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Summary: "From a brilliant young historian, a colourful journey through 7,000 years and twenty-six world cities that shows how urban living has been the spur and incubator to humankind's greatest innovations. In the two hundred millennia of our existence, nothinghas shaped us more profoundly than the city. Ben Wilson, author of bestselling and award-winning books on British history, now tells the grand,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.7609 WILWilson, Ben
Summary: Since the beginning of civilization humans have built cities to wall nature out, then glorified it in beloved but quite artificial parks. Wilson looks to the fraught relationship between nature and the city for clues to how the planet can survive in an age of climate crisis. We are at last acknowledging that human engineering is not enough to protect us from extremes of weather. Wilson takes us...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.5 WILWilson, Brian.
Summary: "Brian Wilson, a co-founding member of the Beach Boys in the 1960s, weighs in on the sources of his creative inspiration and on his struggles, the exhilarating highs and the debilitating lows"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 WILSON, BRIAN WILWilson, Brian
Summary: The memoirs of the legendary co-founder of the Beach Boys offer insights into his difficult relationship with his father, the women in his life, his parenting experiences, and the events that inspired his music.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 WILSON, BRIAN WILSummary: Set in the 1970s metropolis of Bay City, two undercover police detective, Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson and Dave Starsky, always seem to get the toughest cases from their boss, Captain Dobey. They rely on their street informer Huggy Bear and race to the scene of the crimes in their souped-up 1974 Ford Torino hot rod. The two are on their first big case which involves a former college campus drug...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STASummary: Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANGSummary: In Series two, British transplant Dr. Ruby Walker furthers her career under the watch of her formidable boss, Dr. Lydia Fonseca. While Lydia's boyfriend, beach bar owner Greg, tries to help newly widowed Paul overcome the death of his wife, Ruby continues to spar with her handsome but standoffish colleague, Dr. Gabriel Varma. Then a link to Ruby's estranged family brings her closer than ever to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY BRITISH TV GOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GOOStigers, Curtis.
Contents: I feel fine / Lennon, McCartney -- Fools in love / Jackson -- Crazy moon / Haggard, Barnes -- Did you ever have to make up your mind / Sebastian -- Don't think twice, it's alright / Dylan -- She's got a way / Joel -- Tired of waiting for you / Davies -- You inspire me / Lowe -- Love / Lennon -- I fall in love too easily / Cahn, Styne -- I'll be home / Newman -- Blue skies / Berlin.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Concord Jazz 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ StigeContents: Disc 1. Penny reel / Lord Power & Calypso Quintet -- Lollipop girl / The Jiving Juniors with Duke Reid & his Group -- Judgment Day / Laurel Aitken with Ken Richards & his Harmonisers -- In and out the window / Monty & Roy with Drumbago's Orchestra -- Feel so fine (aka feel so good) / Derrick & Patsy with Drumbago's Band -- River bank part 1 (aka bank to bank) / Baba Brooks & his Band -- Rough...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sanctuary Records Group 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE TRESummary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINWilson, Bee.
Summary: Traces the history of cooking through a series of engaging cultural anecdotes while demonstrating how technological innovations ranging from the mortar and pestle to the microwave have shaped how and what humans eat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.3 WILWilson, Bee
Summary: "In just two generations, the world has undergone a massive shift from traditional, limited diets to more globalized ways of eating-- from bubble tea to quinoa, Soylent to meal kits. Paradoxically, our diets are getting healthier and less healthy at the same time. For some, there has never been a happier food era than today: a time of unusual herbs, farmers' markets, and internet recipe swaps....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.01 WILSummary: In a period of great conflict, a group of unlikely heroes led by Jyn Erso, a daring fugitive, and Cassian Andor, a rebel spy, band together on a desperate mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FIC ROGSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIContents: disc 1. Casey Jones (Billy Murray) -- Casey Jones (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Southern Casey Jones (Jesse James) -- Steamboat Bill (Arthur Collins) -- Casey and Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Steamboat Bill boogie (Delmore Bros.) -- Red wing (Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr) -- Red wing (Doc Williams & the Border Riders) -- Just break the news to mother (George J. Gaskin) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019