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Bernstein, Gaia

Summary: "Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can't help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever. Some turn to self-help-measures to limit their usage, yet repeatedly fail, while parents feel particularly powerless to help their children. Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies shows us a way out. Rather than blaming users, the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 BER

Novella, Steven

Summary: Based on the podcast known for battling sloppy reasoning, bad arguments, and superstitions with logical thinking, the "Skeptical Rogues" help readers try to make sense of an increasingly crazy world using critical thinking skills, science, and philosophy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 NOV

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 NOV

Bergstein, Rachelle

Summary: "Sheds new light on the enticing, often surprising, story of our society?s enduring obsession with the hardest gemstone, offering a fascinating history of its origins and revealing its greatest champions and most colorful enthusiasts. 25,000 first printing,"--NoveList.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 553 BER

Vince, Gaia

Summary: What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter-gatherers evolve into multinational empires? Readers of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution -- a dramatic evolutionary change that altered our brains, turning primitive humans into modern ones -- caused a cultural explosion. In Transcendence, Gaia Vince argues instead that modern humans are the product of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.93 VIN

Dornstein, Ken.

Summary: The author describes how his life was transformed by the death of his older brother David, a writer, who was killed in the bombing of Pan Am's Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and by the haunting writings David left behind.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 DOR

Perlstein, Rick

Summary: Connects the activities and influence of today's conservative movements to a deliberate shift toward right-wing policies that began during the Carter administration and led to the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.926 PER

Ornstein, Robert

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Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice Hall Press 1991

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.7 ORN

Greenberg, Imogen

Summary: A spunky, feminist take on the myth of Gaia, the Greek goddess of the Earth. Long before the age of the Olympian gods, Gaia created the world in all its beauty. But from Gaia also came the Titans, who ran wild and free through this world--until her husband Ouranos turned on Gaia and declared himself the ruler of all she'd created. Her son Cronus then rose to power, but soon he too became hungry...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022

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Gerstein, Mordicai

Summary: "The world!" the newly born Hermes says. "It's even better than I expected! I love it! I want it all!" This book is filled with joy, exuberance, and humor. On his first day of life, Hermes manages to trick a turtle into surrendering its shell and a ram into surrendering its horns, thereby inventing the lyre, music, and song! He also manages to steal his brother Apollo's precious cows, but later...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 GER

Burstein, John.

Summary: Provides an introduction to goldfish and explains how they swim, steer, and breathe underwater.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2008

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Bornstein, Harry.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallaudet University Press 1989

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 419.1 BOR

Bornstein, Kate

Summary: Includes the text of the play, Hidden: a gender.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.36 BOR

Bornstein, Mitchell.

Summary: Last Chance Mustang is the story of Samson, a formerly free-roaming, still wild-at-heart American mustang that was plucked from his mountainous Nevada home and thrown into the domestic horse world where he was brutalized and victimized. After years of abuse, Samson had evolved into a hateful and hated, maladjusted beast until the day he found his way to a rural Illinois farm, an ill-equipped...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.1 BOR

Einstein, Albert

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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 EIN

Einstein, Albert

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 081 EIN

Burstein, John.

Summary: Learning to say "no" to cigarettes, drugs, and other dangers is one of the most important tools a child can have. In this new book by Slim Goodbody, children are taught to understand when and why they need to say "no", and how to refuse and still keep their friends.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 303.3 BUR

Bernstein, Patricia

Summary: "Based on the true story, "A Noble Cunning" tells the story of a persecuted Catholic noblewoman who rescued her husband from the Tower of London the night before his scheduled execution by carrying out an elaborate plan with the help of a group of devoted women friends. Set amid the turbulence of the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion against England's first German king, George I, the novel depicts the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: History Through Fiction 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BER

Bernstein, Richard

Summary: Following the lives of heroes, victims, and terrorists, "New York Times" journalist Bernstein weaves a complex tale of a multitude of lives colliding in conflagration on the fateful morning of September 11, 2001.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2002

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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 973.931 BER

Bernstein, Ross.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Triumph Books 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.962 BER

Burstein, John.

Summary: Provides basic information on guinea pigs and explains how they communicate and how their sense of smell keeps them out of danger.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2008

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Giasullo, Gia.

Summary: Collects seventy recipes for a variety of sodas, egg creams, and floats celebrating the history and stories of classic American soda fountains, ranging from classics like the Purple Cow and Cherry Lime Rickey to contemporary innovations.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014

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Bernstein, Carl

Summary: "Carl Bernstein's stunning portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton shows us, as nothing else has, the true trajectory of her life and career with its zigzag bursts of risks taken and safety sought. Marshaling all the skills and energy that propelled his history-making Pulitzer Prize reporting on Watergate, Bernstein gives us the most detailed, sophisticated, comprehensive, and revealing account we...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 CLINTON, HILLARY BER

Bernstein, Jake

Summary: A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale. Jake Bernstein offers a disturbing and sobering view of how the world really works and raises crucial questions about financial and legal institutions we may once have trusted.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 BER

Bernstein, Leonard

Summary: "Leonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versatile musician-a brilliant conductor who attained international super-star status, and a gifted composer of Broadway musicals (West Side Story), symphonies (Age of Anxiety), choral works (Chichester Psalms), film scores (On the Waterfront), and much more. Bernstein was also an enthusiastic letter writer, and this book is the first to present a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale Univ Pr 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 816 BER

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