Danson, Ted
Summary: Most people know Ted Danson from television and movies, but fewer realize that over the course of the past two and a half decades, Danson has tirelessly devoted himself to the cause of heading off a looming global catastrophe--the massive destruction of our planet's oceanic biosystems and the collapse of the world's major commercial fisheries. Here, Danson details his journey from joining a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 EMMHanson, Jason
Summary: "When Jason Hanson joined the CIA in 2003, he never imagined that the same tactics he used as a CIA officer for counter intelligence, surveillance, and protecting agency personnel would prove to be essential in every day civilian life. In addition to escaping handcuffs, picking locks, and spotting when someone is telling a lie, he can improvise a self-defense weapon, pack a perfect emergency...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2015
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Summary: What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer? In 2005, Kerri Rawson heard a knock on the door of her apartment. When she opened it, an FBI agent informed her that her father had been arrested for murdering ten people, including two children. It was then that she learned her father was the notorious serial killer known as BTK, a name he'd given himself that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2019
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Summary: Reveals high-stakes techniques and survival tactics from intelligence officers who have employed the same measures in life-or-death situations throughout the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TarcherPerigee 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.6 HANChurch, Dawson
Contents: Epigenetic healing -- You : the ultimate epigenetic engineer -- The malleable genome -- The body piezoelectric -- The connective semiconducting crystal -- Belief therapy -- Entangled strings -- Scanning the future -- Writing "miracles!" on every prescription pad -- Energy psychology -- Your happy genes -- Soul medicine as conventional medicine -- Tapping a world of healing -- Medicine for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Energy Psychology Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Mind ChurchChurch, Dawson
Summary: Every creation begins as a thought, from a symphony to a marriage to an ice cream cone to a rocket launch. When we have an intention, a complex chain of events begins in our brains. Thoughts travel as electrical impulses along neural pathways. When neurons fire together they wire together, creating electromagnetic fields. These fields are invisible energy, yet they influence the molecules of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 612.8 CHULarson, Kirsten W.
Summary: "Emma Lilian Todd's mind was always soaring--she loved to solve problems. Lilian tinkered and fiddled with all sorts of objects, turning dreams into useful inventions. As a child, she took apart and reassembled clocks to figure out how they worked. As an adult, typing up patents at the U.S. Patent Office, Lilian built the inventions in her mind, including many designs for flying machines....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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Summary: "We are, all of us, everywhere, always, enmeshed in a web of rules and constraints. Rules fix the beginning and end of the working day and the school year, direct the ebb and flow of traffic on the roads, dictate who can be married to whom and how, place the fork to the right or the left of the plate, lay down the meter and rhyme scheme of a Petrarchan sonnet, and order the rites of birth and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.3 DASDuncan, Dayton.
Summary: In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world's first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Books 1998
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Summary: "The fastest way to indestructible relationships is to become good at working through conflict, together. Conflicts in our closest relationships are scary because so much is at stake. If the conflict doesn't go well, we could lose our marriage, our familyor our job, all connected to our security and survival. So we do just about anything not to lose those relationships, including avoid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Go Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.6 GADWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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Summary: "Discover what it means to be a young transgender and/or nonbinary person in the twenty-first century in this frank and funny guide for teens"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2001
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Summary: Childhood anxiety is much more prevalent these days, and parents and carers need to be able to help their kids to prevent dangerous escalation. With 18 years of expert, qualified experience, the author shows how to help children and tweens build up the necessary brain architecture and perspective, and create the emotional reserves and balance needed throughout life. Parent-led strategies for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Exisle Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92 HAWHowson, Cynthia.
Summary: Could China take over the wine world? Cynthia Howson and Pierre Ly explore how Chinese wine went from being ignored and ridiculed to earning gold medals and praise by famous critics in less than a decade. Wine made in... China? Until recently, for most people, at best, it didn't exist. Or at worst, as one colorful tasting note described, it evoked: "ash tray, coffee grounds, and urinal crust."...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2020
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Summary: "A high-speed, high-stakes account of [the] riveting true story of a father's deception, a son's loyalty, and the terrible costs of betraying both country and kin"--Back jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2015
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Summary: Recounts the case of the Unabomber and the FBI agent that was insrumental to bringing him to justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2019
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Summary: "In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind: a set of ten carefully designed inkblots. For years, he had grappled with the theories of Freud and Jung while also absorbing the aesthetic movements of the day, from Futurism to Dadaism. A visual artist himself, Rorschach had come to believe that who we are is less a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1986
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canoe Press 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 1996
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Contents: The beginnings : the ancient Near East -- The beginnings : Greece -- The library of Alexandria -- The growth of libraries -- The beginnings : Rome -- Libraries of the Roman Empire : the city of Rome -- Libraries of the Roman Empire : outside the city of Rome -- From roll to codex -- Toward the Middle Ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2001