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Campo, Rafael. Eaton, Jil Hof, Wim Kern, Sim Lambe, Dan Laozi Lee, Jid Tolentino, Jia Ward, Lauri. Wenders, WimLaozi
Summary: Most people know Ursula K. Le Guin for her extraordinary science fiction and fantasy writing. Fewer know just how pervasive Taoist themes are to so much of her work. And in Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching, we are treated to Le Guin's unique take on Taoist philosophy's founding classic. Reflecting more than forty years of Le Guin's personal study and contemplation, her rendering of the text is a brilliant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Join the host of The Colbert Report as he celebrates the holidays with friends for a Yuletide evening of song, dance and nog-induced dementia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV COLLaozi
Summary: "A transformative new edition of Taoism's central text that overturns its reputation for calming, gnomic wisdom, revealing instead a work of "philosophical dynamite""--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.5 LAOLaozi.
Summary: The Tao Te Ching is a series of meditations on the mysterious nature of the Tao—the Way, the Light, the very Source of all existence. According to Lao Tzu (a name meaning "the old master"), the Tao is found where we would least expect it—not in the strong but in the weak; not in speech but in silence; not in doing but in "not-doing."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sam Torode Book Arts 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.5 LAOLampe, Diana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: S. Milner 1991
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 746.44 LAMSummary: Join National Geographic photographer Tim Laman and ornithologist Ed Scholes as they journey deep into the most remote jungles on earth in search of all 39 species of some of the most amazing birds in the world--birds of paradise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Vivendi Entertainment 2012
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD E-TV BIRLappi, Megan
Summary: Photographs, detailed maps, charts, and activities describe the climate and people of the Sahara Desert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AV2 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 916.6 LAPEaton, Jil
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter Publishers 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 EatonEaton, Jil
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Publisher / Publication Date: Breckling Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 EatonSwaan, Wim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Lane 1984
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 726.6 SWADavis, Jim
Summary: Follows the adventures of Garfield as he explores what life is like outside of the friendly confines of Jon's house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: KaBoom! 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DAVHim, Chanrithy
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.604 HIMSummary: From master director Jia Zhang-Ke comes a vital document of Chinese society since 1949. Jia interviews three prominent authors, Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, and Liang Hong, born in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, respectively. In their stories, we hear of the dire circumstances they faced in their rural villages and small towns, and the substantial political effort undertaken to address it, from the social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SWIMilton, Jem
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 FLYLim, Louisa
Summary: "An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased. Lim's deeply researched-and deeply personal-account casts often startling new light on key moments: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations leading to its "return" to China in 1997, the current protests, and the future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 LIMLim, Michael
Summary: The kingdom of fungi has survived all five major extinction events. They are the architects of the natural world, integral to all life. They sustain critical ecosystems, recycling nutrients and connecting plants across vast areas, and help to produce many staples of modern life, such as wine, chocolate, bread, detergent and penicillin. Today, in the face of urgent ecological, societal and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson Australia Pty Ltd 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 579.5 LIMJia, Zhangke
Summary: Looks at the history of Shanghai through the personal stories of eighteen people from all walks of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ILee, Jid
Summary: Presents a personal account of the author's life inspired by Korean mythology and set against a backdrop of the nation's turbulent history, tracing five generations of her family while sharing her views on such topics as Japanese colonialism, the Korean War, and Cold War-era pogroms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.9 LEELambe, Dan
Summary: "The Arbor Day Foundation will celebrate its 150th anniversary in April 2022, and this book will be timed to coincide with that noteworthy milestone. Now more than ever, its mission to engage homeowners to actually get out and plant trees is critical to mitigate carbon in our atmosphere, and as their wildly successful Time for Trees campaign in late 2019 showed, CEOs and celebrities from around...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.75 LAMHof, Wim
Summary: "The only definitive book authored by Wim Hof on his powerful method for realizing our physical and spiritual potential"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2020
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Summary: In 1979, Wim Wenders traveled to New York City to make a film with legendary director Nicholas Ray. As Ray lays dying of cancer, he reflects on his life and career. The resulting film tells a moving story both about friendship and a life in cinema.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LIGKern, Sim
Summary: "English teacher by day, Maddie Ryan spends her nights and weekends as the rhythm guitarist of Bunny Bloodlust, a queer punk band living in a warehouse-turned-venue called “The Lab” in Houston’s Eighth Ward. When Maddie learns that the Eighth Ward is to be sacrificed for a new electromagnetic hyperway out to the wealthy, white suburbs, she joins “Save the Eighth,” a Black-led organizing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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Summary: A writer at The New Yorker examines the fractures at the center of contemporary culture. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine's journey from brave to blank to bitter; and the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 TOLCampo, Rafael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2002