Alda, Alan
Summary: The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 ALDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation AldaAlda, Alan
Summary: One of America's most recognizable and acclaimed actors, the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances. The son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, he spent his early childhood backstage in the erotic and comic world of burlesque and went on, after early...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.028 ALDAlda, Alan
Summary: The popular actor looks back to reassess the meaning of his own life and the paths he has taken, from the turbulent 1960s to the tragedy of September 11, and to answer such questions as "What do I value?" and "What, exactly, is the good life?"
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.02 ALDAlda, Alan
Summary: The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 153 ALDSummary: Will replacing a body part be as easy as replacing a light bulb some day? In Body Building, a part of the PBS Scientific American Frontiers series, host Alan Alda journeys behind the scenes with MIT's Robert Langer for a remarkable window into the current scientific advances in repair and replacement of damaged human body parts. The program follows scientists and researchers as they experiment...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: Until very recently the vast area under the world's ocean surfaces was virtually unknown and unreachable by humans. However, groundbreaking technologies and cutting edge research have opened the doors to the deepest and most well-kept secrets of the sea. In Beneath the Sea, a part of the PBS Scientific American Frontier series, viewers will take stock in the big unknowns of the sea and see how...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: Hydrogen may be the fuel of the future, but what would it take to safely and efficiently make the transition from fossil fuels? In this program from the Scientific American Frontiers series, host Alan Alda takes a look at two ways to use the Sun's energy to extract hydrogen; meets with Stan and Iris Ovshinsky, inventors of a hydrogen storage method involving a solid metal alloy; and makes a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: More adventures for the doctors and nurses of the 4077th unit during the Korean War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MASSummary: Join the staff of the 4077th as they try to cope with the stress of war with fun and humor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MASSummary: Could lab-grown organs and body parts one day become a common solution for eliminating disease and rejuvenating the body? This classic episode of Scientific American Frontiers examines methods for re-engineering human anatomy, including not only artificial organ cultivation and retinal implants but also advances in nerve regeneration to treat spinal cord injuries. Host Alan Alda looks at nerve...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2001
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Summary: James Donovan is a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertaiment 2016
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRI RATED PG13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Bridge 2016Summary: A journey into the endless possibilities of life. Rich with positive, life-enhancing messages that focus on growth and change. Positive messages of self-esteem are illustrated through a series of live action and animations shorts through songs, stories and laughter. Explores children's dreams and concerns, as well as their fears and fantasies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hen's Tooth Video 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV FRESummary: Explores the day-to-day lives of the people who live and work at the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) stationed three miles from the front during the Korean War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MASSummary: The adventures continue for the doctors and nurses of the 4077th unit during the Korean War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MASSummary: Korea, 1950. They were a MASH (Mobile army surgical hospital) unit stationed three miles from the front, positioned to provide quick care to the troops. Although it sometimes felt as if the incoming wounded would never stop, the docs and nurses of the 4077 were always ready with a steady hand, a smile and a laugh, healing our soldiers in both body and soul, and offering a touch of home, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MASCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MASMischel, Walter
Summary: Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it. A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behavior later in life?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2014
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 155 MISSummary: Erik Kernan is an up-and-coming sports reporter who rescues a homeless man only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect the Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RESSummary: Based on the true story of Robert Kearns. The Kearns' were a typical 1960s Detroit family. Bob is a college professor and part-time inventor. When Bob invents a device that would eventually be used by every car in the world, the Kearns' think they have struck gold. But their aspirations are dashed after the auto giants, who originally embraced Bob's creation, unceremoniously shuns him. Ignored,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIC FLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Flash 2009Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FLASummary: "In a quest to find his biological parents, Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller)--joined by his wife (Patricia Arquette) and a sexy adoption counselor (Téa Leoni)--embarks on a cross-country search for his 'roots.' Yet as he careens from one outrageous situation to another, Mel finds himself tempted by the seductive counselor--even as his wife starts a flirtation of her own! By the time they meet up with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FLISummary: The star-crossed love affair between Luke, a former champion bull rider looking to make a comeback, and Sophia, a college student who is about to embark upon her dream job in New York City's art world. As conflicting paths and ideals test their relationship, Sophia and Luke make an unexpected and fateful connection with Ira, whose memories of his own decades-long romance with his beloved wife...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LON RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LoSummary: The entire first season of this historic television comedy / drama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MASSummary: A volatile story about a Washington, D.C. political reporter who writes an explosive story about a government scandal in which she reveals the name of a covert CIA agent. Unexpectedly finding herself behind bars, she struggles to maintain her principles and relationship with her family when she refuses to divulge her source. Inspired by true events.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009