Contents: disc 1. Broke (79:00) / director, Billy Corben ; 9.79 (79:00) / director, Daniel Gordon -- disc 2. There's no place like home (59:00) / directors, Maura Mandt and Josh Swade ; Benji (77:00) / directors, Coodie and Chike ; Ghosts of Ole Miss (51:00) / director, Fritz Mitchell -- disc 3. You don't know Bo (76:00) / director, Michael Bonfiglio ; Survive and advance (101:00) / director, Jonathan...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ESPSummary: Bosnia. Rwanda. Kosovo. Sierra Leone. Pakistan. Just a few of the world's humanitarian and political crises in the past years. Whether the result of war or nature, disasters devastate populations and cripple health systems. Despite the immense dangers and difficulties of the work, one organization, Doctors Without Borders, has continuously intervened at the frontlines of overwhelming human need.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LIVLagerquist, Kay.
Contents: Part 1 What Is Numerology? 1 -- Part 2 A Closer Look at Numbers 1 Through 5 61 -- Part 3 A Closer Look at Numbers 6 Through 9, Master Numbers, and Karmic Numbers 111 -- Part 4 Getting Personal with the Numbers 195 -- Part 5 Putting Your Numbers to Work for You 251 -- Part 6 Living by the Numbers 349.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.335 LAGLepore, Jill
Summary: A portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister, Jane, reveals how she was, like her brother, a passionate reader, gifted writer, and shrewd political commentator who made insightful observations about early America.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3092 MECOM, JANE LepLemire, Jeff
Summary: "DC Comics and Dark Horse Comics present the ultimate superhero crossover event of 2019! A strange man arrives simultaneously on Black Hammer Farm and in Metropolis and both worlds are warped as Starro attacks! Batman, Green Lantern, Flash, Wonder Woman, Superman, and more crossover with Golden Gail, Colonel Weird and the rest of the Black Hammer gang!"--Page [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LEMLepore, Jill
Summary: In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. The American experiment rests on three ideas -"these truths," Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, "on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973 LEPLewis, Eleanore.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Better Homes and Gardens Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9 LEWChu, Lenora
Summary: China's widely acclaimed yet insular education system is held up as a model of academic and behavioral excellence. Chu, an American journalist of Chinese descent raising a young family in Shanghai, noticed how well-behaved Chinese children were compared to her boisterous toddler. Enrolling three-year-old Rainer in China's state-run public school system, the immediate results were positive. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 370.951 CHUTodaro, Lenora
Summary: "What would happen if people all around the world stayed inside, away from animals' habitats? Twelve fascinating real-life stories of creatures around the globe who reclaimed their habitat during the COVID-19 quarantine show animal lovers and aspiring citizen scientists how to help wildlife by fighting habitat loss"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: minedition 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.7 TODKim, In-Sook
Summary: This book is about the two ways animals are born. Read the first part to learn about baby animals that hatch from eggs. Then flip the book and start reading again.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Big & SMALL, by arrangement with Aram Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: J Teach Sci KimLepore, Jill
Summary: "A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller, These Truths. The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Comapny 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 006.3 LEPLepore, Jill
Summary: A history of American ideas about life and death discusses how the age of discovery, Darwin's theories of evolution, and the space age changed ideas about life on Earth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 LEPLepore, Jill
Summary: Examines the origins of dozens of writings, speeches, and other printed pieces from American history--from paper ballots and the Constitution to Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" and Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 LEPLock, Deborah
Summary: Discover what life was like--from where people lived, how and what they hunted, how plants were used, art, medicine, and spiritual rituals. From camps to cave paintings to megaliths, discover the Stone Age.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LOCLepore, Jill
Summary: A revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister and a wholly different account of the founding of the United States.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US LeporeLepore, Jill
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.24 LEPLepore, Jill
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 LEPLepore, Jill
Summary: Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary vivacity to everything from profiles of long-dead writers to urgent constitutional analysis to an unsparing scrutiny of the woeful affairs of the...
Format: text
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: 909.83 LEPLepore, Jill
Summary: The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley likes to imagine it has no past but the scientists of Simulmatics are the long-dead grandfathers of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Borrowing from...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 006.3 LEPDenove, Chris.
Summary: For nearly four decades, J.D. Power and Associates has been measuring consumer satisfaction and helping businesses improve profits by paying attention to what customers really want. In this book, they provide an insider's perspective on some of the most successful companies on the planet. Corporate giants and local legends all use customer satisfaction as their key to market dominance. This...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.8343 DENLepere, Imogen
Summary: "Practical choices we can all make to travel the world more ethically. Travel can be a blast, but there are hidden costs to your trips that go deeper than your pockets. From potential impacts on the environment or the communities we visit to respecting others' cultures, taking a moment to consider our choices can make a real impact on the planet and other people. Whether it's doing the research...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smth Street Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4791 LEPLOBOS.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1987