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Atlantic Shorelines : Natural History And Ecology
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Mark D. BertnessFormat
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2007Links
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Atlantic Shorelines is an introduction to the natural history and ecology of shoreline communities on the East Coast of North America. The book provides a comprehensive background for understanding the basic principles of intertidal ecology and the unique conditions faced by intertidal organisms. explains primary production in shoreline systems, intertidal food webs, and the way intertidal organisms survive; summarized from Amazon.comAvailability
City At The Water’s Edge : A Natural History Of New York
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Betsy McCullyFormat
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2007Links
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Through twenty years of nature exploration, McCully has come to know New York as part of the Lower Hudson Bioregion–a place of salt marshes and estuaries, sand dunes and barrier islands, glacially sculpted ridges and kettle holes, rivers and streams, woodlands and outwash plains. The author chronicles the growth of the city at the expense of the environment, but leaves the reader with a vision of a future city as a human habitat that is brought into balance with nature. summarized from Amazon.comAvailability
Great Events From History.
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editors of Salem PressFormat
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2008Availability
Wiyáxayxt/Wiyáakaaawn = As Days Go By : Our History, Our Land, And Our People–the Cayuse, Umatilla, And Walla Walla
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edited by Jennifer KarsonFormat
BookPublished
2006Description
This book represents a new vista, looking past the days when there were two distinct groups-those who were studied and those who studied them. Wiyaxayxt (Columbia River Sahaptin) and Wiyaakaa'awn (Nez Perce) can be interpreted to mean “as the days go by,” “day by day,” or “daily living.” summarized from Amazon.comAvailability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E78.O6 W59 2006 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
Catalog Of Type Specimens Of Recent Crocodilia And Testudines In The National Museum Of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
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Robert P. Reynolds, Steve W. Gotte, and Carl H. ErnstFormat
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2007Links
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LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) QL666.C9 N38 2007 AVAILABLE
Blank Verse : A Guide To Its History And Use
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Robert B. ShawFormat
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2007Links
Description
With its compact but inclusive survey of more than four centuries of poetry, Blank Verse is filled with practical advice for poets of our own day who may wish to attempt the form or enhance their mastery of it. Besides filling a conspicuous gap in literary history, Blank Verse points the way ahead for poets interested in exploring blank verse and its multitude of uses. summarized from Amazon.comAvailability
Mirror Of The World : A New History Of Art
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Julian BellFormat
BookPublished
2007Description
He follows the changing trends in the making and significance of art in different cultures, and explains why the art of the day looked and functioned as it did. Previous histories tended to focus only on the masterpieces of Western art, in the process excluding the work of women or non-Western artists, or else considering developments around the world as separate, unrelated phenomena. summarized from Amazon.comAvailability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) N5300 .B428 2007 IN PROCESS
Filmography Of World History
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Deanne SchultzFormat
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2007Links
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Global in scope and a practical tool for students and teachers of history, Filmography of World History: A Select, Critical Guide To Feature Films That Engage The Past includes description and analysis of over 300 historical films. The book offers an historian's perspective on films as varied as Ararat, Black Rain, Lin Zexu, Saladin, Winstanley, Judgment at Nuremberg, Distant Thunder, The Official Story, Cabeza de Vaca, Newsfront, Lumumba, Daresalam, and The Great White Man of Lambarene. summarized from Amazon.comAvailability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS REFERENCE (MAIN) PN1995.9.H5 S39 2007 AVAILABLE
Refuge : An Unnatural History Of Family And Place
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Terry Tempest WilliamsFormat
BookPublished
1992Description
Parallel to her account of this devastation, Williams describes changes in bird life at the sanctuaries dotting the shores of the Great Salt Lake as water levels rose during the unusually wet early 1980s and threatened the nesting grounds of dozens of species. summarized from Amazon.comAvailability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) RC280.B8 W47 1992 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
The Art Of The Comic Book : An Aesthetic History
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Robert C. HarveyFormat
BookPublished
1996Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN6725 .H37 1996 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
The Art Of The Funnies : An Aesthetic History
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Robert C. HarveyFormat
BookPublished
1994Description
Here, freelance cartoonist and a well-known critic of comic art Robert C. summarized from Amazon.comAvailability
Bad Language, Naked Ladies, And Other Threats To The Nation : A Political History Of Comic Books In Mexico
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Anne RubensteinFormat
BookPublished
1998Description
Conservative protest against the so-called immorality of these publications, of mass media generally, and of Mexican modernity itself, however, led the Mexican government to establish a censorship office that, while having little impact on the content of comic books, succeeded in directing conservative ire away from government policies and toward the Mexican media. Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation examines the complex dynamics of the politics of censorship occasioned by Mexican comic books, including the conservative political campaigns against them, government and industrial responses to such campaigns, and the publishers’ summarized from Amazon.comAvailability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN6790.M48 R83 1998 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
The Secret History Of The War On Cancer
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Devra DavisFormat
BookPublished
2007Description
From the National Book Award finalist, author of When Smoke Ran Like Water, a searing, haunting and deeply personal account of the War on Cancer. Filled with compelling personalities and never-before-revealed information, The Secret History of the War on Cancer shows how we began fighting the wrong war, with the wrong weapons, against the wrong enemies–a legacy that persists to this day. summarized from Amazon.comAvailability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) RA645.C3 D38 2007 AVAILABLE
Darwinian Detectives : Revealing The Natural History Of Genes And Genomes
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Norman A. JohnsonFormat
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2007Links
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Biology is often viewed today as a bipartisan field, with molecular level genetics guiding us into the future and natural history (including ecology, evolution, and conservation biology,) chaining us to a descriptive scientific past. Molecular scientists exploring newly sequenced genomes have stumbled upon quite a few surprises, including that only one to ten percent of the genetic material of animals actually codes for genes. summarized from Amazon.comAvailability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) QH390 .J64 2007 AVAILABLE
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