Summary: A sublime work of personal vision, the debut feature by the Mexican Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir is a hypnotic documentary immersion in the world of Ethiopia's Oromo and Harari communities, places where one commodity khat, a euphoria-inducing plant once prized for its supposedly mystical properties holds sway over the rituals and rhythms of everyday life. As if under the influence of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE COUYogis, Jaimal
Summary: "In this meditative memoir--a compelling fusion of Barbarian Days and the journals of Thomas Merton--the author of Saltwater Buddha reflects on his "failing toward enlightenment," his continued search to find meaning and a greater understanding of the Divine in the world's oceans as well as everyday life."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 YOGIS, JAIMAL YOGGray, Jon
Summary: Ghetto Gastro, a Bronx-based creative and culinary collective, delivers a highly visual manifesto for living and eating to stimulate the mind, body, and heart, in a book that promotes Black excellence through recipes, art, and thought-provoking text. Predominantly plant-based recipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59296 GRAHulton Deutsch Collection
Contents: Vol. 2. Images 1918 to the present -- Aspects of the 1920s and 1930s -- The rise of facism -- Nazism -- War in Europe : the Blitz -- Postwar fashion -- Cinema -- The changing role of women -- Music and dance -- The sixties -- Aviation and space -- World events -- Civil protest -- Disasters -- Sport.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Könemann 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.593 Vanessa-AnnSummary: Few things on Earth are as miraculous and vital as seeds, worshipped and treasured since the dawn of humankind. Seed: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000 year-old food legacy. In the last century, 94 percent of our seed varieties have disappeared. As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists, lawyers, and indigenous seed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SEEYogis, Jaimal.
Summary: The author examines his own fears while exploring "the complicated spectrum of why we feel afraid: fear of loss, fear of not being good enough, fear of being trapped in the wrong job, fear of not being able to realize our dreams, fear of pain, and ultimately, fear of our own mortality"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1965
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Summary: Fed up with his suburban life, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a copy of Herman Hesse's Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard. His journey is a coming-of-age saga that takes him from communes to monasteries, from the warm Pacific to the icy New York shore. Saltwater Buddha is a chronicle of finding meditative focus in the barrel of a wave and eternal truth in the great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wisdom Publications 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 YOGIS, JAIMAL YOGFajardo, Anika
Summary: "Interactive adventures about the mythical Greek hero Hercules and his 12 labors in You Choose format"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED FAJSummary: Fearless documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras's career-long pursuit of truth and justice finds powerful expression in an epic story of art, activism, and survival. Made in collaboration with renowned artist Nan Goldin, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed entwines the mission of PAIN an advocacy group she founded to raise awareness about the billionaire Sackler family's integral role in the ongoing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "In the tradition of Oliver Sacks, a tour of the latest neuroscience of schizophrenia, autism, Alzheimer's disease, ecstatic epilepsy, Cotard's syndrome, out-of-body experiences, and other disorders--revealing the awesome power of the human sense of selffrom a master of science journalism Anil Ananthaswamy's extensive in-depth interviews venture into the lives of individuals who offer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 ANAGrimal, Nicolas-Christophe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackwell 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 932.01 GRIDenise, Anika
Summary: "The life of Puerto Rican actress, dancer, and singer Rita Moreno, from her girlhood journey to the United States to her rise as a timeless superstar"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: An inspiring biography of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from Pura Belpré Honor-winning creators Anika Aldamuy Denise and Loris Lora! In 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest congresswoman in America. How did this young Puertoriquena become an unstoppable force in politics? Find out in this accessible and engaging book for young readers. AOC's remarkable story begins in her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "From the author of MONSTER TRUCK and STARRING CARMEN comes a gorgeous and lyrical story about Pura Belpré, a Puerto Rican librarian who changed the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Summary: Investigating hog manure pollution was hardly the glamorous assignment Nicolette Hahn Niman pictured when going to work for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in New York. But her odyssey into the inner workings of the "factory farm" industry transformed her into an intrepid environmental lawyer who goes up against the big-business farming establishment. Niman uncovers shocking practices, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins Living 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1992
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Summary: For as long as humans have existed, we have consulted everything from the stars to stones with symbols on them. Growing up in an Arab Muslim family, SBS journalist and TEDx presenter Amal Awad was keenly aware of the unseen forces at play in her life - superstition, fatalism and magical jinn were more real to her than any Hollywood fantasy. From fundy (aka fundamentalist) Muslim to New Age...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Murdoch Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 204.092 AWADenise, Anika
Summary: "The life of Puerto Rican actress, dancer, and singer Rita Moreno, from her girlhood journey to the United States to her rise as a timeless superstar."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: "For decades it has been nearly universal dogma among environmentalists that many forms of livestock-goats, sheep, and others, but especially cattle-are Public Enemy Number One. They erode soils, pollute air and water, damage riparian areas, and decimate wildlife populations. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations bolstered the credibility of this notion with its 2007...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2021