Marçal, Katrine
Summary: The wheel was invented some 5,000 years ago, and the modern suitcase in the mid-nineteenth century, but it wasn't until the 1970s that someone successfully married the two. What was the hold up? For writer and journalist Katrine Marçal, the answer is both shocking and simple: because "real men" carried their bags, no matter how heavy. There were rolling suitcases before the '70s, but they were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 604.82 MARSteffens, Bradley
Summary: "All in all, 454 million people watched esports on television and online in 2019, an increase of 15 percent over 2018. More people watch esports than Netflix, Hulu, ESPN, and HBO put together. The global popularity of e-sports has drawn the attention of businesses looking to profit from the burgeoning industry"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 794.8 STESteffens, Bradley
Summary: "Under the First Amendment, there is little the government can do to limit false information. The only time the government gets involved with false statements is when they are made to officials investigating a crime, made to defraud people for money, or designed to harm a person's reputation. A growing number of scholars are questioning whether the traditional model of countering bad speech...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press, Inc. 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 342.7308 STESteffens, Bradley
Summary: "Social media can be used for good or for evil. In 2018, organizers of the March for Our Lives used social media to bring roughly 500,000 people to Washington, DC, to peacefully protest against gun violence-a powerful example of how social media can be used for good. But the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021 showed just as powerfully how social media can also be used for evil. Behavioral...
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 302.23 STEFaith, Karlene.
Summary: "At the age of twenty-one, Leslie Van Houten was sentenced to death, along with Charles Manson and several of his other disciples, for the infamous murder rampage spanning two nights in August 1969. Leslie, who was present at the Rosemary and Leno LaBianca murders, cheerfully accepted her sentence, wishing only that she had better served Manson in carrying out his apocalyptic vision of "Helter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northeastern University Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 FAIJardine, Lisa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.21 JARGallo, Carmine
Summary: "The communication and leadership secrets of Jeff Bezos and how to master them, from the bestselling author of Talk Like Ted. Jeff Bezos is a dreamer who turned a bold idea into the world's most influential company, a brand that likely touches your life every day. As a student of leadership and communication, he learned to elevate the way Amazonians write, collaborate, innovate, pitch, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 GALGillespie, Lorrine.
Summary: Gives an overview of the history of the classic Ford sports car, the Mustang, describing some notable models.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.2222 GILMancuso, Stefano
Summary: "In this richly illustrated volume, a leading neurobiologist presents fascinating stories of plant migration that reveal unexpected connections between nature and culture. When we talk about migrations, we should study plants to understand that these phenomena are unstoppable. In the many different ways plants move, we can see the incessant action and drive to spread life that has led plants to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 581.3 MANGallo, Carmine.
Summary: Public speaking coach and bestselling author Gallo has broken down hundreds of TED talks and interviewed the most popular TED (technology, entertainment, design) presenters as well as the top researchers in the fields of psychology, communications, and neuroscience to get their cutting-edge insights and to reveal the nine secrets of all successful TED presentations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.452 GALKverneland, 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 KVEPerrine, Doug.
Contents: Introduction : a first glimpse -- ch. 1. Origins and ancestors -- ch. 2. Between the plates -- ch. 3. Mating behavior and reproduction -- ch. 4. The lost decade -- ch. 5. Growing up -- ch. 6. The incredible journey -- ch. 7. Troubled times -- ch. 8. Families and species -- ch. 9. Watching sea turtles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 597.928 PERTomalin, Stefany
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Publisher / Publication Date: David & Charles 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.59 TomalinHarline, Craig.
Summary: Traces the significance of Sunday from ancient times to present-day America, looking at the religious and secular rituals that have defined the day over the centuries, from early Christian celebrations of the liturgy, to the end of "blue laws" during the1950s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 263.3 HARHarris, Maurine
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ancestry Publishing 1989
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: 929.103 ANCStrathdee, Steffanie
Summary: Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, psychologist Tom Patterson, were vacationing in Egypt when Tom came down with a stomach bug. What at first seemed like a case of food poisoning quickly turned critical, and by the time Tom had been transferred via emergency medevac to the world-class medical center at UC San Diego, where both he and Steffanie worked, blood work revealed why...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 STRGeroulanos, Stefanos
Summary: "In this remarkable and enlivening study, Stefanos Geroulanos traces the development of our modern fascination with humanity's deep past, and lays out that fascination's deadly costs." --Amia Srinivasan, author of The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century An eminent historian tells the story of how we came to obsess over the origins of humanity--and how, for three centuries, ideas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: Features every detail you'll need to locate and identify the region's berries and fruit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adventure Publications 2018
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Summary: "People who struggle with problem anger need quick tools they can use in the moment when faced with difficult situations or triggers. Instant Anger Management is a take-anywhere guide that provides effective and easy-to-learn strategies for dealing with anger on the spot. Using the quick cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) interventions in this book, readers will also learn to better identify...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publication, Inc. 2021
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Summary: Describes the conditions in the textile industry in the early 20th century behind the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company that led to the death of many young women, and explains its impact on the labor movement and on society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 MARMarrin, Albert.
Summary: Discusses Drake, Morgan, Blackbeard, and other pirates and privateers, both men and women, who have roamed the sea since 1500.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1984
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 364.164 MARPaine, Stefani
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sierra Club Books 1995
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Summary: "The first-ever weight-loss plan specifically designed to stop-and reverse-age-related weight gain and muscle loss, while shrinking your belly, extending your life, and creating your healthiest self at mid-life and beyond"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022