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Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Amy Webb is a noted futurist who combines curiosity, skepticism, colorful storytelling, and deeply reported, real-world analysis in this essential book for understanding the future. The Signals are Talking reveals a systematic way of evaluating new ideas bubbling up on the horizon--distinguishing what is a real trend from the merely trendy. This book helps us hear which signals are talking sense, and which are simply nonsense, so that we might know...
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Language
English
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"One educator's successful attempts to help autistic students find their voices through poetry, offering a pioneering approach to our relationship to people with autism and how we use language to express our seemingly limitless interior lives"--
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"The Girl Group Sound, made famous and unforgettable by acts like The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas, took over the airwaves by capturing the mix of innocence and rebellion emblematic of America in the 1960s. As songs like "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "Then He Kissed Me," and "Be My Baby" rose to number one, Girl Groups cornered the burgeoning post-war market of teenage rock and roll fans, indelibly shaping the trajectory...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After season four, the Legends had to sacrifice one of their won. But in attempting to change her future, Zari accidentally changed not just the past she shared with Nate, but fundamentally changed who the Legends are in season five. Can our team go back to who they were this season? And can the Legends stop the literal hell that Astra has unleashed on the world?
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Having spent last season trying to track down the Loom of Fate, the Legends must now save history from a foe like none they₂ve encountered in the past or future. The timeship Waverider's crew have dealt with monsters, time anomalies, and most recently, villains from Hell, but this season they will face something even more challenging and bizarre: space aliens!
49) Tomorrow's kin
Author
Series
Yesterday's kin volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Follows the arrival of alien embassies who meet with the United Nations amid human fear and speculation before obscure scientist Dr. Marianne Jenner is secretly invited to visit the aliens and prevent an imminent disaster.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"An exciting new book about real-life technology derived from science fiction and its impact on the world"--
"Science fiction is a vital part of popular culture, influencing the way we all look at the world. TV shows like Star Trek and movies from Forbidden Planet to Inception have influenced scientists to enter the profession and have shaped our futures. Science fiction doesn't set out to predict what will happen - it's far more about how human...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of College Unbound comes a hopeful, inspiring blueprint to help alleviate parents' anxiety and prepare their college-educated child to successfully land a good job after graduation.Saddled with thousands of dollars of debt, today's college students are graduating into an uncertain job market that is leaving them financially dependent on their parents for years to come--a reality that has left moms and dads wondering: What...
52) In the name of Emmett Till: how the children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle showed us tomorrow
Author
Publisher
NewSouth Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The killing of Emmett Till is widely remembered today as one of the most famous examples of lynchings in America. African American children in 1955 personally felt the terror of his murder. These children, however, would rise up against the culture that made Till's death possible. From the violent Woolworth's lunch-counter sit-ins in Jackson to the school walkouts of McComb, the young people of Mississippi picketed, boycotted, organized, spoke out,...
Author
Series
Girl's guide (Laura Taylor Namey) volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Teenage Flora, still reeling from the loss of her mom, leaves England for sunny Miami, where her constant self-doubt about life, including romance, leads her straight into a love triangle.
Series
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In a future world dominated by the technological, people will still be entangled in relationships - romances, friendships, and families. This volume in the Twelve Tomorrow's series considers the effects that scientific and technological discoveries will have on the emotional bonds that hold us together. The strange new worlds in these stories feature AI family therapy, floating fungitecutre, and a futuristic love potion. A co-op of mothers attempts...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Looking Ahead to the Future of Autism Study and Care. Autism and Tomorrow is a comprehensive resource that addresses many parents' questions pertaining to their child with autism, such as financial planning, long-term care, employment options, and employer relationships, community resources, education, bullying, puberty, doctor visits, sex, nutrition, fitness, family relationships, and more. Karen L. Simmons, the founder and CEO of Autism Today,...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This path-breaking study is about how ordinary people are gaining the means to be extraordinarily lethal. States are also concentrating their technological power, but their gains lag behind a shift in relative capacity that is already disrupting the role of conventional armed forces. The dispersal of emerging technologies such as roboics, cyber weapons, 3-D printing, autonomous systems, and various forms of artificial intelligence is widening popular...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Lifelong Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
What if, despite the best of intentions, we are raising our children to succeed in a world that no longer exists? The Toddler Brain helps parents recognize the connection that exists between their own parenting behaviors and their child's ability to acquire valuable twenty-first-century skills. Dr. Laura A. Jana draws on studies and stories from pediatrics, neuroscience, social science, and childcare, as well as the world of business and innovation...
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After saving the planet from the alien horde last season, the Legends find themselves stranded in 1925 Texas with no way home. Determined to return to their own time, the Legends set out on a road-trip across the country to find an early pioneer of time travel, and their only hope of returning to their home time once more!
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