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Rat city : overcrowding and urban derangement in the rodent universes of John B. Calhoun / by Adams, Jon,author.; Ramsden, Edmund,author.;
"How a landmark experiment in rat behavior changed the way we think about cities. In the decades following WWII, the American metropolis was in peril. Modern high rises hastily erected to replace slums became incubators of criminality, while civic unrest erupted across the nation. Enter John B. Calhoun, an ecologist employed by the National Institute of Mental Health to study the effects of overcrowding. Calhoun decided to focus his study on rats. From 1947 to 1977, Calhoun built a series of sprawling habitats in which a rat's every need was met -- except space. As the enclosures became ever more crowded, resident rats began to react to social stress, culminating in the terrifying world of Universe 25: a rodent habitat where escalating social disorder collapsed to violent extinction. Did a similar fate await our own teeming cities? Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden's Rat City is the first book to tell the story of maverick scientist Calhoun and his now-viral experiments. Following the rats from the baiting pits of Victorian London to the laboratories of NIMH, and Calhoun from rural Tennessee to inner-city Baltimore, Rat City is an enthralling mix of dystopian science and urban history. Social design, housing infrastructure, a burgeoning current of racism in city planning: Calhoun influenced them all, and Rat City connects Calhoun's work to the politics of personal space, the looming threat of global overpopulation, and the eclipsing of environmental psychology by pharmaceutical psychiatry. As the "war on rats" continues to be waged around the world, and our post-pandemic society reevaluates the necessity of urban living, the riveting story of Rat City is more relevant than ever"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Calhoun, John B.; Ethologists; Human beings; Human ecology.; Overpopulation.; Rats; Rats; Urban ecology (Sociology);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The mighty dead : why Homer matters / by Nicolson, Adam,1957-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Homer; Homer.; Nicolson, Adam, 1957-;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Black Adam strikes! / by Berrios, Frank.; Legramandi, Francesco.;
"Lightning strikes as the Justice League faces a new villain. It's Black Adam!"--Page [4] of cover.Grades: 1-3.LSC
Subjects: Science fiction.; Batman (Fictitious character); Superman (Fictitious character); Wonder Woman (Fictitious character); Superheroes; Supervillains;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The gulf [graphic novel] / by Souza, Adam de,illustrator,author.;
Staring down the final days of high school, a group of friends run away from home in order to join a commune.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Road trip comics.; Runaway teenagers; Runaways; Teenagers; Friendship; Communal living;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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R is for robot : a noisy alphabet / by Watkins, Adam F.;
LSC
Subjects: Robots; Noise; Alphabet books.;
© c2014., Price Stern Sloan,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Rudy and Claude splash into art / by McHeffey, Adam James.;
LSC
Subjects: Mice; Birds; Art;
© c2014., Two Lions,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The book of time : the secrets of time, how it works and how we measure it / by Hart-Davis, Adam.;
LSC
Subjects: Time.;
© 2011., Firefly Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Win bigly : persuasion in a world where facts don't matter / by Adams, Scott,1957-author.;
Subjects: Trump, Donald, 1946-; Persuasion (Psychology); Blogs; Deception; Truthfulness and falsehood; Social psychology;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Reading List A Novel [electronic resource] : by Adams, Sara Nisha.aut; cloudLibrary;
A BEST OF SUMMER READ ACCORDING TO NEWSWEEK, PARADE MAGAZINE, NBC NEWS, LITHUB, AND POPSUGAR! "The most heartfelt read of the summer...a surprising delight of a novel."--Shondaland An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London suburb. Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in Wembley, in West London after losing his beloved wife. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries. Aleisha is a bright but anxious teenager working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s a list of novels that she’s never heard of before. Intrigued, and a little bored with her slow job at the checkout desk, she impulsively decides to read every book on the list, one after the other. As each story gives up its magic, the books transport Aleisha from the painful realities she’s facing at home. When Mukesh arrives at the library, desperate to forge a connection with his bookworm granddaughter, Aleisha passes along the reading list…hoping that it will be a lifeline for him too. Slowly, the shared books create a connection between two lonely souls, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find joy again. 
Subjects: Electronic books.; Asian American;
© 2021., HarperCollins,
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Whitewater cooks more beautiful food / by Adams, Shelley,1958-author.; Gluns, David, R.,photographer.;
Subjects: Cookbooks.; Cooking; Cooking, Canadian;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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