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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.083 LINBoyce, W. Thomas
Summary: "From one of the world's foremost researchers and pioneers of pediatric health--a book that offers hope and a pathway to success for parents, teachers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and child development experts coping with "difficult" children, fully exploring the author's revolutionary discovery about childhood development, parenting, and the key to helping all children find happiness and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 649 BOYCameron, W. Bruce
Summary: "Set against the most dramatic time in our species' history, The Dog Master tells the story of one tribe's struggle for survival and one extraordinary man's bond with a wolf-a friendship that changed mankind forever... Thirty thousand years ago, ice was storming the planet. Among the species forced out of the trees and onto the steppes by the advancing cold was modern man, who was both predator...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMJentleson, Bruce W.
Summary: "Great leaders made the twentieth century safer and more peaceful. In The Peacemakers, a kind of global edition of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Bruce Jentleson shows how key figures in the previous century rewrote the zero-sum and transactional scripts they were handed and successfully prevented conflict, advanced human rights, and promoted global sustainability. Covering a broad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 JENBrunk, Thomas W. (Thomas Walter)
Summary: "This book presents a comprehensive history of Pewabic Pottery in Detroit, Michigan, its founders, and its place in the Arts and Crafts movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 738.09774 BRUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 738.09774 BRUCatton, Bruce
Summary: An analysis of the Civil War focuses on Generals McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, Meade, and Grant, and discusses the final defeat of General Robert E. Lee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 CATTydings, Joseph D. (Joseph Davies)
Summary: "Gun control, voting rights, family planning, and environmental protection--these are all hot-button issues today, but they were also the same difficult and intractable issues that Senator Joseph D. Tydings of Maryland faced during his tenure in the Senate in the 1960s. In this timely memoir, Tydings looks back on a life of public service, from the Maryland General Assembly to chief federal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas A & M University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TYDINGS, JOSEPH D TYDKunhardt, Philip B.
Summary: Photographic biography of Abraham Lincoln with more than 700 illustrations, most of them drawn from the Meserve collection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINBryce, Robert
Summary: "If, in the ancient world, it was guns and germs and steel that determined the fates of people and nations, in modern times it is electricity. No other form of power translates into affluence and influence like it. Though demand for it is growing exponentially, it remains one of the most difficult forms of energy to supply and to do so reliably. Storage is even harder. This paradox has shaped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.793 BRYBryce, Robert
Summary: "In the face of today's environmental and economic challenges, doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off disaster is for humans to reverse course: to de-industrialize, re-localize, ban the use of modern energy sources and forswear prosperity. But in this provocative and optimistic rebuke to the catastrophists, Robert Bryce shows how innovation and the inexorable human desire to make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.064 BRYBreece, Hannah
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.1 BRECrume, Rick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Betterway Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.1 CRUCruze, Rachel
Summary: "Do you want to improve your money-and your life-for good? Then you need to understand why you handle money the way you do! The basics of personal finance, like budgeting and saving, may be black and white, but there are deeper reasons you make the choices you do with money. That's why, in Know Yourself, Know Your Money, #1 New York Times bestselling author and money expert Rachel Cruze goes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ramsey Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 CRUBrose, Christian
Summary: "When we think about the future of war, the military and Washington and most everyone gets it backwards. We think in terms of buying single military systems, such as fighter jets or aircraft carriers. And when we think about modernizing those systems, wethink about buying better versions of the same things. But what really matters is not the single system but "the battle network"--the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 BROTruhe, Marv
Summary: "The US Navy charged Black sailors with rioting and assaults on White sailors in an incident referred to as a race riot, while totally ignoring violent unprovoked assaults committed by White sailors and Marines. Author Marv Truhe was a Navy JAG defense lawyer seeking justice for the accused Black sailors. Truhe possesses one of the most complete collections, personal or institutional, of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lawrence Hill Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 TRUPritchard, D. Brine (David Brine)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 795.34 PRIDruse, Ken.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 1994
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 635.951 DRUBracy, Kate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.95 BRACrute, Josh
Summary: Sometimes in London it drizzles. Sometimes it mizzles. Other times it pelts and showers and spits. And Jonas Hanway hates getting wet. How can he go about his day as a proper London gentleman when his shoes are soggy, his coat is always collecting puddles, and his wig looks like a wet cat? Fed up with damp and dreary London, Jonas sails far away, to places where the sun always shines. But what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HANPryce, Jessica
Summary: "Dr. Jessica Pryce knows the child welfare system firsthand and, in this long overdue book, breaks it down from the inside out, sharing her professional journey and offering the crucial perspectives of caseworkers and Black women impacted by the system. It is a groundbreaking and eye-opening confrontation of the inherent and systemic racism deeply entrenched within the child welfare system....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Press 1942
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.309 LINLincoln, Don
Summary: Picking up where he left off in "The Quantum Frontier, " physicist Don Lincoln shares an insider's account of the LHC's operational history and gives readers everything they need to become well informed on this marvel of technology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 539 LINPryce, Will
Summary: Wood has unique qualities, yet is undervalued or ignored in histories of architecture. However, leading designers around the world are increasingly drawn to it to satisfy social and environmental needs. Will Pryce, the most admired architectural photographer in Britain, has traveled the world seeking both famous and obscure buildings in wood. Intensely dramatic but not over-dramatized,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 721.0448 PRYLincoln, Abraham
Summary: "The first full-color facsimile edition of Lincoln's private notes, Abraham Lincoln's Diary is a deluxe collection of some of his most revelatory private writings. An essential archive, here presented exactly as Lincoln wrote them on scraps of paper, these "notes to self" appear alongside original, contextualizing essays by New York Times bestselling presidential biographer Ronald C. White. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021