Akyol, Mustafa
Summary: "A fascinating journey into Islam's diverse history of ideas, making an argument for an 'Islamic Enlightenment' today. In 'Reopening Muslim Minds,' Mustafa Akyol, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and opinion writer for The New York Times, both diagnoses 'the crisis of Islam' in the modern world, and offers a way forward. Diving deeply into Islamic theology, and also sharing lessons from his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Essentials 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.09 AKYMoustafa, Ibrahim
Summary: "From Eisner nominated writer/artist Ibrahim Moustafa comes a thrilling sci/fi reimagining of the greatest revenge story ever told, The Count of Monte Cristo! Framed for treason and wrongfully imprisoned at the hands of a jealous rival and a corrupt magistrate, Redxan Samud escapes his hovering prison colony hell-bent on retribution. Give a map from his dying jail companion to the location of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Humanoids Inc. 2021
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Summary: Looks at the Islamic view of Jesus, exploring its origins in the seventh century and how it relates to the views of the Jews and Christians of the day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martins Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 AKYSuleyman, Mustafa
Summary: "We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organise your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. None of us are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1996
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Summary: Okrent explores the origins, implementation, and failure of that great American delusion known as Prohibition. This book explains how Prohibition happened, what life under it was like, and what it did to the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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Summary: An anecdotal history of America's professional baseball teams
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1989
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1992
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Summary: Chronicles the history and mystery of several centuries of plague including bioweapons programs initiated by the former Soviet Union.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5732 OREMuscara, Cory
Summary: In Stop Missing Your Life , mindfulness teacher Cory Muscara takes us on a journey into the heart of what is required for real change, growth, and happiness. He exposes how the phrase "be present" has become little more than a platitude, imbued with the misguided message to be present just for the sake of being present, and reveals how to achieve true Presence : a quality of being that is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lifelong 2019
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Summary: Eugenicist arguments ranking the presumed genetic virtue of various ethnic groups helped keep hundreds of thousands of Jews, Italians, and other unwanted groups out of the United States for more than forty years. By 1921 Vice President Calvin Coolidge declared that 'biological laws' had proven the inferiority of southern and eastern Europeans; the restrictive law that remained U.S. policy until...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1996
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Summary: Can a few good veggies stand against an army of thousands? Can a nation be defended by horns and flashlights? Meet a reluctant, tuba-playing warrior and discover a tale of courage, trust and excessively hairy pickles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BigIdea 2006
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD MOVIE VEGZent, Sheila.
Summary: Twenty designs for fashion-minded teens, with photos and easy-to-follow instructions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sixth&Spring Books 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2001
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Summary: Explores the nature of Islam and unfolds many of its inner-dimensions. It dispels many myths and discusses contributions to science and math.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 LEGSummary: It was a morning like any other, until the unthinkable made it a day we would never forget. On 9/11 and the following days the footage from 27 filmmakers recorded what they saw throughout the city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SEVAsad, Muhammad
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Publisher / Publication Date: Book Foundation 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Book Foundation 2008
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Summary: A memoir by the world's leading coral reef scientist, revealing the thrill of diving and the vital science and story of these majestic reefs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROBERTS, CALLUM ROBSummary: Darwin meets Hitchcock in this true-crime tale of paradise found and lost. A extraordinary documentary portrait of a 1930s murder mystery as strange and alluring as the famous archipelago itself. Fleeing conventional society, a Berlin doctor and his mistress start a new life on uninhabited Floreana Island. But after the international press sensationalizes the exploits of the island's 'Adam and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GALSummary: "Paul Hegeman highlights the music of renowned Estonian composer Arvo Pärt while attempting to unveil the mystery around the purportedly reclusive writer of such famed works as "Tabula Rasa," "Fratres," "Trivium" and "Für Alina," all stirringly performed here. But Hegeman, who also shot the film (with Auke Dijkstra), eschews a typical biographical recounting of the 83-year-old maestro's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: A rich treasury of more than one hundred tales incorporates local legends, fairy tales, animal stories, devotional pieces, and humor from Pourrat's native Auvergne, France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 POUKent, Deborah.
Contents: Big plans for a new nation -- Riding the rails -- The power of electricity -- Connections and concerns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, An Imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2014