| GERMANNA LIBRARIES "NEW TITLES" LIST (DEC 2010 - FEB 2011 YEAR) |
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| *A* GENERAL WORKS |
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| *B* PHILOSOPHY / RELIGION |
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Women in Greek Myth / Mary R. Lefkowitz 2nd ed. |
BL795.W65 L44 2007 |
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Preface to second edition--Preface to first edition--Princess Ida and the Amazons--The powers of the primeval goddesses--The heroic women of Greek epic--Chosen women--Seduction and rape--"Predatory"--Goddesses--The last hours of the Parthenos--Women in the Panathenaic and other festivals-- Women without men--Wives--influential women--Martyrs--Misogyny--Epilogue. |
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The Apostle Paul [sound recording] / Luke Timothy Johnson |
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A series of twelve lectures examining St. Paul, his writings, and his message, presented by Luke Timothy Johnson, Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the Calder School of Theology, Emory University. 6 sound discs (ca. 360 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (56 p. ; 22 cm.) |
BS2651.J64 2001 |
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Classic questions & contemporary film : an introduction to philosophy / Dean A. Kowalski. |
BD21.K69 2005 |
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Introduction to philosophy that incorporates movies as a key pedagogical element. Throughout the text the author includes summaries of and references to current and classic films. |
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The Dead Sea scrolls [sound recording] / Gary A. Rendsburg. |
BM487.E53 2010 |
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12 sound discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 148 p. ; 19 in.). |
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Twenty-four lectures lasting 30 minutes each. |
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St. Augustine's Confessions [sound recording] / William R. Cook and Ronald B. Herzman. |
BR65.A62 C66 2004 |
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An analysis of the classic work Confessions by St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430). Includes Roman history and Christian controversies at the time and background for understanding the book. Also discusses its ongoing usefulness and how it may serve as a guide despite the obvious difference between Augustine’s world and ours. 12 sound discs (ca. 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1course guidebook (89 p. ; 22 cm.) |
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| *C* AUXILIARY SCIENCES OF HISTORY |
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The medieval world
[sound recording] / Dorsey Armstrong. |
CB245.A76 2009 |
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"Between the fall of the Roman Empire and the brief, brilliant cultural phenomenon we call the Renaissance lay the Middle Ages-- fully 1,000 years of artistic, philosophical, political, and religious turmoil and treasures. This course offers an interdisciplinary look at medieval society and culture, with an emphasis on literature, the arts, and the tumultuous historical forces at work from A.D. 500 through A.D. 1500. Medieval Europe was the world of cathedrals and universities; pilgrimages and saints; the Black Death; the Vikings; the spread of Islam; the Crusades; and the forging of the Greek, Latin, Old Norse, and ancient Germanic and Celtic tongues into the languages we speak today"--Publisher provided.
18 sound discs (ca. 18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 130 p. ; 19 cm.) |
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Into the wild - Book / Jon Krakauer 1st ed. |
CT9971.M35 K73 1996 |
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A true story expanded from Krakauer’s article about a young man who starved to death in Denali National Park in Alaska. In a compelling book that evokes the writings of Thoreau, Muir, and Jack London, Krakauer recounts the haunting and tragic mystery of 22-year-old Chris McCandless who disappeared in April 1992 into the Alaskan wilderness in search of a raw, transcendent experience. His emaciated corpse was discovered four months later. |
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| *D* HISTORY: GENERAL & OLD WORLD |
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The rise and fall of the British Empire [sound recording] / Patrick N. Allitt. |
DA16.A575 2009 |
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Professor Patrick N. Allitt, Emory University, delivers thirty-six lectures on the history of the British Empire.18 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 134 p. ; 19 cm.) |
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From Yao to Mao [sound recording] : 5000 years of Chinese history / [Kenneth J. Hammond]. |
DS734.95.H36 2004 |
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This wide-ranging course explores the history of China-for the greater part of its 5,000-year history the largest, most populous, wealthiest, and mightiest civilization on Earth. The lectures cover the basic political, cultural, and social history of China from its mythological origins through the 20th century. You explore the great dynasties, Chinese art and poetry, the collapse of Imperial China, and much more thirty-six lecture course that explores the history and culture of China. 18 sound discs (ca. 1080 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (22 cm.) |
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The American Civil War [sound recording] / Gary W. Gallagher. |
E468 G35 2000 |
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Details the effect of the war on all Americans. You’ll learn how armies were recruited, equipped, and trained. You’ll learn about the hard lot of prisoners. You’ll hear how soldiers on both sides dealt with the rigors of camp life, campaigns, and the terror of combat. You’ll understand how slaves and their falling masters responded to the advancing war. And you will see the desperate price paid by the families so many left behind. 48 lectures delivered by Professor Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia 24 sound cassettes : analog, Dolby processed + 4 booklets. |
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Before 1776 [sound recording] : life in the American colonies / Robert J. Allison. |
E188.5 2009 |
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Between 1500 and 1800, the world was transformed. The peoples of Europe, Africa, and America, brought together in an often violent colonial process, created a New World and transformed the old. Although the individual British American colonies later formed into one nation, this course explores their profound differences in origin and practice. In 36 lectures, Robert J. Allison examines the relations of the colonies with the native people, the relations between these colonies and the colonial outposts of Spain, France, and the Netherlands, and how British attempts at colonial governance led, ultimately, to resistance, rebellion, and revolution. 18 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (ii, 242 p. ; ii, 250 p. ; ii, 252 p. : maps ; 21 cm.). |
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The American Revolution [sound recording] / Allen C. Guelzo. |
E208.G94 2008 |
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A survey of the American revolution, from its outbreak at Lexington and Concord in April 1775 until its close with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 and the dispersion of the American Continental Army. 12 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 153 p. : maps ; 19 cm.). |
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William Grayson and the Constitution, 1788: debates in the commonwealth of Virginia on the adoption of the Constitution / by Lucy Baker. |
E302.6.G73 2008 |
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History of the era 1763 to 1790, cougess of the conventions to adopt the New Constitution William Grayson's history of his death. "William Grayson: patriot, founding father, colonel in the Revolution, aide to Gen. Washington, member, House of Burgess, House of Delegates, Continental Congress, Senator from Virginia in the First Federal Congress"--T.p. verso.
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| *G* GEOGRAPHY / ANTHROPOLOGY |
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| *H* SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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The art of critical decision making [sound recording] / Professor Michael A. Roberto. |
HD30.23 R586 2009 |
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The ability to make wise, educated decisions is essential to living a successful and fulfilled life. Whether simple or complex, private or public, decisions are an essential part of life, affecting individual lives for good or ill, as well as friends, families, and communities. Decision making is a skill -- one that can be learned, honed and perfected. |
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You may ask yourself : an introduction to thinking like a sociologist / Dalton Conley. |
HM511.C664 2008 |
| Using personal examples and storytelling throughout the textbook, Conley (New York U.) explains the main ideas of sociology, from methods and concepts to social division and inequalities to institutions of society. Each chapter is organized around a paradox, with a profile of a relevant person, policy discussion, and sections on using sociology in action. |
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ALA guide to sociology & psychology reference / American Library Association. |
HM585.A53 2011 |
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The American Library Association provides an annotated bibliography of reference sources in sociology and psychology for libraries, researchers, publishers, and book dealers. Focusing mostly on English-language works published in the last 15 years on broad topics relevant to higher education research, the bibliography lists encyclopedic and bibliographic works, dictionaries, handbooks, indexes, atlases, compendiums, websites, search engines, and full-text databases in the areas of theory, methods, and statistics; social conditions and social welfare; race and ethnicity; history; ... |
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Officer’s DUI handbook : 2009 state-to-state case summaries / John A. Stephen. |
HV8079.D76 S750 2010 |
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Criminal and traffic law series. |
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| *J* POLITICAL SCIENCE |
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| *K* LAW |
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| *L* EDUCATION |
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Study manual for the Test of Essential Academic Skills (TEAS) : reading, mathematics, science, and English and language usage / [editor, Amanda Wolkowitz]. |
LB2353.7.T43 S78 2010 |
Introduction -- Reading -- Mathematics -- Science -- English and language usage -- Solutions to practice problems -- Comprehensive practice tests. The TEAS is a 170-item, four-option, multiple-choice examination offered in both paper and computer-administered formats.
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Into the wild [sound recording] : music from the motion picture / Eddie Vedder. |
M1527.V49 I58 2007 |
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1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
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| *N* FINE ARTS |
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| *P* LANGUAGE / LITERATURE |
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Evergreen : a guide to writing with readings / Susan Fawcett. 9th ed. |
PE1413.F379 2011 |
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EVERGREEN combines carefully crafted instruction, high-interest readings and student models, and plentiful practice exercises, to provide the most effective paragraph-to-essay-level Developmental Writing text on the market. |
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Nineteenth-century literature criticism, volume 235 / Detroit : Gale Research Co. |
PN761 .N56 2010 |
| Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately four to eight literary figures who died between 1800 and 1899 by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. |
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Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Volume 245 / Detroit : Gale Research Co. |
PN771 .G27 2010 |
| This highly useful series presents substantial excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures and nonfiction writers, including novelists, poets, playwrights and literary theorists, of 1900 to 1999 -- the era most frequently studied in high schools. |
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Into the wild [videorecording]; a Square One C.I.H./Linson Film production - Based on the book by Jon Krakauer. |
PN1997.2.I58 2008 |
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Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people, a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. |
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Life lessons from the great books [sound recording].
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Professor J. Rufus Fears, lecturer, University of Oklahoma - performer.
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PN6014.F43 2009 |
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This course explores six themes that every one of us has experienced or will experience: the unconquerable human spirit; youth, old age, and all that is between; romance and love; adventure and courage; laughter and irony; and patriotism.18 sound discs (ca. 360 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 141 p. ; 19 cm.) |
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The Cambridge companion to the African American slave narrative / edited by Audrey Fisch. |
PS336.A35 C36 2007 |
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Pt. I. The slave narrative and transnational abolitionism. The rise, development, and circulation of the slave narrative / Philip Gould ; Politics and political philosophy in the slave narrative / Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. ; Olaudah Equiano : African British abolitionist and founder of the African American slave narrative / Vincent Carretta ; The slave narrative and the literature of abolition / Kerry Sinanan -- Pt. II. The slave narrative and Anglo-American literary traditions. Redeeming bondage : the captivity narrative and the spiritual autobiography in the African American slave narrative tradition / Yolanda Pierce ; The slave narrative and the revolutionary tradition of American autobiography / Robert S. Levine ; The slave narrative and sentimental literature / Cindy Weinstein -- Pt. III. The slave narrative and the African American literary tradition. The slave narrative and early Black American literature / Robert F. Reid-Pharr ; Telling slavery in "freedom’s" time : post-Reconstruction and the Harlem Renaissance / Deborah E. McDowell ; Neo-slave narratives / Valerie Smith -- Pt. IV. The slave narrative and the politics of knowledge. Harriet Jacobs : a case history of authentication / Stephanie A. Smith ; Frederick Douglass’s self-fashioning and the making of a representative American man / John Stauffer ; Beyond Douglass and Jacobs / John Ernest ; Black womanhood in North American women’s slave narratives / Xiomara Santamarina. |
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The Janson Directive / Robert Ludlum. |
PS3562.U26 J36 2002 |
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A mystery about a former covert operative turned private security executive who's stranded, abandoned, and marked for murder by his old colleagues when he manages to survive an unsurvivable mission. Rescuing renowned philanthropist and statesman-without-portfolio Peter Novak from the clutches of the terrorist who murdered his wife and unborn child, Paul Janson watches, unbelieving, as the plane carrying Novak back to freedom explodes before his eyes. Soon after the first post-mission attempt on his life, Janson begins to put the pieces of the puzzle together. |
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Representative American speeches 2009-2010 / edited by Brian Boucher. |
PS668.B3 2010 |
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Boucher, a member of the editorial staff of Art in America magazine, gathers 23 of the year's most significant speeches on controversial topics. Speeches are grouped evenly in sections on health care reform, financial and regulatory reform, disarmament and arms control, disaster preparedness and recovery, and the current state and future of philanthropy. The speeches were mainly by Democrat, Republican, and Tea Party law makers, plus a few others representing government agencies. There is also rap star's speech on the foundation he started. |
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| *Q* SCIENCE |
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Bob Miller's calc for the clueless. Calc I / Robert Miller. |
QA303.M68512 1998 |
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Bob Miller's painless and proven techniques to learning Calculus |
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What evolution is / Ernst Mayr. |
QH366.2.M3993 2001 |
| In what kind of a world do we live? -- What is the evidence for evolution on earth? -- The rise of the living world -- How and why does evolution take place? -- Variational evolution -- Natural selection -- Adaptedness and natural selection : anagenesis -- The units of diversity : species -- Speciation -- Macroevolution -- How did mankind evolve? -- The frontiers of evolutionary biology. |
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| *R* Medicine |
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Lippincott's guide to infectious diseases / Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
RC111.L73 2011 |
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The guide provides bedside nurses with essential information needed to deliver quality care to patients with an infection or infectious disease, using a highly visual design to facilitate quick reference. The first part reviews the fundamentals of disease transmission and prevention. The second briefly overviews more than 150 specific infections and infectious diseases, providing information about the organism, the infection, and treatment and nursing intervention.
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Understanding your bone marrow transplant [videorecording] : a videotape for patients. Immunex Corp. |
RD123.5.U52 1993 |
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Provided as an educational service by Immunex Corporation. 1 videocassette (22 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 patient’s guide. |
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Basics of dental technology : a step by step approach / Tony Johnson ... [et al.]. |
RK652.B37 2011 |
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"Basics of Dental Technology is a major new resource for undergraduate dental students and trainee dental technicians. Employing a task-based approach, the book offers step-by-step guidance to the current techniques and materials used in dental technology. As well as providing thorough instruction as to core competencies in impression handling, model production, tray construction, articulators and facebows, the book introduces the reader to the basics of more specific and/or specialist areas of practice, such as complete and partial denture prosthetics, fixed prosthodontics, orthodontic work, maxillo-facial technology, occlusion and implants. The book also provides an excellent ready reference to instruments, equipment and key terms as well as advice on establishing effective communication within the dental team and study tips"--Provided by publisher. |
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The Johns Hopkins manual of gynecology and obstetrics / Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland ; editors, K. Joseph Hurt ... [et al.]. 4th ed. |
RG110.J64 2011 |
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Written by residents in obstetrics and gynecology at The Johns Hopkins University, this popular manual covers virtually every clinical situation in obstetrics, high-risk obstetrics, gynecology, reproductive endocrinology, infertility, and gynecologic oncology. The easy-to-use outline format--modeled after The Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics--helps busy clinicians find information quickly. A list of frequently used drugs with dosages is included. This updated edition includes the latest information on hormone therapies, birth control, and drugs. New chapters cover dysmenorrhea, neurological disease in pregnancy, and psychiatric disease in pregnancy"--Provided by publisher. |
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Physicians' desk reference 2011, 65th ed. |
RS75.P578 2011 |
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"PDR" contains full FDA-approved drug label information, including warnings and precautions, drug interactions, and hundreds of full-color pill images. |
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Save the first dance for you : the complete nurse’s guide to serving your profession, your patients, and yourself / Doris Young. |
RT86.Y58 2007 |
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Using a dance instruction metaphor, the book presents a 10-step program to reconcile the tensions between a nurse's calling to help and please others sometimes at expense of their own health and happiness. This book is not on how to change the system, but individuals. Young's central premise is that nurses often put other people's needs first and their own needs last, and that can cause the nurse to wear out physically and emotionally. |
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Magill's medical guide / medical editors, Brandon P. Brown ... [et al.]. 6th ed. |
Ref. RC41.M34 v.1-6 2011 |
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Covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders. |
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| *S* AGRICULTURE |
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| *T* TECHNOLOGY |
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Modern Marvels Gadgets III [videorecording] / produced for the History Television Network. |
T173.8 .M63 2007 |
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We'll see how someone armed with the latest miniaturized, mobile gadgetry can pick all the technology that once filled and entire office into a single briefcase. The search for the ultimate gadget store takes us to Brookstone. It's gadgets represent a half a billion dollar a year business. We'll meet a gadget collector who's turned his home into a gadget museum. And we'll visit basement inventors who have developed everything from an iron you slip over your hand to smart appliances that talk back. We'll see why gadgets like the corkscrew, umbrella and zipper have stood the test of time even as they've evolved into new forms. 1 videodisc (ca. 50 min.) sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. |
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High on the Hog : a culinary journey from Africa to America / Jessica B. Harris. |
TX715.H29972 2011 |
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Acclaimed cookbook author Harris has spent much of her life researching the food and foodways of the African Diaspora. "High on the Hog" is the culmination of years of her work and is one of the first histories of African-American cuisine. |
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| *U* MILITARY SCIENCE |
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| *V* NAVAL SCIENCE |
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| *Z* BIBLIOGRAPHY AND LIBRARY SCIENCE |
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Winning library grants: a game plan / Herbert B. Landau. |
Z683.2.U6 L36 2011 |
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Here’s a practical and comprehensive manual that guides you through grant fundamentals. The author’s game plan will help you find relevant funders by analyzing eligibility criteria, write and prepare grant applications, and increase your chances for success by using additional tactics, such as pre- and post-submission marketing to "sell" your institution to a funder.--[book cover] |
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Developing an outstanding core collection: a guide for libraries / Carol Alabaster. 2nd ed. |
Z687.2.U6 A43 2010 |
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The philosophy of adult core collections -- Developing a core collection policy statement -- Selecting a core collection -- Creating and maintaining core collections -- Implementing the core collection -- Core selection resources and works cited -- Sample core lists with selection criteria and sources. |
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The whole digital library handbook / edited by Diane Kresh for the Council on Library and Information Resources. |
ZA4080.W48 2007 |
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The age of libraries with most of its material available online rather than in print, is in its infancy and calls for a guide rather than a definitive reference. Librarians and other professionals offer advice and ask provocative questions for librarians who are planning for that situation. They look at such aspects as users, the landscape, the market, tools, operations, and preservation. |
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