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Summary: "From reparations to the prison industrial complex and redlining, there are a lot of high-level concepts to systemic racism that are hard to digest. At a time where everyone is inundated with information on structural racism, it can be hard to know where to start or how to visualize the disenfranchisement of BIPOC Americans. In Systemic Racism 101, you will find infographic spreads alongside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 SYSLitvin, Nikolai.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 LITRiding, Alan.
Summary: Throughout this penetrating and unsettling account, Riding keeps alive the quandaries facing many of these artists. Were they "saving" French culture by working? Were they betraying France if they performed before German soldiers or made movies with Nazi approval? Was it the intellectual's duty to take up arms against the occupier? Then, after Paris was liberated, what was deserving punishment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.361 RIDLoring, Gloria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lowell House 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.462 LORLoring, Maggie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ragged Mountain Press/McGraw-Hill 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.93 LORLivio, Mario
Summary: This fascinating exploration of the great discoveries of history's most important mathematicians seeks an answer to the eternal question: Does mathematics hold the key to understanding the mysteries of the physical world?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 510 LivLibin, Nicole
Summary: There are no perfect parents and no perfect kids―just perfect moments. Mindful Parenting in a Chaotic World features mindfulness strategies and activities that are easy for anyone to do anywhere. It’s a mindful parenting guide for caregivers and children to practice being totally present, so everyone feels noticed, respected, and heard. These guided techniques are simple, quick, fun, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 LIBLavin, Talia
Summary: The unapologetic journalist and anti-discrimination activist recounts her immersive investigation into white supremacy to reveal how it proliferates online, exposing a rampant Web subculture of religious extremism, misogyny, racism and anti-Semitism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.56 LAVLaing, Olivia
Summary: ""Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 LAILivio, Mario
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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Summary: "A biography of the great astronomer and scientist, and an examination of the faith vs. science question, then and now, written by a noted astrophysicist and author"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GALILEI, GALILEO LIVILaing, Olivia
Summary: "In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there's still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton's Paradise Lost to John Clare's enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: "Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 LIVLivio, Mario
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 LIVPelkki, Jane Sieving
Summary: "Learn all about the importance of a healthy diet, from what foods you should eat to what effect they will have on your health."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 613 PELSneve, Virginia Driving Hawk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 SNELaing, Olivia
Summary: "You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavor to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by thousands of strangers. The Lonely City is a roving cultural history of urban loneliness, centered on the ultimate city: Manhattan, that teeming island of gneiss, concrete, and glass. What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately involved with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 LAICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Psych LaingRising, Marsha Hoffman
Contents: The first step: analyzing the problem and planning a strategy for success -- Finding births, marriages, and deaths before civil registration -- Why does the census taker always miss my ancestor? -- Consider the collateral kin: genealogical research in the full family context -- Your day in court -- What to do when the courthouse burned -- Give me land--lots of land -- Sorting individuals of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Family Tree Books 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 929.1 RISCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.1 RISLevin, Ted
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.759 LEVLevin, Yuval.
Summary: "In The Great Debate Yuval Levin explores the origins of the familiar left/right divide in American politics by examining the views of the men who best represent each side of that debate: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. In a groundbreaking exploration of the origins of our political order, Levin shows that our political divide did not originate (as many historians argue) in the French...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 760 IVIKeenan, Sheila
Summary: "Washington Irving published The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in 1820, introducing the eerie Headless Horseman character to readers worldwide. Readers were both scared and intrigued by the horrific character, who is the ghost of a soldier who had been decapitated during the American Revolution. Now, the character is an American classic, featured in movies, television shows, cartoons, comic books,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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Summary: Take a gustatory tour of the states surrounding Lake Michigan! Levin has collected classic recipes that capture the best of lakeshore living. She also profiles local markets, bakeries and farms to bring to life the best of Lake Michigan's iconic tastes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5977 LEVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.9774 LEVLevin, Bernard
Contents: Foreword by Katie Couric -- Preface by Bernard Levin -- Introduction -- What is colorectal cancer? -- Overview of colorectal cancer -- Chapter risk factors and prevention -- The diagnosis -- Early detection -- Initial evaluation -- Diagnosis and staging -- Understanding your prognosis -- After the diagnosis -- Coping with your diagnosis -- Making the medical system work for you -- Treatment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Cancer Society 2006