Fraser, Evan D. G.
Summary: Empires of Food brilliantly recounts the history of cyclic consumption, but it is also the story of the future; of, for example, how a shrimp boat hauling up an empty net in the Mekong Delta could spark a riot in the Caribbean. It tells what happens when a culture or nation runs out of food -- and shows us the face of the world turned hungry. A fascinating, fresh history told through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.309 RIMLemoine, Yvan D.
Summary: A random mix of recipes with a different recipe for each day of the year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.568 LEMFreier, George D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fisher Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.631 FRESummary: Origami may seem an unlikely medium for understanding and explaining the world. But around the globe, several fine artists and theoretical scientists are abandoning more conventional career paths to forge lives as modern-day paper folders. Through origami, these offbeat and provocative minds are reshaping ideas of creativity and revealing the relationship between art and science. This film...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Fuse Films 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BETBrasier, M. D.
Contents: In search of lost worlds -- The devil's toenail -- A fossilized jelly baby -- The first terror with teeth -- A worm that changed the world -- A mistake point -- Reign of the Snow Queen -- Through a lens, darkly -- Torridon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.71 BRAFraser, G. S. (George Sutherland)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Books 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.09 FRAKramer, Peter D.
Summary: "Do antidepressants actually work, or are they just glorified dummy pills? How can we tell one way or the other?In Ordinarily Well, the celebrated psychiatrist and author Peter D. Kramer addresses the growing mistrust of antidepressants among the medical establishment and the broader public by taking the long view. He charts the history of the drugs' development and the research that tests...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615 KRAKrasner, Stephen D.
Summary: "After generations of foreign policy failures, America can now make the world safer by abandoning utopian goals and working with difficult characters. In the past fifty years, the United States has invested hundreds of billions of dollars in the idea thatstate-building can make the world "safe for democracy," but the return on that investment has been woeful. Witnessing the failure of this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 KRAGraber, Alan L. (Alan Lee)
Summary: Diabetes happens in a life that already has a story. This book, composed of nearly forty personal narratives, based on taped interviews, about the lives of actual patients with diabetes, draws upon the collective experience of an endocrinologist and two nurse practitioners who worked together for twenty-five years. The people who describe their experiences with diabetes range from teenagers to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanderbilt University Press 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 616.4 GRASmith, Dian G.
Summary: Illustrations and text explain the traditions of the celebration of Hanukkah. From the lighting of the family menorah to eating latkes and playing dreidel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2001
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E SmiSummary: Recounts the triumph and travails of the eighteen African American athletes representing the United States in the 1936 Olympics, who endured racism in Hitler's Berlin as well as back home in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OLYJohnson, Katherine G.
Summary: In 2015, at the age of ninety-seven, Johnson became a global celebrity for her pioneering work as a mathematician on NASA's first flight into space. In her memoir Johnson provides a record of racial history that reveals the influential role Black educators played in nurturing the dreams of trailblazers like herself, and brings into focus the unrelenting grit required to make history and inspire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, KATHERINE JOHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B JOHNSON JOHSummary: When Doreen Green, also known as Squirrel Girl, volunteers to teach a high school computer programming class, she discovers that one of her students is Kamala Khan, who moonlights as the superhero Ms. Marvel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 MARRader, Andrew (Andrew Alan)
Summary: "A survey of the history and future of human exploration, replete with fun facts about the results of cultural exchanges and the discovery of new frontiers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9 RADEvans, Patricia (Patricia G.)
Contents: What is verbal abuse? -- Why verbal abuse isn't okay -- The teen world -- The code of silence -- Verbal abuse precedes violence -- How verbal abuse impacts teens -- Verbal abuse is media and sports -- Verbal abuse at home -- Verbal abuse at school -- The teen who verbally abuses -- Stopping verbal abuse -- For parents -- For teachers -- For teens -- Boyfriends and girlfriends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media Corporation 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.6083 EVAHessayon, D. G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Expert 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 HESHessayon, D. G.
Summary: Over 200 different flowers you grow from bulbs get the world-famous flower doctor's treatment. See which are best for indoor growing and which are best outdoors, with a plan so you'll enjoy colorful blooms all year-round--from Amaryllis, Begonia, Crocus, and Dahlia, through Irises, Lilies, Narcissus, Tulip, and Zephyranthes. All 200 bulb types come with full-color photos of the plants in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Expert Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.944 HESHessayon, D. G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Expert Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.933 HessaHart, D. G. (Darryl G.)
Summary: "This briskly told history of Reformed Protestantism takes these churches through their entire 500-year history--from sixteenth-century Zurich and Geneva to modern locations as far flung as Seoul and São Paulo. D. G. Hart explores specifically the social and political developments that enabled Calvinism to establish a global presence. Hart's approach features significant episodes in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 284 HARSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUBlaser, Martin J.
Summary: A critically important and startling look at the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics from the field's leading expert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 615.7922 BLAHessayon, D. G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Expert Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.986 HESGigi D. G.
Summary: "Now with Princess Nautilus as part of their entourage, Cucumber and Almond travel to Trebleopolis to warn Princess Piano that Noisemaster, second of the Nightmare Knight's minions, might be after her! Unfortunately, they arrive just in time for Queen Cymbal's birthday and the Queen refuses to stop the festivities ... that is until Noisemaster succeeds in capturing Princess Piano and threatens...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hastings House, c1964. 9640