Summary: In 2020 the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrated its 150th anniversary. This three-part program looks at the uncertainty the Met faced at this time as it faced an indefinite closure due to COVID-19 and calls for social justice following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the police.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INSSummary: It's been more than two decades since the first PC virus hit the Internet, and what was once little more than an annoyance created by teen hackers and hobbyists has become a sophisticated tool for crime. In this TEDTalk, computer security expert Mikko Hypponen discusses the viruses that can scavenge credit card numbers and deplete bank accounts, and the international crime rings behind them. As...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Gray, John
Summary: Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as both “a convincing analysis of an international economy headed for disaster” and a “powerful challenge to economic orthodoxy,” False Dawn shows that the attempt to impose the Anglo-American-style free market on the world will create a disaster, possibly on the scale of Soviet communism. Even America, the supposed flagship of the new civilization, risks moral and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 GRAPartch, Harry
Contents: Exordium : the beginning of a web -- Act I. Treats with death and with life despite death : on a Japanese theme -- Sanctus : an entr'acte -- Act II. Treats with life and with life despite life : based on an African folk tale.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Innova Recordings 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL PARVarious artists.
Contents: 3D stewardess / Wallpaper -- Leslie Phillips in Santiago / Tomorrow's World -- Barbarella / Loveletter -- Emperor of oranges / Milky -- Wallpaper / Wallpaper -- I am a kitten / Fantastic Everlasting Gobstopper -- Expo tenerife / South American Getaway -- We can fly / Loveletter -- Schoolgirl psychedelia / Fantastic Everlasting Gobstopper -- Kites are fun / Tomorrow's World -- Nothing to lose /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Jetset Records 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SONNewcomer, Carrie
Contents: Lean in toward the light -- A shovel is a prayer -- Cedar Rapids 10 AM -- The beautiful not yet -- Three feet or so -- Sanctuary -- Help in hard times -- The season of mercy -- You can do this hard thing -- Where the light comes down -- Haunted -- The slender thread.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2016
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Summary: "Andrew Hacker's 2012 New York Times op-ed questioning our current mathematics requirements instantly became one of the the paper's most widely circulated articles. Why, he wondered, do we inflict algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and even calculus on all young Americans, regardless of their interests or aptitudes? The Math Myth expands Hacker's scrutiny of many widely held assumptions, such as...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 HACClancy, Tom
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CLATaylor, Astra.
Summary: From a cutting-edge cultural commentator and documentary filmmaker, this work is a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great democratizing force of our age. The Internet has been hailed as a place where all can be heard and everyone can participate equally. But how true is this claim? In this seminal dismantling of techno-utopian visions, the author argues...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 TAYLaurie, Hugh
Summary: The man known to millions of TV viewers as the cantankerous Doctor House, Hugh Laurie reveals more of his musical side with his first solo album. A celebration of New Orleans blues, Laurie performs a mix of classic standards and lost gems.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Records 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ LAUCorrigan, Kathleen
Summary: Friends and Family Fun CVC: all vowels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norwood House Press 2024
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Contents: When Tony met Sosa -- Overall (feat Chinx) -- Plug talk (feat 2 Chainz) -- Live by it -- Talkin back (feat Fat Joe) -- No instructions -- Longevity (feat French Montana & Jim Jones) -- Survivors remorse (feat Rick Hyde)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP BENMcNeal, Laura
Summary: "A tender and engrossing historical novel about the unlikely love affair between two great nineteenth-century poets, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a letter from a writer she secretly idolized but had never seen."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024
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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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Contents: Intro skit -- Crowns for kings (feat. Black Thought) -- Sunday School (feat. 38 Spesh & Jadakiss) -- Dirty Harry (feat. RJ Payne & Conway the Machine) -- Took the money to the Plug's house -- 18 Wheeler (feat. Pusha T) -- 5 to 50 (feat. India).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP BENRandolph, Joanne
Summary: Explains what jet streams are and the role they play in creating weather.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing, LLC 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.5 RANWinans, Cece
Contents: He's never failed me yet -- Run to Him -- Hey Devil! (featuring the Clark Sisters) -- Peace from God -- Why me -- Lowly -- Never have to be alone -- Dancing in the spirit (featuring Hezekiah Walker's Love Fellowship Choir) -- Marvelous -- Let them fall inlove.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES WINSummary: The nut: Charlie Jackson, is a Greenwich Village character who invents Rube Goldberg-style contraptions. He uses them to please his friends and his sweetheart, Estrell Wynn, but more often than not, they backfire; The mark of Zorro: Don Diego de la Vega is the son of a wealthy Spanish Californian rancher. In reality, Don Diego is the dashed masked-and-caped Zorro, who wages a one-man war to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Flicker Alley 2008
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE NUTBernstein, William J.
Summary: ""We are the apes who tell stories," writes William Bernstein. "And no matter how misleading the narrative, if it is compelling enough it will nearly always trump the facts." As Bernstein shows in his eloquent and persuasive new book, The Delusions of Crowds, throughout human history, compelling stories have catalyzed the spread of contagious narratives through susceptible groups-with enormous,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.33 BERNeshama, Rivvy
Summary: "Examines the life of enslaved African-American Nat Turner and the events leading up to the slave rebellion he led in 1831."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TURSo Pitted (Musical group)
Contents: Catscratch -- Pay attention to me -- Woe -- Holding the void -- No nuke country -- The sickness -- Feed me -- I'm not over it -- Rot in hell -- Get out of my room -- Chop down that tree.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SOSummary: The Energy Reader takes an unflinching look at the environmental devastation created by our thirst for energy--including supposedly "(Bclean" renewable sources. From oil spills, nuclear accidents, and mountaintop-removal coal mining to oversized wind farms and desert-destroying solar power plants, virtually every region of the globe is now experiencing the consequences of out-of-control energy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watershed Media 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.042 ENETunstall, KT
Contents: Out of touch -- I am the pilot -- Three -- Dear shadow -- Private eyes -- Canyons -- Synapse -- Demigod -- All the time.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TUNGryta, Thomas
Summary: "How could General Electric-perhaps America's most iconic corporation-suffer such a swift and sudden fall from grace?"-- Since its founding in 1892, General Electric has been more than just a corporation: it was job security, a solidly safe investment, and an elite business education for top managers. GE electrified America, from lightbulbs to turbines, and became fully integrated into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020