Ball, Carlos A.
Summary: The author describes five lawsuits that have helped change the way lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual (LGBT) people are treated in the United States. The cases are Braschi v. Stahl Associates, in which an appellate court recognize that two men can constitute a family; Nabozny v. Podlesny (1996), in which a Wisconsin jury recognized that a bullied gay teenager had his constitutional rights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 BALBall, Carlos A.
Summary: "An accurate picture of the LGBTQ rights movement's achievements is incomplete without this surprising history of how corporate America joined the cause. Legal scholar Carlos Ball tells the overlooked story of how LGBTQ activism aimed at corporations since the Stonewall riots helped turn them from enterprises either indifferent to or openly hostile toward sexual minorities and transgender...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 BALKolosov, Jacqueline A.
Summary: Examines the life of the nineteenth century feminist, Victoria Woodhull, who was a selected as the presidential candidate for the Equal Rights Party in 1872.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan Reynolds 2000
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB WOODHULL MCLBalch, Phyllis A.
Summary: This new fifth edition of the nation's #1 bestselling guide to natural remedies incorporates the most recent information on a variety of alternative healing and preventive therapies, and unveils new science on vitamins, supplements, and herbs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 616.462 ATKVernon, Mary C.
Summary: Presents a comprehensive food, exercise, and nutritional supplement program designed to help people at risk for diabetes, and includes meal plans, recipes, and practical advice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.462 VERBalf, Todd.
Summary: At the turn of the 20th century, hundreds of handsome, lightning-fast racers won the hearts and minds of a bicycling-crazed public. Scientists studied them, newspapers glorified them, and millions of dollars in purse money was awarded to them. Major Taylor aimed to be the fastest of them all. A prominent black man at a time when such a thing was deemed scandalous, his mounting victories, high...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TAYLOR, MAJOR BALBail, Christopher
Summary: This book examines how social media functions like a prism that distorts our identities, empowers status-seeking extremists, and renders moderates all but invisible. It challenges common myths about echo chambers, foreign misinformation campaigns, and radicalizing algorithms, revealing that the solution to political tribalism lies deep inside ourselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 BAIBalf, Todd.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.87 BALBalz, Michelle
Summary: This book covers the modern composting techniques, vermicomposting, composting with nature, keyhole gardens, organic composting, and using compost. Environmentalists aren't the only ones to compost anymore! It's not just about reducing food waste; most composters get their hands dirty because of the benefits it brings to the soil in their garden. All the extra nutrients make for well-fed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cool Springs Press 2018
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Summary: Describes the toll taken on the U.S., Afghanistan, and Pakistan since the September 11 attacks through ordinary citizens' accounts of fighting and first-hand descriptions from Taliban warlords, intelligence thugs, American generals, and Afghani politicians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1047 GALGall, Chris
Summary: "Jumbo details the story of the world's first wide body passenger jet, which could hold more people than any other plane at the time and played a pivotal role in allowing middle class families to afford overseas travel. Author and illustrator Chris Gall,himself a licensed pilot, shows how an innovative design, hard work by countless people, and ground-breaking engineering put the jumbo jet in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eupsychian Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.86 SMABall, Edward
Summary: Journalist Ball confronts the legacy of his family's slave-owning past, uncovering the story of the people, both black and white, who lived and worked on the Balls' South Carolina plantations. It is an unprecedented family record that reveals how the painful legacy of slavery continues to endure in America's collective memory and experience. Ball, a descendant of one of the largest slave-owning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.7915 BALBall, Georgia
Summary: Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox becomes caught up in a gunfight between American and British troops during the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Press 2023
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Contents: [pt. 1.] Shapes -- [pt. 2.] Flow. -- [pt. 3.] Branches.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 571.3 BALSummary: "The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Inaccurate interpretations and outright misrepresentations of the past-cultivated within and promoted by the conservative movement and right-wing media over the last several decades-hold sway among large numbers of Americans, damaging our public discourse. In Myth America, historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer have assembled an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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Summary: "In Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre, author Alverne Ball and illustrator Stacey Robinson have crafted a love letter to Greenwood, Oklahoma. Also known as Black Wall Street, Greenwood was a community whose importance is often overshadowed by the atrocious massacre that took place there in 1921. Across the Tracks introduces the reader to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts MEGASCOPE 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.68 BALBall, Deborah.
Summary: The first book in English about the legendary designer, House of Versace shows how Gianni Versace, with his flamboyant sister Donatella at his side, combined his virtuosic talent and extraordinary ambition to almost single-handedly create the celebrity culture we take for granted today. Bringing together fashion, celebrity, business drama, jet-set lifestyles, and a notorious crime, this is an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VERSACE, GIANNI BallBall, Molly
Summary: Presents an intimate portrait of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that illuminates her leadership, less-recognized career accomplishments and her decisions throughout Donald Trump's impeachment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B PELOSI BALBall, Ruth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & C Black 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 738.4 BALBall, Troylyn
Summary: Troylyn Ball and her husband, Charlie, an engineer and real estate investor, had spent their entire lives in Texas. But after a near fatal trip to the emergency room with their mute, wheelchair-bound son Marshall, they admitted the dust and the heat were too dangerous. To save their boys, the Balls cashed out, sold their beloved farm, and moved to Asheville, North Carolina. Nearing fifty, Troy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street 2017