Rauf, Don
Summary: Containing profiles of several of the most famous serial killers throughout history such as Jack the Ripper and H. H. Holmes, this in-depth analysis of the killers minds, behavior, and actions will surely intrigue any psychology student. Comprehensive text explains the life and crimes of these prolific killers from history, and a personality disorder self-assessment quiz will give readers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364 RAUVronsky, Peter
Summary: "Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the so-called "surge" or epidemic years of serial murder. With books like Serial Killers, Female Serial Killers, and Sons of Cain, Peter Vronsky has established himself as the foremost expert on the history of serial killers. In this first definitive history of the worst decades of American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 VROSamuelson, Scott
Contents: Portrait of you as Odysseus -- Portrait of philosophy as Socrates -- The exquisite materialism of Epicurus -- The mysterious freedom of the Stoic -- The ecstasy without a name -- In nightmares begins rationality -- The terrifying distance of the stars --The moral worth of a teardrop -- The beast that is and is not.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Univ of Chicago Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 100 SAMBooth, Thomas
Summary: "[This book] presents more than 1,000 idioms and expressions in context, with clear, simple definitions and attractive illustrations. Work through the tightly focused practice exercises and listen to the free audio to commit the English phrases to memory and make your English more fluent and natural."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.24 BOOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.24 BOOSummary: "A comprehensive visual guide to English grammar with clear, simple explanations that are ideal for learners of all levels,"--page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.24 ENGBooth, Thomas
Summary: This practice book overs the key grammar specified in levels A1-C1 of the CEFR, the international standard for language learning. Companion to to: "English for everyone: English grammar guide".
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Pulditor, Seth H.
Summary: Profiles serial killers, from Jack the Ripper and Ted Bundy to Harold Shipman and Aileen Wuornos, discussing their backgrounds, possible motives, and how they killed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eldorado Ink 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364 PULSummary: In a philosophy-for-children session, a teacher uses a story, picture, news item, or piece of music to stimulate critical thinking and imagination. Children are encouraged to express themselves, to challenge what is being said, and to ask questions that intrigue them. This program explores the concept and supporting methodology of P4C at Gallions Primary School in East London, where such...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Douglas, John E.
Summary: A legendary FBI criminal profiler presents a case that goes to the heart of extremism and domestic terrorism, examining his chilling pursuit of, and eventual prison confrontation with Joseph Paul Franklin, a White Nationalist serial killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 DOUEwing, Kateri
Summary: In Drawing Is for Everyone, artist Kateri Ewing—author of Look Closer, Draw Better and Watercolor Is for Everyone—guides you through a series of simple creative drawing projects using a soulful, meditative, and reflective process. Whether you’re drawing for the first time or are an experienced artist, you’ll discover and deepen your creative potential through these exercises, because everyone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quarry Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.2 EWICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 741.2 EWIKadar, Wayne Louis
Summary: Some of the Great Lakes region most heinous crimes have been committed by so called “serial killers”. This well researched book by Wayne Kadar covers true stories of “serial killers” of the region from the early 1800s to present and infamous names that every reader will recognize. A truly interesting read.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 KADLevin, Jack
Contents: Conversing with the devil -- Gaining a sadistic thrill -- Silencing the lambs -- Looking more innocent than an innocent man -- Killing without a care -- Hating enough to kill -- Hiding domestic violence? -- Fighting the culture of silence -- Killing for company -- Planning and plotting to kill -- Motivating mindless murder -- Teaming up to kill -- Threatening to kill -- Victimizing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 LEVSwartwood, Robert
Summary: Five years ago Elizabeth Piccioni's husband was arrested for being a serial killer. Her life suddenly turned upside down, she did what she thought was best for her newborn baby: she took her son and ran away to start a new life. Now, living in a quiet part of the Midwest with a new identity, Elizabeth is ready to start over. But one day she receives a phone call from a person calling himself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RMS Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWASummary: What do modern art, a symphony, and a documentary film have in common? They all require aesthetic considerations. This program presents the ideas of key figures in the shaping and understanding of aesthetics-from Plato, Francis Hutcheson, and Kant to Leon Battista Alberti, Stendhal, and Tolstoy-and addresses pivotal writings, including Aristotle's Poetics and Morris Weitz's "The Role of Theory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Clark, Jerry
Summary: Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, as one judge described her, as "a coldly calculated criminal recidivist and serial killer." She had experienced a lifetime of murder, mayhem, and mental illness. She killed two boyfriends, including one whose body was stuffed in a freezer. And she was convicted in one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's strangest cases: the Pizza Bomber case, in which a pizza...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 CLAChaudry, Rabia
Summary: "In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. Syed has maintained his innocence, and Rabia Chaudry, a family friend, has always believed him. By 2013, after almost all appeals had been exhausted, Rabia contacted Sarah Koenig, a producer at This American Life, in hopes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 CHAWartenberg, Thomas E.
Summary: "Big Ideas for Little Kids includes everything a teacher, a parent, or a college student needs to teach philosophy to elementary school children from picture books. Written in a clear and accessible style, the book explains why it is important to allow young children access to philosophy during primary-school education. Wartenberg also gives advice on how to construct a 'learner-centered'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.8 WARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.8 WARMcElhinney, Ann
Summary: In 2013 Dr Kermit Gosnell was convicted of killing four people, including three babies, but is thought to have killed hundreds, perhaps thousands more in a 30-year killing spree. Gosnell is currently serving three life sentences (without the possibility of parole) for murdering babies and patients at his "House of Horrors" abortion clinic. This book--now a major movie starring Dean Cain (Lois &...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.152 MCESummary: Americans dream of owning a single-family home—ideally in some leafy Arcadia not too far from the city workplace. There are many shapes to this dream—Gothic cottages and mini-castles surrounded by manicured wilderness, like the first planned suburban development in Llewellyn Park, N.J.; detached dwellings in sylvan surroundings, with restrictive land use and minimum cost regulations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: "Receive a fundamental education in American law from four exceptional lawyers and professors."--Book cover page [4]
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Fogerty, John
Contents: Fortunate song (with Foo Fighters) -- Almost Saturday night (with Keith Urban) -- Lodi (with Shane Fogerty, Tyler Fogerty) -- Mystic highway -- Wrote a song for everyone (with Miranda Lambert featuring Tom Morello) -- Bad moon rising (with Zac Brown Band) -- Long as I can see the light (with My Morning Jacket) -- Born on the Bayou (with Kid Rock) -- Train of foods -- Someday never comes (with...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FOGNewton, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File, Inc. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 NEWToy Killers
Contents: I'm embarrassed to be an American girl -- Sex carp -- 24 hankerchiefs for Roger Trilling -- Smoky raindrops -- Green dolphin sweet -- Corrugated gems of woe -- Scabby -- Bleed for the mind -- Shaken not stirred -- Dance of the were-samurai -- Teen sex carp -- Where do we get the $ to save our children? -- Death certificate 14 dollars -- Citymulch -- Away all pests -- Devil may be your Santa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ugexplode Records 0000