Summary: Examined Life takes philosophy into the hustle and bustle of the everyday. The "rock star" philosophers of our time take "walks" through places that hold special resonance for them and their ideas. These places include crowded city streets, deserted alleyways, Central Park, and a garbage dump.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Zeitgeist Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EXAGonell, Aquilino
Summary: Aquilino Gonell came to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a young boy. He joined the army to pay for college, saw action in Iraq, and returned home with PTSD. Believing in the promise of our government, he focused on healing himself and supporting his family. His hard work paid off when he landed a coveted position with the United States Capitol Police and rose to the rank of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD 921 GONELL, AQUILINO GONGonell, Aquilino
Summary: "Aquilino Gonell came to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a young boy. Although he spoke no English, he dedicated himself to his adopted land, striving for the American dream. Determined to be a success story, he joined the army to pay for college. He saw action in Iraq and returned home with PTSD. Believing in the promise of our government, he focused on healing himself and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GONELL, AQUILINO GONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B GONELL GONRozell, Ned
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duquesne University Press 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8527 PODBassegoda Nonell, Juan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abbeville Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720.9 BASBonelli, Charlotte
Summary: "This remarkable collection of letters between German Jews trapped in Nazi Germany and their relatives in the United States offers rare insights into the challenges of an average American family responding to desperate requests for refuge and aid"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BONBrownell, Tom
Contents: Why restore a collector car? -- Restoration: what does it mean? -- How to select a collector car -- Research : uncovering a car's "life story" -- Setting up shop and working safely -- Disassembly : taking the car apart -- Restoring the car's brightmetal trim -- Cleaning, stripping, and derusting -- Abrasive blasting -- Metal repair -- Smoothing dents and repairing metal -- Applying the primer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Motorbooks 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 BrownellOneill, Therese
Summary: "A scandalously honest guide to the secrets of Victorian womanhood. "If Unmentionable does not secure the Pulitzer Prize for Most Fascinating Book Ever, the whole gig is rigged. Therese Oneill opens the doors to everything we secretly wanted to know about the Victorian era, but didn't think to ask. Knickers with no crotches? Check. Arsenic as a facial scrub? Check. The infrequency of bathing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 ONERebell, Bobbi.
Summary: Bobbi Rebell, award-winning TV anchor and personal finance columnist at Thomson Reuters, taps into her exclusive network of business leaders to share with you stories of the financial lessons they learned early in their lives that helped them become successful. She then uses these stories as jumping off points to offer specific, actionable advice on how you can become a financial grownup just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maven House Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332 REBTonelli, Donna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer Pub. 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 799.075 TONDykstra, Danell
Summary: How many day-to-day important devices are engineering design products? How does a smartphone send wireless communication? How do batteries release energy? These and other questions are explained using straightforward language that weaves in science terminology and is accompanied by intriguing photographs. Easy experiments demystify engineering concepts with step-by-step instructions to make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT STEM Real DykstraGosnell, Mariana.
Summary: More brittle than glass, at times stronger than steel, at other times flowing like molasses, ice covers 10 percent of the earth's land and 7 percent of its oceans. Its ebbs and flows over time have helped form the world we live in. Gosnell examines ice in plants, icebergs, icicles, and hail; sea ice and permafrost; ice on Mars and in the rings of Saturn; and several new forms of ice developed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.31 GOSKomar, Vitaly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 599.676 KOMSowell, Thomas
Summary: Describes how the granting of subprime mortgages and the packaging of these loans into investment vehicles sold around the world played a significant role in the current worldwide financial crisis, and analyzes new policies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.72 SOWTonelli, Guido
Summary: "A breakout bestseller in Italy, now available for American readers for the first time, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began is a short, humanistic tour of the origins of the universe, earth, and life-drawing on the latest discoveries in physics toexplain the seven most significant moments in the creation of the cosmos"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 TONBrodell, Ria
Summary: Katherina Hetzeldorfer, tried "for a crime that didn't have a name" (same sex sexual relations) and sentenced to death by drowning in 1477; Charles aka Mary Hamilton, publicly whipped for impersonating a man in eighteenth-century England; Clara, aka "Big Ben," over whom two jealous women fought in 1926 New York: these are just three of the lives that the artist Ria Brodell has reclaimed for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.13 BROBrownell, Tom
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Publisher / Publication Date: Motorbooks International 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 Chevrolet PickupsCosell, Howard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playboy Press 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 COSRodwell, Jenny.
Summary: Originally published: The artist's guide to mixing colours. Newton Abbot, Devon : David & Charles, 1996.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.422 RODRozelle, Ron
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 616.831 ROZELCromell, Cathy.
Summary: Back-to-basics gardening that will benefit the earth and your wallet! Want to use ordinary waste to create an extraordinary garden? Composting lets you turn household food waste, yard clippings, and more into free compost and mulch that's chock-full of nutrients. From building and working with traditional compost bins to starting an indoor worm-composting operation, Composting For Dummies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2010
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Summary: Did you know that the biggest animal on Earth, the blue whale, only eats some of the smallest creatures in the ocean? That humpback whales sing underwater songs with lots of verses? Or that orcas can live with their families for their whole lives and bowhead whales can live for more than 200 years? The World of Whales explores the special characteristics and reveals mind-blowing facts about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Gestalten 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.5 DOBGhosh, Amitav
Summary: "The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis frames climate change and the Anthropocene as the culmination of a history that begins with the discovery of the New World and of the sea route to the Indian Ocean. Ghosh makes the case that the political dynamics of climate change today are rooted in the centuries-old geopolitical order that was constructed by Western colonialism. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2021