Townsend, Camilla
Summary: "How did the jaguar get his spots? What happened to the four suns that came before our own? Where was Aztlan, mythical homeland of the Aztecs? For decades, the popular image of the Mexica people - better known today as the Aztecs - has been defined by the Spaniards who conquered them. Their salacious stories of pet snakes, human sacrifice and towering skull racks have masked a complex world of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.7 TOWMarcus, Camilla
Summary: "Over 100 delicious, healthy recipes using regeneratively grown ingredients and sustainable techniques from the chef and founder of west-bourne When we honor the Earth, we nurture our own health-the true meaning of regeneration. By finding harmony between our soil and soul, we can make small yet impactful shifts in our cooking and lifestyle to support a healthier planet and the next generation....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2024
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Summary: "Five hundred years ago, in November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always from the point of view of the Europeans. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native Americans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972 TOWCarlisle, Nancy Camilla.
Summary: It is amazing what this one room--at times a harried workspace and at others the sentimental heart of the home--has meant to people over the course of more than four centuries. America's Kitchens tells the story of this important room and features New England hearths, detached kitchens on southern plantations, Spanish colonial kitchens of the Southwest, elaborate nineteenth-century kitchens in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Historic New England 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 674 CARSaulsbury, Camilla V
Summary: Despite the mounting evidence supporting the health benefits of coconut and the ever-increasing number of coconut products in supermarkets, comprehensive guidance on how to use such products lags behind. 'The Complete Coconut Cookbook' offers home cooks the delicious, convenient coconut using its entire range of special ingredients.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 SAUPaglia, Camille
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.03 PAGLaVilla, Joe
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2010
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Summary: "The leading theoretical physicist and YouTube star Tony Padilla uses nine of the most extraordinary numbers in physics to build a picture of our current best understanding of how the universe works"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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Summary: "Readers will learn all about the life and habits of weird, but cute barn owls"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598.9 CAMFailla, Maria
Summary: "Planty practices to grow your way to happier, more peaceful life Discover the power of plants to help you disconnect from the stress and anxiety of modern life and grow more joy in your world. Filled with practices to help plant lovers step away from their screens and cultivate delight and peace of mind with plants, Growing Joy is your guide to transforming plant care into self-care. In easy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Essentials 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.8 FAIAndros, Camille
Summary: The author presents a picture book biography of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, co-founder and director of the first private orphanage in New York City and wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton.--adapted from publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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Summary: "Dressing the Resistance' explores how everyday people have harnessed the visual power of clothing, accessories and costume to spur social and cultural change. Throughout history, societies have used clothing to show acceptance and exclusion, convention and subversion, group belonging and rejection. In the same way, fashion, clothing, textiles and costume have served their own critical role in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Archetectural Press 2022
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Summary: America's premier intellectual provocateur explores and celebrates a series of great poems of the Western tradition, including some surprising discoveries of her own. She brings new energy and insight to our understanding of poems we already know, such as masterpieces by Shakespeare, Donne, Shelley, Dickinson, Lowell, and Plath. She leads us to appreciate the artistry of writers with whom we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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Summary: "A portrait of the fascinating, unusual and fruitful creative partnership between Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.71 HAMHamill, Pete
Summary: On temporary leave from his service in Korea for the holiday season, young sailor Pete is devastated by his girlfriend's unfaithfulness and evaluates his relationship with his distant father, a gruff Irish factory worker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2004
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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: FIC HAMSouffrant, Jamila
Summary: "Journey to Launch podcaster Souffrant debuts with a sound program for achieving financial independence, which she defines as being able to live on the "money you've accumulated in your investment accounts... indefinitely." Her five-step program involves figuring out "what your bills and liabilities are in comparison to what you're earning," paying off most debts, establishing an emergency...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 SOUCahill, Thomas.
Summary: Discusses the Renaissance and Reformation from the late fourteenth through the early seventeenth centuries, explaining how the period's artistic and scientific innovations changed the Western world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Pub. Group 1998