Sumney, Moses
Contents: Man on the moon (reprise) -- Don't bother calling -- Plastic -- Quarrel -- Stoicism -- Lonely world -- Make out in my car -- The cocoon-eyed baby -- Doomed -- Indulge me -- Self-help tape.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SUMBlake, Olivie
Summary: "An explosive return to the library leaves the six Alexandrians vulnerable. Old alliances fracture as the initiates take opposing strategies as to how to deal with the deadly bargain they failed to uphold. Those who remain with the archives wrestle with the ethics of their astronomical abilities, while elsewhere, an unlikely pair from the Society partner to influence politics on a global stage....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: If wisdom were given me under the express condition that it must be kept hidden and not uttered, I should refuse it. Thus wrote the 1st-century Roman philosopher Seneca in one of the many letters he wrote to his disciple, Lucilius. These letters were later collected together to form Moral Epistles, one of the central ethical works of the classical period. This program examines Seneca's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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DiCampo, Fausto
Summary: "This book is a detailed guide on developing mental discipline. The concept as understood here consists of control of one's own thoughts and emotions. The control is based on philosophy, primarily Stoicism, and meditation. Philosophy promotes critical thinking, self-knowledge, and objective self-criticism. Stoicism helps one form an individualistic, independent mentality resistant to negative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A collection of essays by fifteen philosophers presenting a thoughtful, introductory guide to choosing a philosophy for living an examined and meaningful life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Klein, Daniel M.
Summary: Describes how the author journeyed to Greece with a suitcase full of philosophy books in order to learn how to achieve a fulfilling old age, explaining how he came to regard old age as a life stage filled with simple and heady pleasures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Part 1 includes an introduction to the entire series and to the enduring problems of philosophy. The critical tensions in Western thought are identified and the context is set for the great conversation that follows. This first part of the series is foundational, designed to teach basic facts about the philosophers and traditions covered. Classical Origins examines the origins of philosophy in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GREAmbrosio, Francis J.
Summary: This course charts how the question of life's meaning has been pursued through the ages, highlighting the Western philosophical and religious paths in the human search for meaningful living.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200 PHIFernández-Armesto, Felipe
Summary: For readers of big history and philosophy, a fast-paced new book on the origins and history of human ideas--from cannibalism to religion, feminism to stoicism--by a renowned historian. A vividly rendered work that relates the history of human ideas and examines the broad array of ideas that have defined Bronze Age thinking all the way up to the present day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A group of old friends, in true British fashion and while the rest of the world faces impending doom, reunite to celebrate Christmas in the comfort of an idyllic country home. Burdened with the inconvenience of mankind's imminent destruction, they adopt a stiff upper lip, crack open another bottle of prosecco and continue with their festivities. But no amount of stoicism can replace the courage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SILHoliday, Ryan
Summary: "From Ryan Holiday, the New York Times bestselling author of Stillness Is the Key, The Obstacle Is the Way, and Ego Is the Enemy, comes the first book in a four-book series about Stoic virtues: courage, temperance, justice, and wisdom As Ryan Holiday wrote in his previous books, Stoicism is a philosophy for the people. Stoicism isn't fraught with complexities, contradictions, or circular...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Haven, Chris
Summary: In the defiantly mundane heartland suburbs of Chris Haven's debut collection, a real estate agent compels a stranger with late-stage dementia to accompany him to sell houses; a gruesome power tool injury somehow heals the tense relationship between two neighbors; and a Baptist minister recalls his own baptism, which is mysteriously tied to his first experience of the female anatomy. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tailwinds Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAVGeorges, Gigi
Summary: Washington County, Maine. Willow, Vivian, Mckenna, Audrey, and Josie are teenage girls caught between tradition and transformation in this remote region. For four years Georges followed their journeys of heartbreak and hope in uncertain times: the pain and joy of life in a region whose rugged beauty and stoicism mask dwindling populations, vanishing job opportunities, and pervasive opioid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.1 GEOSummary: Characterized by expressions of individuality, popularismo, criticism, stoicism, humor, piety, and dignity, the literature of Spain spans ten centuries, includes some of history's most significant writers, and contains landmark works of every major literary genre. This program provides an overview of Iberian history as it relates to Spanish literature. The formation of regional tongues and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Zuckoff, Mitchell.
Summary: On May 13, 1945, twenty-four American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over "Shangri-La," a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Unlike the peaceful Tibetan monks of James Hilton's bestselling novel Lost Horizon , this Shangri-La was home to spear-carrying tribesmen, warriors rumored to be cannibals....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2011
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Umrigar, Thrity N.
Summary: Poor and illiterate, Bhima had faithfully worked for the Dubash family, an upper-middle-class Parsi household, for more than twenty years. Yet after courageously speaking the truth about a heinous crime perpetrated against her own family, the devoted servant was cruelly fired. The sting of that dismissal was made more painful coming from Sera Dubash, the temperamental employer who had long been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC UMRNichols, Thomas M.
Summary: "Over the past three decades, citizens of democracies who claim to value freedom, tolerance, and the rule of law have increasingly embraced illiberal politicians and platforms. Democracy is in trouble--but who is really to blame? In Our Own Worst Enemy, Tom Nichols challenges the current depictions of the rise of illiberal and anti-democratic movements in the United States and elsewhere as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2021