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Summary: Most people know Greg Graffin as the lead singer of the punk band Bad Religion, but few know that he also has a Ph.D. and teaches evolution at UCLA. Here, Graffin argues that art and science have a deep connection. As an adolescent growing up when "drugs, sex, and trouble could be had on any given night," Graffin discovered that the study of evolution provided a framework through which he could...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ItBooks 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 210 GRAGraffin, Greg
Contents: Backroads of my mind -- Too many virtues -- Lincoln's funeral train -- Millport -- Time of need -- Making time -- Shotgun -- Echo on the hill -- Sawmill -- Waxwings.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY GRAGrandin, Greg
Summary: Grandin documents an extraordinary early nineteenth-century event that inspired Herman Melville's "Beneto Cereno," tracing the cultural, economic, and religious clash that occurred aboard a distressed Spanish ship of West African pirates.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.362 GRAGrandin, Greg
Summary: The stunning, never-before-told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon, "Fordlandia" depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co. 2009