Sontag, Susan
Summary: An unprecedented collection of the controversial later writings of the greatest and most provocative critic of our time. Susan Sontag was the most influential critic of her time. This second volume in Library of America's definitive Sontag edition gathers all the collected essays and speeches from her last quarter-century, brilliant works whose subjects, from the AIDS epidemic, 9/11, the Iraq...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SONSontag, Susan
Summary: Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the universal availability of imagery intended to shock? In this investigation of the role of imagery in our culture, Susan Sontag cuts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.6 SONThompson, Laurie Ann
Summary: "A picture book biography of Senator Elizabeth Warren"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WARSusanka, Sarah.
Summary: Provides a review of social trends and their effect on architecture and design.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Home Build SusankaSusanka, Sarah.
Summary: Provides a review of social trends and their effect on architecture and design.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.37 SUAlthoff, Susanne
Summary: "Althoff exposes the ways in which the current start-up paradigm was engineered by and for white men, and the ways in which women, non-binary, and trans folks face impossible barriers to landing funding from venture capitalists to make their companies viable"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 ALTSchotz, Susanne
Summary: A leading authority on cat communication provides a crash course in speaking cat, describing what feline vocalizations mean in different situations, and provides practical advice to help better understand pets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.8 SCHTrilling, Susana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5972 TRIWedlich, Susanne
Summary: Takes readers on a sticky scientific adventure through the three-billion-year history of slime, exploring its part in the evolution of life and its cultural and emotional significance, from its starring role in the horror genre to its subtle influence on Art Nouveau.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 611 WEDCahalan, Susannah
Summary: For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 CAHCharleson, Susannah
Summary: "Readers take to the streets beside Susannah to bring home a host of missing pets. Along the way, Susannah finds a part of herself also lost. And when unexpected heartbreak shatters her own sense of direction, it is Ace--the shelter dog that started it all--who leads Susannah home. Inquisitive, instructive, heartrending, and hopeful, Where the Lost Dogs Go pays tribute to the missing dogs--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 CHACharleson, Susannah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.7 CHAJha, Sonora
Summary: "This book is both an incredibly moving mother-son love story told in personal essays, and a parenting manual with concrete advice and actionable takeaways for feminists of all stripes hoping to dismantle toxic masculinity, one sweet boy at a time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sasquatch Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 JHACahalan, Susannah.
Summary: One day in 2009, twenty-four-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a "flight risk," and her medical records, chronicling a monthlong hospital stay of which she had no memory at all, showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability. Only weeks earlier, Susannah had been on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2012
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Summary: ""Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure," Elizabeth Bennet tells Fitzwilliam Darcy in one of countless exhilarating scenes in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The remembrance of Austen's brilliant work has given its readers pleasure for 200 years and is certain to do so for centuries to come. The book is incomparable for its wit, humor, and insights into how we think...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.7 FULMeadows, Susannah
Summary: "True stories about people who triumphed over seemingly impossible medical diagnoses using untraditional, inventive therapies and perseverance--and about what scientists are discovering on the psychology of healing and the mind-body connection--from the author of theNew York TimesMagazinearticle about her own son, "The Boy with the Thorn in his Joints," which led to this book about other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 MEACharleson, Susannah.
Summary: After the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, Susannah Charleson was so impressed by the newspaper photo of an exhausted handler and his search-and-rescue dog that she decided to train a dog of her own. Charleson got Puzzle, a strong, bright Golden Retriever, who from the start, exhibited a unique aptitude for search-and-rescue work. But the puppy's willfulness challenged even Susannah, who had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 CHASeton, Susannah
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conari Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 SETForrest, Susanna
Summary: Anthropologist and equestrian expert Susanna Forrest presents a singular, sweeping panorama of the horse's prminent role across time and in societies around the world. Combining fascinating anthropological detail and incisive personal anecdotes, Forrest illustrates how our evolution has coincided with that of horses. Unique, passionate, and insightful, this book investigates the complexities of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.1 FOROroyan, Susanna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: C&T Pub. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.592 OroyanMoore, Susanna.
Summary: "The dramatic history of America's tropical paradise. The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals--from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds blown from their migratory routes, to the early Polynesian adventurers who sailed across the Pacific in double...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 996.9 MOOHoffman, Susanna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5945 HOFBuhrman-Deever, Susannah
Summary: "On the Pacific Coast of North America, sea otters play, dive, and hunt for sea urchins, crabs, abalone, and fish in the lush kelp forests beneath the waves. But there was a time when people hunted the otters almost to extinction. Without sea otters to eat them, an army of hungry sea urchins grew and destroyed entire kelp forests. Fish and other animals that depended on the kelp were lost, too....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Donato, Dan
Summary: "Weathering and erosion have helped shaped many of Earth's most famous landforms-from the Grand Canyon to the Cliffs of Moher. Readers of this innovative volume get an in-depth look at how these fascinating processes are able to transform the surfaces of the world. Eye-catching photographs and stimulating sidebars help readers develop a deeper understanding of the informative and accessible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2021