Summary: Origami may seem an unlikely medium for understanding and explaining the world. But around the globe, several fine artists and theoretical scientists are abandoning more conventional career paths to forge lives as modern-day paper folders. Through origami, these offbeat and provocative minds are reshaping ideas of creativity and revealing the relationship between art and science. This film...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Green Fuse Films 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BETSummary: A tragicomedy about love, friendship, betrayal, manipulation and lies. Deals with the conflicts of Yugoslav history of the past fifty years. The story starts from an underground manufacture of weapons of Belgrade, during WWII. The black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans forgets to mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. 50 years later, they become...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UNDSummary: Neither a conventional biopic nor a traditional concert film, this documentary is a raw and intimate portrait of the legendary folk singer and activist that shifts back and forth through time as it follows Joan on her final tour and delves into her extraordinary archive, including newly discovered home movies, diaries, artwork, therapy tapes, and audio recordings. Baez is remarkably revealing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD 921 BaezContents: Jai ganesh / (Anandi Bhattacharya) (5:44) -- Tillie sage / (Kyle Carey) (4:19) -- Ouden oida = I know nothing / (Kristi Stassinopoulou with Stathis Kalyviotis) (4:31) -- Ya mo / (Dozan, featuring Shireen Abu-Khader) (3:28) -- Me so wa yen / (Sally Nyolo) (3:30) -- Benim yarim / (Olcay Bayir) (5:01) -- Annapoorne / (Jyotsna Srikanth) (5:20) -- Baǧa girdim / (She' Koyokh, featuring Çiǧdem Aslan)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT ROUSummary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARContents: Jim the Jinn / De Phazz -- Garab / Rachid Taha -- La voix du vaurien / Miro -- Les enfants perdus / Angélique Kidjo -- Mr. Kennedy / The Soft Boys -- This is the army of forgotten souls / Transglobal Underground -- Ragda / Khaled -- It's a wonderful life / Sparklehorse -- Epoca / Gotan Project -- Mentira / Manu Chao -- Fortress Europe / Asian Dub Foundation -- De cara a la pared / Lhasa -- Slow...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Play-Tone/Epic 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC TRUSummary: An epic three-part series that charts the rise and fall of the Boleyn family. This story of love, sex, betrayal and obsession is told from the unique perspective of the Boleyn family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BOLSummary: Recently divorced fireman Tommy Gavin is coping with the fear of his job and the unease he feels watching his ex-wife as she starts to date other men.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV RESSummary: Death wish 2: "Architect-turned-vigilante Paul Kersey is back, now living in Los Angeles and tracking down five street punks who murdered his daughter and housekeeper while keeping his brand of justice a secret from his newest girlfriend and co-workers"--Packaging.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE DEACotterill, Colin
Summary: A death threat to Dr. Siri and all his friends sends the ex-coroner down memory lane in the 14th installment of Cotterill's quirky, critically acclaimed series set in 1970s Laos. Vientiane, 1980: Laos is celebrating its fifth anniversary of communist rule, and Dr. Siri and his crew couldn't be less thrilled. But really, things could be a lot worse. Madame Daeng's noodle shop is thriving, Tukta...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COTSummary: Boy Erased tells the courageous story of Jared Eamons, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who must overcome the fallout of being outed to his parents. His parents struggle with reconciling their love for their son with their beliefs. Fearing a loss of family, friends, and community, Jared is pressured into attending a conversion therapy program. While there, Jared comes into...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BOYCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BOYSummary: NYFD fire fighter Tommy Gavin and company face new challenges and old demons. As the season begins, Tommy is in the fight of his life, defending himself against arson and insurance fraud. He struggles to raise his new baby while facing paternity questions and fighting to keep his family together. Franco seems ready to settle into a steady relationship, but is shaken when he loses custody of his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV RESSummary: Several convicts from a high-security prison escape the inhumane treatment of Chief Guard Ranken and break out into the icy Alaskan wilderness. The cons flee onto a departing freight train only to find themselves prisoners on a speeding train that is hurtling toward certain derailment, its conductor dead of a sudden heart attack.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Denis Leary co-created and stars in this series featuring a New York City firefighter who has more problems than one can imagine, but has a way of always being one step ahead of the game.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV RESSummary: The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Produced with the purpose of alleviating the stigma associated with dyslexia, The big picture features the testimony of individuals from various backgrounds diagnosed with dyslexia (including investment advisor Charles Schwab and billionaire Richard Branson) describing how they learned to live with and overcome their disability. Medical experts explain the neurological causes of the condition.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BIG1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 616.8 BIG
Summary: This collection features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: MP3CD FIC LEESummary: Fena, a young trans guy bustling through life in New York City, is afflicted with an incessantly challenging day that resurrects ghosts from his past. Laundromats, subway turnstiles, and airport transfers are the hectic background to this emotional drama that overlaps past, present, and future. Settling the disharmony of transitional upheaval in relationships familial, romantic, and platonic is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Every year Scranton High's 1957 champion basketball team reunite to relive the glory and reinvent the myths. At their twenty-fourth reunion the coach is rallying his boys. Friendship and betrayal, success and failure, past and present--the dreams and realities of the game of life are explored in a moving experience.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1983
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THAZobel Nolan, Allia.
Summary: Flaps, pull tabs, touch-and-feel features help show how our differences make us special.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Children's Books 2005