O'Mara, Margaret Pugh
Summary: "The epic human story of how, out of a small patch of land in Northern California, high tech re-created America in its image, for good and for ill. Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest days of the commercial Internet. There she saw firsthand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 OMAMagnetic North
Contents: Stromness -- Bay of skaill -- Hi life -- Betty Corrigall -- Warbeth -- Rackwick -- Old man of hoy -- Nethertons teeth -- Ward hill -- The black craig -- Orphir -- Yesnaby
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Full Time Hobby 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MAGLichtblau, Eric.
Contents: This thing called the constitution -- Collateral damage -- Don't embarrass the bureau -- Threats, pronouncements, and the media wars -- Sworn to secrecy -- Blood on our hands -- High-level confirmation -- Swift-boated (round two) -- A loyal Bushie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 LICGrundset, Eric.
Contents: Developing a South Carolina and Tennessee research strategy -- Major research centers in North Carolina and Tennessee and elsewhere with pertinent Revolutionary War collections -- Geographical factors affecting research in North Carolina and Tennessee -- Pre-revolutionary events in the Province of North Carolina -- General histories of the American Revolution in North Carolina and Tennessee --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution 2016
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3756 GRUKellaher, Karen
Summary: A sprawling land that encompasses everything from icy tundra and green forests to bone-dry deserts and rocky mountain peaks, North America is a beautiful continent with a rich and fascinating history. Readers will get to know the whole continent as they tour its rugged natural landscapes and densely populated cities. Along the way, they will encounter unique wildlife, get a taste of the local...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970 KELChant, Christopher.
Summary: This illustrated history of steam trains makes a great gift item for train enthusiasts and railroad historians. It covers steam locomotives from its origins, its expansion through to its eventual obsoletion. It also includes a chapter on railroads in the north and south which covers Canada and Mexico. Lavishly illustrated throughout in full color and written by an author with a number of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chartwell Books 2012
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 385 CHAHesterman, Oran B.
Summary: Describes the dysfunctions in the current food system, from chemical runoff to inhumane treatment of animals, and presents new principles and concrete steps to restructure how food is grown, packaged, delivered, marketed, and sold.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 HESLevy, Janey
Summary: "It's something many Americans are certain is a solid fact: Columbus discovered America. But it's not true. First, Columbus never landed on the North American mainland. And second, how can someone "discover" a place that's already home to millions of people? In this lively and engaging book, readers will uncover the truth behind many myths about explorers in the Americas. Accessible text...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Bannick, Paul
Summary: In Owl, award-winning photographer Paul Bannick uses his intimate yet dramatic images to track four different nesting owl species, Northern Pygmy, Burrowing, Great Gray, and Snowy, throughout the course of one year and in four distinct habitats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Braided River 2016
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 598 BANWuthnow, Robert.
Summary: This book is a study of the fifty years starting in the 1950s in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. For many Americans, the Midwest is a vast unknown. In this book the author sets out to rectify this. He shows how the region has undergone extraordinary social transformations over the past half-century and proven itself surprisingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.977 WUTSmith, Edward C. (Edward Clarke)
Summary: Already loved for its friendly advice, vegetable-specific information, and unwavering commitment to organic methods, America's best-selling vegetable-gardening book now covers more plants and offers smart new solutions for small-space and extended-season gardening.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 SMIWallach, Jennifer Jensen
Summary: Wallach sheds a new and interesting light on American history by way of the dinner table. While undeniably a "melting pot" of different cultures and cuisines, America's food habits have been shaped as much by technological innovations and industrial progress as by the intermingling and mixture of ethnic cultures. Understanding the American diet is the first step toward grasping the larger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.12 WALBoekhoff, P. M. (Patti Marlene)
Summary: Discusses Native American peoples of the Great Lakes region and their customs, family life, organizations, food gathering, beliefs, housing, and other aspects of daily life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kidhaven Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 BOEHatfield and the North (Musical group)
Contents: The stubbs effect -- Big jobs (Poo poo extract) -- Going up to people and tinkling -- Calyx -- Son of "There's no place like Homerton" -- Aigrette ; Rifferama -- Fol de rol -- Shaving is boring -- Licks for the ladies -- Bossa nochance ; Big jobs no. 2 (By Poo and the Wee Wees) -- Lobster in cleavage probe -- Gigantic land-crabs in earth takeover bid ; The other stubbs effect. Bonus tracks not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Red Records 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HATMcNeese, Tim
Summary: For thousands of years, before the arrival of Christopher Columbus and the Europeans, the vast American landscape was home to millions of Native Americans, whose ancestors still remain on the land today. They formed a wide variety of regional cultures, dotting the unspoiled environs stretching from the stark, red rock formations of the Southwest to the thick forestlands of the Northeast....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing Group 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.004 MCN1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 970.004 MCN
Samuelsson, Marcus
Summary: It is long past time to recognize Black excellence in the culinary world the same way it has been celebrated in the worlds of music, sports, literature, film, and the arts. Black cooks and creators have led American culture forward with indelible contributions of artistry and ingenuity from the start, but Black authorship has been consistently erased from the story of American food. Now, in The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voracious, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 SAMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59296 SAMFinkelstein, Norman
Summary: "This beautifully written work begins with an overview of the spiritual problematics found in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American poetry. Traveling slightly outside of the realm of the contemporary, Finkelstein's discussions of Emerson, Whitman, and Eliot yield to close readings of the works of Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Ronald Johnson, Michael Palmer, Susan Howe, Nathaniel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Iowa Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 FINKingsley, Lisa
Summary: "From the Smithsonian Institution, the real story of the American table in a collection of snapshots, stories, and recipes from the pre-colonial era through today, including the people and events that have often been left out. In this exploration of the American table, the Smithsonian Institution presents a fresh look at what and how we've fed ourselves, for sustenance and for pleasure, through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest, an imprint of William Morrow 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5973 KINPhillips, Christopher
Summary: In The Rivers Ran Backward, historian Christopher Phillips sheds light on the fluid regional identities of the "Middle Border" states during the Civil War era. Far from forming a fixed and static boundary between the North and South, the border states experienced fierce internal conflicts over their political and social loyalties. White supremacy and widespread support for the existence of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 PHIMcSweeney, James
Summary: Composting at scales large enough to capture and recycle the organic wastes of a given community, whether a school, neighborhood, or even a small city, is coming of age, propelled by a growing awareness not only of our food waste crisis, but also the need to restore natural fertility in our soils. In-depth yet accessible, Community-Scale Composting Systems is a technical resource for farmers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 631.8 MCSWeber, Larry.
Contents: What is a butterfly? -- Behavior of the "flutter-bys" -- Butterfly biology 101 -- Butterfly observation -- How to use this field guide -- Swallowtails -- Whites & sulphurs -- Coppers, hairstreaks & blues -- Brushfoots -- Skippers -- Day-flying moths -- Glossary -- Appendixes: A. Checklist of North Woods butterflies ; B. Habitat guide ; C. Phenology flight chart ; D. Favorite food list ; E....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kollath-Stensaas Pub. 2001
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 595.78 WEBSummary: ""In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing," writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. "Food means growing and hardship, and health and medicine, and work and holiday. In its abundance it is a gift and a joy, and in its absence a curse and a tragedy. If a culture has writing, that culture has food writing." The stories in this year's Best American Food Writing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 BESAnthony, William
Summary: This book examines the many food webs that connect different types of animals in river ecosystems. The animals are categorized and given in-depth descriptions, so readers gain an understanding of an animal's needs for survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Publishing 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this program, Robert MacNeil canvasses the North to learn firsthand about linguistic dialect zones, the tension between prescriptivism and descriptivism, the impact of dialect on grapholect, the northern cities vowel shift, the roots of African-American English, minority dialects and linguistic profiling, biases against nonstandard speech, and the general perception of the U.S. Midland...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005