Bryant-Davis, Thema
Summary: "An antiracist society starts with you. That's the message in this powerful-yet practical-handbook. Using evidence-based interventions and exercises, two psychologists and experts in race, identity, equity, and inclusion empower readers to make their own personal contribution to creating an antiracist society. By shifting thought patterns and behaviors to cultivate an antiracist mindset,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 BRYOrlean, Susan
Summary: 'How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,' writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book called Herbert the Near-Sighted Pigeon, she's been drawn to stories about how we live with animals, and how they abide by us. Now, in On Animals, she examines animal-human relationships through the compelling tales she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 590 ORLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.5 ORLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.5 ORLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.5 ORLDebbink, Andrea
Summary: "A middle-grade guide to environmental stewardship and protecting diverse creatures"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 590 DEBMarkovics, Joyce L.
Summary: "In this book, young readers will learn about therapy dogs."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.7 MARBender, Linda
Contents: Part I -- The ecology of paradise -- How can we know what animals are thinking and feeling? -- Happy anticipation in dogs and cats -- Warnings and premonitions -- The limitations of experiment -- Part II. What animals want us to know -- You are loved -- You are already living in paradise -- You don't have to figure everything out -- Dying isn't bad -- How to communicate telepathically with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.5 BENJenkins, Steve
Summary: Shares facts on over three hundred animals and offers a brief overview of the history of life on Earth. Dance with a blue-footed booby, or stare down an eyelash viper. But mind your step-- in the animal world, the name of the game is survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 590 JENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J590 JENSummary: At Concordia University's Centre for the Arts in Human Development, developmentally disabled participants work together to create great theater. This film documents the creation of the Centre's most ambitious production to date: a musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, complete with choreography and elaborate props and costumes, mounted on a fully operational proscenium...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Calkhoven, Laurie
Summary: Military animals explores amazing creatures that have aided militaries on land, by air, and at sea. Learn how elephants, bats, monkeys, cats, and even glowworms helped out in times of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 355.42 CALBraitman, Laurel
Summary: "For the first time, a historian of science draws evidence from across the world to show how humans and other animals are astonishingly similar when it comes to their feelings and the ways in which they lose their minds. Charles Darwin developed his evolutionary theories by looking at physical differences in Galapagos finches and fancy pigeons. Alfred Russell Wallace investigated a range of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.5 BRASummary: Although diagnostic radiologic fields are good at detecting cancer, radiation therapy can actually help stop it. In this program, filmed at La Grange Memorial Hospital's Treatment Pavilion, five radiation experts demonstrate how a radiation therapy team works as they treat a young man with abdominal cancer. By watching the oncologist, clinical physicist, dosimetrist, and radiation therapists...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Brotha James (Musical group)
Contents: Animal -- Dreamer -- Evolve -- Grateful -- Reunite.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL BROSummary: This clinical though often emotionally charged program challenges one of the most seductive and controversial ideas in all medicine: gene therapy. Scientists once thought its concept beautifully simple: remove the defective genes and replace them with healthy ones. Research was thought to advance when Dr. James Wilson determined that the best way to transport the healthy genes into the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Contains: Down on the Farm - discover what life on the farm is all about; Barnyard Friends - find out where barnyard animals come from and how they became our helpers; and The Horse of Course - discover what makes a horse a horse!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: NCircle Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ANISummary: It has been estimated that 80 to 90 percent of couples will have one or more of the nine sexual dysfunctions outlined in the DSM-IV. This program introduces the most common dysfunctions while dispelling myths about female sexuality, stressing the importance of good communication, and offering advice on improving sexual technique. Common sexual disorders are commented upon as well. In addition,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Clendening, John.
Summary: There are many animals within the United States that don't have a home. Fortunately, there are many animal shelters across the country that can take them in and help them find loving owners! This book provides a detailed look at the many ways these shelters care for our animal buddies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636 CLEBullard, Lisa.
Summary: Provides an introduction to the concepts of big and small, comparing some of the world's largest animals with animals that are small.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2006
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Preschool Bullard 2006Summary: Shows the fetal development of an elephant, a dolphin, and a dog from a common evolutionary root into dramatically diverse adult mammals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INBullard, Lisa.
Summary: Provides an introduction to the concepts of wet and dry, comparing some animals that get wet with some animals that stay dry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Preschool Bullard 200650 Cent
Contents: Hold On (3:47) -- Don't Worry 'Bout It (4:02) -- Animal Ambition (3:09) -- Pilot (3:20) -- Smoke (3:52) -- Everytime I Come Around (3:12) -- Irregular Heartbeat (3:42) -- Hustler (3:06) -- Twisted (3:14) -- Winners Circle (3:24) -- Chase The Paper (4:29).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: G-Unit Records 2014
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Contents: Introduction -- Habitats -- The animal kingdom. Mammals -- Birds -- Reptiles -- Amphibians -- Fishes -- Invertebrates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2001
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Oversize, Call number: 590 ANICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 590 ANIHecht, Tracey
Summary: "Using fun facts and a narrative from the adventurous Nocturnals characters--Dawn the fox, Tobin the pangolin, and Bismark the sugar glider--this companion nonfiction book takes the reader around the world and investigates the adaptations of nighttime animals to their natural habitats"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fabled Films Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.5 HECSummary: Insights into immune system disorders are unlocking new treatments for rheumatoid arthritis. Many of these innovative approaches are explored in this program, such as experimental drugs that suppress messenger proteins, treatments to regenerate cartilage through the use of stem cells, and the cultivation of chondrocyte cells in the lab. The program looks at detection and treatment of reactive...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Shores, Erika L.
Summary: "Simple text and full-color photographs describe eight different robots that mimic animals and the work these robots do."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2014
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Summary: "A fuzzy wombat pops out cube-shaped poop, the sloth moves so slowly that algae actually grows on it, and a pet pooch's sense of smell is at least 10,000 times stronger than a human sniffer. And that's not all. The animal kingdom is full of extraordinary creatures from large to small, fuzzy to slimy, disgusting to adorable, and everything in between! Discover the extreme facts about animals all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing Company 2021