October 2019 Archives - State Library of Ohio

Business/Commerce

The Skills: From First Job to Dream Job―What Every Woman Needs to Know

by Mishal Husain

In The Skills award-winning broadcaster Mishal Husain inspires, champions and encourages women to make their ambitions a reality by focusing on practical skills that make […]

Thin Blue Lie: The Failure of High-Tech Policing

by Matt Stroud

American law enforcement is a system in crisis. After explosive protests responding to police brutality and discrimination in Baltimore, Ferguson, and a long list of […]

An invincible spirit: the story of Don Fulk

by As signed to Janet Allen

Profoundly deafened as an infant, Don Fulk didn’t learn his name or go to school until the age of ten. At the age of 18 […]

Between two worlds: my life as a child of deaf adults

by David Sorensen

In his memoir, David Sorensen explores his identity as a coda, or a child of Deaf adults. He describes his experiences with the roles often […]

Accessible America: a history of disability and design

by Bess Williamson

Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb […]

Middle school matters: the 10 key skills kids need to thrive in middle school and beyond–and how parents can help

by Phyllis L. Fagell, LCPC

Middle school is its own important, distinct territory, and yet it’s either written off as an uncomfortable rite of passage or lumped in with other […]

Indebted: how families make college work at any cost

by Caitlin Zaloom

Taking readers into the homes of middle-class families to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed family […]

American higher education since World War II: A history

by Roger L. Geiger

American higher education is nearly four centuries old. But in the decades after World War II, as government and social support surged and enrollments exploded, […]

Wetlands: an introduction

by Theda Braddock and Diane Hennessey

Wetlands are a vital natural resource and an integral part of the ecosystem. Yet they are also fraught with contention. Landowners, developers, ecologists, policymakers, and […]

Throwaway nation: the ugly truth about American garbage

by Jeff Dondero

Throwaway Nation: The Ugly Truth About American Garbage takes a look at the pileup of waste in the United States, including the problem of plastic, […]

A season on the wind: inside the world of spring migration

by Kenn Kaufman

A close look at one season in one key site that reveals the amazing science and magic of spring bird migration, and the perils of […]

Unfreedom of the press

by Mark R. Levin

The media, Fox News host Mark Levin Levin writes, constitute “a profession whose members form a class or aristocracy of strident, pretentious, arrogant, and self-righteously […]

Talking to strangers: What we should know about the people we don’t know

by Malcolm Gladwell

In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The […]

Mind over memes: Passive listening, toxic talk, and other modern language follies

by by Diana Senechal

This collection of interconnected essays tackles words, concepts, and phrases that have become part of the cultural conversation–but deserve to be reexamined. Combining sharp criticism, […]

Justice on trial: The Kavanaugh confirmation and the future of the Supreme Court

by Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino

In this definitive deep dive into the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, two women with extraordinary behind-the-scenes access–The Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway […]

How to be an antiracist

by Ibram X. Kendi

Ibram X. Kendi’s concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America — but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating […]

Hivemind: the new science of tribalism in our divided world

by Sarah Rose Cavanagh, Ph.D.

Hivemind: A collective consciousness in which we share consensus thoughts, emotions, and opinions; a phenomenon whereby a group of people function as if with a […]

Family resource management

by Tami James Moore and Sylvia M. Asay, University of Nebraska at Kearney

Family Resource Management addresses the purposeful management of resources from a family systems perspective focusing on the impact decisions have on the family unit and […]

Childfree by choice: the movement redefining family and creating a new age of independence

by Dr. Amy Blackstone; afterword by Lance Blackstone

From Dr. Amy Blackstone, childfree woman, co-creator of the blog ‘we’re {not} having a baby!’, and nationally recognized expert on the childfree choice, comes a […]

American carnage: on the front lines of the Republican civil war and the rise of President Trump

by Tim Alberta

The 2016 election was a watershed for the United States. Alberta looks as Trump’s victory not as the creator of this era of polarization and […]

Vaccines did not cause Rachel’s autism: My journey as a vaccine scientist, pediatrician, and autism dad

by Peter J. Hotez, MD, Ph.D.; foreword by Arthur L. Caplan (Division of Medical Ethics, NYU School of Medicine)

In 1994, Peter J. Hotez’s nineteen-month-old daughter, Rachel, was diagnosed with autism. Dr. Hotez, a pediatrician-scientist who develops vaccines for neglected tropical diseases affecting the […]

Opium: How an ancient flower shaped and poisoned our world

by John H. Halpern, MD, and David Blistein

Opioid addiction is fast becoming the most deadly crisis in American history. In 2017, it claimed nearly fifty thousand lives — more than gunshots and […]

Gene eating: the science of obesity and the truth about dieting

by Giles Yeo, Ph.D.

In an age of misinformation and pseudo-science, the world is getting fatter and the diet makers are getting richer. How do we break this cycle? […]

An elegant defense: The extraordinary new science of the immune system: a tale in four lives

by Matt Richtel

The immune system is a guardian vigilantly fighting illness, healing wounds, maintaining order and balance, and keeping us alive. Richtel interweaves the stories of four […]

Cannabis & CBD for health and wellness: an essential guide for using nature's medicine to relieve stress, anxiety, chronic pain, inflammation, and more by Aliza Sherman and Dr. Junella Chin; photographs by Erin Scott

Cannabis and CBD for health and wellness: an essential guide for using nature’s medicine to relieve stress, anxiety, chronic pain, inflammation, and more

by Aliza Sherman and Dr. Junella Chin

A safe, comprehensive, and easy-to-use guide to using cannabis–including CBD and THC–to ease chronic and acute health issues such as pain, insomnia, inflammation, depression, anxiety, […]