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Summary: Traces the single-generation transformation of sports from a cottage industry to a global business, reflecting on how elite athletes, agents, TV executives, coaches, owners, and athletes who once had to take second jobs worked together to create the dominating, big-ticket industry of today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 FUTUnterman, Alan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.03 UnterTekulsky, Mathew
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Common Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639.97 TEKMather, Cam
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aztext Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 MATRicard, Matthieu.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3437 RICLevy, Matthys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.21 LEVFetterman, Lisa Q.
Summary: Sous vide has been a popular cooking technique in restaurants for years, offering tender and succulent dishes cooked to perfection, but until recently home cooks were unable to re-create these at home due to the restrictive cost and size of the sous vide machine. Now, with the advent of portable and affordable sous vide machines, this method is fast becoming one of the hottest trends in home...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.58 FETAikins, Matthieu
Summary: "In 2016, a young Afghan driver and translator named Omar makes the heart-wrenching choice to flee his war-torn country, saying goodbye to Laila, the love of his life, without knowing when they might be reunited again. He is one of millions of refugees who leave their homes that year. Matthieu Aikins, a journalist living in Kabul, decides to follow his friend. In order to do so, he must leave...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4 AIKRicard, Matthieu
Summary: "The author of the international bestseller Happiness makes a passionate case for altruism--and why we need it now more than ever,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 RICRicard, Matthieu.
Summary: In this groundbreaking book, Matthieu Ricard makes a passionate case for happiness as a goal that deserves at least as much energy as any other in our lives. Wealth? Fitness? Career success? How can we possibly place these above true and lasting well-being? Drawing from works of fiction and poetry, Western philosophy, Buddhist beliefs, scientific research, and personal experience, Ricard weaves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2007
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 954.96 OSEJocelyn, Marthe
Summary: "A smart and charming middle-grade mystery series starring young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, inspired by the imagined life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot. For fans of Lemony Snicket and The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency. Aggie Morton lives in a small town on the coast of England in 1902. Adventurous and imaginative but deeply shy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JOCKahn, Mattie
Summary: "The untold history of the people who helped spark America's most important social movements from the Revolutionary War to today: teenage girls. Nine months before Rosa Parks, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1912, women's rights activists organized a massive march in support of women's suffrage, led up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 KAHHivert-Carthew, Annick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wilderness Adventure Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MI FIC HIVManthei, R. J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pearson/Prentice Hall 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.314 MANMontgomery, Sy
Summary: Looks at the work of renowned octopus scientist Jennifer Mather and a team of researchers on the island of Moorea, near Tahiti in the South Pacific, where they work to learn more about octopuses and their behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 594.56 MONZed, Matteo
Summary: "An illustrated history, exploration, and celebration of the Italian liqueur everyone loves. This gorgeous guide teaches you everything you need to know about amaro, the delightfully complex and bittersweet Italian liqueur. Traditionally a digestif, it'salso a popular ingredient in modern cocktails. The first part of the book is dedicated to the drink's creation and extraction processes, both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Countryman Press, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 663 ZEDMatthews, Bette.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 392.5 MATMatthews, Christopher
Summary: Drawing on extensive interviews with those closest to his subjects as well as his own experiences, the anchor of MSNBC's "Hardball" tells the story of the unlikely friendship between President Reagan and Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.927 MATMatthews, Owen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.084 MATMatthews, Tom
Summary: Traces the adventurous life of the American woman who worked as a zoologist among the mountain gorillas of the Virunga area of central Africa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FOSHivert-Carthew, Annick.
Summary: In 1933, President Roosevelt offered a bold new plan to save a generation of men and preserve natural resources. Over 102,000 men answered his call. Here are their stories. Proud to Work describes the work and the lives of the young men who served in the Civilian Conservation Corps, where they fought forest fires, built bridges, created roads, and sent most of their earnings back to their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wilderness Adventure Books 2006
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Summary: Climate change manifests in many ways across America, but few as dramatic as the attacks on our western pine forests. In Trees in Trouble, Daniel Mathews tells the urgent story of this loss, accompanying burn crews and forest ecologists as they study the myriad risk factors and refine techniques for improving forest health and saving this important, limited resource.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.9 MATMathez, Edmond A.
Summary: Based around the exhibits presented at the American Museum of Natural History's Hall of Planet Earth, this book describes the science of how the earth works, from its core out to the far reaches of the atmosphere. From the scorching center of Earth's core to the outer limits of its atmosphere, from the gradual process of erosion that carved the Grand Canyon to the earth-shaking fury of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2004