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Summary: Presents miscellaneous facts about the evolution, behavioral patterns, and lives of birds, providing such features as famous quotations, recipes, anecdotes, traditional sayings, lines of verse, and words of rural wisdom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598 EDWSummary: It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with his caterer; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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Summary: Part I: Introduction: Networks and hierarchies ; The mystery of the Illuminati ; Our networked age ; Networks, networks everywhere ; Why hierarchies? ; From seven bridges to six degrees ; Weak ties and viral ideas ; Varieties of network ; When networks meet ; Seven insights ; The Illuminati illuminated -- Part II: Emperors and explorers. A brief history of hierarchy ; The First Networked Age ;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.3 FERFerguson, Niall.
Summary: A history of Western civilization's rise to global dominance offers insight into the development of such concepts as competition, modern medicine, and the work ethic, arguing that Western dominance is being lost to cultures who are more productively utilizing Western techniques.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.09821 FERHoran, Niall
Contents: On the loose (3:44) -- This town (3:53) -- Seeing blind (with Maren Morris) (3:05) -- Slow hands (3:08) -- Too much to ask (3:43) -- Paper houses (3:35) -- Since we're alone (4:02) -- Flicker (4:18) -- Fire away (3:26) -- You and me (3:05) -- On my own (4:01) -- Mirrors (3:38) -- The tide (3:21).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HORFerguson, Niall
Summary: A definitive portrait of the American statesman, based on unprecedented access to his private papers, challenges common misconceptions to trace Kissinger's beliefs to philosophical idealism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KISSINGER, HENRY FERFerguson, Niall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 FERBeall, Will.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAMiall, Marrianne
Summary: Outlines designs for environmentally friendly Christmas decorations that incorporate such natural objects as pinecones and twigs as well as recycled Christmas cards, paper, and bottles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Search Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.594 MIASummary: "The Colonies' survivors have found their hopes of eluding their Cylon pursuers dashed by an invasion and occupation of their new home. As the fate of all human life hangs in the balance, friends become enemies, enemies become unexpected allies, and decisions are made that will haunt some people for the rest of their lives"--Set container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATLeonard, Niall.
Summary: Meet Finn Maguire--a compelling new character for the crime genre. The day Finn Maguire discovers his father bludgeoned to death in a pool of blood, his dreary life is turned upside down. He's the prime suspect in the murder. Finn must race against time to clear his name and find out who hated his dad enough to murder him. Searching the sordid, brutal London underworld for answers, Finn...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2012
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Williams, Niall
Summary: Nicholas, a man whose life changed forever when his father abandoned him and his mother to become a painter, realizes the full implications of his parent's actions when he goes years later to try and purchase his father's one remaining painting from a family that has also been touched by tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILWilliams, Niall
Summary: "Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish that hasn't changed in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds are lifting. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2019
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Summary: "Setting the great crisis of 2020 in broad historical perspective, Niall Ferguson challenges the conventional wisdom that our failure to cope better with disaster was solely a crisis of political leadership, as opposed to a more profound systemic problem. Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not normally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1962 FERMoorjani, Niall.
Summary: "Rajiv has feelings for everything. He can feel confident. He can feel happy. He can feel silly. But today, he feels angry, and he doesn't know why. With the help of his father, he sets out on a journey to make sense of his feelings. It is a journey that will take him to a park, then up into the branches of a tree, and from there all the way to the stars . . ."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lantana Publishing Ltd. 2023
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Summary: The bedridden daughter of a dead poet struggles to find her father through the stories that are central to her world, an effort that takes her through family writings, oral traditions, her father's library, and her own writing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILNull, Matthew Neill.
Summary: "A turn-of-the-century logging company decimates ten thousand acres of virgin forest in the West Virginia Alleghenies and transforms a brotherhood of timber wolves into revolutionaries"--Cover flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lookout Books, Department of Creative Writing University of North Carolina Wilmington 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NULAxworthy, Michael.
Summary: Explores the influence of Iran's history, both religious and political, on the Iranian national identity and discusses the role of literary, religious, intellectual, and cultural movements of the past on Iranian civilization today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 955 AXWEpworth, Paul
Summary: Grammy and Academy Award winning, Paul Epworth continues to push boundaries as a music producer and songwriter, now with his debut album 'Voyager', working with the most exciting new talent as well as some of the most prolific and influential artists of our generation. The themes on Voyager delve deeply into Paul's love of 1970s science fiction and space travel, merging a cosmic pop sound with...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK EPWBarrett, Niall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 684.16 BARFerguson, Niall.
Summary: Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labor. But historian Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What's more, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.09 FERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: 332.090000 FerFerguson, Niall.
Summary: From one of our most renowned historians, Civilization is the definitive history of Western civilization's rise to global dominance-and the killer applications" that made this improbable ascent possible. The rise to global predominance of Western civilization is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five hundred years. All over the world, an astonishing proportion of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2011
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Ferguson, Niall.
Summary: "What causes rich countries to lose their way? Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, increasing inequality, aging populations, antisocial behavior. But what exactly has gone wrong? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues ... is that our institutions--the intricate frameworks within which a society can flourish or fail--are degenerating"--Dust cover flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.09172 FERFerguson, Niall.
Summary: What causes rich countries to lose their way? Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, increasing inequality, aging populations, antisocial behavior. But what exactly has gone wrong? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues in The Great Degeneration, is that our institutions₇the intricate frameworks within which a society can flourish or fail--are degenerating.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013