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Summary: How do musicians find the inspiration to create? Do most songwriters come up with lyrics first, or music? What does it mean to be a composer in today's high-tech world? This program addresses questions young people may have about embarking on a career in music or musical composition. Focusing on current styles like rock, techno, and hip-hop, the video includes interviews with a classically...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Summary: Bryan Magee-world-renowned author and professor-and Sir Isaiah Berlin, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and biographer of Karl Marx, answer fundamental questions such as "What is philosophy?" "Why does it matter?" and "Why should anybody be interested in it today?

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: This course of 15 half-hour lectures presents different procedures for locating sources of ancestors' records in America.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929 DIS
Call number: DVD 929 DIS

Summary: All new parents face sleep-related issues, some mild, some extreme. This program profiles two families suffering from sleep deprivation and in great need of help as they establish bedtime routines. The parents of 11-month-old Lewis let him sleep in their bed, where he breastfeeds throughout the night-exhausting his mom and dad and preventing intimacy between them. Nineteen-month-old Yasmine...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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Summary: "An Introduction to Number Theory is a great introduction to the field for anyone who loves numbers, is fascinated by math, and wants to go further into the relationships among these mysterious objects"--Publisher's web site.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510.1 INT

Summary: There's no more daunting or more beautiful event in a family's life than the arrival of a newborn. This program accompanies two families as they strive for order and peace of mind while adjusting to new members. Eight-week-old Umma endures severe colic as well as difficult breastfeeding issues-not to mention mom's postpartum depression. The parents of newborn Ciaran (delivered by caesarean...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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Summary: This highly informative program presents professionals in various segments of the exciting and fast-paced fashion industry discussing their roles at design, production, wholesale, and retail levels. Viewers see how merchandise is presented to wholesale buyers in New York showrooms and learn how resident buying offices assist store buyers in deciding what merchandise best suits their clientele....

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: In this program two interactive software developers describe multimedia hardware and software, and how multimedia content-text, audio, and video-is created and supported. Tin Man Games programmer Ben Britten discusses Apple's Xcode suite of tools used to make iPhone applications, and gives an overview of the software that plans, captures, edits, and displays multimedia, including codec programs...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011

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Muesse, Mark W. (Mark William)

Summary: "In 24 detailed lectures, using numerous guided exercises, Professor Muesse teaches you the principles and techniques of sitting meditation, the related practice of walking meditation, and the highly beneficial use of meditative awareness in many important activities, including eating and driving. As a major strength of the course, you learn in depth how to use the skills of meditation in...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 613 MUE VOL. 1
Call number: CD 613 MUE VOL. 2

Summary: This course is a practical guide to developing the skill of mindfulness and applying it to every aspect of daily life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 MUE

Fovell, Robert G.

Summary: Presents 24 lectures (each about 30 minutes long) by Robert G. Fovell, Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, on meteorology.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.6 MET

Summary: Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists has been the basis of art criticism since the 16th century. This dramatized program cleverly illustrates how each great master developed techniques by building upon the work of his predecessors. The lively discussion between Master Vasari and his apprentice reveals the innovations of Giotto, Ghiberti, Donatello, Uccello, Masaccio, della Francesca,...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Williams, Sophie

Summary: "As the tragic murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement has demonstrated, not being racist is not enough. To fulfill the American ideal, to ensure that all people are equal, you must be actively anti-racist. In this essential guide, Sophie Williams, goes beyond her popular Instagram @officialmillennialblack, providing sharp, simple, and insightful steps anyone can take to be a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 WIL

Lynch, Dan R.

Summary: With this book, you'll experience the excitement of finding, collecting, and identifying rocks and minerals.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Adventure Publications 2018

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Nature Lynch

Summary: This is the definitive history of AC/DC on video. DVD 1 starts with their breakthrough performance of "Baby please don't go" on Australian television, through early promo clips, their rare turn on '70s mainstay "The midnight special" and ends with the Spanish television performance taped just ten days before singer Bon Scott's death. DVD 2 traces the classic '80s and '90s videos and includes...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Epic Music Video 2005

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Capon, Brian

Summary: What happens inside a seed after it is planted? How are plants structured? How do plants reproduce? The answers to these and other questions about complex plant processes can be found in the bestselling Botany for Gardeners. This updated edition addresses scientific advances, changes in nomenclature and taxonomy, and more. Botany for Gardeners shares accessible information about how plants...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 580 CAP

Cline, Eric H.

Summary: Join the Great Courses and National Geographic for a spellbinding journey to wondrous ancient sites, and explore the greatest marvels of archaeology.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Kingsley

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 930.1 Cli
Call number: DVD 930.1 Cli

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 930.1 ARC

Summary: Will the use of alternative birthing and pregnancy therapies one day become the norm? No one can say for sure, but more and more young mothers are attracted to birthing methods that avoid medication and traditional procedures. This program focuses on a couple that are about to have their fifth child and third home birth. Their desire is to have a water birth and the mother plans to use the...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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Reinhardt, Emily

Summary: "With The Beginner's Guide to Decorating Pottery, learn to create designs and patterns on clay that have a distinctive, modern feel and are easy enough for beginners to master"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quarry 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 738.1 REI

Oriard, Kelly

Summary: Show little ones that families are connected by the love they feel in their hearts with their best friend Otter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE Board Oriard

Delgado, Richard

Summary: "Since the publication of the first edition of [this book], the United States has lived through two economic downturns, an outbreak of terrorism, and the onset of an epidemic of hate directed against immigrants, especially undocumented Latinos and Middle Eastern people. On a more hopeful note, the country elected and re-elected its first black president and has witnessed the impressive advance...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 454.2012 DEL

Summary: Children are, in many ways, born philosophers. Without prompting, they ask some of the largest questions about time, mortality, happiness and the meaning of it all. Yet too often this inborn curiosity is not developed and, with age, the questions fall away. This is a book designed to harness children's spontaneous philosophical instinct and to develop it through introductions to some of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The School of Life Press 2018

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Weinzweig, Ari.

Summary: An introduction to understanding, eating and enjoying vinegar.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zingerman's 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.622 WEI

Larsen, Paul.

Summary: An easy step-by-step illustrated guidebook and comprehensive resource directory for tracing your own family roots and stories.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: EasyFamilyHistory.com 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.1 LAR

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