Edwards, Roberta.
Summary: Presents the life and accomplishments of the famous artist, scientist, engineer, and inventor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2005
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Summary: "Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America's prototypical "cowboy" president-a Rough Rider who derived his political wisdom from a youth spent in the untamed American West. But while the great outdoors certainly shaped Roosevelt's identity, historian Edward P. Kohn argues that it was his hometown of New York that made him the progressive president we celebrate today. During his early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, THEODORE KOHLeonardo
Summary: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) possessed arguably the greatest mind the world has ever known. Artist, draftsman, inventor, and philosopher, his contributions to modern society are profound and wide-reaching. Throughout his life, Leonardo kept dozens of notebooks, elegant studies on topics ranging from architecture to botany to philosophy--indeed nearly anything of which the human imagination...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal 2005
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Summary: The 1896 New York heat wave that killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days coincided with a pitched presidential contest between William McKinley and the upstart Democrat William Jennings Bryan, who arrived in New York City at the height of the catastrophe. As historian Edward P. Kohn shows, Bryan's hopes for the presidency began to flag amidst the abhorrent heat just as a bright...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 KOHLeonardo
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 760 LeonardoCrapol, Edward P.
Contents: Introduction -- Forewarned, forearmed -- Visions of national destiny -- Defending slavery -- Avoiding war & preserving peace -- Pacific visions -- Texas -- Retirement & secession -- Conclusion : precedents & legacies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TYLER, JOHN CrapolLeonardo
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.042 THOVon der Porten, Edward P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crowell 1976
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5459 VONDContents: Preface / David Haynes -- Introduction: A Festschrift for Professor Magnaghi -- Story maps / Robert Archibald -- An immense world of delight: The U.P. in prose / Ted Bays -- Witness to five centuries: The history of Ste. Anne's Parish, Mackinac Island / Steven C. Brisson -- Hungarians in Michigan's Copper Country / Bernard Cook -- "A most unpleasant circumstance" : Personality and provocation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Velopress 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.6 ZinnLennard, Erica.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vendome Press 1995
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Summary: Provides information on how to choose the right bike, instructions for regular care, proper installation of the newest 10- and 11-speed chains, and torque specifications for tightening delicate parts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.9 LENLeopardi, Giacomo
Summary: Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical loneliness in entirely original ways. ... Leopardi's poetry is notoriously difficult to translate, and he has been less well known to English-language readers than his central...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.4 LEOSummary: Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known today as a painter, but his reputation was in fact established through his prints, which were central to his creative process. His printmaking was experimental and innovative, and he continually revisited the subjects of his paintings in striking prints, in which he evoked a wide range of emotion and mood through the use of varied techniques. Munch's early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.81 EDVMaurer, George E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Countryman Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 688.7 MAUNilsson, Lennart
Summary: "First published nearly 50 years ago, A Child is Born, broke - and continues to break- astonishing new ground by bringing to life the magic of conception, pregnancy, and birth. Deep inside a woman's body, a miracle occurs. An egg and a sperm meet and a new human being is created. Through the unique photographs of Lennart Nilsson, we see the fascinating process of fertilization unfold and watch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "Two decades into the twenty-first century, the stagnation of living standards has become the defining trend of American life. Life expectancy has declined, economic inequality has soared, and, after some progress, the Black-white wage gap is once again as large as it was in the 1950s. How did this happen in the world's most powerful country? And what happened to the "American dream"--the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: An explanation of challenging puzzles within the world of mathematics considers such topics as the link between a pineapple's spirals and the famous Fibonacci numbers, and the shape of the universe as reflected by a twisted strip of paper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005
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Summary: Provides the history, beliefs, symbols, membership, leaders, observances, and customs of the major religions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Visible Ink Press 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 200 RENRadzinsky, Edvard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NICDavis, Lennard J.
Summary: "The first significant book on the history and impact of the ADA--the "eyes on the prize" moment for disability rights The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the history of the United States, and it has become the model for most civil rights laws around the world. The untold story behind the act is anything but a dry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305 DAVGaleano, Eduardo
Summary: "In this witty and rebellious history of world soccer, award-winning writer Eduardo Galeano searches for the styles of play, players, and goals that express the unique personality of certain times and places. In Soccer in Sun and Shadow, Galeano takes usto ancient China, where engravings from the Ming period show a ball that could have been designed by Adidas to Victorian England, where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2013