Parsons, Frances M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallaudet University Press 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.1 PARSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Berg, Francie M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Healthy Weight Network 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8526 BERG,Franck, Irene M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.W. Wilson 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 FRAAshcroft, Frances M.
Summary: Looks at the role of electricity in the human body, covering the colorful history of how scientists discovered this role, the current state of knowledge of electrophysiology, and how new discoveries are driving advances in medicine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.014 ASHSummary: Follows Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater's tumultuous election year, as well as other years in a career that encompassed numerous political and ideological triumphs. Though he never achieved the ultimate prize, the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 vindicated the conservative agenda Goldwater had long championed. Ironically, in later years, Goldwater's support of issues like abortion and gay...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MR.Waal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.88 WAASummary: "Get inspired--and prepared--for your best life at 50+. Living Your Best Life after 50 All-in-One For Dummies is your guide as you explore new opportunities and make the most of your fifties and the decades that follow. Find a new job, travel for weeks or months at a time, boost your health with yoga routines, take up pickleball--whatever it is you want to do, this book will inspire you to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FISHER, M.F.K. FISWaal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.)
Summary: 'It's the animal in us', we often hear when we've been bad, But why not when we're good? 'Primates and Philosophers' tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 171.7 WAAFisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley Pub. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.01 FISFisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)
Contents: Serve it forth.--Consider the oyster.--How to cook a wolf.--The gastronomical me.--An alphabet for gourmets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1976
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Contents: Map of another town -- A considerable town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.91 FISWaal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.)
Summary: Primatologist Frans de Waal draws on decades of observation and studies of both human and animal behavior to argue that despite the linkage between gender and biological sex, biology does not automatically support the traditional gender roles in human societies. While humans and other primates do share some behavioral differences, biology offers no justification for existing gender inequalities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 612.6 WAASummary: Five films and made-for-TV movies by director Alan Clarke, and a postumous documentary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Underground 2004
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Summary: One of the world's foremost primatologists explores what our two closest relatives in the animal kingdom--the violent, power-hungry chimpanzee and the cooperative, empathetic bonobo--can tell us about the duality of our own human nature. We have long attributed man's violent, aggressive, competitive nature to his animal ancestry. But what if we are just as given to cooperation, empathy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 156 WAAWaal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.)
Summary: Primatologist Frans de Waal examines how empathy comes naturally to a great variety of animals, including humans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 152.4 DE WWaal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.)
Summary: Mama's Last Hug opens with the dramatic farewell between Mama, a dying fifty-nine-year-old chimpanzee matriarch, and biologist Jan Van Hooff. This heartfelt final meeting of two longtime friends, widely shared as a video, offers a window into how deep and instantly recognizable these bonds can be. So begins Frans de Waal's whirlwind tour of new ideas and findings about animal emotions, based on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 599.885 WAASummary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISStevens, Payson R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.1 STEWaal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.)
Summary: A renowned primatologist argues that ethical behavior witnessed in animals is the evolutionary and biological origin of human fairness and explains that morality has more to do with natural instincts than with religion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.052 WAAWaal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.)
Contents: Whole animal : childhood talismans and excessive fear of anthropomorphism -- Fate of gurus : when silverbacks become stumbling blocks -- Bonobos and fig leaves : primate hippies in a Puritan landscape -- Animal art : would you hang a Congo on the wall? -- Predicting Mount Fuji, and a visit to Koshima, where the monkeys salt their potatoes -- Last rubicon : can other animals have culture? --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2001
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Summary: From an internationally renowned authority on primatology and psychology comes a fascinating investigation of empathy in both humans and animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2009
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Summary: "New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal explores sex and gender in both humans and other animals. Though many scholars now argue that gender differences are purely a product of socialization, primatologist Frans de Waal illustrates in Different the scientific, evolutionary basis for gender differences in humans, drawing on his decades of experience...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2022