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Mobile Library Services: Best Practices

Mobile Library Services provides 11 proven ways to reach out to mobile users and increase your library’s relevance to their day-to-day lives. Librarians detail how they created mobile apps to how they went mobile on a shoestring budget. Written by public, academic, and special librarians, these 11 best practices offer models for libraries of every type and size.
This Music Leaves Stains: The Complete Story of the Misfits

This Music Leaves Stains presents the full story behind the Misfits and their ubiquitous, haunting skull logo, a story of unique talent, strange timing, clashing personalities, and incredible music that helped shape rock as we know it today. James Greene, Jr., maps this narrative from the band's birth at the tail end of the original punk movement through their messy dissolve at the dawn of the 1980s right on through the legal warring and inexplicable reunions that helped carry the band into the 21st century.
A Year in Food and Beer: Recipes and Beer Pairings for Every Season

With the explosion in craft beers and interest in seasonal cuisine, A Year in Food and Beer perfectly fills a niche. Boasting 40 enticing recipes and more than 100 beer-pairing suggestions, it instructs readers how to identify flavors in specific beers and how to complement those with gourmet foods and cooking techniques by season.
Library 2020: Today's Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow's Library

Broadly representative of important perspectives and aspects within the profession as well as featuring important voices beyond the professional realm, Library 2020 presents thought-provoking and illuminating visions from many points of view. It is both required reading for library leaders and trustees as well as an ideal supplemental text for LIS classes looking at the future of the profession.
Plays Well in Groups: A Journey Through the World of Group Sex

From depictions in Paleolithic cave art to the Playboy mansion, Plays Well in Groups delves into the fields of sociology, biology, anthropology, and psychology to provide explanations for both participation in group sex and the complex reactions to it – from fascination to fear. The book draws on survey research, ethnographic observation around the world, and delves into the unique experiences of participants to offer a cross-cultural look at the manifestations and meanings of group sex; who has it, and why.
The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole

Open adoption has become more popular in the United States as domestic closed adoptions have become more difficult to arrange, and as restrictions on international adoptions continue to be drawn. The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption is a guide for those involved in adoption – domestic, international and foster, as well as those who come to parenting via assisted reproduction – as it helps readers create and sustain a positive and workable open adoption arrangement that puts the child at the center.
The Teacher's Journal: A Workbook for Self -Discovery

In this innovative workbook you’ll be expertly guided through a journey of self-discovery, back to the roots of your story, your evolution as a teacher, and the rituals and routines that help or hurt. You’ll take time out to remember the ways that teaching blesses you. You’ll learn to confront the inner critic and push back against the voice that tells you to do more, more, more. You’ll discover the legacy you leave with your students. You’ll fall in love with teaching all over again.
Experiencing Stravinsky: A Listener's Companion

In Experiencing Stravinsky, music historian Robin Maconie takes a completely fresh approach to understanding the great composer’s works, explaining what makes Stravinsky’s “sound” unique and what we, as listeners, need to know in order to appreciate the variety and brilliance of his compositions. In the author’s deft hands, Stravinsky’s long musical career is a guided tour through 20th-century history, from Czarist Russia and two world wars to the height of the Hollywood era and the birth of the information age—and it is an operating manual to getting the most out of his music.
Customer Service in Libraries: Best Practices

In this book, nine librarians from across the country describe their libraries’ best practices in this key area. Their contributions range from all-encompassing customer service policies and models any library can both adapt and be proud of to micro-approaches that emphasize offering excellent user-focused technology planning, picture book arrangement with patrons in mind, Web 2.0 tools to connect users with the library, establishing good service delivery chains, and making your library fantastic for homeschoolers.
Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs: Frontier Medicine in the American West

Powder papers, booty balls, and sugar tits—Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs has a cure for whatever ails! These quaint names were given to medicines during America's frontier era. Grandmas, mommas, and even certified physicians treated the sick, lame, and unlucky with what was available. Here, a practicing pharmacist takes a light-hearted look at the popular medicines.
Getting Your Child Ready for Kindergarten

This publication shares with parents everything they’ll need to know to help their child be successful from Day One. Based on the latest research, this booklet also includes a section on how communities can make kindergarten more ready for today’s children.
Having Sex, Wanting Intimacy: Why Women Settle for One-Sided Relationships

Having Sex, Wanting Intimacy is directed at those women, including high school and college students, who use sex as a means to achieving intimacy, and who fail miserably in doing so. It shows them how to recognize the signs that their relationships are based on physical activities rather than emotional connections, and guides readers to finding a better way.
All in the Family: A Practical Guide to Successful Multigenerational Living

Many families are creating multigenerational households to consolidate resources and save money. This book covers the financial and emotional benefits of living together, proximity and privacy, designing and remodeling your home to accommodate adult children or elderly parents, overcoming cultural stigmas, financial and legal planning, and making cohabitation agreements.
Mastery Teaching Skills: A Resource for Implementing the Common Core State Standards

Mastery Teaching Skills is a professional development book that will help teachers and principals implement the Common Core State Standards. This book will help you to achieve a comprehensive set of pedagogical skills to deliver successfully the Common Core Standards.
After Hope and Change: The 2012 Elections and American Politics

As they have every four years since 1992, James W. Ceaser and Andrew E. Busch—joined in 2008 by John J. Pitney Jr.—once again provide the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the national election, including the presidential nomination process and election and congressional elections. As always Ceaser, Busch, and Pitney combine a concise account of the elections as well as its broader context for American politics and institutions.
Breakfast: A History

From corn flakes to pancakes, Breakfast: A History explores this “most important meal of the day” as a social and gastronomic phenomenon. It explains how and why the meal emerged, what is eaten commonly in this meal across the globe, why certain foods are considered indispensable, and how it has been depicted in art and media. Heather Arndt Anderson’s detail-rich, culturally revealing, and entertaining narrative thoroughly satisfies.
Mom in the Mirror: Body Image, Beauty, and Life after Pregnancy

Mom in the Mirror provides insight, support, and the information necessary to help overcome damaging lifestyle habits and self-esteem struggles post-pregnancy. Readers will learn how to improve the way they eat, live, feel, and parent, thereby increasing their happiness, confidence, and self-esteem both as mothers and women.

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Mobile Library Services: Best Practices

This Music Leaves Stains: The Complete Story of the Misfits

A Year in Food and Beer: Recipes and Beer Pairings for Every Season

Library 2020: Today's Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow's Library

Plays Well in Groups: A Journey Through the World of Group Sex

The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole

The Teacher's Journal: A Workbook for Self -Discovery

Experiencing Stravinsky: A Listener's Companion

Customer Service in Libraries: Best Practices

Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs: Frontier Medicine in the American West

Getting Your Child Ready for Kindergarten

Having Sex, Wanting Intimacy: Why Women Settle for One-Sided Relationships

All in the Family: A Practical Guide to Successful Multigenerational Living

Mastery Teaching Skills: A Resource for Implementing the Common Core State Standards

After Hope and Change: The 2012 Elections and American Politics

Breakfast: A History

Mom in the Mirror: Body Image, Beauty, and Life after Pregnancy