Summary: This multi-section program examines the relationships between established sociological perspectives-structural functionalism, Marxist theory, and early feminist theory-and the family; investigates how over several decades the decline in marriage, an increase in cohabitation and divorce, and the lowering fertility rate in the U.K. have affected the British nuclear family; and juxtaposes the old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Taking into account the dramatic shift in the focus of research in recent years from theories about criminal activity to applications of crime prevention, this multi-section program compares and contrasts the concepts of social causation, social construction, and social control as they relate to the sociology of crime and deviance. Topics include the influence of wider social forces on theories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Sociology, in a nutshell, is about why people behave in the ways that they do, and the key premise is that behavior is shaped by the contexts in which people live. This multi-segment program introduces the sociological concepts of personal, social, and role identity; of primary and secondary socialization; and of culture, with its associated concepts of learned norms and values, ethnocentrism,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Voltaire
Summary: In this witty political satire, a gentleman plagued by misfortune clings to the belief that all is for the best. Voltaire mocks the eternal optimist philosophy of his day that proclaimed human and natural disasters part of a larger cosmic plan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 843.5 VOLSummary: This multi-section program explains the role of sociological theory, distinguishes between structure and action, and sheds light on three major perspectives in sociology-societies as organic structures, societies as economic structures, and societies as social action-by looking at their origins and key ideas and then showing how they can be applied. The video concludes by using a case study on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Contents: Rosasolis -- Bean fields -- Southern jukebox music -- Horns of the bull -- Oscar tango -- The snake and the lotus (the pond) -- Dirt -- Sketch -- Perpetuum mobile -- Swing the cat -- Wildlife.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EG Records 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE PENSummary: Profiles the world's most renowned sociologists and more than 100 of their biggest ideas, including issues of equality, diversity, identity, and human rights; the effects of globalization; the role of institutions; and the rise of urban living in modern society.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302 SOCSummary: "Levitation. Feats of superhuman strength. Speaking in tongues. A hateful, glowing stare. Spirit possession has been documented for thousands of years and across religions and cultures, even into our time: In 2019 the Vatican convened 250 priests from 50countries for a week-long seminar on exorcism. The Penguin Book of Exorcisms brings together the most astonishing accounts: Saint Anthony set...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.4 PENSummary: In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate and start a family. This courtship will begin with a long journey - a journey that will take them hundreds of miles across the continent by foot, one by one in a single file. They will endure freezing temperatures, in brittle, icy winds and through deep, treacherous waters. They will risk...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD MOVIE MARSummary: This DVD contains a complete visual dictionary and class for the beginner ballet student. It is an invaluable training tool for the student just beginning ballet and reference guide that can be used for years to come.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV VISSmith, Alex T
Summary: Aspiring Professional Adventurer Mr. Penguin, his colleague, Colin the spider, and friends Edith and Gordon crash-land on a snowy mountain where they face an evil hypnotist and seek missing pets.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SMIMcGrath, Tom
Summary: Skipper and the penguins share a variety of adventures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamworks Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PENSunzi
Summary: For more than two thousand years, Sun-tzu's "The Art of War" has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.02 SUNGeron, Eric
Summary: "NEW series. Nonfiction, full-color photos and short blocks of text to entertain and explain and how some animals with the same name can survive in very different environments"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598.47 GERSummary: "Completely revised and updated, the fourth edition of this established dictionary offers entries on all aspects of the classical world. With reception and anthropology as new focus areas and numerous new entries, it is an essential reference work for students, scholars, and teachers of classics and for anyone with an interest in the classical era"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2012
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 938.003 OXFPoe, Edgar Allan
Summary: Presents a selection of critical writings, short fiction, and poetry by American author Edgar Allan Poe, including the title story in which a visitor to a gloomy mansion finds a childhood friend dying under the spell of a family curse.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POESeneca, Lucius Annaeus
Contents: On the shortness of life -- Consolation to Helvia -- On tranquility of mind.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 188 SENSwitzer, Merebeth.
Summary: Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and habitats of penguins and elephants.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1988
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 591Kuskowski, Alex
Summary: Introduces penguins, describing their physical characteristics, food, habitat, and behavior.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JE Preschool Kuskowski 2015Confucius.
Summary: The classic collection of conversations and sayings by the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius, containing his teachings on ethics, politics, and religion.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 181 CONMatheson, Richard
Summary: "The first career retrospective of terrifying stories by "one of the greatest writers of the 20th century" (Ray Bradbury), edited by award-winning author Victor LaValle. Among the greats of 20th-century horror and fantasy, few names stand above Richard Matheson. Though known by many for novels like I Am Legend and his sixteen Twilight Zone episodes, Matheson truly shines in his chilling,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Steinbeck, John
Contents: Introduction. The twenty-first-century portable Steinbeck by Susan Shillinglaw ; Introduction to the 1971 portable Steinbeck by Pascal Covici, Jr. -- From The long valley. Flight ; The snake ; The harness ; The chrysanthemums -- From The pastures of heaven. Tularecito ; Molly Morgan ; Pat Humbert's -- From Tortilla Flat. Danny ; Pilon ; The pirate ; The treasure hunt ; Tortillas and beans --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEKerouac, Jack
Contents: The legend of Duluoz -- Poetry -- On spontaneous prose -- The modern spontaneous method -- On Bop and the Beat Generation -- On Buddhism -- Selected letters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Pickup basketball is democracy in action. This program-an astute study of sports sociology-tracks a mixed group of serious amateurs through an eight-month period, studying player culture, hierarchy, and interaction as they manifest in a setting that has no place for referees. Age, gender, race, injuries, and multigenerational families of players are also considered, as are the game rules and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006