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"How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Guided by Katy Hessel, art historian and founder of @thegreatwomenartists, discover the glittering paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the nineteenth-century United States and the artist who really invented the "readymade." Explore the Dutch...
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...
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"Barbara A. Res worked directly with Donald Trump for eighteen years on some of his biggest projects and had nearly unlimited access to him. Trump selected Res to be in charge of construction of Trump Tower, his greatest success as a developer. In this insider's look at how the ambitious real estate developer became teh most divisive president in recent U.S. history. Res takes us into closed-door meetings, boardrooms, limo rides, and helicopter flights...
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Human Kinetics
Pub. Date
[2022]
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x, 229 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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"This book, written by a front-of-the-pack distance runner who is also a sport psychologist and coach, uses case studies of elite and average runners and detailed guidance (including exercises, worksheets, etc.) to help the reader develop and foster the mental training skills required for success in ultrarunning"--
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DK/Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
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72 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm + 1 folded paper chess board, 2 sheets of chess pieces.
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English
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"Whether you're a complete beginner or a more experienced player looking to improve your game, this step-by-step guide will help you play like a champion. Plan your moves with amazing 3-D illustrations. Discover tactics and strategies that will add firepower to your attack and strengthen your defense. Learn tips and techniques to improve your skills and solve the toughest of chess challenges. Includes practice chessboard and press-out pieces, so you...
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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159 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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Part of the bestselling Jedi Path series by Daniel Wallace, Star Wars®: Smuggler's Guide reveals previously untold stories of the galaxy's underworld. Recovered from a strongbox on the Millennium Falcon, this guide started as a simple logbook with a piece of valuable information.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to...
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Bower House
Pub. Date
2023.
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xii, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
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English
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"All My Rivers Are Gone celebrates a great American landscape, mourns its loss, and challenges us to undo the damage and forever prevent such mindless destruction in the future"
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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vii, 419 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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"The Mongol Storm is an epic account of violent conflict unfolding against the vibrant backdrop of the Seljuk Turks' magnificent garden palaces, mighty Crusader fortresses, Egyptian pyramids, Damascus' sprawling markets, and the vast Mongol wagon cities. Vividly written and vast in scope, it completely revises our understanding of the Mongols and the world of the Middle Ages"--
12) Enough
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"Cassidy Hutchinson's desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history. Now, she provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where she risked everything to tell the truth about some of the most powerful people in Washington. Her life took a dramatic turn on January 6th, 2021, when, at twenty-four, she found herself in one...
13) 5 day fit chi
Pub. Date
2010
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1 videodisc (approximately 132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Tai chi and Qigong are centuries-old practices designed to promote healing, stress relief and energy flow. Using a series of gentle, flowing movements and breathing techniques, you'll revitalize the body by releasing tension and anxiety, while recharging with fresh energy. Feel calm and centered as you focus your mind and move in a more purposeful way. Find your immune system strengthened as you explore this completely natural healing art.
14) The river
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
An exploration of the timeless relationship between human civilization and Earth’s rivers. Spanning six continents, this visual and musical tour-de-force is by turns celebratory, cautionary, and ultimately hopeful that we are beginning to understand rivers in all their complexity and fragility. Narrated by Oscar Nominee Willem Dafoe. With music by the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Radiohead.
15) Diwali
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Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 18 cm.
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English
Description
Introduces the Hindu holiday, discussing the ways in which it is celebrated and why it is important.
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English
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"Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe's strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the stories of four generations of women in order to leave a record of her family. Beginning with her great-grandmother, the last full-blooded Native member in their lineage, she connects each woman with her totem to construct her family's totem pole: protective...
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Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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ix, 109 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Dive into the world's most exciting science project--the great outdoors! Covering everything from plants and trees to rocks and weather, this amazing book has real outdoor science experiments for kids, to immerse you in the wonders of science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Discover STEAM outdoors--Learn how the scientific method can help you unlock the secrets of the natural world. Make nature your laboratory--Conduct 30 cool experiments...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
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Presents a collection of twenty poems written in tribute to well-known poets from around the world.
Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree offer a glorious, lyrical ode to poets who have sparked a sense of wonder. Out of gratitude for the poet's art form, Newbery Award-winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors'...
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First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
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121 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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"With their signature sounds, athletic tongues, and bulging eyes, there's a lot to love about frogs! But did you know that they soak up air and even liquid through their skin? Or that they use their eyes to swallow food? From tiny tadpoles in water to boisterous bullfrogs on land, the life cycle of these amphibious acrobats is one of the coolest examples of metamorphosis around. So pull up a lily pad and dive in, because the frog facts in this book...
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Wayne State University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
215 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Lyric essayists draw on memoir, poetry, and prose to push against the arbitrary genre restrictions in creative nonfiction, opening up space not only for new forms of writing, but also new voices and a new literary canon. This anthology features some of the best lyric essays published in the last several years by prominent and emerging writers. Editors Zoë Bossiere and Erica Trabold situate this anthology within the ongoing work of resistance-to genre...
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