Dylan, Bob
Summary: Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews features over two dozen of the most significant and revealing conversations with the singer, gathered in one definitive collection that spans his career from street poet to Nobel Laureate. First published in 2006, this acclaimed collection brought together the best interviews and encounters with Bob Dylan to create a multi-faceted, cultural, and journalistic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 DYLCohn, Jonathan
Summary: "Jonathan Cohn's The Ten Year War is the definitive account of the battle over Obamacare, based on interviews with sources who were in the room, from the nation's foremost healthcare journalist. The Affordable Care Act, better known as "Obamacare," was the most sweeping and consequential piece of legislation of the last half century. It has touched nearly every American in one way or another,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 368.38 COHScott, Jonathan
Summary: The story of recorded sound - the technological developments, the people that made them happen and the impact they had on society - from the earliest inventions via the phonograph to LPs, EPs and the recent resurgence of vinyl. While Thomas Edison's phonograph, the first device that could both record and reproduce sound, represented an important turning point in the story of recorded sound, it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2023
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Summary: "In 1977, a team led by the great Carl Sagan was put together to create a record that would travel to the stars on the back of NASA's Voyager probe. They were responsible for creating a playlist of music, sounds and pictures that would represent not just humanity, but would also paint a picture of Earth for any future alien races that may come into contact with the probe. The Vinyl Frontier...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2019
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Summary: "How do we balance the desire for tales of exceptional accomplishment with the need for painful doses of reality? How hard do we work to remember our past or to forget it? These are some of the questions that Jonathan Scott Holloway addresses in this exploration of race memory from the dawn of the modern civil rights era to the present. Relying on social science, documentary film, dance,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2013
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Summary: "At a time when print media reigned supreme and newspapers were legion, Dorothy Thompson, John Gunther, Vincent Sheean, and Rayna Raphaelson Prohme impulsively left their homes to reinvent themselves as international journalists and adopt the power of thepress as their own. In Fighting Words, acclaimed historian Nancy Cott follows these four largely unknown young Americans to reveal how foreign...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cassell 1998
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Summary: "How do you solve a problem like James Madison? The fourth president is one of the most confounding figures in early American history -- his political trajectory seems almost intentionally inconsistent. He was both for and against a strong federal government. He wrote about the dangers of political parties in the Federalist papers and then helped to found the Republican party just a few years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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Summary: This new look at the history of Cuba illuminates the islands entire revolutionary past as well as the most recent decades of the Castro regimeEvents in Fidel Castros island nation often command international attention and just as often inspire controversy. Impassioned debate over situations as diverse as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Elian Gonzales affair is characteristic not only of modern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONNott, Dan
Summary: "What was the first message sent over the internet? How much water does a single person use every day? How was the electric light invented? For every utility people use each day, there's a hidden history below the surface - a story of intrigue, drama, humor, and inequity. This graphic novel provides a guided tour through the science of the past - and how the decisions people made while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Graphic 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 509 NOTMonaghan, Patricia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Llewellyn Publications 1997
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Summary: "Documents goddesses and mythological heroines from cultures around the world, covering Africa, the eastern Mediterranean, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, including the pantheons of the world's religious traditions. By a pioneer in women's spirituality"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2014
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Summary: "Lacing cultural criticism, Victorian literature, and storytelling together, TOO MUCH explores how culture corsets women's bodies, souls, and sexualities-and how we might finally undo the strings"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Limelight Editions 2006
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Summary: "Empire of the Superheroes is a history of the creation and evolution of America's comic book superheroes, as revealed through the experiences of the young creators that built the myth and medium but did not profit from it. From the seminal introduction of Superman in 1938--when comics were ten cents per copy and considered pulp fiction for kids--the superhero genre has transformed into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2020
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Summary: Traces the crusader's footsteps through the decades, providing a look at Batman, the villains who oppose him, and the world around him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATLott, John R.
Summary: When it comes to the gun control debate, there are two kinds of data: data that's accurate, and data that left-wing billionaires, politicians, and media want you to believe is accurate. In Lying to Steal Your Guns, economist and gun rights advocate John Lott turns a skeptical eye to well-funded anti-gun studies and stories that perpetuate false statistics to frighten Americans into giving up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing 2016
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Summary: From myths about mass public shootings to suicides to gun ownership rates and crime to gun free zones, Lott addresses the claims you frequently hear in the media and explains what is wrong with those claims.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Amazon KDP] 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.33 LOTLott, John R.
Summary: Does allowing people to own or carry guns deter violent crime? Or does it cause more citizens to harm each other? Wherever people happen to fall along the ideological spectrum, their answers are all too often founded upon mere impressionistic and anecdotal evidence. In this direct challenge to conventional wisdom, legal scholar John Lott presents the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1998
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Summary: "Wildfires are getting more destructive than ever before. Flames in forests are scorching about twice as many trees as they did two decades ago, and nearly 100,000 homes, barns, and other structures have been incinerated. "Fire seasons" are now fire years. Tens of millions of people live in areas vulnerable to fire, and more keep moving in. Driven in part by climate change, the areas burned and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.379 MOTContents: The tried and the true: Native American women confronting colonization / John Demos -- The colonial mosaic: 1600-1760 / Jane Kamensky -- The limits of independence: 1760-1800 / Marylynn Salmon -- Breaking new ground: 1800-1848 / Michael Goldberg -- An unfinished battle: 1848-1865 / Harriet Sigerman -- Laborers for liberty: 1865-1890 / Harriet Sigerman -- New paths to power: 1890-1920 / Karen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2005
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Conty, Patrick.
Contents: The Gotland labyrinth -- The enigma -- The labyrinth is not a maze -- The trace of the ritual -- The equation and its solution -- The bound universe and the eternal return -- The woven myth -- The Malekula ritual and the story of Aneas -- The living and the dead -- A puzzle of myths -- The Malekula Nahals -- The temple as a knot -- About knots -- The origin of language in Dogon myth -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inner Traditions International 2002