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Animals Infancy Juvenile literature Balanchine, George Gilliam, Dorothy Butler 1936- Jewish-Arab relations 1917- Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah. Parasuicide Juvenile literature Self-destructive behavior Juvenile literature Suicide Juvenile literature United States United States. Navy. SEALs. Task Unit Bruiser.Hilliam, David.
Summary: Relates how King Richard I of England and his troops nearly wrested Jerusalem from Muslim leader Saladin and the Saracens during the Third Crusade in 1191 A.D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Pub. Group 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.18 HILHilliam, Paul.
Summary: A discussion of the tactics and technology of warfare during the Middle Ages, including the tradition of personal combat, the use of armor, castles-and-siege weapons, and the dominance of the mounted knight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Pub. Group 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355.0094 HILGilliam, Fatimah
Summary: "What if there were a set of rules to educate people against race-based social faux pas that damage relationships, perpetuate racist stereotypes, and harm people of color? This book provides just that in an effort to slow the malignant domino effect of race-based ignorance in American communities and workplaces to help address the vestiges of our nation's racist past. Race Rules is an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Communications 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.087 YEOGilliam, Dorothy Butler
Summary: Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose fifty-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the US, covering a wide swath of media history--from the era of game-changing Negro newspapers like the Chicago Defender to the civil rights movement, feminism, and our current imperfect diversity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street, Hachette Book Group 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILLIAM, DOROTHY BUTLER GILHomans, Jennifer.
Summary: Unique among the arts, ballet has no written texts or standardized notation. It is a storytelling art passed on from teacher to student. A ballerina dancing today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps are also marked by the dramatic changes in dance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.8 HOMGillam, Carey
Summary: "The Monsanto Papers is the inside story of Lee Johnson's landmark lawsuit against Monsanto, a David-and-Goliath showdown pitting a dying cancer victim and an eclectic team of young, ambitious lawyers against one of the world's most powerful corporate giants. For Lee, the case was a race against the clock, with doctors predicting he wouldn't survive long enough to take the witness stand. For...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 GILHomans, John.
Summary: Journalist John Homans explores the dog's complex place in our world and how it came to be. Evolving from wild animals to working animals to nearly human members of our social fabric, dogs are now the subject of scientific studies concerning pet ownership, evolutionary theory, and even cognitive science. They are also subject to many of the same questions of rights and ethics as people, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 HOMHomans, Jennifer
Summary: "The New York Times called him "the Shakespeare of dancing." He appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century. His radical approach to choreography reinvented the art of dance and his richly imaginative ballets made him a legend. Yet, Balanchine's life was as dramatic as his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALANCHINE, GEORGE HOMToumani, Meline.
Summary: A young Armenian-American goes to Turkey in a 'love thine enemy' experiment that becomes a transformative reflection on how we use-- and abuse-- our personal histories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOUMANI, MELINE TOUWeddon, Willah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NOG Press 1994
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MIC 920 WEDFaderman, Lillian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.89 FADWillink, Jocko
Summary: With their first book, Extreme Ownership (2015), Jocko Willink and Leif Babin challenged readers to become better leaders, better followers, and better people in both their professional and personal lives. Now, Jocko and Leif dive deeper into finding balance between the opposing forces that pull every leader in different directions. Mastering the Dichotomy of Leadership requires understanding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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Summary: Presents a guide to growing and harvesting a variety of vegetables and herbs, with advice on storage and preparation techiques and recipes for vegetable dishes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sasquatch Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 GALWilliams, William Appleman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1976
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.01 WILBaker, Lillian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collector Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 688.2 BAKBaker, Lillian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collector Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 688.2 BAKFaderman, Lillian
Summary: Harvey Milk—eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck—was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milk’s assassination at the age of forty-eight made him the most famous gay man in modern history. Twenty years later Time magazine included him on its list of the hundred most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MILK, HARVEY FADToo, Lillian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Element 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.3337 TOOToo, Lillian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Element 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 633 TooFaderman, Lillian
Summary: What does it mean to be a "woman" in America? Award-winning gender and sexuality scholar Lillian Faderman traces the evolution of the meaning from Puritan ideas of God's plan for women to the sexual revolution of the 1960s and its reversals to the impact of such recent events as #metoo, the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the election of Kamala Harris as vice president,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 FADFaderman, Lillian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 FADPowell, Jillian.
Summary: Describes the growth of a calf from birth to adulthood, and what life is like on the farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raintree Steck-Vaughn 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 636.2 POWPowell, Jillian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens 2009