Herz, Rachel
Summary: A tour of the psychology, biology, and sociology of the olfactory sense explores smell and how it is interconnected with human survival, drawing on research and personal accounts to illuminate the sense's relevance in everyday life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.166 HERContents: Introduction / Roger Rosenblatt -- One world of consumers / William Greider -- What's wrong with consumer society? : competitive spending and the "new consumerism" / Juliet Schor -- Consuming for love / Edward N. Luttwak -- False connections / Alex Kotlowitz -- Oh, Isaac, oh, Bernard, oh, Mohan / Bharati Mukherjee -- Consuming nature / Bill McKibben -- A news consumer's Bill of Rights / Suzanne...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press/Shearwater Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 CONRose, David
Summary: We are now standing at the precipice of the next transformative development: the Internet of Things. Soon, connected technology will be embedded in hundreds of everyday objects we already use: our cars, wallets, watches, umbrellas, even our trash cans. These objects will respond to our needs, come to know us, and learn to think on our behalf. David Rose calls these devices--which are just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.48 ROSTallis, Frank
Summary: Love defines us. It shapes the individual, ensures the preservation of the species, and is the principal subject we - as a culture - choose to examine in our art forms. The experience of being in love is powerful and it inevitably changes how we feel and how we behave. Even when love is normal it is so intense that for thousands of years doctors and poets have described love as a kind of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 TALGoldstein, Dana
Summary: A history of 175 years of teaching in America demonstrates that teachers have always borne the brunt of shifting, often impossible expectations. In other nations, public schools are one thread in a quilt that includes free universal childcare, health care, and job training. Here, schools are the whole cloth. Today we look around the world at countries like Finland and South Korea, whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.1 GOLSummary: "Over the course of four years, the traveling love rally called Together Live brought together diverse storytellers for epic evenings of laughter, music, and hard-won wisdom to huge audiences across the country. Well-known womxn (and the occasional man) from all walks of life shared their most vulnerable truths in a radical act of love, paving the way for healing in the face of adversity. Now,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 HUNBratton, William J.
Summary: "When Bill Bratton became a Boston street cop after returning from serving in Vietnam, he was dismayed by the corrupt old guard , and it is fair to say the old guard was dismayed by him too. But his success fighting crime could not be denied. Propelled byextraordinary results, Bratton had a dazzling rise, and ultimately a dazzling career, becoming the most famous police commissioner of modern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRATTON, WILLIAM J. BRAHaselton, Martie Gail
Summary: Identifies the sources of behavioral and physiological changes attributed to a woman's hormone cycles, revealing a hidden adaptive intelligence in the body's hormones and how an awareness of protective hormonal activity can help women to make better-informed decisions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 HASWilliams, Kate
Summary: From CNN's official royal historian, a highly praised young author with a doctorate from Oxford University, comes the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of the woman who conquered Napoleon's heart -- and with it, an empire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BONAPARTE, JOSEPHINE WILOgden, Gina.
Contents: Opening yourself to sexual desire -- The four energies that spark sexual desire -- What's "normal?" -- The quest for partnership -- Ménage à moi -- Losing yourself in your partner -- Are men the problem? -- Bringing up baby -- Beyond monogamy -- Living curly in a straight culture -- Abuse and trauma -- Sacred union -- What women want -- Afterword: Like fine wine--when desire ripens with age --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trumpeter 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7082 OGDKelleher, Katy
Summary: In these deeply researched essays, a Paris Review contributor blends science, history, and memoir to explore human obsession with gorgeous things, exposing the fraught histories of makeup, silk, jewels, perfume, and other objects, helping readers to ethically partake in the beauty of the world around them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 111 KELBrescia, Ray
Summary: "At this time of tumultuous change and threats to the rule of law in the United States, Lawyer Nation explores the critical role that American lawyers have played since the nation's founding, and the role they must play today and in the future, in defending and advancing justice and inclusion in our multi-racial democracy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2024
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Summary: Tennessee Williams' classic drama studies the emotional disintegration of a Southern woman whose last chance for happiness is destroyed by her vindictive brother-in-law.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.54 WILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Play WilliamsStarr, Paul
Summary: "Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.961 STAAltman, Elissa
Summary: "The author of the popular Poor Man's Feast blog chronicles her lifelong relationship with all things culinary and the transformation she experiences -- from culinary trend-aholic to a champion of simplicity -- when she finally finds love. Short chapters sprinkled with recipes show that living and eating well are much simpler than we might think"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 ALTMAN, ELISSA ALTSummary: Shows how human desires are an essential, intricate part of natural history. The program will explore the natural history of four plants -the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato - and the corresponding human desires - sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control. This two-hour documentary begins in Michael Pollan's garden, and roams the world, from the fields of Iowa to the apple forests...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Distribution 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BOTTurner, J. Scott
Summary: "SUNY professor, biologist, and physiologist J. Scott Turner argues that modern Darwinism's materialist and mechanistic biases have led to a scientific dead end, unable to define what life is--and only an openness to the qualities of "purpose and desire" will move the field forward. Turner surveys the history of evolutionary thought, identifying "purpose and desire" as the keys to a coherent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 570 TURSchnarch, David Morris
Contents: There is always a low desire partner and the low desire partner controls sex -- Since your "self" showed up, sexual desire hasn't been the same -- The low desire partner usually controls the high desire partner's adequacy -- Holding on to your self -- Intimacy shapes your sexual desire -- Changing monogamy from martyrdom to freedom -- Desire fades when you stop growing -- Wanting, not wanting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beaufort Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 SCHLehmiller, Justin J.
Summary: "Using insights from the most comprehensive scientific survey of Americans' sexual fantasies, Justin Lehmiller offers an unprecedented look into our most intimate thoughts and what they reveal about us. Tell Me What You Want validates your sexual desires and gives you the tools you need to communicate with your partner about integrating them into your relationship. Plus, it answers all your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.3 LEHErdrich, Louise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 ERDTitmuss, Christopher.
Contents: The four noble truths. Suffering -- Desire : a cause of suffering -- Liberation from suffering -- The path.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 1999
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Summary: An account of how eight jewels shaped the course of history shares insights into the role of precious gemstones in triggering cultural movements, political dynasties, and wars, while exploring how jewels reflect darker aspects of human nature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.59 RADBrody, Howard.
Contents: The good, the bad, and the ugly : a story of two medications -- An ethical framework -- The pharmaceutical industry and the free market -- Patents, generic drugs, and academic science -- Research and profits -- Suppression of research data -- The quality of pharmaceutical research -- The drug rep: historical background -- The drug rep today -- The influence of drug reps: what the data show --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 174.2 BROHicks, Esther
Summary: Presents the teachings of the nonphysical entity Abraham and will help you learn how to manifest your desires so that you're living the joyous and fulfilling life you deserve. You'll come to understand how your relationships, health issues, finances, career concerns, and more are influenced by the Universal laws that govern your time-space-reality and you'll discover powerful processes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House 2004