Smee, Sebastian
Summary: "Picasso & Matisse. Manet & Degas. Pollack & de Kooning. Lucian Freud & Francis Bacon. This is the story of four pairs of artists -- each linked by friendship and a spirit of competitiveness. Taken together, they form an impressive lineage stretching across more than 150 years. But in each case, these relationships had a flashpoint, a damaging psychological event that seemed to mark both an end...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1996
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 843.6 SADSalgado, Sebastião
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bulfinch Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.549 SALHoelzel, Philip
Summary: "Sebastião adored exploring the paradise of his parents' farm in the Mata Atlântica forest of Brazil. From atop a hill, he would look at the world from a new perspective and dream of what might lie beyond his view. Then, when he went away to school, Sebastião met Lélia, who showed him how to use a camera for the very first time. When Sebastião looked through the camera, he realized he could use...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024
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Summary: This is a lively, inspiring beginner's guide to how the universe works. This book contains bite-sized chapters present the discoveries of modern physics, astronomy, and cosmology. It also has background stories of the research and researchers bring the science to life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 MEEJunger, Sebastian.
Summary: Junger, author of "The Perfect Storm," turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat in this on-the-ground account that follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2010
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Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author comes the astonishingly frank and intimate story of success and failure inside Silicon Valley's dominant venture capital firms-and how their strategies and fates have shaped the path of innovation, and the global economy, writ large"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332 MALJunger, Sebastian
Summary: Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians -- but Indians almost never did the same. Tribal society has been exerting an almost gravitational pull on Westerners for hundreds of years, and the reason lies deep in our evolutionary past as a communal species. The most recent example of that attraction is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve Large Print 2016
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Summary: "A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the New York Times bestselling author of Tribe"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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Summary: "Draws on history, psychology, and anthropology to discuss how the tribal connection--the instinct to belong to small groups with a clear purpose and common understanding--can satisfy the human quest for meaning and belonging,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2016
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Summary: In the spring of 1963, the quiet suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, is rocked by a shocking sex murder that exactly fits the pattern of the Boston Strangler. Sensing a break in the case that has paralyzed the city of Boston, the police track down a black man, Roy Smith, who cleaned the victim's house that day and left a receipt with his name on the kitchen counter. Smith is hastily convicted of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.152 JUNJunger, Sebastian.
Summary: Junger, author of "The Perfect Storm," turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat in this on-the-ground account that follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2010
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Summary: "For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ivan R. Dee 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1996
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Summary: Science journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of bioelectricity--the electric currents that run through our bodies and every living thing--its misunderstood history, and why new discoveries will lead to new ways around antibiotic resistance, cleared arteries, and new ways to combat cancer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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Summary: Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.82 SMIMakdisi, Saree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.95 MAKShere, Jeremy.
Summary: An entertaining and informative guide to where renewable energy has been, where it is today, and where it's heading.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameo/Abrams 1996
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 1991
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Summary: Documents the life story of the trauma surgeon who helped save Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, describing his upbringing in South Korea and Africa, his selection as President Clinton's personal physician, and his wartime service.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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Summary: "A biography of Malala Yousafzai as part of the She Persisted series"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2022