Summary: Electric cars seem increasingly likely to replace gas-guzzling vehicles. Could a new generation of emission-free electric planes do the same to the polluting airliners in the skies - a major step in the fight against climate change?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GREMails, Thomas E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marlowe & Co. in association with the Touch the Earth Foundation 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 MAIDavis, Miles.
Contents: CD 1, Festival Mondial du Jazz d'Antibes, La Pinède, Juan-les-Pins, France (July 25, 1969). Introduction by André Francis -- Directions -- Miles runs the voodoo down -- Milestones -- Footprints -- 'Round midnight -- It's about that time -- Sanctuary -- The theme --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1993
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 970.3 MAILSSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Summary: "Americans are required to pay taxes, serve on juries, get their kids vaccinated, get driver's licenses, and sometimes go to war for their country. So why not ask--or require--every American to vote? E.J. Dionne and Miles Rapoport argue that universal participation in our elections should be a cornerstone of our system. It would be the surest way to protect against voter suppression and the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.07 DIOSummary: Explore ways that scientists are facing the climate challenge, including reprecussions of permafrost thaw, ameliorating extreme weather, and attempts to achieve net-zero carbon emissions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FACArtist Not Provided
Summary: "Can we harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve the world's most challenging problems without creating an uncontrollable force that ultimately destroys us? ChatGPT and other new A.I. tools can now answer complex questions, write essays, andgenerate realistic-looking images in a matter of seconds. They can even pass a lawyer's bar exam. Should we celebrate? Or worry? Or both?...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2024
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Summary: Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda J. Bilmes cast a spotlight on expense items that have been hidden from the U.S. taxpayer, including not only big-ticket items like replacing military equipment (being used up at six times the peacetime rate) but also the cost of caring for thousands of wounded veterans--for the rest of their lives. Shifting to a global focus, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 STIMiller, Rosalind E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.W. Wilson 1990
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1 available in Administration Reference, Call number: ADM 025.3 MILSummary: Jeff Goldblum may have starred in some of the biggest movies in history, but to secure a green card for his young Canadian fiancée, he's agreed to do a two-week regional theater production of "The music man" in his Pennsylvania hometown. Now he's faced with grueling rehearsals, a furious agent, good friends with their own troubles whom he's convinced to co-star, and the very real prospect of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PITDewey, Melvil
Contents: v. 1. Manual, tables -- v. 2. Schedules 000-599 -- v. 3. Schedules 600-999 -- v. 4. Relative index.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: OCLC, Online Computer Library Center 2003
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4 available in Reference Office, Call number: OFR 025.431 DEW-1Call number: OFR 025.431 DEW-2
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New Yorker Magazine (COR)/ White, E. B. (CON)/ Salinger, J. D. (CON)/ Smith, Zadie (CON)
Summary: The 1940s are the watershed decade of the twentieth century, a time of trauma and upheaval but also of innovation and profound and lasting cultural change. This is the era of Fat Man and Little Boy, of FDR and Stalin, but also of Casablanca and Citizen Kane, zoot suits and Christian Dior, Duke Ellington and Edith Piaf. The 1940s were when The New Yorker came of age. A magazine that was best...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 FORAiles, Roger
Summary: Examines the rise and fall of the late media mogul, Roger Ailes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIVNILES, BLAIR
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1946
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 980.082 NILChallis, Myles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ward Lock 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9 CHAMiller, Donald E. (Donald Earl)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.62 MILBiles, Simone
Summary: "Simone takes you through the events, challenges, and trials that carried her from an early childhood in foster care to a coveted spot on the 2016 Olympic team" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 BILFiles, Meg
Summary: "It's easy to write about your feelings in a journal. It's more difficult, however, to convert personal experiences into stories worthy of publication--fiction, non-fiction, or poetry. Filled with engaging exercises, Writing what you know will guide you in identifying story-worthy material and transforming your raw material into finished pieces, through conquering fears associated with personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Words FilesSummary: Using 'shock therapy' as a metaphor, the film investigates Naomi Klein's central idea of 'disaster capitalism.' When countries are jolted by catastrophic events such as war or natural disasters, they are often subjected to totally unregulated 'free market' remedies that benefit corporations at public expense.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: KimStim, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SHOMilles, Harriet.
Summary: This book looks at Japanese, and examines where it is spoken, who speaks it, what alphabet the language is written in, and other interesting facts including introductions on how to say key phrases in Japanese.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northstar Pub. Co. 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.64 BADCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.6423 BADJiles, Paulette
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hungry Mind 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 JIL1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 970.3 JIL
Wiles, Deborah
Summary: "Bobby is the story of Robert F. Kennedy, as told by a grandfather to his grandchild. Born in 1925 into a family of great privilege, Bobby was a prominent American politician and lawyer who learned to use his advantages in life to make a difference."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022