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Action and adventure television programs. bibliography Detective and mystery television programs. Fiction television programs. Historical television programs. Spy television programs. Television crime shows. Thrillers (Television programs) Video recordings for the hearing impaired. videorecordingSummary: This program with Bill Moyers talks to Americans in San Antonio, Minneapolis, and Washington, D.C., about why they don't vote, and to citizens who are trying to increase voter registration and turnout. Featured in the program are Father Andrew Greeley, author, priest, and sociologist; and Michael Franti, a rap artist.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Hard Working Americans
Contents: Blackland farmer -- Another train -- Down to the well -- The mountain song -- Stomp and holler -- Straight to hell -- Welfare music -- Mr. President have pity on the working man -- Run a mile -- I don't have a gun -- Wrecking ball.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HARLoma (Musical group)
Contents: I fix my gaze -- Ocotillo -- Half silences -- Elliptical days -- Given a sign -- Thorn -- Breaking waves like a stone -- Blue rainbow -- Jenny -- Don't shy away -- Homing.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LOMOffspring (Musical group)
Contents: Welcome -- Have you ever -- Staring at the sun -- Pretty fly (for a white guy) -- The kids aren't alright -- Feelings -- She's got issues -- Walla walla -- The end of the line -- No brakes -- Why don't you get a job? -- Americana -- Pay the man.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK OFFSummary: Jeannette Rankin held many positions and worked for many causes during her life. She was a social worker, advocate for women’s suffrage, and the first woman in the United States elected to a national office when most American women did not yet have the right to vote. Sent to the House of Representatives in 1916 by the voters of Montana, Rankin is often remembered as the woman who voted against...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1984
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Hasen, Richard L.
Summary: "Throughout history, too many Americans have been disenfranchised or faced needless barriers to vote. Part of the blame falls on the Constitution, which does not contain an affirmative right to vote. The Supreme Court has made matters worse by failing to protect voting rights and limiting Congress's ability to do so. The time has come for voters to take action and push for an amendment to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2024
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 324.6 HASMinot, Susan
Summary: "A superb collection of short fiction--her first in thirty years and spanning many geographies--from the critically acclaimed author of Monkeys, Evening, and Thirty Girls A writer dryly catalogs the myriad reasons she cannot write; an artist bicycles through protests in lower Manhattan and ruminates on an elusive lover; an old woman on her deathbed calls out for a man other than her husband; a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINMayer, Nathaniel.
Contents: Why don't you give it to me? -- White dress -- I'm a lonely man -- Please don't drop the bomb -- Everywhere I go -- What would you do? Doin' it -- Why dontcha show me -- Dancing mood.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alive Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MAYMartin, Stephen
Summary: We live in a world where proven facts and verifiable data are freely and widely available. Why, then, are self-confident ignoramuses so often believed over thoughtful experts? And why do seemingly irrelevant details such as a person's appearance or financial status influence whether or not we trust what they are saying, regardless of their wisdom or foolishness? Stephen Martin and Joseph Marks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.8 MARGelman, Andrew/ Park, David/ Shor, Boris/ Bafumi, Joseph
Contents: Introduction -- Rich state, poor state -- How the talking heads can be so confused -- Income and voting over time -- Inequality and voting -- Religious reds and secular blues -- The United States in comparative perspective -- Polarized parties -- Competing to build a majority coalition -- Putting it all together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 GELWolbrecht, Christina
Summary: "How have American women voted in the first 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment? How have popular understandings of women as voters both persisted and changed over time? In A Century of Votes for Women, Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder offer an unprecedented account of women voters in American politics over the last ten decades. Bringing together new and existing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 WOLShamir, Ruby
Summary: "A look at what makes Americans distinct and what makes American society thrive for young readers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973 SHANitrada.
Contents: The only solution -- Everything is not alright -- We don't know why but we do it -- Fading away -- No. 4 -- Old love, new idea -- I fear: Good -- Like a souvenir -- Start today.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2nd Rec 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NitraBouton, Katherine
Summary: Traces the author's experiences of hearing loss while evaluating a growing epidemic of hearing impairment in America, drawing on medical and specialist insights to identify possible causes while sharing how hearing loss affects everyday life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.8 BOUGoldstein, Rebecca
Summary: "From the acclaimed writer and thinker--whose award-winning books include both fiction and non-fiction--a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden but essential role in today's debates on love, religion, politics, and science. Imagine that Plato came to life in the 21st century and set out on a multi-city speaking tour: How would he handle a host on Fox News...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 184 GOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Phil GoldsteinStein, Mark
Summary: "In American Panic, New York Times bestselling author Mark Stein traces the history and consequences of American political panics through the years. Virtually every American, on one level or another, falls victim to the hype, intensity, and propaganda that accompanies political panic, regardless of their own personal affiliations. By highlighting the similarities between American political...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 STESummary: Through candid interviews with first- and second-generation Vietnamese-Americans, this program documents the process of assimilation into American culture of refugees from the former Republic of Vietnam. Vu-Duc Vuong, of the University of California, Berkeley, as well as college students, professionals, and clergy explore what it means to be of Vietnamese descent in America today. Topics...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Smith, Helen
Summary: Demonstrates that society has become anti-male, and reveals why men are either consciously or unconsciously going on strike due to the laws, attitudes, and hostility against them for being male in the twenty-first century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Encounter Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.332 SMISummary: Hosted by actor Jimmy Smits, this program examines how second-generation Hispanics are adapting to American society, and how they are maintaining their Latino roots while assimilating into the American cultural mainstream. A variety of famous and everyday Hispanic Americans are interviewed, including pop film director Richard Rodriquez. Hispanics from doctors and police officers to comedians,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The personal stories of prominent Italian Americans from all walks of life in an exploration of what it means to be Italian in America. The stories are told with vintage film footage, family photos, and personal interviews.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ITASummary: Secrets can be deadly in this suspenseful thriller about undercover Russian spies in 1980s Washington D.C. Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings seem to be a typical suburban couple, but they're actually lethal KGB agents plotting to bring down America. As the Cold War escalates, Philip and Elizabeth must take extreme measures to continue their mission to keep their true identities hidden. But when an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMEO'Neill, Amanda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Young Families 1997
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 598 ISummary: The stakes have never been higher for KGB operatives Philip and Elizabeth Jennings than in this pulse pounding fourth season. Still grieving the death of her mother, Elizabeth berates Paige for telling her pastor about her parents' covert profession. A deadly bioweapon threatens Gabriel's life, and the couple shatters the lives of loved ones when Martha is told Clark's true identity and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD AMESummary: Danger, disillusionment, and betrayal reach an all-time high in the suspense-laced fifth season of The Americans. KGB agents Philip and Elizabeth Jennings' unwavering dedication to their work comes at even more of a personal cost than before. And as Paige is drawn deeper into the reality of her parents' secret job, she realizes she will never have a normal life. Meanwhile, as Cold War tensions...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018