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Combating Conflict with Character Coping with illness Core curriculum video libraries (Cambridge educational (Firm)) Core curriculum video library Health collection (New York, N.Y.) I spy with my little eye Little Pim fun with languages 1 Shakespeare retold Total health (Princeton, N.J.) Ultimate media librarian collectionFilter By Series
Combating Conflict with Character Coping with illness Core curriculum video libraries (Cambridge educational (Firm)) Core curriculum video library Health collection (New York, N.Y.) I spy with my little eye Little Pim fun with languages 1 Shakespeare retold Total health (Princeton, N.J.) Ultimate media librarian collectionSummary: Over 200 years of industrial activity have left the earth with a legacy of pollution and waste. This program looks at how pollution from everyday industrial production and from ecological disasters like the Exxon Valdez oil spill can be cleaned up with bacterial treatment. The mighty microbe is no longer a laboratory curiosity. The program demonstrates how microbes can and are being used...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Microorganisms can cause harm in the form of diseases, but they also have beneficial uses-and not just in medicine. This program explores various ways that microbes are utilized in food preparation and production. First highlighting the naturally occurring microbial value of milk, which provides mammal offspring with the bacteria needed to build immune systems, the film offers several examples...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: People in the developed world spend more than 90 percent of their lives indoors, usually in buildings with heating and cooling systems that inadvertently filter out certain airborne microorganisms. Rigorous ventilation seems especially important in hospitals - but have we been keeping helpful microbes out while creating an indoor breeding ground for pathogens? In this TEDTalk, engineer and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: This engaging program delves into the microscopic milieu that overlays life as human beings know it, illustrating the complex relationship between the microscopic and macroscopic worlds as the human host, with its billions of microbial allies and antagonists, journeys from the birth canal to the decomposition that follows death. Spectacular 3-D computer animation, case study footage, and expert...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In this factual case study, revelers at a Burns Day celebration in Scotland become ill. When E. coli is suspected, health officials conduct a medical manhunt to discover its source. They and researchers move cautiously from one possible cause to the next-the food served, the water drunk, improper food handling. When none of the investigations prove conclusive, suspicions mount that the microbe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Lowenfels, Jeff
Summary: Improved drought tolerance, resistance to disease, and increased fruiting are just a few of the ways mycorrhizal fungi can enhance plant performance. Bestselling author Jeff Lowenfels clearly explains how beneficial fungi can make or bread a plant's success, and how to best optimize the advantages. Applicable to all types of cultivation - from agriculture to horticulture and ornamental...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The prescription of antibiotics is a medical tightrope-walk. The drugs save lives, but, because of overuse, may soon usher in a new era of super-germs. This program outlines the discoveries of bacteria and penicillin and sheds light on the frightening emergence of multi-resistant, often deadly microbes during the last six decades. Presenting interviews with researchers who are deeply involved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Freedman, Judy S.
Summary: Publisher's description: Easing the Teasing is a crucial reference for parents and educators who want to help teasing victims acquire the coping skills necessary to manage these painful incidents. Easing the Teasing provides elementary and junior high school kids with a repertoire of strategies to deflect and discourage teasing--including positive self-talk; ignoring; visualization; reframing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 FREHolley, Lonnie
Contents: I'm a suspect -- Back for me -- How far is spaced-out? -- I snuck off the slave ship -- I woke up in a fucked-up America -- Copying the rock -- Coming back (from the distance between the spaces of time) -- There was always water -- Down in the ghostness of darkness -- Sometimes I wanna dance.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HOLC Mack A Von Tilzer
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: York Music Co. 1904
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: This eye-opening program delves into humanity's war with lethal microorganisms and viruses. Astoundingly detailed images by medical photographer Lennart Nilsson illuminate how microbes attack the body and how our immune systems defend it. Reenactments of remarkable medical discoveries-penicillin, blood groups, methods of malaria control, and the polio vaccine-are portrayed, and cutting-edge...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program explores the subject of anger from the student point of view while presenting some strategies for managing it. Dramatizations of school-oriented confrontations, candid interviews with children and teenagers, and insightful commentary by psychologists, a youth counselor, and a social worker serve as windows into a disruptive and potentially destructive emotion. Issues such as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: A recent survey by the U.S. Department of Justice states that one out of every four kids is bullied in some way - and that estimate, according to other reports, is too conservative. Why is bullying so widespread? What are the various forms it can take? How should a bullying victim react to intimidation and physical aggression, or - ideally - avoid becoming a victim in the first place? This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Yong, Ed.
Summary: This book lets us peer into the world of microbes -- not as germs to be eradicated, but as invaluable parts of our lives -- allowing us to see how ubiquitous and vital microbes are: they sculpt our organs, defend us from disease, break down our food, educate our immune systems, guide our behavior, bombard our genomes with their genes, and grant us incredible abilities. While much of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 579 YONSummary: Cancer is currently the second leading cause of death in the United States, exceeded only by heart disease. In fact, 1 of every 4 fatalities in America is attributed to cancer, amounting to more than 1,500 deaths each day. After introducing the broad topic of cancer, this program narrows its focus to scrutinize breast, cervical, prostate, testicular, lung, and skin cancers. The symptoms of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Greene, Jamal
Summary: "An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how the explosion of rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 GRESummary: An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is until she is diagnosed with a devasting illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WITSummary: Meet Katherine Minola, Member of Parliament and aspiring Prime Minister. When her advisers suggest that she marry, she reacts with the same fury she brings to everything-and everyone. But one man is going to change her outlook: enter Petruchio. Screenwriter Sally Wainwright updates Shakespeare's romantic farce, with Shirley Henderson as the irascible Katherine; Jaime Murray as her supermodel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Ono, Yōko.
Contents: Witch shocktronica intro (with Hank Shocklee) -- Kiss kiss kiss (with Peaches) -- O'oh (with Shitake Monkey) -- Everyman everywoman (with Blow Up) -- Sisters o sisters (with Le Tigre) -- Death of Samantha (with Porcupine Tree) -- Rising (with DJ Spooky) -- Nobody sees me like you do (with The Apples in Stereo) -- Yes I'm a witch (with The Brother Brothers) -- Revelations (with Cat Power) -- You...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Astralwerks 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ONOCrowe, Rubie
Summary: "Is there something that I'm missing? What could it be -- of course! I'm a unicorn who's lost her horn. Without it I'm just a horse! Follow along with Unicorn as she thinks back through her busy day. Did she lose her horn playing ring toss with the fairies? Or toasting marshmallows with the dragons? Where could Unicorn's horn be?" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cottage Door Press 2023
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 981.1 POPMad Professor (Musical group)
Contents: Perry in the dub jungle -- Kunte Kinte jungle -- Organic pressure -- Ecologically speaking -- Desolate lagoon -- Girl Friday -- Natural rass -- Beat of the wild beast -- Steaming jungle -- Rupununi savannah -- Juffre view -- Banjul belly.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ariwa 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE MADSummary: Maybe it’s hearing about friends, driving home from a dance, who get into a car wreck that no one survives. Or a fellow student—the one who wears a bandanna to hide what chemotherapy has done to her hair—one day fails to show up for homeroom. Or an announcement over the school’s PA system: “There will be a memorial service this afternoon…” For many young people, this will be their first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005