Parker, Steve
Summary: A Brief Illustrated History of Life on Earth' charts the evolution of living species all the way from 2.5 billion years ago, through the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods and right through to today. With stunning full-color images and illustrations, this beautiful book is sure to fascinate and charm the young reader.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 576 PARBelcourt, Billy-Ray
Summary: This brilliant new essay collection on grief, colonial violence, joy, love and queerness from the youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize touches upon his personal history and demonstrates the power of words to both devastate and console us.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BELSchrupp, Antje
Summary: An engaging illustrated history of feminism from antiquity through third-wave feminism, featuring Sappho, Mary Magdalene, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sojourner Truth, Simone de Beauvoir, and many others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 SCHSummary: In this program, slang expert Jonathan Green explores the history of English slang and its use around the world. Wittingly revealed are the derivatives and sources of some of the more famous words, such as bimbo-a derivative of the 18th-century Italian word for baby-bambino, and the word slang itself, thought to have derived from the Scandinavian word sling, meaning throw or shot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Errol Morris (The Fog of War) turns his camera on one of the most fascinating men in the world: the pioneering astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, afflicted by a debilitating motor neuron disease that has left him without a voice or the use of his limbs. An adroitly crafted tale of personal adversity, professional triumph, and cosmological inquiry, Morris's documentary examines the way the collapse...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BRISummary: In this TEDTalk, Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from biblical times to the present and argues that although it may seem counterintuitive - and even offensive, given recent genocides and atrocities - we are living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence. Pinker is the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined and one of Time's 100 Most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Stearns, Peter N.
Summary: Thirty-six lectures that provide a survey of the expanse of human development and civilization across the globe, beginning with the invention of agriculture in the Neolithic era and ending with the urbanized, technologically sophisticated world of the 21st century.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2007
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Hawking, S. W. (Stephen W.)
Summary: "In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the intervening years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1998
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Summary: "Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style--thorough, yet riveting--famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 909 HARFrank, Thomas
Summary: "From the prophetic author of the now-classic What's the Matter with Kansas? and Listen, Liberal, an eye-opening account of populism, the most important--and misunderstood--movement of our time. Rarely does a work of history contain startling implicationsfor the present, but in The People, No Thomas Frank pulls off that explosive effect by showing us that everything we think we know about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.56 FRAContents: Back to nature (Fad Gadget) -- Hamburger lady (Throbbing Gristle) -- Oh yeah (Can) -- Spastik (Plastikman) -- Honey (Moby) -- Let your body learn (Nitzer Ebb) -- No escape (Cabaret Voltaire) -- Metal fingers in my body (Add N to (X)) -- Probably a robbery (Renegade Soundwave) -- Losing my edge (LCD Soundsystem) -- Smoke rings (Photek) -- Urania (Pan Sonic) -- Rollin' & scratchin' (Daft Punk) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC MOJFriedman, Thomas L.
Summary: In The world is flat, award-winning journalist Thomas Friedman explained how the "flattening" of the world happened at the dawn of the 21st century, what it means to countries, companies, communities, and individuals, and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt. For this updated and expanded edition, Friedman has provided more than three hours of new reporting and commentary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4833 FRIHrytsak, Yaroslav
Summary: "When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the world witnessed the creative, freewheeling, darkly humorous, and deeply resilient society that is contemporary Ukraine. In this timely and original history, a bestseller in Ukraine, the historian Yaroslav Hrytsak tells the sweeping story of his nation through a meticulous examination of the major events, conflicts, and developments that have shaped it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. K. Hall 1976
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.374Committee for a New England Bibliography
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. K. Hall 1979
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.374Hornstein, Hugh A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.09774 HORBerkowitz, Eric
Summary: "A fascinating examination of how restricting speech has continuously shaped our culture, and how censorship is used as a tool to prop up authorities and maintain class and gender disparities"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.31 BEREaton, Gale
Summary: What do the Trojan Horse, Piltdown Man, Keely Motor Company, and Ponzi Scheme have in common? They were all famous hoaxes, carefully designed and bolstered with false evidence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 001.9 EATJames, Marlon
Summary: "From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMMeikle, Olivia
Summary: Find out how humans have done their business across the world and throughout history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neon Squid 2024
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Summary: On December 3, 1976, gunmen stormed Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing, nearly killing all inside. Marley left the country three days later, not to return for two years. Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts, this is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JAMMalam, John
Summary: A Brief Illustrated History of Science' charts the history of scientific discoveries all the way through from prehistory to Aristotle, then through the works of Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Linnaeus, and right through to the incredible scientific breakthroughs of today. With stunning full-color images and illustrations, this beautiful book is sure to fascinate and charm the young reader.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 509 MALEmera, Deena
Summary: "Knowledge is the most powerful weapon. As the female body is constantly being politicized and policed, it is now more than ever that people must understand the inner workings of women's body. Written by an evolutionary geneticist, Deena Emera, Ph.D., in an accessible, nonjudgmental tone, A Brief History of the Female Body unravels misconceptions women have about their own bodies and supplies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.6 EMECooper, Michelle.
Summary: "There's a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings." Sophie Fitzosborne lives in a crumbling castle in the tiny island kingdom of Montmaray with her eccentric and impoverished royal family. When she receives a journal for her sixteenth birthday, Sophie decides to chronicle day-to-day life on the island. But this is 1936, and the news that trickles in from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2009