Summary: The painter's studio: at once an open forum for exchanging skills with other artists and a private retreat for experimenting with technique. Beginning with the Renaissance and concluding with the 20th century, this program covers an assortment of studio-related topics, including life as a painter's apprentice; the birth and growth of art schools and academies; the progress of the painter's...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Parry, John
Summary: "In The Burden of Sports, John Weston Parry examines the mental health and emotional well-being of elite American athletes generally, as well as in relation to spectator sports propaganda, the legal system, politics, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This book covers mental health conditions that any elite athlete may encounter, from depression and anxiety to substance abuse and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "The days of two genders--male, female; boy, girl; blue, pink--are over, if they ever existed at all. Gender is now a global conversation, and one that is constantly evolving. From the differences among gender identity, gender expression, and sex, to the use of gender-neutral pronouns like singular they/them, to thinking about your own participation in gender, Gender: Your Guide serves as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 AIRSummary: Looks, personality, intellect, bank account-the reasons for attraction can't be predicted. Or can they? This program investigates ways that men and women evaluate potential lovers and life partners, and shows how male and female criteria may be more similar than many think. Creating a relaxed, club-like setting in which a small group of singles meet, flirt, and discuss their goals, the program...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Cooke, Lucy
Summary: Humans are locked in a battle over sex and gender: one side argues that evolutionary biology dictates how we should be, and the other that it's a patriarchal tool that shouldn't matter at all. Rewriting the science of evolution and sex, she shows how feminist biologists have uncovered nature's dizzying diversity of bodies, brains and behavior that evolution has created. With a new perspective...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Assume, for the sake of argument, that our species has created everything it needs-all the comfort and protection that technology can provide. Does that mean our biological evolution has come to an end? Not necessarily, says anatomist and anthropologist Alice Roberts. In fact, technology may be driving human evolution, and at breakneck speed. Dr. Roberts meets scientists who are detecting and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Emera, Deena
Summary: "Knowledge is the most powerful weapon. As the female body is constantly being politicized and policed, it is now more than ever that people must understand the inner workings of women's body. Written by an evolutionary geneticist, Deena Emera, Ph.D., in an accessible, nonjudgmental tone, A Brief History of the Female Body unravels misconceptions women have about their own bodies and supplies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.6 EMESummary: The custom of female circumcision faces growing opposition in Africa. This program presents multiple perspectives on the issue, interviewing health care personnel, professional circumcisers, women who have undergone the ritual, and men who are against it. Examining medical and emotional problems that follow genital mutilation, the video also features signs of positive change, including a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Green Day
Contents: Brutal love -- Missing you -- 8th Avenue serenade -- Drama queen -- X-Kid -- Sex, drugs & violence -- A little boy named Train -- Amanda -- Walk away -- Dirty rotten bastards -- 99 revolutions -- The forgotten.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise 2012
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Summary: "A candid, witty, and inspiring collection of essays from The Bachelor's first Black Bachelorette, exploring everything from relationships and love to politics and race. Extra correspondent and Higher Learning co-host Rachel Lindsay originally rose to prominence as the first Black Bachelorette and has since become one of the franchise's most well-known figures. For the first time, Rachel opens...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINDSAY, RACHEL LINAllred, Alexandra Powe
Summary: "When Women Stood is an unapologetically new sport and social history that unveils the often-overlooked chronicle of women and their fight for equality. From early Amazons and suffragists to modern-day athletes and social influencers, this is an eye-opening history of women told through the always-influential world of sports"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.082 ALLMundy, Liza
Summary: A revolution is under way. Within a generation, more households will be supported by women than by men. Journalist Liza Mundy takes us to the frontier of this new economic order: she shows us why this flip is inevitable, what painful adjustments will have to be made along the way, and how both men and women will feel surprisingly liberated in the end. Couples today are debating who must assume...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 MUNAmen, Daniel G.
Summary: "How to supercharge your brain for better health, energy, mood, focus and sex"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Drummond, Anne.
Summary: New York-based flutist and pianist Anne Drummond established her career with multiple recordings and international tours with Kenny Barron, Stefon Harris and many others throughout the early 2000s. With Revolving , she draws from her repertoire of favorite originals to create a warm and diverse recording. Playing alto & soprano flutes and piano, she executes her concise, colorful melodies with...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Origin Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ DRUTorrey, E. Fuller (Edwin Fuller)
Summary: Religions and mythologies from around the world teach that God or gods created humans. Atheist, humanist, and materialist critics, meanwhile, have attempted to turn theology on its head, claiming that religion is a human invention. In this book, E. Fuller Torrey draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to propose a startling answer to the ultimate question. Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2017
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Summary: The Marine Corps continues to be the only service where men and women train separately in boot camp or basic training. This segregation negatively affects interaction with male marines later on, and, lower expectations of female recruits are actively maintained and encouraged. But Lieutenant Colonel Kate Germano arrived at the Fourth Recruit Training Battalion at Parris Island--which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GERMANO, KATE GERSteidinger, Joan
Summary: "Sisterhood in Sports: How Female Athletes Collaborate and Compete tells the stories of all kinds of female athletes in a variety of sports. Their natural tendency to use talking as a primary form of communication is essential to their experiences and successes in sports. Women and girls tend to have BFFs, collaborate during periods of stress, express empathy for one another, worry about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 STEClark, Jerry
Summary: Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, as one judge described her, as "a coldly calculated criminal recidivist and serial killer." She had experienced a lifetime of murder, mayhem, and mental illness. She killed two boyfriends, including one whose body was stuffed in a freezer. And she was convicted in one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's strangest cases: the Pizza Bomber case, in which a pizza...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 CLAZeilik, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520 ZEIBurke, Jill
Summary: "Plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics, and discover how, for centuries, women have turned to make-up as a rich source of creativity, community and resistance. The Renaissance was an era obsessed with appearances. And beauty culture from the time has left traces that give us a window into an overlooked realm of history - revealing everything from 16th-century women's body anxieties to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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Summary: "Excitement abounds when the revolving door of life brings fresh faces and hilarious new developments to the residents of Edinburgh's fictitious 44 Scotland Street"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: Things are looking up for seven-year-old Bertie Pollock. The arrival of his spirited grandmother and the absence of his meddlesome mother--who is currently running a book club in a Bedouin harem (don't ask)--bring unforeseen blessings: no psychotherapy, no Italian lessons, and no yoga classes. Meanwhile, surprises await Scotland Street's grown-ups. Matthew makes a discovery that could be a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCSummary: This program documents the ritual of female genital mutilation, also known as female circumcision, practiced among some African groups; explores its roots in myth; and discusses movements under way to ban the practice. Interviews with anti-circumcision activists, including medical personnel, describe the health ramifications, including hemorrhage, infection, and painful sex. Victims discuss...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Mexakinz (Musical group)
Contents: Introlude.--U don't even know me.--Never in this world.--Plead insanity.--Problems.--La plaga.--2 many MC's.--Confessions (hell don't pay).--Frost interlude.--Instinct.--Provoke the extreme.--Burnin' hot.--Realism.--Headz or taylz.--The wake up show
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wild West Records 1995