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English
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"From a marine biologist and co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences, a powerful debut memoir: the uplifting story of a young Black scientist's challenging journey to flourish outside the traditional confines of academia, inspired by her innate connection to nature's most misunderstood animal-the shark. You never forget your first shark. For Jasmin Graham, it was a little bonnethead, a type of hammerhead shark: three feet long, gray with a white...
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Series
Quillen's essentials of genealogy volume 2
Publisher
Cold Spring Press
Language
English
Description
This second in Cold Spring Press's new "Quillen's Essentials of Genealogy" gets to the heart of what genealogical research is for most Americans: hitting the shores of the Atlantic Ocean looking east to the UK and Europe as they begin their search for their ancestors. Largely a nation populated by European immigrants from the 17th through early 20th centuries, immigration and naturalization records is often just the source needed to locate important...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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The hills that mark the border of North and South Carolina are home to a close knit community. When the remains of high spirited Heather Catterton and sweet natured Randi Saldana were found and Danny Hembree was linked to their murders, residents were forced to face an evil in their midst. M. William Phelps delves into the background of Hembree's victims, reconstructs the clues that led to Hembree's arrest, and investigates the media sensation surrounding...
11) Music is history
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Language
English
Description
Music Is History combines Questlove's deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years.
13) Fahrenheit 451
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Series
Language
English
Description
Explainatons of key themes, motifs, and symbols including: censorship, blood, animals and nature, paradoxes, The Sieve and the Sand, knowledge vs. isnorance. Provides analysis of important characters of the book including Guy Montag, Mildred Montag, Captain Beatty, and Professor Faber.
14) Lab girl
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom's labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and the disappointments, triumphs and exhilarating discoveries of scientific work. Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with Bill, who...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary authority of the American presidency has no parallel in the democratic world. Today, that power rests in the hands of Donald J. Trump -- and rarely, if ever, has the nature of a president clashed more profoundly with that of the office. Unmaking the Presidency is the definitive account of the unprecedented confrontation between a man and the institution he has come to embody." -- Front flap.
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Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Chronicles history's most devastating engineering failures. Uses state-of-the-art special effects to investigate not only what went wrong, but what can be learned from these disasters. The catastrophes recounted led to the creation of Superfund sites for the cleanup of toxic waste, improved safety standards for cars, planes, and ships; and new techniques for building roads, bridges, and buildings that will withstand nature's most destructive forces....
Series
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Chronicles history's most devastating engineering failures. Uses state-of-the-art special effects to investigate not only what went wrong, but what can be learned from these disasters. The catastrophes recounted led to the creation of Superfund sites for the cleanup of toxic waste, improved safety standards for cars, planes, and ships; and new techniques for building roads, bridges, and buildings that will withstand nature's most destructive forces....
Series
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Chronicles history's most devastating engineering failures. Uses state-of-the-art special effects to investigate not only what went wrong, but what can be learned from these disasters. The catastrophes recounted led to the creation of Superfund sites for the cleanup of toxic waste, improved safety standards for cars, planes, and ships; and new techniques for building roads, bridges, and buildings that will withstand nature's most destructive forces....