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Churchill, Winston 1874-1965 Great Britain Military campaigns Prime ministers Prime ministers Great Britain Biography Social aspects World War (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Great Britain World War, 1939-1945 Great Britain World War, 1939-1945 Social aspects Great BritainHeinberg, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Society Publishers 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.8232 HEIHelberg, Jacob
Summary: The author, who led Google's internal global product policy efforts to combat disinformation and foreign interference from 2016 to 2020, reveals that spoils of the ongoing cyberwar with certain countries are power over every meaningful aspect of our society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.10285 HELHeinberg, Richard
Summary: Climate change, along with the depletion of oil, coal, and gas, dictate that we will inevitably move away from our profound societal reliance on fossil fuels; but just how big a transformation will this be? While many policy-makers assume that renewable energy sources will provide an easy "plug-and-play" solution, author Richard Heinberg suggests instead that we are in for a wild ride; a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Society Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304 HEIHeinberg, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Society Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.79 HEIKershenbaum, Arik
Summary: "From a noted Cambridge zoologist, a wildly fun and scientifically sound exploration of what alien life must be like, using universal laws that govern life on Earth and in space. Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be like, we imagine that life on other planets is the stuff of science fiction. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 KERWeisberg, Barbara.
Summary: A biography of an early leader in the campaign for women's rights, particularly in getting women the right to vote.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1988
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB ANTHONY WEIFreiberg, Kevin
Summary: Reveals the secrets of Southwest Airlines' success and describes the unusual and unexpected inner workings of one of America's biggest success stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.7 FREMeiburg, Jonathan
Summary: "An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet a rare and mysterious bird of prey--the caracara--that puzzled Darwin, fascinates modern-day falconers, and carries secrets of our planet's deep past in its family history. In 1833, Charles Darwin was astonished by an animal he met in the Falkland Islands: handsome, social, and oddly crow-like falcons that were "tame and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.9 MEIYoung, Eris
Summary: Drawing upon interviews with a wide range of people across the asexual spectrum, Eris Young is here to take you on an empowering, enriching journey through the rich multitudes of asexual life.With chapters spanning everything from dating, relationships and sex, to mental and emotional health, family, community and joy, the inspirational stories and personal experiences within these pages speak...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.762 YOUDeibert, Michael
Summary: "When Hurricane Maria roared across Puerto Rico in September 2017, it devastated the island. It was an unprecedented natural disaster, a Category 5 major hurricane, and ultimately responsible for the deaths of more than three thousand people. It also ripped away the facade that had dominated discussions of the island's relationship with the United States for over a century This is the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Apollo Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.34 DEINeiberg, Michael S.
Summary: The award-winning historian Michael Neiberg brings the turbulent Potsdam conference to life, vividly capturing the delegates’ personalities: Truman, trying to escape from the shadow of Franklin Roosevelt, who had died only months before; Churchill, bombastic and seemingly out of touch; Stalin, cunning and meticulous. For the first week, negotiations progressed relatively smoothly. But when the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 NEIGillmeister, Heiner
Contents: The origins of tennis: the monks' racket -- The tennis games of the Middle Ages -- The language of tennis -- Tennis in Renaissance literature -- Tennis in the German Ballhouse -- Lawn tennis: the sturdy bastard -- Lawn tennis in America -- Continental colonies: lawn tennis in France -- Lawn tennis under the Kaiser.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.342 GILHerber, Mark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co., Inc 1998
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.1 HERHemmleb, Jochen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 HEMArneson, Erik
Summary: "From party games to legacy games, setting up to hosting a crowd, tabletop game expert Erik Arneson gives you the strategies you need to host an epic game night for your friends. Break out the chips and grab a drink! With tabletop game popularity at an all-time high, game night is more popular than ever. But while many of us have enjoyed a friendly round of Bananagrams or a marathon session of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiller Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.2 ARNLarson, Erik.
Summary: Galveston, Texas, 8 September 1900. It's another fine day in the Gulf according to Isaac Cline, chief observer of the new US Weather Bureau, but one day later, 6-10,000 people were dead, wiped out by the biggest storm the coast of America had ever witnessed. Isaac Cline was confident of his ability to predict the weather: he had new technology at his disposal, 'perfect science', and, like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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Summary: DeMYSTiFieD makes learning Japanese a no-brainer! Demystified Japanese provides you with a friendly, non-intimidating method that takes the confusion out of learning the language, walking you step by step through the fundamentals and moving on to more advanced topics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.6 SATJonsson, Erik
Summary: "Why are we so often disoriented when we come up from the subway? Do we really walk in circles when we lose our bearings in the wilderness? How - and why - do we get lost at all?" "In this book, Erik Jonsson, a Swedish-born engineer who has spent a lifetime exploring navigation over every terrain, from the crowded cities of Europe to the emptiness of the desert, gives readers extraordinary new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.752 JONLarson, Erik
Summary: Tells the parallel stories of Daniel Burnham, the main architect of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and serial killer Henry H. Holmes, discussing the challenges Burnham faced in creating the hugely successful White City, and looking at how Holmes used the opportunities afforded by the fair to lure victims to their deaths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press (Gale, Cengage Learning) 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 364.152 LARLarson, Erik
Summary: "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "A groundbreaking exposé about the alarming use of rap lyrics as criminal evidence to convict and incarcerate young men of color"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 NIEQualman, Erik
Summary: "A fascinating, research-based look at the impact of social media on businesses and consumers around the world, and what's in store for the future. Social Media. You've heard the term, even if you don't use the tools. But just how big has social media become? Social media has officially surpassed pornography as the top activity on the Internet. People would rather give up their e-mail than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.9 QUASlader, Erik
Summary: "Despite the power and responsibility that comes with the oval office, the president of the United States is only human--and far from perfect. While some suffered just a few minor mishaps, others are remembered for leaving behind much bigger messes. In the newest installment in the Epic Fails series, explore the lives, legacies, and failures of some of our country's not-so-great presidents"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.09 SLASlader, Erik
Summary: A humourous look at the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union in space exploration known as the Space Race and the innumerable failures that paved the way to the first lunar landing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2018