Summary: Amid high-profile controversies surrounding free speech and racial equality, former American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Ira Glasser reflects on his life at the forefront of defending the rights of all Americans, from civil rights leaders to neo-Nazis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MIGJoan as Police Woman
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JOASummary: Michael (or Fresh as he's known) is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a half-way house for children without their parents. His father has become a street bum, but is still there if Fresh requires his 'street' knowledge. Fresh aspires to live the good life but his sister's prostitution for the drug heavies along with the senseless murder of friends push him to re-evaluate his life. He then...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FRESummary: "Examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party has used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a pre-existing military agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling back civil liberties and social programs at home"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Media Education Foundation 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HIJJoan As Police Woman
Contents: Real life -- Eternal flame -- Feed the light -- Ride -- I Defy -- Flushed chest -- Christobel -- Save me -- Anyone -- We don't own it
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Label Inc.
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JOASummary: A look at the life of the 43rd president of the United States. Rising from a privileged alcoholic to a born-again Christian whose belief in religious destiny helped move him to the top ranks of political power. How he used Christianity to turn his life around, met and married his wife, and the days before his decision to declare war on Iraq.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WMaggor, Noam
Summary: Brahmin Capitalism explores the surprisingly dynamic role of established wealth in the rise of modern capitalism in the United States. Far from declining in prosperity and influence, elite Bostonians of illustrious lineage - the quintessential old money families on the American scene - successfully reinvented themselves. Better known as social reformers, philanthropists, and men of letters,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.9 MAGSummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: It's 1939 and Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Indian Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast in southern England. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. As each member of the party starts to die one by one, the survivors realize that one of them is a killer...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ANDSummary: The intern of a record company finds himself with both his dream job and biggest nightmare, when he is assigned to retrieve a British rock star and get him to his concert in time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GETSummary: Sixty-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price had a plan. To die before the money ran out, but things didn't go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for twelve years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris. She is accompanied by her directionless...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FRECopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FREJoan as Police Woman (Musical group)
Contents: Honor wishes -- Holiday -- To be loved -- To be lonely -- Magpies -- Start of my heart -- Hard white wall -- Furious -- To survive -- To America.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cheap Lullaby Records 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JOAJoan as Police Woman (Musical group)
Contents: Wonderful -- Warning bell -- Tell me -- Steed -- Damned devotion -- The silence -- Valid jagger -- Rely on -- What was it like -- Talk about it later -- Silly me -- I don't mind.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Play It Again Sam 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JOAJoan as Police Woman (Musical group)
Contents: Disc 1. My gurl -- The ride -- Real life -- Eternal flame -- I defy -- We don't own it -- Christobel -- Honor wishes -- Hard white wall -- Start of my heart -- To America -- To be lonely -- The magic -- Human condition -- Run for love -- Forever and a year.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JOAChomsky, Noam
Summary: "The world's leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting devotion to maintaining a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 CHOChomsky, Noam.
Summary: "Because We Say So presents more than thirty short, forceful commentaries written between 2011 and 2015 covering the most urgent matters in U.S. politics during global crisis. With uncompromising clarity, Chomsky takes on a range of hot-button issues from climate change, nuclear politics, and spying/cyberwar, to the Middle East and the future of democracy. Brilliant, accessible, timely,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 CHOChomsky, Noam.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Free Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 401 CHOSummary: The A & E miniseries based on Forester's novels of Horatio Hornblower, following his career from a reticent midshipman to a self-assured and courageous officer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2005
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HORChomsky, Noam.
Summary: In his national bestselling 1988 CBC Massey Lectures, Noam Chomsky inquires into the nature of the media in a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control. Specific cases are illustrated in detail, using the U.S. media primarily but also media in other societies. Chomsky considers how the media might...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: House of Anansi Press 1995
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Chomsky, Noam.
Summary: "Radical linguist, philosopher, and activist Noam Chomsky is one of the world's foremost intellectuals. Known for his brilliant evisceration of American foreign policy, state capitalism, and the mainstream media, he remains a formidable and unapologetic critic of established authority. On Anarchism sheds a much-needed light on the foundations of Chomsky's thought, specifically his constant...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Distribution Services 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 335.83 CHOCohen, Noam
Summary: Chronicles the rise of Silicon Valley as a political and intellectual force in American life and its libertarian vision of a hypercompetitive society without the protection of unions, government regulations, or social welfare programs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 COHSummary: Filmmaker Chuck Workman explores the lives, works and influence of four leading lights of the "Beat Generation" of the 1950s: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Neal Cassady. Cutting back and forth between archival footage of his subjects and readings of selections from the authors' works, he creates a fast-paced collage of images that show how the Beats became the dominant...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOUJoan as Police Woman (Musical group)
Contents: The barbarian -- Get my bearings / feat. Damon Albarn -- Take me to your leader -- Masquerader -- Dinner date -- Enter the dragon -- Geometry of you -- The love has got me -- Perfect shade of blue -- Reaction.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021