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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow and Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.923 MARBranden, Nathaniel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 BRABrandow, Michael
Summary: A provocative look at the “cult of pedigree” and an entertaining social history of purebred dogs So-called “purebreds” are the mainstay of the dog industry, and expert Michael Brandow argues that these aren’t markers of time-honored traditions but rather commercial inventions of the nineteenth century that were marketed as status symbols to a growing middle class. Combining social history and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 BRAMargulis, Lynn
Contents: Introduction -- Superkingdom Prokarya -- Kingdom Bacteria -- Subkingdom Archaea -- Subkingdom Eubacteria -- Superkingdom Eukarya -- Kingdom Protoctista -- Kingdom Animalia -- Kingdom Fungi -- Kingdom Plantae.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.H. Freeman 1998
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Summary: Comprehensive visual history of the "World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band" as told through the recording of their monumental catalog, including 29 studio and 24 compilation albums, and more than a hundred singles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 ROLFox, Margalit
Summary: "Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FOXCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FOXGraedon, Joe.
Summary: Medical mistakes happen all the time. Each year, 6.1 million Americans are harmed by diagnostic mistakes, drug disasters, and medical treatments. A decade ago, the Institute of Medicine estimated that up to 98,000 people died in hospitals each year from preventable medical errors--and new research suggests the toll is much higher. Patient advocates Joe and Teresa Graedon came face-to-face with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.28 GRAFox, Margalit.
Summary: An intellectual detective story follows the quest to unlock one of the great secrets of human history--the decipherment of Linear B, an unknown script from the Aegean Bronze Age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 487.1 FOXBrendon, Piers.
Summary: After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared doomed. But over the next 150 years it grew to become the greatest and most diverse empire the world has ever seen--from Canada to Australia to China, India, and Egypt--seven times larger than the Roman Empire at its apogee. Yet it was also fundamentally weak, as Piers Brendon shows in this panoramic chronicle. Run from a tiny island...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.0971 BREBurchard, Brendon
Summary: "THESE HABITS WILL MAKE YOU EXTRAORDINARY. Twenty years ago, author Brendon Burchard became obsessed with answering three questions: 1.Why do some individuals and teams succeedmore quicklythan others andsustainthat success over the long term? 2.Of those who pull it off, why are somemiserableand others consistentlyhappy on their journey? 3.What motivates people to reach for higher levels of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House, Inc. 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.1 GRABlanton, DeAnne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 BLAFox, Margalit
Summary: "In this thrilling true-crime procedural, the creator of Sherlock Holmes uses his unparalleled detective skills to exonerate a German Jew wrongly convicted of murder. For all the scores of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in the world, there is no American book that tells this remarkable story--in which Conan Doyle becomes a real-life detective on an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.152 FOXHarris, Brayton
Summary: A portrait of a World War II admiral traces his pivotal role in commanding all U.S. and Allied air, land, and sea forces in the Pacific after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NIMITZ, CHESTER HARGraedon, Joe.
Summary: "A guide to healing foods and home remedies reported to and verified by Joe and Terry Graedon, including their carefully researched responses on how and why such treatments work. The core of this title is organized as Q&As between the general public and the Graedons. It contains as much information as a voluminous encyclopedia of home remedies, yet it's quick, easy, inviting, and fun to read,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.3 GRAGraydon, Samuel
Summary: This inventive new biography of the legendary physicist examines his complex and contradictory nature-from brilliant scientist to charming lothario and life of the party-in 99 vignettes based on intriguingly different particles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EINSTEIN, ALBERT GRARendon, Jim.
Contents: Medical marijuana everywhere -- Hippies start growing marijuana -- Growing takes off -- Breeders change everything -- Cannabis moves indoors -- The politics of marijuana -- Medical dispensaries reshape the business -- Cannabis as medicine -- The cannabis gold rush is on -- A day in the dispensary -- The future of cannabis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 RENBrannen, Peter
Summary: "As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576 BRAGrandin, Temple
Summary: Explores how to experiment and how to think about science, encouraging readers to create things by using their imaginations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 507.8 GRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT STEM GrandinBronson, Po
Summary: Award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman demonstrate that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring--because key twists in the science of child development have been overlooked. The authors discuss the inverse power of praise, why insufficient sleep adversely affects kids' capacity to learn, why white parents don't talk about race,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 BROBraden, Gregg
Summary: "Human by Design invites you on a journey beyond Darwin's theory of evolution, beginning with the fact that we exist as we do, even more empowered, and more connected with ourselves and the world, than scientists have believed possible. In one of the great ironies of the modern world, the science that was expected to solve life's mysteries has done just the opposite. New discoveries have led to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128 BRABrander, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: C. N. Potter : distributed by Crown Publishers 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.252 BRABranco, Sandra
Summary: For many people, Brazil conjures up images of football, Carnaval, and fine coffee, but it's much more than beaches and bossa nova. If we had to choose one word to describe the country, it would probably be diversity. The variety of lifestyles, ethnic groups, landscapes, and climates Brazil encompasses is quite simply enormous. This guide provides you with a comprehensive introduction to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kuperard 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 918.1 BRAZIL BRALandon, Fred
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1944
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