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North Highlands-Antelope
305.8 R237 2007
North Natomas
305.8 R237 2007
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2007 | Oxford University Press | 194 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. | On Shelf North Highlands-Antelope 305.8 R237 2007 North Natomas 305.8 R237 2007 |
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From subtle discrimination in everyday life, to horrors like lynching in the Old South, cultural imperialism, and "ethnic cleansing", racism exists in many different forms, in almost every facet of society. Despite civil rights movements and other attempts at progress, racial prejudices and stereotypes remain deeply embedded in Western culture. This book takes a frank and objective look at why these notions exist. It explores how racism has come to...
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1 of 1 | Folsom Adult | 100 CRA 2002 |
0 of 1 | Folsom Adult | 100 CRA 2020 |
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2020 | Second edition | xvi, 148 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. | Checked Out
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©2002 | 132 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. | Available from another library
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2005 | Hoopla | Abridged | Naxos AudioBooks | 1 online resource (1 audio file (3hr., 33 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | Abridged |
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"How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know?" "This lively and engaging book is the ideal introduction for anyone who has ever been puzzled by what philosophy is or what it is for." "Edward Craig argues that philosophy is not an activity from another planet: learning about it is just a matter of broadening and deepening what most of us do already. He shows that philosophy is no mere intellectual pastime: thinkers such as Plato, Buddhist...
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Carmichael
572.86 S631 2014
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1 of 1 | Carmichael | 572.86 S631 2014 |
0 of 1 | Folsom Adult NEW | 572.86 SLA 2023 |
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2023 | Second edition | xxii, 145 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. | Checked Out
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2014 | First edition | xiv, 120 pages : illustrations, 18 cm. | On Shelf Carmichael 572.86 S631 2014 |
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2023 | Hoopla | Unabridged | Tantor Media, Inc | 1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 02 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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"In this very short introduction to the gene, Jonathan Slack explores the discovery, nature, and role of genes in evolution and development. Looking at how genes are understood as a concept, the nature of genetic variation, and how their mutation can lead to disease, this is an ideal guide for anyone curious about what genes are and how they work. Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In this exploration of the concept of the gene,...
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0 of 1 | Folsom Adult NEW | 337 STE 2023 |
1 of 1 | Folsom Adult | 303.482 STE 2013 |
1 of 1 | Folsom Adult | 337 STE 2009 |
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2023 | Sixth edition | 192 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 18 cm. | Checked Out
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2013 | Third edition | xviii, 151 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, graphs ; 18 cm. | Available from another library
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2009 | 2nd ed | 147 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 18 cm. | Available from another library
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We live today in an interconnected world in which ordinary people can became instant online celebrities to millions of fans thousands of miles away, in which religious leaders can influence billions globally, in which humans are altering the climate and environment, in which new infectious diseases spread across continents at lightning speed, and in which complex social forces are increasingly impacted by digital technology. This is globalization....
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Central
616.91 C899 2018
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1 of 1 | Central | 616.91 C899 2018 |
1 of 1 | Folsom Adult NEW | 616.9101 CRA 2023 |
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2022 | Third edition | xx, 142 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. | Available from another library
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2018 | Second edition | xviii, 158 pages : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm. | On Shelf Central 616.91 C899 2018 |
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Viruses are everywhere, and as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, cannot be ignored. From their discovery to the unravelling of their intricate structures, this Very Short Introduction provides a rounded and concise account of the nature of viruses, how they attack their hosts, and the efforts to control them. In this new edition, Dorothy Crawford examines the recent rise in emerging virus infections, especially coronaviruses, including the viruses...
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1 of 1 | Folsom Adult | 780 COO 2021 |
1 of 1 | Woodland Public Library | 780 Coo 2000 |
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2021 | Second edition | xx, 154 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. | Available from another library
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2000 | 138 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 18 cm. | Available from another library
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c2010 | Oxford University Press | 140 p. : facsim., ill. ; 18 cm. | On Shelf North Natomas 781.643 W157 2010 |
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2023 | Hoopla | Unabridged | Tantor Media, Inc | 1 online resource (1 audio file (240 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture. It has been defined by lyrical structure, or as a progression of chords, or as a set of practices reflecting West African "tonal and rhythmic approaches," using a five-note "blues scale." He traces its roots in work and praise songs, and shows how it was...
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Very short introductions volume 347
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1 of 1 | Folsom Adult | 370 THO 2013 |
1 of 1 | Folsom Adult | 370 THO 2021 |
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2021 | Second edition | xxii, 140 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 18 cm. | Available from another library
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2013 | 1st ed | xvi, 137 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. | Available from another library
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Examines the ideas that have shaped education over the years, showing how and why today's schools have grown into their current form. It explores how education has been molded by politics, philosophy, and social science, and focuses especially on arguments over the competing benefits of formality and freedom in teaching. This second edition examines in greater depth the inequalities perpetuated by current education systems, asking whether education...
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Very short introductions volume 724
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0 of 1 | Folsom Adult NEW | 362.29 HUM 2023 |
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2023 | First edition | Oxford University Press | 117 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 cm. | Checked Out
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2023 | Hoopla | Unabridged | Tantor Media, Inc | 1 online resource (1 audio file (3hr., 55 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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"Addiction is a topic that straddles public and personal interests; societal and criminal justice issues; and family, social, and medical responses. It is a continuing area of uncertainty and concern for society and trained professionals. This Very Short Introduction presents the basic facts about addiction: what it is, how and why it develops, how it is treated, and how society can respond to it. Keith Humphreys considers why some people become addicted...
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781.542 K14 2010
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1 of 1 | Central | 781.542 K14 2010 |
1 of 1 | Folsom Adult NEW | 781.542 KAL 2023 |
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[2023] | Second edition | xxi, 152 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 18 cm. | Available from another library
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c2010 | xv, 143 p. : facsim, ill.. ; 18 cm. | On Shelf Central 781.542 K14 2010 |
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"Film Music: A Very Short Introduction focuses on the most central issues in the practice of film music. What is film music? How is it composed? How does film music work? Why does film music work? The rich and deeply moving sounds of film music are as old as cinema. The very first projected moving images were accompanied by music around the globe as a variety of performers-from single piano players to small orchestras-brought images to life. Film...
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1 of 1 | Folsom Adult NEW | 307.7409 ABB 2023 |
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[2023] | Oxford University Press | 140 pages : illustrations : 18 cm. | Available from another library
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2023 | Hoopla | Unabridged | Tantor Media, Inc | 1 online resource (1 audio file (240 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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"This book explores two centuries of suburban growth as integral to global urbanism. It argues that the future of an urbanizing world will be a suburban world and presents suburbs as places that are interesting and viable on their own terms rather than simply poor cousins of big cities. Examples come from every peopled continent, offering glimpses of suburbs from London to Lima, Sao Paolo to Singapore, Cairo to Chicago, and Dublin to Delhi. The approach...
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Very short introductions volume 733
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1 of 1 | Folsom Adult NEW | 303.484 WEI 2023 |
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[2023] | Oxford University Press | xx, 137 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. | Available from another library
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2023 | Hoopla | Unabridged | Tantor Media, Inc | 1 online resource (1 audio file (3hr., 30 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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"The Romantic myth of Bohemia originates in the early nineteenth century as a way of describing the new economic and cultural conditions artists and writers faced as the system of aristocratic patronage collapsed in the wake of republican revolution. This book analyses the bohemian myth likening the artist's vagabond career to the "gypsy" life by discussing its various fictional manifestations; its historical presence in different bohemian communities;...
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1 of 1 | Folsom Adult NEW | 001.9 GOR 2023 |
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[2023] | Oxford University Press | 124 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm | Available from another library
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2023 | Hoopla | Unabridged | Tantor Media, Inc | 1 online resource (1 audio file (3hr., 19 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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"Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction explores the philosophical and historical attempts to address this problem of demarcation between science and pseudoscience. Many people would be able to agree on a list of things that fall under the umbrella of pseudoscience - astrology, phrenology, UFOlogy, creationism, and eugenics might come to mind - but a precise definition has proven impossible. This book explores a bewildering array of marginalized...
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1 of 1 | Folsom Adult NEW | 347.0752 LER 2023 |
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[2023] | Oxford University Press | xx, 153 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. | Available from another library
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2023 | Hoopla | Unabridged | Tantor Media, Inc | 1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 57 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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"Charts juries from antiquity through the English-speaking world and beyond to Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia ... In this book, Renée Lettow Lerner describes the benefits and challenges of using juries, including jury nullification. She considers how innovations from non-English-speaking countries may be key to the survival of citizen participation in the legal system"--Publisher's website.
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Very short introductions volume 725
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2023
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1 of 1 | Folsom Adult NEW | 262.52 BLA 2023 |
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2023 | First edition | Oxford University Press | xxiv, 139 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 18 cm. | Available from another library
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2023 | Hoopla | Unabridged | Tantor Media, Inc | 1 online resource (1 audio file (240 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), or Vatican II, is arguably the most significant event in the life of the Catholic Church since the Reformation. The Council initiated, intentionally or not, profound changes not simply within Catholic theology, but in the religious, social, and moral lives of the world's billion Catholics. It also reconfigured, intellectually and practically, the Church's engagements with those outside of it-most obviously with...
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Very short introductions volume 169
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1 of 1 | Folsom Adult | 324.973 MAI 2016 |
1 of 1 | Folsom Adult | 324.973 MAI 2022 |
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[2022] | Third Edition | xxvi, 193 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. | Available from another library
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[2016] | Second edition | xxii, 179 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. | Available from another library
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"American Political Parties and Elections: A Very Short Introduction examines the electoral process in the United States and explains why it is widely misunderstood. Why is participation in elections so much lower in the United States than in other mature democracies? What role do the political parties play in the electoral process? And why do unregulated groups such as 527 advocacy organizations have as much, if not more, influence than candidates'...
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Very short introductions volume 446
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2015
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Galt
535 W216 2015
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1 of 1 | Galt | 535 W216 2015 |
1 of 1 | Folsom Adult | 535 WAL 2015 |
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2015 | First edition | Oxford University Press | xix, 131 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. | On Shelf Galt 535 W216 2015
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"Introduces readers to the basic properties of light -reflection and refraction, polarization, and interference- before moving on to how light is generated, its role in relativity, and quantum effects it exhibits."
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951.05 M685 2008
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951.05 M685 2008
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951.05 M685 2008
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2008 | Oxford University Press | 153 p. : ill., ports. ; 18 cm. | On Shelf Carmichael 951.05 M685 2008 Elk Grove 951.05 M685 2008 Southgate 951.05 M685 2008 |
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1 of 1 | Folsom Adult NEW | 973.0496 HOL 2023 |
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[2023] | Oxford University Press | xxiv, 152 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. | Available from another library
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2023 | Hoopla | Unabridged | Tantor Media, Inc | 1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 10 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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"What does it mean to be an American? African American history illuminates the United States' core paradoxes, inviting profound questions about what it means to be an American, a citizen, and a human being. This Very Short Introduction narrates the creation of racialized chattel slavery, the dismantling of that system during the Civil War, and the civil rights disputes that have erupted in the years since Emancipation, including the Black Lives Matter...
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1 of 1 | Woodland Public Library | 100 Nag |
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1987 | Oxford University Press | 101 p. ; 21 cm. | Available from another library
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2021 | Hoopla | Unabridged | Upfront Books | 1 online resource (1 audio file (2hr., 12 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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In this cogent and accessible introduction to philosophy, the distinguished author of Mortal Questions and The View From Nowhere sets forth the central problems of philosophical inquiry for the beginning student. Arguing that the best way to learn about philosophy is to think about its questions directly, Thomas Nagel considers possible solutions to nine problems-knowledge of the world beyond our minds, knowledge of other minds, the mind-body problem,...
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