Schlereth, Thomas J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 SCHHawke, David Freeman.
Summary: Describes seventeenth century American farms, houses, health care, manners, crimes and punishments, warfare, and superstition.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 HawWolf, Stephanie Grauman.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 WOLSummary: This collection of 34 visually stunning video clips explores the environment and facets of physics. Properties of rain, ice, snow, oil, trees, volcanoes, and salt are examined, as are aspects of quantum physics, light phenomena, hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, Newton's Laws, and electricity.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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LaHaye, Tim F.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAHSummary: This collection of 24 visually stunning video clips sheds light on pain, aging, and health threats. Special attention is given to the spine, a common source of discomfort; the effects of old age at both the macro and micro levels; and a variety of risks to physical well-being: malarial infection, food-related pathogens, alcohol overconsumption, naturally occurring bodily toxins, the common...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This collection of 13 spectacular video clips offers insights into weight management, nutritional supplements, and more. Healthy and unhealthy eating, vitamins and vitamin deficiencies, food additives, and the actions of salt and water in the body are considered. Video clips include. Weight Control * Battling the Bulge: Overindulgence * Battling the Bulge: Glycemic Index * Battling the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Using scanning electron microscopy, this collection of 36 video clips takes a close-up look at the extraordinary qualities of ordinary things. Journey of the Invisible brings science home-literally-by scrutinizing objects that can be found in and around the house. Video clips include. In the Kitchen * Salt * Bread * Orange * Walnut * Cauliflower * Oat Flakes * Coffee Bean * Coconut *...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This collection of 7 dazzling video clips focuses on various aspects of genetics ranging from history's DNA eureka moment, paternity testing, structural degradation of DNA, and tumor research using transgenic mice; to a human death gene and the role of stem cells in a freshwater polyp known as the hydra; to a case of gender/chromosome mismatch in which a girl is unable to naturally mature into...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Anderson, Marian
Contents: Philadelphia childhood -- Life at grandmother's -- Branching out -- Shock -- Learning how -- Up and way down -- Home of our own -- Mother -- Contest -- Step up -- First trip to Europe -- Back to Europe -- Scandinavia -- Beyond Scandinavia -- Home again -- Russia -- Easter Sunday -- Songs I sing -- Notes on the voice -- On the road -- Good companions -- Highest and the lowest -- East and West --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANDERSON, MARIAN ANDMorrison, Craig
Contents: The name game -- Ingredients -- Origins and predecessors -- The rise and fall of rockabilly in the 1950s -- Elvis Presley -- Memphis -- Country singers and Nashville rockabilly -- Rockabilly women -- Louisiana -- Texas -- California -- The revival -- Veterans -- Revivalists.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 MORWhiteis, David.
Summary: Explores the history of blues music in Chicago.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.643 WHIJacques, Geoffrey.
Contents: Saturday night fish fry -- Bursting out all over -- Intrusion -- Sepia-tones footage -- Commercial euphoria -- White supremacy is not eternal -- After midnight -- The present "crisis" -- Stomp -- Mesopotamia -- James Baldwin -- Well you needn't -- The wonderful fantasies of the colonized -- Giant -- The blab of the pave -- Supporting architecture -- Just for a thrill -- Reverie -- Evaluation --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 JACKenyon, Amy Maria.
Contents: Rumors from a motel in Detroit -- Mapping postwar space and culture -- Spaces of detachment -- Critiques of suburban conformity -- Everyday life and suburban estrangement -- The city that would not go away -- Postwar space and culture in context.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENButts, Anthony.
Contents: The Saint Brigid psalms -- Before autumn -- Song of starry-eyed children -- Intercession to Saint Brigid -- Mist and fog -- Song of earth and sky -- The landscape for growth -- Eight modes toward desire -- Thin places -- Ice palaces -- Pygmalion -- The memory of light -- Soldiers -- Fretwork -- Voices' end -- Embers -- Far from home -- Wise and innocent -- The distance from here to there --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 BUTMoon, Elaine Latzman.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 977.434 MOOCooper, Desiree
Summary: "Six-year-old Jax can't wait to leave Detroit and spend a week with his grandparents in coastal Virginia, where he's sure he'll be spoiled with the kinds of special things he enjoys at home: toys, movies, and hamburgers. As he dreams of the adventures he'll have, his PopPop has other ideas. He fills their days with timeless summer fun-crabbing, shucking corn, and counting fireflies. Illustrated...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2022
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE COOBrennan, Linda Crotta
Summary: Once, in America... chemicals killed plants and animals. Cars and factories filled the air with toxic fumes. Oil spills destroyed ocean life. The sewage floating along America's rivers was so thick it sometimes caught fire. The Earth was dying. Senator Gaylord Nelson believed that attitudes about ecology could change if people understood what was happening. He charged student organizer, Denis...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973 BRESchneider, Dorothy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 SCHHolub, Joan
Summary: Phew, it's hot! Under the titan Hyperion's rule, the sun is burning even brighter than normal and scorching everything in northern Greece, including the villagers! The Olympians are forced to play a sizzling "game" of Dodge the Sunbursts as Hyperion hurls giant fireballs that could fry them to pieces! Armed with some clues, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades set out to figure out why in the world...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2013
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC HOLYasuda, Anita
Summary: "Gives readers a look into the lives and abilities of people who are blind, as well as the challenges they face. Learn how people who are blind read and write, navigate public transportation, and play sports" --Amazon.com
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.9 YASGrundset, Eric
Summary: Rhode Island in the American Revolution: A Source Guide for Genealogists and Historians provides detailed information on the availability of manuscript and archival material that exists for the Ocean State for the period of the Revolutionary War along with listings of historical and genealogical studies that have been published and which supplement the original sources.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3745 GrundsetLandon, Fred
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1944
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.03 LAN1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977 LAN
Nute, Grace Lee
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bobbs-Merrill 1944
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.03 NUT1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.03 NUT