Summary: Continues the history of people of African descent, including topics such as the global African presence, the science of melanin, the truth about the prison industrial complex, how thriving black economic communities were undermined in America, hidden truths about Native Americans, and more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Urasawa, Naoki

Summary: Dr. Kenzo Tenma saves the life of Johan, a young boy who grows up to become a serial killer with secret ties to the government, and Tenma, finding himself implicated as the main suspect in a series of murders, sets out to find and stop Johan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2008

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Urasawa, Naoki

Summary: An ice-cold killer is on the loose and Dr. Kenzo Tenma is the only one who can stop him. In this episode things get dicey for Richard Brown, a private detective hired to find the powerful financier Hans Schuwald's long-lost son.

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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2007

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Urasawa, Naoki

Summary: Dr. Kenzo Tenma saves the life of Johan, a young boy who grows up to become a serial killer with secret ties to the government, and Tenma, finding himself implicated as the main suspect in a series of murders, sets out to find and stop Johan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2006

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Urasawa, Naoki

Summary: In this the final volume, Dr. Kenzo Tenma tries to stop Johan's rampage, with help from Grimmer and Inspector Lunge, as Nina prepares for a final confrontation with her twin brother.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2008

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Urasawa, Naoki

Summary: Dr. Kenzo Tenma saves the life of Johan, a young boy who grows up to become a serial killer with secret ties to the government, and Tenma, finding himself implicated as the main suspect in a series of murders, sets out to find and stop Johan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2006

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Urasawa, Naoki

Summary: "Tenma's long quest for justice, Johan and Nina's search for identity--all roads converge on the mysterious "Red Rose Mansion." Is Nina prepared to confront the dark memories this cursed house will awaken in her subcouscious? If Tenma gets there in time, will he find a clue that will help him save the life of his ex-fiancee Eva? Or will Johan, as always, remain several steps ahead of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2008

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Urasawa, Naoki

Summary: Dr. Kenzo Tenma risks his promising medical career to save the life of a critically wounded young boy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2006

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Takahashi, Rumiko

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Communications 2005

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Takahashi, Rumiko

Summary: Due to some strange training by his father, Ranma can't stand cats. Exposed to a cat for too long, he turns into one--and becomes invincible! Meanwhile, Shampoo returns with her great-grandmother, the "honorable hag, " who magically makes Ranma unable to tolerate hot water. Shampoo has also been to the magical springs, and now turns into a cat! When Shampoo's ardent suitor Mousse arrives,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Communications 2003

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Takahashi, Rumiko

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 2005

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Takahashi, Rumiko

Summary: After an accident during a training mission with his father, teenage martial artist Ranma Soatome changes into a woman any time he is splashed with water, making it even more difficult for him to woe his arranged fiance, who claims she hates Ranma.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Communications 2005

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Takahashi, Rumiko

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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ, LLC 2003

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Takahashi, Rumiko

Summary: Picolet Chardin II, master of the La Belle France School of Martial Arts Dining has shown up at school to collect on the promise that one of Soun and Genma's children would marry him. If he can't beat Picolet at his own game--food fu, or martial arts eating--Ranma will be hearing wedding bells!

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 2005

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Rashid, Ahmed.

Summary: The terrorist attacks of September 11 have turned the world's attention to areas of the globe about which we know very little. The author turns his skills as an investigative journalist to the five Central Asian republics adjacent to Afghanistan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2002

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Mones, Nicole

Summary: A romance in China between a white American woman and a Chinese scientist. The heroine is Alice who works in China as a translator. She joins an expedition of which he is part and together they search for the remains of the Peking Man.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000

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Joyes, Claire.

Summary: One of the most influential painters of modern times, Claude Monet lived for half his life in the famous house at Giverny. It was after moving here in 1883 with his future second wife, Alice Hoschede, and their eight children that Monet's work finally achieved recognition. His growing success meant that he was able to indulge his passion for comfort and good living. Family meals, special...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1989

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Jonnes, Jill

Summary: Presents a compelling account of the Eiffel Tower's creation and a superb portrait of Belle Epoque France. As Gustave Eiffel held court that summer atop his one-thousand-foot tower, a remarkable host of artists and personalities--Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, Gauguin, Whistler, and Edison--traveled to Paris and the Exposition Universelle (1889 World's Fair) to mingle and make their mark.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009

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Rashid, Ahmed.

Summary: Rashid examines the region and the corridors of power in Washington and Europe to see how the promised nation building in these countries has progressed. His conclusions are devastating: an unstable and nuclear-armed Pakistan, a renewed al Qaeda profiting from a booming opium trade, and a Taliban resurgence and reconquest. While Iraq continues to attract most of American media and military...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008

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Rashid, Mark.

Summary: Many horse trainers feel that horses who fail to obey a human's request are doing so as much out of perversity as ignorance. That's not Mark Rashid's view: "If we understand that horses can't separate the way they feel from the way they act, then we can start to see that unwanted behavior isn't bad behavior at all. More times than not, it's just the horse expressing the way he feels at that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2009

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Sones, Sonya.

Summary: "I Feel Bad About My Neck meets Elizabeth Berg in celebrated YA novelist Sonya Sones's first adult novel, weaving together a seamless narrative in free verse--a funny, fierce and piercingly honest coming-of-middle-age story about falling apart and putting yourself back together"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Paperbacks 2011

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Khalidi, Rashid.

Summary: Analyzes three historical moments from the past thirty-five years to reveal how the U.S. and Israel have worked together to prevent the emergence of a Palestinian state.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2013

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Rashid, Mark.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse 2011

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