Sella, Vittorio
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aperture 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779 SUMJones, Serene
Summary: "With a voice that is at once frank and poetic, humble and prophetic, intimate and practical, [Serene] Jones makes complex teachings around hatred, forgiveness, mercy, justice, death, sin, and grace understandable and immediately applicable for modern people. Excavating the wisdom of great theological voices--Soren Kierkegaard, Reinhold Niebuhr, John Calvin, James Baldwin, James Cone, Luce...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 234 JONSuri, Jeremi
Summary: "In Civil War by Other Means, Jeremi Suri, shows how the victory of the Union was never secure and the resistance to it began immediately. Key Confederate figures fled to exile in Mexico after their defeat and returned when they could safely resume their former lives once the threat of Northern domination had been quashed. Many antebellum influences and attitudes lived on secretly, and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 SURTeresi, Dick.
Summary: Examines how the business of organ harvesting further complicates the process of death declaration and evaluates how death has been determined throughout history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 TERPlokhy, Serhii
Summary: A major new history of the eight days in February 1945 when FDR, Churchill, and Stalin decided the fate of the world. Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy goes against conventional wisdom--cemented during the Cold War--and argues that an ailing Roosevelt did better than we think. Much has been made of FDR's handling of the Depression; here we see him as wartime chief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5314 PLOTeresi, Dick.
Summary: This book, an innovative history of science, explores the scientific breakthroughs from peoples of the ancient world--Babylonians, Egyptians, Indians, Africans, New World and Oceanic tribes, among others--and the non-European medieval world. They left an enormous heritage in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, cosmology, physics, geology, chemistry, and technology. The first comprehensive,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509 TERPlokhy, Serhii
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.085 PLOKierkegaard, Søren
Contents: The Journals, 1834-1842 -- Either/Or -- Two edifying discourses -- Fear and trembling -- Repetition -- Philosophical fragments -- Stages on life's way -- Concluding unscientific postscript -- The present age -- Edifying discourses in various spirits -- The works of love -- The point of view for my work as author -- The sickness unto death -- Training in Christianity -- Two discourses at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 1946
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 839.81 KIECastrovilla, Selene
Summary: Recounts the story of an enslaved man seeking sanctuary during the Civil War whose heroism saved Fortress Monroe and helped convince President Lincoln that slavery must be abolished.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.5 CASPlokhy, Serhii
Summary: An in depth look at the stories of firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who worked to extinguish the nuclear inferno of Chernobyl identifies the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.1 PLOCastrovilla, Selene
Summary: "Introduces the reader to the founding mothers of the United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 CASPlokhy, Serhii
Summary: "A chilling account of seventy years of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the "definitive" (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly. Nuclear energy was embraced across the globe at the height of the nuclear industry in the 1960s and 1970s; today,there are 440 nuclear reactors operating throughout the world, with nuclear power providing 10 percent of world electricity. Yet as the world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.48 PLOPlokhy, Serhii
Summary: "A dramatic re-creation and urgent examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today's world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclearstrikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must return to the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis....
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920.9106 PLODiemberger, Maria Antonia Sironi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 951.5 DIEKierkegaard, Soren
Summary: Presents a translation of the Danish philosopher's 1844 treatise on anxiety, which he claimed could only be overcome through embracing it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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Summary: "As Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing struggle with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence, celebrated historian Serhii Plokhy explains that today's crisis is a case of history repeating itself: the Ukrainian conflict is only the latest in a long history of turmoil over Ukraine's sovereignty. ... This revised edition contains new material that brings this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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Summary: "Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war--and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? Ukrainians have resisted a superior military; the West has united, while Russia grows increasingly isolated. Serhii Plokhy, a leading historian of Ukraine and the Cold War, offers a definitive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: The story of the Boston Massacre--when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death--is familiar to generations. But from the very beginning, many accounts have obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political. Professor Serena Zabin draws on original sources and lively stories to follow British...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 ZABBlankfeld, Keren
Summary: "Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia were captivated by each other from the moment they first exchanged glances across the work floor. It was the beginning of a love story that could have happened anywhere. Except for one difference: this romance was unfolding in history's most notorious death camp, between two young prisoners whose budding intimacy risked dooming them if they were caught. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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Summary: Serena Williams began playing tennis when she was just a child, and is now an Olympic champion who's won more Grand Slam singles titles than anyone else. Throughout her life she's battled many things, from life-threatening illnesses and sports injuries to sexism and racism in the tennis world. Now she's an icon in sport, fashion and activism, an inspiration to every young person who has dared...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Describes the life of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain from 1837 to 1901, and the social and political conditions in Great Britain during her lifetime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: International Marine/McGraw-Hill 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 BROGage, Eleni N.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.53 GAGE, Eleani GAGEllerton, Victoria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light books 2000