Isenberg, Nancy
Summary: "John and John Quincy Adams: rogue intellectuals, unsparing truth tellers, too uncensored for their own political good. They held that political participation demanded moral courage. They did not seek popularity (and it showed). They lamented the fact that hero worship in America substituted idolatry for results, and they made it clear that they were talking about Benjamin Franklin, George...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ISEDikötter, Frank
Summary: Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will last longer. The paradox of the modern dictator is that he must create the illusion of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.9 DIKAlvarez, A. (Alfred)
Contents: Finding a Voice -- Listening -- The Cult of Personality and the Myth of the Artist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 801.92 ALVMountain, David
Summary: The stories we tell about our past matter. But those stories have been shaped by prejudice, hoaxes and misinterpretations that have whitewashed entire chapters of history, erased women and invented civilisations. Today history is often used to justify xenophobia, nationalism and inequality as we cling to grand origin stories and heroic tales of extraordinary men. Exploring myths, mysteries and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Icon Books, Limited 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 MOURachman, Gideon
Summary: "The author of Easternization, an award-winning journalist, offers an intimate look at the rise of strongman leaders around the globe, charting the most urgent political story of our era. We are in a new era: authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Since 2000, self-styled strongmen have risen to power in capitals as diverse as Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Brasilia,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.53 RACQuindlen, Anna.
Contents: Good-bye Dr. Spock -- Our tired, our poor, our kids -- Doing nothing is something -- No privilege for parents -- In search of a grown-up -- Playing God on no sleep -- Playing perfect patty-cake -- Mom Quixote -- Now it's time for generation next -- Daughter of the groom -- Fall from the nest -- The C word in the hallways -- School's out for summer -- A new roof on an old house -- A quilt of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 QUIPantsov, Alexander
Summary: Alexander Pantsov and Steven Levine's new biography of Deng Xiaoping does what no other biography has done: based on newly discovered documents, it covers his entire life, from his childhood and student years to the post-Tiananmen era. Thanks to unprecedented access to Russian archives containing massive files on the Chinese Communist Party, the authors present a wealth of new material on Deng...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DENG, XIAOPING PANShermer, Michael.
Summary: Publisher description: In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New Age hokum, and alien abduction. A no-holds-barred assault on popular superstitions and prejudices, with more than 80,000 copies in print, Why People Believe Weird Things debunks these nonsensical claims and explores the very human reasons people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.W.H. Freeman/Owl Book 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133 SHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133 SHELeahy, Patrick J.
Summary: "In his landmark memoir The Road Taken, Patrick Leahy looks back on a life lived on the front lines of American politics. As the senior-most member and de facto dean of the chamber, Senator Leahy has been a key author of the American story. Leahy established himself as a moral leader and liberal pioneer over four decades spanning nine presidential administrations. [...] The Road Taken is also a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LEAHY LEASummary: Joseph Stalin's almost unfathomable crimes have given him the distinction of being a personification of evil in the 20th century, rivaling Adolf Hitler. This episode of Declassified examines how as the first General Secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, Stalin was responsible for as many as 20 million Soviet deaths in his purges and infamous Gulag.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Coleman, Joshua
Summary: "A guide for parents whose adult children have cut off contact that reveals the hidden logic of estrangement, explores its cultural causes, and offers practical advice for parents trying to reestablish contact with their adult children"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this program, a broad cross-section of Saudis-parents and neighbors of the accused hijackers, editors of Arab News and Asharq Al Awasat, political and military analysts, a psychologist, and others-give their perceptions of events and issues involving September 11th. Interviews provide background on and insights into the lives and minds of the alleged hijackers, the recruitment practices of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Emre, Merve
Summary: "An unprecedented history of the personality test that has achieved cult-like devotion, devised a century ago by a pair of homemakers and found today in boardrooms, classrooms, and beyond. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It has been harnessed by Fortune 100 companies, universities, hospitals, churches, and the military. Its language--of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.2 EMRSummary: Life in Romania during the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu was at once tragic and absurd as the nation's head of state erected a cult of personality that literally turned his country into a stage show. Tapping Ceausescu's video archives and drawing on interviews with many of the talented people who made Ceausescu's political theater come to life, this program examines the creation and application...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Leibovich, Mark
Summary: "From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, the eyewitness account of how the GOP collaborated with Donald Trump to transform Washington's "swamp" into a gold-plated hot tub--and a onetime party of rugged individualists into a sycophantic personality cult"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.2734 LEISummary: This program provides a brief overview of the partitioning of Korea; the battles for Seoul, Inchon, and Pusan; the entry of Chinese troops into the war as United States marines approached the Manchurian border; General MacArthur's famous speech to Congress; and the armistice at Panmunjom and the establishment of the demilitarized buffer zone. The program also shows the war's aftermath in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Contents: Disc 1. Subterranean homesick blues / Bob Dylan -- Mr. Tambourine man / The Byrds -- Why do I cry / The Remains -- Over under sideways down / The Yardbirds -- Omaha / Moby Grape -- Down on me / Big Brother and the Holding Company -- Time has come today / The Chambers Bros. -- I ain't superstitious / Jeff Beck -- Albatross / Fleetwood Mac -- I got a line on you / Spirit -- I want to take you...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ROCIssues (Musical group)
Contents: Sad Ghost (4:30) -- Mad At Myself (3:50) -- Life Of A Nine (3:13) -- The Langdon House (3:56) -- Late (3:33) -- Old Dena [by Scout] (1:35) -- Stingray Affliction (3:37) -- Never Lose Your Flames (3:41) -- Personality Cult (3:52) -- Tears On The Runway pt 2 [feat. Nylo] (3:33) -- The Settlement (2:31) -- Disappear [Remember When] (5:23).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rise Records 2014
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Living Colour (Musical group)
Contents: What's your favorite color? : (theme song) (3:57) -- Pride (4:54) -- Cult of personality (4:52) -- Elvis is dead (3:49) -- Type (6:26) -- Glamor boys (3:39) -- Open letter to a landlord (5:31) -- Nothingness (3:30) -- Information overload (6:09) -- Burning of the midnight lamp (5:31).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Epic/Legacy 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LIVBlue Öyster Cult (Musical group)
Contents: Cities on flame with rock and roll -- The red & the black -- Flaming telepaths -- Astronomy -- This ain't the summer of love -- (Don't fear) the reaper -- I love the night -- Goin' through the motions -- Godzilla -- In thee -- The Marshall Plan -- Black blade -- Joan Crawford -- Burnin' for you -- Shooting shark -- Take me away.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BLURead, Anthony.
Summary: The Nazi Regime was essentially a religious cult relying on the hypnotic personality of Adolf Hitler, and it was fated to die with him. But while it lasted, his closest lieutenants competed ferociously for power and position as his chosen successor. This peculiar leadership dynamic resulted in millions of deaths and some of the worst excesses of World War II. The Devil's Disciples is the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 REAWong, Chun Han
Summary: Party of One shatters the many myths and caricatures that shroud one of the world's most secretive political organizations and its leader. Many observers misread Xi during his early years in power, projecting their own hopes that he would steer China toward more political openness, rule of law, and pro-market economics. Having masked his beliefs while climbing the party hierarchy, Xi has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.06 WONCult of Dom Keller
Contents: Hole in the whole -- Broken arm of god -- Ravens and rockets -- Deepest pit of emptiness -- Tunnel in the clouds -- Exterminating angels -- I can see you -- Astrum argenteum -- Nothing left to stay for -- Bring out the dead -- Waltz of the Morgellons -- Shambhala is on fire
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fuzz Club
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CULSummary: This is the ultimate rock guitar collection! It features 200 classic and contemporary hits with melody, lyrics and chord frames, plus authentically transcribed guitar parts in notes and tablature!
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Hal Leonard 2000