Summary: When celebrated scholar Joseph Campbell sat down with veteran journalist Bill Moyers for a discussion about his life's work, the nation was captivated. The series brought Campbell's theories into popular culture and led to a bestselling companion book. Includes six episodes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2010

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Noble, Thomas F. X.

Summary: Lectures study the reason for the Catholic Church's papacy, how popes are chosen, and what kind of men have filled the office.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2007

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Campwell, Chloe

Summary: Are you interested in traveling across the United States in an RV?  Do you want to explore the country and see all of its natural wonders? Have you felt like you haven’t connected with your inner self and need to rediscover the world?Would you like to be part of a thriving community that believes in self-sufficiency and personal responsibility? This book will teach you everything you need to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chloe Campwell 0000

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Alexander, Bevin.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2000

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Troy, Tevi

Summary: From Cicero to Snooki, the cultural influences on our American presidents are powerful and plentiful. Thomas Jefferson famously said ""I cannot live without books,"" and his library backed up the claim, later becoming the backbone of the new Library of Congress. Jimmy Carter watched hundreds of movies in his White House, while Ronald Reagan starred in a few in his own time. Lincoln was a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery History 0000

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Alexander, Bevin.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hippocrene Books 1993

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Cohen, Bevin

Summary: "Seed activist Bevin Cohen takes a deep dive into the hows and whys of the modern seed saving movement. A great how-to guide, leading the reader step by step through the process of saving their seeds from 43 different crops; from adzuki beans to wheat and everything in between. Seed savers of all levels will benefit from Bevin's easy to follow explanations on important techniques such as hand...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Small House Farm 2019

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Gambell, Lizi

Summary: The Unschooled Life combines personal storytelling with advice and guidance for any parent on a home education journey. In this book, Lizi Gambell tells how her eldest son became deeply unhappy at school, and how things transformed when they left the system and started to build their own learning life. Lizi shares the ups and downs of this decision, including the process of confronting her own...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Shore Line 2019

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Alexander, Bevin.

Summary: Conventional wisdom holds that the South's defeat was inevitable. Yet military historian Alexander's new look at the Civil War documents how a Confederate victory could have come about--and how close it came to happening. Moving beyond theoretical conjectures to explore actual plans that Confederate generals proposed and the tactics ultimately adopted in the war's key battles, he shows why...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2007

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Zevin, Dan.

Summary: Dan Zevin, master of "Seinfeld-ian nothingness" (Time), is trying his best to make the transition from couplehood to familyhood. Acclimating to the adult-oriented lifestyle has never been his strong suit, and this slice-of-midlife story chronicles the whole hilarious journey--from instituting date night to joining Costco; from touring Disneyland to recovering from knee surgery; from losing...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012

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Levine, Melvin D.

Summary: Shows parents how to help their children become productive adults, explaining how to overcome the common problem of getting work done, identifying areas of neurodevelopmental weakness, and demonstrating how to emphasize a child's strengths.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003

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Levin, Ted

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 2003

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Levine, Melvin D.

Summary: Different Minds Learn Differently, writes Dr. Mel Levine, one of the best-known education experts and pediatricians in America today. And that's a problem for many children, because most schools still cling to a one-size-fits-all education philosophy. As a result, these children struggle because their learning patterns don't fit the schools they are in. In A Mind at a Time, Dr. Levine shows...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002

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Brown, Devin.

Summary: Presents an analysis of C.S. Lewis's "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," covering such topics as symbols, hidden meanings, and missed details from each chapter.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Books 2005

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Levin, Daniel

Summary: "An account by an armed-conflict mediator searching for a missing person in Syria over twenty tense days-at the end of which he will either find "proof of life" or not"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021

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Levin, Susan.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sixth&Spring Books 2008

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Levin, Yuval.

Summary: "In The Great Debate Yuval Levin explores the origins of the familiar left/right divide in American politics by examining the views of the men who best represent each side of that debate: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. In a groundbreaking exploration of the origins of our political order, Levin shows that our political divide did not originate (as many historians argue) in the French...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Begin, Nadine

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Publisher / Publication Date: Prism Publications 0000

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Farsad, Negin

Summary: "Negin Farsad is an Iranian-American-Muslim female stand-up comedian who believes she can change the world, one joke at a time. In HOW TO MAKE WHITE PEOPLE LAUGH, Farsad shares her personal experiences growing up as the "Other" in an American culture that has no time for nuance. Writing bluntly and hilariously about the elements of race we are often too politically correct to discuss, Farsad...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016

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Levie, Eleanor.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hearst Books 1998

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Smiley, Tavis

Summary: "A powerful chronicle of the sixteen weeks leading up to King of Pop Michael Jackson's death. Michael Jackson's final months were like the rest of his short and legendary life: filled with deep lows and soaring highs, a constant hunt for privacy, and the pressure and fame that made him socially fragile and almost--ultimately--unable to live,"--NoveList.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016

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Tenzin Priyadarshi

Summary: "The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi was born in India to a prominent Hindu Brahmin family. At the age of six he began having visions of a snowy mountainous region in which men with shaved heads, in robes the color of sunset, wandered about. "It was as vividas if I were watching a scene from life," he writes. At the age of ten, he ran away from boarding school to find this place, taking a train to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019

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