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Nonfiction ~ This 'n That August 2017 |
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Going Google : powerful tools for 21st century learning
by Jared Covili
Addresses a broad range of Google tools that encourage communicating and collaborating, creating, sharing, and publishing, researching and evaluating. This edition includes teacher vignettes, classroom projects, and an accompanying website featuring screencast tutorials that will walk readers through various projects in step by step videos.
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Citrus : recipes that celebrate the sour and the sweet
by Catherine Phipps
Offers over one hundred recipes featuring citrus fruits, including lime and chicken tortilla soup, Szechuan peppercorn and orange beef, blood orange and rhubarb meringue pie, and orange and pistachio cake
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Women in sports : 50 fearless athletes who played to win
by Rachel Ignotofsky
Illustrated profiles of 50 pioneering female athletes highlight their stories and achievements in more than 40 sports while exploring the challenges they overcame, in a volume that includes entries for such notables as Billie Jean King and Simone Biles. By the best-selling author of Women in Science.
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I need a lifeguard everywhere but the pool
by Lisa Scottoline
A lighthearted collection of stories by the award-winning mother-and-daughter team features warm and witty memoir tales for women, in an entry in the top-reviewed series that includes, I've Got Sand in All the Wrong Places.
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Unplug : a simple guide to meditation for busy skeptics and modern soul seekers
by Suze Yalof Schwartz
A spiritual entrepreneur and founder and CEO of the popular LA-based meditation studio called Unplug Meditation offers a no-nonsense approach to unplugging from the chaos of our lives for just minutes a day though meditation, which can make us happier, healthier, more effective, and even smarter.
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Emily Post's etiquette : manners for today
by Lizzie Post
A revised and updated edition addresses such contemporary issues as social-media etiquette, email and texting, and covering tattoos and piercings before interviews, as well as such classic conundrums as names and titles, official forms of address, and dress codes.
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Into the gray zone : a neuroscientist explores the border between life and death
by Adrian M Owen
A world-renowned neuroscientist reveals his controversial, groundbreaking work with patients believed to be brain dead to explain how up to 20 percent of them were still vibrantly alive, sharing his team's insights into what life may be like for such patients and the moral implications for religious organizations, politicians, and families.
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Get a financial life : personal finance in your twenties and thirties
by Beth Kobliner
Presents a comprehensive guide to finance for young people in their 20s and 30s, providing easy-to-understand explanations of such financial basics as mutual funds, credit cards, medical insurance, debt, and housing. By the author of Make Your Kid a Money Genius (Even If You're Not).
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