Preston, Louisa
Summary: Ultimately, we need to figure out what is next for humanity. Our logical move is to break free of the confines of the Earth and colonise another body in the Solar System, such as the Moon or Mars. How and when will we do this? Or is it all just science fiction? These questions, in a nutshell, make up the core of astrobiology-- the study of the origins and evolution and biology of life elsewhere...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576 PREMiller, Ben
Summary: "The Aliens Are Coming! is a refreshingly clear, hugely entertaining guide to the search for alien life. Miller looks everywhere for insight, from the Big Bang's sea of energy that somehow became living matter, to the equations that tell us Earth is not so rare, to the clues bacteria hold to how life started. And he makes the case that our growing understanding of life itself will help us...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576 MILBoss, Alan
Summary: Astronomer Alan Boss argues that based on what we already know about planetary systems, in the coming years we will find abundant Earths, including many that are indisputably alive. Life is not only possible elsewhere in the universe, Boss argues--it is common. Boss describes how our ideas about planetary formation have changed radically in the past decade and brings readers up to date on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.24 BOSSummary: "An introduction to galaxies and the universe for primary and intermediate grade students, with information about their formation and features. Includes a list of highlights for each chapter, fun facts, glossary, resource list, and index"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2014
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Summary: "Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in the quest to discover whether we are alone. For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. But once you look for life elsewhere, you realize it is not so simple. How do you find it over cosmic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 523.2 KALAbdelmahmoud, Elamin
Summary: "Professional wrestling super fandom, Ontario's endlessly unfurling 401 highway, late nights at the convenience store listening to heavy metal--for writer and podcast host Elamin Abdelmahmoud, these are the building blocks of a life. Son of Elsewhere charts that life in wise, funny, and moving reflections on the many threads that weave together into an identity. Arriving in Canada at age 12...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ABDELMAHMOUD, ELAMIN ABDMarsico, Katie
Summary: As parasites that attach themselves to humans and a variety of other unsuspecting hosts, lice are far from the most well-loved animal species on Earth. However, there is a lot to learn about these interesting creatures. Readers will find out where lice live, why they attach themselves to other animals, and how they can spread diseases. They will also learn how these insects reproduce and what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press An Imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 595.7 MARRusso, Richard.
Summary: After eight commanding works of fiction, the Pulitzer Prize winner now turns to memoir in a hilarious, moving, and always surprising account of his life, his parents, and the upstate town they all struggled variously to escape. Anyone familiar with Richard Russo's fiction will recognize Gloversville, New York, once famous for producing that eponymous product and anything else made of leather....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012
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Pfeffer, Anshel
Summary: A deeply reported biography of the scandal-plagued Israeli Prime Minister, showing that we cannot understand Israel--its history, present, and future--without first understanding the life and worldview of the man who leads it Benjamin Netanyahu is embroiled in numerous scandals, all of his own making, and may soon be ousted from the office he has held longer than any prior Israeli Prime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NETANYAHU, BENJAMIN PFEMiller, Mirella S.
Summary: "Explores the freshwater lake biome, plants and animals in the biome, the biome food chain, and highlights the lake trout"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.63 MILTyson, Neil deGrasse
Summary: Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton, this book covers it all--from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes, wormholes, and time travel. Describing the latest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016
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Contents: Kibbutz-"An Exemplary Nonfailure": Kibbutz at the Present Time (from Under This Blazing Light) -- Where the Jackals Howl (from Where the Jackals Howl) -- Way of the Wind (from Where the Jackals Howl) -- Extended Family (from Elsewhere, Perhaps) -- Secret Adaptability (from A Perfect Peace) -- Jerusalem-An Alien City: Alien City (from Under This Blazing Light) -- It's Cold in This Jerusalem of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 892.4 OZTanzer, Myles
Summary: How are you feeling today? Content, stressed, miserable, in love-- or a million things in between? Fortunately, there's music to match any mood you can think of. This book has collected together a library of music's finest artists to get you through the good, bad, and sad times. Whatever you are feeling, these artists, have been there and played about it. Dip into the library, organized by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of Quarto Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 781.11 TANCoss, Lauren
Summary: "Explores the ocean biome, plants and animals in the biome, the biome food chain, and highlights a coral reef"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2015
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Summary: "Explores the freshwater marsh biome, plants and animals in the biome, the biome food chain, and highlights the alligator"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.68 MILMiller, Mirella S.
Summary: "Explores the river biome, plants and animals in the biome, the biome food chain, and highlights the river otter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.4 MILWalker, Sara Imari
Summary: "An intriguing new scientific theory that explains what life is and how it emerges. What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short. None help us understand how life originates or the full range of possibilities for what life on other planets might look...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2024
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Summary: "Lynn Freed's deeply personal essays explore our most quintessential question: What makes a home? From very early on she had imagined for herself an ideal life: a stranger in a strange place: someone just arrived, just about to leave, and always with a home to return to. As a teenager on an exchange program to the U.S., she had made up fantastic reasons to escape high school in the suburbs and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824 FREConkling, Winifred
Summary: Throughout the years, Gloria Steinem is perhaps the single-most iconic figure associated with women's rights, her name practically synonymous with the word "feminism." Documenting everything from her boundary-pushing journalistic career to the foundation of Ms. magazine to being awarded the 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom, Winifred Conkling's Ms. Gloria Steinem: A Life is a meticulously...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2020
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 STEWise, Tim J.
Summary: "With a new preface and updated chapters, White Like Me is part memoir, part polemical essay collection. It is a personal examination of the way in which racial privilege shapes the daily lives of white Americans in every realm: employment, education, housing, criminal justice, and elsewhere. Using stories from his own life, Tim Wise demonstrates the ways in which racism not only burdens people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WISE, TIM J. WISStine, Megan
Summary: "In 1936, the life of ten-year-old Princess Elizabeth of York changed forever. Although she was a member of the British royal family, she never expected to become queen. But when her uncle Edward gave up the throne, suddenly her father was the new king, which meant young Elizabeth was next in line! Queen Elizabeth has reigned since 1953, and while there are palaces galore, the crown jewels, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ELIGrinspoon, David Harry.
Summary: It's been nearly four decades since Carl Sagan first addressed the general public from a scientist's perspective, confronting the possibility of extraterrestrial life. We've learned a lot in those years, and planetary scientist David Grinspoon is well prepared to explore this field with a new generation of readers. In Lonely Planets, Grinspoon investigates the big questions: How widespread are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ecco 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.839 GRIDougherty, Nancy
Summary: "A biography of Reinhard Heydrich and his wife, Lina von Osten Heydrich"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEYDRICH, REINHARD DOULanier, Wendy
Summary: "What did pioneers eat on the wide-open frontier as they made their way west? What kinds of clothes did people wear during the Civil War? What was school like in colonial America? Daily Life in US History answers all of these questions and more. Take a trip to the past to learn what everyday life was like in the different eras of US history." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2015