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Central - Adult Nonfiction
973.02 PETRI
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973.02 PETRI
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Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction
973.02 PETRI
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973.02 PETRI
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Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction
973.02 PETRI
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973.02 PETRI
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"As a columnist for the Washington Post, Alexandra Petri has watched in real time as those who didn't learn from history have been forced to repeat it. And repeat it. And repeat it. If we repeat history one more time, we're going to fail! Maybe it's time for a new textbook. Alexandra Petri's US History contains a lost (invented!) history of America. (A history for people disappointed that the only president whose weird sex letters we have is Warren...
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Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction
031 BRYSO
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031 BRYSO
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Westover - Adult Nonfiction
031 BRYSO
1 available
031 BRYSO
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Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks
CD 031 BRYSO
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CD 031 BRYSO
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8 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Nature and science writer Bill Bryson examines some of mysteries of science, and attempts to understand not only what scientists know, but how they know it. Covers the creation of the universe, the size of the Earth, the origins of life, and other topics.
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
306.0973 KLOST
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306.0973 KLOST
2 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction
306.0973 KLOST
1 available
306.0973 KLOST
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction
306.0973 KLOST
1 available
306.0973 KLOST
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Essays about 1990s popular culture, politics, sports, literature, music"-- Provided by publisher.
At the beginning, everyone's name and address was listed in the phone book, and everyone answered their landline because you didn't know who it was. By the end, exposing someone's address was an act of emotional violence, and nobody picked up their cell phone if they didn't know who was calling. Klosterman shows that in the 1990s there was a wholesale...
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16 copies, 58 people are on the wait list.
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16 copies, 58 people are on the wait list.
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In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. As he writes, "Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism and communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn...
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
973 MYTHA
4 available
973 MYTHA
4 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction
973 MYTHA
1 available
973 MYTHA
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Courthouse - Adult Nonfiction
973 MYTHA
1 available
973 MYTHA
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"The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Inaccurate interpretations and outright misrepresentations of the past--cultivated within and promoted by the conservative movement and right-wing media over the last several decades-hold sway among large numbers of Americans, damaging our public discourse. In Myth America, historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer have assembled an all-star team of historians to provide textured analysis...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction
814 GREEN
1 available
814 GREEN
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Westover - Adult Nonfiction
814 GREEN
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814 GREEN
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"The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this [...] symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his [...] podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet -- from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu -- on a five-star scale." -- Provided by publisher.