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Visionary women : how Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters changed our world / by Barnet, Andrea,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-464) and index.Discusses four influential women linked by their choice to break with convention, exploring how their work in their respective fields helped to ignite the progressive movement and offered a more positive way to think about the world.
Subjects: Biographies.; Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964.; Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006.; Goodall, Jane, 1934-; Waters, Alice.; Women; Biography; Environmentalists; City planners; Primatologists; Restaurateurs;
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Gustav Klimt : art nouveau visionary / by Di Stefano, Eva,1949-; Klimt, Gustav,1862-1918.; Jackson, Stephentranslator.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-237) and index.LSC
Subjects: Klimt, Gustav, 1862-1918.; Artists;
© c2008., Sterling Pub.,
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The Antidote A Novel [electronic resource] : by Russell, Karen.aut; CloudLibrary;
From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a "Prairie Witch,” whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples’ memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns how quickly a hoarded blessing can become a curse; his orphan niece, a basketball star and witch’s apprentice in furious flight from her grief; a voluble scarecrow; and a New Deal photographer whose time-traveling camera threatens to reveal both the town’s secrets and its fate. Russell's novel is above all a reckoning with a nation’s forgetting—enacting the settler amnesia and willful omissions passed down from generation to generation, and unearthing not only horrors but shimmering possibilities. The Antidote echoes with urgent warnings for our own climate emergency, challenging readers with a vision of what might have been—and what still could be.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Visionary & Metaphysical; Literary; Historical;
© 2025., Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group,
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Little dreamers : visionary women around the world / by Harrison, Vashti.;
Includes bibliographical references, discography, filmography, Internet addresses and index."Brief, illustrated bios of women creators around the world"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Women; Women artists; Women scientists;
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Business model generation : a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers / by Osterwalder, Alexander.; Pigneur, Yves.; Clark, Tim,1956-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 276).LSC
Subjects: Business planning.; Organizational change.; Management.;
© c2010., John Wiley & Sons,
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The Life Impossible A Novel [electronic resource] : by Haig, Matt.aut; cloudLibrary;
The remarkable new novel from Matt Haig, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, which has sold more than nine million copies worldwide “What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet . . . ” When retired math teacher Grace Winters inherits a run-down house on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza from a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. Grace arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have possibly dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past. Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Visionary & Metaphysical; Literary; Contemporary Women;
© 2024., HarperCollins Canada,
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The Life Impossible A Novel [electronic resource] : by Haig, Matt.aut; Lumley, Joanna.nrt; Stephens, Jordan.nrt; cloudLibrary;
The remarkable new novel from Matt Haig, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, which has sold more than nine million copies worldwide “What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet . . . ” When retired math teacher Grace Winters inherits a run-down house on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza from a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. Grace arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have possibly dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past. Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Visionary & Metaphysical; Literary; Contemporary Women;
© 2024., HarperCollins,
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The knight and the moth / by Gillig, Rachel,author.;
"Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum's windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams. Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude, heretical, and devilishly handsome, the knight Rodrick has no respect for Sybil's visions. But when Sybil's fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one, she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them. For the world outside the cathedral's cloister is wrought with peril. Only the gods have the answers she is seeking, and as much as she'd rather avoid Rodrick's dark eyes and sharp tongue, only a heretic can defeat a god"--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Imaginary places; Knights and knighthood; Man-woman relationships; Missing persons; Visionaries; Visions;
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Square peg : my story and what it means for raising innovators, visionaries, and out-of-the-box thinkers / by Rose, L. Todd.; Ellison, Katherine,1957-;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Rose, L. Todd.; Learning disabled; Learning disabled; Learning disabled; Learning disabled.;
© c2013., Hyperion,
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Hope dies last : visionary people across the world, fighting to find us a future / by Weisman, Alan,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-482) and index."In this profoundly human and moving narrative, the bestselling author of The World Without Us returns with a book ten years in the making: a study of the precarious state of our planet and what it means to be a human on the front lines of this existential crisis. His new book, Hope Dies Last, is a literary evocation of our current predicament and the core optimism of the human species against the worst odds we have ever faced. To write this book, Weisman has travelled the globe witnessing the devastation of climate change and meeting the people striving to mitigate and undo our past transgressions. From the flooding Marshall Islands to wetlands renewal in Iraq, and from the Netherlands to the Korean DMZ to cities and coastlines in the U.S. and around the world, he has witnessed personally the best of humanity battling the heat, the hunger, and the rising tides. He profiles the work of big thinkers -- engineers, scientists, economists, and psychiatrists -- as they devise innovative and wildly creative responses to an uncertain and frightening future. We are at an unprecedented point in history, as our collective exploits on this planet are leading us to our own undoing, and we could be one of the species marching toward extinction. A remedy to climate anxiety by one of our most important voices on humans' relationship with the Earth, Hope Dies Last fills a crucial gap in the global conversation: Now that we have passed the point of no return in our battle against climate change, how do we feel, behave, act, plan, and dream as we approach a future decidedly different from what we had expected"--
Subjects: Human ecology.; Nature; Sustainability.;
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