Keim, Brandon
Summary: "Honeybees deliberate democratically. Rats reflect on the past. Snakes have friends. In recent decades, our understanding of animal cognition has exploded, making it indisputably clear that the cities and landscapes around us are filled with thinking, feeling individuals besides ourselves. But the way we relate to wild animals has yet to catch up. In Meet the Neighbors, acclaimed science...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2024
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Contents: Will you really retire? -- Start your planning (and dreaming) now -- Invest in your health -- Strengthen family ties -- Appreciate friends, old and new -- Develop lifelong interests and activities now -- Figure out your number -- Convert debt into retirement savings -- Where will the money come from? -- Growing and protecting retirement assets -- Working after retirement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 STIStim, Richard
Contents: The provisional patent application -- Deciding whether to file a provisional application : the seven hurdles -- Finding previous inventions -- Drafting the provisional patent application : Part 1: Drawing your invention -- Drafting the provisional patent application : Part 2: Describing your invention -- Filing and beyond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Legal StimSeib, Philip M.
Summary: "The battle for hearts and minds in the Middle East is being fought not on the streets of Baghdad, but on the newscasts and talk shows of Al Jazeera. The future of China is being shaped not by Communist Party bureaucrats, but by bloggers working quietly in cyber cafes. The next attacks by al Qaeda will emerge not from Osama bin Laden's cave, but from cells around the world connected by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 SEISeib, Gerald F.
Summary: The executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal chronicles the astonishing 40-year rise and decline of the conservative movement in America, sharing insights into the roles of such contributors as the Federalist Society, the NRA and Fox News.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 SEISlim, Pamela.
Summary: Inspired by reader submissions to her blog Escape from Cubicle Nation, Slim provides everything one needs to consider before making the decision to become self-employed, from the nuts and bolts of starting a business to a full discussion of the emotional issues involved.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.1 SLIGoodbody, Slim.
Summary: Provides basic information on dogs and explains how their senses work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.7 GOOGoodbody, Slim.
Summary: Provides basic information on cats and explains how their senses work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.8 GOOGoodbody, Slim.
Summary: Provides basic information on pet rabbits and explains how their senses work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.9322 GOOHewitt, Seán
Summary: "When Seán Hewitt meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe mental illness, they soon come face-to-face with crisis. All Down Darkness Wide is a perceptive and unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds, and a tender and honest portrayal of what it's like to be caught in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEWITT, SEAN HEWNaim, Moisaes
Summary: "Moisaes Naaim's The Revenge of Power is an urgent, thrilling, and original look at the future of democracy. It illuminates one of the most important battles of our time: the future of freedom and how to contain and defeat the autocrats mushrooming aroundthe world. In his New York Times bestselling book The End of Power, Moisaes Naaim examined power-diluting forces. In The Revenge of Power,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.01 NAISeife, Charles.
Summary: The bestselling author of "Zero" shows how mathematical misinformation pervades-- and shapes-- our daily lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 SEIShum, Desmond
Summary: "After the Communist Revolution, Desmond Shum's grandfather was marked as belonging to a "black category" that included former landlords and rich peasants--meaning the Shums would be stigmatized and impoverished. As Desmond was growing up, he vowed his life would be different. Through hard work and sheer tenacity Shum earned an American college degree and returned to China to establish himself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.092 SHUFaruqi, Reem
Summary: "My name is Salma, which means peace. Islam also means peace. I wish more people knew that." Salma is Muslim, an identity she takes pride in. But not everyone understands Salma's religion the way she does, including news reporters, and even a boy in her class, who bullies Salma for belonging to the culture and faith she loves. However, when things go too far, Salma says, "Enough is enough!" and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: "Caldecott Honoree and Sibert Medalist Peter Sais honors a man who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis. In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia-a story he never told and that remained unknown until an unforgettable TV appearance in the 1980s reunited him with some of the children he saved. Czech-American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WINOseid, Kelsey.
Summary: An illustrated guide to the heavens combines the myths, historic significance, and various interpretations of objects seen in the night sky, including the recognized constellations, meteors, eclipses, planets, and moons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523 OSEReit, Seymour.
Summary: When war erupts between the States in 1861, President Lincoln makes an impassioned plea for volunteers. Determined not to remain on the sidelines, young Emma Edmonds poses as a man and enlists in the Union Army, becoming a cunning master of disguise, risking discovery and death behind Confederate lines. Illustrations. In 1861, when war erupted between the States, President Lincoln made an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC REISeah, Audrey
Summary: "The history of Vietnam is complicated and filled with conflict, and that history has impacted the nation's culture in major ways. Readers explore the relationship between Vietnam's history, geography, and culture in this thoroughly updated look at the Southeast Asian nation. With chapters highlighting economics, arts, religion, language, and the lifestyles of the Vietnamese people, readers are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 959.7 SEASeife, Charles.
Summary: "The bestselling author of Proofiness and Zero explains how to separate fact from fantasy in the digital world Digital information is a powerful tool that spreads unbelievably rapidly, infects all corners of society, and is all but impossible to control--even when that information is actually a lie. In Virtual Unreality, Charles Seife uses the skepticism, wit, and sharp facility for analysis...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 025.04 SEISenik, Troy
Summary: "A long-overdue biography of Grover Cleveland, the honest, principled, plain-spoken, and incorruptible twenty-second and twenty-fourth president whose country has largely forgotten him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLEVELAND, GROVER SENYoshida, Seiji
Summary: "A dreamer's tree house. A mechanic's cottage. A submerged city. Over thirty imaginative houses and the people who make them home offer unexpected worlds to wander through and explore. Who is the mischievous bridgetower keeper? What does the witch grow in her garden? How does the postal worker tame his delivery dragons? In each house, readers discover the contents of rooms and closets, what's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 720 YOSOseid, Kelsey
Summary: Some of the world's most fascinating and beloved animals, cetaceans have captivated the human imagination for centuries. Whales: An Illustrated Celebration explores the most interesting and illuminating facts about these marine mammals, from the enormous blue whale (which has a heart the size of a car!) to the Amazon river dolphin (which is pink!). Gorgeously illustrated with full-color art on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2018
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 599 OSEBeam, Alex.
Summary: "At thirty-nine years old, Smith went from charismatic leader to public enemy: how his most seismic revelation -- the doctrine of polygamy -- created a rift among his people [Church of Latter-day Saints]; how that schism turned to violence; and how, ultimately, Smith could not escape the consequences of his ambition and pride. American Crucifixion is a gripping story of scandal and violence,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.3092 BEAGeis, Darlene.
Summary: Based on the PBS-TV series presented by Mobil as The compleat Gilbert and Sullivan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 1983