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Schweber, Nate

Summary: In late-1940s America, few writers commanded attention like Bernard DeVoto. Alongside his brilliant wife and editor, Avis, DeVoto was a firebrand of American liberty, free speech, and perhaps our greatest national treasure: public lands. But when a corrupt band of lawmakers, led by Senator Pat McCarran, sought to quietly cede millions of acres of national parks and other western lands to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.78 SCH

Summary: Darwin meets Hitchcock in this true-crime tale of paradise found and lost. A extraordinary documentary portrait of a 1930s murder mystery as strange and alluring as the famous archipelago itself. Fleeing conventional society, a Berlin doctor and his mistress start a new life on uninhabited Floreana Island. But after the international press sensationalizes the exploits of the island's 'Adam and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GAL

Summary: Adapted from Sandra Schulberg's monograph, Filmmakers for the Prosecution retraces the hunt for film evidence that could convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. The searchers were two sons of Hollywood brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg serving under the command of OSS film chief John Ford. The motion pictures they presented in the courtroom became part of the official record and shape our...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIL

Schoeser, Mary.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746 SCH

Berkus, Nate

Summary: Presents a step-by-step home decorating guide to creating stylish and innovative rooms that reflect an individual's true personality, interests, tastes, and lifestyle, with photographs that provide inspirational ideas and techniques.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747.88 BER

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 747.88 BER

Frisch, Nate.

Summary: "The history of the National Football League's Detroit Lions, surveying the franchise's biggest stars and most memorable moments from its inaugural season in 1929 to today"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Paperbacks 2014

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 796.3 FRI

Powell, Nate

Summary: "In this anthology of seven comics essays, author and graphic novelist Nate Powell addresses living in an era of what he calls 'necessary protest.' Save It for Later: Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest is Powell's reflection on witnessing the collapse of discourse in real time while drawing the award-winning trilogy March, written by Congressman John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, this...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.484 POW

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 303.484 POW

Berkus, Nate

Summary: The acclaimed designer presents a guide to meaningful home decorating that builds on the premise that a house's objects reflect its owners, providing tours and stories about some of the favorite family and celebrity homes the author helped design.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2012

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 747.092 BER

Schoeser, Mary.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 1989

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 746.0942 SCH

Thompson, Nato

Summary: "One of the country's leading activist curators explores how corporations and governments have used art and culture to mystify and manipulate us. The production of culture was once the domain of artists, but beginning in the early 1900s, the emerging fields of public relations, advertising and marketing transformed the way the powerful communicate with the rest of us. A century later, the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 THO

Scheier, Liz

Summary: "A darkly funny and devastating memoir of growing up in '90s Manhattan with a mentally ill single parent"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHEIER, LIZ SCH

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B SCHEIER SCH

Scherer, Migael.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHERER, MIGAEL SCH

Ball, Nate

Summary: The PBS television host and his team of young scientists investigate how the water cycle works by shrinking themselves down to the size of a raindrop to explore such elements as ice, steam, estuaries, snowflakes, and puddles.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.4 BAL

Dern, Nate

Summary: "From Funny Or Die senior writer and former artistic director at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre comes a collection of absurdist, hilarious stories and essays on relationships, technology, and contemporary society. A brave archaeologist journeys into a suburban man cave. Leif Eriksson writes Christopher Columbus a long overdue letter. A corporate flack admonishes a room of marijuana sales...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817 DER

LeBoutillier, Nate.

Summary: "A survey of the highlights and legendary athletes--such as Romanian Nadia Comaneci--of the Olympic sport of gymnastics, which has been part of the modern Summer Games since 1896"--Provided by Publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.44 LEB

Marshall, Nate

Summary: "Definition of Finna, created by the author: fin na /'fine/ contraction: (1) going to ; intending to. rooted in African American Vernacular English. (2) eye dialect spelling of "fixing to." (3) Black possibility ; Black futurity; Blackness as tomorrow. A lyrical and harp celebration, these poems consider the brevity and disposability of Black lives and other oppressed people in our current era...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 MAR

Sloan, Nate

Summary: 'Switched on Pop' illuminates the essential musical concepts behind two decades of chart-topping songs. The text moves through close studies of 16 modern pop classics by artists from Beyoncé to Zedd, each chapter bringing out key aspects of a particular song as well as introducing core concepts such as rhythm, melody, harmony, form, and timbre. As the work progresses, more complex concepts such...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 SLO

Schneier, Bruce

Summary: A hack is any means of subverting a system's rules in unintended ways. Bruce Schneier takes hacking out of the world of computing and uses it to analyze the systems that underpin our society: from tax laws to financial markets to politics. He reveals an array of powerful actors whose hacks bend our economic, political, and legal systems to their advantage, at the expense of everyone else.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 303.4834 SCH

Schreier, Jason

Summary: "You've got your dream job--making video games. You have a great project, great designs, and clever controls. One morning, you get a call from your producer. Turns out that wall-jumping trick won't work because the artists don't have time to design a separate animation just for the plumber to move that way. Also, your lead designer keeps micromanaging the programmers, which is driving them...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Paperbacks 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793 SCH

Neate, Patrick.

Summary: Covering five continents and cities as diverse as New York, Rio, Tokyo, and Johannesburg, the author explores hip-hop's international influence on and significance in popular music.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 NEA

Scherber, Amy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: J. Wiley 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.815 SCH

Schneier, Bruce

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: It's not just computers--hacking is everywhere. Legendary cybersecurity expert and New York Times best-selling author Bruce Schneier reveals how using a hacker's mindset can change how you think about your life and the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton and Company 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4834 SCH

Schrefer, Eliot

Summary: "A research-based exploration of queer behavior in different animal species is interspersed with personal anecdotes and interviews with scientists"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 591.56 SCH

Schneer, Jonathan.

Summary: In May 1940, with France on the verge of defeat, Britain alone stood in the path of the Nazi military juggernaut. Survival seemed to hinge on the leadership of Winston Churchill, whom the King reluctantly appointed Prime Minister as Germany invaded France. Churchill’s reputation as one of the great twentieth-century leaders would be forged during the coming months and years, as he worked...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 SCH

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