Summary: This program features poets Li-Young Lee and Gerald Stern in a poetry reading and in extensive interviews. A main subject of Stern's poetry is memory. His Jewish heritage provides him with the inspiration and direction to resurrect and reconstruct past experiences. Li-Young Lee's poetry reflects his struggle with his Chinese heritage: how to recognize a culture to which he has been inextricably...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Michaelson, Dan.
Contents: Tides -- Memory -- Missing piece -- List birds -- Undo -- No other way -- Half the reason
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: State51 Conspiracy
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MICVaca, Julian R.
Summary: "In a gripping and stunning coming-of-age novel, Julian R. Vaca reimagines a 1987 world where memories are as valuable as gold. In a reimagined 1987, mankind's ability to remember has deteriorated. To fight memory loss, men and women rely on artificial recall by storing memories on tapes and playing them back. Society's elite, dubbed recollectors, are able to retain "three-quarter memories" on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VACO'Hearn, Patrick.
Contents: Patience my friend -- Crossing the divide -- Peace be with you -- The women of Lachaise -- Drive -- Let truth prevail -- Images in stone -- All quiet now -- Faith and endurance.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Deep Cave Records 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE OHEOsborne, Karen
Summary: "Terminally ill salvage pilot Ash Jackson lost everything in the war with the alien Vai, but she'll be damned if she loses her future. Her plan: to buy, beg, or lie her way out of corporate indenture and find a cure. When her crew salvages a genocidal weapon from a ravaged starship above a dead colony, Ash uncovers a conspiracy of corporate intrigue and betrayal that threatens to turn her into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OSBSummary: This program introduces the basic terms used in the study of memory such as encoding and storage and retrieval, and looks briefly at the historical ideas about memory. Modern theories are explained using diagrams and real-life examples, and the program then goes on to discuss current research in the area of everyday memory. The reasons for forgetting are explored and the biological basis of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: What if your memory suddenly vanished? What if you could no longer summon up any recollections of your mother's embrace, a best friend's confidences, or the moment you first met your spouse? What if you couldn't even remember yourself, not your name, your school, where you worked, or even the face of the total stranger staring back at you from the mirror? If all of these memories were gone,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 153.12 MEMDoerr, Anthony
Summary: Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's new stories are about memory--the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOEStowell, John
Contents: Social butterfly intro -- Social butterfly -- Remembering Laurie Frink Intro -- Remembering Laurie Frink -- Ghost in the corner intro -- Ghost in the corner -- I wish intro -- I wish -- Stay right there -- Nanti glo -- Collage -- Lonely blue angel -- Mottball -- Fun with fruit intro -- Fun with fruit -- Violin memory intro -- Violin memory -- When Jasper grows up intro -- When Jasper grow up --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ STOBaddeley, Alan D.
Contents: What is memory? -- Stort-term memory -- Working memory -- Learning -- Organizing and remembering -- Forgetting -- Repression -- Storing knowledge -- Retrieval -- Eyewitness testimony -- Amnesia -- Memory in childhood -- Memory and aging -- Improving your memory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books (U.S.) 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.1 BADCameron, Alex.
Contents: Stepdad -- Miami memory -- Far from born again -- Gaslight -- Bad for the boys -- End is nigh -- PC with me -- Divorce -- Other ladies -- Too far
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CAMSummary: Is there such a thing as a perfect recollection or photographic memory? This program examines that question and others related to the brain's ability to store knowledge. Using a wide range of examples, the program demonstrates that even the sharpest mental recording is subjective, selective, incomplete, even faulty. Students also learn how the performance of elite athletes may be tied to muscle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: We often think of memory as a record of facts, but it is also a web of sensations and emotions-and a vehicle for traveling, so to speak, through time. This program explores the mechanisms of human recollection, presenting new case studies and medical findings that reveal the complexity of the brain's memory center. Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Randy Buckner explains his research into memory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Sprague, Emily A.
Contents: Water memory poem -- A Lake -- Water memory 1 -- Water memory 2 -- Dock -- Your pond -- Mount vision poem -- Synth 1 -- Piano 1 -- Synth 2 -- Huckleberry -- Synth 3 -- Piano 2 (Mount vision) -- Bonus track: Outdoor.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SPRAlsous, Zaina
Summary: This layering of bird, woman, place, technology, and ceremony, which begins this first full-length collection by Zaina Alsous, mirrors the layering of insights that marks the collection as a whole. The poems in A Theory of Birds draw on inherited memory, historical record, critical theory, alternative geographies, and sharp observation. In them, birds—particularly extinct species—become...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Arkansas Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 ALSSummary: This program looks at the various areas that brain researchers are now exploring: What kind of brain chemistry can explain memory? If long-term memory is a kind of permanent pattern on the fabric of the mind, what structural changes occur in the brain? Are different types of memory located in different areas of the brain? Are specific memories stored in separate places? What is the process of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: A highly regarded expert on memory's malleability - and a lightning rod for controversy - Elizabeth Loftus has proved that people can become subject to false memory, with major implications for matters involving eyewitness testimony and repressed recollections. In this lecture, Loftus details her research on the malleability of memory. Topics include memory paradigms; memory distortion, as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: These six half-hour lectures focuses on just how remarkable memory is--and how easily it can be strengthened, enhanced, and improved at any age.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.12 VISKelly, Lynne
Summary: Groundbreaking anthropologist and memory champion Lynne Kelly reveals how we can use ancient and traditional mnemonic methods to enhance and expand our memory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books, Ltd. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.1 KELSontag, Susan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books/Doubleday 1990
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Summary: Available for the first time in a single volume are the three holiday stories that Truman Capote regarded as among his greatest works of short fiction. Two of these childhood memoirs - "A Christmas Memory" and "The Thanksgiving Visitor" - center on the author's early years with a family of distant relatives in rural Alabama. Both pay loving tribute to an eccentric old-maid cousin, Miss Sook...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAPContents: In the darkest place (4:19) -- Toledo (4:35) -- I still have that other girl (2:46) -- This house is empty now (5:10) -- Tears at the birthday party (4:38) -- Such unlikely lovers (3:24) -- My thief (4:20) -- The long division (4:15) -- Painted from memory (4:12) -- The sweetest punch (4:09) -- What's her name today? (4:08) -- God give me strength (6:11).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK COSAmen, Daniel G
Summary: "Brain imaging research demonstrates that memory loss actually starts in the brain decades before you have any symptoms. Learn the actions you can take to help not just prevent memory loss later in life ... but to begin restoring the memory you may have already lost."--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale Momentum, the nonfiction imprint of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 616.8 AMECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.83 AMESummary: When Alex, an expert assassin, refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization, he becomes a target. FBI agents and Mexican intelligence are brought in to investigate the trail of bodies, leading them closer to Alex. With the crime syndicate and FBI in hot pursuit, Alex has the skills to stay ahead, except for one thing: he is struggling with severe memory loss, affecting his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022