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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 INGAndreas, Peter
Summary: "In his path-breaking Killer High, Andreas shows how six psychoactive drugs--ranging from old to relatively new, mild to potent, licit to illicit, natural to synthetic--have proven to be particularly important war ingredients. This sweeping history tells the story of war from antiquity to the modern age through the lens of alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, opium, amphetamines, and cocaine. Beer and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9 ANDAndreas, Joel.
Summary: Cultural Writing. Political Science. Government. Education. ADDICTED TO WAR takes on the most active, powerful and destructive military in the world. Hard-hitting, carefully documented and heavily illustrated, it reveals why the United States has been involved in more wars in recent years than any other country. Read ADDICTED TO WAR to find out who benefits from these military adventures, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AK Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.0213 ANDKillen, Andreas.
Contents: Fear of flying -- Reality programming -- Operation homecoming -- Personality crisis -- Warholism -- Reinventing the fifties -- Power shift -- Conspiracy nation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 KILTeiwes, Helga.
Contents: A glimpse of a Hopi woman's life -- Contemporary Hopi basket weaving techniques -- The forms and functions of Hopi basketry -- Coiled-basket weavers of Second Mesa -- Wicker-basket weavers of Third Mesa -- Tradition, ritual, and continuity -- Art form as social bond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arizona Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.412 TEITjernshaugen, Andreas
Summary: "Throughout this captivating book, Tjernshaugen investigates the fox's place in our own cultural history--such as Reynard the Fox, the Scandinavian inspiration for Disney's Robin Hood, and the fables of Aesop, which depict foxes as sly and cunning, a reputation that may not be fully earned, Tjernshaugen argues. What is true is "the fox is wilder than other wildlife...and largely survives in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 599.775 TJEWagner, Andreas
Summary: Wagner draws on over fifteen years of research to present the missing piece in Darwin's theory. Using experimental and computational technologies that were heretofore unimagined, he has found that adaptations are not just driven by chance, but by a set of laws that allow nature to discover new molecules and mechanisms in a fraction of the time that random variation would take.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Current 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 572 WAGAnderes, Fred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abbeville Press 1983
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 730 ANDAndros, Camille
Summary: The author presents a picture book biography of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, co-founder and director of the first private orphanage in New York City and wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton.--adapted from publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB HAMILTON ANDStrøksnes, Morten Andreas
Summary: In the great depths surrounding the remote Lofoten islands in Norway lives the Greenland shark. Twenty-six feet in length and weighing more than a tonne, it can live for 200 years. Its fluorescent green, parasite-covered eyes are said to hypnotise its prey, and its meat is so riddled with poison that, when consumed, it sends people into a hallucinatory trance. Armed with little more than their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STROKSNES, MORTEN STRResendez, Andres
Summary: "The story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery-and of the Black mariner whose stunning accomplishment has been until now lost to history It began with a secret mission, no expenses spared. Spain, plotting to break Portugal's monopoly trade with the fabled Orient, set sail from a hidden Mexican port to cross the Pacific--and then,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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Summary: Helga's Diary is a young girl's remarkable first-hand account of life in the Terezin concentration camp during World War II. The drawings and paintings that Helga made during her time in Terezin, which accompany this diary, were published in 1998 in the book Draw What You See (Zeichne, was Du siehst).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "So Recently Rent a World gathers new poems and selections from the 16 books of verse that Codrescu has published since arriving in the U.S. as a teen refuge from communist Romania...'So Recently Rent a World let me to put a period on four decades writing and the old culture that the writing reflected."--The Times-Picayune.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 CODReséndez, Andrés
Summary: A landmark history: the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early 20th century. Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist movement to protect the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 RESAndrus, Aubre
Summary: Whether you brought home a puppy who needs to learn how to walk on a leash or you're trying to teach an old dog some new tricks, this guide covers it all, including more than 40 different training activities. With tips from veterinarian Dr. Gary Weitzman, you can take your dog through basic training and problem-solving exercises, and teach the pup some paws-itively amazing acrobatics. And if...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.7 ANDVirsnieks, Andris
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Wiley 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9106 CODAndes, Karen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Pub. Group 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 ANDØstby, Hilde
Summary: "Author and journalist Hilde Østby was cycling to work one day when she crashed head-first into a stone bridge. At the hospital, she was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury and prescribed rest and relaxation. But her brain was anything but restful: ideas for new writing projects popped into her head at a frenzied pace. Never before had she had so many 'aha' moments. But at the same time,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books Ltd. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.35 OSTHelget, Nicole Lea
Summary: "Basketball is much more than jump shots, no-look passes, and slam dunks. It's a stunning spectacle where basketball, science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics meet."--Page 4 cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.323 HELHelweg, Richard
Summary: Learn how to set up your own hydroponic garden in your backyard, greenhouse, or windowsill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Pub Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 631.585 HELHaelle, Tara
Summary: The Earth rotates on its axis, causing day and night, and revolves around the Sun, causing changes in season and weather occurrences
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rourke Educational Media 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 508.2 HAELaubach, RenGe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 690.8927 LAUHeale, Jay.
Summary: Describes the history, geography, wildlife, government, and culture of Poland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2016