Author: Kean, Sam, author.
Published: 2018 2017
Call Number: 551.51 KEAN
Format: Books
Summary: A round-the-globe journey through the periodic table explains how the air people breathe reflects the world's history, tracing the origins and ingredients of the atmosphere to explain air's role in reshaping continents, steering human progress, and powering revolutions. "With every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds on the Senate floor, but the story of his last breath is still unfolding; in fact, you're probably inhaling some of it now. Of the sextillions of molecules entering or leaving your lungs at this moment, some might well bear traces of Cleopatra's perfumes, German mustard gas, particles exhaled by dinosaurs or emitted by atomic bombs, even remnants of stardust from the universe's creation. Tracing the origins and ingredients of our atmosphere, Kean reveals how the alchemy of air reshaped our continents, steered human progress, powered revolutions, and continues to influence everything we do. Along the way, we'll swim with radioactive pigs, witness the most important chemical reactions humans have discovered, and join the crowd at the Moulin Rouge for some of the crudest performance art of all time. Lively, witty, and filled with the astounding science of ordinary life, Caesar's Last Breath illuminates the science stories swirling around us every second."--Publisher's description.
Author: Reader's Digest Association.
Published: 2014
Call Number: 808.87
Format: Books
Summary: "The editors of Reader's Digest present over a 1000 of our all-time favorite jokes, gags and cartoons from the humor pages of our magazine. This hilarious collection offers up some of the funniest moments that get us through our day, in the form of jokes, gags and cartoons that will have readers laughing out loud"--
Author: Baker, Nicholson, author.
Published: 2012
Call Number: 814.54
Format: Books
Summary: "Baker's second nonfiction collection, ranges over the map of life to examine what troubles us, what eases our pain, and what brings us joy. Baker moves from political controversy to the intimacy of his own life, from forgotten heroes of pacifism to airplane wings, telephones, paper mills, David Remnick, Joseph Pulitzer, the "OED," and the manufacture of the Venetian gondola. He writes about kite string and about the moment he met his wife, and he surveys our fascination with video games while attempting to beat his teenage son at "Modern Warfare 2." In a celebrated essay on Wikipedia, Baker describes his efforts to stem the tide of encyclopedic deletionism; in another, he charts the rise of e-readers; in a third he chronicles his Freedom of Information lawsuit against the San Francisco Public Library."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Lynch, T. K. (Thomas Kerr), 1818-1891
Published: 2009 1866
Call Number: 916.2
Format: Books
Author: Pausch, Randy, author. Zaslow, Jeffrey author.
Published: 2008
Call Number: B PAUSCH
Format: Books
Summary: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Author: Heron, Andrew, author James, Edmund, author.
Published: 2005
Call Number: 793.74
Format: Books
Summary: Easy-to-follow instructions to help you master Su Doku (Sudoku) strategy.
Author: Budd, Ann, 1956-
Published: 2004
Call Number: 746.432
Format: Books
Author: Stevenson, John, 1944-
Published: 2004
Call Number: 769
Format: Books
Summary: "This book brings together two of Edo culture's most colorful traditions prints and kites. Woodblock prints were known as ukiyo-e, which means "pictures of the floating world," a pun on a Buddhist concept of the fleeting world of desires that is, coincidentally but poetically appropriate for a study of kites borne on the wind. The book includes a table of seals that enable precise dating of many woodblock prints, and an "Anatomy of a Woodblock Print" clarifying the texts often found on prints." "All the major formats in the repertoire of Japanese woodblock prints are represented in the collection, from book pages dating from before the development of complex color printing to spectacular Kabuki prints and charming landscapes."--Jacket.
Author: Nelson, Marilyn, 1946-
Published: 2001
Call Number: Y 811.54 NELSON
Format: Books
Author: Shakur, Tupac, 1971-1996.
Published: 1999
Call Number: Y 811.54 SHAKUR
Format: Books
Published: 1992 1986
Call Number: 463.21
Format: Books
Author: Connor, Jack, author. Almquist, Don, illustrator.
Published: 1991
Call Number: QL696.F32 C66 1991
Format: Books
Summary: Cape May Point, New Jersey, is home to a natural phenomenon of stunning proportions. Each autumn, millions of migrating birds converge here on their annual flight to wintering grounds as far away as Brazil and Peru. Season at the Point, the rich and telling story of the birds and birders of Cape May, evokes the sense of mystery and excitement that pervades the Cape as birders gather to count owls by the hundreds, hawks by the tens of thousands, and shorebirds and songbirds by the hundreds of thousands.
Author: Thorpe, Patricia, author Cardillo, James, illustrator. Gray, Robert, photographer. Duncan, Richard S., photographer.
Published: 1988
Call Number: 635.0973
Format: Books
Summary: Stresses observing the surrounding landscape and learning from it. For people who want to garden, but who really don't have much time to spend. Shows shortcuts.
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