Stern, N. H. (Nicholas Herbert)
Summary: The risks of climate change are potentially immense. The benefits of taking action are also clear: we can see that economic development, reduced emissions, and creative adaptation go hand in hand. A committed and strong low-carbon transition could trigger a new wave of economic and technological transformation and investment, a new era of global and sustainable prosperity. Why, then, are we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIT Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 STEBarbellion, W. N. P.
Summary: "Published shortly before the author's death in 1919, this remarkable memoir addresses struggles with poverty, inadequate education, and the creeping paralysis of multiple sclerosis. Yet Barbellion still manages to write with uplifting eloquence and passion of his love for family, natural history, music, and literature. Told with a thoroughly modern voice, the unjustly overlooked Journal is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BARBELLION, W.N.P. BARHedberg, Nikolas R.
Summary: One of every eight women has a thyroid disorder, an incidence five to eight times higher than men. The thyroid produces the "master hormone" that controls everything in the body. One of the biggest reasons the thyroid slows down is because of iodine deficiency and aging. The wide-spread use of medications delivers poor outcomes. Many patients with thyroid disorders are desperate for help,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Robert Rose Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.4 HEDSummary: "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: Here Steve Nicholls demonstrates with both historical narrative and scientific inquiry just what an amazing place North America was and how it looked when the explorers first found it--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.7 NICHolbert, Steve
Summary: An objective, research-based examination presented from the perspective of victims, civil rights advocates, and the police. Discusses racial awareness in formative years; use of race to fight crime, drugs, and terror; police response to racial profiling accusations; special interest groups and legislative efforts to end the practice; effectiveness of data collection programs; use of race in law...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Marque Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.23 HOLNicolay, H. H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. S. Barnes 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 549 NICSummary: See super earth-moving equipment in action and up close. Marvel at the biggest dump truck in the world that moves 240 tons of dirt in one load, and other giant machines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dreams Come True Productions 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV IForbert, Steve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FORSummary: Ray Ferrier is a working class man living in New Jersey. He has become estranged from his family and his life isn't in order. His small town life is shaken violently by the arrival of destructive intruders: Aliens which have come up from the ground, en masse, to destroy Earth and all the humans living on it. As the aliens plow through the country in a wave of mass destruction and violence, Ray...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2005
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI WARStern, Jerome (Jerome H.)
Contents: The shapes of fiction -- A cautionary interlude -- From accuracy to zigzag : an alphabet for writers of fiction -- Readables : where to learn more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 STEStearns, Peter N.
Summary: Thirty-six lectures that provide a survey of the expanse of human development and civilization across the globe, beginning with the invention of agriculture in the Neolithic era and ending with the urbanized, technologically sophisticated world of the 21st century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2007
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Summary: For the last half of the 20th century, America was consumed by two struggles: the civil rights movement and the cold war. For 30 years, Hubert Humphrey stood at the center of both. And while he never reached his dream of being president, and in fact is most remembered for his 1968 loss to Richard Nixon, Humphrey left behind a legacy few presidents can match. In November of 1977, for the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HUBSummary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAKSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Stevens, Thomas N. (Thomas Nichols)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 973.7475 STESummary: Examines the work of two biologists, Bill Andrews and Aubrey de Grey, who have dedicated their lives to the reversal of biological aging.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Structure Films 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KENAdams, Henry
Contents: Contains the last two parts of History of the United States of America during the first administration of James Madison, and History of the United States of America during the second administration of James Madison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.46 ADAStark, William N.
Summary: "Gives readers a quick look at modern military land vehicles"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2016
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Summary: "Gives readers a quick look at modern military aircraft"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press a capstone imprint 2016
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Contents: Contains the first two parts of History of the United States of America during the first administration of Thomas Jefferson, and History of the United States of America during the second administration of Thomas Jefferson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.46 ADAStark, William N.
Summary: "Gives readers a quick look at modern military ships"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: "Gives readers a quick look at modern military robots"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2016