#genetics #biology #cellbiology #DNA #environment #manipulation #formulations #observations #science

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

The Forgotten Factor of Context

A provocative work that challenges our common assumptions about nature and science, this book is for all who want to understand the biological revolution of the late twentieth century. In this clearly written, well-illustrated book, Holdrege describes, using fascinating examples, how living organisms develop and exist within the context of their environments. In an age when we are able to reshape life on earth, this book offers a deeper, more complex vision of nature, one that can help us establish a more conscious and responsible connection to the world around us.

Genetics and the Manipulation of Life

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#paperback #suggestions #quotes #observations #teachers

New York

Nothing in this book is intended to change your life, but it will make you laugh and trust that what you're doing in your class, or with your students, is teaching in a positive way.

The Teacher's Little Book of Wisdom

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Annie Dillard

Colorado

Collection of essays on the natural world during a year spent in the Blue Ridge Mountains reflects the author's interactions with her wilderness surroundings

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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#picoiyer #travel #geography #observations #humor #mustsee #ideology #uniqueness #adventure

Some Lonely Places of the World

The author of Video Night in Kathmandu ups the ante on himself in this sublimely evocative and acerbically funny tour through the world's loneliest and most eccentric places. From Iceland to Bhutan to Argentina, Iyer remains both uncannily observant and hilarious.

Falling off the Map

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New Hampshire

Polite Musings from a Timid Observer

Bill Maher is on the forefront of the new wave of comedians who influence and shape political debate through their comedy. He is best known not just for being funny, but for advocating truth over sensitivity and taking on the political establishment. Maher first came to national attention as the host of the hit ABC-TV program Politically Incorrect, where he offered a combustible mixture of irreverence and acerbic humor that helped him to garner a loyal following, as well as a reputation for being a controversial bad boy. Bill Maher's popular new HBO television show, Real Time, has put Maher more front and center than ever before. Particularly one regular segment on the show, entitled "New Rules," has been a hit with his ever-growing legion of fans. It is the part of the show during which Maher takes serious aim, bringing all of his intelligence, incisiveness, wit, and his signature exasperation to bear on topics ranging from cell phones ("I don't need my cell phone to take pictures or access the Internet. I just need it to make a phone call. From everywhere! Not just the places it likes!") to fast food ("No McDonald's in hospitals. I'm not kidding!) to the conservative agenda ("Stop claiming it's an agenda. It's not an agenda. It's a random collection of laws that your corporate donors paid you to pass."). His bestselling book, New Rules, brings these brilliantly conceived riffs and rants to the written page. This new edition of the book, in paperback for the first time, also features some brand-new material not found in the hardcover.

New Rules

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

Important Things To Remember

The World According To Mister Rogers

Oklahoma

Connecticut

The Hidden Life of Dogs

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Iliza Shlesinger

Mayim Bialik

Gentle wear. Dust jacket looks great. No writing or creases on pages. 241 pages.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Washington

The Genius and the Absurdity

From breakout stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger comes a subversively funny collection of essays and observations on a confident woman's approach to friendship, singlehood, and relationships. "Girl Logic" is Iliza's term for the way women obsess over details and situations that men don't necessarily even notice. She describes is as a characteristically female way of thinking that appears to be contradictory and circuitous but is actually a complicated and highly evolved way of looking at the world. When confronted with critical decisions about dating, sex, work, even getting dressed in the morning, Iliza argues that women will by nature consider every repercussion of every option before making a move toward what they really want. And that kind of holistic thinking can actually give women an advantage in what is still a male world. In Iliza's own words: "Understanding Girl Logic is a way of embracing both our aspirations and our contradictions. GL is the desire to be strong and vulnerable. It's wanting to be curvy, but rail thin at the same time. It's striving to kick ass in a man's world while still being loved by the women around you. "This book is also for me, because apparently expounding on a stage for two hours a night wasn't enough. (Trust me, if I could start a cult I would, but I hate the idea of deliberately dying in a group.)"

Girl Logic

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John Wooden

Utah

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs."--John Wooden Evoking days gone by when coaches were respected as much for their off-court performances as for their success on the court, Wooden presents the timeless wisdom of legendary basketball coach John Wooden. In honest and telling passages about virtually every aspect of life, Coach shares his personal philosophy on family, achievement, success, and excellence. Raised on a small farm in south-central Indiana, he offers lessons and wisdom learned throughout his career at UCLA, and life as a dedicated husband, father, and teacher. These lessons, along with personal letters from Bill Walton, Denny Crum, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Bob Costas, among others, have made Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and off the Court an inspirational classic.

Wooden: a Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and off the Court

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#paperback #nonfiction #paris #travel #cityoflight #observations #writercompilation 

Florida

32 Writers reflect on the City of Light

Collects essays from more than 20 writers--including David Sedaris, Joe Queenan and Diane Johnson--on how they feel about the city of Paris, France. Original.

Paris Was Ours

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There is a small name on inside cover. The rest of the book is clean and like new.

#hardcover #biography #basketball #coach #coachjohnwooden #johnwooden #nonfiction #observations 

North Dakota

Jill McCorkle

I thought the book was like new, but then I noticed some very faint creases like the previous owner made them & straightened them out before selling? Lowering the condition to excellent because of those (picture/s included). 

Louisiana

A collection of short stories, including "Monkeys," in which a widow holds on to her husband's beloved spider monkey as well as his darkest secrets, takes readers back to the author's fictional hometown of Fulton, North Carolina.

Creatures of Habit

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#humor #family #laughoutloud #middleage #relationship #observations #asia #travel #japan #smoking
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Pennsylvania

"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina. In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life-having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane or armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds-to the most deeply resonant human truths. Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing from "a writer worth treasuring" (Seattle Times). Praise for When You Are Engulfed in Flames: "Older, wiser, smarter and meaner, Sedaris...defies the odds once again by delivering an intelligent take on the banalities of an absurd life." --Kirkus Reviews This latest collection proves that not only does Sedaris still have it, but he's also getting better....Sedaris's best stuff will still--after all this time--move, surprise, and entertain." --Booklist Table of Contents: It's Catching Keeping Up The Understudy This Old House Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie? Road Trips What I Learned That's Amore The Monster Mash In the Waiting Room Solutions to Saturday's Puzzle Adult Figures Charging Toward a Concrete Toadstool Memento Mori All the Beauty You Will Ever Need Town and Country Aerial The Man in the Hut Of Mice and Men April in Paris Crybaby Old Faithful The Smoking Section

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

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#observations
#cause-effect
#comparisons
#data-analysis
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#reproducibles

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Nevada

Science

How to Scaffold Instruction to Support Learning

The author and the Seattle Science Notebook Program have outlined the strategies of using science notebooks with a diverse population of students and documented their effectiveness. The thoughtful approach, well explained in the book, keeps the goals of inquiry-based science and writing clearly focused and mutually supportive.
- Harold Pratt
Former President, National Science Teachers Association
 
This book does more than make a case for science notebooks. It provides specific teaching guidelines, strategies, activities, and rich examples of student work that teachers can use to craft their own notebook program.
- Karen Worth
Author of Worms, Shadows, and Whirlpools
 
In the science classroom writing is much more than an exercise for students to document their steps during an investigation. It's an important vehicle for describing their thought processes and the evidence that supports their reasoning. Writing in Scienceshows you how to encourage students to grow as scientists and writers by moving beyond recounting howthey completed their work and toward explaining whatthey learned.
 
Writing in Scienceshares proven methods for supporting improvement in how students write and think about science. It provides practical guidelines for using science notebooks in grades K - 5 to teach and assess science writing in a way that develops students' conceptual knowledge and expository writing abilities as well as their thinking and scientific skills. Betsy Rupp Fulwiler shares strategies for scaffolding and modeling higher-level forms of scientific writing such as:
 * observations
 * cause and effect
 * comparisons
 * data analysis
 * conclusions.

 
Fulwiler packs Writing in Science with numerous illustrations and tools to get you started, including:
 * more than 50entries from science notebooks, annotated with remarks about instruction and formative assessment
 * scientific writing from English language learners and special-needs students
 * examples and focus questions that apply to 18 popular units from the widely used STC, FOSS, and Insights kits
 * 17 blackline masters of graphic organizers and writing frameworks
 * specific assessment protocols and guidelines to help you analyze notebook entries and provide constructive, formative feedback to students
 * planning guidelines that explain how to develop writing curricula for science units.

Best of all, Fulwiler's methods are not only backed by research but have also been successfully implemented in the Seattle Public Schools.
 
Help students develop their scientific thinking in an incredibly effective way: by writing. Push them away from detailing procedures and into writing that helps them grow as writers, scientific thinkers, and learners. And do it all while meeting inquiry-based science goals and supporting writing instruction across the content areas. Read Writing in Science- you'll discover that pencil and paper are among the most important materials in any scientific experiment.

Writing in Science

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The landmark poetic essays of one of America’s most famous writers.

The book (a 1988 edition) has a little wear around the edges but is otherwise in great shape, with a lot of life left! 

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Craig Holdrege

Genetics and the Manipulation of Life

Bob Algozzine

The Teacher's Little Book of Wisdom

Annie Dillard

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Pico Iyer

Falling off the Map

Annie Dillard

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Bill Maher

New Rules

Fred Rogers

The World According To Mister Rogers

Annie Dillard

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas; Jared T. Williams (Illustrator)

The Hidden Life of Dogs

Iliza Shlesinger; Mayim Bialik

Girl Logic

John Wooden

Wooden: a Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and off the Court

John Wooden

Wooden: a Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and off the Court

Penelope Rowlands

Paris Was Ours

John Wooden

Wooden: a Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and off the Court

John Wooden

Wooden: a Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and off the Court

John Wooden

Wooden: a Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and off the Court

John Wooden

Wooden: a Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and off the Court

Jill McCorkle

Creatures of Habit

John Wooden

Wooden: a Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and off the Court

David Sedaris

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Betsy Fulwiler

Writing in Science

Annie Dillard

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

John Wooden

Wooden: a Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and off the Court

Verlyn Klinkenborg

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