James Thomas
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Idlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names, there are no grades, and every day begins with 20 minutes of contemplative silence in the Meetinghouse. It is during one of those meetings that an airplane hits the Twin Towers. For two Idlewild outcasts, 9/11 serves as the first day of an intense, 18-month friendship. Fay is prickly, aloof, and obsessed with gay men; Nell is shy, sensitive,...
4) The land
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Recovering from a terrible auto accident just before the turn of the millennium, college dropout and hobbyist computer-game programmer Lucien Swenson becomes the caretaker of a house in northern Minnesota. Lucien sets out to find a missing woman he had been having an affair with, who vanished along with money stolen from the bank where they had worked together. His search will take him to Rose of Sharon, a white supremacist church deep in the wilderness,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It has been more than thirty years since the term "flash fiction" was first coined, perfectly describing the power in the brevity of these stories, each under 1,000 words. Since then, the form has taken hold in the American imagination. For this latest installment in the popular Flash Fiction series, James Thomas, Sherrie Flick, and John Dufresne have searched far and wide for the most distinctive American voices in short-short fiction. The 73 stories...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Trump, Jr. writes about the importance of fighting back and standing up for what you believe in. From his childhood summers in Communist Czechoslovakia that began his political thought process, to working on construction sites with his father, to the major achievements of President Trump's administration, Donald Trump, Jr. spares no details and delivers a book that focuses on success and perseverance, and proves offense is the best defense."--
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that - based on their clinical experiment - the beta-blocker drug, Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial bias among its users. Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine cited the study, posing the question: Is racism becoming a mental illness? In Are Racists Crazy? Sander Gilman and James Thomas trace the idea of race and racism as psychopathological...
Author
Series
Resource bulletin SRS volume 119
Publisher
Departamento de Agricultura de los Estados Unidos, Servicio Forestal, Estación de Investigación del Sur
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
Author
Series
General technical report SRS volume 256
Publisher
United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station
Pub. Date
October 2020.
Language
English
Author
Series
Research paper SRS volume 47
Publisher
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Author
Series
Resource bulletin SRS volume 119
Publisher
United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Puerto Rico's forest cover continues to increase and is now 57 percent for mainland Puerto Rico, 85 percent for Vieques, and 88 percent for Culebra. Subtropical dry forest occupies 50 346 ha, 6832 ha, 2591 ha, and 6217 ha on the islands of Puerto Rico, Vieques, Culebra, and Mona, respectively. Subtropical moist forest, the most prevalent forested life zone on mainland Puerto Rico, had 49 percent forest cover or 258 861 ha of forest. Subtropical wet...
Author
Series
General technical report SRS volume 190
Publisher
United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station
Pub. Date
March 2014.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"In Puerto Rico, where locally grown woods are primarily used for furniture and crafts production, estimation of wood volume makes it possible to estimate the monetary value of one of the many commodities and services forests provide to society. In the Puerto Rican forest inventories of 1980 and 1990, workers calculated stem volume directly by applying geometric formulae to bole sections of merchantable trees. Field crews recorded several diameter...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
The prophetic author of the bestselling Government Zero, Dr. Michael Savage is back with his most urgent and powerful work. Listeners to Dr. Savage's top-rated radio talk show, The Savage Nation, know him to be an articulate and engaged spokesman for traditional American values of borders, language, and culture. Now, after eight divisive years of Barack Obama, Dr. Savage lays out an irrefutable case for how our nation has been undermined by terrorists...