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bibliography Biographies. biography Guidebooks Guidebooks. Guides touristiques. travel guidebooks.Brandow, Michael
Summary: A provocative look at the “cult of pedigree” and an entertaining social history of purebred dogs So-called “purebreds” are the mainstay of the dog industry, and expert Michael Brandow argues that these aren’t markers of time-honored traditions but rather commercial inventions of the nineteenth century that were marketed as status symbols to a growing middle class. Combining social history and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 BRABranden, Nathaniel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 BRABrendon, Piers.
Summary: After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared doomed. But over the next 150 years it grew to become the greatest and most diverse empire the world has ever seen--from Canada to Australia to China, India, and Egypt--seven times larger than the Roman Empire at its apogee. Yet it was also fundamentally weak, as Piers Brendon shows in this panoramic chronicle. Run from a tiny island...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.0971 BREBurchard, Brendon
Summary: "THESE HABITS WILL MAKE YOU EXTRAORDINARY. Twenty years ago, author Brendon Burchard became obsessed with answering three questions: 1.Why do some individuals and teams succeedmore quicklythan others andsustainthat success over the long term? 2.Of those who pull it off, why are somemiserableand others consistentlyhappy on their journey? 3.What motivates people to reach for higher levels of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 BURGraedon, Joe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.1 GRAHarris, Brayton
Summary: A portrait of a World War II admiral traces his pivotal role in commanding all U.S. and Allied air, land, and sea forces in the Pacific after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NIMITZ, CHESTER HARGraedon, Joe.
Summary: Medical mistakes happen all the time. Each year, 6.1 million Americans are harmed by diagnostic mistakes, drug disasters, and medical treatments. A decade ago, the Institute of Medicine estimated that up to 98,000 people died in hospitals each year from preventable medical errors--and new research suggests the toll is much higher. Patient advocates Joe and Teresa Graedon came face-to-face with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.28 GRABlanton, DeAnne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 BLABrannen, Peter
Summary: "As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576 BRAGrandin, Temple
Summary: Explores how to experiment and how to think about science, encouraging readers to create things by using their imaginations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 507.8 GRACopies Available at Interlochen
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Summary: "A guide to healing foods and home remedies reported to and verified by Joe and Terry Graedon, including their carefully researched responses on how and why such treatments work. The core of this title is organized as Q&As between the general public and the Graedons. It contains as much information as a voluminous encyclopedia of home remedies, yet it's quick, easy, inviting, and fun to read,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 615 GRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.3 GRABrander, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: C. N. Potter : distributed by Crown Publishers 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.252 BRALagasse, Emeril.
Summary: World-famous chef Emeril Lagasse shares some of his favorite recipes that children can make, as well as tips for the whole family on how to have fun and be safe in the kitchen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.5 LAGRendon, Jim.
Contents: Medical marijuana everywhere -- Hippies start growing marijuana -- Growing takes off -- Breeders change everything -- Cannabis moves indoors -- The politics of marijuana -- Medical dispensaries reshape the business -- Cannabis as medicine -- The cannabis gold rush is on -- A day in the dispensary -- The future of cannabis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 RENLagasse, Emeril.
Contents: Basics -- Appetizers and first courses -- Soups, gumbos, and chowders -- Salads -- Brunch -- Pasta, rice, and risotto -- Seafood -- Chicken, turkey, duck, quail, and rabbit -- Beef, veal, pork, and lamb -- Sides -- Desserts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow/HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 LAGBronson, Po
Summary: Award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman demonstrate that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring--because key twists in the science of child development have been overlooked. The authors discuss the inverse power of praise, why insufficient sleep adversely affects kids' capacity to learn, why white parents don't talk about race,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.231 BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 BROBranco, Sandra
Summary: For many people, Brazil conjures up images of football, Carnaval, and fine coffee, but it's much more than beaches and bossa nova. If we had to choose one word to describe the country, it would probably be diversity. The variety of lifestyles, ethnic groups, landscapes, and climates Brazil encompasses is quite simply enormous. This guide provides you with a comprehensive introduction to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kuperard 2023
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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
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 307.76 GRAGrandin, Temple
Summary: "A quarter of a century after her first book, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin--the "anthropologist from Mars," as Oliver Sacks dubbed her--transforms our understanding of the different ways our brains are wired. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously understood, she reveals, and a more varied...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.14 GRAGraydon, Samuel
Summary: This inventive new biography of the legendary physicist examines his complex and contradictory nature-from brilliant scientist to charming lothario and life of the party-in 99 vignettes based on intriguingly different particles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Syracuse University Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.123 BRALandon, Fred
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1944
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.03 LAN1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977 LAN
Braden, Gregg
Summary: "Human by Design invites you on a journey beyond Darwin's theory of evolution, beginning with the fact that we exist as we do, even more empowered, and more connected with ourselves and the world, than scientists have believed possible. In one of the great ironies of the modern world, the science that was expected to solve life's mysteries has done just the opposite. New discoveries have led to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128 BRABronson, Po
Summary: Explores the cutting edge science behind life's triumphs and failures and offers insight from politics, finance, science, sports, and economics to offer advice on gaining a competitive advantage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2013