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| March 7, 2019 |  Meet the Candidates: ALA President 2020–21 By Lisa Peet Voting for the American Library Association (ALA) 2020–21 presidential campaign will open on March 11, and ALA members in good standing can cast their ballots through April 3. Results will be announced April 10. This year’s candidates, Julius Jefferson and Lance Werner, represent libraries from both the government and public sectors. |
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 Activism in Action | Social Sciences, March 2019 By LJ Reviews An emotionally gripping portrayal of the people behind March for Our Lives; an important addition to recovery/bereavement literature that will be of interest to civic leaders and readers seeking to learn more about trauma-informed therapy, community planning, and emergency management. |
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 Bank Street Names Irma Black Award Semifinalists By SLJ Staff The Center for Children's Literature at Bank Street College of Education announced the 2019 Irma S. Black and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature semifinalists on February 25. |
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| "Unlike institutions that have physical limits on the number of students we can enroll or limit enrollment for educational or selectivity goals, the emerging class of mega-universities appear to have few if any such limits. That’s primarily because their growth market is the online, non-traditional learner." | | |
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 Making Faces | Fine Arts, March 2019 By LJ Reviews This collection equips readers with fresh approaches to see beyond the face—for both scholars and general enthusiasts of the art genre; art scholars and artists will benefit from the carefully curated selection of art representing multiple facets of the human face. |
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 Nonfiction, March 1, 2019 | Xpress Reviews By LJ Reviews Reviews of The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan’s Cherry Blossoms, Unbecoming: A Memoir of Disobedience, An Indefinite Sentence: A Personal History of Outlawed Love and Sex, and more. |
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| 1. What Is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
Becker, Adam
Basic Books: Perseus
2018. ISBN 9780465096053. $32
2. The Order of Time Rovelli, Carlo
Riverhead Books
2018. ISBN 9780735216105. $20
3. Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray Hossenfelder, Sabine
Basic Books: Perseus
2018. ISBN 9780465094257. $30 |
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