Novogratz, Jacqueline.
Summary: The author, a former international banker, relates her experiences trying to understand global poverty and working with the poor, and suggests ways in which the situation should be addressed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.46 NOVSummary: Our world is constantly changing and this refreshed atlas from the map experts at National Geographic captures the state of the planet with colorful maps, easy-to-grasp stats, and lots of fun facts--the perfect reference for young kids and students. Learn all about the people, places, animals, and environments of our world in the fourth edition of this engaging atlas. It's got a fresh,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2019
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Summary: "Solving the Climate Crisis is a critical resource that makes a believable and detailed case that there is a path forward to save our environment. Using today's technology and without presuming a dramatically different sociopolitical reality from the one in which we already live, the book focuses on three essential areas for action: the technological dimension: move to 100% clean renewable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 333.79 BERSmall, Meredith F.
Summary: "In 1459 a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro completed an astonishing map of the world. Seven feet in diameter, Fra Mauro's mappamundi is the oldest and most complete Medieval map to survive into modernity. And in its time, this groundbreaking mappamundi provided the most detailed description of the known world, incorporating accurate observation, and geographic reality, urging viewers to see water...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 912.09 SMALester, Toby.
Contents: Awakening -- Old World. Matthew's maps ; Scourge of God ; The description of the world ; through the Ocean Sea ; Seeing is believing -- New World. Rediscovery ; Ptolemy the Wise ; the Florentine perspective ; Terrae incognitae ; Into African climes ; The learned men ; Cape of Storms ; Colombo ; The Admiral ; Christ-bearer ; Amerigo -- The whole world. Gymnasium ; World without end ; Afterworld...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 912.73 LESMetheny, Pat.
Contents: A map of the world -- Family -- North -- Home -- Sisters -- Childhood -- Fall from grace -- Memory -- Gone -- Flight -- Alone -- Outcasts -- Sunday -- Discovery -- Acceptance -- Realization -- Soliloquy -- Night -- Sunrise -- Resolution -- Pictures -- Patience -- Transition -- Reunion -- Renewal -- Homecoming -- Forgiving -- Holding us.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ METSummary: The post Cold War era began with a decade of conflicts often mediated by the United States as the world's only remaining superpower. The September 11 terrorist attacks, however, marked the dawning of a new era. The United States became preoccupied by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, while around the world, new challenges and threats emerged: a more assertive Russia, an increasingly powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Educational Publishing in association with Rosen Educational Services 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909 POSContents: CD 1. Man of the world -- Apostle -- Loser two times -- Fast talkin' woman blues -- Walkin' the road -- The green manalishi (with the two prong crown) -- Cryin' won't bring you back -- Trying to hit my head against the wall -- You won't see me anymore -- Got to see her tonight -- Born on the wild side -- Shining star -- Same old blues -- Long grey mare
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GRESummary: Using sophisticated animation and expertise from modern scholars and archivists, this program reconstructs European voyages of discovery that took place in the 15th through 18th centuries and profiles the visionaries who led them. Viewers are introduced to Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian merchant who gave his name to the New World; Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese admiral who found the passage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Barghoorn, Linda
Summary: "Swamps, bogs, marshes are all wetland biomes teaming with life. Located on every continent except Antarctica, wetlands are diverse and necessary for a healthy planet. Readers will enjoy learning about swamp creatures such as alligators and snakes, and the many kinds of fish and plants that thrive in wetlands."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 2019
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Summary: "This engaging title introduces readers to one of the richest biomes in the world-the rain forest. A special section on this habitat under threat helps readers use their mapping skills to research endangered rainforest animals."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.34 HUDBloomberg, Michael
Summary: "The 2016 election left many people who are concerned about the environment fearful that progress on climate change would come screeching to a halt. But not Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope. Bloomberg, an entrepreneur and former mayor of New York City, and Pope, a lifelong environmental leader, approach climate change from different perspectives, yet they arrive at similar conclusions. Without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 BLOSummary: "Immediately following World War II, former allies the United States and the Soviet Union began an open yet restricted rivalry that became known as the Cold War and played out around the world until the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991. Many conflicts, such as the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Arab-Israeli wars, acted as proxy wars for the U.S.-Soviet competition....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Educational Publishing in association with Rosen Educational Services 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909 COLSummary: Describes the events of World War II, covering the causes, key players, and outcomes of the conflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Educational Publishing in association with Rosen Educational Services 2017
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Summary: "When Arthur Conan Doyle was a lonely 7-year-old schoolboy at pre-prep Newington Academy in Edinburgh, a French émigré named Eugene Chantrelle was engaged there to teach Modern Languages. A few years later, Chantrelle would be hanged for the particularly grisly murder of his wife, marking the beginning of Conan Doyle's own association with some of the bloodiest crimes of the Victorian and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martins Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN SANSummary: The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand is often cited as the event that triggered World War I, the massive global conflict that ensued shortly after his death. However, the First World War is more accurately described as a culmination of political tension that had been building across various European nations for decades. This comprehensive volume considers the political and diplomatic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Educational Publishing in association with The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. 2017
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Summary: "Every country profile is packed with photos, and each nation has a full-color map detailing its main cities, landscape features, and borders, and exactly where in the world it is. At-a-glance panels provide a quick reference to all the stats, and the easy-to-read text is full of fascinating, fun facts."--Provided by publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910 MILRousseau, Jean-Jacques
Contents: Chronology of Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Discourse on the Sciences and Arts or First Discourse. Replies to Critics. Letter to M. l'Abbe Raynal. Observations [to Stanislas, King of Poland]. Letter to Grimm. Last Reply. Letter about a New Refutation. Preface to Narcissus. Preface of a Second Letter to Bordes -- Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men or Second Discourse....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320 ROUHeale, Jay
Summary: Describes the geography, history, government, economy, people, lifestyle, religion, languages, arts, leisure, festivals, and food of the third largest country in Africa, a former colony of Belgium.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 967.51 HEASummary: In this TEDTalk, author Steven Johnson provides a ten-minute tour of The Ghost Map, his riveting historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London. The book is also a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow mapped the pattern of outbreak back to its source - and in the process revolutionized the way people think about disease, cities, science, and the modern world....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Galileo's recantation in 1633 opened a gap between Christianity and science, a separation that widened as the first great age of European exploration came to a close. This program studies the second great age ushered in during the latter half of the 18th century amidst a thickening web of French and British colonialism-an age in which maps and charts facilitated political and economic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: If there is a place that Dora wants to go, then it is Map to the rescue! Find out why Map is a helpful friend -- and learn some new super-special surprises about him too! Helps develop learning and problem solving skills.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Intro: persona -- Chakŭn kŏttŭrŭl wihan shi = (Boy with luv) / (Feat. Halsey) -- Make it right -- Jamais vu -- Dionysus -- Interlude : shadow -- Black swan -- Filter -- Shich'a -- Louder than bombs -- On -- Uk = (Ugh!) -- 00:00 (zero 0'Clock) -- Inner child -- Ch'in'gu -- Moon -- Respect -- We are bulletproof : the eternal -- Outro: ego.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Teen Display, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BTSWallace, Max
Summary: "In this powerful new history, New York Times bestselling author Max Wallace draws on groundbreaking research to reframe Helen Keller's journey after the miracle, vividly bringing to light her rarely discussed, lifelong fight for social justice across gender, class, race, and ability. Raised in Alabama, she sent shockwaves through the South when she launched a public broadside against Jim Crow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group 2023