Braun, Georg
Summary: This volume beautifully reproduces a selection of plates from one of the finest extant sets of one of the most remarkable atlases ever produced, Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum or "Cities of the World," first published in six volumes between 1572 and 1617. Goss's knowledgeable narrative is full of interesting information about the maps and the history of the cities.
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: Rand McNally 1992
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 GOSAltamiras, Juan
Summary: New Art of Cookery, Drawn from the School of Economic Experience, was an influential recipe book published in 1745 by Spanish friary cook Juan Altamiras. In it, he wrote up over 200 recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish, vegetables and sweet things in a chatty style aimed at readers who cooked on a modest budget. He showed that economic cookery could be delicious if flavors and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5946 ALTSunzi
Summary: For more than two thousand years, Sun-tzu's "The Art of War" has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.02 SUNAristotle
Summary: Contains two works by ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, including "Poetics," a critique of the literature of his time with reference to the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; and "Rhetoric," a discussion of the role of language in achieving precision and clarity of thought.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Library 1981
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 808.5 ARIPlato.
Summary: Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; what is reality?; and what is knowledge? The Republic also addresses the purpose of education and the role of both women and men...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Easton Press 1980
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Summary: A twelfth-century German Benedictine abbess, Hildegard of Bingen is widely regarded as one of the true pioneers of holistic medicine and natural healing, developing concepts that were ahead of their time. Introducing her 10 key principles including, preventative health advice, fasting, the mind-body connection, meditation and ecological considerations, this practical book brings her original...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eddison Books 2019
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Summary: Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is a political treatise sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy, especially modern political philosophy, in which the effective truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal. It was also in direct conflict with the dominant Catholic and scholastic doctrines of the time concerning how to consider politics and ethics. The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Classics, an imprint of Penguin Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.1 MACSun-tzu
Summary: For more than two thousand years, Sun-tzu's "The Art of War" has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble 1994
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Summary: The oldest known military treatise, Sun Tzu's the Art of War is still one of the world's most influential writings on strategic thought. Applicable everywhere from the boardroom to the bedroom, from the playing field to the battlefield, its wisdom has never been more highly regarded or used. Now available in its complete form-including an insightful English translation, the entire Chinese...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.1 SUNNúñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar
Summary: "This edition of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca'a Relacion offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1527 Panfilo de Narvaez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 NUNPlutarch.
Summary: Character studies comparing statesmen and generals of ancient Greece and Rome.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Library 1982
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 PLUSchuh, Mari C.
Summary: "Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces the Statue of Liberty to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 SCHCapucilli, Alyssa Satin
Summary: "Young readers can learn all about what happens at yoga class in this Pre-level 1 Ready-to-Read with sweet text and photographs of yogis-in-training! It's the first day of yoga class in this early reader by Biscuit creator Alyssa Satin Capucilli. Roll out your yoga mat! What will it be like? Yoga students stand on sticky mats and learn poses with animal names like "downward dog" and "lion...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE CAPPettiford, Rebecca
Summary: "Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to harp seals. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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Summary: JoJo and Daddy bake a cake for a surprise recipient.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN OCOSwenson, Jamie
Summary: A dog and a duck get together to play an unusual game of fetch in the park.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE SWEWatt, Fiona
Summary: A toddler searches for a specific elephant.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne 2011
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Summary: Jacob loves playing dress-up, when he can be anything he wants to be. Some kids at school say he can't wear "girl" clothes, but Jacob wants to wear a dress to school. Can he convince his parents to let him wear what he wants?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOFCatchpole, James
Summary: Imagine you were asked the same question again and again throughout your life... Imagine if it was a question that didn't bring about the happiest of memories... This is the experience of one-legged Joe, a child who just wants to have fun in the playground... Constantly seen first for his disability, Joe is fed up of only ever being asked about his leg. All he wants to do is play Pirates. But...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Faber & Faber Limited 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CATTullet, Hervé
Summary: Using no special effects other than the reader's imagination, a series of dots multiplies, grows, or changes color by pressing, tilting, or blowing on the previous page.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Handprint Books, an imprint of Chronicle Books 2011
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Summary: "Pigs slurp. Pigs chomp. Pigs burp. Pigs romp. This group of pigs also knows how to throw a really fun party!"--Page 2 of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE SELSpanyol, Jessica
Summary: Meet Clive -- and his imagination! Clive loves his dolls. He enjoys playing with them, and sharing them with his friends. A gentle, affectionate book, celebrating diversity and challenging gender stereotypes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Childs Play (International) Ltd 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD SPAAlspach, Ted
Summary: "In Werewords, players guess a secret word by asking "yes" or "no" questions. Figure out the magic word before time is up, and you win!"--container.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Bézier Games 2017
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1 available in Games, Call number: GAME WERNarh, Samuel
Summary: As the seasons turn, Maisie rides her bull in and out of Dada's tall tales. Her Mama wears linen and plays the viola. Her Dada wears kente cloth and plays the marimba.They come from different places, but they hug her in the same way. And most of all, they love her just the same. A joyful celebration of a mixed-race family and the love that binds us all together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lantana Publishing 2019