Parkinson, Claire L.
Summary: Decisively cutting through the hyperbole on both sides of the debate, the author, a distinguished NASA climatologist brings much needed balance and perspective to the highly contentious issue of climate change. Offering a knowledgeable overview of global conditions past and present, she lays out a compelling argument that our understandings and models are inadequate for confident predictions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.6 PARMakinson, Randell L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720.9 MAKSharpe, Roderick L.
Contents: Adams, John -- Alsop, Marin -- Amado, David -- Ansbacher, Charles -- Baker, Robert Hart -- Barenboim, Daniel -- Barra, Donald -- Bay, Peter -- Beck, Crafton -- Ben-Dor, Gisl̈e -- Bjaland, Leif -- Blomstedt, Herbert -- Bond, Victoria -- Botstein, Leon --Brott, Boris -- Brown, Justin -- Bychkov, Semyon -- Christie, Michael -- Conlon, James -- Cooper, Grant -- Cumming, Edward -- Davies, Dennis...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scarecrow Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 784.2092 SHAShapiro, Shauna L.
Summary: "When mindfulness is oversimplified, it loses its radical transformational power. This book clarifies the subtleties. Mindfulness is more than just paying attention. HOW you pay attention -with kindness-is where the magic is. Many people have trouble with mindfulness because they're beating themselves up with self-criticism and judgment. If you practice mindfulness without kindness, you limit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "From acclaimed scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Gospel explores Black spirituality through sermon and song. From the blues to hip-hop, African Americans have been the driving force of sonic innovation for over a century. But, while musical styles come and go, there is one sound that has been a constant source of strength, courage, and wisdom. It is a message that resounds from the pulpit to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD E-TV GOSWitt, Glen L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Glen-L 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.82 WITFauber, L. S.
Summary: Today we take for granted that a telescope allows us to see galaxies millions of light years away. But before its invention, people used nothing more than their naked eye to fathom what took place in the visible sky. So how did four men in the 1500's—of different nationality, age, religion, and class—collaborate to discover that the Earth revolved around the Sun? With this radical discovery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520.92 FAUWestcott, Wayne L.
Summary: "Increase your strength to improve your health, your appearance, and your performance with Strength Training Past 50. Strength training offers many benefits for active adults, including enhanced athletic performance, reduced risk of disease, and decreased symptoms of arthritis, diabetes, and osteoporosis. Whether your are just getting started or have been training your entire life, Strength...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Human Kinetics 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 WESWhyte, S. L.
Summary: Reilly, a teenager with extraordinary abilities, lives in an idyllic island town in the Pacific Northwest. After his sixteenth birthday, everything changes. Unforeseen events threaten his confidence, his peace, even his life, and he needs answers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fireglass Publishing 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WHYRoll, David L.
Summary: "From Franklin Roosevelt's final days through Harry Truman's extraordinary transformation, this is the enthralling story behind the most consequential presidential transition in U.S. history. When Roosevelt, in failing health, decided to run for a fourth term, he gave in to the big city Democratic bosses and reluctantly picked Senator Truman as his vice president, a man he barely knew. Upon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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Summary: "Reader beware! The biography of R. L. Stine, author of the hugely popular Goosebumps series, is a scary-good time! R. L. Stine began writing stories at the age of nine, after finding a typewriter in his family's attic. (Was it a haunted typewriter? Who can be sure?) Often referred to as the 'Stephen King of children's literature,' R.L. has created some of the scariest books to have ever been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 STISummary: Presents step-by-step instructions for drawing favorite characters from Nickelodeon television shows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 MARSummary: Viewers will see the nail-biting behind-the-scenes story that traces the marriage equality movement's historic progress and reveals the masterminds who fought.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FRECline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: Ethel L. Payne always had an ear for stories. Seeking truth, justice, and equality, Ethel followed stories from her school newspaper in Chicago to Japan during World War II. It even led her to the White House briefing room, where she broke barriers as one of the first black journalists. Ethel wasn't afraid to ask the tough questions of presidents, elected officials, or any one else in charge,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio PayneGross, Philippe L.
Summary: This provocative, visually stunning volume draws upon Taoist teachings to explore the creative and spiritual dimensions of the art of photography. Excerpts from the Taoist classic the Chuang-tzu and the writings of Western aesthetes are complemented by over 60 photographs from the work of such canonical photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alfred Stieglitz, and Dorothea Lange. Lucid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 770.1 GROSummary: From the Publisher: This comprehensive medical resource, The Merck Manual-Third Home Edition, extensively covers health care for newborns, the elderly, and everyone in between. The new Third Home Edition provides the same authoritative information doctors have relied on in The Merck Manual, for more than a century, in easy-to-understand, everyday language. Previous editions have sold more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Merck Research Laboratories 2009
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 610 MERReina, Dennis S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.7 REISegal, Nancy L.
Summary: Accidental Brothers tells the unique story of two sets of identical Colombian twin brothers who discovered at age 25 that they were mistakenly raised as fraternal twins--when they were not even biological brothers. Due to an oversight that presumably occurred in the hospital nursery, one twin in each pair was switched with a twin in the other pair. The result was two sets of unrelated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 SEGSummary: Explores the nature of Islam and unfolds many of its inner-dimensions. It dispels many myths and discusses contributions to science and math.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 LEGEdwards, Richard L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NASW Press 1997