Hyde, Margaret O. (Margaret Oldroyd)
Summary: Discusses the different religions of the world, including their histories, their common practices, and each religion's thoughts on what happens to an individual's spirit after they die.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 291 HYDJohnson, Luke Timothy.
Summary: Provides an overview of Christianity, the world's largest religion, and discusses why, in addition to being vast and popular, it is also extremely complex and often highly contradictory. Explains why the central figures, elements, and creeds of Christianity are hard to fathom yet give Christianity its distinctive character. Covers topics such as Christianity's birth and expansion across the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 230 GREJohnson, Luke Timothy.
Summary: Provides an overview of Christianity, the world's largest religion, and discusses why, in addition to being vast and popular, it is also extremely complex and often highly contradictory.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 230 JOHDalai Lama XIV
Summary: A follow-up to the best-selling "Ethics for a new millennium" outlines a system of secular ethics that both transcends religion and incorporates religious tolerance for the overall improvement of human life on individual, community and global levels, offering an accompanying guided meditation practice for cultivating key human values.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Buddhism challenges some of the most important Western ideas about God, human life, and the self. In Buddhism, there is no single almighty God who created the world. Instead, Buddhism teaches that all of life is suffering, and there is no permanent self. Moreover, it teaches that in accepting that all life is suffering, bliss can be achieved in this life. Buddhism's core philosophy that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 GREJones, Carly
Summary: "The author is autistic, and she is a leading name in the community with a significant media profile (she was the first British autistic woman to address the United Nations on autistic females' rights, and has received an MBE for her work in this area). Carly works directly with families and multidisciplinary teams to support autistic girls who are at risk of dropping out of education. The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1968 JONProfessionals (Rap group)
Contents: My House -- The pros -- Payday -- Give n take -- Superhumans -- Buggin -- CDP smackdown -- Timeless treasure -- I jus wanna -- Away too long -- Make due -- Tired atlas -- Dishonored valor.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP PROMuesse, Mark W. (Mark William)
Summary: Provides an overview of Hinduism and discusses why Hinduism is perhaps the most diverse religion of all. Covers topics such as arranged marriages and the caste system, the Indus Valley Civilization, the sacred writings in the Vedas, the Bhagavad-gita, and the Upanishads, ritual purity rites, the Aryan language of Sanskrit, and Hinduism's rejection of the notion that there is but one path to the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 294.2 MUEMuesse, Mark W. (Mark William)
Summary: Provides an overview of Hinduism and discusses why Hinduism is perhaps the most diverse religion of all. Covers topics such as arranged marriages and the caste system, the Indus Valley Civilization, the sacred writings in the Vedas, the Bhagavad-gita, and the Upanishads, ritual purity rites, the Aryan language of Sanskrit, and Hinduism's rejection of the notion that there is but one path to the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.5 GRESummary: In many ways, American healthcare is number one-but not in overall performance, says the WHO, which ranked the U.S. 37th. Unlike most first-world countries, America does not guarantee care for all of its citizens regardless of ability to pay. This ABC News program seeks to understand what factors contribute to top-notch healthcare as it assesses the advantages and disadvantages of the Canadian...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Bowker, John
Summary: The distinctive identities of different faiths are explored in World Religions by studying the main principles and thinking of each religion. The book's reproduction allows the symbolism and meaning in religious imagery and iconography to be revealed in great detail.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Rel BowkerCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 200 BOWEckel, Malcolm David
Summary: Twelve lectures delivered by Professor Malcolm David Eckel of Boston University in which he presents a survey of Buddhism from its origins in India to contemporary times in America. The course introduces the vitality and adaptability of Buddhism which has transformed civilizations in Asia and become a lively component of Western culture.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Meredith, Susan.
Summary: This book will help you gain an understanding of what people of different faiths believe, where and how people worship, the impact of religion on society, rites of passage, custom and festivals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 200 MERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 200 MERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Religion MeredithSummary: At St. Bernard's Hospital, in Chicago's blighted Englewood neighborhood, the ER staff refuses to back away from the challenge of serving patients with serious mental illnesses and little or no insurance-a population precariously poised to slip between the cracks of a healthcare system that is not set up to catch them. Who are the dedicated professionals stretching their limited resources to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Can the U.S. afford to reform its healthcare system? Can it afford not to, with 46 million Americans lacking health insurance and millions more underinsured? This Fred Friendly Seminar explores the dilemmas and urgently needed policy decisions surrounding what has become, literally, a life-or-death issue. NYU law professor Arthur Miller guides a team of high-profile panelists through a series...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Emanuel, Ezekiel J.
Summary: From the Publisher: America spends more than any other developed nation on healthcare-$2.1 trillion in 2007 alone. But 47 million Americans remain uninsured, and of those Americans who are insured, many suffer from poor health. In his ground-breaking proposal, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel offers up a plan to comprehensively restructure the delivery and quality of our healthcare. By eliminating...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 EMASummary: On the fifth anniversary of 9/11, 1,800 delegates gathered at the Congress of World Religions in Montreal to spend a week in ecumenical dialogue. This program captures the wisdom of attendees who, speaking from the podium or offstage, address topics ranging from widespread religious fanaticism, the destabilizing action/reaction spiral of violence, and the misuse of religion for political ends...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: If God exists, why is there so much suffering? What happens after you die? Does God hear our prayers? In this program a panel of teens pose the hard questions to a Catholic pilgrimage leader, a Sufi Muslim practitioner, and an Anglican minister as together they examine the relationship between the physical world and the spiritual. The group find areas of agreement between Christianity and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Iliffe, Rob
Summary: Religion and faith dominated much of Newton's life and work. His papers, never made available to the public, were filled with biblical speculation and timelines along with passages that excoriated the early Church fathers. Indeed, his radical theological leanings rendered him a heretic, according to the doctrines of the Anglican Church.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 230 ILIPhelps, Kelly Joe
Contents: Jericho -- Window grin -- Slingshot professionals -- Not so far to go -- It's James now -- Waiting for Marty -- Knock louder -- Cardboard box of batteries -- Circle wars -- Rusting gate.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rykodisc 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES PHESummary: Discusses the life and accomplishments of Henry Ford, a man who changed the American way of life in the 1900s by inventing the Model T and founding the Ford Motor Company.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB FORD ELNSummary: Is the human brain hardwired for religion? This program examines work in the emerging field of neurotheology, focusing on links between religious ecstasy and the brain's temporal lobes. Dr. Michael Persinger, who has spent much of his career pursuing such a connection, uses magnetic field resonance to test his theories on renowned atheist Richard Dawkins. Inversely, Dr. Andrew Newberg performs...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In this program, Dennis Wholey has a conversation about Native American religions with Suzan Shown Harjo, executive director of The Morning Star Institute in Washington, D.C. Topics of discussion include the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978; some common aspects of the approximately 300 remaining Native American religions being practiced in the U.S. today; the concepts of a supreme...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008