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"Hilke Schellmann is an Emmy award-winning investigative reporter, Wall Street Journal and Guardian contributor, and journalism professor at NYU. In "The Algorithm," she investigates the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the world of work. AI is nowbeing used to decide who has access to an education, who gets hired, who gets fired, and who receives a promotion. Drawing on exclusive information from whistleblowers, internal documents, and real-world...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
683.422 MCWHIR 2023
1 available
683.422 MCWHIR 2023
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
683.422 MCWHIR 2023
1 available
683.422 MCWHIR 2023
1 available
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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""A magisterial work of narrative history and original reportage . . . You can feel the tension building one cold, catastrophic fact at a time . . . A virtually unprecedented achievement." ―Mike Spies, The New York Times Book Review One of The New York Times's 33 Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall Named a most anticipated book of the fall by The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Bloomberg American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 presents...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
683.422 MCWHIR 2023
1 available
683.422 MCWHIR 2023
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
683.422 MCWHIR 2023
1 available
683.422 MCWHIR 2023
1 available
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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""A magisterial work of narrative history and original reportage . . . You can feel the tension building one cold, catastrophic fact at a time . . . A virtually unprecedented achievement." ―Mike Spies, The New York Times Book Review One of The New York Times's 33 Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall Named a most anticipated book of the fall by The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Bloomberg American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 presents...
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''The first definitive exploration of the changing role of the twenty-first-century First Lady, painting a comprehensive portrait of Jill Biden—from a White House correspondent for The New York Times "A fascinating and deeply researched exploration into the most public facing and least understood role in Washington."—Kate Andersen Brower, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women Since the Clinton era, shifts in media,...
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practical solutions that can be pursued to strengthen the public, media, and truth-based politics MSNBC's legal expert breaks down the ways disinformation has become a tool to drive voters to extremes, disempower our legal structures, and consolidate power in the hands of the few. "One of the most acute observers of our time shares . . . a compelling work...
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The true story of what happened the first time machines came for human jobs, when an underground network of 19th century rebels, the Luddites, took up arms against the industrialists that were automating their work - and how it explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech today.
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The true story of what happened the first time machines came for human jobs, when an underground network of 19th century rebels, the Luddites, took up arms against the industrialists that were automating their work - and how it explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech today.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
158 BROOKS 2023
1 available
158 BROOKS 2023
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
158 BROOKS 2023
2 available
158 BROOKS 2023
2 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
158 BROOKS 2023
1 available
158 BROOKS 2023
1 available
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9 copies, 51 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
LP 158 BROOKS 2023
1 available
LP 158 BROOKS 2023
1 available
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"You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime. INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In Build the Life You Want, Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey invite you to begin a journey toward greater happiness no matter how challenging your circumstances. Drawing on cutting-edge science and their years of helping people translate ideas into action, they show you how to improve your life right now instead of waiting for the...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
158 BROOKS 2023
1 available
158 BROOKS 2023
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
158 BROOKS 2023
2 available
158 BROOKS 2023
2 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
158 BROOKS 2023
1 available
158 BROOKS 2023
1 available
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9 copies, 51 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
LP 158 BROOKS 2023
1 available
LP 158 BROOKS 2023
1 available
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"You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime. INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In Build the Life You Want, Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey invite you to begin a journey toward greater happiness no matter how challenging your circumstances. Drawing on cutting-edge science and their years of helping people translate ideas into action, they show you how to improve your life right now instead of waiting for the...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
616.8522 NAIDOO 2023
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616.8522 NAIDOO 2023
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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" Relieve your anxiety through food with this "groundbreaking," full-body approach to mental health (Mark Hyman, MD), from bestselling author and nutritional psychiatrist Uma Naidoo, MD In this groundbreaking guide, Dr. Uma Naidoo presents cutting-edge research about the ways anxiety is rooted in the brain, gut, immune system, and metabolism. Drawing on the latest science on the connection between diet and anxiety, Dr. Naidoo shows us how to effectively...
11) Class: a memoir
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO LAND 2023
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BIO LAND 2023
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO LAND 2023
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BIO LAND 2023
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO LAND 2023
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BIO LAND 2023
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2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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"Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition. Who has the right to create art? Who has the right to go to college? And what kind of work is valued in our culture? In clear, candid, and moving prose, Class grapples with these questions, offering a searing indictment of America's educational system and an inspiring testimony of a mother's triumph...
12) The climate book
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
363.7052 THUNBE 2023
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363.7052 THUNBE 2023
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"We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope - but only if we listen to the science before it's too late. In The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hundred experts...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
941.086 LOW 2023
1 available
941.086 LOW 2023
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
941.086 LOW 2023
1 available
941.086 LOW 2023
1 available
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"The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates, from the journalist who has spent years studying them. Who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins his reign, what will happen next? Throughout history, the British monarchy has relied on its courtiers - the trusted advisers in the King or Queen's inner circle - to ensure its survival as a family and a pillar of the country. Today, as ever, a carefully selected team of people hidden...
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7 copies, 63 people are on the wait list.
On Order
7 copies, 66 people are on the wait list.
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two.
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Time, Los Angeles Times, Men’s Health, New York Post, Lit Hub, Book Riot, Screenrant
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A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Time, Los Angeles Times, Men’s Health, New York Post, Lit Hub, Book Riot, Screenrant
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
973.099 PRUDHO 2023
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973.099 PRUDHO 2023
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
973.099 PRUDHO 2023
1 available
973.099 PRUDHO 2023
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
973.099 PRUDHO 2023
1 available
973.099 PRUDHO 2023
1 available
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"Perhaps the most significant meals in the world have been consumed at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue by the presumptive leaders of the free world. Thomas Jefferson had an affinity for eggplant and FDR for terrapin stew. Nixon ate a lump of cottage cheese topped with barbecue sauce every day and Obama regularly had arugula. Now, Alex Prud'homme takes us to the dining tables of the White House to look at what the presidents chose to eat, how the food was...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
155.333 HACKMA 2023
1 available
155.333 HACKMA 2023
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
155.333 HACKMA 2023
1 available
155.333 HACKMA 2023
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
155.333 HACKMA 2023
1 available
155.333 HACKMA 2023
1 available
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"A scathing, deeply-researched foray into the invisible, uncompensated work women perform every day "Emotional labor." The term might sound familiar. . .but what does it mean exactly? Initially used to describe the unnamed yet crucial labor flight attendants did to make guests feel welcomed and safe, the phrase has burst into the national lexicon in recent years. The examples, whispered among friends and posted online, are endless. A woman is tasked...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
941.0862 SCOBIE 2023
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941.0862 SCOBIE 2023
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
941.0862 SCOBIE 2023
1 available
941.0862 SCOBIE 2023
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
941.0862 SCOBIE 2023
1 available
941.0862 SCOBIE 2023
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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''Endgame, the explosive book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, is a penetrating investigation into the current state of the British monarchy—an unpopular king, a power-hungry heir to the throne, a queen willing to go to dangerous lengths to preserve her image, and a prince forced to start a new life after being betrayed by his own family. Queen Elizabeth II’s death ruptured...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
613.0424 BOHANN 2023
1 available
613.0424 BOHANN 2023
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4 copies, 33 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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"THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives today “A page-turning whistle-stop tour of mammalian development that begins in the Jurassic Era, Eve recasts the traditional story of evolutionary biology by placing women at its center…. The book is engaging,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
302.231 LORENZ 2023
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302.231 LORENZ 2023
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
302.231 LORENZ 2023
2 available
302.231 LORENZ 2023
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Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the internet—revealing how online influence and the creators who amass it have reshaped our world, online and off. For over a decade, Taylor Lorenz has been the authority on internet culture, documenting its far-reaching effects on all corners of our lives. Her reporting is serious yet entertaining and illuminates deep truths about ourselves and the lives...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
322.4209 EGAN 2023
1 available
322.4209 EGAN 2023
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2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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"A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them. The Roaring Twenties -- the Jazz Age -- has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland...