Summary: "Oscar- winning director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists on an undercover operation to expose the hidden world of endangered species and the race to protect them against mass extinction. Spanning the globe to infiltrate the world's most dangerous black markets and using high tech tactics to document the link between carbon emissions and species extinction,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RACSummary: Starship troopers: Charts the lives of elite members of the Mobile Infantry, a corps of dedicated young men and women soldiers fighting side by side in the ultimate intergalactic war ... the battle to save humankind. The enemy is mysterious and incredibly powerful with only one mission: survival of their species no matter what the human cost.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This series of lectures introduces the greatest of universal museums. Its aim is not comprehensive. The focus is narrowed to the Department of Paintings, which is responsible for European paintings from the Middle Ages until the mid-19th century. These works of art form an encyclopedic summary of the achievements of painters that can be called the single most important such collection in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 708.4 MUSCall number: DVD 708.4 MUS
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 708.4 MuseumSummary: "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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Place a hold to request this item.Bean, Richard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Petersen Pub. Co. 1974
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The interrupted journey : After reconsidering eloping with another womanat the last minute, John North pulls the emergency break on the train he is traveling on and returns home to his wife. Later on, after the train crashes and many of the passengers end up dying including his mistress, John becomes a suspect when the police discover that she had been murdered prior to the crash.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BRISummary: When a marketing executive for a huge burger chain finds a nasty secret ingredient in their burger recipe, he goes to the ranches and slaughterhouses of Colorado to investigate and finds that the truth is sometimes difficult to swallow.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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Summary: Dans un petit village au pied du Mont Cameroun, deux jumeaux, Ramsès et Ménès, grandissent ensemble. Mais la maladie emporte le premier. Ménès est seul dorénavant et n’oublie pas sa promesse : réaliser le rêve de son frère en granvissnt la montagne, terrible volcan chaché dans les brumes. Pour l'aider à relever ce défi, Elie, le jardinier albinos, et sa fille, Angelina, vont l'initier aux...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallimard-Jeunesse 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 LOU FRENCHCole, Juan Ricardo.
Summary: "The ... blogger and Middle East expert Juan Cole illuminates the role of today's Arab youth--who they are, what they want, and how they will affect world politics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 953 COLLouv, Richard.
Summary: Louv talks with parents, children, teachers, scientists, religious leaders, child-development researchers, and environmentalists to find ways for children to experience the natural world more deeply.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 LOU1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 155 LOU
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parent LouvLouv, Richard
Summary: "The author shows how cultivating the powerful, mysterious, and fragile bond between humans and other animals can improve our mental, physical, and spiritual health, protect our planet, and serve as an antidote to the loneliness of our species"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 615.8 LOUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.8 LOULouv, Richard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 799 Louv,Chan, Doris.
Summary: Featuring twenty-two wearable projects, this introduction to convertible design walks readers through the most complex of concepts, beginning with a simple design that is transformed into twenty-four motifs that are interchangeable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "Leipzig, 1930's Germany. Hetty Herta is a young girl growing up under Nazi rule. With an SS officer father, a brother in the Luftwaffe and a member of the BDM Hetty is the epitome of a perfect German child. But Walter changes everything. Blond haired, blue-eyed, perfect in every way Walter. The boy who saved her life when she was a young child. Her brother's childhood best friend. A Jew. As...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEILouv, Richard
Summary: Nature-deficit disorder: the alienation of children from the natural world. Louv provides a one-of-a-kind practical guidebook with tips not only for parents eager to share nature with their kids but also for those seeking nature-smart schools, medical professionals, and even careers. He reminds us that looking up at the stars or taking a walk in the woods is as exhilarating as it is essential,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 LOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 155 LOULouv, Richard.
Summary: Louv illustrates how the alienation of today's children from nature can lead to a host of childhood disorders--and he offers effective methods for healing this rift.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 155.4 LOULouv, Richard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Conari Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 LOUMichon, Jean-Louis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Wisdom 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 MICServan-Schreiber, Jean-Louis
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marlowe 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640.43 SERGordon, Lewis R. (Lewis Ricardo)
Summary: "In this original and penetrating work, Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and anti-Blackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized Blackness, the problems this kind of consciousness produces, and the many creative responses from Black and non-Black communities in contemporary struggles for dignity and freedom"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 GORLewis, Sean
Summary: Sean Lewis was living in Boston when he first set foot inside the Blue Hills Brewery. He was writing for BeerAdvocate magazine about America's craft brewers, and the then-fledgling Blue Hills was his first assignment. Lewis was immediately struck by the spirit of the brewers he met there. That visit would lead him first to an intensive study of beer-brewing, and later to a nation-spanning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.25 LEWFerrier, Jean-Louis
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Terrail 2001