Beard, Mary
Summary: A prominent classicist explores ancient Rome and how its citizens adapted the notion of imperial rule, invented the concepts of citizenship and nation, and made laws about those traditionally overlooked in history, including women, slaves, and criminals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 937 BEAReid, Mary E.
Summary: Questions and answers explore the world of birds of prey, with an emphasis on owls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 598.977 REIReid, Mary E.
Summary: Questions and answers explore the world of wild dogs, with an emphasis on wolves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2000
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Summary: Questions and answers explore the world of New World monkeys, with an emphasis on howler monkeys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2000
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 599.8 WORNielsen, Kim E.
Summary: Covers the entirety of U.S. disability history, from pre-1492 to the present. Disability is not just the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. It places the experiences of people with disabilities at the center of the American narrative. In many ways, it's a familiar telling. In other ways, however, it is a radical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.4 NIECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.4 NIEWildman, Terry M.
Summary: Terry Wildman writes of a justice long-denied, not only for Native peoples who have suffered the loss of lands, livelihood, and life as the American empire spread across the continent, but also for those who struggle for life and liberty to this very day. Like the prophets of Israel, he seeks to correct our eyesight-to set before us God's vision and God's truth and to expose things that we, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Great Thunder Publishing 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.6 WILShanklin, Mary C.
Summary: The story of Mar-A-Largo starts even before heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and investor E.F. Hutton built this ode to Roaring Twenties excess atop a coral reef in south Florida. How did Palm Beach's most famous manse become the chew toy for tabloid headline writers? Shanklin reveals the disputes, politics, and lifestyles of a power couple's dream oasis through its history and to the current...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.9 SHABeard, Mary
Summary: Beard explores ancient Rome and how its citizens adapted the notion of imperial rule, invented the concepts of citizenship and nation, and made laws about those traditionally overlooked in history, including women, slaves, and criminals.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: E.E. Davis 1996
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1 available in Reference Office, Call number: R-Gen 929.2 DAVIS DavisOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Annie and Jack present information about ancient Greece and the athletic events known as the Olympic games that were held there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.48 OSBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Osborne 2004Greenwalt, Dale E.
Summary: "We usually think of fossils as being composed of rock, the original contents of the organisms lost to time. However, this is changing. Due to new technologies scientists are able to access the ancient biomolecules--the pigments, proteins, chemicals, and DNA--that once performed critical roles in organisms and have been preserved accross millions of years. In this book, Dale Greenwalt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 572 GREMcMahon, Darrin M.
Summary: "We live at a time of soaring global inequalities and a concerted challenge to the very notion that human beings can live as equals. Equality, in short, is in crisis. Yet surprisingly little work has been done to understand this complex ideal. Far from being a modern aspiration, as is commonly thought, equality has a long history stretching back to the ancient world. Across the ages, we have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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Summary: "Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era-tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft-even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by its leading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2023
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Summary: "The memoirs of Mary Rodgers--writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and "a woman who tried everything.""--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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Summary: "Over its half-century of public life, Roe v. Wade took on meanings that extended far beyond its original purpose of protecting the privacy of the doctor-patient relationship. At various times, it forced us to confront hard questions about judicial activism and restraint, the believability of science, racial justice, the suppression of religion, and much more. Mary Ziegler explores the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1988 ZIEOlson, Elsie
Summary: Pirates were the outlaws of the seas! Discover the origin of pirates, their historical development, famous pirates, key skills and traits, and details about weapons, training, and raids. Fast facts, maps, infographics, a glossary, timeline, index, and historical and color photos supplement easy-to-read text.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: 972.9 OLSDiamond, Jared M.
Summary: Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this groundbreaking book, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. Here, at last, is a world history that really is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1999
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Summary: "What did it mean to be a ninja or a samurai? Did they really have special abilities? What was life like for them in ancient Japan? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts behind some of history's most intriguing and secretive figures"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 952 OSBRoach, Mary
Summary: "'Grunt' tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries-- panic, exhaustion, heat, noise-- and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 355 ROABeard, Mary
Summary: From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity. Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to "How Do We Look" and "The Eye of Faith," the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art. Focusing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704.9 BEACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld BeardBeard, Mary
Summary: "From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who getscommemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book-against a background of today's "sculpture...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709.02 BEAOlson, Elsie
Summary: "Samurai are known for their strict code of honor, and this book discusses the origin of samurai, their historical development, famous samurai, key skills and traits, and details about weapons, training, and battles." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 952 OLSBlack, Mary
Contents: [Disc 1]. Turning away -- Still believing -- One & only -- Wonder child -- Don't say OK -- Wildest dreams -- Dimming of the day -- Babes in the wood -- Speaking with the angel -- I misunderstood -- I will be there -- Bless the road -- The circus -- Just a journey -- Flesh & blood -- Song for Ireland 2001. [disc 2]. Who knows where the time goes -- Ring them bells -- Saw you running -- Ae fond...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Curb Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN BLASummary: In this program, Forster's biographer, friends, and literary critics paint a detailed portrait of this widely successful and accessible author. Forster's humanistic views promoting equality among races, classes, and nationalities are revealed in readings from his masterpiece, A Passage to India. Room with a View and Where Angels Fear to Tread-largely set in Italy-compare repressive middle-class...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009