Summary: Ren is an intensly hyperactive chihuahua and Stimpy is a happy-go-lucky, empty-brained cat who share bizarre and often repulsive adventures. Their experiences usually involve hairballs, dirty litterboxes, "magic nose goblins", jars of spit, outhouses, eating dirt, monkey vermin and any other imaginable disgusting substance the two can get their paws on.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV RENOrlean, Susan
Summary: 'How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,' writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book called Herbert the Near-Sighted Pigeon, she's been drawn to stories about how we live with animals, and how they abide by us. Now, in On Animals, she examines animal-human relationships through the compelling tales she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.5 ORLGrim, Randy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpine Blue Ribbon Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.3 GRICooke, Lucy
Summary: When seeking to understand animals, context is key. Humans have a habit of viewing the animal kingdom through the prism of our own narrow existence. Zoologist and documentary filmmaker Lucy Cooke is fascinated by the myths people create about animals to fill in the gaps in our understanding, and how much they reveal about the mechanics of discovery and the people doing the discovering. In this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 590 COOGreene, Melissa Fay
Summary: "Describes the unbreakable bond between humans and canines through the story of a severely disabled woman who began training her own service dogs after she was deemed “too disabled” to receive one by every agency in the U.S.."--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.4 GREMintz, Sidney W. (Sidney Wilfred)
Summary: In this book the author shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with its use first as an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.1 MINFinlay, Victoria
Summary: From our earliest ancestors to babies born today, fabric is a necessary part of our everyday lives, but it's also an opportunity for creativity, symbolism, culture and connection. Traveling across the world and bringing history to life, bestselling author Victoria Finlay investigates how and why people have made and used cloth. A century ago in Wales, women would sew their own funeral clothes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.09 FINVivas, Esther
Summary: "¿Es posible ser mamá y feminista al mismo tiempo? ¿Hay alguna salida al dilema «carrera vs. familia»? Si hemos elegido se madres, ¿hasta que punto podemos decidir sobre nuestra maternidad? En Mamá desobediente, la periodista, socióloga y madre feminista, Esther Vivas aborda éstas y otras interrogantes cuando explora la maternidad con emancipación y sin imposiciones. Con un tono fresco pero...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Español 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 VIVTjernshaugen, Andreas
Summary: "Throughout this captivating book, Tjernshaugen investigates the fox's place in our own cultural history--such as Reynard the Fox, the Scandinavian inspiration for Disney's Robin Hood, and the fables of Aesop, which depict foxes as sly and cunning, a reputation that may not be fully earned, Tjernshaugen argues. What is true is "the fox is wilder than other wildlife...and largely survives in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 599.775 TJEHrdy, Sarah Blaffer
Summary: "A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn't it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it rubber-stamped this venerable division of labor: mammalian males evolved to compete for status and mates, while females were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 HRDDowney, Robert
Summary: "What we eat matters--to us, and to the planet. Cool food is a game-changing new food category and way of thinking that can help fix the climate. This ... book will show you how to make simple choices, starting today--in the supermarket, in your kitchen, and in the world--to reduce your environmental impact. Hundreds of cool foods exist, but until now have gone largely uncelebrated for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Long story short: Presents interview segments in which California's poor and homeless discuss the disadvantages of living without adequate resources.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC PORWhybrow, Peter C.
Summary: An analysis of the American consumer culture cites modern statistics in obesity, depression, and panic disorders, drawing on detailed case studies to explain how today's affluent society is directly related to key social and medical issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 301 WHYKaskowitz, Sheryl
Summary: "In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt to take radical action to help those hit hardest-Appalachian miners and mill workers stranded after factories closed, city dwellers with no hope of getting work, farmers whose land had failed. They set up government homesteads in rural areas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Foster, Kim
Summary: "James Beard Award-winning author Kim Foster reveals a new portrait of hunger and humanity in America. Food is a conduit for connection; we envision smiling families gathered around a table--eating, happy, content. But what happens when poverty, mental illness, homelessness, and addiction claim a seat at the table? In The Meth Lunches, James Beard award-winning writer Kim Foster peers behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 FOSDonohue, Moira Rose.
Summary: Read about these amazing animal heroes, stories that will inspire pet owners, farm hands, anyone who has an infinity for animals and their unique behaviors.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J WHITE KANSpeicher, Annie
Summary: Through the riveting stories of five rural communities, RIGHT TO HARM exposes the devastating public health impact factory farming has on many disadvantaged citizens throughout the United States. Filmed across the country, the documentary chronicles the failures of state agencies to regulate industrial animal agriculture. Known formally as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations - or CAFOs -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hourglass Films 2023