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Dew, Charles B Dew, Charles B Family Eating disorders in literature Historians Southern States Biography Racism Southern States History Slave trade Southern States History Slavery Southern States History Southern States Biography Southern States Race relations History Southern States x HistoriographyDe Kruif, Paul
Summary: Meet the man against insanity. His laboratory? The sadly sinister wards of the 3,000-bed Traverse City State Hospital. His apparatus? Only his own eyes and hands, plus the hands and eyes of more than one hundred nurse attendants. And for his experiments, the patients whom staff referred to as the “cats and dogs”— the seemingly incurable psychotics resistant to all treatment and far beyond...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace 1957
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FERGUSON, JACK DE K1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 610.92 DEK
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local DeKruifFritz, Jean.
Summary: Traces the life of the French nobleman who fought for democracy in revolutions in both the United States and France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's 1999
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB LAFAYETTE FRILeón, Vicki.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 1999
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Summary: "Part butch memoir, part ekphrastic travel diary, part queer family tree, Raquel Gutiérrez's debut essay collection Brown Neon gleans insight from the sediment of land and relationships. For Gutierrez, terrain is essential to understanding that no story, no matter how personal, is separate from the space where it unfolds. Whether contemplating the value of adobe as both vernacular architecture...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 GUTSummary: In 2016, a new exhibit on the work of visionary director Guillermo del Toro will begin at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), before moving on to the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and the Minneapolis Museum of Art (MIA). This book will be the perfect accompaniment to the exhibition, which focuses on del Toro’s creative process, including the well-defined themes that he obsessively...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Insight Editions 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 GUIFord, Leon
Summary: "An unforgettable and stirring memoir in the vein of Free Cyntoia, Just Mercy, and The Sum of Us that both inspires and upends our understanding about the future of policing in the United States. In 2012, nineteen-year-old Leon Ford was shot five times by a Pittsburgh police officer as he was racially profiled during a case of mistaken identity. When he woke up in the hospital, he was faced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, LEON FORWagener, Leon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 ARMSTRONG, NEIL WAGLyon, Joshua.
Summary: Bringing together both the journalist's eye and the addict's mind, "Pill Head" explores Lyon's own addiction and the cultural phenomena that made pill-popping so popular, especially among the twenty-somethings of Generation Rx.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LYON, JOSHUA LYOWillis, Raquel
Summary: "A passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender activist, tracing her life of transformation and her work towards collective liberation. In 2017, Raquel Willis took to the National Women's March podium just after the presidential election of Donald Trump, primed to tell her story as a young Black transgender woman from the South. Despite having her speaking time cut short,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIS, RAQUEL WILFlorescu, Radu.
Summary: From Publishers Weekly: The fictional Dracula of Bram Stoker's novel is better known than the actual Vlad Dracula the Impaler, who ruled as prince of Wallachia for three brief periods in the mid-15th century. This study by two Boston College professors who have written other books about Dracula explores how the legend of the Transylvanian vampire arose. As a ruler, Dracula spread terror far and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VLAD III, PRINCE FLOClein, Emmeline
Summary: "A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought. In Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein tells the story of her own disordered eating alongside and through other women from history, pop culture and the girls she's known and loved. Tracing the medical and cultural history of Anorexia, Bulimia, and Orthorexia,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: Containing profiles of several of the most famous serial killers throughout history such as Jack the Ripper and H. H. Holmes, this in-depth analysis of the killers minds, behavior, and actions will surely intrigue any psychology student. Comprehensive text explains the life and crimes of these prolific killers from history, and a personality disorder self-assessment quiz will give readers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364 RAUMetz, Leon Claire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 METHesser, Leon F.
Contents: Letter from Dr. Norman Borlaug -- Chapter 1. Growing Up on an Iowa Farm -- Chapter 2. A Budding Scientist at the University of Minnesota -- Chapter 3. The Rockefeller Foundation Offers Borlaug a Challenge -- Chapter 4. Borlaug Builds a Revolutionary Wheat Breeding Program -- Chapter 5. Rockefeller's Mexico Program Goes International -- Chapter 6. Famine is Averted in India -- Chapter 7. Father...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Durban House Publishing Company, Inc. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BORLAUG, NORMAN HESLyon, George Ella
Summary: "Which Side Are You On? tells the story of a song which was written in 1931 by Florence Reece in a rain of bullets. Florence's husband Sam was a coal miner in Kentucky. Miners went on strike until they could get better pay, safer working conditions, and health care. The company hired thugs to attack the organizers like Sam Reece. Writer George Ella Lyon tells this hair-raising story through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinco Puntos Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 782.42 LYORaum, Elizabeth.
Summary: A biography on Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, and his roles in the Civil War and the Great Emancipation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LINBrimner, Larry Dane
Summary: The author recounts the real-life events leading up to and surrounding the 1931 Superior Court of California school desegregation case of Roberto Alvarez v. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District, Lemon Grove, California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ALVGreen, Elon
Summary: ""In this astonishing and powerful work of nonfiction, Green meticulously reports on a series of baffling and brutal crimes targeting gay men. It is an investigation filled with twists and turns, but this is much more than a compelling true crime story. Green has shed light on those whose lives for too long have been forgotten, and rescued an important part of American history." -David Grann,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.152 GRERoll, Rich
Summary: Recounts how the author, after realizing the daunting state of his health at age forty, overcame physical challenges and alcoholism over the course of two years while training for Hawaii's elite Ultraman competition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sport Adv RollGawande, Atul.
Summary: The struggle to perform well is universal: each of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. Author Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.22 GAWGawande, Atul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2002
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Summary: Examines the creation of the comic book superheroes, the Fantastic Four, including information on their creators, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing Group 2007
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 791.4 FEIFein, Eric.
Summary: Examines the creation of the comic book superhero, the Incredible Hulk, including information on his creators, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing Group 2007
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 741.5 Fein,Kaufman, Raun Kahlil
Summary: "As a boy, Raun Kaufman was diagnosed by multiple experts as severely autistic, with an IQ below 30, and destined to spend his life in an institution. Years later, Raun graduated with a degree in Biomedical Ethics from Brown University and has become a passionate and articulate spokesperson for the autism community. So what happened? Thanks to Son-Rise, an incredible program his parents...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014