Rooney, Anne
Summary: How did our extraordinary species go from living as simple apes to becoming the planet's dominant life-form? This beautifully illustrated book traces the journey of humanity from prehistory to the silicon age. People love to tell stories, and this fascinating book tells the greatest tale of them all--how we came to be who we are today. Explore how we developed into modern humans, and how we've...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcturus 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 909 ROOSummary: Sexualia takes a lavishly illustrated and expertly written look at human sexuality, its practices and traditions, in cultures from ancient times up through the present day. Written by an international team of cultural critics, scientists, and anthropologists, this book shows an astonishing variety of reactions to the possibilities and problems of sexuality in the course of history. Sexualia...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Könemann 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 306.7 BISSichol, Lowey Bundy
Summary: For fans of the successful Who Was series, From an Idea to Lego is a behind-the-bricks look into the world's famous toy company, with humorous black & white illustrations throughout. Today, LEGO is one of the biggest toy companies in the world, but a long time ago, a Danish carpenter, Ole Kirk Christiansen, started with just an idea. Find out more about LEGO's origins, those famous bricks, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 338.7 SICBorth, Teddy.
Summary: Describes common buildings found on farms, including barns, silos, and stables.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Kids 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 631.2 BORKey, Stephen.
Contents: Pt. 1. The power of one simple idea -- pt. 2. Find your million-dollar idea -- pt. 3. Prove your idea -- pt. 4. Protect your idea -- pt. 5. Prepare to pitch your idea -- pt. 6. Submit your idea to potential licensees -- pt. 7. Bring your ideas to market.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.1 KEYKiernan, Ben
Summary: This comprehensive work traces Viet Nam's history, a narrative of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious heritage, from ancient chiefdoms to imperial provinces, from independent kingdoms to contending regions, civil wars, French colonies, and modern republics.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 KIESummary: With the disappearance of the Neanderthal species some 25,000 years ago, Homo sapiens reigned supreme across Eurasia - but the human family was still dramatically in flux. This film depicts the cultural adaptations and far-flung migrations that continued to shape European societies from the end of the Ice Age through the development of agriculture to the invention of writing. Viewers learn...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Hill, Joe.
Summary: "With more keys making themselves known, and the depths of the Locke's family's mystery ever-expanding, Dodge's desperation to end his shadowy quest drives the habitants of Keyhouse ever closer to a revealing conclusion."--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: IDW 2011
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HILJohnston, Robert D.
Summary: An illustrated history of the United States, from just before the arrival of Europeans through the early twenty-first century, grouped in eight time periods, each with profiles of people who had a significant influence on the age, and including photographs, maps, illustrations, time lines, and a selection of historical documents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2002
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: 973 JOHNSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973 JOHSeth, Michael J.
Summary: In this comprehensive yet compact book, Michael J. Seth surveys Korean history from Neolithic times to the present. He explores the origins and development of Korean society, politics, and its still little-known cultural heritage from their inception to the two Korean states of today. Telling the remarkable story of the origins and evolution of a society that borrowed and adopted from abroad,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.9 SETMadcat & Kane
Contents: Key to the highway -- Baby please don't go -- Help me -- Take five -- Drown in my own tears -- Rollin' & tumblin' -- New harmonica boogie -- Mellow down easy -- Sweet home Chicago -- Big road blues -- Daddy, where you been so long -- Tribute to Johnny Shines -- Body and soul.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Schoolkid's Records 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MADKeb' Mo'
Contents: Every morning -- Tell everybody I know -- Love blues -- Victims of comfort -- Angelina -- Anybody seen my girl -- She just wants to dance -- Am I wrong -- Come on in my kitchen -- Dirty, low down and bad -- Don't try to explain -- Kindhearted woman blues -- City boy.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: OKeh 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES KEBDavis, Paul K.
Summary: Surveys the one hundred most decisive battles in world history from the Battle of Megiddo in 1469 B.C. to Desert Storm, 1991.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2001
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Trager, James.
Summary: Discusses the history of food and how humans have progressed from a diet of roots and berries to one of doughnuts and coffee. Includes more than 13,000 entries in twenty-eight areas such as agriculture, technology, transportation, and retailing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.09 TRASummary: A fresh take on the history of art, using cultural timelines to reveal little-known connections and influences between artworks and artistic movements.--Amazon.com
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 CHRSummary: "A monumental, canon-defining anthology of four centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith. Many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves--sometimes critically--to American values, but even in those that don't, one can detect a subtext about being American. The Founding Fathers and early American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2020
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Contents: Introduction: The History of Inheritance in America -- Part One: Inheritance under Family Capitalism -- 1. English Inheritance Law and Its Transfer to the Colonies -- 2. Colonial Testamentary Practice and Family Capitalism -- 3. Tension in the System: Changes and Attempted Changes in Postrevolutionary Inheritance Law -- Part Two: Family, Property, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism -- 4....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frontier Press 1997
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 ShammasZakaria, Fareed
Summary: The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions--past and present--that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEFlatow, Ira.
Summary: An irreverent tour of the science of everyday life by a veteran NPR correspondent draws on his conversations with such authorities as E. O. Wilson and Carl Sagan to investigate such fields as stem-cell research, genetic engineering, and alternative energies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 FLAContents: Let me roll it (Robyn Hitchcock) -- Hazel eyes (Redd Kross) -- Shake some action (Flamin' Groovies) -- When you find out (The Nerves) -- It all comes down (Nick Piunti) -- Pulling mussels from a shell (Squeeze) -- Tea (Jim Noir) -- I am your singer (Kelley Stoltz) -- Lily dreams on (Cotton Mather) -- On my way (Kevin Tihista) -- The summer sun (Chris Stamey and Yo La Tengo) -- Nineteen hundred...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJTrager, James.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 902.02 TRAContents: Disc 1: Going down for the last time (Ronnie Keaton) -- Tell me (Rickey Calloway) -- Natural (Leon Gardner) -- Blueberry hill (Joe Washington) -- The world (Sandi and Matues) -- Mr Machine (The Chefs) -- Can we rap (Carleen & the Groovers) -- Simple song (Zebra) -- Cross Bronx Expressway (Cross Bronx Expressway) -- Love call (Ramsey & Company) -- Contradiction (Total Experience) -- I wanna be...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBE 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DARContents: The Near East, Egypt and the Mediterranean / John Boardman --Greek vases / John Boardman -- The kilns of ancient Rome / John Boardman -- Ceramics of the Islamic world / Geza Fehervari -- European majolica / Henri-Pierre Fourest -- European porcelain / Henri-Pierre Fourest -- North American ceramics / Barbara Perry -- Chinese ceramics / John Ayers -- Korean ceramics / Madeleine Paul-David --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams, Inc. 1992
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 738.09 CERSummary: Doctor Who, travels with his intergalactic sidekick, Romana, while they comb the universe for the six segments of the powerful Key to Time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2002