Baggott, J. E.
Summary: Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We are taught in school that matter is not continuous, but discrete. As a few of the philosophers of ancient Greece once speculated, nearly two and a half thousand years ago, matter comes in 'lumps',...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 BAGMorpurgo, J. E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason/Charter 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.38 MORBrowne, E. J. (E. Janet)
Summary: Darwin's foremost biographer, historian Janet Browne, delivers an accessible introduction to the book that permanently altered our understanding of what it is to be human. A sensation on its publication in 1859, The Origin of Species profoundly shocked Victorian readers by calling into question the belief in a Creator with its description of evolution through natural selection. And Darwin's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.82 BROEsslemont, J. E. (John Ebenezer)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bahai Pub. Trust 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.89 ESSPeebles, P. J. E. (Phillip James Edwin)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 PEEVeron, J. E. N. (John Edward Norwood)
Contents: The big picture -- The Great Barrier Reef : an overview -- Corals and reefs : controls and processes -- The state of the Great Barrier Reef -- Mass extinctions and reef gaps -- Messages from deep time -- The Cenozoic roller-coaster -- Australia adrift -- The ice ages -- The last glacial cycle -- Many origins -- Stone age utopia -- An enhanced greenhouse world -- Temperature and mass bleaching...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 578.77 VERDionne, E. J
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author and Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne, Jr. sounds the alarm in Code Red, calling for an alliance between progressives and moderates to seize the moment and restore hope to America's future for the 2020 presidentialelection. Will progressives and moderates feud while America burns? Or will these natural allies take advantage of the greatest opportunity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 DIOHobsbawm, E. J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.82 HOBDionne, E. J
Summary: Why the Right Went Wrong offers a historical view of the right since the 1960s. Its core contention is that American conservatism and the Republican Party took a wrong turn when they adopted Barry Goldwater's worldview during and after the 1964 campaign. The radicalism of today's conservatism is not the product of the Tea Party, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne writes. The Tea Partiers are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 DIOWagner, E. J.
Summary: From autopsies to zoology, how Holmes eliminated the impossible This unique book uses the legendary adventures of Sherlock Holmes as a jumping-off point to discuss the growth of forensic science during the Victorian era. The book explores the emergence of science from superstition, how forensic autopsies evolved from anatomical dissection, the huge advances in blood chemistry and poison...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 WAGDionne, E. J.
Summary: "Americans are required to pay taxes, serve on juries, get their kids vaccinated, get driver's licenses, and sometimes go to war for their country. So why not ask--or require--every American to vote? E.J. Dionne and Miles Rapoport argue that universal participation in our elections should be a cornerstone of our system. It would be the surest way to protect against voter suppression and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.07 DIOTangerman, E. J. (Elmer John)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1994
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 736.4 TANRobert, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
Summary: "Robert's Rules of Order is the recognized guide to smooth, orderly, and fairly conducted meetings. This 12th edition is the only current manual to have been maintained and updated since 1876 under the continuing program established by General Henry M. Robert himself. As indispensable now as the original edition was more than a century ago, Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2020
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 060.42 ROBElias, Maurice J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.125 ELIObama, Barack.
Contents: "What I am opposed to is a dumb war" : Speech Against the Iraq War, Chicago, IL, October 2, 2002 -- "The Audacity of Hope" : Speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Boston, MA, July 27, 2004 -- "How Far We've Come" : Remarks at John Lewis's 65th Birthday Gala, February 21, 2005 -- "We cannot abandon the field of religious discourse" : Keynote Address at the Call to Renewal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.932 WEFuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 191 FULGhilarducci, Teresa
Summary: "The issue of the future of Social Security, on which millions of Americans depend, produced great political theater at the State of the Union address. That highlighted a bigger problem of financing retirement as baby boomers seek to retire, often with limited resources. Many argue that the solution to the problem is for people to work longer. Teresa Ghilarducci, a noted expert on retirement,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2024