Graff, Garrett M.
Summary: This thrilling story of science, the Cold War, Nazi research, atomic anxieties, secret spy planes and the space race draws on original archival research, declassified documents and interviews to present a narrative history of humanity's hunt for alien life, including the military and CIA's secret, decades-long quest to study UFOs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The ninth edition of the MLA Handbook is a textbook and reference guide that offers student writers and writing instructors guidance on creating works-cited-list entries in MLA style using the template of core elements. It features advice on punctuation, grammar, inclusive language, formatting research papers, and in-text citations. Includes an appendix of sample works-cited-list entries,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Modern Language Association of America 2021
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Agthe, Claire Keenan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Genealogical Society 2009
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3749 AGTBreen, Benjamin
Summary: ""It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 FOSQuaratiello, Arlene Rodda
Summary: "The newest edition of this valuable tool offers students easy-to-understand guidance on going beyond Google to find, evaluate, and use quality informational sources that will enable them to write better research papers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ALA Neal-Schuman 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 025.5 QUABeatty, John D.
Summary: Knowing what type of record exists and where to find it can help the researcher look beyond the standard census and vital-record sources to discover some less-familiar record groups.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Genealogical Society 1992
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3772 Indiana BeattyBurnett, D. Graham.
Summary: Explores how humans' view of whales changed from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, looking at how the sea mammals were once viewed as monsters but evolved into something much gentler and more beautiful.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.5072 BURRespicio, Mae
Summary: "A shadowy figure takes shape in a dark, old house. Was it just your imagination? Or was it a ghost? Ghost hunters investigate ghostly encounters with thermal cameras, EVP recorders, magnetic field detectors, and other advanced gear. Get an inside look at all the high-tech tools used to study hair-raising hauntings"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Genealogical Society 2012
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3772 SLABowen, Mark (Mark Stander)
Contents: I: The Sajama expedition -- The mountain God -- An island in the sky -- II: Early days -- Where next? -- Beginnings -- A decade on Quelccaya -- III: The warming sets in -- First signs -- The great experiment -- Temperature follows suit -- China opens up -- IV: The essence of life -- A city by a lake -- The seesaw -- V: More pieces for the puzzle -- Casting about -- From Tibet... -- ...to Peru...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.514 BOWIsaacson, Walter
Summary: "When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed. It was The Double Helix, James Watson's account of how he and Francis Crick had discovered the structure of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA 921 DOUManzanero, Paula
Summary: Describes the isolated Nevada air base known as Area 51, covering its use for testing top-secret aircraft, and discusses speculation about a connection to unidentified flying objects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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Summary: Accidental Brothers tells the unique story of two sets of identical Colombian twin brothers who discovered at age 25 that they were mistakenly raised as fraternal twins--when they were not even biological brothers. Due to an oversight that presumably occurred in the hospital nursery, one twin in each pair was switched with a twin in the other pair. The result was two sets of unrelated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 SEGAlexander, Stephon
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: "Think you need a degree in science to contribute to important scientific discoveries? Think again. All around the world, in fields ranging from astronomy to zoology, millions of everyday people are choosing to participate in the scientific process. Working in cooperation with scientists in pursuit of information, innovation, and discovery, these volunteers are following protocols, collecting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 COODeBoer, Shirley M.
Contents: History and settlement -- Economy -- Archives, libraries, and societies : Archives of Michigan ; Library of Michigan ; Other libraries ; Michigan Genealogical Council ; Historical Scoeity of Michigan ; Michigan Oral History Association ; National Archives at Chicago -- Major resources : Aids to research ; Atlases, gazetteers, and maps ; Biographical guides ; Business records ; Cemetery records...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Genealogical Society 2018
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Summary: Explores today's scientific pursuit of immortality, with exclusive visits inside Silicon Valley labs and interviews with the visionaries who believe we will soon crack into the aging process and cure death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.6 WALBoumenot, Diane MacLean
Contents: Research in Rhode Island -- Early history and settlement -- Archives, libraries, and societies : Rhode Island Genealogical Society (RIGS) ; Rhode Island Historical Society (RIHS) ; Rhode Island State Archives (RISA) ; Other facilities (In-State) : American-French Genealogical Society, Brown University Libraries, Newport Historical Society (NHS), Providence City Archives, Public libraries, Rhode...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Genealogical Society 2018
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R 929.3745 BOUHeisman, Rebecca
Summary: "Flight Paths is the never-before-told story of how a group of migration-obsessed scientists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries engaged nearly every branch of science to understand bird migration--from where and when they take off to their flightpaths and behaviors, their destinations and the challenges they encounter getting there"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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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: "It was Eunice Newton Foote, an American scientist and woman's rights campaigner living in Seneca Falls, New York, who first warned the world that an atmosphere heavy with carbon dioxide could send temperatures here on Earth soaring. This was back in 1856. At the time, no one paid much attention. Our Biggest Experiment tells Foote's story, along with stories of the many other scientists who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 BELSummary: "The Modern Language Association, the authority on research and writing, takes a fresh look at documenting sources in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook. Works are published today in a dizzying range of formats. A book, for example, may be read in print, online, or as an e-book--or perhaps listened to in an audio version. On the Web, modes of publication are regularly invented, combined,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Modern Language Association of America 2016
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Craig, Patricia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carnegie Institution] 1994