Wallace, David Foster.
Summary: For this collection, Wallace immerses himself in the three-ring circus that is the presidential race in order to document one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history. Later he strolls from booth to booth at a lobster festival in Maine and risks life and limb to get to the bottom of the lobster question. Then he wheedles his way into an L.A. radio studio, armed with tubs of chicken, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 WALWallace, David Foster.
Summary: David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor's counterintuitive discovery that there is more than one kind of infinity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 511.3 WALWallace, David Foster.
Summary: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again collects David Foster Wallace's writings on a range of subjects that only he could bring together. From personal narratives to tennis, film, philosophy, and postmodern literary theory, no subject is outside the play of his imagination. In "Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All", a finalist for the 1995 National Magazine Award,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 1997
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Summary: "Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in "This is Water". How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.11 WALWallace, David Foster
Summary: Both a onetime "near-great junior tennis player" and a lifelong connoisseur of the finer points of the game, David Foster Wallace wrote about tennis with the authority of an insider, the showmanship of a literary pyrotechnician, and disarming admiration of an irrepressible fan. Including his masterful profiles of Roger Federer and Tracy Austin, String Theory gathers Wallace's five famous essays...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library of America] 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.34 WALWallace, David Foster.
Summary: For this collection, Wallace immerses himself in the three-ring circus that is the presidential race in order to document one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history. Later he strolls from booth to booth at a lobster festival in Maine and risks life and limb to get to the bottom of the lobster question. Then he wheedles his way into an L.A. radio studio, armed with tubs of chicken, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 814.54 WALWallace-Wells, David
Summary: "An exploration of the devastating effects of global warming-how the future will look to those living through it as well as a direct overview and an impassioned and hopeful call to action to change the trajectory while there is still time. Adapted for young adults from the #1 New York Times bestseller"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 304.2 WALWallace-Wells, David
Summary: "It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousandsof homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually. This is only a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 NatureSummary: The Crusades began as a holy mission to liberate Jerusalem and became the largest mass migration in European history. When they ended 200 years later, the Crusades had created a mythology of knights and chivalry, and left a legacy of distrust between East and West that continues to shape our world today. Filmed on location throughout Europe and the Middle East.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2001
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CRUContents: Foreword / Robert Atwan -- Introduction: deciderization 2007 - a special report / David Foster Wallace -- Werner / Jo Ann Beard -- The freedom to offend / Ian Burma -- Iraq: the war of the imagination / Mark Danner -- Fathead's hard times / W.S. Di Piero -- An orgy of power / George Gessert -- What the dog saw / Malcolm Gladwell -- Afternoon of the sex children / Mark Greif -- Operation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BESWallace, Irving
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 031.02 WALMacColl, Gail
Summary: Read about a unique set of American women cutting a swath through stodgy 19th century British aristocracy. The book covers not just who they were but the lows and the triumphs of their inter-continental marriages. Also included are many fascinating details on how they dressed and what they had to go through.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub. 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.415 EWIBarton, Mike.
Summary: Photographer Mike Barton created Charlevoix in a nutshell, with over 190 full-color photographs. From colorful Bridge Street to the legendary Earl Young stone houses to the spectacular sunsets over Lake Michigan, everyone will find this little book a joy to read.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boulder Press 2009