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Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xi, 236 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"A funny, candid, and original coming-of-age story told through sugar addiction She doesn't drink or do drugs, but like millions of other Americans, Lisa Kotin has a substance abuse problem. A problem that she can indulge by walking into any corner store in the world or simply by walking to her pantry. Lisa Kotin is addicted to sugar. My Confection is a darkly funny and candid memoir of where sugar took this teenage mime when she left her San Francisco...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Feel great and perform at your best in the boardroom, weight room, bedroom, and beyond with this indispensable health and wellness guide: Your New Prime debunks current thinking about men's health and shows how every man can continue to operate at his peak at any age.Getting older may be inevitable, but in Your New Prime, serial entrepreneur and men's health expert Craig Cooper shows men that they don't have to accept the "natural" aging process....
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Series
Communicate with confidence volume no. 3
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Did you know that everyone passes gas? If it's so natural, why do we struggle with teaching children how to respond appropriately? Join Gus in this hilarious tale as he and his classmates learn the brief biology lesson behind why we all pass gas, and the right way and the wrong way to handle it.--Publisher.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xvi, 399 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"One intrepid reporter's quest to learn everything there is to know about hangovers, trying all of the cures he can find and explaining how (and if) they work, all so rest of us don't have to We've all been there. One minute you're fast asleep, and in the next you're tumbling from dreams of deserts and demons, into semi-consciousness, mouth full of sand, head throbbing. You're hungover. Courageous journalist Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall has gone to the...
47) Space men
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On an August morning in 1960, Air Force Captain Joseph Kittinger stepped out of a helium balloon twenty miles above Earth, hurtling down at over 400 miles per hour. The little-known story of the men whose scientific experiments laid critical groundwork for NASA's manned space program, a decade before President Kennedy committed the nation to sending a man to the moon.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xi, 143 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this book, author Sue DiCicco and Sadako's older brother Masahiro tell her complete story in English for the first time-- how Sadako's courage throughout her illness inspired family and friends, and how she became a symbol of all people, especially children, who suffer from the impact of war. Her life and her death carry a message: we must have a wholehearted desire for peace and be willing to work together to achieve it. Sadako Sasaki was two...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xi, 455 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America's most devastating environmental disasters. Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny and Barbara Quimby thought they had found a slice of the American dream when they and their families moved onto the quiet streets of Love Canal, a picturesque middle-class hamlet by Niagara Falls in...
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English
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In 1888 seventeen-year-old Evelyn Fallow, herself disfigured by the phosphorus in the match factory where she worked, has been hired as a maid to Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man-- but when the Jack the Ripper murders begin she and Merrick find themselves haunted by the ghosts of the slain women, and Evelyn is caught up in the mystery of Jack's identity.
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Language
English
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In this groundbreaking book, the result of seven years of research in every science connected with the impact of nutrition on health, award-winning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong. For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more. Yet despite this advice, we have seen
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
An eye-opening report from an award-winning author and former New York Times reporter reveals the link between teenage marijuana use and mental illness, and a hidden epidemic of violence caused by the drug--facts the media have ignored as the United States rushes to legalize cannabis. Recreational marijuana is now legal in nine states. Almost all Americans believe the drug should be legal for medical use. Advocates argue cannabis can help everyone...
53) Mozart in motion
Author
Series
Mozart effect music for children volume 3
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (approximately 42 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
An Expanded No-Fail Plan to Beating Sugar Addiction! The Complete Guide to Beating Sugar Addiction - now with an improved education section, new research, 50 recipes, and refined treatment methods!With one-third of our calories coming from sugar and white flour added to processed foods, sugar addiction is a rapidly growing epidemic. However, unlike other addictions, going cold turkey won't fix it. In an updated version of the groundbreaking book,...
60) The darkness manifesto: on light pollution, night ecology, and the ancient rhythms that sustain life
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Why We Sleep and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent and insightful look at the hidden impact of light pollution, and a passionate appeal to cherish natural darkness for the sake of the environment, our own wellbeing, and all life on earth. How much light is too much light? Satellite pictures show our planet as a brightly glowing orb, and in our era of constant illumination, light pollution has become a major issue. The world's flora...
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