Summary: "The goal of this course is to illuminate the original foundations of our American civic culture by reenacting the Great Debate, from 1787 to 1788, over ratification of the proposed constitution. We will focus on the most profound intellectual and philosophic levels of the contoversy, centered on the competing republican visions held by the proponents of the constitution (Federalists) and their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 GRECall number: DVD 342 GRE
Bonura, Kimberlee Bethany.
Summary: "This course is designed to equip you with a basic understanding of how your body works and to enable you to set and meet your own health and fitness goals ..."--Guidebook p. 1."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 HOWCall number: DVD 613 HOW
Murray, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Ann)
Summary: This course is a journey through time and place from the perspective of forensic science and criminal history. It examines technical advancements and politics and legal issues regarding criminal investigations. The course includes Dr. Murray's own forensic casework.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 FORCall number: DVD 364 FOR
Simonetti-Bryan, Jennifer
Summary: A six-part lecture series about wines of California. Includes wine list and map of California wine country on container sheet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.23 EVESutherland, Stuart
Summary: "Do you like history, perhaps investigating where your family came from or learning what challenges your ancestry met and where they called home? This course traces some of the wanderings of our wider family, the biosphere, from its first appearance on Earth around 4 billion years ago through to the present day. This journey has been a fantastic one, with many interesting twists and turns along...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 570 NEWCall number: DVD 570 NEW
Contents: Disc 1. Investment decisions and goals -- A framework for investing -- Mistakes investors make -- The characteristics of security returns -- The theory of efficient markets -- Evidence on efficient markets -- Disc 2. Valuation formulas -- Bond pricing -- The term structure of interest rates -- The risks in bonds -- Quantifying interest rate risk -- Value creation and stock prices -- Disc 3....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2014
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 ADVCall number: DVD 332.6 ADV
Summary: Desperate for cash to buy his daughter a new Communion dress, a working-class man risks everything he loves, not least his immortal soul, in blind pursuit of that goal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAIFinke, Michael
Contents: Understanding your financial brain -- Managing money with life cycle theory -- Basic investing : keep it simple -- The key financial instruments -- How to use credit optimally -- Investing in education -- The economics of home ownership -- Managing risk with insurance -- Essential tax principles -- Saving for retirement -- Fundamentals of estate planning -- Putting your financial plan together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 332.4 MONFullenkamp, Connel.
Contents: Disc 1. Feeling at home in the financial markets -- Where the money goes -- Financial markets run on information -- Giving credit where credit is due -- The fine print -- What is special about banks? -- Disc 2. Billion-dollar IOUs--using bonds to borrow -- The double identity of stocks -- The sell job -- The mysterious money market -- Think globally, lend ... globally -- Trading securities --...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332 FINSummary: When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth-- which they soon discover to be contained in an audio tape which the man had with him, exposing political manipulations at the highest levels of government. But such underlying agendas require careful considerations to avoid...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HIDSummary: "Achieve greater peace of mind with an approachable, step-by-step guide to financial, legal and estate planning."--Container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Polk, Thad A.
Summary: Addiction touches us all. Whether it's a friend who can't quit smoking, a colleague afflicted with alcoholism, or a relative abusing prescription drugs, we all know someone who suffers from some form of addiction; we may even have an addiction ourselves. By some estimates, roughly one in four Americans might be considered addicts. On the other hand, many of us use substances such as alcohol...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 611.81 ADDSummary: What if you could travel in time as well? Imagine yourself transported to the sparkling court society of 18th-century France, or sailing aboard a 19th-century whaling ship. What secrets would you learn about the human condition and the lives lived in distant lands and eras? And what about the most remarkable journey of all: the voyage inside the mind of another human being, in which you plumb...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2007
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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 CLACall number: DVD 809 CLA PART 1
Call number: DVD 809 CLA PART 2
Call number: DVD 809 CLA PART 3
Summary: Taught by acclaimed linguist, author, and Professor John McWhorter of Columbia University, Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage dispels the cloud of confusion that clings to English, giving you a crystal-clear view of why we use it the way we do and where it fits into the diverse languages of the world. After completing these 24 lectures, you will think about how you use English in a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2012
Copies Available at Kingsley
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 420.9 McWCall number: DVD 420.9 McW
Summary: Presents 24 calculus lectures (each 30 minutes in length) by Michael Starbird.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 515 CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 515 Change PT 1 20061 available in Adult, Call number: Great DVD 515 Change PT 2 2006
Carr, Brian Allen
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Riggle is living in rural Indiana with his uncle and uncle's girlfriend after the death of both of his parents. Now his uncle has gone missing, probably on a drug binge. It's Monday, and $800 in rent is due Friday. Riggle, who's been suspended from school, has to either find his uncle or get the money together himself. His mission exposes him to a motley group of Opioid...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARSummary: The Addams family: Con artists plan to fleece the eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long lost Uncle Fester.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ADDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ADDVandeHei, Jim
Summary: Anyone who wants to be heard is facing an epic challenge--people are drowning in a sea of words. How do you get your audience to pay attentin? By learning to say a lot more with a lot less and punch through the noise. By learning Smart Brevity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It can be anything. A fanged monster that won't stay on the movie screen. Something ominous lurking in the basement. A malevolent force in a small New England town takes the shape of a clown, but It isn't clowning around. Instead, It terrifies youngsters with their innermost fears, bringing some to their untimely doom -- until a group of wily neighborhood kids fight back. Thirty years later the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR ITCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ITSummary: From the streets and taverns of colonial America, in vaudeville, on television and under the bright lights of today's Broadway stage, puppets have been a favorite form of American entertainment. This documentary is the first to chronicle the fascinating evolution of this unique art form. Examines the lives and recounts the significant contributions of men and women who, throughout the years,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mazzarella Media 2007