Stradlin, Izzy.
Contents: Somebody knockin' (3:27) -- Pressure drop (2:42) -- Time gone by (3:47) -- Shuffle it all (6:19) -- Bucket o' trouble (2:10) -- Train tracks (4:27) -- How will it go (3:51) -- Cuttin' the rug (5:01) -- Take a look at the guy (4:43) -- Come on now inside (3:58).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Geffen Records 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK STRSummary: Revolution in Berlin at end of World War I. Brandenburg Gate, mass demonstration; group of Americans pose victoriously; defeated German solders on parade; a young boy goosesteps alongside the column (a great foreshadowing of how Germany's defeat will give
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1918
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Summary: Today's teens still listen to a lot of music, but it doesn't come from conventional radio. In this program, host Jian Ghomeshi takes the pulse of an industry that seems to be on the verge of dying as the shortcomings of airwave radio are measured against Internet radio, podcasting, satellite radio, and HD radio. Perspectives are provided by Bob Roback, of Yahoo! Music; Ralph Simon, of Mobile...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Browne, Sylvia.
Summary: Everybody panic! The end of the world is near! Heard that before? Thanks to the Internet, you'll be hearing it more and more, as the Information Age ushers in the Anxiety Age.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 202.3 BROBrowne, Sylvia.
Summary: Addresses the most daunting and difficult predictions about the human race, commenting on all the End of Days prophecies and offering insight into what can be done to prevent a catastrophe of biblical proportions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 202.3 BROSummary: This video examines THC and the cannabinoids marijuana, hashish, and hash oil. Expert commentary is presented by former NFL player Charles Hunt, a pharmacist, a police officer, addiction counselors, a historian, a pastor, recovering addicts, and others. Together, they explain the history and biological effects of THC, investigating its use, abuse, and hazards, and its reputation as a gateway drug.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: With the increasing popularity of YouTube, video blogs, Internet-based newscasts, Slingbox, and made-for-mobile content, has the time finally come to turn off the TV? This exploration of whether-or when-nontraditional video will topple commercial television looks at how New Media is changing the way video is both created and consumed. In the process, host Jian Ghomeshi gathers the insights and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: It's newspapers, magazines, and books versus blogs, webzines, and e-books in this program as host Jian Ghomeshi addresses issues ranging from the popularity of citizen journalism, to the growing shift in advertiser dollars from print to the Web, to the whole Google Book Search controversy. Multiple points of view are represented by blogosphere luminaries Cory Doctorow and David Pescovitz (Boing...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Watkins, Steve
Summary: "Anderson finds himself drawn to the old trunk of military relics in the basement of his family's junk shop again. His friends Greg and Julie warn him to stay away from it, but he can't help himself. This time Anderson discovers an old grenade with a strange message scratched into it. But an old grenade is dangerous ... especially when the ghost of a soldier appears, claiming that it's his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC WATSummary: Adam and his heroic squad of misfits discover the legendary power of Grayskull and their destiny to defend Eternia from sinister Skeletor. This animated CG series reimagines the '80s cartoon classic with fresh storylines and a modern spin.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HE-MWells, Lisa
Summary: "Poet and essayist Lisa Wells takes us on a pilgrimage to the margins, where trailblazers and outliers imagine new ways to live and reconnect to the Earth in the face of climate change"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 WELSummary: Ernesto "Che" Guevara was both a romantic and a rebel, honored by many for his commitment to liberation yet vilified by others as a rogue. This compelling program traces the life of a man whose idealism and determination gripped the imagination of an era. Interviews with family members, partisans, enemies, and others-including the photographer who immortalized him-share their recollections and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Green Day
Contents: Brutal love -- Missing you -- 8th Avenue serenade -- Drama queen -- X-Kid -- Sex, drugs & violence -- A little boy named Train -- Amanda -- Walk away -- Dirty rotten bastards -- 99 revolutions -- The forgotten.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GRELi, Fei Fei
Summary: "The moving memoir of a girl coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling as a scientist at the forefront of the AI/Machine Learning revolution. Fei-Fei Li is known to the world as the creator of ImageNet, a key catalyst of modern artificial intelligence (AI). But her career in science was improbable from the start. Moving from China's middle class to American poverty, her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Moment of Lift Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LI LISchweizer, Peter
Summary: Schweizer, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, discusses the state of government and the depths of its political corruption.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1323 SCHSummary: With the Shinjuku Battle behind him and Mika lost to the side of the vampires, Yuichiro begins searching for a way to turn his old friend back into a human. But first, he and the rest of his squad must focus on controlling the powerful demons they've made contracts with. If they hope to survive, they'll have to walk the line between being possessed by their demon's powers and being completely...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME SERRubalcaba, Jill
Summary: "Have you ever wondered about the real location of the Garden of Eden? Or how Moses could have parted the Red Sea? Well, archaeologists have wondered, too, and they have some ideas. Journey to the ancient world through lovely retellings of popular bible stories paired with classical art. Explore fascinating archaeological discoveries that illuminate how or where these stories might have...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 220.95 RUBSchuman, Michael
Summary: Schuman, a Hong Kong-based correspondent for Time, traces the lasting influence of Confucianism in China, despite enormous political and social changes in Chinese society. This biography of the important Chinese philosopher describes how his teachings helped shape history, promoted the region's devotion to learning, and still influences the lives of over a billion people.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CONFUCIUS SCHHazelgrove, William Elliott
Summary: "William Elliot Hazelgrove provides the exciting and sprawling history behind the 1933 World's Fair, the last of the golden age. He reveals the story of the six millionaire businessmen, dubbed the Secret Six, who beat Al Capone at his own game, ending the gangster era as Prohibition was repealed. He also details the story of an intriguing woman, Sally Rand, who embodied the ideals of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 HAZTsing, Anna Lowenhaupt.
Summary: "A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. Here, we witness the varied and peculiar worlds of matsutake commerce: the worlds of Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 TSISummary: Join the Cat in the Hat and his whimsical friends, Terrence, Morton, Sarah Hall-Small, Milo, and many others, as they take you on imaginative new adventures!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WUBKaufman, Amie
Summary: "Above, in the cloudlands, Nimh has no memory of her past, only an aching, undying certainty that she has left something--someone--behind. Below, on the surface, North looks to the sky, desperate to join the person he loves and return to his world. In their desperation to reunite and save their people, Nimh and North face one ultimate question: can they defy their love and their destiny to save...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Contents: Awakening -- Old World. Matthew's maps ; Scourge of God ; The description of the world ; through the Ocean Sea ; Seeing is believing -- New World. Rediscovery ; Ptolemy the Wise ; the Florentine perspective ; Terrae incognitae ; Into African climes ; The learned men ; Cape of Storms ; Colombo ; The Admiral ; Christ-bearer ; Amerigo -- The whole world. Gymnasium ; World without end ; Afterworld...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 912.73 LESSummary: As a member of the Moon Demon Company, Yuichiro Hyakuya has the authority and the power--thanks to Cursed Gear--to take his revenge for his family's death on the vampires overrunning the world. When someone known to Yuichiro becomes the hunted, will unleashing Yuichiro's special power called Seraph of the End save or destroy humanity?.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation Productions Ltd. 2016