Mills, C.S.
Summary: Here is a work of mythopoeic crosscurrents subsumed in language: ecological soundings, alchemical inquiries, celestial correspondences, and interspecies cantillation. Informed by the author's fieldwork with endangered shorebirds, by the Great Lakes and the greater seasons, three poetic movements coinhere to form an undulating vision of perception as grace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Lune 0000
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1 available in Local Author, Call number: 811 MILAxtell, Roger E.
Summary: "As featured in the New York Times and Reader's Digest "An eye-opener into the pitfalls awaiting the unaware traveler." -Washington Post "Can save the innocent abroad from great gobs of serious trouble." -Chicago Tribune Before you raise your hand to signal the waiter, extend your thumb to hitchhike, or flash the "O.K." sign with thumb and forefinger, Stop! Think of where you are and exactly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.69 AXTGoldin-Meadow, Susan
Summary: "Imagine a friend who earnestly tells you that he thinks men and women are equally good leaders. But when he talks about men's leadership skills, he places his palm at eye-level, and when he talks about women's leadership skills, he places his palm a bit lower, at mouth-level. His hands have given him away: even if he truly thinks that his views are egalitarian, he holds an implicit belief that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.6 GOLMarsalis, Wynton
Contents: Psalm 26 -- Uptown river -- The truth is spoken here -- The burglar -- Prayer -- Harmonique -- Down home with homey -- Psalm 26.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MARSAOstinato
Contents: Goal of all believers -- Monkey gestures -- Antiaircraft -- The art of vanishing -- Latitude -- Between the years -- Volant
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Exhile on Mainstream Records 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ALELee, Chang-rae.
Summary: The secret life of a Japanese-American pharmacist in a small town in New York. On the surface a model of propriety and serenity, he is torn by memories of his service in the Japanese army in World War II and the comfort woman he loved and could not save. By the author of Native Speaker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEEMcCulloch, Gretchen
Summary: "A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 302.23 MCCCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word McCullochLambert, David
Contents: Discovering body language -- Expressions and gestures -- Keeping your distance -- Getting together -- Meeting and parting -- Being positive -- Being negative -- Signs of conflict -- Domination and defensiveness -- Tension and relaxation -- Sincerity and deceit -- Animal gestures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2 LAMLambert, David
Contents: Discovering body language -- Expressions and gestures -- Keeping your distance -- Getting together -- Meeting and parting -- Being positive -- Being negative -- Signs of conflict -- Domination and defensiveness -- Tension and relaxation -- Sincerity and deceit -- Animal gestures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social LambertPease, Allan.
Summary: A guide to human body language explains how to decipher nonverbal communication, how to read other people's thoughts and emotions through their gestures, and how to insure that one's own gestures are sending the right message.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.6 PEASummary: Like the Eiffel Tower, the French consider their mother tongue a historical monument - and the languages beyond France’s borders indispensable tools. This program spotlights the Dicos d’Or “Golden Dictionaries” national dictation contest while profiling an Alsatian electrician who goes to work each day in Germany. The video also features everyday people who talk about languages besides French...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1994
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Le Bon, Cate
Summary: On a mountainside in Cumbria is where Cate Le Bon began working on her fifth studio album. Her year living alone in the Lake District gave way to this ten-track album.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LEBMoss, Charlotte.
Contents: Make yourself at home : Welcoming gestures -- Gathering rooms -- Public areas -- A space of one's own : Private quarters -- Guest retreats -- Decorating for fun : The holidays -- Trimming the tree -- The table -- Enjoying yourself : Staying inside -- Heading outdoors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747 MOSMcGirr, Lisa
Summary: "Prohibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a pivotal expansion of the federal government, the genesis of our contemporary penal state. Her deeply researched,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.4 MCGDraper, J. Everett.
Summary: Shows how to sketch human gestures, introduce figures into landscape paintings, and handle groups of people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.4 DRASummary: What exactly is love? What are its biological underpinnings, and how have cultural definitions of that word, so heavily endowed with meaning, evolved? Beginning with the Sumerians and other ancient civilizations, this program seeks to understand love's social rituals and its interrelated physiological imperatives. Topics under consideration by anthropologist Helen Fisher of Rutgers University,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: For the newborn, the notion of coexistence-that there are others in their world with whom they can communicate-begins with crying. In this program, researchers and other experts join with parents to discuss the steps children go through in mastering their mother tongue. Topics include the process of cognition, a baby's ability to make use of body language and semiotic gestures, babbling as a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Just how far do the similarities between humans and great apes extend? Sequences from historic experiments by Allen and Beatrix Gardner, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, and other primatologists, plus footage shot in the wild, provide compelling support for the thesis that chimps, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are highly evolved indeed. Demonstrations of cognition, self-awareness, memory retention,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: "How good are you at reading people? A renowned communication expert reveals the messages we're all constantly sending, whether we realize it or not"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.69 UNDCall number: DVD 153.69 UND
Buckingham, Julia
Summary: This is an irresistible guide for all who crave the elegance and ease of modern style combined with the warmth of tradition. For the countless readers who are eager to create a home with a modern look while still keeping treasured pieces, designer Julia Buckingham outlines how to mix old and new, and decodes what brings an interior to life. Her energetic approach has captured the media, and she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 670 BUCPalmieri, Jennifer
Summary: "When Jennifer Palmieri realized that everything in her life had been shaped by men, she wanted to make a change. From work behavior and use of language to wardrobe choices, she decided to follow her own convictions and reject paternalistic expectations.In an era of wage gaps, the Kavanaugh hearings, the #MeToo movement, and a domineering administration, Jennifer found a way to move beyond the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 PALEmre, Merve
Summary: "An unprecedented history of the personality test that has achieved cult-like devotion, devised a century ago by a pair of homemakers and found today in boardrooms, classrooms, and beyond. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It has been harnessed by Fortune 100 companies, universities, hospitals, churches, and the military. Its language--of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.2 EMRReiman, Tonya.
Summary: Yes--a small word, but the key to opening doors both professional and personal. A "yes" can get you the job, the promotion, or the second date. But getting a "yes" can be tricky. Tonya Reiman explains how communication works--what the words you speak actually say about you, and how the perfect pitch can help you achieve your goals, convince your boss or client you should get the account, give a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Street Press 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this program, artist, filmmaker, and dramatist William Kentridge demonstrates his remarkable filmmaking technique-stop-action animation using photos of charcoal drawings in which he has erased and redrawn scenes in different arrangements-as he works on Stereoscope. Footage from that piece as well as from History of the Main Complaint; Felix in Exile; Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old; Mine;...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005