Prather, Aric
Summary: "From renowned sleep scientist Dr. Aric Prather, a book that offers a simple yet powerful plan to improve your sleep in seven days We need to sleep to survive. If we stopped sleeping, we would die. Sure, it would take a while, but sleep is as essential as food, water, and oxygen. Eventually, without it, our bodies begin to shut down. So why on earth can something that should be so natural,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Prather, Marla.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Gallery of Art 1994
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Place a hold to request this item.Prather, Marla.
Summary: Catalogue of a centenary retrospective exhibition of 265 objects by Alexander Calder, including sculptures, paintings, drawings and jewelry. Text of the catalogue is divided into five chronological sections each of which is accompanied by a detailed chronology. The exhibition emphasizes the artist's early career into the 1940s when he created his first mobiles, stabiles and standing mobiles....
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Gallery of Art 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 730.92 PRAArbic, Bernard.
Summary: In 1855, the first State Lock opened to tame the roaring rapids at Sault Ste. Marie. It was a key that would unlock the mineral riches of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. In honor of the 150th anniversary of that engineering feat, Bernie Arbic (author of two previous books about the region) has teamed up with Nancy Steinhaus to tell the colorful story of the Soo Canal and its impact on the world....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Priscilla Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 ARBKershenbaum, Arik
Summary: "From a noted Cambridge zoologist, a wildly fun and scientifically sound exploration of what alien life must be like, using universal laws that govern life on Earth and in space. Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be like, we imagine that life on other planets is the stuff of science fiction. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 KERAndrews, Arin.
Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Arin Andrews shares all the hilarious, painful, and poignant details of undergoing gender reassignment as a high school student in this winning teen memoir"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ANDMather, Cam
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aztext Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 MATHazan, Éric
Summary: "Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed The Invention of Paris, takes us by the hand in this walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, more or less following the dividing line between the east and west of Paris, or what you could call the "Paris meridian." He chose this itinerary without much consideration, but later on it became clear to him that it was no accident, that this line followed the meanders of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.4 HAZPrager, Dennis
Summary: "Dennis Prager's commentary on the second book of the Bible, Exodus, and how it relates to our life now"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Faith 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 222 PRABurns, Ric.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.71 BURPrager, Sarah
Summary: Rainbow Revolutionaries brings to life the vibrant histories of fifty pioneering LGBTQ+ people from around the world. Through Sarah Prager's (Queer, There, and Everywhere) short, engaging bios, and Sarah Papworth's bold, dynamic art, readers can delve into the lives of Wen of Han, a Chinese emperor who loved his boyfriend as much as his people, Martine Rothblatt, a trans woman who's helping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 PRAProthero, Stephen R.
Summary: Why do we pretend that the world's religious traditions are different paths to the same God? Scholar Stephen Prothero argues that it is time to replace naive hopes of interreligious unity with deeper knowledge of religious differences. He maintains that each religion attempts to solve a different human problem, and examines each of these traditions on its own terms to create an indispensable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200 PROMontgomery, Sy
Summary: Looks at the work of renowned octopus scientist Jennifer Mather and a team of researchers on the island of Moorea, near Tahiti in the South Pacific, where they work to learn more about octopuses and their behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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Summary: In “Going into Business with Emma Goldman,” Ari brings together two seemingly incompatible approaches—the century-old, revolutionary, anarchist beliefs of Emma Goldman and the idea of implementing them in the business world with which she was, for most of her life, at odds. As Ari imagines it, the pamphlet is “an adventure in intellectual time travel—an uplifting, anarchist fable for the modern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zingerman's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 335.83 WEIPrager, Dennis
Summary: Most people today think the Bible, the most influential book in world history, is not only outdated, but irrelevant, irrational, and even immoral. This explanation of the Book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, demonstrated clearly and powerfully that the opposite is true. The Bible remains profoundly relevant--both to the great issues of our day and to each individual life. It is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Faith, an imprint of Regnery Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 222 PRAPrager, Sarah
Summary: Profiles notable LGBTQ figures and highlights their contributions to society and their community, including Kristina Vasa, Frida Kahlo, Alan Turing, Glenn Burke, and George Takei.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 PRAProthero, Stephen R.
Summary: The United States is one of the most religious societies, but it is also a nation of religious illiteracy. Only 10 percent of American teenagers can name all five major world religions and 15 percent cannot name any. Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that the Bible holds the answers to life's basic questions, yet only half of American adults can name even one of the four gospels....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200.71 PROGrady, Cynthia
Summary: In 1942, children's librarian Clara Breed discovers that her young Japanese-American patrons are being relocated and gives them stamped and addressed postcards so they can write to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2018
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Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Med AremWhite, Arisa
Summary: Presents the life of a California ex-slave, nurse, and midwife, who started many philanthropic projects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MASShavit, Ari
Summary: "Drawing on historical documents, interviews, and private diaries and letters, as well as his own family's story, My Promised Land is a riveting narrative that is larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and profound historical dimensions. As Ar Shavit examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, he asks difficult but important questions: why did Israel come to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.05 SHAGlassenberg, Abigail Patner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interweave Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.592 GlassenbergBernstein, Arnie.
Contents: A community in Michigan -- Andrew P. Kehoe -- Dawn of a decade -- New man in town -- The Bath Consolidated School -- A growing storm -- Electricity -- A school, a farm -- The valley of the shadow of death -- Requiems -- In the matter of the inquest as to the cause of death of Emery E. Huyck, deceased -- Summer -- Tulips.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Michigan Press 2009