Summary: Origami may seem an unlikely medium for understanding and explaining the world. But around the globe, several fine artists and theoretical scientists are abandoning more conventional career paths to forge lives as modern-day paper folders. Through origami, these offbeat and provocative minds are reshaping ideas of creativity and revealing the relationship between art and science. This film...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Fuse Films 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BETSummary: Lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing how our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profits ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Reveals surprising - and often shocking truths - about what we eat, how it's produced and who we have become as a nation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FOOPollan, Michael.
Summary: An ecological and anthropological study of eating offers insight into food consumption in the twenty-first century, explaining how an abundance of unlimited food varieties reveals the responsibilities of consumers to protect their health and the environment.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: 394.12 POLBrin, Geri
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sixth&Spring Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.34 BRIPollan, Michael.
Summary: Traces the history of four domesticated species, the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato, from the plant's point of view and discusses how they have been cultivated to fill human needs and desires.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Evolution 2006
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Summary: "From the messed-up mind of music sensation Yungblud comes the Twisted Tales of The Ritalin Club! All pupils attending Blackheart's Boarding School must be punctual, masked, and heavily medicated. The displaying of superpowers is strictly forbidden. Any pupils encountering Yungblud or any member of his so-called "Ritalin Club" are to seek a teacher immediately. Failure to comply with any of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Z2 Comics 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 YUNSummary: On 12.12.12 some of the world's leading artists came together for a live, one-night-only fundraising concert at Madison Square Garden to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. The concert was broadcast all across North & South America, Europe, Africa, Asia & Australia. The all-star line-up includes The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Chris Martin, Paul...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TWEErickson, Erick
Summary: Offers ten open letters directed to the author's children, penned after he learned that both he and his wife faced grave medical issue, addressing life's enduring values and offering practical, inspirational, and spiritual advice.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 ERIEdic, Martin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.3 EDISala, Enric
Summary: In this book, world-renowned marine ecologist Enric Sala illuminates the many reasons why preserving Earth's biodiversity makes logical, emotional, and economic sense. Using key moments from his own scientific awakening, Sala reveals that our survival depends on all species. The natural world, he explains, is a perfect circular economy, where every species, in life and in death, sustains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 SALVuillard, Éric
Summary: "From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a powerful account of the German Peasants' War (1524-25) that shows striking parallels to class conflicts of our time. In the sixteenth century, the Protestant Reformation launched an attack on privilege and the Catholic Church, but it rapidly became an established, bourgeois authority itself. Rural laborers and the urban poor, who were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 843 VUIErlic, Lily.
Summary: This book describes the locations, climates, plants and animals, and conservation studies of grassland ecosystems.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: AV2 by Weigl 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.4 ERLPrather, Aric
Summary: "From renowned sleep scientist Dr. Aric Prather, a book that offers a simple yet powerful plan to improve your sleep in seven days We need to sleep to survive. If we stopped sleeping, we would die. Sure, it would take a while, but sleep is as essential as food, water, and oxygen. Eventually, without it, our bodies begin to shut down. So why on earth can something that should be so natural,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 PRAVeillé, Éric
Summary: Offers humorous drawings comparing things before and after storms, meetings with elephants, and trips to the hairdresser.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VEIPollan, Tracy
Summary: Following the advice of family member Michael Pollan --"Eat food, not too much, mostly plants"--this book offers an approach to eating which doesn't give up meat entirely but builds a diet that shifts the ratio from animals to plants, creating delicious and nutritious meals sure to appeal to everyone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.563 POLPollan, Corky
Summary: "In The Pollan Family Table, Corky, Lori, Dana, and Tracy Pollan invite you into their warm, inspiring kitchens, sharing more than 100 of their family's best recipes. For generations, the Pollans have used fresh, local ingredients to cook healthy, irresistible meals. Michael Pollan, whose bestselling books have changed our culture and the way we think about food, writes in his foreword about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 POLFromm, Erich
Contents: The crisis of psychoanalysis.--Freud's model of man and its social determinants.--Marx's contribution to the knowledge of man.--Humanistic planning.--The Oedipus complex: comments on the case of little Hans.--The significance of the theory of Mother right for today.--The theory of Mother right and its relevance for social psychology.--The method and function of an analytic social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart, Winston 1932
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.891 FROGimpel, Erich
Summary: An autobiography of Nazi spy Erich Gimpel chronicling his efforts to sabotage America's atomic program in World War II.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5487 GIMHoyt, Erich
Summary: "Invites readers to dive into the dazzling nighttime ocean. Countless microscopic plankton -- larval creatures such as ornate ghost pipefish, left-handed hermit crabs and bony-eared assfish -- ascend to the upper waters to feed, returning to the depths before sunrise."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2022
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 578.77 HOYYoung, Eris
Summary: Drawing upon interviews with a wide range of people across the asexual spectrum, Eris Young is here to take you on an empowering, enriching journey through the rich multitudes of asexual life.With chapters spanning everything from dating, relationships and sex, to mental and emotional health, family, community and joy, the inspirational stories and personal experiences within these pages speak...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 745.5941 BOYGozzano, Guido
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marlboro Press/Northwestern 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 858.912 GOZCoplan, James.
Summary: Compiles decades of research and clinical work in a guide to the sometimes bewildering array of therapy options and intervention programs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85882 COPGosman, Gillian.
Summary: Introduces spider monkeys, including where they live, what they eat, how they live in social groups, and why they are endangered.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2012