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Clark, Eugenie Juvenile literature Dog rescue Haldane, J. B. S. (John Burdon Sanderson) 1892-1964 Ichthyologists United States Biography Juvenile literature Project MKULTRA. Rosenhan, David L Search and rescue operations Sharks Research Juvenile literature Social media United StatesMelville, Wilma
Summary: "The incredible memoir of how Wilma Melville turned a band of shelter dogs into one of America's foremost disaster-response assets in catastrophes from 9/11 to Katrina "--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.7 MELWukovits, John F.
Summary: "The forgotten story of American war hero Eddie Rickenbacker's crash landing in the Pacific during World War II, and his incredible 23-day crusade to keep his crew alive"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Caliber 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WUKScoles, Sarah
Summary: Jill Tarter is a pioneer, an innovator, an adventurer, and a controversial force. At a time when women weren’t encouraged to do much outside the home, Tarter ventured as far out as she could—into the three-Kelvin cold of deep space. And she hasn’t stopped investigating a subject that takes and takes without giving much back. Today, her computer's screensaver is just the text “SO…ARE WE...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TARTER, JILL SCOIsaacson, Walter
Summary: "When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed. It was The Double Helix, James Watson's account of how he and Francis Crick had discovered the structure of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA 921 DOUMezrich, Ben
Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich: the book Elon Musk doesn't want you to read. Breaking Twitter takes readers inside the darkly comic battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our time--Elon Musk--and the company that represents our culture's dearest hope for a shared global conversation. From employee accounts within Twitter headquarters to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.872 MEZMelville, Wilma
Summary: "The incredible memoir of how Wilma Melville turned a band of shelter dogs into one of America's foremost disaster-response assets in catastrophes from 9/11 to Katrina. Ana and Hunter were failed service dogs. Recon was left for dead on the train tracks.Cody was returned to the shelter seven times before he turned two. To most, these dogs were unadoptable. Unsalvageable. Irredeemable. To...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 636.7 MELFowler, John
Summary: A zoologist's portrait of Dr. Dian Fossey's remarkable mountain gorilla camp documents the story of the controversial unraveling of the Rwandan facility after Fossey's murder and the author's contributions to tracking mountain gorillas through hostile terrain, confronting aggressive silverbacks and rehabilitating orphaned baby gorillas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FOWLER, JOHN FOWIngrassia, Lawrence
Summary: "Weaving his own moving family story with this sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia delivers an intimate, gripping tale that sits at the intersection of memoir and medical thriller"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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Summary: "John Lisle reveals the untold story of the OSS Research and Development Branch-The Dirty Tricks Department-and its role in World War II. In the summer of 1942, Stanley Lovell, a renowned industrial chemist, received a mysterious order to report to an unfamiliar building in Washington, D.C. When he arrived, he was led to a barren room where he waited to meet the man who had summoned him. After...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 LISLourie, Peter.
Summary: Documents the annual efforts of a pair of biologists from the U.S. Geological Survey team to locate and tranquilize polar bears in the Alaskan wilderness to collect important information about species conservation and global warming.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.786 LOUMarkel, Howard
Summary: "A definitive history of the race to unravel DNA's structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians. Biologist James Watson and physicist Francis Crick's 1953 revelation about the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how did Watson and Crick do it-and why were they the ones who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 572.8 MARAndraka, Jack
Summary: Chronicles the teen scientist's development of an early detection test for pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancer, and recounts his personal story of overcoming depression and homophobic bullying.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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Summary: "What if your parents turn you into a human lab rat when you're a child? Will that change the story of your life? Will that change who you are? When Susannah Breslin is a toddler, her parents enroll her in an exclusive laboratory preschool at the University of California, Berkeley, where she becomes one of over a hundred children who are research subjects in an unprecedented 30-year study of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Lit 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRESLIN, SUSANNAH BRECahalan, Susannah
Summary: For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 CAHKeating, Jess
Summary: At 9 years old, Eugenie Clark developed an unexpected passion for sharks after a visit to the Battery Park Aquarium in New York City. At the time, sharks were seen as mindless killing machines, but Eugenie knew better and set out to prove it. Despite many obstacles in her path, Eugenie was able to study the creatures she loved so much. From her many discoveries to the shark-related myths she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Science KeatingFinkbeiner, Ann K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509.2273 FINLowman, Margaret
Summary: Foreword / by Sylvia A. Earle -- Ten tips of field biology for every aspiring astronaut -- Prologue: How to see the world tree (and what that means for the forest) -- From wildflower to wallflower : a girl naturalist in rural America -- Becoming a forest detective : first encounter with temperate trees from New England to Scotland -- One hundred feet in the air : finding a way to study leaves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOWMAN, MARGARET LOWMikovits, Judy
Summary: A behind the scenes look at the issues and egos which will determine the future health of humanity. Like many women who have trespassed into the world of men, Mikovits uncovered decades-old secrets that many would prefer to stay buried. From her doctoral thesis, which changed the treatment of HIV-AIDS, to her discovery of a new family of human retroviruses, Mikovits has seen the best and worst...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179 MIKZernicka-Goetz, Magdalena
Summary: "Embryologist Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz has spent two decades unraveling the mysteries of fetal development. By studying embryonic mouse cells, she witnessed the embryo's ability to rid itself of abnormal cells as it prepared for implantation in the womb. When Zernicka-Goetz became pregnant at 44, she received a call that took her by surprise: a sample test of the cells in her own placenta...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.56 ZERCraig, Patricia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carnegie Institution] 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 575.2 CRALance, Rachel
Summary: "This is a previously classified story of one group of scientific researchers-men and women-who exposed themselves to extraordinary risks to make D-Day a success"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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Summary: Looks at the inspiring story of Joan Procter, a pioneering female scientist who loved reptiles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PROFairbanks, Amanda M.
Summary: "In the tradition of the #1 New York Times bestseller (and Academy-Award nominated film) The Perfect Storm, and with a nod to Steven Gaines' dishy tell-all, Philistines at the Hedgerow, a riveting account of a fishing boat and its four young crewman lost at sea in 1984 off the coast of Montauk in eastern Long Island -- a "fishing town with a drinking problem," as the locals have it -- and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9163 FAIGreen, Sara
Summary: "Engaging images accompany information about Larry Page. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media, Inc. 2015