Marzluff, John M.
Summary: "John Marzluff and Tony Angell examine the often surprising ways that crows and humans interact. The authors contend that those interactions reflect a process of "cultural coevolution." They offer a challenging new view of the human-crow dynamic - a view that may change our thinking not only about crows but also about ourselves." "Featuring more than 100 original drawings, this book takes a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2005
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.864 MARAlexander, Michelle.
Summary: "As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status - much like their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.973 ALERosenberg, Rosalind
Summary: "Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country. In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant portrait of a figure who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MURRAY, PAULI ROSThaggert, Miriam
Summary: "Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to 'ride Jim Crow' on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines four instances of Black female railroad travel: the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.896 THASummary: New research has shown that crows are among the most intelligent animals in the world, able to use tools as only elephants and chimpanzees do, able to recognize each other's voices and 250 distinct calls. Crow experts from around the world sing their praises, and present us with captivating new footage of crows as we have never seen them before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MURGates, Henry Louis
Summary: "A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind. The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 GATCrow Dog, Leonard
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1996
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Summary: Discusses the psychic potential in all children and argues for greater public acceptance of children with remarkable psychic abilities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.8083 BROWiegand, Wayne A.
Summary: "Wayne A. and Shirley A. Wiegand tell the comprehensive story of the integration of southern public libraries. As in other efforts to integrate civic institutions in the 1950s and 1960s, the determination of local activists won the battle against segregation in libraries. In particular, the willingness of young black community members to take part in organized protests and direct actions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 027.475 WIEBardugo, Leigh.
Summary: "Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio 2015
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Summary: "In the newest addition to the ever-popular and authoritative nonfiction Scientists in the Field series, the team behindThe Frog Scientist take you on a research trip to New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean to follow crows in aviaries and in the wild whileanswering many thought-provoking questions like: "Can a crow outsmart a scientist?" Remarkably engaging narrative nonfiction coupled with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598 TURBrown, C. Brené
Summary: In this work, the author, a leading expert on shame, authenticity, and belonging, shares ten guideposts on the power of wholehearted living, a way of engaging with the world from a place of worthiness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hazelden 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 BROSummary: This sequel to the award-winning Gifts: Mothers Reflect on How Children with Down Syndrome Enrich Their Lives offers comfort, hope, and inspiration to families and the wider community in a way that no scholarly document ever could; it can also help to prepare the minds and hearts of expectant parents to receive their new Down syndrome child with love and joy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Woodbine House 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.198 GIFTaste of Home Books
Summary: "Create a little magic this season with the all-new Taste of Home Christmas! More than 350 recipes, easy crafts, decorating ideas, yuletide hints and kitchen timesavers help you turn homemade holidays into lifelong memories. Tempting appetizers, savory main courses, delicious sides, golden breads and impressive desserts offer everything you need to create a stunning holiday spread. Six complete...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RDA Enthusiast Books, LLC 2019
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1 available in Holiday Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 TasSummary: This book contains over 70 step-by-step ideas for handmade gifts. Handmade Gifts is the perfect guide to making handcrafted items that people will love. Each project is clearly explained using simple step-by-step images along with photographs of the finished item and variations on how to make each piece unique. There are even ideas for green and up-cycled gifts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 HANCrow,Joseph Medicine
Summary: Meet Joseph Medicine Crow, a man raised in two worlds: according to the Crow Indian traditions and according to White man's rules.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2006
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 970 Crow,RAIN TREE CROW.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RAICrow, Sheryl.
Summary: Singer Sheryl Crow's cookbook shows how she eats healthily by cooking foods that are seasonal, locally grown, and vitamin-rich to keep her on top of her game and always ready to perform. "In The Kitchen" offers a full menu of approximately 125 recipes grouped seasonally--from the big entertaining menus that are prepared for her crew while touring (Mojito braised pork) to small home-cooked meals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5973 CROSummary: Presents a collection of essays in which daughters remember their relationships with their mothers and the complicated bonds they shared with them, symboliZed by gifts or memories of emotional encounters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.874 BENReed, Adolph L.
Summary: "Adolph L. Reed Jr.-- New Orleanian, political scientist, and, according to Cornel West, "the greatest democratic theorist of his generation"-- takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular realities of life in the last decades of the Jim Crow South"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 REEHudson, Wade
Summary: "The memoir of Wade Hudson, a Black man and Civil Rights activist who came of age in the 1960s at the height of the Civil Rights Movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HUDCerf, Bennett
Contents: v. 1. The life of the party. Try and stop me.--v. 2. Good for a laugh. Laughter incorporated. Shake well before using.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Garden City Books 1952
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.5082 CERSmith, Jeff
Summary: After stepping into a ghost circle, Thorn is urged to locate the Crown of Horns, and sets off on a quest with Fone Bone to traipse through the sacred grounds of dragons, with the hope of returning with the only thing that can save everyone and everything she holds dear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix 2009