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Summary: "Here in one volume is a unique, essential overview of the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 194 SARBogdanich, Walt
Summary: McKinsey & Company is the most prestigious consulting company in the world, earning billions of dollars in fees from major corporations and governments who turn to it to maximize their profits and enhance efficiency. Bogdanich and Forsythe shows that often McKinsey's advice boils down to major cost-cutting, including layoffs and maintenance reductions, to drive up short-term profits, thereby...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.068 BOGTwenge, Jean M.
Summary: A groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one another--from the acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.2 TWECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.2 TWEPaul, Alan
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Alan Paul's in-depth narrative look at the Allman Brothers' most successful album, and a portrait of an era in rock and roll and American history. The Allman Brothers Band's Brothers and Sisters was not only the band's best-selling album, at over seven million copies sold, but it was also a powerfully influential release, both musically and culturally, one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 PAUWilliams, Paul (Paul Hugh)
Summary: This guide allows amateur and professional naturalists to identify all 46 bumble bee species found north of Mexico and to understand their ecology and changing geographic distributions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 595.799 WILRousseau, Jean-Jacques
Contents: Chronology of Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Discourse on the Sciences and Arts or First Discourse. Replies to Critics. Letter to M. l'Abbe Raynal. Observations [to Stanislas, King of Poland]. Letter to Grimm. Last Reply. Letter about a New Refutation. Preface to Narcissus. Preface of a Second Letter to Bordes -- Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men or Second Discourse....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320 ROUSlaughter, Thomas P. (Thomas Paul)
Summary: The author of Bloody Dawn presents a new interpretation of the American colonial fight for independence that chronicles and clarifies the 150-year effort of colonists to escape imperial rule through organized, increasingly intense uprisings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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Summary: In this book, Dr. Ruggieri opens the operating room doors and unlocks the secrets of the inscrutable place where lives are saved and lost. Here, he exposes an occupation that is valiant, sometimes suspect, and largely misunderstood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B RUGGIERI RUGEllis, Joseph J.
Summary: "A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it. George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the "American Revolution": former colonists still regarded themselves as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 ELLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.3 ELLIngrassia, Paul.
Summary: Chronicles the history reflected by fifteen iconic car models to discuss how automobiles reflect key cultural shifts as well as developments in such areas as manufacturing, women's rights, and environmental awareness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 IngrassiaBegg, Paul.
Contents: Introduction -- The Whitechapel murders -- The East End was a dangerous place -- The gangs of Whitechapel -- Soldiers -- Jack the Ripper -- "He's gone to gateshead" -- Bits of body turning up here and there -- "What a cow!" -- Murder by natural causes --The ripper that never was -- A gruesome jigsaw -- Jack the Ripper or not? -- The body from elsewhere -- The fit-up -- American swansong? --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 BEGLeloup, Jean-Yves.
Contents: Pt. 1. The way of meditation. Zen and Hesychasm -- Transmission : the Samaritan woman -- The practice of Hesychast meditation : posture, orientation, breathing, invocation, centered in the heart -- Pt. 2. The way of compassion. What is a bodhisattva? -- The Dhammapada and the Gospels -- The vow of compassion -- The practice of compassion -- Impurities of the mind -- The five motivations : the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inner Traditions 2009
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Summary: "This book in the Civil War in the North series examines the Union League movement and its influence on the Northern home front in the Civil War."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kent State University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 TAYBogard, Paul
Summary: Describes how ever-present, modern artificial lights have changed the way humans experience darkness and bemoans the fact that the primal dark sky can no longer influence science and art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.566 BOGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ BogardWidder, Keith R.
Summary: Book Jacket: On June 2, 1763, the Ojibwe captured Michigan's Fort Michilimackinac from the British. Ojibwe warriors from villages on Mackinac Island and along the Cheboygan River had surprised the unsuspecting garrison while playing a game of baggatiway. On the heels of the capture, Odawa from nearby L'Arbre Croche arrived to rescue British prisoners, setting into motion a complicated series...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2013
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.27 WIDLamarre, Jean
Contents: Quebec in the nineteenth century -- The development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914 -- French Canadian migration to the Saginaw Valley, 1840-1900 -- French Canadian migration to the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.499 LAMPaul, Ron
Summary: The author draws on American history, economics and fascinating stories from his own long political life to argue that the Federal Reserve is both corrupt and unconstitutional, inflating currency and threatening to put us into an inflationary depression. He also tells us where we went wrong and what we need to do fix America's economic policy for future generations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.11 PAUTirole, Jean
Summary: When Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant from his own areas of research. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual prompted him to reflect further on the role economists and their discipline play in society. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017
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Summary: "Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations such as "manifest destiny" and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 ORTMason, Paul
Summary: "There are urban myths about all kinds of different things, but how many of these myths are actually true? This book takes a look at many different myths, exploring their origins and assigning a "fact" or "phony" label to each after careful evaluation. Fun fact boxes and amusing cartoons and illustrations help explore common beliefs--can people get sucked out of an airplane bathroom's toilet?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2016
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Summary: "Here are highlights from Paul Farmers' speeches to a variety of audiences, from Princeton to Harvard to Notre Dame to Berkeley. Paul is a rock star of the academy who has a large following among many groups: students, doctors, general readers, activists, public health folks, professors. He is the pied piper of everyone who wants to change the world. Not only is he cofounder of Partners In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362 FARDeluxe, Jean-Emmanuel
Contents: The 1960s -- Panorama -- Social Affairs -- Ye-Ye Girls & Marriage -- The Media -- A General View -- The Rock Papers -- Television -- The Four Aces Of Hearts -- France Gall -- Françoise Hardy -- Sylvie Vartan -- Chantal Goya -- Serge Gainsbourg's Filles De La Pop -- From Literary Chanteur to Pop Entrepreneur -- Initials B.B. -- Jane B.: Nationality: British, Sex: Female -- His Majesty Serge's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "The story of the dramatic postwar struggle over the proper role of citizens and government in American society. In the 1960s and 70s, an insurgent attack on traditional liberalism took shape in America, built on new ideals of citizen advocacy and the public interest. Environmentalists, social critics, and consumer advocates like Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Ralph Nader, and others crusaded...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 SABThomas, Paul
Summary: "The new standard for pediatric care from one of today's most trusted pediatricians Paul Thomas, M.D., is a vaccine-friendly doctor: knowledgeable about both the latest scientific research and the community's disease exposure, and respectful of a family's risk factors, health history, and concerns. In The Vaccine-Friendly Plan, he presents his proven approach to building immunity, a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016