Lyon, Jonah
Summary: "There are always two sides to every argument. Advocating for issues that matter to you is important, but what's equally as important is understanding those issues from the other perspective. Pros and Cons: Banned Books dives deeper into this highly debated topic and provides readers with the tools and strategies to think critically and analyze the topic through an unbiased lens. Readers will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Press 2023
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Social LyonCampisi, Charles
Summary: From 1996 through 2014 Charles Campisi headed NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau, working under four police commissioners and gaining a reputation as hard-nosed and incorruptible. When he retired, only one man on the 36,000-member force had served longer. During Campisi's IAB tenure, the number of New Yorkers shot, wounded, or killed by cops every year declined by ninety percent, and the number of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 CAMNoble, Thomas F. X.
Summary: Explores the five momentous centuries that link the Classical and Modern worlds and shows how the fall of the Roman Empire gave rise to three great civilizations: Medieval Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and the Islamic Caliphate. Examines many features of the period between A.D. 253 and A.D. 750, including the development of these unique civilizations, their memorable political and religious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.1 LATSummary: France's African Crisis Develops in Algeria and Morocco
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1955
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Connelly, Michael
Summary: From Connelly's first career as a prizewinning crime reporter--the true stories that inspired and informed his novels. Covering the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles in vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and, of course, the killers--to tell the real stories of murder...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.25 CONLyon, Jonah
Summary: "There are always two sides to every argument. Advocating for issues that matter to you is important, but what's equally as important is understanding those issues from the other perspective. Pros and Cons: Vaccine Mandates dives deeper into this highly debated topic and provides readers with the tools and strategies to think critically and analyze the topic through an unbiased lens. Readers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Social LyonPaine, Thomas
Contents: Common sense, The crisis, and other pamphlets, articles and letters -- Rights of man -- The age of reason.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.51 PAIConnelly, Michael
Summary: From Connelly's first career as a prizewinning crime reporter--the true stories that inspired and informed his novels. Covering the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles in vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and, of course, the killers--to tell the real stories of murder...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2006
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Summary: It has been call the "Ferguson effect": Since the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, officers have been backing off of proactive policing, and criminals are becoming emboldened. Mac Donald deconstructs the central narrative of the Black Lives Matter movement: that racist cops are the greatest threat to young black males. She argues that it is criminals and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encounter Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.20973 MACKassnoff, David.
Summary: The Navy SEALs may be the most talked about special operations unit of the military but the U.S. Army Green Berets are no less masterful at their job. Readers explore the lesser-known details about what makes a Green Beret tick, including the rigorous admissions requirements and top-secret missions. This is perfect for anyone fascinated with military operations
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 356.16 KASSummary: Designed for the beginner, Digital Cameras Made Easy introduces viewers to the technical basics of digital photography. The video goes into how a digital camera works, describing image resolution, types of flashes, memory cards, batteries, and zooming vs. cropping; file compression and the pros and cons of saving images as GIFs, JPEGs, and TIFFs; touching up and modifying images (fixing red eye...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Wood, H. P. (Hilary Poole)
Summary: Offers an overview of some of the funniest, weirdest, and most influential cons, scams, and deceptions in history, looking at how the fakers do it, why people can be so easy to fool, and how readers can avoid becoming a sucker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 364.16 WOOGalbraith, James K.
Summary: "The years since the Great Crisis of 2008 have seen slow growth, high unemployment, falling home values, chronic deficits, a deepening disaster in Europe--and a stale argument between two false solutions, "austerity" on one side and "stimulus" on the other. Both sides and practically all analyses of the crisis so far take for granted that the economic growth from the early 1950s until...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339 GALBernanke, Ben.
Summary: In 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gave a series of lectures about the Federal Reserve and the 2008 financial crisis, as part of a course at George Washington University on the role of the Federal Reserve in the economy. He revealed important background and insights into the central bank's crucial actions during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 BERGoldsmith, Connie
Summary: Prince and Michael Jackson were among the many thousands of Americans who die each year from drug overdoses in the United States. Learn about the complex triggers that lead to addiction and overdose and the challenges of rehabilitation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 362.2 GOLFarrell, Warren
Summary: "What is the boy crisis? It's a crisis of education. Worldwide, boys are 50 percent less likely than girls to meet basic proficiency in reading, math, and science. It's a crisis of mental health. ADHD is on the rise. And as boys become young men, their suicide rates go from equal to girls to six times that of young women. It's a crisis of fathering. Boys are growing up with less-involved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella, BenBella Books, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 155.43 FARFenton, Justin
Summary: "Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens demanded justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year old black man who had died while in police custody. At the same time, drug and violent crime were surging, and that year, Baltimore would reach its deadliest year in over two decades: 342 homicides in a city of six hundred thousand people. Under intense scrutiny--and a federal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 FENColes, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 COLThygerson, Alton L.
Contents: Background information -- Action at an emergency -- The human body -- Finding out what's wrong -- CPR -- Automated external defibrillators -- Shock -- Bleeding -- Wounds -- Bandaging wounds -- Burns -- Head and spinal injuries -- Chest, abdominal, and pelvic injuries -- Bone, joint, and muscle injuries -- Extremity injuries -- Splinting extremities -- Sudden illnesses -- Poisoning -- Bites and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jones and Bartlett Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.0252 THYPflugfelder, Bob
Summary: When they discover that someone is spying on their Uncle Newt, whiz kids Nick and Tesla build a variety of outrageous gadgets designed to expose who is responsible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PFLSummary: With the Darfur Peace Agreement in shambles, this Wide Angle report portrays the desperation of daily life five years into the Darfur conflict, from the sprawling Abu Shouk refugee camp to volatile rebel-held areas of Sudan seldom reached by Western reporters. General Martin Luther Agwai, commander of the combined United Nations/African Union peacekeeping force for Darfur, is featured as the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Vincent, Gene
Contents: Bluejean bop: Bluejean bop ; Jezebel ; Who slapped John? ; Ain't she sweet ; I flipped ; Waltz of the wind ; Jump back, honey, jump back ; Wedding bells ; Jumps, giggles and shouts ; Lazy river ; Bop street ; Peg o' my heart -- Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps: Red blue jeans and a pony tail ; Hold me, hug me, rock me ; Unchained melody ; You told a fib ; Cat man ; You better believe ; Cruisin'...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK VINSummary: Compiled by author, teacher, and curriculum advisor Ben Walsh, this program features 11 extracts on the Cuban missile crisis from various film archive sources. Clip selections and Walsh's commentary are organized around the following three topics: the build-up to the crisis, the actions and decisions of President John F. Kennedy in confronting the threat, and the outcome of the conflict in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Waters, Roger.
Contents: Apparently they were travelling abroad -- Running shoes -- Arabs with knives and West German skies -- For the first time today, pt. 2 -- Sexual revolution -- The remains of our love -- Go fishing -- For the first time today, pt. 1 -- Dunroamin, duncarin, dunlivin -- The pros and cons of hitch hiking -- Every stranger's eyes -- The moment of clarity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1984