Reid, William H.
Summary: "On July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colorado, a man in dark body armor and a gas mask entered a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises with a tactical shotgun, a high-capacity assault rifle, and a sidearm. He threw a canister of tear gas into the crowd and began firing. Soon twelve were dead and fifty-eight were wounded; young children and pregnant women were among them. The man was found calmly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 REICrigger, C. K.
Summary: "Shay Billings and January Schutt have been married four months when he's summoned by the local bank president to a meeting. With the final payment due on his land, Shay rides to town for the meeting, then is murdered on the way home . . . The bank president declares the loan in arrears and informs January the bank is taking everything except the clothes on her back. Devastated by Shay's death,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: "A behind-the-scenes look at the creation and development of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, written by the pioneering forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI studies, profiles, and catches serial killers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.3092 BURPineda, Jaime A.
Summary: "Controlling Mental Chaos shows how the dynamics of anxiety and incessant rumination reflect uncontrolled creativity, and how using simple, time-tested techniques we can learn to control the chaos and recover our creative nature"--Back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated to "a mind spread out on the ground." In this urgent and visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experienced. Elliott's deeply personal writing details a life spent between Indigenous and white...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELLIOTT, ALICIA ELLAmis, Martin.
Summary: Gifted and innovative novelist Martin Amis has been the object of obsessive media scrutiny for much of his career. In this much anticipated memoir, he writes with striking candor about his life and, in the process, gives us a clear view of the 'geography of the writer's mind'. The son of comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Talk Miramax Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 AMIChittka, Lars
Summary: A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees Most of us are aware of the hive mind--the power of bees as an amazing collective. But do we know how uniquely intelligent bees are as individuals? In The Mind of a Bee, Lars Chittka draws from decades of research, including his own pioneering work, to argue that bees have remarkable cognitive abilities. He shows that they are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 595.799 CHISiegel, Daniel J.
Summary: "What is the mind? What is the experience of the self truly made of? How does the mind differ from the brain? Though the mind's contents--its emotions, thoughts, and memories--are often described, the essence of mind is rarely, if ever, defined. In this book, noted neuropsychiatrist and New York Times best-selling author Daniel J. Siegel, MD, uses his characteristic sensitivity and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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Summary: When it comes to disease and healing, most of us believe we must look beyond doctors and drugs; we must look within ourselves. Faith, relationships, and attitude matter. We've all heard that people suffering from serious illnesses improve their survival chances by adopting a positive attitude and refusing to believe in the worst, that stress can kill, and that ancient Eastern mind-body...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.001 HARFrank, Justin A.
Summary: No president in the history of the United States has inspired more alarm and confusion than Donald Trump. As questions and concerns about his decisions, behavior, and qualifications for office have multiplied, they point to one primary question: Does he pose a genuine threat to our country? The American Psychiatric Association's Goldwater Rule constrains psychiatrists from offering diagnoses on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 FRAHegseth, Pete
Summary: Early in the twentieth century, Progressives quietly transformed America's schools. A hundred years later, they've succeeded beyond their wildest hopes. Behind a smokescreen of "preparing students for the new industrial economy," early Progressives had political control in mind. America's original schools didn't just make kids memorize facts or learn skills; they taught them to think freely and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside Books, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.11 HEGGardner, Howard.
Summary: Publisher's description: Minds are exceedingly hard to change. Ask any advertiser who has tried to convince consumers to switch brands, any CEO who has tried to change a company's culture, or any individual who has tried to heal a rift with a friend. So many aspects of life are oriented toward changing minds--yet this phenomenon is among the least understood of familiar human experiences. Now,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business School Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.85 GARMontgomery, Sy
Summary: Looks at the work of renowned octopus scientist Jennifer Mather and a team of researchers on the island of Moorea, near Tahiti in the South Pacific, where they work to learn more about octopuses and their behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 594.56 MONThompson, C. Bradley
Summary: "The purpose of America's Revolutionary Mind is twofold: first, to elucidate the logic, principles, and significance of the Declaration of Independence as the embodiment of the American mind; and, second, to shed light on what John Adams called the real American Revolution--that is, the moral revolution that occurred in the minds of the people in the fifteen years before what Ralph Waldo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encounter Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 THOVan der Kolk, Bessel A.
Summary: An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2014
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Summary: "What might it mean to behold the world with such depth and feeling that it is no longer possible to imagine it as something separate from ourselves, or to live without regard for its well-being? To understand the work of seeing things as an utterly involving moral and spiritual act? Such questions have long occupied the center of contemplative spiritual traditions. In The Blue Sapphire of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8 CHRHolmes, Ernest
Summary: The founder of the United Church of Religious Science, an international religious movement, presents his basic spiritual tenets, showing readers how to get in touch with nature's forces and God's healing power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher 2010
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Contents: Minds viewed globally: a personal introduction -- The disciplined mind -- The synthesizing mind -- The creating mind -- The respectful mind -- The ethical mind -- Conclusion: toward the cultivation of the five minds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business School Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001 GARMcDiarmid, Jessica
Summary: In the vein of the astonishing and eye-opening bestsellers <i>I'll Be Gone in the Dark <i>and <i>The Line Becomes a River<i>, this stunning work of investigative journalism follows a series of unsolved disappearances and murders of Indigenous women in rural British Columbia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 MCDFitzharris, Lindsey
Summary: "A biography of the plastic surgeon Harold Gillies with an emphasis on the development of plastic surgery during WWI"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILLIES, H.D. FITGrazer, Brian
Summary: "From Academy Award-nominated producer Brian Grazer and acclaimed business journalist Charles Fishman comes a brilliantly entertaining peek into the weekly "curiosity conversations" that have inspired Grazer to create some of America's favorite and iconic movies and television shows--from 24 to A Beautiful Mind. For decades, film and TV producer Brian Grazer has scheduled a weekly "curiosity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 153.8 GRAManchester, William
Summary: "From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth--the dense...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.21 MANTobar, Héctor
Summary: A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist relates the experiences of the thirty-three men who endured entrapment beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days during the San José mine collapse outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 983 TOBClark, Jerry
Summary: Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, as one judge described her, as "a coldly calculated criminal recidivist and serial killer." She had experienced a lifetime of murder, mayhem, and mental illness. She killed two boyfriends, including one whose body was stuffed in a freezer. And she was convicted in one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's strangest cases: the Pizza Bomber case, in which a pizza...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2017