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Summary: From the first scribbling on papyrus to the emergence of the e-book, this wide-ranging overview of the history of the book provides a fascinating look at one of the most efficient, versatile, and enduring technologies ever developed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Paul Getty Museum 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 002.09 LYORady, Martyn C.
Summary: "Habsburgs ruled much of Europe for centuries. From modest origins as minor German nobles, the family used fabricated documents, invented genealogies, savvy marriages, and military conquest on their improbable ascent, becoming the continent's most powerful dynasty. By the mid-fifteenth century, the Habsburgs controlled of the Holy Roman Empire, and by the early sixteenth century, their lands...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.7 RADRobert, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
Summary: "Robert's Rules of Order is the recognized guide to smooth, orderly, and fairly conducted meetings. This 12th edition is the only current manual to have been maintained and updated since 1876 under the continuing program established by General Henry M. Robert himself. As indispensable now as the original edition was more than a century ago, Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 060.42 ROB1 available in Reference, Call number: R 060.42 ROB
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.944 PHIPhillips, Roger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.931 PHIPhillips, Roger
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.976 PHIMarton, Kati.
Summary: "This astonishing real-life spy thriller, filled with danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery, and pure evil, with a plot twist worthy of John le Carre, is relevant today as a tale of fanaticism and the lengths it takes us to. True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American who betrayed his country and crushed his family. Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FIELD, NOEL HAVILAND MARMarton, Kati.
Summary: Renowned author Kati Marton tells how her journalist parents survived the Nazis in Budapest and were imprisoned by the Soviets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTON, KATI MARMarton, Kati.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 MARMarton, Kati.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 MARMcKenna, Maryn.
Summary: McKenna reveals the hidden history of MRSA's relentless advance-- how it has overwhelmed hospitals, assaulted families, and infiltrated agriculture and live-stock, moving inexorably into the food chain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9 MCKMcKenna, Maryn.
Summary: "In this eye-opening exposé, acclaimed health journalist and National Geographic contributer Maryn McKenna documents how antibiotics transformed chicken from local delicacy to industrial commodity -- and human health threat -- uncovering the ways we can make America's favorite meat safer again." -- Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2017
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Summary: Morten Storm was an unlikely jihadi. A six-foot-one red-haired Dane, Storm spent his teens in and out of trouble. A book about the Prophet Mohammed prompted his conversion to Islam, and Storm sought purpose in a community of believers. He attended a militant madrasah in Yemen, named his son Osama, and became close friends with Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born terrorist cleric. But after a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STORM, MORTEN STOCaparrós, Martín
Summary: "An up-to-the-minute global investigation of famine and the persistent issues the keep most of the world hungry. By one of Latin America's most famous and formidable journalists comes a book for the ages. In HUNGER, award-winning author Martin Caparros goes in search of why, in the 21st century, most of the world's inhabitants still go hungry daily and To do this he travels to places where food...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 CAPMaryon, Herbert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 739.2 MARMerton, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Seeds 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 MERSen, Amartya
Summary: "From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a long-awaited memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to betterment of humanity. The Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is one of a handful of people who may truly be called"a global intellectual" (Financial Times). A towering figure in the field of economics, Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEN, AMARTYA SENJocelyn, Marthe
Summary: "A smart and charming middle-grade mystery series starring young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, inspired by the imagined life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot. For fans of Lemony Snicket and The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency. Aggie Morton lives in a small town on the coast of England in 1902. Adventurous and imaginative but deeply shy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JOCMarohn, Stephanie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hampton Roads Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85882 MARMarty, Martin E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Penguin 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUTHER, MARTIN MARMarrin, Albert.
Summary: Describes the conditions in the textile industry in the early 20th century behind the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company that led to the death of many young women, and explains its impact on the labor movement and on society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 MARMarrin, Albert.
Summary: Discusses Drake, Morgan, Blackbeard, and other pirates and privateers, both men and women, who have roamed the sea since 1500.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1984
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 364.164 MARMerton, Thomas
Contents: v. 1. Run to the mountain / edited by Patrick Hart -- v. 2. Entering the silence / edited by Jonathan Montaldo -- v. 3. A search for solitude / edited by Lawrence S. Cunningham -- v. 4. Turning toward the world / edited by Victor A. Kramer -- v. 5. Dancing in the water of life / edited by Robert E. Daggy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 271.125 MERMartino, Andy
Summary: "The definitive insider story of the cheating scandal that rocked Major League Baseball in 2019, bringing down high-profile coaches and players, and exposing a long-rumored "sign-stealing" dark side of baseball"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021