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Brown, Encyclopedia (Fictitious character) Fiction Brown, Encyclopedia (Fictitious character) Juvenile fiction Detective and mystery stories Mystery and detective stories Religion Religion and politics Religion and sociology Religious institutions United States United States ReligionMeredith, Susan.
Summary: This book will help you gain an understanding of what people of different faiths believe, where and how people worship, the impact of religion on society, rites of passage, custom and festivals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 200 MERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 200 MERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Religion MeredithSummary: In this program, Dennis Wholey has a conversation about Native American religions with Suzan Shown Harjo, executive director of The Morning Star Institute in Washington, D.C. Topics of discussion include the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978; some common aspects of the approximately 300 remaining Native American religions being practiced in the U.S. today; the concepts of a supreme...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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HIRSCHFELDER, ARLENE
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: FACTS 0000
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Place a hold to request this item.Sobol, Donald J.
Summary: Idaville's secret weapon against lawbreakers, ten-year-old Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown, helps the police force solve ten new cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2012
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBSummary: 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: The final hour of God in America brings the series into the present day, exploring the religious and political aspirations of conservative evangelicals’ moral crusade over divisive social issues like abortion and gay marriage. Their embrace of presidential politics would end in disappointment in the 2008 election, and questions about the mixing of religion and politics. New waves of immigrants...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Allitt, Patrick.
Summary: Examines religion not only as a set of formal beliefs, ideas, communal or institutional loyalties, and styles of worship, but also as an influence on the rest of American society. Investigates the subtle but important links which have long brought religion into close contact with the intellectual, social, economic, and political concerns of Americans.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 200 ALLSobol, Donald J.
Summary: Idaville's secret weapon against lawbreakers, ten-year-old Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown, helps the police force solve ten new cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBSobol, Donald J.
Summary: Ten brief cases allow the reader to match wits with ten-year-old crime-buster, Encyclopedia Brown, as he investigates such cases as toys missing from a fair, music stolen from a singer-songwriter, and arrowheads that disappear during a campout.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Sobol, Donald J.
Summary: The solutions to ten mysteries solved by Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown are given in a separate section challenging the reader to match wits with the ten-year-old mastermind of Idaville's war on crime.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2008
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBKittelstrom, Amy
Summary: "Today we associate liberal thought and politics with secularism. When we argue over whether the nation's founders meant to keep religion out of politics, the godless side is said to be liberal. But the role of religion in American politics has always been far more nuanced and complex than today's debates would suggest and closer to the heart of American intellectual life than is commonly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 KITSobol, Donald J.
Summary: Ten brief cases allow the reader to match wits with ten-year-old crime-buster, Encyclopedia Brown, as he investigates such cases as whether a diary of George Washington's mother is authentic, or if a UFO picture supposedly taken by the army is real.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2010
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SOBSobol, Donald J.
Summary: Leroy Brown, aka Encyclopedia Brown, is Idaville's ten-year-old star detective. With an uncanny knack for trivia, he solves mysteries for the neighborhood kids through his own detective agency.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SOBEakin, Marshall C. (Marshall Craig)
Summary: Professor Marshall C. Eakin presents twenty-four 30-minute lectures examining both the unity and diversity in the early history of the Americas. He discusses how Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 created a collision between three distinct peoples and cultures, European, African, and Native-American, and gave birth to the distinct identity of the Americas today.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 CONSobol, Donald J.
Summary: Fifth-grader "Encyclopedia" Leroy Brown solves ten mysteries and, by putting the solutions at the back of the book, challenges the reader to do the same.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Sobol 2007Sobol, Donald J.
Summary: Ten brief cases allow the reader to match wits with ten-year-old crime-buster, Encyclopedia Brown, as he locates stolen jewels, retrieves a stuffed tiger, and more. Solutions are included at the back of the book.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2008
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J EB 24Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBSummary: Hour five explores the post-World War II era, when rising evangelist Billy Graham tried to inspire a religious revival that fused faith with patriotism in a Cold War battle with “godless communism.” As Americans flocked in record numbers to houses of worship, non-believers and religious minorities appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to test the constitutionality of religious expression in public...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Sobol, Donald J.
Summary: Fifth-grader "Encyclopedia" Leroy Brown solves ten mysteries and, by putting the solutions at the back of the book, challenges the reader to do the same.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Smith, Christian
Contents: Two baptist girls -- Mapping the big picture -- Spiritual seekers, the disengaged, and religiously devoted teens -- God, religion, whatever-on moralistic therapeutic deism -- American adolescent religion in social context -- On Catholic teens -- Adolescent religion and life outcomes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005