Summary: The final section in the series, Part 7 details the skeptical and critical answers reached in the second half of the twentieth century to the questions posed in the previous fifty years. This section covers the work of late twentieth-century philosophers and theorists who focused on two critical features of modernity. One issue focused on modern political theory and practice. The other focused...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRESummary: Oscar, a baby chimpanzee, is enjoying his life with his mother in the jungles along the Ivory Coast. Without warning, young Oscar is orphaned during an attack from a rival group of chimpanzees. Afterward, he attempts to survive on his own, and to be accepted by the other chimps. Oscar struggles until he is adopted by the alpha male of his group.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2012
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Summary: "English teacher by day, Maddie Ryan spends her nights and weekends as the rhythm guitarist of Bunny Bloodlust, a queer punk band living in a warehouse-turned-venue called “The Lab” in Houston’s Eighth Ward. When Maddie learns that the Eighth Ward is to be sacrificed for a new electromagnetic hyperway out to the wealthy, white suburbs, she joins “Save the Eighth,” a Black-led organizing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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Summary: The Tour de France is always one of the sporting calendar's most spectacular and dramatic events. But the 1998 Tour provided drama like no other. As the opening stages in Ireland unfolded, the Festina team's soigneur Willy Voet was arrested on the French-Belgian border with a car-load of drugs. Raid after police raid followed, with arrest after arrest hammering the Tour. In protest, there were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.6 FOTMacleod, Alasdair.
Summary: A lavish visual survey of the world's greatest explorers, revealing who they were, where they went, and how their expeditions shaped the course of human history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK in association with the Smithsonian Institution 2010
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Summary: "The real-life answers to Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Unruly Places explores the most extraordinary, off-grid, offbeat places on the planet. Alastair Bonnett's tour of the planet's most unlikely micro-nations, moving villages, secret cities, and no man's lands shows us the modern world from surprising new vantage points, bound to inspire urban explorers, off-the-beaten-trail wanderers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Bay Area-based reporters for The Guardian Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano relate the story of the worst American wildfire in a century, weaving together a portrait of the remarkable California community of 27,000 souls, destroyed wholesale in a fire that left 86 dead, while offering a bigger-picture exploration of the science of wildfires in a time of dramatic climate change. Alastair Gee is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 0000
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA SF REYDuncan, Alastair
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1980
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 748.5913 DUNSawday, Alastair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alastair Sawday Pub. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.46 SAWCooke, Alistair
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf; [distributed by Random House] 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 CookeCooke, Alistair
Summary: A collection of the author's BBC radio dispatches presents half a century of observations on the American scene, offering recollections of friends and colleagues and reflections on the Vietnam War, Watergate, September 11th, and the Iraq war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 COOBonnett, Alastair
Summary: A tour of the world's hidden geographies; from disappearing islands to forbidden deserts and a stunning testament to how mysterious the world remains today.
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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 910 BONScott, Alastair
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1990
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Publisher / Publication Date: C.N. Potter 1982
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 748.5 DUNHull, Alastair
Summary: Bold, distinctive patterns; brilliant colors; astonishingly diverse decoration; affordability - these are some of the characteristics that explain the popularity of the marvelous flatwoven textiles from the Near and Far East known in the West as kilims. In recent years, demand for them has reached unprecedented levels, fueled by a new recognition of the special qualities of handmade ethnic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1993
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Summary: Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band. His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that leaves nine hundred people dead, a crime that appalls even a hardened cop like Dreyfus. But then his investigation uncovers something even more potentially dangerous--a covert...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COOWood, Alistair.
Summary: Presents an introduction to playing the ukulele, discussing such topics as chords, strumming, fingerpicking, and different genres and styles, along with advice on selecting and caring for an instrument.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2011
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Summary: Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Cooke, a newly naturalized citizen, set out to see his country as it was undergoing a monumental change. He wanted to "see what the war had done to people, to the towns I might go through, to some jobs and crops, to stretches of landscape I loved and had seen at peace; and to let significance fall where it might." Working throughout the war, Cooke...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022