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Bloody history of America Bulletin (Cranbrook Institute of Science) ; 58 Critical issues in world and international history History of crime and punishment Left out of history Revisioning American history Secret life of twins Smithsonian field trips Thomas & friends Treading the boardsAwdry, W.
Summary: Stepney, a very old engine, is taking the museum cars to the Natural History Museum. James and Henry think that not only is Stepney an old "bucket of bolts," but that the museum cars carry "just a lot of old nonsense." When Stepney breaks down, Thomas doesn't want to get stuck being seen with the old dinosaur bones and relics of the past. What will his friends think, and more important, what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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Summary: "In this book Dr. Moody shares the groundbreaking results of four decades of research into the philosophy of nonsense, revealing new ways to understand and experience life, death, and spirituality"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Llewellyn Publications 2020
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Contents: Plant form -- Natural history -- Evolution and classification -- Systematics of the Iris family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 584.38 GOLSummary: A series of unusual stories about chickens. Ranges from a woman who revived a chicken with CPR, a man who raises chickens for his own consumption, a woman who keeps a pet chicken, a group of suburbanites who banded together to stop a neighborhood rooster raiser, a headless rooster, and a man who's life changing experience comes when he sees one of his chickens protect her chicks from a hawk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NATLee, Sally
Summary: What do giant squids, a possibly cursed diamond, dinosaur bones, and a man made of soap all have in common? These are some of the amazing artifacts at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Take a tour through the museum's collections. Engaging text, graphs, maps, and colorful images help readers discover the stories behind some of these treasured pieces of natural history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 508 LEENatural Lines.
Contents: Monotony -- No More Tragedies -- Help -- Alex Bell -- My Answer -- Spontaneous Skylights 2 -- A Scene That Will Never Die -- Person of Interest -- Don't Come Down -- Artificial Moonlight -- Mahwah.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bella Union 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NATGrady, Wayne.
Summary: "This book is an exploration of the biology and ecology of a vital, ever-changing terrain. Written by one of Canada's best-known science and nature writers, it is intended not only for those who live in the Great Lakes basin but for anyone captivated by the splendor of the natural world and sensitive to the challenges of its preservation."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508 GRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Nature GradyTudge, Colin.
Contents: What is a tree? -- How trees became -- Wood -- All the trees in the world: Trees without flowers: the conifers -- Trees with flowers: magnolias and other primitives -- From palms and screw pines to yuccas and bamboos -- The monocot trees -- Thoroughly modern broadleaves -- From oaks to mangoes: the glorious invention of rose-like eudicots -- From handkerchief trees to teak: the daisy-like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 582 TUDSmith, Elliott
Summary: "Juneteenth is the celebration of the day enslaved people in Texas were were told they were freed. This book explores Juneteenth's little-told history, from the first Jubilee to the making of a national holiday"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 394.263 SMILewis, Cicely
Summary: "The White House tells the history of the United States, including slavery. Enslaved people were involved with every stage of building the structure. Learn more about the president's home and how to honor this history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.3 LEWNnachi, Ngeri
Summary: "There is more to the history of the transcontinental than connecting the United States. Most of the workers were of Chinese descent and were treated unfairly. Learn how workers protested for better treatment"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2023
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Summary: Looks at different divisions of law enforcement on both the national and at the community level, discussing how they protect citizens, reduce crime, and serve their communities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 363.2 HARPollan, Michael.
Summary: What should we have for dinner? When you can eat just about anything nature (or the supermarket) has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety, especially when some of the foods might shorten your life. Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from a national eating disorder. As the cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast food...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.12 POLNielsen, Kim E.
Summary: Covers the entirety of U.S. disability history, from pre-1492 to the present. Disability is not just the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. It places the experiences of people with disabilities at the center of the American narrative. In many ways, it's a familiar telling. In other ways, however, it is a radical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.4 NIECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.4 NIEConnolly, Kieron
Summary: During the 1960s, America became embroiled in an increasingly unpopular war fighting communism in Vietnam. Antiwar sentiment led to mass youth protests, which occasionally turned deadly. With the Soviet Union breaking up in the late 1980s, the United States was the sole superpower. But it quickly became the target of Islamist terrorism, as 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the War on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cranbrook Institute of Science 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.8 WALDunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
Summary: "Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally-recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 DUNCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 DUNAtwood, Meredith
Summary: "Exhausted and overworked lawyer, triathlete, wife, and mom Meredith Atwood decided one morning that she'd had it. She didn't take her kids to school. She didn't go to work. She didn't go to the gym. When she pulled herself out of bed hours later than she should have, she found a note from her husband next to two empty bottles of wine and a stack of unpaid bills: You need to get your sh*t...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Lifelong Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 ATWNational Museum of American History (U.S.)
Summary: "U.S. history gets the star treatment with this essential guide to the Smithsonian's first permanent exhibition on pop culture"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 ENTMadden, Thomas F.
Summary: Overview: 'God wills it!' With that cry of medieval knights a new era in European history began. Across Europe a wave of pious enthusiasm led many thousands to leave their homes, family, and friends to march to a distant land in a great struggle for Christ. Yet the crusades were more than simply a holy war. They represent a synthesis of attitudes and values that were uniquely medieval-so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Natl Book Network 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.07 MADDunn, Rob R.
Summary: "Biologist Rob Dun grew up listening to stories of the Mississippi River, how it flooded his grandfather's town of Greenville, swallowing up the townsfolk and leaving behind a muddy wasteland. Years later, Dunn discovered the cause of the great deluge. The Army Corps of Engineers had tried to straighten the river, cutting off its meandering oxbows in order to allow for the easy passage of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 DUNWilson, Wendell E.
Contents: Introduction : the mineral collection of the Houston Museum of Natural Science / Joel A. Bartsch, Wendell E. Wilson and Mark Mauthner -- The discerning eye : what makes a mineral collectible? / Wendell E. Wilson -- Plates / Wendell E. Wilson and Joel A. Bartsch -- The paths of discovery : from the mine to the museum / Wendell E. Wilson -- A royal passion : a history of aristocratic mineral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houston Museum of Natural Science and the Mineralogical Record, in association with H.N. Abrams 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 549.074 WILSummary: From the Greeks to the present, this program explores the evolution of play structure, staging techniques, and acting styles. Viewers learn about the following innovations, movements, and artistic figures: the open air amphitheater and its central role in the work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; the use of the chorus and masks; the role of theater in ancient Roman society; morality and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Eire, Carlos M. N.
Summary: "Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era-tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft-even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by its leading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2023