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Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da 1573-1610 David, Jacques Louis 1748-1825 Global warming Painters Biography Picasso, Pablo 1881-1973 Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn 1606-1669 Sculptors Biography Sculpture History Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) 1775-1851 Video recordings for the hearing impairedBurger, Edward B.
Summary: An explanation of challenging puzzles within the world of mathematics considers such topics as the link between a pineapple's spirals and the famous Fibonacci numbers, and the shape of the universe as reflected by a twisted strip of paper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 BURToner, Jacqueline B.
Summary: Via a pirate theme, teaches school-age children techniques to reduce and overcome feelings of jealousy and envy through writing and drawing activities and self-help exercises and strategies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A feature film version of America's hit comedy concert tour with renowned comedians Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, Ron White, and Larry the Cable Guy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLUTurner, J. Scott
Summary: "SUNY professor, biologist, and physiologist J. Scott Turner argues that modern Darwinism's materialist and mechanistic biases have led to a scientific dead end, unable to define what life is--and only an openness to the qualities of "purpose and desire" will move the field forward. Turner surveys the history of evolutionary thought, identifying "purpose and desire" as the keys to a coherent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 570 TURTucker, Jim B.
Summary: Investigates cases of children remembering past lives, including a boy who describes a previous life on a small island, and a boy who finds his past self in a photograph from the 1930s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.901 TUCTucker, Jonathan B.
Summary: This book provides a definitive account of the dramatic story of smallpox by a leading expert on biological and chemical weapons. The author traces the history of the smallpox virus from its first recorded outbreak around 3700 B.C. through its use as the first biological warfare agent in human history, and draws some decisively important lessons for the future. In a timely debate, he addresses...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.912 TUCSummary: ​​Larry's back -- and that's pritty, pritty, pritty good news! Six years after the award-winning Curb Your Enthusiasm ended its last season, HBO brought back the hit series starring writer/producer/comedian Larry David as ... writer/producer/comedian Larry David. Each episode features verité-style footage of David (playing himself) as he gets into everyday predicaments with both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: "This popular examination of research into children?s reports of past-life memories describes a collection of 2,500 cases at the University of Virginia that investigators have carefully studied since Dr. Ian Stevenson began the work more than forty years ago. The children usually begin talking about a past life at the age of two or three and may talk about a previous family or the way they died...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.9 TUCRolling Stones
Contents: disc 1, Original release. Jumpin jack flash -- Carol -- Stray cat blues -- Love in vain -- Midnight rambler -- Sympathy for the Devil -- Live with me -- Little Queenie -- Honky tonk women -- Street fighting man --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ABKCO 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ROLLerner, Eric J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books/Random House 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.18 LERTune, Romal J.
Summary: From author, speaker, and social entrepreneur Romal Tune and his son, Jordan, comes this tour de force for fathers and sons about healing the unfinished business between them. What do sons wish they had received from their fathers? What might honest, healing conversations between fathers and sons look like? Tune was raised mostly without a father. He and his dad connected briefly when he was a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadleaf Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 TUNJ.-C. B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1993
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.371 GALGraetz, Michael J.
Summary: A fresh and revelatory look at the Warren Burger Supreme Court finds that it was not a “moderate” or transitional court, as often portrayed, but a conservative one that still defines the constitutional landscape we live in today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 347 GRASummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Brown, David Blayney.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellfleet Press 1990
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.4 BROMcGinty, Alice B.
Summary: "When Venetia Burney's grandfather reads aloud from the newspaper about a new discovery--a "ninth major planet" that has yet to be named--her eleven-year-old mind starts whirring. She is studying the planets in school and loves Roman mythology. "It might be called Pluto," she says, thinking of the dark underworld. Grandfather loves the idea and contacts his friend at London's Royal Astronomical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade books 2019
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Summary: Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask--but Levitt is not a typical economist. He studies the stuff and riddles of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 LEVGarner, R. J. (Robert John)
Summary: Presents a detailed guide to the best methods for grafting plants and trees and outlines the ways to repair and improve bad grafts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 631.541 GARLevitt, Steven D.
Summary: Whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically, Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling to show how people respond to incentives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 LEVCook, J. B. (John B.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ausable River International Canoe Marathon, Inc. 2007
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 797.14 COOSummary: Almost 40 years after John F. Kennedy's assassination, an ex-Marine named Walter Ohlinger has come forward with a startling claim ... he was the second shooter on the grassy knoll on that day in November of 1963.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INTSummary: Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of reconstruction, photography and storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome; opulent, parvenu Amsterdam; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; Victorian England...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007