Author: McKellar, Danica.
Published: 2010
Call Number: Y 512 MCKELL
Format: Books
Summary: Actress and math genius Danica McKellar continues to shatter the "math nerd" stereotype by showing girls how to ace middle school math--and actually feel cool doing it! With Danica's trademark sass and style, this book tackles algebra: the most feared of all math classes and the most common roadblock to high school graduation. McKellar instantly puts her readers at ease, showing teenage girls--and anyone taking algebra--how to feel confident and master square roots, polynomials, quadratic equations, word problems and more, without breaking a sweat (or a nail).--From publisher description.
Author: Winston, Robert M. L.
Published: 2009
Call Number: Y 576.8 WINSTON
Format: Books
Summary: Explores the history of evolution and the evolution of the future.
Author: McGonigal, David, 1950-
Published: 2008
Call Number: 919.89
Format: Books
Summary: A comprehensive guide filled with vibrant illustrations and detailed maps captures this wondrous and remote land of ice and snow, with up-to-date information on its climate, the nature of ice, its famous explorers, conservation issues, geology, geography, and the animals who call it home.
Author: McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-
Published: 2006
Call Number: F MCCARTHY
Format: Books
Author: Sheehy, Gail, author.
Published: 2003
Call Number: 974.71
Format: Books
Summary: A portrait of Middletown, the New Jersey town that suffered the highest death toll in the World Trade Center terrorist attack, describes how the inhabitants dealt with their grief, anger, and trauma following September 11th.
Author: Larson, Erik, 1954-
Published: 2003
Call Number: 364.1523
Format: Books
Summary: Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America?s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his "World's Fair Hotel" just west of the fairgrounds?a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake. The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before. Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.
Author: Steele, Shelby, author.
Published: 1998 1990
Call Number: 305.896
Format: Books
Summary: An examination of race in America--the causes of the increasing friction between black and white Americans, and the possibility of hope for a more harmonious future. The author looks closely at his own life in an integrated society, and, in challenging his own preconceptions about race, causes us to rethink our own.
Author: Liang, T. T., author. Olson, Stuart Alve, compiler.
Published: 1992
Call Number: 613.7148
Format: Books
Summary: T.T. Liang is one of the most revered living masters of T'ai Chi Ch'uan. Now in his nineties, he has studied and taught T'ai Chi for over fifty years. As senior student to Cheng Man-ch'ing and as author of the best-selling T'ai Chi Ch'uan for Health and Self-Defense he helped introduce T'ai Chi to America. Having studied with fifteen of the greatest T'ai Chi masters, T.T. Liang's teachings have a formidable authority. This book presents the very heart of Liang's teachings, including his own version of the Yang style 150 posture solo form. Taken from T.T.'s own notes, this is the most comprehensive description of the form ever presented. Rare interviews and articles by T.T. Liang explore the basic principles and deeper meaning of this increasingly popular martial art. The remarkable photography both captures the full power, grace and subtlety of T'ai Chi while providing a detailed count by count presentation of each posture. T.T. Laing's long-time protege, Stuart Olsen, author of Cultivating the Ch'i, compiled the material, contributes a special introduction on the role of imagination in T'ai Chi and appears with T.T. Liang in the book's photography.
Author: Upton, W. T., author.
Published: 1989
Call Number: 635.934
Format: Books
Summary: Covers all aspects of the species of the genus Dendrobium in Australia. The characteristics and classification of the genus are described, and each species has a separate entry, covering history, synonyms, distribution, habitat, cultivation and hybrids, along with a detailed drawing.
Author: Grey, Ian, 1918-1996, author.
Published: 1967
Call Number: 947.08
Format: Books
Author: Parker, Elinor, 1906-2001, compiler. Spier, Peter, 1927-2017, illustrator.
Published: 1960
Call Number: 808.81
Format: Books
Summary: Narrative poems under such headings as "Ballads Old and New," "Rogues and Heroes," "Fantasy and Enchantment," and "Birds and Beasts."
Call Number: F PRANZO
Format: Books
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