Olson, Richard
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwood Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.55 OLSPrincipe, Lawrence
Summary: Twelve 30-minute lectures by Johns Hopkins University Professor Lawrence M. Principe on the relation between science and religion from early times to the present.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 201.65 PRIPrincipe, Lawrence.
Summary: Twelve 30-minute lectures by Professor Lawrence M. Principe on the relation between science and religion from early times to the present.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 201.65 Principe 2006Heather, Peter
Summary: "A major reinterpretation of the religious superstate that came to define both Europe and Christianity itself, by one of our foremost medieval historians. In the 4th century AD, a new faith grew out of Palestine, overwhelming the paganism of Rome, and resoundingly defeating a host of other rival belief systems. Almost a thousand years later, all of Europe was controlled by Christian rulers, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270 HEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270 HEARolston, Holmes
Summary: How is the scientific method similar to and different from the way that Christians think? One tends to see what one is looking for. Those who think about religion also use such frameworks. They may call them creeds. Both science and religion open up "big questions." Scientists seek causes; believers seek meanings
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Elm Hill Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 201.65 ROLSummary: This program beautifully captures the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance through the Late Gothic art of England and its Perpendicular architecture. Spanning the reigns of Henry IV to Henry VIII-the era of the Hundred Years' War, the Wars of the Roses, and the early Tudors-artists and artisans in England produced exquisite jewelry, glorious devotional sculptures and images,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Coyne, Jerry A.
Summary: The best-selling author of Why Evolution Is True discusses the negative role of religion in education, politics, medicine and social policy, explaining how religion cannot provide verifiable or responsible answers to world problems.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200 COYSummary: In 1900, 6% of America's children graduated from high school; by 1945, 51% graduated and 40% went on to college. This program recalls how massive immigration, child labor laws, and the explosive growth of cities fueled school attendance and transformed public education. Also explored are the impact of John Dewey's progressive ideas as well as the effects on students of controversial IQ tests,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Covers all U.S. and Canadian models of Subaru coupes, sedans and wagons, ff-1, 1300, 1400, 1600, 1800 and BRAT, for model years 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1984.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chilton Book Company 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 Subaru CoupesSummary: Presents a collection of animated advertising films produced between 1950 and 1960 which provide insight into the marketing strategies used during the decade. Included here are a corporate-sponsored cartoon where Martians learn that oil and competition are two things that make America great and an "I like Ike" animated television commercial.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A2ZCDS.COM 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.6 HistoryTime-Life Books
Contents: prelude.--v. 1. 1900-1910.--v. 2. 1910-1920.--v. 3. 1920-1930.--v. 4. 1930-1940.--v. 5. 1940-1950.--v. 6 1950-1960.--v. 7. 1960-1970.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1970
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.9 THISummary: The brutal roots of the American slave trade are exposed in this program, focusing on the years 1450-1750 when Native Americans first encountered Europeans and when their world was transformed - and largely destroyed - by white settlers. Not only did the settlers exploit the natural wealth of the Americas, they also traveled to Africa, where they began a transatlantic slave trade that would...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1998
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Summary: Duck and Cover; narration on the importance of quickly seeking shelter when air raid is signaled
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: In the 1950s, America's public schools teemed with the promise of a new, postwar generation of students, over half of whom would graduate and go on to college. This program shows how impressive gains masked profound inequalities: seventeen states had segregated schools; 1% of all Ph.D.s went to women; and "separate but equal" was still the law of the land. Interviews with Linda Brown Thompson...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Produced in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's exhibition of the same name, this lively program explores the evolution of late-20th-century ceramics. Using interviews and myriad examples of their works, leading figures in the field, including Ruth Duckworth, Wayne Higby, John Mason, Ron Nagle, Otto Natzler, Richard Shaw, and Peter Voulkos, discuss such major themes as...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Murray, Charles A.
Summary: "The heart of Human Accomplishment is a series of descriptive chapters: on the giants in the arts and what sets them apart from the merely great; on the differences between great achievement in the arts and in the sciences; on the meta-inventions, 14 crucial leaps in human capacity to create great art and science; and on the patterns and trajectories of accomplishment across time and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 908.7 MUREcklund, Elaine Howard.
Summary: "That the longstanding antagonism between science and religion is irreconcilable has been taken for granted. And in the wake of recent controversies over teaching intelligent design and the ethics of stem-cell research, the divide seems as unbridgeable as ever. In Science vs. Religion, Elaine Howard Ecklund investigates this unexamined assumption in the first systematic study of what scientists...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 215 ECKSummary: Political strife in Berlin and Belgium
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: In 1540, Portuguese navigators and Jesuit priests landed in a Japan of shoguns and samurai, where the arts of warfare had been refined to hitherto unknown heights of cruelty. Although Westernisms quickly became the rage in Japan, the Japanese soon recognized the long arm of colonialism. Christian priests and converts were persecuted and martyred and, in 1650, Japan shut tight its doors to the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Shaw, Bernard
Contents: A patchwork self-portrait, 1898-1950.--Preface: Who I am.--Plays for puritans.--Cerebral capers.--The court experiment.--The practical impossibilities of censorship.--Shavian busts.--Tree and a potboiler.--War madness.--Joy riding at the front.--Crash of an epoch.--Burglars.--A member by baptism.--Back to Methuselah.--How to write a play.--Saint Joan.--Fabian politics.--The apple cart.--Touring...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Weybright and Talley 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.9 SHASummary: In animism, good and bad spirits exercise an influence on humans. The shaman communes with the spirits in order to heal his tribal constituency. These and other less traditional beliefs, practices, and rituals are the topics of this program. Millenarianism is discussed as a nostalgic belief in a 1,000-year reign of the saints either before, or immediately after, the return of Christ. Astrology...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Manseau, Peter
Summary: "An illustrated history of how scientific study and religious thought have influenced each other in throughout American history"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 215.0973 MANContents: Rags to riches / Tony Bennett with Percy Faith and his orchestra -- The Tennessee waltz / Patti Page -- The song from Moulin Rouge (Where is your heart) / Percy Faith & his orchestra, vocal by Felicia Sanders -- How high the moon / Les Paul & Mary Ford -- You belong to me / Jo Stafford with Paul Weston and his orchestra -- Cry / Johnnie Ray & the Four Lads -- Wheel of fortune / Kay Starr -- Oh!...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino/BMG Direct/RCA Special Products 1994