Galeano, Eduardo
Summary: "In a series of lesson plans and a "program of study" about our beleaguered planet, Upside Down, takes us on a wild trip through the global looking glass. From a master class in "The Impunity of Power" to a seminar on "The Sacred Car," with tips along the way on "How to Resist Useless Vices" and a declaration of "The Right to Rave," Galeano surveys a world unevenly divided between abundance and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2000
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Summary: "A sweeping examination of how American racism has broken the country's social compact, eroded America's common goods, and damaged the lives of every American--and a heartfelt look at how these deep wounds might begin to heal"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 PORGaleano, Eduardo
Summary: "In this witty and rebellious history of world soccer, award-winning writer Eduardo Galeano searches for the styles of play, players, and goals that express the unique personality of certain times and places. In Soccer in Sun and Shadow, Galeano takes usto ancient China, where engravings from the Ming period show a ball that could have been designed by Adidas to Victorian England, where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.334 GALSummary: Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known today as a painter, but his reputation was in fact established through his prints, which were central to his creative process. His printmaking was experimental and innovative, and he continually revisited the subjects of his paintings in striking prints, in which he evoked a wide range of emotion and mood through the use of varied techniques. Munch's early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.81 EDVMartines, Lauro.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945 MARRadzinsky, Edvard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NICKayihura, Edouard
Summary: In 2004, the Academy Award-nominated movie Hotel Rwanda lionized hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina for single-handedly saving the lives of all who sought refuge in the Hotel des Mille Collines during Rwanda's genocide against the Tutsi in 1994. Because of the film, the real-life Rusesabagina has been compared to Oskar Schindler, but unbeknownst to the public, the hotel's refugees do not endorse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 967 KAYMartinez, Raoul
Summary: In Creating Freedom, Raoul Martinez brings together a torrent of mind-expanding ideas, facts, and arguments to dismantle sacred myths central to our society--myths about free will, free markets, free media, and free elections. From the lottery of our birth to the consent-manufacturing influence of concentrated power, this far-reaching manifesto lifts the veil on the mechanisms of control that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 123 MARMartinez, Zarela.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Pub. Co. 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5972 MARJacob, Heinrich Eduard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Burford Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3373 JACCaparrós, Martín
Summary: "An up-to-the-minute global investigation of famine and the persistent issues the keep most of the world hungry. By one of Latin America's most famous and formidable journalists comes a book for the ages. In HUNGER, award-winning author Martin Caparros goes in search of why, in the 21st century, most of the world's inhabitants still go hungry daily and To do this he travels to places where food...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 CAPAgassi, Martine
Summary: Shows the many good things that toddlers can do with their hands including waving, hugging, and playing--but not hitting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Spirit Pub. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E AgaMartinez, Mario E.
Contents: The MindBody Code -- Archetypal wounds and their healing fields -- Does the immune system have morals? -- Guardians of the heart -- Lessons from centenarians -- Abundance phobia and reclaiming your birth right of wealth, health, and love -- Stigmata : how the mind wounds and heals the body -- Forgiveness as liberation from self-entrapment -- Psychospiritual conflicts and their resolutions --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2014
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Summary: "An extraordinary and inventive graphic biography, Steffen Kverneland's Munch explores the relationships and obsessions that drove the artist behind 'The Scream.' Using text drawn from the writings of Edvard Munch and his contemporaries, this extensively researched and beautifully drawn graphic novel debunks the familiar myth of the half-mad expressionist painter -- anguished, starving and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SelfMadeHero 2016
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Contents: Shy souls, 1863 and before -- Never more to be parted, 1864-1868 -- Growing up in Kristiania, 1869-1875 -- The blood-red banner, 1876-1877 -- Losing faith, 1878-1881 -- 'I have decided to become an artist', 1879-1881 -- 'No more brown sauce', 1882-1885 -- A calculated seduction, 1885 -- A few drinks before breakfast, 1883-1886 -- Soap art and soul art, 1886 -- And virtue is a sham, 1886-1889 --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUNCH, EDVARD PrideauxWoolfolk, Joanna Martine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Madison Books 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 133.5 WooEdwards, Mickey
Summary: A former congressman draws on his first-hand experience with legislative battles to present a solution-based, practical way to break the stranglehold of the political party system and banish the negative effects of partisan warfare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 EDWEdwards, Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.041 EDWEdwards, Roberta
Summary: "Athens, Greece, is best known for the Parthenon, the ruins of an ancient temple completed in 438 BC to honor the goddess Athena. But what many people don't know is that it only served as a temple for a couple hundred years. It then became a church, then a mosque, and by the end of the 1600s served as a storehouse for munitions. When an enemy army fired hundreds of cannon balls at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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Summary: "Ada Lovelace turned her powerful imagination into a vision of the future, predicting the impact of computers on human life. Lovelace had a unique education and embraced mathematics. She became one of the biggest believers in engineer Charles Babbage's ideas for calculation machines. This graphic biography shows how Lovelace helped spread awareness of what an early computer could do and how she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023
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Summary: "Mary Anning made some of the most notable fossil discoveries of the nineteenth century. Her uncovering of ichthyosaur remains, plesiosaurus remains, and more expanded people's knowledge of prehistoric life. This graphic biography follows Anning from her early life in a family of fossil hunters in a coastal British town to her years as a collector who impacted scientific research and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC BAYEdwards, Anne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1987
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collector Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 748.2 EDWEdwards, Lynn.
Summary: The Natural Paint Book bridges the information gap, offering an in-depth explanation of the differences between conventional and eco-friendly paints. Illustrated throughout with full-color photographs, the book provides complete instructions on how to make all-natural paints and finishes at home, using readily available ingredients such as clay, gelatin, linseed oil, and artist pigments. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2002