Summary: This Swedish feature film chronicles the last days of the war in Budapest. The Soviet noose is tightening around the city, yet the unrelenting mass murder of Jews continues. Raoul Wallenberg, an attache to the Swedish Embassy, was sent at the initiative of Swedish Jewish businessmen on a rescue mission of Hungarian Jews. He distributed Swedish papers ("Wallenberg passports"), protected Jews in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2002
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Martinez, Raoul
Summary: In Creating Freedom, Raoul Martinez brings together a torrent of mind-expanding ideas, facts, and arguments to dismantle sacred myths central to our society--myths about free will, free markets, free media, and free elections. From the lottery of our birth to the consent-manufacturing influence of concentrated power, this far-reaching manifesto lifts the veil on the mechanisms of control that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 123 MARRevord, Raoul
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Xlibris Corp 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOSummary: A psychopathic murderer of young girls terrorizes a German city causing public hysteria and intense police investigations, which in turn disrupts organized crime. The contrasting worlds of the police and the underworld are juxtaposed as they both resolve to hunt, capture, and try the murderer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic-Film S.A. 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MSummary: The classic saga of King Arthur and those around him in the Court-- the knights, his Queen, and the wizard Merlin. Focuses on the rise of Christian civilization out of the Dark Ages.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY EXCSummary: In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CHECopies Available at East Bay
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHEKallenberg, Lawrence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Krause Pub. 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 731.42 KalleWientzen, Raoul L.
Summary: From the start of this extraordinary first novel, eight-year-old Jess finds herself in heaven reviewing her short life. She is guided in this by a being she calls the Assembler of Parts, and her task, as she understands it, is to glean her life's meaning. From birth, it was obvious that she was unlike other children: she was born without thumbs. The Assembler left out other parts too, for she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIEMandal, Rahul
Summary: "In this step-by-step guide to creating beautiful cakes, Rahul shares his unique approach to baking, focusing on techniques and scientific explanations, to ensure a perfect bake every time. Whether it is how to avoid a curdled cake batter or buttercream, stacking a 2, 3 or 8 tier cake or perfectly piping decorations, Rahul brings forensic insight into why things don't work and how to fix...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kyle Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.8653 MANWattenberg, Laura.
Summary: Yes, your baby's perfect name is out there. The trick is finding it. The perfect baby name will speak to your heart, give your child a great start in life--and maybe even satisfy your relatives. But you can't expect to just stumble on a name like ...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929 WATJandial, Rahul
Summary: From the operating room, where he performs some of the riskiest surgeries around, to the lab, where he is working on growing skin cells and injecting them into the brain to replace worn out neural tissue, Dr. Rahul Jandial is on the cutting edge of the latest advancements in neuroscience. This fascinating book draws on Dr. Jandial's broad-spectrum expertise and brings together the best of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 612.8 JANGonzalez, Raul
Summary: Little Lobo, a Mexican American, and Bernabe, his dog, deliver supplies to vendors at the Mercado, a busy border town market.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GONJandial, Rahul
Summary: "A fascinating dive into the purpose and potential of dreams Dreaming is one of the most deeply misunderstood functions of the human brain. Yet recent science reveals that our very survival as a species has depended on it. This Is Why You Dream explores the landscape of our subconscious, showing why humans have retained the ability to dream across millennia and how we can now harness its...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Life 2024
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Summary: "Shape reveals the geometry underneath some of the most important scientific, political, and philosophical problems we face. Geometry asks: Where are things? Which things are near each other? How can you get from one thing to another thing? Those are important questions. Geometry doesn't just measure the world-it explains it. Shape shows us how"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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Summary: "In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us that math isn't confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we do--the whole world is shot through with it. Math allows us to see the hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of our world. It's a science of not being wrong, hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 510 ELLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 ELLMalo, Raul
Contents: Solitary blues -- Granada boulevard -- Cosa's cumbia -- Para los muertos = (For the dead) -- Havana's midnight (with the Mavericks) -- Liberty city -- Peach blossom blues (with the Mavericks) -- The sound of silence -- Tsu-ching (with the Mavericks) -- A sunrise ago.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MALRuiz, Raul
Summary: An art collector guides an unseen interviewer around six paintings by Frédéric Tonnerre, a fictitious 19th century painter, in an attempt to solve the mystery of a missing seventh painting, the disappearance of which has provoked a major scandal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HYPFerrão, Raul.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Chappell & Co. 1947
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMMalo, Raul.
Contents: Welcome to my world -- (Now and then there's) a fool such as I -- For the good times -- Pocket of a clown -- Crying time -- Cold, cold heart -- You can depend on me -- Husbands and wives -- It only hurts me when I cry -- Take these chains from my heart.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: New Door Records 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY MALSummary: Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement, and becomes infatuated with a mysterious woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PETRavel, Maurice
Contents: Piano concerto in G major (22:04) -- Menuet antique (6:32) -- Piano concerto for the left hand (19:05) -- Une barque sur l'océan (7:49) -- Fanfare from l'Éventail de Jeanne (1:22).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca Record Co. 1983
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL RAVWartenberg, Thomas E.
Summary: "Big Ideas for Little Kids includes everything a teacher, a parent, or a college student needs to teach philosophy to elementary school children from picture books. Written in a clear and accessible style, the book explains why it is important to allow young children access to philosophy during primary-school education. Wartenberg also gives advice on how to construct a 'learner-centered'...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.8 WARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.8 WARKahlenberg, Richard D.
Summary: "The last, acceptable form of prejudice in America is based on class and executed through state-sponsored economic discrimination, which is hard to see because it is much more subtle than raw racism. While the American meritocracy officially denounces prejudice based on race and gender, it has spawned a new form of bias against those with less education and income. Millions of working-class...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.73 KAHMalo, Raul.
Contents: Blue bayou (4:25) -- Early morning rain (3:38) -- The great atomic power (2:42) -- Weary blues from waiting (3:34) -- You're gonna make me lonesome when you go (3:45) -- Waiting for a train (instrumental) (2:44) -- When I stop dreaming (3:53) -- Moon river (2:42) -- Hot burrito #1 (4:30) -- Bright side of the road (4:18) -- (I love you) for sentimental reasons (3:41).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: CMH Records 2004