Eaton, Gale
Summary: What do the Trojan Horse, Piltdown Man, Keely Motor Company, and Ponzi Scheme have in common? They were all famous hoaxes, carefully designed and bolstered with false evidence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 001.9 EATMiller, Lisa.
Summary: A groundbreaking and accessible history of heaven--from the earliest biblical conceptions of the afterlife to the theologians who frame our understandings, to the convictions and perceptions of everyday people. Drawing on history and popular culture, biblical research and everyday beliefs, religion journalist Lisa Miller offers a new understanding of one of the most cherished ideals of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 202.3 MILRotheray, J.
Summary: Never conquered by foreigners, this proud and ancient land has been shaped by Buddhism, the monarchy, and the military. Today it is a manufacturing powerhouse and a tourist paradise that welcomes more than 30 million visitors a year. Yet despite the veneer of Western modernity, the country and its people remain an enigma for many visitors. "Culture Smart! Thailand" describes how the Thai people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kuperard 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.93 THAGiacomazzo, Bernadette
Summary: "An entertaining yet conscientious examination of the popular sketch show In Living Color, which broke racial, cultural, and comedy boundaries; launched the careers of stars such as Jamie Foxx and Jim Carrey; and helped shape comedy in the 21st century"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 GIAEagleton, Terry
Summary: In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton launches a surprising defence of the reality of evil, drawing on literary, theological, and psychoanalytic sources to suggest that evil, no mere medieval artefact, is a real phenomenon with palpable force in our contemporary world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 111.84 EAGCulture (Musical group)
Contents: Trod on -- Weeping eyes -- Black rose -- Blood in a Babylon -- Fussing and fighting (take two) -- No sin -- Jah alone a Christian -- Ticklish ghetto -- Children of Israel -- Still rest on my heart -- Grounation (featuring Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari). No sin ; Weeping eyes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heartbeat 2022
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE CULNardo, Don
Contents: Introduction: a destiny long shaped by geography -- Darkness to light: the Arab Spring -- Peoples, languages, and beliefs -- The home and family life -- Getting a good education -- Food, drink, and dining customs -- Popular sports and entertainment -- Experiencing North African culture in the United States -- Timeline in history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Place Cult NardoKennedy, Randall
Summary: "A gathering of essays by the acclaimed Harvard legal scholar and public intellectual, that explores all the relevant cultural and historical issues of the past quarter century having to do with race and race relations in America. With a gimlet eye, decency and humaneness (and often courting controversy), Randall Kennedy chronicles his reactions over the past quarter century to arguments,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 KENVeal, Michael E.
Contents: Electronic music in Jamaica : dub in the continuum of Jamaican music -- "Every spoil is a style" : the evolution of dub music in the 1970s -- The "backbone" of Studio One -- "Jus' like a volcano in yuh head!" -- Tracking the "living African heartbeat" -- "Java" to "Africa" -- "City too hot" : the end of the roots era and the significance of dub to the digital era of Jamaican music -- Starship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wesleyan University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.646 VEASummary: Where was golf invented? And soccer? And polo? Research has revealed that the answer to all three questions is China. In this program, these and other sports-archery, acrobatics, the martial art wushu, dragon boat racing, and 15-pole ball, a form of bowling-are each set securely within the contexts of Chinese history and culture as authentic reenactments bring these ancient games (and some of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Devine, Megan
Summary: "Having experienced grief from both sides-- as a therapist and as a woman who witnessed the accidental drowning of her beloved partner-- Devine writes with deep insight about the unspoken truths of loss, love, and healing. She debunks the culturally prescribed goal of returning to a normal, 'happy' life, replacing it with a far healthier middle path, one that invites us to build a life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: For more than a millennium Western civilization looked to the Church for answers to questions about life’s meaning. But for many, acceptance of ecclesiastical doctrine wasn’t enough. This program traces the roots of modern religious skepticism back over 400 years to examine both the unraveling and the endurance of Christian belief. It explores challenges to established theologies in the ideas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Simmons, Rachel
Summary: When boys act out, get into fights, or become physically aggressive, we can't avoid noticing their bad behavior. But it is easy to miss the subtle signs of aggression in girls--the dirty looks, the taunting notes, or the exclusion from the group-that send girls home crying. In Odd girl out, Rachel Simmons focuses on these interactions and provides language for the indirect aggression that runs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 302.5 SIMMOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.54 SIMTroy, Tevi
Summary: From Cicero to Snooki, the cultural influences on our American presidents are powerful and plentiful. Thomas Jefferson famously said ""I cannot live without books,"" and his library backed up the claim, later becoming the backbone of the new Library of Congress. Jimmy Carter watched hundreds of movies in his White House, while Ronald Reagan starred in a few in his own time. Lincoln was a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery History 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 TRODunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
Summary: "Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally-recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 DUNCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 DUNPitner, Barrett Holmes
Summary: "In this incisive blend of personal narrative and deep philosophical and linguistic inquiry, journalist, filmmaker, and activist Barrett Holmes Pitner identifies a linguistic void in how we discuss race and culture in the United States. "Ethnocide," first coined in 1944 by Jewish exile Raphael Lemkin (who also coined the term genocide), describes the systemic erasure of a people's ancestral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 PITBillington, James H.
Summary: Interpretive history of Russian thought and culture designed to provide new information and interpretation and not merely to codify an already established consesus. The period under discussion is the last six hundred years, during which time Russia has emerged as a distinctive civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 BILEaton, John.
Contents: Introduction, biography, and opening comments from the perspective of a New York cab driver -- Get happy -- Jay Leonhart's introduction and commentary on the influence of Gershwin, the Cotton Club, and jazz on Harold Arlen -- Cotton Club medley -- Commentary on Arlen's influence on jazz -- Let's fall in love -- Blues in the night -- Commentary on Arlen's incorporation of the blues in his work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolf Trap 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN EATSummary: In Zanzibar they play it at the end of weddings, in Romania at the end of funerals, in Mexico as a protest song, and in Germany as a sailor's lament. Written a century and a half ago by Sebastian Iradier and first performed in Cuba, "La Paloma"-the most frequently played song in the world-has circled the globe like a dove to touch listeners' hearts with longing. Drawing upon insightful expert...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The increasing representation of trans identity throughout art and popular culture in recent years has been nothing if not paradoxical. Trans visibility is touted as a sign of a liberal society, but it has coincided with a political moment marked both by heightened violence against trans people (especially trans women of color) and by the suppression of trans rights under civil law. 'Trap Door'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 TRAGoulart, Ron
Summary: "During the Golden age of comic books, from the middle 1930s to the late 1940s, readers could choose from hundreds of titles colorfully displayed on America's newsstands - from Action Comics to Zip Comics." "Selecting from thousands of cover illustrations of the period, comics authority Ron Goulart has assembled more than 400 of the most entertaining and provocative for this book." "You'll see...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collectors Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GOUMays, Kyle
Summary: "Mays explores the relationship and differences between the Black American quest for freedom and the Native American struggle for sovereignty in the U.S"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Kraig, Bruce.
Contents: Inside the dog: lore and history -- Democratic food and popular culture -- Hot dog people: entrepreneurs, experts, and fans -- Hot dog emporia: signs and meanings -- Doggie styles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AltaMira Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.66 KRASummary: Reaching back across the centuries, this program sheds light on historical attitudes toward human differences. It assesses the significance of Biblical narratives, including the "curse of Ham," in the evolution of European concepts of race, and goes on to examine the basis of institutionalized racism-entwined with fervent capitalism-on which the transatlantic slave trade operated. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010