Research Category: Community Resources

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Read The Gainesville Sun newspaper in print or view some digital articles via our eBranch.
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Pam Brandon

Florida offers more to savor than merely seafood and citrus. Name an ingredient and you’re likely to find it here. To research Field to Feast, authors Pam Brandon, Katie Farmand, and Heather McPherson travelled thousands of miles, tasting some of the freshest ingredients along the way. They found world-famous chefs who eagerly shared their best recipes to highlight those flavors. The result is a cookbook like no other; a delicious celebration of Florida food and cooking that’ll lead you from the kitchen to the farmers’ market and home again.

The Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy but Doesn’t, What Shouldn’t M
Sonja Lyubomirsky

The award-winning psychologist author of The How of Happiness outlines research-based lessons on how to find opportunity during times of challenge, arguing that today's culturally driven goals often do not result in personal satisfaction while explaining how to make corrective mindset changes that can render people more resilient to difficult circumstances. 

How to Change the World
John-Paul Flintoff

Author, broadcaster, and journalist John-Paul Flintoff offers a powerful reminder that through the generations, society has been transformed by the actions of individuals who understood that if they didn’t like something, they could change it. 

American Story: A Lifetime Search for Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things
Bob Dotson

Dotson has been crisscrossing the country for more than forty years — logging more than four million miles — in search of people who have quietly but profoundly changed our lives and our country for the better. Now, in American Story, he presents a road map to the unsung heroes with thoughtful solutions to problems we all face, incredible ideas that work, and blueprints to living our dreams.

Good Morning, Beautiful Business
Judy Wicks

Judy Wicks set out to create a business that expressed her values, served her community, and fed her family. She ended up leading a national movement to build local economies that are inclusive and resilient, provide green job opportunities, and conduct business sustainably and responsibly. 

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Comprehensive tool that provides demographic data. Allows prospective entrepreneurs, long-time business owners & students to collect, analyze & act quickly upon data.

Full text from 3/7/1995-Current

Index of local articles from the Gainesville Sun newspaper, 1986-2007. Cited articles are available on microfilm. For articles before 1986, call Headquarters reference at (352) 334-3939 or email asref@aclib.us.

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