Summary: Heredity, environment, intelligence, and family birth order all help shape the personality throughout the formative years and into adulthood. Each position in a family can influence how a child interacts with other family members and friends. This program examines the only child, the firstborn, the middle child, and the youngest child, giving insight into behaviors and attitudes that seem to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Kagan, Jerome.
Summary: "In this overview of human emotions, a widely respected psychologist and author addresses the ambiguities and embraces the controversies that surround this intriguing subject. An insightful and lucid thinker, Jerome Kagan examines what exactly we do know about emotions, which popular assumptions about emotions are incorrect, and how scientific study must proceed if we are to uncover the answers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 KAGSummary: Water may be the world's hardest-working religious symbol, representing life, death, purification, destruction, and countless other ideas. This program studies the spiritual properties of water and the myriad ways in which humanity has regarded the precious substance over the millennia. Establishing a link between climate and the evolution of god-images, the video explores the notion of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Schatzker, Mark.
Summary: "In The Dorito Effect, Mark Schatzker shows us how our approach to the nation's number one public health crisis has gotten it wrong. The epidemics of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes are not tied to the overabundance of fat or carbs or any other specific nutrient. Instead, we have been led astray by the growing divide between flavor--the tastes we crave--and the underlying nutrition" --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 SCHWilliamson, Margaret
Summary: "Get the facts about the dangers and destruction caused by dust storms in 12 in-depth chapters that include topics on desertification, downbursts, dust devils, and health hazards like Valley fever. Includes safety tips, statistics, sidebars, and critical thinking questions, plus editor-curated online resources for up-to-date information."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 12-Story Library 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.55 WILDaily, Frederick W.
Summary: A tax expert explains the audit process, the different types of audits, and how to appeal an audit, and includes profiles of the people most likely to be audited by the IRS. Learn when to speak up, or to keep quiet. How to gather the right documents, and helps to understand what the auditor is thinking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2010
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Charlesworth, James H.
Summary: The serpent of ancient times was more often associated with positive attributes like healing and eternal life than it was with negative meanings. This groundbreaking book explores in plentiful detail the symbol of the serpent from 40,000 BCE to the present, and from diverse regions in the world. In doing so it emphasizes the creativity of the biblical authors' use of symbols and argues that we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.6 CHADuling, Kaitlyn
Summary: "Get the facts about the dangers and destruction caused by hailstorms in 12 in-depth chapters that include hailstone size, formation, forecasting, and cloud seeding. Includes safety tips, statistics, sidebars, and critical thinking questions, plus editor-curated online resources for up-to-date information"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 12-Story Library 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.55 DULDavidson, Richard J.
Summary: A pioneer in brain research outlines a blueprint for human emotions while sharing strategies for correcting unhealthy emotional styles, providing recommendations for areas ranging from everyday well-being to the treatment of specific conditions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Street Press 2012
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Summary: "Get the facts about the dangers and destruction caused by blizzards in 12 in-depth chapters that include topics on windchill, whiteouts, frostbite, and Nor'easters. Includes safety tips, statistics, sidebars, and critical thinking questions, plus editor-curated online resources for up-to-date information"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 12-Story Library 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.555 CORDorra, Henri
Contents: Gauguin's heritage : his family and their nineteenth-century world -- Budding symbolism -- Caricatures and friendships -- The great dilemmas of humanity -- The artist as Messiah -- Visions of death, visions of escape -- From Papeete to Mataiea -- The Polynesian pantheon -- Desire of the night -- Paris furlough -- The last years in Tahiti -- Hiva Hoa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.4 DORRaban, Jonathan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.982 RABLoh-Hagan, Virginia
Summary: "The events surrounding the 2014 polar vortex did not look the same to everyone involved. Readers can step back in time and into the shoes of a college student, a New Yorker, and a coal miner as readers act out scenes and compare and contrast various perspectives. Written with simplified, considerate text to help struggling readers, books in this series are made to build confidence as readers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.50911 LOHCorrigan, Eamonn
Summary: "Get the facts about the dangers and devastation caused by tsunamis in 12 in-depth chapters that include the Ring of Fire, volcanoes and earthquakes, preparedness, and history's worst tsunamis. Includes safety tips, statistics, sidebars, and critical thinking questions, plus editor-curated online resources for up-to-date information"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 12-Story Library 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.46 CORMidthun, Joseph
Summary: "A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces the properties of matter. Features include several photographic pages, a glossary, additional resource list, and an index"--Provided by publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 530 MIDAmbrosio, 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200 PHISummary: Mute until the age of nine, Stephen Wiltshire learned to communicate through realistic, richly detailed drawings. Alonzo Clemens sculpts clay animal figures with great precision, even though he can barely form a sentence. Matt Savage faced extraordinary developmental problems as a child but has become a teen prodigy among jazz musicians. What is the relationship between creativity and autistic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: How serious is the "greenhouse effect" on global climate and the environment? Very, says Dr. Jessica Tuchman Mathews, a Ph.D. in biochemistry and biophysics. We are now facing the specter of the "greenhouse effect," the prospect of overloading the earth's atmosphere with gases released when industrial nations burn fossil fuels like coal and oil, and the Third World strips its forests to farm...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Corrigan, Kathleen
Summary: "Get the facts about the dangers and destruction caused by tornadoes in 12 in-depth chapters that include tracking storms, the EF-Scale, Tornado Alley, and history's deadliest twisters. Includes safety tips, statistics, sidebars, and critical thinking questions, plus editor-curated online resources for up-to-date information"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 12-Story Library 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.553 CORWinch, Anne
Summary: "Get the facts about the dangers and destruction caused by ice storms in 12 in-depth chapters that include freezing rain, forecasting, and harm to power lines, trees, and animals. Includes safety tips, statistics, sidebars, and critical thinking questions, plus editor-curated online resources for up-to-date information"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 12-Story Library 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.55 WINSummary: Zen master Joan Halifax, a driving force of socially engaged Buddhism, is known for her work with people at the last stage of life. In this TEDTalk, Halifax recounts her experiences in a Bangalore hospice ward as she defines the intricacies of compassion. To understand the nature of suffering, to aspire to transform suffering, and to engage in activities that alleviate suffering, without fear,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Kelly, Sofie
Summary: Kathleen is excited to meet three old pals of her beau, Detective Marcus Gordon, while they visit charming Mayville Heights on business. But the reunion is cut short when one of the friends is killed—and the evidence points towards Marcus as the murderer. Though it seems she doesn’t know all of Marcus’s secrets, Kathleen is sure he’s no killer. With his suspect status sidelining him from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KELWilliamson, Margaret
Summary: "Get the facts about the hazards and damage caused by heat waves in 12 in-depth chapters that include jet streams, heat stroke, urban heat islands, and marine heat waves. Includes safety tips, statistics, sidebars, and critical thinking questions, plus editor-curated online resources for up-to-date information."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 12-Story Library 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.5 WILSummary: Go nuts and bolts into eight adventures with Rusty's hilarious robotic helpers! Whether they're getting souped up with rockets to solve a mystery or geared up as police officers to save the day, Botasaur and the Bits put the fun into the mix!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019