Blumenthal, Brett
Summary: "Small changes work. In this practical book, wellness expert Brett Blumenthal reveals how to hone in on the mind as the foundation of overall health and well-being. She presents one small, achievable change every week--from developing music appreciation to eating brain-boosting foods, practicing mono-tasking, incorporating play, and more. The accumulation of these lifestyle changes ultimately...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Mind BlumenthalBlumenthal, Eileen
Summary: Presents full-color and black-and-white illustrated photographs and drawings depicting the history of puppetry throughout human history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.53 BLUBlumenthal, Karen.
Summary: Up until the 1970s, if you were a girl, you were told you shouldn't play team sports, or go to college. But, in 1972, Title IX changed that, by ensuring that girls have the same opportunities as boys to participate in sports and classes. But that change did not come without a fight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 796 BLUBlumenthal, Karen.
Summary: A history of the fight for reproductive rights in the United States. Tracing the path to the landmark decision in Roe v. Wade and the continuing battle for women's rights, Blumenthal examines the root causes of the current debate around abortion and repercussions that have affected generations of American women. This book intends to facilitate difficult discussions and awareness of a topic that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 342.73 BLUBlumenthal, Max
Summary: THE MANAGEMENT OF SAVAGERY excavates the real story behind America's dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs of a national security state. Washington's secret funding of the Mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. With guns and money, the United States...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 BLUBlumenthal, Sidney
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 BLUBlumenthal, Eileen
Summary: Surveys Julie Taymor's innovative work in design, production, and direction, and discusses her use of puppetry, masks, and dance movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 792.0233 BLUMackenzie, Debora
Summary: Over the last 30 years we learned nearly every lesson needed to stop this coronavirus outbreak in its tracks-- and we heeded almost none of them. The result is a pandemic on a scale never before seen in our lifetimes. MacKenzie lays out the full story of the previous viruses that should have prepared us, the shocking public health failures that paved the way, the failure to contain the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 MACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 616.2 MACZack, Devora.
Summary: "Professional success, more often than not, means becoming a manager. Yet nobody prepared you for having to deal with messy tidbits like emotions, conflicts, and personalities?all while achieving ever-greater goals and meeting ever-looming deadlines. Not exactly what you had in mind, is it? Don?t panic. Devora Zack has the tools to help you succeed and even thrive as a manager. Drawing on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 ZACDavis, Deborah (Deborah Atkinson)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2008
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Summary: "Deborah Gordon's Ants at Work takes us to the amazing world of an ant society and reveals a new and original understanding of how these tiny animals get the work of the colony done. Gordon's surprising and deceptively simple message that the queen is not in charge represents a fundamental shift in modern biology. It is no less than a revolution in our thinking on the mystery of natural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 595.796 GORFreedman, Deborah (Deborah Jane)
Summary: "Two curious bunnies enjoy watching clouds go by. But when they look at the sky, they see something completely different! While one bunny likes to use his imagination the other bunny can only see the scientific. Together they learn that cloud watching is much more fun when they see it through each other's eyes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FREFreedman, Deborah (Deborah Jane)
Summary: "A small but mighty bird declares it is a dinosaur! But no one believes that dinosaurs still exist. How can it be a dinosaur when it is so little? Dinosaurs didn't have feathers...or did they? This tiny dino is here to explain to its animal friends that birds are, in fact, dinosaurs, and all creatures are connected to one big animal family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FREDeBord, J. M.
Summary: Takes you step-by-step through the process of learning the language of your dreams. It is a language like any other. It has nouns (characters and settings), verbs (actions and your reactions), and adjectives (symbols and feelings). At first you may only catch the simple words and phrases, then whole sentences and paragraphs, but soon enough you will get all the subtext, humor, irony, and slang....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: The first book in English about the legendary designer, House of Versace shows how Gianni Versace, with his flamboyant sister Donatella at his side, combined his virtuosic talent and extraordinary ambition to almost single-handedly create the celebrity culture we take for granted today. Bringing together fashion, celebrity, business drama, jet-set lifestyles, and a notorious crime, this is an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VERSACE, GIANNI BallCadbury, Deborah
Summary: In 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring and courageous plan: to smuggle her entire school out of Nazi Germany. Anna had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler's hate-fueled ideologies posed to her pupils. She knew that to protect them she had to get her pupils to the safety of England.But the safe haven that Anna struggled to create in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CADCramer, Deborah
Summary: Each year, red knots, sandpipers weighing no more than a coffee cup, fly a near-miraculous 19,000 miles from the tip of South America to their nesting grounds in the Arctic and back. Along the way, they double their weight by gorging on millions of tiny horseshoe crab eggs. Horseshoe crabs, ancient animals that come ashore but once a year, are vital to humans, too: their blue blood safeguards...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598 CRAHarding, Deborah.
Summary: The authors approach the popular folk art genre of the house thematically through its depiction in various craft media - quilts, paintings, drawings, samplers, rugs, furnishing and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 745 HARHeiligman, Deborah.
Summary: Describes how the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are celebrated around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 296.431 HEIHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: "The deadly outbreak of plague known as the Great Mortality, which struck Europe in the mid 1300s and raged for four centuries, wiped out more than 25 million people in the course of just two years. With its vicious onslaught, life changed for millions ofpeople almost instantaneously. Deadly pandemics have always been a part of life, from the Great Mortality of the Middle Ages, to the Spanish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2021
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Summary: "As a hurricane gathered in the Caribbean, blue skies covered Galveston, Texas. Scientists knew a storm was coming. But none of them were able to prepare Galveston for the force of the hurricane that hit on September 8, 1900. The water from the storm surge pulled houses off their foundations, and the winds toppled telephone poles and trees like toothpicks. And amid the chaos, Galveston's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.55 HOPJowitt, Deborah
Summary: "In the pantheon of American modernists, few figures loom larger than Martha Graham. One of the greatest choreographers ever to live, Graham pioneered a revolutionary dance technique--primal, dynamic, and rooted in the emotional life of the body--that upended traditional vocabulary and shaped generations of dancers and choreographers across the globe. Over her sweeping career, she founded what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRAHAM, MARTHA JOWKennedy, Deborah.
Summary: Offers a new approach to dealing with picky eaters of any age that suggests strategies for addressing a child's specific eating personality and that identifies temperments that influence eating behaviors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.3 KENKent, Deborah.
Contents: Big plans for a new nation -- Riding the rails -- The power of electricity -- Connections and concerns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, An Imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2014