Summary: Women in the British work force; some mildly sexist voiceover comments
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1959
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Repa, Barbara Kate.
Summary: Features information on firing, wages, health insurance, medical leave, retirement plans, disability and worker's compensation insurance, discrimination, and privacy rights with up-to-date state and federal law information.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Women in the workplace during WWI, Britain.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1914
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Summary: As anyone who runs a business or administers employee health plans knows, serious hazards in the workplace mean serious barriers to productivity. Focusing on the health care industry, this program shows the best ways for workers to avoid muscle pulls, bone fractures, and other injuries. It features demonstrations of a wide variety of safety measures designed to eliminate job-related accidents...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: A positive attitude is essential on the job. When Florence receives a negative performance review, she is forced to confront her weaknesses. Using humorous vignettes in the present and in her childhood, Flo demonstrates why she's in trouble. With a little help from an unseen narrator, Flo recognizes that attitude, responsibility, and communication are the key to her success on the job and takes...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: One of the most visible issues facing Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is the role of women serving religion. Because of religious and cultural conditioning in the past, women in all three religions have experienced limited roles. Today, though, their voices are being heard. This program traces women's roles in religious tradition and what it means to be a woman in these three religions today....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program provides a comprehensive overview of the most common Information and Communication Technology applications found in the business environment, and demonstrates how employees on all job levels can make the best use of them. Some of the topics covered include naming, storing, backing up, and sharing electronic files; avoiding plagiarism and finding reliable sources when...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Maltby, Lewis.
Contents: You have the right to remain silent : freedom of speech in the workplace -- Smile, you're on candid camera : privacy in the workplace -- Whose life is it anyway? : employer control of personal lives -- Wrongful discharge and employment at will -- No second chances : background checks -- A penny for your thoughts : psychological testing by employers -- Drug testing -- Brave new workplace :...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344.7301 MALSummary: In animism, good and bad spirits exercise an influence on humans. The shaman communes with the spirits in order to heal his tribal constituency. These and other less traditional beliefs, practices, and rituals are the topics of this program. Millenarianism is discussed as a nostalgic belief in a 1,000-year reign of the saints either before, or immediately after, the return of Christ. Astrology...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: A Senior Fellow at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Joanne Ciulla teaches career-minded students to think critically about the role of ethics in management. She brings a background in philosophy to her classroom, where future CEOs study ethics and management in business. In this program with Bill Moyers, Ciulla discusses the role of ethics in the world of business and the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Ward, Keith
Contents: The causes of violence -- The corruptibility of all things human -- Religion and war -- Faith and reason -- Life after death -- Morality and the Bible -- Morality and faith -- The enlightenment, liberal thought and religion -- Does religion do more harm than good in personal life? -- What good has religion done?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William B. Eerdmans Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200 WARBellah, Robert Neelly
Summary: Examines the history of religion from early ancestors by using biology, cognitive science, and evolutionary psychology, and follows the expansion of religion.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200.89 BELBarreiro, Sachi
Summary: "Get paid fairly and on time; protect yourself from harassment and discrimination; fight a wrongful termination; includes workplace laws for all 50 states"--Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344 BARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344 BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 344 BARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Business BarreiroAuger-Domainguez, Daisy
Summary: "We are in the midst of a global reckoning on racism, and corporations are on high alert. Public statements of anti-racism are no longer enough. But managers, especially those sandwiched between the C-Suite and their entry-level colleagues, feel that theydon't have the power and influence to affect the level of change we need to see in the world. In Inclusion Revolution, award-winning diversity...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.3 AUGLacorne, Denis.
Contents: America, the land of religious Utopias -- The rehabilitation of the Puritans -- Evangelical awakenings -- The Bible wars -- Religion, race, and national identity -- A Godless America -- The rise of the Christian right -- The wall of separation between church and state -- Epilogue: Obama's faith-friendly secularism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.7 LACBakst, Dina
Summary: Provides practical tips for navigating the workplace while pregnant or being a new parent, covering such topics as morning sickness, maternity leave, and discrimination.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 BAKHyde, Margaret O. (Margaret Oldroyd)
Summary: Discusses the different religions of the world, including their histories, their common practices, and each religion's thoughts on what happens to an individual's spirit after they die.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 291 HYDSummary: This program is devoted to the ways in which the demands of a diverse work force can best be met: how schools can help prepare students, how businesses can help build bridges, how all Americans can-and must-learn to value, respect, and benefit from diversity in society and in the workplace.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: The history of the three religions of the Book is a convoluted story of deep-seated hostilities relieved by all-too-brief periods of coexistence and cooperation. Filmed from a Christian perspective, this program looks at the sectarian and interdenominational clashes that have bloodied the centuries while pointing out efforts to achieve a lasting, mutually supportive peace. As the world enters...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: From ritual ablutions to ceremonial cremation, the religious life of a Hindu is intimately associated with the spiritual properties of water and fire. This program steps off the beaten path for a journey with two sadhus as they visit holy locales, witness religious rites, and, in general, immerse themselves in Hindu culture as it is exists in the religion's motherland, India. The Festival of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Deloria, Vine
Summary: "A 50th anniversary revised edition of the beloved classic, God is Red. First published in 1972, Vine Deloria Jr.'s God Is Red 50th Anniversary Edition remains the seminal work on Native religious views, asking new questions about our species and our ultimate fate. Celebrating five decades in publication with a special 50th-anniversary edition, this classic work reminds us to learn "that we are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Publishing 2023
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Summary: First published in 1972, Vine Deloria Jr.'s God Is Red remains the seminal work on Native religious views, asking new questions about our species and our ultimate fate. Celebrating three decades in publication with a special 30th-anniversary edition, this classic work reminds us to learn "that we are a part of nature, not a transcendent species with no responsibilities to the natural world." It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Pub. 2003
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Summary: "In these tumultuous times, as workplaces across the nation struggle to become truly inclusive, women of color need frank talk and honest advice on how to deal with microaggressions, how to heal from racialized trauma, how to find relief from invisible workplace burdens. The stakes are high, as even Lauryn Hill had put it: "How you gonna win when you ain't right within?" In Right Within, Harts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2021