Pyne, Lydia V.

Summary: "A science historian describes seven famous ancestral fossils that have become known around the world, including the three-foot tall "hobbit" from Flores, the Neanderthal of La Chapelle, the Taung Child, the Piltdown Man hoax, Peking Man, Australopithecus sediba and Lucy,"--NoveList.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016

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King, David C.

Summary: ""Ahlaan bikum fi eamman"-Welcome to Oman, a country of contrasts. Located on the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East, Oman straddles the old and the new, the traditional with the modern. Camels and horses vie with cars and buses for room on the roads. Mosques made for worshipers share the land with motels made for tourists. Multiple cups of kahwa, or coffee mixed with cardamom, are served...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2022

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Wragg Sykes, Rebecca

Summary: Our perception of the Neanderthals has undergone a metamorphosis since their discovery 150 years ago, from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. Spanning scientific curiosity and popular cultural fascination means that there is a wealth of coverage in the media and beyond - but do we get the whole story? The reality of 21st century Neanderthals is complex and fascinating, yet...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2020

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Chang, Jung

Summary: Based on a decade of research and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before--and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him--this is the most authoritative life of Mao ever written. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he was not driven by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005

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Jackson, Robert H.

Summary: "Robert H. Jackson was one of the giants of the Roosevelt era: an Attorney General, a still-revered Supreme Court Justice, and, not least important, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's close friends and advisers. His intimate memoir of FDR, written in the early 1950s before Jackson's untimely death, has remained unpublished for fifty years. Here is that newly discovered memoir." "Written with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003

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Mattern, Joanne

Summary: Discusses the history, development, habits, and care of Manx cats.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2003

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Baudelaire, Charles

Summary: A bilingual edition of selected poems of a 19th century French master. In "The cat," one reads in this English version: "Come, cat of mine, perch on my loving breast; / Come, beauty, lie in gentle guise: / Pull in your claws, and let me plunge, possessed, / Into your agate-metal eyes."

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1998

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Alexander, Heather

Summary: "Mae Jemison is the first African American woman to travel to space. She's also a medical doctor who once joined the Peace Corps. And a trained dancer, too! Experience all the exciting moments in Dr. Jemison's thrilling life in this exciting biography, packed with two-color illustrations and fun facts, including the secrets of NASA"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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Veksler, Bella.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer Pub. 2000

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Morris, May

Summary: May Morris, youngest daughter of influential designer William Morris, was one of the leading female contributors to the Arts and Crafts Movement. She ran the embroidery department of her father's famous firm Morris & Co., and had a successful freelance career as a designer, maker, and exhibitor, founding the Women's Guild of Arts in 1907 and undertaking a lecture tour in the United States...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2017

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Ward, Lynd

Summary: From the eve of the Great Depression to the onset of World War II, Lynd Ward, America's first great graphic novelist, bore witness to the roiling, dizzying national scene as both a master printmaker and a socially committed storyteller. His medium of expression, the wordless "novel in woodcuts," was his alone in the United States, and he quickly brought it from bold iconic infancy to a still...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010

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Chhaya, Mayank.

Contents: Introduction -- Continental cataclysm -- Buddhism comes to Tibet -- Clucking like a hen and breaking up fights -- From a prankster to the Dalai Lama reincarnate -- Farewell to the worldly world -- Lhasa in turmoil -- Tibet's new ruler is not all of five years old? -- India, China, and Tibet -- Suggestions of fratricide -- New gods in Tibet -- Mcleod Ganj, Dharamshala, India -- Mao, Buddhism,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2007

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Abramovitz, Melissa

Summary: Describes the history, design, weapons, and missions of main battle tanks.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone High-Interest Books 2001

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Greenberg, Jan.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2001

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Shanklin, Mary C.

Summary: The story of Mar-A-Largo starts even before heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and investor E.F. Hutton built this ode to Roaring Twenties excess atop a coral reef in south Florida. How did Palm Beach's most famous manse become the chew toy for tabloid headline writers? Shanklin reveals the disputes, politics, and lifestyles of a power couple's dream oasis through its history and to the current...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2023

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Cavallaro, Christina.

Contents: Mah-jongg : so old, so new -- Shanghai to Miami Beach -- Tiles, sets, and tchotchkes -- The traditional Chinese and American games -- Courtesies.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2005

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Bancroft, Lundy

Summary: In this groundbreaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft—a counselor who specializes in working with abusive men—uses his knowledge about how abusers think to help women recognize when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of an abusive relationship.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2003

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Janovitz, Bill.

Summary: Tracing the creation of Exile on Main St. from the original songwriting done while touring America through the final editing in Los Angeles, Bill Janovitz explains how an album recorded by a British band in a villa on the French Riviera is pure American rock and roll. Looking at each song individually, Janovitz unveils the innovative recording techniques, personal struggles, and rock and roll...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 2005

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Leider, Emily Wortis.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1997

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