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Giants of psychology Great courses (DVD) Oxford history of the United States (Unnumbered) Oxford University paperback ; GB263 Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) Promises and paradoxes Religion, a world history Understanding psychology Wild world handbookSummary: William James, more than anyone else, was responsible for introducing the wide range of topics that now make up the broad field of psychology. This program presents some of James’s most important formulations, including his discussions of habit, consciousness, will, and religious experience, as well as what he referred to as the fringe of experience: the hunches, inexpressible feelings, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Key figures either directly or tangentially connected to the progress of atheism-the Baron d'Holbach, Thomas Paine, Jeremy Bentham, Charles Darwin, George Jacob Holyoake, Sigmund Freud, and Karl Marx-are profiled in this program as Jonathan Miller draws links between atheism and the realms of utilitarian and secularist philosophy, evolutionary science, psychology, and politics. Is religion...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Parnwell, E. C.
Summary: Teaches English as a second language to Russian speakers through the use of pictures dealing with everyday topics such as the body, post office, law, travel, and family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.73 PARSummary: One of the most visible issues facing Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is the role of women serving religion. Because of religious and cultural conditioning in the past, women in all three religions have experienced limited roles. Today, though, their voices are being heard. This program traces women's roles in religious tradition and what it means to be a woman in these three religions today....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Part one of this program presents the life of Jesus against the backdrop of first-century Judea, inhabited by the Jews and occupied by the forces of the Roman Empire. Was Jesus the long-awaited Messiah? After the Resurrection, Saul of Tarsus, later Paul, became a champion of a budding new religion based on Jesus' teachings: Christianity. Part two traces the spread of the faith and its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Better self-control begins with an understanding of the psychological factors that affect behavior. Section one of this program focuses on the influence of brain structure, brain chemistry, and genetics on behavior; section two illustrates key concepts of psychoanalytic theory; and section three distinguishes between classical and operant conditioning. Strengths and limitations of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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New College (University of Oxford)
Contents: Agnus Dei / Barber (7:57) -- Cantique de Jean Racine / Fauré (5:14) -- Kyrie (from Missa Papae Marcelli) / Palestrina (4:14) -- Ave Verum Corpus / Mozart (3:05) -- Jesus bleibet meine Freude / Bach (2:56) -- Ave Maria / Rachmaninov (3:25) -- Lux aeterna / Elgar (3:43) -- Totsu Tuus / Górecki (9:07) -- Hear my prayer / Mendelssohn (10:57) -- The lamb / Tavener (3:10) -- In paradisum (requiem) /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Erato 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL AGNSummary: In animism, good and bad spirits exercise an influence on humans. The shaman communes with the spirits in order to heal his tribal constituency. These and other less traditional beliefs, practices, and rituals are the topics of this program. Millenarianism is discussed as a nostalgic belief in a 1,000-year reign of the saints either before, or immediately after, the return of Christ. Astrology...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Heather, Peter
Summary: "A major reinterpretation of the religious superstate that came to define both Europe and Christianity itself, by one of our foremost medieval historians. In the 4th century AD, a new faith grew out of Palestine, overwhelming the paganism of Rome, and resoundingly defeating a host of other rival belief systems. Almost a thousand years later, all of Europe was controlled by Christian rulers, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270 HEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270 HEAArmstrong, Karen
Summary: "From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion's connection to violence. For the first time in American history, religious self-identification is on the decline. Some have cited a perception that began to grow after Sept 11: That faith in general is a source of aggression, intolerance and divisiveness--something bad for society. But how...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200 ARMSummary: If God exists, why is there so much suffering? What happens after you die? Does God hear our prayers? In this program a panel of teens pose the hard questions to a Catholic pilgrimage leader, a Sufi Muslim practitioner, and an Anglican minister as together they examine the relationship between the physical world and the spiritual. The group find areas of agreement between Christianity and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Wood, Gordon S.
Contents: Rip Van Winkle's America -- Experiment in republicanism -- A monarchical republic -- The Federalist program -- The emergence of the Jeffersonian Republican party -- The French Revolution in America -- John Adams and the few and the many -- The crisis of 1798-1799 -- The Jeffersonian revolution of 1800 -- Republican society -- The Jeffersonian West -- Law and an independent judiciary -- Chief...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 WOODu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
Contents: The forethought -- Of our spiritual strivings -- Of the dawn of freedom -- Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and others -- Of the meaning of progress -- Of the wings of Atalanta -- Of the training of Black men -- Of the Black belt -- Of the quest of the Golden Fleece -- Of the sons of master and man -- Of the faith of the fathers -- Of the passing of the first-born -- Of Alexander Crummell -- Of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 DU BDebbink, Andrea
Summary: "A middle-grade guide to environmental stewardship and protecting diverse creatures"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 590 DEBTrivers, Robert.
Summary: Explores the author's theorized evolutionary basis for self-deception, which he says is tied to group conflict, courtship, neurophysiology, and immunology, but can be negated by awareness of it and its results.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.4 TRISummary: Mary Ainsworth’s 'Strange Situation' is now basic to understandings of infant-parent interactions and, thus, later emotional development. This program details the developmental course of attachment behaviors and the different patterns that are captured by the controlled observational techniques of the 'Strange Situation.' Using archival footage (including the Harlow primate studies) and newer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Philip Zimbardo has spent decades researching the transformation of character that occurs when generally good people are led to engage in evil actions. In this lecture, Zimbardo discourses on theories of conformity, prejudice, aggression, social influence, and antisocial behavior. Topics include the permeability of behavioral boundaries; the nature of evil and its societal consequences;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The history of the three religions of the Book is a convoluted story of deep-seated hostilities relieved by all-too-brief periods of coexistence and cooperation. Filmed from a Christian perspective, this program looks at the sectarian and interdenominational clashes that have bloodied the centuries while pointing out efforts to achieve a lasting, mutually supportive peace. As the world enters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Bad Religion
Contents: Chaos from within -- My sanity -- Do the paranoid style -- The approach -- Lose your head -- End of history -- Age of unreason -- Candidate -- Faces of grief -- Old regime -- Big black dog -- Downfall -- Since now -- What tomorrow brings -- The profane rights of man.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BADGrossman, Dave
Summary: "The author of the 400,000-copy bestseller On Killing reveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide--and what we must do about it" -- Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 GROHennessy, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Ann)
Summary: The Galápagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For sixty years, conservationists have worked to restore this evolutionary Eden after centuries of exploitation at the hands of pirates, whalers, and island settlers. This book tells the story of the islands' namesakes--the giant tortoises--as coveted food sources, objects of natural history, and famous icons of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.866 HENSummary: This program brings to life five of psychology's most significant studies: Bandura's Bobo Doll Experiment, 1961; Milgram's Study of Obedience, 1963; Ainsworth's Strange Situation Experiment, 1971 and 1978; Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment, 1973; and Loftus's Eyewitness Testimony Experiment, 1974. Footage from the original experiments and from contemporary reconstructions is featured...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
Contents: The planting colonies -- The farming colonies -- The trading colonies -- The period of revolution, 1774-1787 -- The federal convention, 1787 -- Toussaint L'Ouverture and anti-slavery effort, 1787-1806 -- The period of attempted suppression, 1807-1825 -- The international status of the slave-trade, 1783-1862 -- The rise of the cotton kingdom, 1820-1850 -- The final crisis, 1850-1870 -- The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326.1 DUBAmbrosio, 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