Peters, Jeremy (Jeremy W.)
Summary: "How, Peters asks, did conservative values that Republicans claimed to cherish, like small government, fiscal responsibility, and morality in public service, get completely eroded as an unshakable faith in Donald Trump grew to define the party? The answer is a tale traced across three decades--with new reporting and firsthand accounts from the people who were there--of populist uprisings that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.2734 PETWilliams, Gareth (EDT)/ Pentz, Peter (EDT)/ Wemhoff, Matthias (EDT)/ Margrethe, Queen of Denmark (FRW)
Contents: Contacts & exchange / Sunhild Kleingärtner and Gareth Williams -- Vikings in Arabic sources / Gareth Williams -- Wiskiauten / Timo Ibsen -- Reuse of foreign objects / Sunhild Kleingärtner -- Warfare & military expansion / Gareth Williams -- The way of the warrior / Neil Price -- Continental defences against the Vikings / Simon Coupland -- Viking camps in England and Ireland / Gareth Williams --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cornell Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 948.022 VIKTeter, Magda
Summary: "A panoramic cultural and legal history that traces the roots of antisemitism and racism to early Christian theology. Since the earliest days of Christianity, theologians expressed pervasive anxiety about Jews as equal members of society and, with European expansion in the early modern period, that anxiety extended to people of color. This troubling legacy still haunts us today. Christian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2023
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Summary: "Hafizah Augustus Geter disrupts the myths of America's origins and contemporary America through her experiences as the queer Nigerian-born daughter of a Muslim Nigerian woman and a Black American man from a Southern Baptist family in Jim Crow Alabama. A unique combination of gripping memoir and Afrofuturist thought, The Black Period follows Hafizah on a journey that tells her at every turn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 PHIPetter, Jean-Jacques
Summary: This stunningly illustrated guide to the world's primates covers nearly 300 species, from the feather-light and solitary pygmy mouse lemurs of Madagascar--among the smallest primates known to exist--to the regal mountain gorillas of Africa. Organized by region and spanning every family of primates on Earth, the book features 72 splendid color plates, facing-page descriptions of key features of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.8 PETVan Meter, Matthew
Summary: "In 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary Duncan pulled his car off the road to stop a fight. Duncan was arrested a few minutes later for the crime of putting his hand on the arm of a white child. Rather than accepting his fate, Duncan found Richard Sobol, a brilliant, 29-year-old lawyer from New York who was the only white attorney at "the most radical law firm"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.4 VANFerer, Christy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747 FERFeser, Edward.
Contents: Bad religion -- Greeks bearing gifts -- Getting medieval -- Scholastic aptitude -- Descent of the modernists -- Aristotle's revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Augustine's Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211 FESOster, Emily
Summary: "In The Family Firm, Brown professor of economics and mom of two Emily Oster offers a classic business school framework for data-driven parents to think more deliberately about the key issues of the elementary years: school, health, extracurricular activities, and more. Unlike the hourly challenges of infant parenting, the big questions in this age come up less frequently. But we live with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 OSTPeres, Shimon
Summary: A portrait of Israel's first prime minister covers his support of the United Nations 1947 Partition Plan for Palestine, his granting of first exemptions to Orthodox military servicepeople, and his peaceful overtures toward post-Holocaust Germany.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nextbook/Schocken 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9405 BEN-GURION, DAVID PERLefer, David.
Summary: Provides an insightful and gripping account of the birth of modern American conservatism and its impact on the earliest days of our nation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 LEFLeser, David
Summary: In Women, Men, and the Whole Damn Thing, author David Leser presents an essential and incisive investigation, unearthing the roots of misogyny, its inextricable links to the patriarchy, and how history brought us to the #MeToo movement and the wave of incandescent female rage that is sweeping the world. his book calls on men (yes, all men) to be accountable for their contribution to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 LESRussell, Gareth
Summary: This collection of one hundred and one anecdotes about Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, features amusing and fascinating vignettes from her long life, including her coming of age during World War I and the 1936 abdication of her brother-in-law.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH RUSDayal, Geeta.
Summary: The serene, delicate songs on Another Green World sound practically meditative, but the album itself was an experiment fueled by adrenaline, panic, and pure faith. It was the first Brian Eno album to be composed almost completely in the confines of a recording studio, over a scant few months in the summer of 1975. The album was a proof of concept for Eno's budding ideas of "the studio as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.33 DAYEtler, Cyndy
Summary: The author describes her youth as a runaway at age fourteen and how she was sent to a corrupt recovery facility where she faced intimidation and unconventional treatment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ETLGefter, Philip.
Summary: Sam Wagstaff, the legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, emerges as a cultural visionary in this groundbreaking biography in which Wagstaff's largely overlooked influence on the world of contemporary art and photography, and on the evolution of gay identity in the latter part of the twentieth century, is portrayed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WAGSTAFF, SAMUEL J GEFGertz, Bill.
Summary: The defense and national security reporter for the Washington times argues that the United States intelligence community failed to prevent the September 11 attacks, even with the information they learned after the 1993 bombing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing, Inc. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 GERHever, Julieanna.
Summary: You are what you eat, and every bite you take affects your body and your well-being. Eating a whole-food, plant-based diet helps you and your body thrive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 HEVOster, Maggie.
Summary: Provides instructions for making herbal vinegar and for adding herbal flavors to bottled vinegar, and shares recipes for vinegar-flavored condiments and dishes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Communications 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.622 OSTPedder, Sophie
Summary: "He emerged from nowhere to seize the presidency, defeat populism and upend French party politics. Who is Emmanuel Macron? How far can he really change France? In Revolution Française, Sophie Pedder examines the first year in office of France's youngest and most exciting president in modern times, with unique perspective from her time as head of The Economist's Paris bureau. President Emmanuel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Continuum 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MACRON, EMMANUEL PEDLerer, Seth
Summary: Children's Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter. Seth Lerer here explores the iconic books, ancient and contemporary alike, that have forged a lifelong love of literature in young readers during their formative years. Along the way,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.89282 LERThompson, Kester.
Summary: From Martinis and Manhattans to sparkling Bellinis and fruity, frozen daiquiris, this user-friendly collection of cocktail recipes will turn anyone into an outstanding bartender! Arranged by spirit type and filled with enticing photographs, it's the perfect introduction to the intimidating world of drink-making. Hundreds of fabulous concoctions are included, from traditional to trendy, from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imagine Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.21 THOHarper, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1994