Batra, Neelam.
Summary: 1,000 Indian Recipes enables home cooks to recreate the authentic flavors of India in their own kitchens. Complete with guidelines for finding ingredients, this book provides recipes for vegetarian and nonvegetarian entrěs, seasoning blends, chutneys, rice dishes, breads, desserts, and much more. The author presents information on Indian spices and basic ingredients, such as paneer cheese and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5954 BATRajendra, Vijeya
Summary: This book describes the geography, history, economy, government, and cultures of Iran. The coauthor is Gisela Kaplan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 955 RAJRajendra, Vijeya
Summary: "Australia is filled with beautiful landscapes and friendly people. How does the natural world affect life there? How has life changed in Australia from its earliest days to today? Readers find the answers to these questions and many more about life "down under" as they explore the history, environment, and culture of this popular part of the world. The detailed main text features up-to-date...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 994 RAJBates, Laura
Summary: "Women's rights activist Laura Bates is no stranger to misogynistic attacks online, but over time, the vitriol hinted at something widespread and toxic. Men Who Hate Women examines the rise of secretive extremist communities who despise women as Bates traces the roots of misogyny across a complex spiderweb of groups. Drawing parallels to other extremist movements around the world, Bates shows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 BATBates, Laura
Summary: "They told you that you need to be thin and beautiful. They told you to wear longer skirts, avoid going out late at night, and move in groups--never accept drinks from a stranger, and wear shoes you can run in more easily than heels. They told you to wear just enough make-up to look presentable but not enough to be a slut; to dress to flatter your apple, pear, hourglass figure, but not to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.2 BATAtria, Travis
Summary: "By the 1930s, Briggs was considered "the Louis Armstrong of Paris," and was the peer of the greatest names of his time, from Josephine Baker to Django Reinhardt. In 1940, he was arrested and sent to the prison camp at Saint Denis. Based on groundbreaking research and including unprecedented access to Briggs's oral memoir, this is a crucial document of jazz history, a fast-paced epic, and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRIGGS, ARTHUR BRIBator, Ulan.
Contents: Hemisphere.--Santa Lucia.--Etoile Astre.--Let go ego.--Hiver.--Selva.--La joueuse de tambour.--Soeur violence.--Echo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: sn 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ULACapra, Fritjof.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.01 CAPTaylor, Astra.
Summary: From a cutting-edge cultural commentator and documentary filmmaker, this work is a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great democratizing force of our age. The Internet has been hailed as a place where all can be heard and everyone can participate equally. But how true is this claim? In this seminal dismantling of techno-utopian visions, the author argues...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 TAYBarna, George.
Summary: George Barna identifies, describes, and analyzes seven major "faith tribes" (Captive Christians, Casual Christians, Jews, Mormons, Pantheists, Muslims, and Skeptics) in America--documenting who they are, what they believe, how they vote, and what they are passionate about. --from publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barna 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200.973 BARBaram, Marcus
Summary: In this biography, Marcus Baram--an acquaintance of Gil Scott-Heron's--will trace the volatile journey of a troubled musical genius. Baram will chart Scott-Heron's musical odyssey, from Chicago to Tennessee to New York: a drug addict's twisted path to redemption and enduring fame. In Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man, Marcus Baram puts the complicated icon into full focus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCOTT-HERON, GIL BARMir, Saira
Summary: Introduces nineteen Muslim women from all around the world who have found their callings in a vast range of fields, from social justice to competitive sports to the entertainment industry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 MIRThackeray, Beata.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.54 ThackerayCohen, Deatra
Summary: "A rediscovery of the forgotten legacy of the Jewish medicinal plant healers who thrived in eastern Europe's Pale of Settlement, from the Middle Ages through the modern era"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 581.6 COHPatterson, Zahra
Summary: "Taking as its starting point an ultimately failed attempt to translate a Sesotho short story into English, Chronology explores the spaces language occupies in relationships, colonial history, and the postcolonial present. It is a collage of images and documents, folding on words-that-follow-no-chronology, unveiling layers of meaning of queering love, friendship, death, and power. Traveling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ugly Duckling Presse 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 PATTaylor, Astra
Summary: "What is democracy really? What do we mean when we use the term? And can it ever truly exist? Astra Taylor, hailed as a "New Civil Rights Leader" (LA Times), provides surprising answers. There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, and yet it is in crisis everywhere we look. From a cabal of thieving plutocrats in the White House to campaign finance and gerrymandering, it is clear that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 TAYBartram, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.5 BARGoldstein, Darra
Summary: "100 traditional yet surprisingly modern recipes from the far northern corners of Russia, featuring ingredients and dishes that young Russians are rediscovering as part of their heritage. Russian cookbooks tend to focus on the food that was imported fromFrance in the nineteenth century or the impoverished food of the Soviet era. Beyond the North Wind explores the true heart of Russian food, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5947 GOLGoldstein, Darra.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 GOLPollitt, Katha
Summary: Forty years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, "abortion" is still a word that is said with outright hostility by many, despite the fact that one in three American women will have terminated at least one pregnancy by menopause. Even those who support a woman's right to an abortion often qualify their support by saying abortion is a "bad thing," an "agonizing decision," making the medical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304 POLPress, Petra.
Summary: Discusses the culture, religion, survival and daily life of the Mayan people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972.81016 PREZadra, Antonio
Summary: "A comprehensive exploration of what dreams are, where they come from, what they mean, and why we have them. Questions on the origins and meaning of dreams are as old as humankind, and persist to this day to excite and confound us. When Brains Dream addresses the core questions about dreams while illuminating the most up-to-date science in the field. Written by two world-renowned sleep and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 ZADCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 ZADKalman, Maira.
Summary: Wanting to know about the real man behind the sixteenth president's legendary character, a little girl learns about Lincoln's beliefs regarding universal freedom as well as lesser-known aspects of his life, from his love of Mozart and his wife's vanilla cake to his pet dog and the way he kept notes in his stovepipe hat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LINPenne, Barbra
Summary: Explains what mirages are, including why they happen, where they happen, and discusses other phenomena related to light.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017