Human Technology
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Secession In New Hampshire the Birth of Sugar Hill
Mount Chocorua a Guide and History
Strange Piece of Paradise
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. This book opens 15 years after a horrifyingly brutal assault in which Jentz and a Yale classmate, asleep at an Oregonian campground, were first run over and then attacked by a hatchet-wielding stranger. Jentz first returned to Oregon in 1992 to reclaim the self she lost at 19 and conduct […]
An Inconvenient Truth : the Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
Published to tie in to a documentary film of the same name, "An Inconvenient Truth" is Gore's battle cry about what needs to be done about global warming. 75 illustrations. (Environmental Studies)
A Perfect Union : Dolly Madison and the Creation of the American Nation
Publisher Weekly Review: In this elegant biography, award-winning historian Allgor (Parlor Politics) makes the case that not only was Dolley Madison incredibly popular with the American people?"Everybody loves Mrs. Madison" Henry Clay once said?the wife of America's fourth president was also a "master politician." Dolley was a skilled hostess, and everyone in Washington coveted an […]
Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders : What We Know and What We Don't Know : a Research Agenda For Improving the Mental Health of Our Youth
Marley & Me : Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
Library Journal Review: Grogan, a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer and former editor of Organic Gardening magazine, offers a humorous and loving tribute to Marley (after Bob Marley), his late 100-pound yellow Labrador. The story begins in south Florida when Grogan and his wife, Jenny, decide to adopt a puppy and begin their search. Marley […]
Wisdom of Our Fathers : Lessons and Letters From Daughters and Sons
From the acclaimed host of "Meet the Press" and bestselling author of "Big Russ and Me" comes a celebration of fathers, fatherhood, and the bond between child and parent. Photos & drawings throughout.
Dispatches From the Edge : a Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
Publisher Weekly Review: HarperCollins touts the handsome, prematurely gray host of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360?as the "prototype for a twenty-first century newsman." Sadly, that statement is all too true. This brief, self-involved narrative reaffirms a troubling cultural shift in news coverage: journalists used to cover the story; now, more than ever, they are the story. […]