Copeland, Alfred M. (Alfred Minott)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clark W. Bryan & Co., Printers 1892
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 CopelMcClay, Wilfred M.
Summary: We have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don't have is a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that will offer to American readers a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their own country. Such an account can shape and deepen their sense of the land they inhabit and, by making them understand that land's roots, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encounter Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 MCCMintz, Sidney W. (Sidney Wilfred)
Summary: In this book the author shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with its use first as an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.1 MINCoppel, Alfred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COPStieglitz, Alfred
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bullfinch Press 1983
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 770.92 STIAllred, Alexandra Powe
Summary: "When Women Stood is an unapologetically new sport and social history that unveils the often-overlooked chronicle of women and their fight for equality. From early Amazons and suffragists to modern-day athletes and social influencers, this is an eye-opening history of women told through the always-influential world of sports"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.082 ALLAlford, Terry
Summary: "The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth. In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet-and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 ALFEstrada, Alfredo José.
Summary: Takes readers from the Plaza de Armas, the tree-lined square where Havana was founded by Spanish conquistadors in 1519, to the Malecon, the elegant boulevard along the shore where Fidel Castro rode a Soviet tank in triumph. Estrada reveals the essence of his native city through the events that shaped its fascinating history and the people who left their stamp on its cobblestoned streets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.91 ESTHabegger, Alfred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DICKINSON, EMILY HabeggerAlford, Jeffrey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 641.595 ALFAlford, Jeffrey.
Summary: Two hundred easy-to-prepare dishes from the world's great rice cuisines, illuminated by stories, insights, and more than two hundred photographs of people, places, and wonderful food. Reveals how rice is used in different cultures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.6318 ALFPalfrey, John
Summary: "Today's teenagers spend an average of nine hours per day with their noses immersed in the glow of their screens. Tweens are not far behind, at six hours a day. Parents of this new, ultra-connected generation struggle with decisions completely new to parenting: Should they limit a child's screen time? Should an eight-year old be allowed to go on social media? What about playing video games with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 004.67 PALWatson, Aldren.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton Publishers 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 682.0974 WATKohn, Alfie.
Summary: "Somehow, a set of deeply conservative assumptions about children -- what they're like and how they should be raised -- have congealed into the conventional wisdom in our society. Parents are accused of being both permissive and overprotective, unwilling to set limits and afraid to let their kids fail. Young people, meanwhile, are routinely described as entitled and narcissistic. . . among...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.7 KOHAlgren, Nelson
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 2008
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 641.5951 ALFKohn, Alfie.
Summary: Investigates the truth about some common assumptions of folk wisdom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.96 KOHBortz, Alfred B.
Summary: Recounts the Tohoku earthquake, subsequent tsunami, and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.1799 BORDeGraff, Alfred H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saratoga Access 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.14 DEGKinsey, Alfred C
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Publisher / Publication Date: Indiana University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7081 KINMcCoy, Alfred W.
Summary: "In a completely original analysis, prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America's rise as a world power--from the 1890s through the Cold War--and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military alliances. McCoy then analyzes the marquee instruments of US hegemony--covert intervention, client...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 MCCSantiago, Wilfred.
Summary: A graphic depiction of the life of Roberto Clemente that discusses his childhood, success in baseball, mission off the field, death, and other related topics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction SantiagoBlumrosen, Alfred W.
Contents: Somerset's journey sparks the American Revolution -- The tinderbox -- Virginia responds to the Somerset Decision -- The Virginia Resolution unites the Colonies and leads to the First Continental Congress in 1774 -- John Adams supports the South on slavery -- Colonies claim independence from Parliament -- The immortal ambiguity : "all men are created equal" -- The Articles of Confederation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.311 BLUPosamentier, Alfred S.
Summary: "Requiring no more than high-school-level math competency, this playful excursion through the nuances of math will give you a better grasp of this fundamental, all-important science"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2013