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NF 909 HARARI 2015
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| 2015. | Harper | 443 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
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| 2017 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HarperAudio | English | Checked Out
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One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one--homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the appearance of modern cognition. From examining the...
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2019
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| 2019 | OverDrive | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc | English | Available Online
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Why do people build with arches? Why do we use stone in some places and wood in others? What's a foundation? How do you plan a road or construct a bridge? The answers to these questions can help gamers in Minecraft and in the real world! Through building their own structures and systems in Minecraft, young readers and gaming fans will learn about the past and present of human engineering, with a vision toward the future.
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2018.
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NF 338.7 CARREYR 2018
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| 2018. | First edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | x, 339 pages ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available NF 338.7 CARREYR 2018 |
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"In 2014 Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup 'unicorn' promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier ... There was just one problem: The technology didn't work. For years, Holmes had been misleading investors, FDA officials, and her own employees. When [the author], working at The Wall...
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2021.
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NF 363.73874 GATES 2021
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| 2021. | First edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | 257 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available NF 363.73874 GATES 2021 |
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| 2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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| 2021 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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| 2021 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the climate crisis. Gates says, "We can work on a local,...
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2021.
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| 2021. | Penguin Press | 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English |
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The instant New York Times bestseller!
“Emily Oster dives into the data on parenting issues, cuts through the clutter, and gives families the bottom line to help them make better decisions.” –Good Morning America
“A targeted mini-MBA program designed to help moms and dads establish best practices for day-to-day operations." -The Washington Post
From the bestselling author of Expecting Better...
“Emily Oster dives into the data on parenting issues, cuts through the clutter, and gives families the bottom line to help them make better decisions.” –Good Morning America
“A targeted mini-MBA program designed to help moms and dads establish best practices for day-to-day operations." -The Washington Post
From the bestselling author of Expecting Better...
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F EGGERS, D
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| 2013. | Alfred A. Knopf/McSweeney's Books | 491 pages ; 23 cm | English | On Shelf
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| 2013 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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| 2013 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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LP EGGERS, D
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| 2014, ©2013. | Thorndike Press | 631 pages ; 23 cm | English | On Shelf
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When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass...
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| [2017] | First U.S. edition. | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | 449 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. | English |
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"Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style--thorough, yet riveting--famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old...
8) Salvation
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Salvation sequence volume 1
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Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available
SF HAMILTO, P
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| [2018] | First edition. | Del Rey | 565 pages ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available SF HAMILTO, P |
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| [2018] | Unabridged. | Tantor Audio | 16 audio discs (approximately 19 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Tantor Media, Inc | English | Available Online
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"Humanity's complex relationship with technology spirals out of control in this first book of an all-new trilogy from "the owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction" (Ken Follett). In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. Cutting-edge technology of linked jump gates has rendered most forms of transportation--including starships--virtually obsolete. Every place on earth, every distant planet humankind...
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| 2016. | First edition. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 486 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English |
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Round Rock Public Library - Adult Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available
CD 303.483 FRI
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| [2016] | Unabridged. | Macmillan Audio | 16 audio discs (20 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available CD 303.483 FRI |
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Macmillan Audio | English | Checked Out
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | English | Available Online
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LP 303.483 FRIEDMA, T 2016
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| 2017. | Thorndike Press Large Print | 821 pages ; 23 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available LP 303.483 FRIEDMA, T 2016 |
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Friedman discusses how the key to understanding the 21st century is understanding that the planet's three largest forces -- Moore's law (technology), the market (globalization) and Mother Nature (climate change and biodiversity loos) -- are accelerating all at once. And these accelerations are transforming the five key realms: the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics, and community. Friedman posits that we should purposely "be late" -- we should...
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NF 926 WRIGHT
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| [2015] | Simon & Schuster | 320 pages, 48 unnumberd pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available NF 926 WRIGHT |
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CD 926 WRIGHT
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| 2015. | Unabridged. | Simon & Schuster Audio | 8 audio discs (10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available CD 926 WRIGHT |
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| 2015 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Available Online
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LP 926 MCCULLO, D 2015
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| [2015] | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning/Gale, Cengage Learning | 585 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available LP 926 MCCULLO, D 2015 |
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"As he did so brilliantly in THE GREAT BRIDGE and THE PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS, David McCullough once again tells a dramatic story of people and technology, this time about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly, Wilbur and Orville Wright"--Provided by publisher.
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| [2019] | Melville House | xxiii, 232 pages ; 22 cm | English |
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"When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms for personal branding, and products to be monetized, nothing can be quite so radical as...doing nothing. Here, Jenny Odell sends up a flare from the heart of Silicon Valley, delivering an action plan to resist capitalist narratives of productivity and techno-determinism, and to become more meaningfully connected in the process"--
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| [2015] | First edition. | Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 392 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm | English |
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"Technology journalist Ashlee Vance provides [an] inside look into the extraordinary life and times of Silicon Valley's most audacious entrepreneur. Written with exclusive access to Musk, his family and friends, the book traces the entrepreneur's journey from a rough upbringing in South Africa to the pinnacle of the global business world"--Amazon.com.
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| [2021] | First edition. | Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow | 326 pages : map ; 24 cm | English |
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| 2021 | OverDrive | Dey Street Books | English | Available Online
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| 2021 | Dey Street Books | English | Available Online
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"Captivating." —Kirkus | "Fascinating, deeply reported, and slightly eerie." —BookPage (Starred Review) | "The Quiet Zone will live on in your memory." —Bill McKibben
A stunning portrait of an Appalachian community, the people who call it home, and the enduring human quest for quiet
Deep in the Appalachian Mountains lies the last truly quiet town in America. Green Bank, West Virginia,
...14) Thunderstruck
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NF 364.1523 LARSON 2006
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| [2006] | First edition. | Crown Publishers | ix, 463 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available NF 364.1523 LARSON 2006 |
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| 2006 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Tells the interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication--whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time. Set in Edwardian London, an era of séances, science, and fog, and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Cape Cod, and Nova Scotia, Thunderstruck evokes the dynamism of those years when great shipping...
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| 2011. | Fourth edition. | O'Reilly | xxxix, 1,584 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English |
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| 2010 | OverDrive | 4 | O'Reilly Media | English | Available Online
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| 2010 | 4 | O'Reilly Media | English | Available Online
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With clear and concise explanations of Python syntax and programming techniques, and numerous examples that illustrate both correct usage and common idioms, "Programming Python" shows readers the right way to code with Python.
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| [2021] | First edition. | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | xi, 493 pages ; 24 cm | English |
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Physician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America's COVID-19 catastrophe taught us anything?
In Uncontrolled Spread, he shows how the coronavirus and its variants were able to trounce America's pandemic preparations, and he outlines the steps that must be taken to protect against the next outbreak. As the pandemic unfolded, Gottlieb was in regular contact
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[2011]
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Round Rock Public Library - Yellow shelves (1st floor) 1 available
ENF 612.8 BRO
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| [2011] | Millbrook Press | 30 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm. | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Yellow shelves (1st floor) 1 available ENF 612.8 BRO |
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Introduces the concept of texture and how it can be determined through touch, and identifies objects with different types of textures, including fluffy slippers, sticky jam, and spiky cacti.
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2017
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| 2017 | OverDrive | W. W. Norton & Company | English | Available Online
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| 2017 | W. W. Norton & Company | English | Available Online
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"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."—Bill Gates
In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion —as well as nasty germs...Author
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| [2018] | Triumph Books LLC | 112 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm | English |
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| 2017 | OverDrive | Triumph Books | English | Available Online
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| 2017 | Triumph Books | English | Available Online
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"Master Builder Roblox: The Essential Guide" gives users an exciting introduction and jumpstart into the fascinating and dynamic world of Roblox, and helps guide kids toward a fun and fulfilling experience. Main topics include an introduction to the world, a tour of the coolest and most popular games within the game, a quick-start guide on how to build, and an overview of the Roblox Studio Tabs--the toolbox for building content in-game. Along with...
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NF 261.56 CROUCH 2017
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| [2017] | Baker Books | 221 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available NF 261.56 CROUCH 2017 |
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| 2017 | OverDrive | Baker Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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| 2017 | Baker Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Thought leader and executive editor of Christianity Today helps parents understand how technology, and the way we use it as families, can hinder or help us and our children grow in character and become the kind of people we want to be.
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