Leaman, Oliver
Summary: "An extensive glossary of the main terms and concepts used in Eastern philosophy. including concepts from: Zoroastrianism, Sufism, Concucianism, Taoism, Hinduism, Islam, Shintoism, & Buddhism."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 181 LEARace
Contents: If you can -- Safe and sound -- Can get home -- Rose -- Ark again -- Sinking feeling -- The hours eat the flowers -- Seed -- Out like a lamb.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Flameshovel Records 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RaceKey, Aidan
Summary: "Authored by a seasoned diversity educator, Trans Children in Today's Schools provides a pragmatic and thorough approach to creating inclusive, safe, and flexible environments for gender-diverse young people. The primary audience for this text is parentsand K-12 educators, as well as the extended support network in a child's life. This book goes well beyond the what and why of gender diversity...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.15 KEYSummary: This episode looks at the black/white paradigm in America today. Co-directed by Lulie Haddad and Orlando Bagwell, the program weaves the personal memoirs of John Edgar Wideman (Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race, and Society) and Jane Lazarre (Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: A Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons) with the stories from the staff at King-Drew County Medical...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: "The balance of nature" is a widely-held belief that ecosystems function cooperatively rather than hierarchically, gradually adjusting for change - a concept that was co-opted by early computer scientists and hippies alike. This program examines that concept and how its mechanistic but egalitarian philosophy came to permeate the zeitgeist of the mid-20th century, only to be debunked later on as...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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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
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 454.2012 DELIrving, Debby
Summary: For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships. As a colleague and neighbor, she worried about offending people she dearly wanted to befriend. As an arts administrator, she didn't understand why her diversity efforts lacked traction. As a teacher, she found her best efforts to reach out to students and families of color...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Elephant Room Press 2014
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IRVING, DEBBY IRVRegal, Raze
Contents: Indhold: Ashley Goudeau(3:51 min) -- Blood(3:27 min) -- Tivoli(5:02 min) -- Complaining In Heaven(3:33 min) -- Don't Laff(3:41 min) -- The You In Hustle(3:33 min) -- Before The Fact(4:19 min) -- Idle Later(4:46 min) -- Dislocation(4:27 min) -- Ugly Man Suite(5:39 min)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bella Union Records 2023
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK REGSummary: Sociology, in a nutshell, is about why people behave in the ways that they do, and the key premise is that behavior is shaped by the contexts in which people live. This multi-segment program introduces the sociological concepts of personal, social, and role identity; of primary and secondary socialization; and of culture, with its associated concepts of learned norms and values, ethnocentrism,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The exciting world of fashion merchandising is outlined in this basic video to give young adults considering fashion merchandising as a career a good overview of the field. Basic information about the principles of fashion, the important role the consumer plays, and careers are all covered. Also includes information about how fashion merchandising is changing through catalog sales and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Bach, Johann Sebastian
Contents: Disc 1. Suite in G minor, BWV 995 (18:48) ; Fuge in G minor, BWV 1000 (5:50) ; Suite in E minor, BWV 996 (16:16) ; Prelude, fugue & allegro in E-flat major, BWV 998 (12:29) -- Disc 2. Partita in C minor, BWV 997 (22:30) ; Prelude in C minor, BWV 999 (1:52) -- Suite in E major, BWV 1006a (20:27).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BACDoeden, Matt
Summary: "This book explores controversies in sports, including black boxer Jack Johnson, Jessie Owens in the 1936 Olympics, Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier, Muhammad Ali's refusal to fight in the Vietnam War, #MeToo and the US gymnastics team, and much more"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.4 DOESummary: "Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Impressed by her lover's convictions, Lady Zhao helps Ying Zheng concoct an assassination plot that would justify the conquest of Qin's most powerful enemy"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMPSilk, Robert
Summary: "Packed with adventure and a local's expert advice, this guide is essential reading for a fun-filled trip through the world's most famous wetland, the Everglades, and the spectacular marine environment of the 130-mile island chain formed by the Florida Keys. From the Ten Thousand Islands to Big Cypress, the Everglades, and the Florida Keys, Silk stops through alluring locales, such as a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Florida 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 FLOKennedy, Randall
Summary: "A gathering of essays by the acclaimed Harvard legal scholar and public intellectual, that explores all the relevant cultural and historical issues of the past quarter century having to do with race and race relations in America. With a gimlet eye, decency and humaneness (and often courting controversy), Randall Kennedy chronicles his reactions over the past quarter century to arguments,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 KENSummary: This 48 Hours report uses a pair of violent incidents to challenge assumptions about road rage and air rage. A highway encounter between two middle-aged women that ends in a conviction of manslaughter: road rage or self-defense? An incident in which a young man tries to force the cockpit door of an airliner in flight, only to be brutally subdued by passengers-a trauma that leads to his death:...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Nielson, Erik
Summary: "A groundbreaking exposé about the alarming use of rap lyrics as criminal evidence to convict and incarcerate young men of color"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 NIEHughey, Matthew W. (Matthew Windust)
Summary: "On November 5, 2008, the nation awoke to a New York Times headline that read triumphantly: "OBAMA. Racial Barrier Falls in Heavy Turnout." But new events quickly muted the exuberant declarations of a postracial era in America: from claims that Obama was born in Kenya and that he is not a true American, to depictions of Obama as a "Lyin African" and conservative cartoons that showed the new...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.24 HUGSummary: The issue of race within psychiatry is most apparent in the psychiatric hospitals and institutions where, as one doctor who appears in this program puts it, "there is an overrepresentation of black people. There is also a problem of misdiagnosis and mistreatment because some medical staff don't understand why people from different cultures behave contrary to their expectations and therefore...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Winn, Kevin P.
Summary: "The Racial Justice in America: Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in education due to racial bias. Tulsa Race Riots and the Red Summer of 1919 explores the events in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Kelisa Wing to reach children of all races and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 WINSummary: PB & J. Milk and Cookies. Serial Killers and Showers. Some things just go together; like sketch masters Key & Peele. They and their characters are back and bringing their honest, unvarnished and always brilliantly funny take on pop culture, race and society. From returning faves (substitute teacher!) to fresh material (paintboobs!), this is one perfect pair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV KEYHill, Joe.
Summary: "With more keys making themselves known, and the depths of the Locke's family's mystery ever-expanding, Dodge's desperation to end his shadowy quest drives the habitants of Keyhouse ever closer to a revealing conclusion."--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: IDW 2011
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HILHylton, Antonia
Summary: "On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Lit 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 HYLSummary: Sometimes transforming a failing enterprise takes the surgeon's knife. Renowned business consultant Gerry Robinson prefers the axe. In this behind-the-scenes case study, Robinson applies his business acumen to The Vernon Road Bleaching and Dyeing Company, a British lace dyeing operation bought in bankruptcy by the father/son team of Henry and Richard Chaplin. Taking Richard to task for, among...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006