Jonathan Hogan
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English
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The Book That Launched an International Movement
"An absolute must-read for parents." -The Boston Globe
"It rivals Rachel Carson's Silent Spring." -The Cincinnati Enquirer
"I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourth grader. But it's not only computers, television, and video games that are keeping kids inside. It's also their parents' fears of traffic, strangers, Lyme disease,...
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English
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"Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition" that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting, ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee along with a stampede of homesteaders drawn by the...
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet, says Edward O. Wilson in his most impassioned book to date. Half-Earth argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half the surface of the Earth to nature." -- Dust jacket.
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this profound and lyrical book, one of our most celebrated biologists offers a sweeping examination of the relationship between the humanities and the sciences: what they offer to each other, how they can be united, and where they still fall short.
"In this profound and lyrical book, one of our most celebrated biologists offers a sweeping examination of the relationship between the humanities and the sciences: what they offer to each other, how...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 467 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An account of the exploits of Bonnie and Clyde explores the ways in which they captured the imaginations of people during and after their time, reveals the role of youth and luck in their two-year crime spree, and recounts the events that led to their deaths.
7) Work song
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Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
National Book Award finalist and Wallace Stegner Award winner Ivan Doig has garnered critical and popular acclaim for his vibrant, authentic tales of the American West. In Work Song he takes listeners to Butte, Montana, in 1919 for the tale of one charmer's efforts to elude Chicago gangsters. Stepping off the train in the world's copper mining capital, Morris Morgan secures a room at the boarding house of an attractive widow he'd like to know better....
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Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
1010L
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
What You Have Left is an unforgettable story of love, loss, and, most of all, longing.
In 1976, on the day of his wife's funeral, Wylie Greer drops off his five-year-old daughter, Holly, at his father-in-law's dairy farm on the outskirts of Columbia, South Carolina. Wylie tells her he just needs a little time to clear his head, but thirty years pass before Holly sees her father again -- "time I spent wondering what I'd done to make him leave," she...
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Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Hank Williams' story reads like fiction: dirt-poor beginnings as a sickly child, learning music from a black street singer and refining it in raucous honky-tonks during the Depression, and emerging as a Grand Ole Opry star. He mined his experiences to write songs that will live forever.
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Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
viii, 330 pages : illustrations, map, tables ; 21 cm
Language
English
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"Refashioning the story of human evolution, Edward O. Wilson draws on his remarkable knowledge of biology and social behavior to demonstrate that group selection, not kin selection, is the premier driving force of human evolution. In a work that James D. Watson calls "a monumental exploration of the biological origins of the human condition," Wilson explains how our innate drive to belong to a group is "both a great blessing and a terrible curse"...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
227 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Edward O. Wilson recalls his lifetime with ants--from his first boyhood encounters in the woods of Alabama to perilous journeys into the Brazilian rainforest." The author writes, "ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony... Their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg," In a myrmecological tour to such far-flung destinations as Mozambique and New Guinea, the Gulf of Mexico's Dauphin Island and even his parents' overgrown...
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Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 487 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Professor Vincent J. Cannato delivers a definitive history of America's landmark port of entry. From eyewitness accounts, Cannato weaves together a poignant testament to the hopes and fears of "huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
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Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xi, 354 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm
Language
English
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No historian has been able to capture so elegantly the factors influencing the formation of the state of Texas. Three-time winner of the Jefferson Davis Award, William C. Davis precisely describes the spirit of the times during this momentous period. The conflicts between Anglo Texans, native Tejanos, and Mexican officials that led to war come to life with invigorating detail.