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Summary: "Where does great physics come from? As a young graduate student, cosmologist Stephon Alexander had a life-changing lesson in the subject. When asked by the legendary theoretical physicist Christopher Isham why he had attended graduate school, Alexander answered: "To become a better physicist." He could hardly have anticipated Isham's response: "Then stop reading those physics books." Instead,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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Summary: "A theoretical physicist and jazz musician combines his two loves to present a new theory of the universe: sound as the link between Einstein's relativity with quantum mechanics,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of Perseus Books Group 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523 ALEPeacock, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391 PEAPeacock, Primrose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drake Publishers 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 687.8 PEAWilkes, Stephany
Summary: "In Raw Material, Stephany Wilkes tells not only her own story, but also that of American wool. What begins as a knitter's search for local yarn becomes a dirty, unlikely, and irresistible side job. Wilkes become a certified sheep shearer and wool classer, working at the very first step in the textile supply chain, ultimately leaving her high-tech job for a new way of life considered long dead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oregon State University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILKES, STEPHANY WILPeacock, Doug.
Summary: For the past 12,000 years, the earth has experienced a relatively stable climate. Today, that predictability has ended, and global warming is our new reality. Yet such shifting weather patterns threatened Homo sapiens once before, right here in North America as the continent was first being colonized. About 15,000 years ago, the weather began to warm, melting the glaciers of the Late...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CounterPunch 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 PEAAbarbanell, Stephan
Summary: "Keynote For fans of Joseph Kanon, Alan Furst, and Daniel Silva, Displaced is a deeply intelligent literary debut thriller--set within a world still reeling from WWII--about how the actions of a few can change the course of history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2017
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Summary: Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave filled New York City, and then the entire country, with fear. The children of Italian immigrants were kidnapped, and dozens of innocent victims were gunned down. Bombs tore apart tenement buildings. Judges, senators, Rockefellers, and society matrons were threatened with gruesome deaths. The perpetrators seemed both omnipresent and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 TALTalty, Stephan.
Summary: Describes the life of Juan Pujol, a poultry farmer who opposed the Nazis and concocted a series of staggering lies that lead to his becoming one of Germany's most valued spies, while actually acting as a double-agent for the Allies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5 PUJOL, JUAN TALKverneland, Steffen
Summary: "An extraordinary and inventive graphic biography, Steffen Kverneland's Munch explores the relationships and obsessions that drove the artist behind 'The Scream.' Using text drawn from the writings of Edvard Munch and his contemporaries, this extensively researched and beautifully drawn graphic novel debunks the familiar myth of the half-mad expressionist painter -- anguished, starving and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SelfMadeHero 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 KVETalty, Stephan
Summary: "The untold story of a Latvian Nazi's gruesome crimes and an Israeli spy's epic journey to bring him to justice-a case that altered the fates of all ex-Nazis."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 TALPeacock, Judith
Summary: Discusses the series of events that lead to the secession of the southern states from the Union and to the start of the Civil War in 1861.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.4 PEAPeacock, Margaret
Summary: "An unflinching daily account of how a viral pandemic unmasked two centuries of American disease, poverty, violence, and disinformation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 PEAPeacock, Primrose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shire Publications 1978
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Summary: The first comprehensive account of David Koresh's life, his road to Waco, and the rise of government mistrust in America, from a master of narrative nonfiction. No other event in the last fifty years is shrouded in myth like the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. Today, we remember this moment for the 76 people, including 20 children, who died in the fire; for its inspiration of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KORESH, DAVID TALTalty, Stephan.
Summary: In a dual narrative that pits the heights of human ambition and achievement against the supremacy of nature, Stephan Talty tells the story of a mighty ruler and a tiny microbe, antagonists whose struggle would shape the modern world. --from publisher descriptioin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.2742 TALPeacock, Graham.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thompson Learning 1993
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.1 PEAHuller, Stephan.
Summary: "Highly controversial but impeccably researched, The Real Messiah explodes the myth that Jesus was the long-prophesied Messiah of the Jewish nation. Indeed, it argues that Jesus never claimed that role but thought of himself as herald to the true Messiah: Marcus Julius Agrippa, the last King of the Jews and Jesus' contemporary. It was he who truly founded what became known as Christianity, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watkins Publishing 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 270.1 HULPoulter, Stephan
Summary: "A looming health crisis faces men who find themselves stuck in today’s changing world. Slowly, more and more men are learning the positives that come from talking openly about their struggles with mental and physical health. In this incisive and insightful guide to male mental health, popular clinical psychologist Stephan B. Poulter, Ph.D., unpacks the various issues that stem from male shame,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books, an imprint of Globe Pequot 2024
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Summary: Chronicles the real-life adventures of Welsh pirate Henry Morgan and his exploits in the Caribbean in the service of the English, from his attacks on Spanish merchant ships to his final assault on Panama that ended Spanish domination of the New World.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2007
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Summary: While reporting from Darfur, journalist Faris discovered that climate change was at the root of that conflict, and began to wonder what current and impending--and largely unanticipated--crises such changes have in store for the world. Here, he provides some answers. Global warming will spur the spread of many diseases. The warming world will shift huge populations and potentially redraw...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.25 FARPeacock, Amy Rupertus
Summary: "This book is the biography of Marine General William Rupertus, who led his troops in a series of blistering battles in the Pacific that paved the way for the ultimate American victory there. This is an American story of love, loss, shock, horror, tragedy, and triumph that focuses on Rupertus and the 1st Marine Division in World War II"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUPERTUS, W. H. PEAStephens, Patricia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tate Pub. & Enterprises 2009