Summary: Examined Life takes philosophy into the hustle and bustle of the everyday. The "rock star" philosophers of our time take "walks" through places that hold special resonance for them and their ideas. These places include crowded city streets, deserted alleyways, Central Park, and a garbage dump.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Zeitgeist Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EXAMonterey Media.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Monterey Media 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MonteSummary: Former Vice President Al Gore presents evidence that the negative effects of global warming have increased since the release of the film "An inconvenient truth" a decade earlier.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INCTaylor, Astra.
Summary: From a cutting-edge cultural commentator and documentary filmmaker, this work is a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great democratizing force of our age. The Internet has been hailed as a place where all can be heard and everyone can participate equally. But how true is this claim? In this seminal dismantling of techno-utopian visions, the author argues...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 TAYTaylor, Astra
Summary: "What is democracy really? What do we mean when we use the term? And can it ever truly exist? Astra Taylor, hailed as a "New Civil Rights Leader" (LA Times), provides surprising answers. There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, and yet it is in crisis everywhere we look. From a cabal of thieving plutocrats in the White House to campaign finance and gerrymandering, it is clear that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 TAYSpaceship Media (Organization)
Summary: "Based on an article by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters, the fascinating results of an important nationwide conversation about guns: Can complete strangers representing every point along the political divide engage in civil and productive discourse on the topic of gun control?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiller Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.33 GUNMadia, Brianna
Summary: "In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures traveling across the deserts of the American West in an orange van named Bertha and reflects on an unconventional approach to life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 ELIAshraf, Parveen
Summary: Parveen is passionate about her culture as well as her cuisine, as a wife and mum of three, she is a keen advocate of Indian home cooking as well as a dedicated cookery teacher. After leaving the corporate world a decade ago, Parveen began demonstrating and teaching cooking around the UK, as well as Europe. She is a firm believer that with the right method and the right spices, anyone can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FCM Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5954 ASHSummary: Including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Omar El Akkad and others, this collection from literary writers around the world offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.84 WORAntram, David
Summary: Presents step-by-step instructions for drawing pirates, their ships, and other pirate related objects.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 743.4 ANTLindgren, Astrid
Summary: After Tommy and Annika entice Pippi into going to school, her first-and-only day there is unlike anything they ever expected.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIKKE 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction LindgrenMecca, Kari.
Summary: Opening this book's pages is like lifting the lid of a sewing treasure box! It is filled to overflowing with flirty flounces; waving bias; spaghetti appliques; and designer Kari Mecca's own touch of whimsy. Each chapter is based on one of three featured patterns: a Square Yoke; a Round Yoke; and Bottoms & Pockets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Martha Pullen Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.406 MECMedini, Shari
Summary: "Parenting experts Karissa Tunis and Shari Medini share actionable tips, heartfelt insight, and planning strategies to help you enjoy your own parenting journey while working from home. Building on the authors' own experiences and the most common challenges they hear parents voicing today, Parenting While Working from Home encourages parents to make intentional changes that will result in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 MEDSidman, Joyce
Summary: Newbery-Honor winning author Joyce Sidman explores the extraordinary life and scientific discoveries of Maria Merian, who discovered the truth about metamorphosis and documented the science behind the mystery in this visual biography that features many original paintings by Maria herself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD 921 Merian 2019Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 921 MERMediate, Rocco.
Summary: An account of the dramatic competition between Rocco Mediate and Tiger Woods during the 2008 US Open traces the events that led to a sudden-death showdown, evaluating the ways in which the golf world was changed by the five-day event.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.352 MEDMehra, Nishta
Summary: Essays describe how the author's experiences as an Indian American, the wife of a white Christian woman, and the mother of an adopted black son have been challenged by rigid cultural family norms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEHRA, NISHTA MEHSchaub, Emelia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Myers Printing Service 1986
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.2 SCHAntram, David
Summary: Presents step-by-step instructions for drawing different kinds of fairies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN GILMedina, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pear Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.82 MEDMedina, John
Summary: Brain Rules for Baby bridges the gap between what scientists know and what parents practice. Through fascinating and funny stories, Medina, a developmental molecular biologist and dad, unravels how a child's brain develops--and what you can do to optimize it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pear Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 MEDMedina, Nico
Summary: RuPaul Andre Charles always knew he was meant to be a performer. Even as a young child, he loved to dress up and imitate the glamorous women he saw on television. When he turned fifteen, he began studying theater in a performing arts school in Atlanta and never looked back. Ru developed his drag-queen personality and launched his career in the 1980s. He now hosts and judges the widely popular...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUPBeddia, Joe
Summary: Pizza Camp is the ultimate guide to achieving pizza nirvana at home, from the chef who is making what Bon Appetit magazine calls "the best pizza in America." Joe Beddia's pizza is old schoolit's all about the dough, the sauce, and the cheese. And after perfecting his pie-making craft at Pizzeria Beddia in Philadelphia, he's offering his methods and recipes in a cookbook that's anything but old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2017