Suzman, James
Summary: An anthropological study of the role of work in human evolution challenges deeply held assumptions to explain the different ways our ancient ancestors conducted and regarded work prior to the eras of migration, food production, and city development.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.09 SUZKaguri, Twesigye Jackson.
Summary: A founder of the Nyaka and Kutamba AIDS Orphans Schools describes how he returned to his native Uganda after college and was compelled by the dire circumstances of his village's AIDS orphans to make tuition-free education available.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372 KAGJameson, (Anna)
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. Bell & Sons 1897
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 JAMSummary: Presents the history, development, and decline of drive-in movie theaters. Features interviews and commentaries with actors, producers, critics, and others involved in the drive-in movie industry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janson Media 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DRISummary: This is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually leading to his impeachment trial.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HUNJameson, Marni
Summary: "A guide to estate planning that helps you turn your material assets into a meaningful legacy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment, LLC 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 JAMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 JAMJamieson, Alexandra
Summary: "A holistic health counselor and co-star of award-winning documentary Super Size Me explores women's cravings--for food, sleep, sex, movement, companionship, inspiration--and teaches them to listen to their bodies for a healthier, fuller life. Transformational health expert Alexandra Jamieson is a woman on a mission. Having overcome her own food addictions and the weight and health problems...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 JAMJamison, John.
Summary: "Stories and recipes from our farm to your table"
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food JamisonJameson, Marni
Summary: "It's a rite of passage almost no one will escape: the difficult, emotional journey of downsizing your or your aging parents' home. Here, nationally syndicated home columnist Marni Jameson sensitively guides readers through the process, from opening that first closet, to sorting through a lifetime's worth of possessions, to selling the homestead itself. Using her own personal journey as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 660 JAMParker, Jameson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 PARWhiting, Sue (Susan Allana)
Summary: This new edition to the Nature Storybooks series is about one of Australia's most puzzling and unique animals - the platypus. Platypus leaves his burrow in the riverbank and dives into the cool green pool. It is dusk and he is hungry. Platypus is always busy, always moving, looking for his next meal. Follow platypus as he plays, swims, dives and scurries around his riverbank home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHIJameson, Karen
Summary: "Jewel beetles, hummingbirds, rainbow boas, giant clams, and more burst from the pages in metaphor and rhyming verse."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.472 JAMTilton, Adelle Jameson.
Summary: Provides practical advice, expert reassurance, and real-life tips to help your family cope with an autistic child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 618.92 TILJackson, Angeline
Summary: "The inspiring story of Angeline Jackson, who stood up to Jamaica's oppression of queer youth to demand recognition and justice. When Angeline Jackson was a child, she wondered if there was something wrong with her for wanting to kiss the other girls. But as her sexuality blossomed in her teens, she knew she wouldn't "grow out of it" and that her attraction to girls wasn't against God. In fact,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dundurn Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 JACJamison, Leslie
Summary: "With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which Leslie Jamison has been so widely acclaimed, the fourteen essays in Make It Scream, Make It Burn explore the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession. Among Jamison's subjects are 52 Blue, deemed "the loneliest whale in the world"; the eerie past-life memories of children; the devoted citizens of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 JAMSusann, Jacqueline
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LAWWaleson, Heidi
Summary: In October 2013, the arts world was rocked by the news that the New York City Opera—“the people’s opera”—had finally succumbed to financial hardship after 70 years in operation. The company had been a fixture on the national opera scene—as the populist antithesis of the grand Metropolitan Opera, a nurturing home for young American talent, and a place where new, lively ideas shook up a venerable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.5 WALJAMISON, JAMES K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1939
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4985 JAMCall number: MI 977.4985 JAM
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1 available in Michigan Room, Call number: MI 977.49 JAMSutin, Jack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 SUTAmmeson, Jane
Summary: "How does a Norwegian farm girl become an infamous American serial killer, responsible for upward of 40 murders? Born in rural Norway in 1859, "Belle" Storset Sorenson Gunness was constantly dealt bad hands in life-so she decided to take life into her ownhands. In America's Femme Fatale: The Story of Serial Killer Belle Gunness, Jane Simon Ammeson traces Gunness's path from a poor teenager...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Lightning Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 AMMHampson, Tim
Summary: Surveys noteworthy beers around the world, offering information on the production process, different styles, purchasing and storage tips, pouring techniques, food pairings, emerging trends, and popular festivals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dk Pub 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.23 HAMBoshouwers, Suzan
Summary: Do you want to know everything about knights? In this book, you’ll read about what knights look like and what knights do. What is a suit of armour? How do you become a knight? What does a shield-bearer do? These and many questions will be answered. In this book, you’ll also find a nice song, a tinker project, a big folding page and a mini-quiz, so that you will become a real expert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.1 BOSMischer, Suzan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: STC Craft/Stewart, Tabori & Chang 2006