Wilsdon, Christina
Summary: This fun, smart guide answers kids' questions as it takes them on a journey through the human body and all its systems. The book is sprinkled throughout with plenty of health tips, top-10 lists, simple experiments, and weird-but-true wacky details. Full color.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J612 WILWilsdon, Christina.
Summary: Easy-to-read text and full-color photographs depict the physical characteristics, habitat, and life cycle of seals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.79 WILWilsdon, Christina.
Summary: Introduces hippopotamuses, describing their physical characteristics, habitat, life cycle, feeding habits, and the threats to their survival that they face from human beings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.635 WILBroome, John
Summary: Discusses the climate change debate, including the science of greenhouse gasses, offsetting carbon emissions, and the choices facing policymakers by filtering the issues through the universal philosophical standards of goodness and justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.1 BRONoel, Brook.
Summary: Explores unexpected death and its role in the cycle of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 NOEWilton, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 758.1 WILWilliams, Kathleen Broome
Summary: Profiles the remarkable naval career of four American women scientists in World War II--Mary Sears, Florence van Straten, Grace Hopper, and Mina Rees--and discusses their contribution to naval science in the area of computers, the use of weather in combat, oceanography, and applied mathematics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500.82 WILBolles, Richard Nelson
Summary: "In today's challenging job-market, as recent grads face a shifting economic landscape and seek work that pays and inspires, as workers are laid off mid-career, and as people search for an inspiring work-life change, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever. This completely updated edition features the latest resources, strategies, and perspectives on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2021
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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.14 BOLCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Business BollesDionne, E. J.
Summary: "Americans are required to pay taxes, serve on juries, get their kids vaccinated, get driver's licenses, and sometimes go to war for their country. So why not ask--or require--every American to vote? E.J. Dionne and Miles Rapoport argue that universal participation in our elections should be a cornerstone of our system. It would be the surest way to protect against voter suppression and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.07 DIOTifft, Wilton S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 1990
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 325.1 TIFHampton, Wilborn.
Summary: Describes the September 11 attacks in the United States and presents several personal stories of tragedy told by New Yorkers who lived through the collapse of the World Trade Center.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.931 HAMKidson, Ruth.
Contents: A short history of acupuncture -- Fundamental principles -- The five elements -- Causes of disease -- Methods of diagnosis -- Methods of treatment -- How acupuncture works : patients and case histories -- Acupuncture and modern science -- Finding out about treatment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Healing Arts Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.892 KIDDojny, Brooke.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Common Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5974 DOJMcAlary, Brooke
Summary: "Are you constantly striving to keep up with life's busy expectations? It's easy to feel consumed with the desire to "succeed" and "acquire" and miss the simple opportunities waiting for you to slow down: a walk in the forest, sharing laughter with family, a personal moment of gratitude...Slow provides practical advice and fascinating insights into: messiness to mindfulness, decluttering to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 158.1 MCABrookes, Adam
Summary: "The gripping true story of the bold and determined museum curators who saved the priceless treasures of China's Forbidden City in the years leading up to World War II and beyond"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709.51 BROBrookes, Tim
Summary: When baggage handlers destroy Tim Brookes's guitar, he discovers that a dream guitar is built, not bought, and sets out to find someone to make him the perfect guitar. His quest takes him across the country, talking to historians, curators, and guitar makers, and he explores the guitar's mystique: freedom, the open road, protest and rebellion, the blues, youth, lost love, and sexuality. In an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 787.87 BROOhlson, Kristin
Summary: Thousands of years of poor farming, ranching, and land practices, especially modern industrial agriculture, have led to the loss of 80 billion tons of carbon from the worlds soils. That carbon is now floating in the atmosphere, and even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it would continue warming the planet. In The Soil Will Save Us, journalist Kristin Ohlson makes a case for "our great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 631.4 OHLWilser, Jeff
Summary: "An entertaining look at the life and wisdom of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who mastered the arts of wit, war, and wealth, long before becoming the subject of the runaway Broadway hit Hamilton: An American Musical,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAMILTON, ALEXANDER WILSisson, Mark
Summary: Presents a program for improving health that consists of a natural foods diet, a fitness plan that balances low- and high-intensity exercises, and lifestyle changes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Primal Nutrition 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 SISNielson, Erik
Summary: "A groundbreaking exposé about the alarming use of rap lyrics as criminal evidence to convict and incarcerate young men of color"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 NIETilton, Buck.
Summary: "...The ultimate guide to properly building, enjoying, and extinguishing campfires."- p. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Menasha Ridge Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.545 TILWaleson, Heidi
Summary: In October 2013, the arts world was rocked by the news that the New York City Opera—“the people’s opera”—had finally succumbed to financial hardship after 70 years in operation. The company had been a fixture on the national opera scene—as the populist antithesis of the grand Metropolitan Opera, a nurturing home for young American talent, and a place where new, lively ideas shook up a venerable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.5 WALWesson, Seb.
Summary: Introduces the basics of the guitar, also provides brief profiles of famous guitarists such as David Evans, Kurt Cobain, and Dave Grohl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 787 WESWilser, Jeff
Summary: Structured around key moments in Biden's life and career--and filled with Biden-isms like "That's a bunch of malarkey" and "I may be Irish, but I'm not stupid"--this blend of biography, advice, and humor will reveal the experiences that forged Joe Biden, and the lessons we can use in our own lives. Along the way, readers will also encounter fun sidebars on his love of muscle cars, his most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2017