Contents: Disc 1. The triumphant journey / Dafnis Prieto (6:03) -- The Afro Latin jazz suite. Mother Africa ; All of the Americas ; Adagio ; What now? / Arturo O'Farrill (21:41) -- Guajira simple / Alexis Bosch (9:28) -- Alabanza / Michele Rosewoman (9:45) -- Blues guaguancó / Bobby Carcassés (6:02) --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Motema Music 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ O'FMoyers, Bill D.
Summary: From Moyer's third PBS series, this text represents an unparalleled entree into the debates, the intellectual and cultural currents, and above all the fascinating people that have so powerfully shaped modern times.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 MOYVolandes, Angelo E.
Summary: "There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine--keeping patients alive at all costs. Two thirds of Americans die in healthcare institutions tethered to machines and tubes, even though research indicates that most prefer to die at home in comfort, surrounded by loved ones. The question How do you want to live? must be posed to the seriously ill because they deserve to choose. If doctors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.02 VOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging VolandesPopper, Pamela.
Summary: Backed by numerous scientific studies, this timely resource discusses the dire state of American health due to poor nutrition choices based on cynical food politics and medical misinformation and reveals how diet can dramatically improve and turn around many life-threatening conditions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.39 POPHitchens, Christopher
Summary: "At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as "the four horsemen," the heralds of religion's unravelling--Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett--sat down over cocktails for a filmed discussion. The video of the enthralling, path breaking evening that followed was released on YouTube and soon went viral. This is intellectual inquiry at...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Tannen, Deborah.
Summary: Mothers and daughters do not speak different languages--but still often misunderstand each other, as they struggle to find the balance between closeness and independence. Both mothers and daughters want to be seen for who they are, but tend to see the other as falling short of who she should be. Each overestimates the other's power and underestimates her own. Tannen explains why a remark that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8743 TANSummary: Can America rise to the challenge posed by its economic competitors in Europe and the Pacific Rim? Fresh from NAFTA and GATT victories, President Clinton shares his vision for re-engineering America's industrial and trade policies, education strategy, and tax and fiscal incentives in this incisive interview with Hedrick Smith.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Garcia, Eric
Summary: "This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It's also my love letter to autistic people. For too long, we have been forced to navigate a world where all the road signs are written in another language."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 GARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Mind GarciaBowden, Mark
Contents: Communication is more than words -- What we have here is a failure to communicate -- Winning trust with a wave of your hand -- Inspirational influence out of thin air -- Injecting excitement into your gestures -- Faces tell the whole story -- From complex to clear body language -- Directing the pull of your presence -- Holding your audience's attention -- All-embracing body language -- Position...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.69 BOWLivingston, Robert W.
Summary: "An essential tool for individuals, organizations, and communities of all sizes to jump-start dialogue on racism and bias and to transform well-intentioned statements on diversity into concrete actions-from a leading Harvard social psychologist. How can Ibecome part of the solution? In the wake of the social unrest of 2020 and growing calls for racial justice, many business leaders and ordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 LIVRice, James.
Summary: The Study It Conversation series is an easy-to-use conversation-based English textbook for ESL students, language teachers and English language programs in schools or language schools. The Study It English as a Second Language Conversation series consists of 8 different levels and 8 different textbooks. It is an exciting new series for teachers interested in Mobile Learning, Project-Based...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Study It Books 2015
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Turkle, Sherry
Summary: "Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity--and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground,"--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2 TURMarantz, Andrew
Summary: "For several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded in two worlds. The first is the world of social-media entrepreneurs, who, acting out of naïvete and reckless ambition, upended all traditional means of receiving and transmitting information. The second is the world of the people he calls "the gate crashers" -- the conspiracists, white supremacists, and nihilist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 MARApps, Judy.
Summary: "A small, hardback pocket book to reach for whenever you're stuck for wordsAh, what could be better than good food, good wine and stimulating conversation? The food and wine can be bought...but good conversation is harder to acquire. If you want to be atthe top of everyone's dinner party invite list then Judy Apps and The Art of Conversation can help you master the knack of conversing like a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons Inc 2014
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Summary: The founder and CEO of 1-800-Flowers discusses how he used the art of conversation to achieve his goals and enhance his career and offers personal insights and how-to guidance on how to use the gift of gab as a leadership tool.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 MCCMenaker, Daniel.
Summary: "A stylish, funny and surprising guide to the art of conversation"--Provided by the publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.3 MENSummary: A discussion between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and psychologist Paul Ekman on the differences between Eastern and Western views on human emotions and the connections that exist between science and spirituality.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 EMOBrokaw, Tom
Summary: The NBC news anchor and former White House correspondent evaluates the American dream of the past, present and future as experienced by four generations of his and other families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.927 BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.927 BROAmar, Akhil Reed
Summary: "Constitutional scholar Akhil Reed Amar tells the story of America's constitutional conversation during its first eighty years--from the Constitution's birth in 1760 through the 1830s, when the last of America's early leaders died. Amar traces the threadsof Constitutional discourse, uniting history and law in a narrative that seeks both to reveal this history anew and to make clear who was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7302 AMABrokaw, Tom
Summary: Rooted in the values, lessons, and verities of generations past and of his South Dakota upbringing, Brokaw weaves together inspiring stories of Americans who are making a difference and personal stories from his own family history, to engage us in a conversation about our country and to offer ideas for how we can revitalize the promise of the American dream.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 973.927 BroKravetz, Lee Daniel
Summary: "Picking up where The Tipping Point leaves off, respected journalist Lee Daniel Kravetz's Strange Contagion is a provocative look at both the science and lived experience of social contagion. In 2009, tragedy struck the town of Palo Alto: A student from the local high school had died by suicide by stepping in front of an oncoming train. Grief-stricken, the community mourned what they thought...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302 KRASummary: Self-help author Dr. Wayne Dyer and physician Dr. William Davis discuss the wheat belly weight loss program, the obesity epidemic, and the relationship between wheat and diseases endemic to modern life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House 2014