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Publisher / Publication Date: Betterway Publications 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 731.75 JAMThurston, Alexander
Summary: "Drawing on sources in Arabic and Hausa, rare documents, propaganda videos, press reports, and interviews with experts in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Niger, Alexander Thurston sheds new light on Boko Haram's development. He shows that the group, far from being a simple or static terrorist organization, has evolved in its worldview and ideology in reaction to events. Chief among these has been Boko...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 THUThomsen, Michael
Summary: "A cultural and business history of the UFC, tracing the unlikely rise of mixed martial arts from what was derided in the '90s as "human cockfighting"-more violence than sport-to a global pop culture phenomenon.Senator John McCain once decried mixed martial arts as "human cockfighting," while the New York Times despaired that the sport offered a "pay-per-view prism" onto the decline of western...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.815 THOClarke, Thurston.
Summary: After JFK's assassination, Robert Kennedy--Jack's political warrior--almost lost hope. He was haunted by his brother's murder, and by the nation's inabilities to solve its problems of race, poverty, and the war in Vietnam. Bobby sensed the country's pain, and when he announced that he was running for president, the country united behind his hopes. Over the action-packed days of his campaign,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.922 CLAClarke, Thurston.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 996.9 CLAThoren, Roxi.
Summary: Climate change, natural resource use, population shifts, and many other factors have all changed the demands we place on landscape designs. Projects now have to help connect neighborhoods, absorb stormwater, cool urban centers, and provide wildlife habitats. Landscapes of Change examines how these challenges drive the design process, inspire new design strategies, and result in innovative works...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712 THOBurgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)
Summary: Chronicles the adventures of Paddy the Beaver and his animal friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published in association with the Thornton W. Burgess Museum and the Green Briar Nature Center, Sandwich, Massachusetts, by Dover Publications 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION BurThorson, Robert M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 693.1 THOThorne-Thomsen, Kathleen.
Summary: "An engaging, kid-friendly exploration of America's leading architect and his work This revised and updated edition of a longstanding classic, Frank Lloyd Wright for Kids, details the life, times, and work of the celebrated architect. Through simple, kid-friendly prose and anecdotes, author Kathleen Thorne-Thomsen describes the influences of Wright's Wisconsin childhood filled with nature,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 2007
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Summary: Provides an introduction to the life and work of the architect and includes activities and recipes based on his life and art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WRIThornton, Russell
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.6 THOThornton, Sarah.
Summary: The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. In a series of narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the elite at the Basel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 ThorntonWilder, Thornton
Summary: The Eighth Day (1967), an enthralling novel in which Wilder revisits the small-town America of Our Town to stage a philosophical who-dunit; a wrongful conviction for murder and a daring rescue frame a meditation on the mysteriousness of justice, fate, and "the impassioned will," for which "nothing is impossible." Wilder's final novel, the semi-autobiographical Theophilus North (1973), is an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 WILThornton, Bruce S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ISI Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 149.7 THOThornton, Bruce S.
Summary: "Once a colossus dominating the globe, Europe today is a doddering convalescent. Sluggish economic growth, high unemployment, an addiction to expensive social welfare entitlements, a dwindling birth-rate among native Europeans, and most important, an increasing Islamic immigrant population chronically underemployed yet demographically prolific - all point to a future in which Europe will be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encounter Books 2007
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 940.56 ThoThornton, Rosemary Fuller.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gentle Beam Publications 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.37 THOThornton, Tamara Plakins
Summary: Copybooks and the Palmer method, handwriting analysis and autograph collecting - these words conjure up a lost world, in which people looked to handwriting as both a lesson in conformity and a talisman of individuality. In this engaging history, ranging from colonial times to the present, Tamara Plakins Thornton explores the shifting functions and meanings of handwriting in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 652.109 THODart-Thornton, Cecilia.
Summary: Longing to know the father who left years earlier, desert boy Jarred retains the amulet left behind by his father and decides upon reaching adulthood to seek his fortune and search for news about his father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DARThornton, Rosemary Fuller.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gentle Beam Publications 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.37 THOHarvey, Mark W. T. (Mark William Thornton)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.51 HARFarr, Sheila.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grover/Thurston Gallery and Laura Russo Gallery in association with University of Washington Press 2000