Giacomazzo, Bernadette
Summary: "An entertaining yet conscientious examination of the popular sketch show In Living Color, which broke racial, cultural, and comedy boundaries; launched the careers of stars such as Jamie Foxx and Jim Carrey; and helped shape comedy in the 21st century"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 GIALevinson, Cynthia
Summary: Examines the Constitutional origins of modern-day political problems and outlines solutions for these issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishers 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 342 LEVCooke, Tim
Summary: "Approaches the topic of World War II from the perspective of those fighting in it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 COOThomas, Rachael L.
Summary: This title examines the efforts of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic such as working with an unknown pathogen, PPE and equipment shortages, having to quarantine away from family, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 610.69 THORosenthal, Elisabeth
Summary: "An award-winning New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American healthcare system, and tells us exactly what we can do to solve its myriad of problems. It is well documented that our healthcare system has grave problems, but how, in only a matter of decades, did things get this bad? Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health RosenthalCooke, Tim
Summary: "Approaches the topic of the Vietnam War from the perspective of soldiers fighting in it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 959.7 COOCooke, Tim
Summary: "Approaches the topic of World War I the perspective of soldiers fighting in it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.4 COOCooke, Tim
Summary: "Approaches the topic of the Civil War from the perspective of those fighting in it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 COOHossain, Anushay
Summary: Growing up in Bangladesh in the 1980s, the concept of women's healthcare hardly existed. Hossain was relieved to deliver her baby in the US. But things started to go awry from the minute she stepped in the hospital, and after thirty hours of labor Hossain ran a fever of 104 degrees, she shook and trembled uncontrollably, and the doctors finally performed an emergency C-section. Her experience...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiller Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 HOSNabhan, Gary Paul.
Contents: Introduction -- Discerning the histories encoded in our bodies -- Searching for the ancestral diet -- Did mitochondrial Eve and Java Man feast on the same foods? -- Finding a bean for your genes and a buffer against malaria -- . The shaping and shipping away of Mediterranean cuisines -- Discovering why some don't like it hot -- Is it a matter of taste? -- Dealing with migration headaches --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press/Shearwater Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.1 NABSnyder, Lynsi
Summary: "When Lynsi Snyder's grandparents founded In-N-Out Burger in 1948, they built it with a passion for quality and service that Lynsi embraced at a young age. After starting as a store associate at age seventeen, she then worked in other departments, gaining first-hand experience with almost every aspect of the family business until she became president in 2010. She has led the company through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 647.95794 SNYLevinson, Cynthia
Summary: Examines the Constitutional origins of modern-day political problems and outlines solutions for these issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973 LEVMurray, Erin Byers
Summary: Goes behind the scenes of grits cultivation, visiting local growers, millers, and cooks to better understand the South's obsession with grits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5975 MURFriedman, Leonard H.
Summary: 101 Careers in Healthcare Management, Second Edition continues to be the only comprehensive guide to careers in health administration, ranging from entry-level management positions to the most senior executive opportunities. The second edition has been updated throughout and includes three new chapters that will assist students and healthcare managers alike. Additional content includes a quick...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Demos Medical Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331 FRIHass, Kristin Ann
Summary: Monuments, museums, and everyday patriotic practices have made headlines for most of the twenty-first century, yet they are seldom look at together or understood explicitly as tools used by particular people in particular times and places to shape the culture in particular ways. Hass explore the complicated histories of sites of cultural infrastructure: memorials in parks, museums visited by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022
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Summary: "From two leading child and adolescent mental health experts comes a guide for the parents of every college and college-bound student who want to know what's normal mental health and behavior, what's not, and how to intervene before it's too late. All parenting is in preparation for letting go. However, the paradox of parenting is that the more we learn about late adolescent development and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 HIBKruse, Kevin Michael
Summary: "If you were asked when America became polarized, your answer would likely depend on your age: you might say during Barack Obama's presidency, or with the post- 9/11 war on terror, or the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, or the 'Reagan Revolution' and the rise of the New Right. For leading historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer, it all starts in 1974. In that one year, the nation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Politic KrauseTracy, Kathleen.
Summary: Louisiana Creole and Cajun Cultures in Perspective is an in-depth look at the different regional cultures of Louisiana that have developed, with an emphasis on current culture. The young reader is presented with an overview of a variety of regional cultures that developed historically and analyzes how the cultural history shapes Louisiana's current cultures. The book is written in a lively and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mitchell Lane Publishers 2014
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Summary: Shows how our worst economic crisis, as it eroded American individualism and punctured the American dream, produced in the 1930s some of the greatest writing, photograhy, and mass entertainment ever seen in this country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 DICTracy, Kathleen.
Summary: More than one-and-a-half billion Muslims of all races, nationalities, and ethnicities live in the world today, but the birthplace of Islam is the Middle East. Islam is a religion based on the revelations given to the Prophet Muhammad. These teachings are contained in the Quran, Islam's holy book. Like other religions, Islam preaches peace and love for others. Also like other religions, Islam's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mitchell Lane Publishers 2015
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Summary: Cultural and human geography focuses on the distribution and actions of people, and the way people influence and are influenced by regional environments, economics, cultures and politics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 ROBHarvey, Jeanne Walker
Summary: "The bold story of Maya Lin, the artist-architect who designed the Vietnam War Memorial"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LINNott, David (David M.)
Summary: For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world's most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out life-saving operations and field surgery in the most challenging conditions, and with none of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NOTT, DAVID NOTSwanson, Jennifer
Summary: "In the late 1930s, times were desperate. The world found itself at war again, hardly more than twenty years after the First World War had ended - and the stakes were never higher. The leaders of every country involved were left without a choice. They had to try to end the war as fast as possible, using whatever means they could. That meant coming up with secret operations meant to deceive,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2019