Leiser, Eric
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 1993
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 688.7912 LEILeiser, Eric
Summary: Here at last is a book for fly tiers, beginners and experts alike, that provides foolproof directions for tying all types of flies. In this book even the beginner knows where he is during every step in the process, from the moment he ties in the waxed thread until he ties off the fly with the whip finish knot. But unlike the specialized books on fly tying that describe particular types or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799 LEIWeiner, Eric
Summary: Retraces the journeys of forefront intellectuals from Epicurus and Gandhi to Thoreau and Beauvoir to illuminate how their practical and spiritual lessons can be applied in today's unsettled world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 100 WEIWeiner, Eric
Summary: In The Geography of Genius, acclaimed travel writer Weiner sets out to examine the connection between our surroundings and our most innovative ideas. He explores the history of places, like Vienna of 1900, Renaissance Florence, ancient Athens, Song Dynasty Hangzhou, and Silicon Valley, to show how certain urban settings are conducive to ingenuity. And, with his trademark insightful humor, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 WEIWeiner, Eric
Summary: After a health scare, an atheist travels the world searching for an experience of the divine, from meditating with Tibetan lamas in Nepal and unblocking his chi in China, to studying the Kabbalah in Israel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200 WEIRenner, Eric.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focal Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 770 RENWegner, Daniel M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIT Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.8 WEGKandel, Eric R.
Summary: A neuroscientist documents the work of five leading minds, including Sigmund Freud and Gustave Klimt, in 1900 Vienna, revealing how their critical breakthroughs in science, medicine, and art laid the groundwork for present-day discoveries in brain science.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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Summary: Eric R. Kandel, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his foundational research into memory storage in the brain, is one of the pioneers of modern brain science. His work continues to shape our understanding of how learning and memory work and to break down age-old barriers between the sciences and the arts. In his seminal new book, The Disordered Mind, Kandel draws on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 KANSmith, Erin Geiger
Summary: "Did you know that voting in any election--from mayor to president--is a privilege and a right? Americans eighteen and older are allowed to vote! But this hasn't always been the case for everyone. From the founders of this country to Jim Crow to women's suffrage to gerrymandering--and everything in between--Erin Geiger Smith takes an in-depth look at the fascinating and complex history of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6097 SMIKandel, Eric R.
Contents: Personal memory and the biology of memory storage -- A child in Vienna -- An American education -- One cell at a time -- The nerve cell speaks -- Conversation between nerve cells -- Simple and complex neuronal systems -- Different memories, different regions of the brain -- Searching for an ideal model for studying memory -- Neural analogs of learning -- Strengthening synaptic connections -- A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 KANLerner, Eric J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books/Random House 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.18 LERWagner, Eric Loudon
Summary: "How life bounces back from epic destruction On May 18, 1980, people all over the world watched with awe and horror as Mount St. Helens erupted in southwestern Washington. Fifty-seven people were killed, and hundreds of square miles of what had been lush forests and wild rivers were to all appearances destroyed. While most people thought of the eruption as a catastrophe, a small, ragtag team of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Washington Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577 WAGDavis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne)
Summary: Feminist organizing by marginalized populations such as queer, anticapitalist, and non-white women, has pushed for abolition as a response to forms of state and interpersonal gender and sexual violence, but have largely been erased from this political moment. Leading scholar-activists trace historical genealogies, internationalist learnings, and everyday practices to grow our collective present...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 DAVSummary: The former NFL star turned social activist presents 30 essays from political prisoners, grassroots organizers and scholars such as Angela Davis and Dereck Purnell that focus on the police and incarceration abolition movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kaepernick Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.6 ABOSolomon, Larry
Summary: A new look at the group of insects that is rapidly becoming the fly fisherman's most important source of fishing and flytying innovations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799 SOLGillmeister, Heiner
Contents: The origins of tennis: the monks' racket -- The tennis games of the Middle Ages -- The language of tennis -- Tennis in Renaissance literature -- Tennis in the German Ballhouse -- Lawn tennis: the sturdy bastard -- Lawn tennis in America -- Continental colonies: lawn tennis in France -- Lawn tennis under the Kaiser.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.342 GILDaniell, Christopher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942 DANWeaner, Larry
Summary: Garden Revolution shows how an ecological approach to planting can lead to beautiful gardens that buck much of conventional gardening's counter-productive, time-consuming practices. Instead of picking the wrong plant and then constantly tilling, weeding, irrigating, and fertilizing, Larry Weaner advocates for choosing plants that are adapted to the soil and climate of a specific site and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577 WEAWegner, Bobbi
Summary: "In a world steeped in gender inequality and sexual violence, it's become more and more clear that we can't just teach girls to protect themselves. We must also teach boys not to do harm. Written by a clinical psychologist with expertise in modern families, Raising Feminist Boys is a parent's guide to having developmentally appropriate conversations with boys about sexual responsibility,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.23 WEGWainer, Howard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 519.5 WAIDaniel, Glenda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sierra Club Books 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 574.977 DANSmith, Danyel
Summary: "From one of the preeminent cultural critics of her generation, a radiant weave of memoir, criticism, and biography that tells the story of black women in music--from the Dixie Cups to Gladys Knight to Janet, Whitney, and Mariah-- as the foundational story of American pop"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc Lit 101, One World 2022