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Baltimore (Md.) Biography Baltimore (Md.) Social conditions 20th century Basketball stories Board books Fear Religious aspects Christianity Interpersonal relations Religious aspects Christianity Intimidation Prisoners Maryland Biography Self-confidence Religious aspects Christianity Self-esteem Religious aspects ChristianityMillhauser, Steven.
Summary: A collection of short works considers the boundaries between real and fantasy life and features such protagonists as a knife thrower, ghosts, and a cartoon cat and mouse.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILSummary: Sensing the thoughts and feelings of others may be a natural talent for most people, but how do we do it? Rebecca Saxe studies the way we think about the inner lives of our fellow humans. In her laboratory at MIT, she uses fMRI scans to identify what happens in our brains when we consider the motives, passions, and beliefs of others. In this TEDTalk, Saxe shares some of her fascinating findings...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Shepherd, Jean.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEEpley, Nicholas
Summary: An exploration of the human mind's capacity for instinctive undertanding about the feelings and desires of others explains how the ability or inability to understand the minds of those around us leads to connection or conflict.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 EPLIacoboni, Marco.
Summary: Draws on recent scientific findings in neuroscience to introduce the concept of mirror neuron "smart cells" that enable a person's ability to understand fellow humans, in an account that evaluates the role of mirror neurons in a range of aspects from morality and addiction to political affiliations and consumer choices.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Chappell & Co. Inc. 1945
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSepultura (Musical group)
Contents: Refuse/Resist -- Territory -- Slave new world -- Amen -- Kaiowas -- Propaganda -- Biotech is Godzilla -- Nomad -- We who are not as others -- Manifest -- The hunt -- Clenched fist.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Roadrunner 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SEPMoore, Wes
Summary: Two kids with the same name were born blocks apart in the same decaying city within a few years of each other. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, army officer, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2010
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Summary: "In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, photographs, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine black people's connection to the American land from Emancipation to today. In the 1920s, there were over one million black farmers; today there are just 45,000. Baszile explores this crisis, through the farmers' personal experiences. In their own...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 BASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 BASMoore, Wes
Summary: Two kids with the same name were born blocks apart in the same decaying city within a few years of each other. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, army officer, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MOORE, WES MOOCheshire, James
Summary: "An unprecedented portrait of the hidden patterns in human society-visualized through the world of data. Award-winning geographer-designer team James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti transform enormous datasets into rich maps and cutting-edge visualizations. In this triumph of visual storytelling, they uncover truths about our past, reveal who we are today, and highlight what we face in the years...
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 CHEYonezu, Yusuke
Summary: Birds, mice, turtles, elephants, rabbits, bears, and cats all show their love for one another.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minedition 2013
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE YONShafik, Minouche
Summary: "Whether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that supports and binds us together as a society. Today, however, our social contract has been broken by changing gender...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.011 SHAKrekelberg, Alyssa
Summary: Shares three stories of children learning how to support each other and be good friends. Vibrant and colorful photos help tell the stories. Additional features include a table of contents, a phonetic glossary, sources for further research, and an index.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2020
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Summary: Twelve stories filled with sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRLaymon, Kiese
Summary: "A collection of essays on family, race, violence, celebrity, music, writing, and other topics"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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Summary: "WE SEE EACH OTHER is a personal history of trans visibility since the beginning of moving images. A literary reckoning, it unearths a transcestry that's long existed in plain sight and in the shadows of history's annals, and further contextualizes our present moment of increased representation. The films and television shows that Tre'vell covers include: Midnight In The Garden Of Good And...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andscape Books, an imprint of Buena Vista Books, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANDERSON, TRE'VELL ANDJ McCarthy H Tierney
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Leo Feist 1929
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMWelch, Edward T.
Summary: Overly concerned about what people think of you? Welch uncovers the spiritual dimension of people-pleasing and points the way through a true knowledge of God, ourselves, and others. - Publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: P & R Pub. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.4 WELCortázar, Julio
Summary: "In time for his centenary: two groundbreaking works from a major figure of world literature, one of the founders of the Latin American Boom. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS. With these two books--the "counter-novel" Hopscotch and the short-story collection Blow-Up--Cortazar earned a place among the most innovative authors of the twentieth century. Hopscotch follows the adventures of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Everyman's Library, Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORBishop, Jenn
Summary: New to Cincinnati, where her father is now coach of the University basketball team, eighth-grader Aurora (called Rory) finds herself isolated by the heated team rivalries--especially when it turns out her new friend Abby's father has a mysterious feud with Rory's father that threatens her new friendship.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BISRose, Todd
Summary: A social scientist draws on cutting-edge neuroscience to reveal how much of the ways we think of others are based on false assumptions that drive bad decisions and make us unhappy as individuals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.3 ROSWilmore, Larry.
Summary: A correspondent for "The Daily Show" shares humorous and provocative views on race in America, in writings that explore such topics as Black History Month, Black Jesus, and "racist hurricanes."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8009 WILSharot, Tali
Summary: "We all have a duty to affect others--from the classroom to the boardroom to social media. But how skilled are we at this role, and can we become better? It turns out that many of our instincts--from relying on facts and figures to shape opinions, to insisting others are wrong or attempting to exert control--are ineffective, because they are incompatible with how peoples minds operate. Sharot...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017