Summary: Documents the rise and growth of Islam throughout the world, from the birth of Prophet Muhammad in the 6th century through the peak of the Ottoman Empire 1000 years later. Discusses the impact of Islamic civilization on world history and culture.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS DVD 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 297.09 ISLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ISLSummary: Documents the rise and growth of Islam throughout the world, from the birth of Prophet Muhammad in the 6th century through the peak of the Ottoman Empire 1000 years later. Discusses the impact of Islamic civilization on world history and culture.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ISLSummary: "FAR FROM THE TREE follows families meeting extraordinary challenges through love, empathy, and understanding. This life-affirming documentary encourages us to cherish loved ones for all they are, not who they might have been. Based on Andrew Solomon's award-winning, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling non-fiction book "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sundance Selects 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FARNhat Hanh
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 1996
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 294.337 NHASummary: "This one-of-a-kind documentary narrated by Sir Ben Kingsley is a profoundly-cinematic portrait of the renowned Mongolian Buddhist leader, Khamba Lama Natsagdorj. Faith and science are elegantly reconciled as we're immersed in the Lama's eclectic, relentless humanitarian efforts. This depiction of the Lama's life of focused charity is an inspirational journey through his homeland that reaches...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MEDSummary: Contrary to the view of some that Jews caught up in the terror of Hitler's Europe were passive, this film highlights previously unknown stories of extraordinary men and women who exemplified courage and human dignity during the Holocaust. Features archival film and photos and new sequences shot on location.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: KOCH Vision 2005
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Summary: Follows the travels and travails of Ibn Battuta as he set out from Morocco in 1325 to journey to Mecca for his first Hajj and on to other Asian and African cities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JOUFriedman, Tova
Summary: "Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labour camp, and almost six when she and her mother were forced into a packed cattle truck and sent to Auschwitz II, also known as the Birkenau extermination camp,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRIEDMAN, TOVA FRIYogananda
Summary: The life story of spiritualist Yogananda from his childhood in India to the thirty years he lived and taught in America.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Self-Realization Fellowship 1996
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Summary: Shares the author's minute-by-minute account of his religiously transformative near-death experience and revealing week-long coma, describing his scientific study of near-death phenomena while explaining what he learned about the nature of human consciousness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.901 ALEBehn, Noel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.154 BEHBren, Paulina
Summary: "The Barbizon tells the story of New York's most glamorous women-only hotel, and the women-both famous and ordinary-who passed through its doors. World War I had liberated women from home and hearth, setting them on the path to political enfranchisement and gainful employment. Arriving in New York to work in the dazzling new skyscrapers, they did not want to stay in uncomfortable boarding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.4097 BRESen, Mayukh
Summary: "America's modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers. Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company, independent publishers since 1923 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 SENFarthing, Pen.
Summary: Describes how the author's witness to the brutality of Afghanistan's dog-fighting activities prompted his intervention and led to his relationship with a freed canine, recounting how he helped create a makeshift pound for rescued and stray dogs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.08 FARSen, Amartya
Summary: "From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a long-awaited memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to betterment of humanity. The Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is one of a handful of people who may truly be called"a global intellectual" (Financial Times). A towering figure in the field of economics, Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEN, AMARTYA SENKingsley, Imogen
Summary: "This high-interest book uses striking photographs of bearded dragons in the wild to highlight the unique features of these lizards. Readers will learn about their habitat, survival adaptations, and life cycle"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amicus/Amicus Ink 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597.95 KINBorgeson, Bet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.24 BORBorgeson, Bet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.24 BORHartman, Bena.
Summary: When a second grader takes a chance in class, her confidence level soars.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ferne Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Social Emo Hartman 2011Liu, Bin
Summary: Kites and China are practically synonymous, since these childhood toys were originally invented there before becoming popular around the world. For over 2000 years, kites have been a common sight in China, from the imperial court to the common people, and over that time period the craftsmanship of the kite has been perfected-and includes a diversity and richness of styles. In Chinese Kites,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Better Link Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.15 LIUTanabe, Gen
Summary: "Guide for parents and high school and college students on how to win scholarships. Contains advice on finding the right scholarships, crafting applications, writing essays and asking the college for a financial aid reassessment. Also has a scholarship directory of 175 awards; examples of winning scholarship applications, essays, and interview questions and answers are included"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: A Harvard-trained neurosurgeon's minute-by-minute account of his own near-death experience, and what he discovered in the heavenly realm beyond life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2012
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 133.901 ALEXANDER, EBEN ALEBrazelton, Bev
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 702.81 BRASen, Paul
Summary: "Einstein's Fridge tells the incredible epic story of the scientists who, over two centuries, harnessed the power of heat and ice and formulated a theory essential to comprehending our universe. Thermodynamics-the branch of physics that deals with energyand entropy-is the least known and yet most consequential of all the sciences. It governs everything from the behavior of living cells to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021