Summary: Travel back in time, from the Arctic Ocean to Pacific tide pools, with a pioneering group of scientists who make surprising discoveries that transform human understanding of nature and ecology.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SERSummary: Chronicles the efforts of nature photographer James Balog to document the receding of the Solheim glacier in Iceland, a consequence of climate change and global warming, in which strategically placed cameras would take one picture every hour for three years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHASummary: "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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Summary: History is about so much more than memorizing facts. It is, as more than half of the word suggests, about the story. And, told in the right way, it is the greatest one ever written: Good and evil, triumph and tragedy, despicable acts of barbarism and courageous acts of heroism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 BECSummary: " ... the first documentary to investigate the actual mechanisms by which mobile phone technology can cause cancer. The film takes a deeper look at how humanity is reacting to the most profound environmental change the planet has ever seen. Two billion years ago life first appeared on earth, a planet bathed in a natural electromagnetic frequency. As life slowly evolved from simple to complex...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Janson Media 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RESSummary: In How I Resist, readers will find hope and support through voices that are at turns personal, funny, irreverent, and instructive. Not just for a young adult audience, this incredibly impactful collection will appeal to readers of all ages who are feeling adrift and looking for guidance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 320 HOWJohnson, J. J.
Summary: "From award-winning author and acclaimed chef JJ Johnson comes a cookbook full of delicious recipes that celebrate the history and versatility one of the world's essential foods. The Simple Art of Rice is a celebration of rice and the many cultures in which this life-giving grain takes pride of place at the center of every table. The recipes are influenced by these global flavors from Asia to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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Summary: Presents step-by-step instructions on how to draw a variety of cats, including domestic breeds, wild cats, kittens, and celebrity cats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conari Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.97 HAYJohnson, J. J.
Summary: In two of the most renowned and historic venues in Harlem, Alexander Smalls and JJ Johnson created a unique take on the Afro-Asian-American flavor profile. Their foundation was a collective three decades of traveling the African diaspora, meeting and eating with chefs of color, and researching the wide reach of a truly global cuisine; their inspiration was how African, Asian, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 JOHAmes, Lee J.
Summary: Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing fifty different breeds of dogs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 743.69772 AMEAmes, Lee J.
Summary: Gives step-by-step illustrations for drawing fifty endangered animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 743.6537 AMAmes, Lee J.
Summary: Step-by-step instructions for drawing different breeds of horses in a variety of poses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1984
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 743 AMEGomes, Peter J.
Summary: The Good Book is a brilliant and inspiring look at the Bible today from the preacher to Harvard University, a man Time magazine called one of the seven best preachers in America. "The theme of this book," writes Peter Gomes in his introduction, "is the risk and the joy of the Bible: risk in that we might get it wrong, and joy in the discovery of the living Word becoming flesh. It is around this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.1 GOMGomes, Peter J.
Summary: Addresses key issues in the modern church and explores the dangers of focusing excessively on the Bible, in a spiritual resource that seeks to illuminate what the author believes to be Jesus's original transformative and revolutionary message of hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 226.06 GOMAmes, Lee J.
Summary: Step-by-step instructions for drawing fifty different aircraft and spacecraft including a Boeing 747, a U-2, and a hang glider.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1977
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 743.8 AMEAmes, Lee J.
Summary: Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing fifty different breeds of dogs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1981
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 743 AMEAmes, Lee J.
Summary: Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing a variety of sharks, whales, and other sea creatures, including the hammerhead shark, humpback whale, and giant sea turtle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1989
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This three-part series uses cutting-edge graphics to reveal the surprisingly beautiful biological processes that keep one alive. Discover the ingenious ways your body develops, adapts, and endures, and witness the fascinating and finely tuned systems that keep one's body motoring, and the scientists guessing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AMAAmes, Lee J.
Summary: Step-by-step instructions for drawing fifty different dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1977
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 743 AMEAmes, Lee J.
Summary: Step-by-step instructions for drawing fifty different dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1977
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1979
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 741.522 AMEAmes, Lee J.
Summary: Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing monsters and other assorted creatures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 741.24 AMEAmes, Lee J.
Summary: Step-by-step instructions for drawing fifty different princesses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 2012