Musil, Robert K.
Summary: In Rachel Carson and her sisters, Robert K. Musil redefines the achievements and legacy of environmental pioneer and scientist Rachel Carson, linking her work to a wide network of American women activists and writers and introducing her to a new, contemporary audience. Rachel Carson was the first American to combine two longstanding, but separate strands of American environmentalism -- the love...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rutgers Univ Pr 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1982
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597.9 SMIMoberly, Robert Basil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dodd, Mead 1968
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.13 MOBMuir-Wood, Robert
Summary: In The Cure for Catastrophe, global risk expert Robert Muir-Wood argues that our natural disasters are in fact human ones: We build in the wrong places and in the wrong way, putting brick buildings in earthquake country, timber ones in fire zones, and coastal cities in the paths of hurricanes. We then blindly trust our flood walls and disaster preparations, and when they fail, catastrophes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a Member of the Perseus Books Group 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 MUIZim, Herbert S. (Herbert Spencer)
Summary: Sections on turtles, lizards, snakes, alligators and crocodiles, frogs and toads, and salamanders give information on description, habits and range for each species common in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Press 1956
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Wisconsin Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.98 MUIRogers, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Purple Mountain Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.26 ROGJoubert, Beverly.
Summary: Introduces the African elephant by following a husband and wife team who observe them, covering the importance of the herd, why its population is dwindling, and ways people can help conserve them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.67 JOURomero, Robert Chao
Summary: "Critical Race Theory (CRT) is often poorly understood and unfavorably characterized. This accessibly written book offers a critical yet sympathetic introduction to CRT, bringing it into conversation with Christian theology and ministry practice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023
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Summary: Good Harbor Michigan is about a thriving community in central Leelanau County. A lumbering town sprang up in the mid 1880’s only to die as the result of a fire. The community continued and this is their story, based on primary source material, especially the Leelanau Enterprise which began publishing its weekly paper in 1880. citations are included for the serious historian and the people data...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minnesota Historical Society Press 1995
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Summary: Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Powhatan people, covering their daily activities, customs, family life, religion, government, and history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 COVHolbert, Steve
Summary: An objective, research-based examination presented from the perspective of victims, civil rights advocates, and the police. Discusses racial awareness in formative years; use of race to fight crime, drugs, and terror; police response to racial profiling accusations; special interest groups and legislative efforts to end the practice; effectiveness of data collection programs; use of race in law...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Marque Press 2004
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Summary: "In 1679, the French ship Le Griffon mysteriously vanished. Was it lost in a violent storm or robbed of its valuable cargo of furs and set ablaze? No one knows, but historians are quite certain the ship found its final resting place on the bottom of the Great Lakes. Now after centuries of mystery and misinformation, Steve and Kathie Libert reveal that Le Griffon likely met her final fate among...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.452 LIBSchilling, Govert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 522.6862 SCHEdwards, Roberta.
Summary: Highlights the life and accomplishments of the Harvard Law School graduate, legislator, and civil rights lawyer who became the forty-fourth president of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944 GOUKolbert, Elizabeth
Summary: "In 26 connected essays, Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Elizabeth Kolbert takes us on an illustrated journey through the landscape of climate change and the stories we tell ourselves about the future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2024
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Summary: From the Publisher: Book Four portrays the Nilsson family during the turmoil of living through the era of the Civil War and Dakota Conflict and their prospering in the midst of Minnesota's growing Swedish community of the 1860s-90s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Borealis Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOBSchilling, Govert
Summary: "If existing models of the structure of the universe are correct, then 85 percent of the cosmos comprises a substance called dark matter. Yet no direct evidence of dark matter exists. Award-winning science journalist Govert Schilling details the quest to detect dark matter and how the search has helped us to understand the universe we inhabit"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Human Kinetics 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.342 TRATrotta, Roberto
Summary: "Here's what it is about: For tens of thousands of years, the stars were our constant companions. In the glow of today's artificial lighting, when even professional astronomers study the universe by staring at screens rather than through eyepieces, we have forgotten this intimacy with the cosmos. Roberto Trotta is here to remind us: one of our species' most enduring and (literally) universal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bureau of History, Dept. of State 1991