, "Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Rela...

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Ep. 278 - Edinburgh Vaults: In the late 18th century, two bridges were built in Edinburgh to help the city to expand over the hills that were part of the area, the North Bridge and the South Bridge. The South Bridge linked the Old Town’s High Street with the University...

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November 19, 2019 German Garden Ideas, Christmas Cactus Care, Grave Gardening, Nathan Franklin Barrett, Calvert Vaux, Tennyson, John Tabb, Adventures of a Gardener by Peter Smithers, Place Cards, and Botanical Brothers at Gettysburg: Today we celebrate the co-founder of the American Society of Landscape Architects and a man who maximized his small space garden about 130 years before the rest of us. We'll learn about the man who came to America to work with Andrew Jackson Downing,...

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#308 Andrew Carnegie and New York's Public Libraries: EPISODE 308 In the final decades of his life, steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie -- one of the richest Americans to ever live -- began giving his money away. The Scots American had worked his way up from a railroad telegraph office to amass an unimaginable fortune, acquired in a variety of industries -- railroads, bridge building, iron and steel. In the age of the monopoly, Gilded Age moguls often made their money in ways we might consider unethical and illegal today. But Carnegie's view of his wealth was quite different than that of his rarefied clubhouse peers Carnegie devoted his latter years to philanthropy, primarily devoting his energies to the creation of libraries across the country. By the late 19th century, the New York City area already had dozens of libraries and reading rooms throughout the future five boroughs.  But they were certainly not welcoming to every person. And those circulating libraries that were available wer

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Podcast 85 - An Economic History of the English Garden with Sir Roderick Floud: This week I’m speaking with Sir Roderick Floud, author of ‘An Economic History of the English Garden’. The book charts the economics surrounding English gardens since the seventeenth century and talks about private gardens, public spaces,...