Hughey, Matthew W. (Matthew Windust)
Summary: "On November 5, 2008, the nation awoke to a New York Times headline that read triumphantly: "OBAMA. Racial Barrier Falls in Heavy Turnout." But new events quickly muted the exuberant declarations of a postracial era in America: from claims that Obama was born in Kenya and that he is not a true American, to depictions of Obama as a "Lyin African" and conservative cartoons that showed the new...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.24 HUGSummary: Do most people get their values from their parents or from society at large? At what age, and with what tools, do children begin to work out what is right and wrong? Can young children distinguish between actions that are morally deviant and those that simply violate a social convention? This program explores those questions by observing a group of 25 six-year-olds and the varying levels of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
View online at AVOD
Summary: This program profiles cases of Iranian-sponsored terrorism via the Hezbollah and the PLO as well as Argentina's dirty war, when the government used terror tactics against its own people. U.S.-backed insurgency in Nicaragua via the Contras is also analyzed. Joseph Kennedy II; Duane Clarridge, former chief of the CIA's Latin American division; and Bayardo Izaba, of the Nicaraguan Center for Human...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
View online at AVOD
Hauser, Marc D.
Contents: Prologue: righteous voices -- What's wrong? -- Justice for all -- Grammars of violence -- The moral organ -- Permissible instincts -- Roots of right -- First principles -- Epilogue: the right impulse.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 171.7 HAUBenn, Carl
Summary: Examines the events leading up to the War of 1812 and the major phases of the war, and describes the views of all parties--the Indians and the Canadians as well as the United States and Great Britain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Pub. 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.52 BENBogard, Paul
Summary: Describes how ever-present, modern artificial lights have changed the way humans experience darkness and bemoans the fact that the primal dark sky can no longer influence science and art.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Company 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.566 BOGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ BogardSummary: Through fascinating insights and day-to-day examples, His Holiness the Dalai Lama offers practical tools and advice on how to lead in our twenty-first-century world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 DALDuthu, N. Bruce.
Summary: Indian tribes have a legal status unique among America's racial and ethnic groups: they are also sovereign governments that engage in governmental relations with Congress. The self-rule of Native tribes long predates the founding of the United States, and that peculiar status has led to legal and political disputes--with vast sums of money hanging in the balance. From cigarette taxes to control...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 DUTJenkins, McKay
Summary: "Are GMOs really that bad? A prominent environmental journalist takes a fresh look at what they actually mean for our food system and for us,"--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avery 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 JENSummary: This documentary begins as a profile of the Children's Organization of Southeast Asia, which provides shelter to child victims of human trafficking in Northern Thailand, and its leader, Mickey Choothesa. As the filmmakers pursue their subject, suspicions arise as to whether Choothesa and COSA are truly what they represent themselves to be.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WROMulloy, D. J
Summary: The rise of the alt-right alongside Donald Trump's candidacy may be seem unprecedented events in the history of the United States, but D. J. Mulloy shows us that the radical right has been a long and active part of American politics during the twentieth century. From the German-American Bund to the modern militia movement, D. J. Mulloy provides a guide for anyone interested in examining the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 MULHiggins, M. G.
Summary: Provides tips on how to work at a new job and how to learn that new job. Flip the book over and there's a story about two workers with different attitudes about their jobs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Saddleback Educational Publishing 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 651 HIGCampbell, T. Colin
Summary: "Colin Campbell, author of The China Study (3M sold across all formats and editions) and New York Times bestseller Whole, returns with The Future of Nutrition, a book examining the shortcomings and confusion within the nutrition industry and outlining steps to improve"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books, Inc. 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 CAMShepard, Jim
Summary: The Tunnel at the End of the Light argues that some of our most persistent and destructive assumptions, in that regard, might come from the movies. In these ten essays Jim Shepard weaves close readings of film with cultural criticism to explore the ways in which movies work so ubiquitously to reflect how Americans think and act. Whether assessing the “high-spirited glee of American...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SHESummary: This program examines the friction caused by westward expansion of white settlers from the colonial period through the 19th century and the near obliteration of America's indigenous population and their culture.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
View online at AVOD
Kittelstrom, Amy
Summary: "Today we associate liberal thought and politics with secularism. When we argue over whether the nation's founders meant to keep religion out of politics, the godless side is said to be liberal. But the role of religion in American politics has always been far more nuanced and complex than today's debates would suggest and closer to the heart of American intellectual life than is commonly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 KITAndrews, Becca
Summary: No Choice begins by discussing the ways in which life before Roe will be mirrored in life after: the wealthy and privileged will still have access, low-income people will suffer disproportionately, and pregnancy will be heavily policed. Then, Andrews looks at the states and communities that have been affected by the erosion of abortion rights in the U.S., and tells the stories of those who are...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 ANDXu, Kenny
Summary: "Even in the midst of a nationwide surge of bias and incidents against them, Asians from coast to coast have quietly assumed mastery of the nation's technical and intellectual machinery and become essential American workers. Yet, they've been forced to do so in the face of policy proposals-written in the name of diversity-excluding them from the upper ranks of the elite. Going beyond the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.1 XUShapiro, Ben
Summary: Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro argues that Western Civilization is in the midst of a crisis of purpose and ideas. Our freedoms are built upon the twin notions that every human being is made in God's image and that human beings were created with reason capable of exploring God's world. We can thank these values for the birth of science, the dream of progress, human rights, prosperity,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 SHAEdmondson, Amy C.
Summary: "Award-winning Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson has influenced legion MBA grads as well as Big Think authors from Brené Brown to Adam Grant with her pioneering work on psychological safety. Now, Amy is bringing her work to the wider world, upending our entire cultural notion of failure with this guide to the science of failing well, which actualizes the potential of psychological...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Bunker, Nick.
Summary: A British-perspective chronicle of the Boston Tea Party and other events that led up to the American Revolution traces three years of volatile politics, personalities and economics on both sides of the conflict.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 BUNSummary: During the Middle Ages, Cluny Abbey dominated western Europe with a power that rivaled the papacy itself. The abbots of Cluny-men of great sanctity and commanding ability-centralized the Benedictine Order into a system in which they directly controlled all of the hundreds of other monasteries. Under their guidance, thousands of monastics joined together in studies and activities that greatly...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
View online at AVOD
Summary: Quite by accident, a film director arrives in town a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, he stops by a restored, old palace and meets a fledgling artist. She's never seen any of his films, but knows he's famous. They talk; they go to her workshop to look at her paintings; they have sushi and soju. More conversation and drinks follow, before an awkward get-together with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RIGSummary: "Writer/detective Jessica Fletcher (Lansbury) is always uncovering clues, whether she's at home in the charming town of Cabot Cove, teaching in New York City, or traveling the world. Along for the investigation are great guest stars...."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013