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Cat Sense

Bradshaw, John
Format: electronic resource

Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on the planet, and yet cats remain more mysterious, even to their most adoring owners. In Cat Sense, renowned anthrozoologist John...
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Losing Earth: A Recent History

Nathaniel Rich - MCD
Format: Hardcover

By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change -- including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world...
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Make Your Own Sunshine: Inspiring Stories of People Who Find Light in Dark Times

Janice Dean - Harper
Format: Hardcover

These are the kinds of stories we need right now.While the news is filled with villains and villainy, we do see a few famous heroes now again. But what about the everyday heroes? The people going out of their way bring a little love into someone else's life? They deserve a time in the spotlight...
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ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States 2015

Bernan Press - Bernan Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Questions come across the reference desk on all topics: Questions come across the reference desk on all topics: How many hate crimes were there in 2012? How many college lacrosse teams are there? Do you have the GDP for the U.S. for the past 10 (or so) years? How many people use social...
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Llewellyn's Complete Book of Essential Oils: How to Blend, Diffuse, Create Remedies, and Use in Everyday Life

Sandra Kynes
Format: Paperback

Discover the Most Effective Essential Oils and Remedies for Healing, Emotional Support, Aromatherapy & Self-Care Recognized throughout history for their spiritual power, healing effects, and pleasing aromas, essential oils are must-have tools on the journey to wellness in mind, body,...
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Design Thinking

Rachel Ivy Clarke - ALA Neal-Schuman
Format: Paperback

The Library Futures Series continues with this primer on design thinking, broadly defined as an approach to problem solving which prioritizes empathy with and deeper understandings of users to define a problem; actively engages in prototyping to develop solutions; and iterates solutions...
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The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life

Dr. Alfonso Martinez Arias Ph.D. - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A leading developmental biologist argues that cells, not DNA, hold the key to understanding life's past and present What defines who we are? For decades, the answer has seemed obvious: our genes, the "blueprint of life." In The Master Builder, biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias...
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Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship

Catherine Raven - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about the friendship between a solitary woman and a wild fox. When Catherine Raven finished her PhD in biology, she built herself a tiny cottage on an isolated plot of land in Montana. She was as emotionally isolated as she was physically, but she viewed the house...
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A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars

Hakeem Oluseyi
Format: Hardcover

Born into extreme poverty and emotional deprivation, James Edward Plummer was blessed with a genius I.Q. and a love of science. But in his community, a young bookworm quickly becomes a target for violence and abuse. As he struggles to survive his childhood in some of the toughest cities...
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Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity

Brian Hare - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A powerful new theory of human nature suggests that our unique friendliness is the secret to our success as a species. For most of the approximately 300,000 years that Homo sapiens have existed, we have shared the planet with at least four other types of humans. All of these were smart,...
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