Filter By Subjects
Ableman, Michael Decision making Emergency management Fairview Gardens (Santa Barbara, Calif.) History Farmers California Biography Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Politics and government Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich 1952- Russia (Federation) Russia (Federation) Politics and government 1991-Filter By Subjects
Ableman, Michael Decision making Emergency management Fairview Gardens (Santa Barbara, Calif.) History Farmers California Biography Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Politics and government Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich 1952- Russia (Federation) Russia (Federation) Politics and government 1991-Zygarʹ, Mikhail
Summary: "Charting the transformation of Vladimir Putin from a passionate fan of the West and a liberal reformer into a hurt and introverted outcast, All the Kremlin's Men is a historical detective story, full of intrigue and conspiracy. This is the story of the political battles that have taken place in the court of Vladimir Putin since his rise to power, and a chronicle of friendship and hatred...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 ZYGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Pol ZygarMikhail, Alan
Summary: Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel. As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Osman's empire grew, it, too, covered the earth. This is the most widely accepted foundation myth of the longest-lasting empire in the history of Islam, and offers a telling clue to its unique legacy. Underlying every aspect of the Ottoman Empire's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 MIKZygarʹ, Mikhail
Summary: "In his time as a journalist, prominent independent Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar has interviewed President Zelensky and had access to many of the major players--from politicians to oligarchs. As an expert on Putin's moods and behavior, he has spent years studying the Kremlin's plan regarding Ukraine, and here, in clear, chronological order he explains how we got here. In 1996 to 2004,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.47 ZYGSebastian, Mihail
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ivan R. Dee 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5381 SEBKhodorkovskiĭ, Mikhail
Summary: "An urgent analysis of the battle between Russia and the West and an exposé of Putin's Russia, by a former Kremlin insider. "I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get wound up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my head. The announcement didn't quite say 'dead or alive'. But it came...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 KHODekel, Mikhal
Summary: "The extraordinary true story of Polish-Jewish child refugees who escaped the Nazis and found refuge in Iran. More than a million Jews escaped east from Nazi occupied Poland to Soviet occupied Poland. There they suffered extreme deprivation in Siberian gulags and "Special Settlements" and then, once "liberated," journeyed to the Soviet Central Asian Republics. The majority of Polish Jews who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 DEKSholokhov, Mikhail Aleksandrovich
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 1996
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOShevelow, Kathryn
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHARKE, CHARLOTTE SHEShevelow, Kathryn
Summary: In eighteenth-century England--where cockfighting and bullbaiting drew large crowds, and the abuse of animals was routine--the idea of animal protection was dismissed as laughably radical. But as pets became more common, human attitudes toward animals evolved. An unconventional duchess defended their intellect in her writings; a gentleman scientist believed that animals should be treated with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.30941 SHEHusain, Mishal
Summary: Award-winning broadcaster Mishal Husain inspires, champions, and encourages women to make their ambitions a reality by focusing on practical skills that make a difference.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1082 HUSKrogerus, Mikael.
Summary: Offers fifty different strategies and models for making better choices and decisions, including explanations and guidance for applying such models as the Rubber Band Model, the Personal Performance Model, and the Pareto Principle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.8 KROGoyal, Nikhil
Summary: "Kensington, Philadelphia, is distinguished only by its poverty. It is home to Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel, three Puerto Rican children who live among the most marginalized children and families in the United States. This is their coming-of-age story. It is also the story of families beset by violence--the violence of homelessness, hunger, incarceration, stray bullets, sexual and physical...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 GOYSekeres, Mikkael A
Summary: "When Blood Breaks Down explores the lives and emotions of three leukemia patients, their caregivers, the doctor-patient relationship, and the history of the incredible discoveries that led to their treatment. Three people receive a diagnosis of leukemiawithin hours of each other. As is true of any person diagnosed with cancer, they must make decisions about how their cancer will be treated -...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 SEKKoontz, Robin Michal.
Summary: Describes a trip to an apple orchard, how apples are picked and stored, and which apples are best for eating.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2011
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC KOOKoontz, Robin Michal.
Summary: Presents an accounting of Hurricane Katrina from start to finish, including rescue efforts and survivor stories.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2015
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist What KoontzBaier, Bret
Summary: On May 31, 1988, Reagan addressed a packed audience at Moscow State University, with a remarkable -- yet now largely forgotten -- speech that capped his first visit to the Soviet capital. This fourth in a series of summits between Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev was a dramatic coda to their tireless efforts to reduce the nuclear threat. More than that, Reagan viewed it as...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 BAIGianferrari, Maria
Summary: Bread, milk, wool, fruits, and vegetables: things that fill our day to day lives. But where, and who, do they come from? Across wheat fields and city rooftop gardens, mushroom beds and maple forests, Thank a Farmer traces the food and clothing that a family uses back to the people who harvested and created them. With Maria Gianferrari's informed and poetic text and monumental artwork from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 630 GIACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GIAKrull, Kathleen.
Summary: A collection of stories, folklore, poetry, and songs from Ireland.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books For Children 2004
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Finkelstein, Michael (Michael B.)
Summary: 77 Questions for Skillful Living from integrative medicine pioneer Michael Finkelstein, M.D., guides readers through the questions that will help them understand wellness on a deep level and offers a new path to extraordinary health.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Co 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 FINNewton, Michael (Michael Stuart)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2003
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Franck, Michael (Michael S.)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1996
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 FRALewis, Michael (Michael M.)
Summary: Explores the revolutionary changes wrought by the advent of the Internet and examines the potential effects of the dismantling of power structures--economically, politically, and otherwise--which the Internet makes possible.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4834 LEWLewis, Michael (Michael M.)
Summary: Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments in uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017