Summary: It is the definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky, widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive, on the defining characteristic of our time, the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few. Through interviews filmed over four years, Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality, tracing a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: An expert ultrarunner describes how he set out to break the speed record for the Appalachian Trail, a 2,189 mile journey that took an unforeseen physical and emotional toll, but also offered him unexpected rewards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JUREK, SCOTT JURSummary: A biography of the man who made public parks an essential part of American life. He made enormous contributions to the American landscape, believing a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted's efforts to preserve nature created an "environmental ethic" decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712.0237 FRESummary: John James Audubon's story is dramatic and surprising. He was not born in America, but saw more of the North American continent than virtually anyone alive. His growing apprehension about the destruction of nature became his prophecy. As an artist and naturalist his achievements were monumental. John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature creates a meaningful portrait of Art and Science in the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JOHSummary: "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: A guide to raising troubled teens teaches readers how to understand teen behavior, establish a useful contract for life around the house, and seek outside help when necessary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.125 SELCard, Orson Scott.
Summary: In the conclusion of the Ender saga, Ender Wiggin confronts his ultimate challenge when his adopted world, Lusitania, is threatened by his old planet-destroying weapon, and his ally, Jane, is about to be killed off by the Starways Congress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 1997
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Summary: The conclusion to a religious saga about humans who return to Earth after an absence of 40 million years. They are all dead except for Shedemi who is orbiting the earth in a spaceship with Oversoul, the computer on board, seeking the Keeper of Earth, the supreme being.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 1995
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Summary: "In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake region kidnapped an Indian teenager and took him back to Spain, a common occurrence at the time. What was uncommon in this case was that the young man eventually came back. During his timeabroad, the boy lived in Madrid, Seville, Havana, and Mexico City, becoming a favorite of King Philip II and converting to Catholicism in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest Books 1988
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 1992
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Publisher / Publication Date: DEMCO 0000
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Contents: I. John Galt and the formation of the Canada Company -- II. The opening of the tract-Galt, Dunlop and Van Egmond -- III. Galt's departure -- IV. The beginning of settlement -- V. Land lease and the Thomas Mercer Jones Regime -- VI. Rebellion: and later military history -- VII. Development of Agriculture -- VIII. The struggle for schools -- IX. A country emerges -- X. The development of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ryerson Press 1019
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 971.3 SCOJames, Scott
Summary: "In only 90 seconds, a fire in the Station nightclub killed 100 people and injured hundreds more. It would take nearly 20 years to find out why-and who was really at fault. All it took for a hundred people to die during a show by the hair metal band GreatWhite was a sudden burst from two giant sparklers that ignited the acoustical foam lining the Station nightclub. But who was at fault? And who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2020
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Summary: "It was Gatsby that solidified his reputation as the chronicler of the Jazz Age and established him as one of the leading American novelists of his generation. Perhaps no other novel of the twentieth century makes a greater claim to being our Great American Novel--for its poetic prose, its exploration of the broad, intertwined themes of money, class, and American optimism (Daisy Buchanan's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITSummary: Presents a collection of sixteen books that cover a variety of science topics--with a focus on animals--and basic concepts, as well as an activity book that ties an exercise to each volume in the set.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Presents a collection of sixteen books that cover a variety of science topics--with a focus on animals--and basic concepts, as well as an activity book that ties an exercise to each volume in the set.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2012
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Summary: "Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporizing thousands; sixteen square miles of the city were flattened and more than 100,000 men, women, and children were killed. Black Snow is the story of this devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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Summary: "In this book, early fluent readers will learn about the features of tectonic plates, how they have shaped Earth's surface in the past, and how they could change Earth in the future. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn more about tectonic plates and their impact on our planet"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jump!, Inc. 2021
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Summary: "In this book, early fluent readers will learn about the features of supervolcanoes, how they have shaped Earth's surface in the past, and the possibilities of them changing the future of life on Earth. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn more about supervolcanoes and their impact on our planet"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jump!, Inc. 2021
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Summary: "In Rainbows, early fluent readers will explore the science behind rainbows. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they explore these amazing sights in the sky"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pogo Books 2021
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Summary: An illustrated guide to the identification of 129 common birds in the United States and southern Canada, describing their physical characteristics and habitats. Includes a table listing migration dates and nesting and feeding habits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2001