Ebadi, Shirin
Summary: "For several years the Iranian government tried everything to silence Shirin Ebadi: They arrested her, bugged her phones, attacked her home, shadowed her everywhere she went, seized her office, and nailed a death threat to her front door. But nothing could stop Ebadi from her work as a human rights lawyer defending women, children, and the persecuted in Iran. After several years of harrassment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EBADI, SHIRIN EBASummary: Simone Bitton, a Jewish woman born in Morocco who identifies with both Arab and Jewish cultures, examines the personal, cultural, and monetary costs of the Israeli West Bank Barrier, a wall being built to separate Israelis and Palestinians.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Life Size Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WALSpirin, Gennady.
Summary: A simplified retelling of the adventures of a little girl walking in the woods who finds the house of the three bears and helps herself to their belongings. Includes a note on the history of the tale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Children 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 SPISpirin, Gennady.
Summary: When Prince Ivan sets out to find the Firebird for his father the tsar, he must complete a series of tasks before obtaining the Firebird and winning the hand of a beautiful princess.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 398.2454 SPIEisner, Shiri.
Summary: "Depicted as duplicitous, traitorous, and promiscuous, bisexuality has long been suspected, marginalized, and rejected by both straight and gay communities alike. Bi takes a long overdue, comprehensive look at bisexual politics--from the issues surrounding biphobia/monosexism, feminism, and transgenderism to the practice of labeling those who identify as bi as either "too bisexual" (promiscuous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 EISAdaf, Shimon
Summary: Cycle of poems composed after Adaf's sister's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alice James Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ADAItō, Shiori
Summary: "BLACK BOX is Shiori Ito's written account of her 2015 assault by a prominent Japanese reporter, the publication of which led to a societal reckoning around recognizing sexual assault and gender-based violence, and foregrounded Japan's #MeToo movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ITO, SHIORI ITOSerrin, Judith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 SERShubin, Neil.
Summary: Traces the unique qualities of the human species to astronomical events that occurred billions of years ago, revealing how the molecular development of human life can be linked to the evolution of the cosmos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 550 SHUShahin, Mariam.
Contents: Pt. 1. Palestinian life -- Pt. 2 Northern Palestine -- Pt. 3. Central Palestine -- Pt. 4. Southern Palestine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 SHAShlain, Leonard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 SHLEdelman, Shimon.
Summary: Draws on philosophy, literature, and brain science to explain why the pursuit of happiness is a more complicated effort than understood by most people, sharing insights into how to apply scientific methods for increasing one's chances of achieving happiness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 EDEShubin, Neil
Summary: "The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish now gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life, that enable us to further understand whether our presence on this planet is an accident or inevitable. The great transformations in the history of life brought about whole scale shifts in how animals live and how their bodies are organized: the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 SHUSumner, Seirian
Summary: In this eye-opening and entertaining work of popular science in the spirit of The Mosquito, Entangled Life, and The Book of Eels, a leading behavioural ecologist transforms our understanding of wasps, exploring these much-maligned insects' secret world, their incredible diversity and complex social lives, and revealing how they hold our fragile ecosystem in balance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 595.79 SUMKobliner, Shirly
Summary: "Engage with everyday expressions in a completely different (and fun!) way, with this entertaining and interactive book of common phrases that can turn a humdrum gathering into a raucous game night. We use expressions all the time. When you feel sick, you're "under the weather." When you feel great, you're "on top of the world." You may be fine with "half a loaf," or you may insist on "the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiller Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word KoblinerShlain, Tiffany
Summary: "Tiffany Shlain explores how turning off screens one day a week can work wonders on your brain, body, and soul." -- from book jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 SHLSharif, Solmaz
Summary: "In Customs, Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal, a continual series of checkpoints, officers, searches, and questionings that become a relentless experience of America. With resignation and austerity, these poems trace a pointed indoctrination to the customs of the nation-state and the English language, and the realities they impose upon the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 SHAAbadi, Jennifer Felicia.
Summary: A collection of more than 125 Syrian-Jewish recipes, plus personal anecdotes and little-known stories of Syrian-Jewish culture and history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Common Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Ethnic AbadiMichelle, Shihan
Summary: "A feminist-forward guide to setting boundaries, assessing safety, and defusing violence using the self offense strategy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2024
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Summary: "The grandson of Hollywood royalty on his father's side and Holocaust survivors on his mother's, Omar Sharif Jr. learned early on how to move between worlds, from the Montreal suburbs to the glamorous orbit of his grandparents's Cairo. His famous name always protected him wherever he went. When in the wake of the Arab Spring he made the difficult decision to come out in the pages of The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHARIF, OMAR, JR. SHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SHARIF SHAShirow, Masamune.
Summary: "In a near future, technology has firmly taken root into society at large. Cybernetic implants are nothing uncommon and robots roam as plentiful as humans, all connected through their 'ghosts' to the electronic datastreams of the net. Major Motoko Kusanagi and the Public Security Section 9 find themselves in a constant battle with the newly created wave of technological terrorists and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GHOShubin, Neil.
Summary: Neil Shubin, a leading paleontologist and professor of anatomy who discovered Tiktaalik--the "missing link" that made headlines around the world in April 2006--tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of years, long before the first creatures walked the earth. By examining fossils and DNA, Shubin shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 611 SHUNewman, Sharan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.1 NEWSharif, Manal
Summary: A memoir by a Saudi Arabian woman who became the unexpected leader of a movement to support women's rights describes how fundamentalism influenced her radical religious beliefs until her education, a job, and legal contradictions changed her perspectives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017