Summary: Every year this nation's economy struggles to absorb millions of the unemployed, while the rich move to gated communities with private schools and tennis courts. That might sound like America, but it isn't. This Wide Angle documentary studies the new China, once the home of Mao's rigidly imposed social equality-and today, a member of the World Trade Organization containing both staggeringly...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Gaul, Gilbert M.
Summary: Examines the economics and culture surrounding college football, discussing how in the last decade football programs have overtaken universities, creating entertainment factories where sports are more important than education.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.332 GAUBragg, Billy.
Contents: The milkman of human kindness (2:47) -- To have and to have not (2:32) -- Richard (2:49) -- Lovers town revisited (1:17) -- A new England (2:13) -- The man in the iron mask (2:13) -- The busy girl buys beauty (1:57) -- It says here (4:15) -- Love gets dangerous (2:33) -- From a vauxhall velox (2:30) -- The myth of trust (2:53) -- The Saturday boy (3:28) -- Island of no return (3:34) -- This...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Elektra 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BRALopez, Kristen
Summary: "For film buffs and literature lovers alike, this is an essential guide to 52 great reads, and the cinema classics they inspired"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 LOPLinett, Andrea
Summary: Trendsetter Andrea Linett has that rare ability to distill fashion talk into advice that everyone can follow, and in this book she shares the style wisdom she's gathered over years of working in the fashion industry. Here is only the content that matters: wardrobe classics, leather, denim, suits, dressing in black and white, dressing up, getting the right fit, layering, accessories, and hair....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643 LINBragg, Billy.
Contents: A new England -- The man in the iron mask -- The milkman of human kindness -- To have and to have not -- A lover sings -- St. Swithin's Day -- The Saturday boy -- Between the wars -- The world turned upside down -- Levi Stubbs' tears -- Walk away Renee -- Greetings to the new brunette -- There is a power in a union -- Help save the youth of America -- The warmest room -- Must I paint you a...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Elektra/Rhino 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BRAAdler, Mortimer Jerome
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.531 ADLGreene, Philip
Summary: "In To Have and Have Another, Ernest Hemingway enthusiast and cocktail connoisseur Philip Greene delves deeper into the author's drinking habits than ever before, offering dozens of authentic recipes for drinks directly connected with the novels, history and folklore, and colorful anecdotes about the man himself. With this cocktail companion, you will be able to fully enjoy Hemingway's works...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perigee Book 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.847 GRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.874 GRERinke, Wolf J.
Contents: Knowledge is not power -- Management and leadership theories do not work -- Be selfish -- Don't manage people -- Don't be proud -- Don't be tough -- Don't play to win -- Don't prove yourself -- Practice KID not KITA -- Don't have people work for you -- Don't focus on the bottom line -- Don't have goals and objectives -- Trust all people all of the time -- Don't oil the squeaky wheel -- Don't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2004
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Summary: "Dispels widespread myths about mass surveillance, privacy, and autonomy in the digital age"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.1 BOGGottman, John Mordechai.
Summary: In 1994, Dr. Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washington announced that, through scientific observation and mathematical analysis, they could predict--with more than 90 percent accuracy--whether a marriage would succeed or fail. But they did not yet know how to turn a failing marriage into a successful one, so Gottman teamed up with his clinical psychologist wife to develop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A hotheaded widow searching for the hit-and-run driver who mowed down her husband befriends an eccentric optimist who isn't quite what she seems.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DEACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DEASolomon, Steven.
Summary: "A narrative account of how water has shaped human society from the ancient past to the present"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 553.7 SOLSummary: A statement on a business card is adorned with a chess-piece knight and heralds the professional services of Paladin. Based at the Hotel Carlton in San Francisco, and assisted by his manservant, Hey Boy, Paladin is an intelligent yet mysterious loner as well as a man of many talents, including detective, bodyguard, courier, sleuth and bounty hunter. When the situation is desperate, Paladin is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment/CBS DVD 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HAVPenn, Kal
Summary: "Kal Penn's unlikely career arc has taken him from nerdy American kid from an immigrant family in the New York suburb of Montclair, New Jersey, to world-famous actor, to White House staffer under President Obama, and back to actor again. Now, in You Can'tBe Serious, he reflects on the most ridiculous, offensive, and rewarding moments that have stood out during his journey. With intelligence,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PENN, KAL PENSummary: Essays by authors who have appeared on the podcast "Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books" explore the ever-increasing demands on mothers' time and topics inspired by things moms don't have time to do, including sleep, get sick, write, lose weight, and see friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 MOMBayard, Pierre
Summary: Offers advice to people on how to talk about books they have not read, including books they have skimmed, heard about, or read and forgotten, analyzes situations in which people might find themselves talking about books they have not read, and includes recommendations on how to resolve such social dilemmas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 BAYStolen Silver (Musical group)
Contents: Awake and alive -- Prefontaine -- A River Only Borrows -- Blue -- Letting Go -- If This Glue Holds -- I Stay Lonely -- The Reservoir Still Flows -- Learn to Fly -- Come Back to Chicago -- Can't Live Like This -- Carbon Copy
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Stolen Silver records
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK StoLoverde, Joy
Summary: Everything you need to know to plan for your own safe, financially secure, healthy, and happy old age For those who have no support system in place, the thought of aging without help can be a frightening, isolating prospect. Whether you have friends and family ready and able to help you or not, growing old does not have to be an inevitable decline into helplessness. It is possible to maintain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Lifelong 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.6 LOVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.6 LOVRicotti, Sonia
Summary: Explains how to surmount the most difficult of life-changing situations, bounce back quickly and reach an even higher level of happiness and not dwell on negative past experiences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Career Press 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "It's impossible to ignore how life has changed since COVID-19 spread across the world. People from all over quarantined and did their best to keep on going during the pandemic. Zibby Owens, host of the award-winning podcast Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books and a mother of four herself, wanted to do something to help people carry on and to give them something to focus on other than the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Professional gunfighter Paladin was a West Point graduate who, now that the Civil War is over, has firmly settled into San Francisco's Hotel Carlton where he has been awaiting responses to his trademark business cards.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2005