Summary: In 1776, Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, a treatise that would forever change our understanding of how work, value, and money are interrelated. This program details Smith's life and traces the impact of his work as Europe began the arduous transition from mercantilism to the laissez-faire philosophy of the Physiocrats. After Smith, labor was seen as the source of a country's wealth,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Arrighi, Giovanni.
Contents: Pt. 1. Adam Smith and the new Asian age -- Marx in Detroit, Smith in Beijing -- The historical sociology of Adam Smith -- Marx, Schumpeter, and the "endless" accumulation of capital and power -- Pt. 2. Tracking global turbulence -- The economics of global turbulence -- Social dynamics of global turbulence -- A crisis of hegemony -- Pt. 3. Hegemony unraveling -- Domination without Hegemony --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.06 ARRRasmussen, Dennis C. (Dennis Carl)
Summary: "David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith was a revered professor of moral philosophy, and is now often hailed as the founding father of capitalism. Remarkably, the two were best friends for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 192 RASSummary: Part 4 covers the period during the 17th and 18th centuries that saw widespread questioning of religious and other traditional authorities, growing faith in science, and early responses to the budding industrial revolution. This period marks the intellectual flowering that led to the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRESmith, Adam
Summary: Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 330.153 SMISmith, Adam
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.153 SMISmith, Adam
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1970
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Celebrate Pride with your favorite anthems from pop icons Sam Smith FLETCHER, Hayley Kiyoko, Lil Nas X, Elton John, Kim Petras, Adam Lambert, and many more!
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWScott, Seann William
Summary: Doug Glatt wants a more rewarding job and his father's respect, so he jumps at the chance when an on-ice brawl leads to a position on a hockey team, even though he cannot skate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnet 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GOOSmith, Matt
Summary: The Doctor and his companion Amy Pond travel around the universe and through time to battle evil aliens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2 Entertain 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Do 5O'Rourke, P. J.
Summary: P.J. O'Rourke reads and interprets Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 330.153 OROVargas Llosa, Mario
Summary: "From its origins, the liberal doctrine has represented the most advanced forms of democratic culture, and it is what has most defended us from the inextinguishable "call of the tribe." This book hopes to make a modest contribution to that indispensable task. In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.51 VARO'Rourke, P. J.
Summary: An upbeat dissemination of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" and "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" condenses and illuminates the key points of the original works while discussing how their messages remain relevant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.153 OROSummary: In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROMDavis, Adam
Summary: Captain America works with S.H.I.E.L.D. until his past, long since buried, comes back to haunt him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DAVGidwitz, Adam
Summary: After encountering a Jersey Devil while on a field trip to the Pine Barrens, Elliot and his new friend Uchenna help their weird teacher Professor Fauna rescue the mythological creature from a pair of greedy billionaire brothers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Zitelmann, Rainer
Summary: "In this book, Rainer Zitelmann identifies the reasons behind the sensational growth of Vietnam and Poland's economies, drawing out lessons for other countries from these two success stories. He returns to Adam Smith's 1776 treatise, The Wealth of Nations, to explain their success: the only way to overcome poverty is through economic growth, Smith wrote, and economic freedom is the crucial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encounter Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Effortless power vs. powerless effort -- Avoiding the slide -- Spraying your tee-shots -- Curing the shanks -- Correcting hard pulls or pushes -- When your tempo goes south -- Remedying thin chip shots -- Eliminating miss hits -- Getting up and down successfully -- Fixing slices and hooks -- Solutions to thin irons from the fairway -- Fairway and greenside bunker techniques -- Good putting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PGA
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.352 PGASummary: When Arthur Clennam returns to London after several years abroad, he wants to learn more about his mother's new seamstress, young Amy Dorrit. His search brings him to the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where he learns the truth about struggle and hardship in 1820s England.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LITContents: Gaining distance off the tee -- Par 3 efficiency -- Creating muscle memory -- Trouble shots -- Perfeting your pitching -- Feet outside the bunker shot -- Distance control on long putts -- Making more putts -- Practice game: putts with break -- Off season training
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Publisher / Publication Date: PGA of America
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.352 PGASummary: "In this award-winning new documentary, director Jen Senko seeks to discover why her WWII veteran father’s personality radically transformed from that of a non-political Kennedy Democrat to an angry right-wing fanatic after his discovery of Talk Radio and Fox News. In trying to understand how this happened, Senko not only finds this to be a phenomenon, but also comes to a startling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016