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Bender family COVID-19 (Disease) Government policy United States Juvenile literature Creative ability Creative thinking Frontier and pioneer life Imagination Scotland Genealogy Handbooks, manuals, etc Scottish Americans Genealogy Handbooks, manuals, etc Simplicity Vaccine mandates United States Juvenile literatureJonsson, Erik
Summary: "Why are we so often disoriented when we come up from the subway? Do we really walk in circles when we lose our bearings in the wilderness? How - and why - do we get lost at all?" "In this book, Erik Jonsson, a Swedish-born engineer who has spent a lifetime exploring navigation over every terrain, from the crowded cities of Europe to the emptiness of the desert, gives readers extraordinary new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.752 JONJonas, Linda
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Publisher / Publication Date: Betterway Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.1089 JONJonas, Linda
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Publisher / Publication Date: Betterway Books 2002
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.1089 JONJonasson, Eric.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheatfield Press 1978
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 JONReif, Jonas.
Summary: Self-seeding plants can create naturalistic gardens of great charm, but left to their own devices quickly spiral out of control. Maintaining the balance of plants so that a small number of robust species do not evict the others and developing the structure of the garden are important techniques to acquire. Taking inspiration from the gardens of Christopher Lloyd, Derek Jarman and Henk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oregon Timber Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 633 REIMonosson, Emily
Summary: "A prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi-and how to avert further loss across species, including our own. Fungi are everywhere. Most are harmless; some are helpful. A few are killers. Collectively, infectious fungi are the most devastating agents of disease on earth, and a fungus that can persist in the environment without its host is here to stay. In Blight, Emily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9 MONGreen, Jonathon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cassell 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 427 GREJonas, Gerald
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams in association with Thirteen/WNET 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.8 JONWinter, Jonah
Summary: An introduction to the Founding Fathers describes the heated exchanges that shaped the drafting of the U.S. Constitution, sharing fact-filled profiles of such historic icons as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 WINJonat, Rachel.
Summary: A happier, more serene life is just moments away. From your home to your finances, this straightforward guide teaches you how to scale back your possessions and commitments to just what you really need. With hundreds of ways to minimalize your life, you'll quickly uncover the joys and rewards of paring down. Helps you rediscover the simple moments that have been buried beneath the piles of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2014
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Summary: This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. The texts of these plays have all been newly edited for this volume, and are presented with modernized spelling. Stage directions have been added to help actors and directors reconstruct the play the way it would have been performed in the seventeenth century, and the introduction,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford Paperbacks 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.3 JonsonLehrer, Jonah.
Summary: "New York Times"-bestselling author Lehrer ("How We Decide") introduces readers to musicians, graphic artists, poets, and bartenders to show how they can use science to be more imaginative and make their cities, their companies, and their culture more creative.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.3 LEHMalak, Jonah
Summary: Follows Don Shirley and David Shaw, two high level scuba-divers, as they prepare for and execute a fateful dive in Boesmansgat cave in South Africa to retrieve the body of another diver.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures Llc 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DAVWinter, Jonah
Summary: Presents the life and legacy of Elvis, from his birth in Mississippi through his music career, his time in the army, his marriage, and his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PREWinter, Jonah
Summary: Shares information on labor leader Mother Jones and her 1903 Children's Crusade protesting the dangerous conditions endured by child factory workers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JONWinter, Jonah
Summary: Young Paul Revere and his friends form a club whose members ring the bells at Christ Church, an experience which teaches him responsibility and other lessons that he uses as an adult in the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2003
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE WINWinter, Jonah
Summary: A biography of U.S. Supreme Court judge, Sonia Sotomayor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 921 SOTJonas, Raymond Anthony.
Contents: Pt. 1. The road to Adwa -- Courtly ambitions -- Listing toward Adwa -- Italy in Africa -- The price of liberty -- Black in service of white -- Africa in Italy -- "Something humiliating for my kingdom" -- pt. 2. The battle -- Menelik's march -- Amba Alage -- Stalled at Sauria -- Baratieri chooses -- Armies meet -- The center crumbles -- pt. 3. Aftermaths -- Despair, panic, pursuit -- The harvest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 963.043 JONSummary: A concert film of the 2007 Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus tour. Start backstage before the concert. Then you see Hannah sing 'Rock Star.' The Jonas Brothers come onstage to sing with the Hannah, and then by themselves. While they are performing, Hannah goes backstage and switches to Miley. Compared to Hannah's songs, Miley's are a little edgier, slightly sexier, as she sings the sisterhood anthem...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV HANJonusas, Susan
Summary: "In 1873 the people of Labette County in Kansas made a grisly discovery. Buried on a homestead seven miles south of the town of Cherryvale, in a bloodied cellar and under frost-covered soil, were countless bodies in varying states of decay. The discovery sent the local community and national newspapers into a frenzy that continued for over two decades, and the land on which the crimes took...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 JONRozas, Diane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Cook RozasGoldberg, Jonah
Summary: "With his trademark blend of political history, social science, economics, and pop culture ... Jonah Goldberg makes the timely case that America and other democracies are in peril as they lose the will to defend the values and institutions that sustain freedom and prosperity. Instead we are surrendering to populism, nationalism and other forms of tribalism."--Amazon.com summary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 GOLLehrer, Jonah
Summary: Weaving together scientific studies from clinical psychologists, longitudinal studies of health and happiness, historical accounts and literary depictions, child-rearing manuals, and the language of online dating sites, Jonah Lehrer's A Book About Love plumbs the most mysterious, most formative, most important impulse governing our lives. Love confuses and compels us--and it can destroy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152 LEHLehrer, Jonah.
Contents: Walt Whitman : the substance of feeling -- George Eliot : the biology of freedom -- Auguste Escoffier : the essence of taste -- Marcel Proust : the method of memory -- Paul Cézanne : the process of sight -- Igor Stravinsky : the source of music -- Gertrude Stein : the structure of language -- Virginia Woolf : the emergent self.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2007