Posner, Richard A.
Summary: From the Publisher: The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 is the most alarming of our lifetime because of the warp-speed at which it is occurring. How could it have happened, especially after all that we've learned from the Great Depression? Why wasn't it anticipated so that remedial steps could be taken to avoid or mitigate it? What can be done to reverse a slide into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In Japan, where even kindergarten has an entrance exam, education begins in the womb. In this program, social psychologist Dr. Masao Miyamoto, author of Straitjacket Society; Dr. Makoto Shichida, founder of Shichida Children's Academy; the president of Keio University; and others address the true price of making the grade in a society in which only the most intelligent can thrive-or in some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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King Missile III
Contents: Failure -- The boy made out of bone china -- A good hard look -- Up my ass -- The little sandwich that got a guilt complex because he was the sole survivor of a horrible bus crash -- Despair -- Monks -- Gay/not gay -- Happiness -- Mr. Pomerantz -- Juniper dog -- Tour diary: Louisville -- The adventures of Planky -- I dare to hope.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Knitting Factory Records/Shimmy Disc 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KingSummary: Many people who have suffered from cardiac arrest live in constant fear of complete heart failure. This program makes clear that, for the average heart attack survivor, nothing could be further from the truth. Viewers will learn about current procedures and treatments, including exercise, state-of-the-art medications, and heart transplants, that have helped heart attack patients live healthy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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McDonald, Lawrence G.
Summary: What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers--right from the belly of the beast--arguing that this collapse need not have happened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.62 MCDKeegan, Kyle
Contents: The history behind Chasing the high -- What to expect from this book -- Crash and rescue -- Above the city, steeped in misery -- Back from the edge -- Substance abuse and addiction defined -- Addiction is a disease -- A hellish journey -- The early days of using -- My not-so-shady past -- A forbidden sip -- One puff leads to another -- My uncertain future -- Heroin -- A rite of passage versus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.86092 KEEFriedman, Edwin H.
Summary: Friedman's insights about our regressed, "seatbelt society," oriented toward safety rather than adventure, help explain the sabotage that leaders constantly face today. Suspicious of the "quick fixes" and instant solutions that sweep through our culture only to give way to the next fad, he argues for strength and self-differentiation as the marks of true leadership. His formula for success is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seabury Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.4 FRIPetroski, Henry.
Summary: Argues that failures in structural engineering are not necessarily due to the physical design of the structures, but instead a misunderstanding of how cultural and socioeconomic constraints would affect the structures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 620 PETLahey, Jessica
Summary: Counsels parents of school-aged children on how to overcome tendencies toward overprotectiveness to allow children to develop independence. --Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 LAHCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents LaheyLukianoff, Greg
Summary: "Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising--on campus as well as nationally. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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Summary: "Today, a minimum-wage earner can afford a one-bedroom apartment in only 28 out of 3,140 counties in America. The single worst place in the United States to look for affordable housing is Osceola County, Florida. Once the main approach to Disney World, where vacationers found lodging on their way to the Magic Kingdom, the fifteen-mile Route 192 corridor in Osceola has become a site of shocking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.5 ROSGates, Robert Michael
Summary: "Since the end of the Cold War, the global perception of the United States has progressively morphed from dominant international leader to disorganized entity, seemingly unwilling to accept the mantle of leadership or unable to govern itself effectively. Robert Gates argues that this transformation is the result of the failure of political leaders to understand the complexity of American power,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.929 GATSummary: When oil conglomerate Shell stunned investors by announcing a 20 percent reduction in its proven reserves, pensions and portfolios suffered around the world. This program reveals a pattern of exaggeration and cover-up at the company's top level-specifically involving the former chairman and head of production. An unflinching analysis of a failure in business ethics, Shell Shock raises complex...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Harris, Thomas A
Summary: A self-help book that uses the principles of Transactional Analysis to guide a person toward an understanding of his behavior and to help him in attaining more rational behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 HARIcard, Michelle
Summary: "Every child messes up, sometimes in ways that seem sure to wreck their futures: a bad report card, poor sportsmanship, underaged drinking. These are tough moments for parent and child alike, often complicated by the fear that the misstep is also an indictment of our parenting. But what each of these "fails" has in common for our kids is the precious silver lining of a chance for character...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.4 ICA1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 155.4 ICA
Summary: As headlines trumpet cases of children becoming “lost”—and in some cases, dying—while in the care of the state or when the state does not act promptly to take custody, child welfare policies have come under intense questioning. But the answers are not simple. This award-winning Fred Friendly Seminar is presented in collaboration with the Institute for Child and Family Policy at Columbia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Laditan, Bunmi
Summary: There are good moms and bad moms, and then there are hot-mess moms. Introducing Ashley Keller, career girl turned stay-at-home mom who's trying to navigate the world of Pinterest-perfect, Facebook-fantastic, and Instagram-impressive mommies but failing miserably. When Ashley gets the opportunity to participate in the 'Motherhood Better' bootcamp run by the mommy-blog-empire maven she idolizes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Laditan 2017Summary: The Taking of Logan Marr tells the tragic story of a young girl who was killed while in state custody. On January 31, 2001, 5-year-old Logan Marr was found dead in her foster mother's home in Chelsea, Maine. The foster mother, Sally Schofield, was a highly-respected former caseworker for Maine's Department of Human Services (DHS) who would later be convicted of manslaughter. As suspected, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: Thanks to medical advances, renal failure has evolved from a fatal disease into a manageable condition. This program illustrates causes, physiological changes, and treatments associated with renal failure, focusing on medical strategies and lifestyle modifications that help patients cope with the ailment. Using detailed animated diagrams, the video explains both acute and chronic renal failure....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Umrigar, Thrity N.
Summary: "Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bombay to adopt a baby--and to see his elderly mother for the first time in several years. Discovering that she is in the hospital, has stopped talking, and seems to have given up on life, he is struck with guilt for not realizing just how sick she has become. His...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UMRMoss, David A.
Summary: Historian David Moss adapts the case study method made famous by Harvard Business School to revitalize our conversations about governance and democracy and show how the United States has often thrived on political conflict. These 19 cases ask us to weigh choices and consequences, wrestle with momentous decisions, and come to our own conclusions.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.4 MOSRosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: With the stakes high and few viable options left, the president of the United States orders CIA operative David Shirazi and his team to track down and sabotage Iran's nuclear warheads before Iran or Israel can launch a devastating first strike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSSystem of a Down (Musical group)
Contents: Suite-pee -- Know -- Sugar -- Suggestions -- Spiders -- Ddevil -- Soil -- War? -- Mind -- Peephole -- Cubert -- Darts -- P.L.U.C.K.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: American Recordings 1998