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Bratton, William J.

Summary: "When Bill Bratton became a Boston street cop after returning from serving in Vietnam, he was dismayed by the corrupt old guard , and it is fair to say the old guard was dismayed by him too. But his success fighting crime could not be denied. Propelled byextraordinary results, Bratton had a dazzling rise, and ultimately a dazzling career, becoming the most famous police commissioner of modern...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRATTON, WILLIAM J. BRA

Waller, Douglas C.

Summary: "The author of the critically acclaimed bestseller Wild Bill Donovan, tells the story of four OSS warriors of World War II. All four later led the CIA. They are the most famous and controversial directors the CIA has ever had-- Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey. Disciples is the story of these dynamic agents and their daring espionage and sabotage in wartime Europe...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WAL

Rosenstock, Barb

Summary: "A biographical account of engineer Otis Barton and naturalist Will Beebe's record-setting descent into the deep ocean in their Bathysphere craft, making the men the first humans to witness deep sea creatures in their natural habitat"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ROS

Grindol, Mary Alice Benedict

Summary: History of the interrelated Button and Fuller families who descended from George William Fuller and James Ambrose Button. Their families united in the marriage of William Rufus Fuller (1851-1914) and his wife, Marietta (Mary) Eveline Button, of Michigan. William Rufus and Mary had ten children: George Ambrose, Grover Button, William Orange, Lucius LeRoy, Robert Pingree, Cora Violet, Henry...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: M. Grindol 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 FULLER Grindol

Ryan, Jack.

Summary: Includes updates on many of the performers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Glendower Media LLC 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 RYA

Fox, Brad, (Bradley)

Summary: "A gorgeous account of William Beebe's 1934 Bathysphere expedition, the first-ever deep-sea voyage to the otherworldly environment 3,024 feet below sea level"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.4609 FOX

Grindol, Mary Alice Benedict

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: M.A.B. Grindol 2006

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Stacks, Call number: MI 977

Summary: Examines the work of two biologists, Bill Andrews and Aubrey de Grey, who have dedicated their lives to the reversal of biological aging.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Structure Films 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IMM

Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WOR
Call number: DVD 709 WOR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Summary: In the late 19th century, as America's teeming cities grew increasingly congested, the time had come to replace the nostalgic horse-drawn trolleys with a faster, cleaner, safer, and more efficient form of transportation. Ultimately, it was Boston, a city of so many firsts that overcame a litany of engineering challenges, the greed-driven interests of businessmen, and the great fears of its...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RAC

Summary: The lectures in Part 6 bring the progress of philosophy into the present day, beginning with the work of Nietzsche and the American pragmatists William James and John Dewey. This section explains the work and consequence of modern linguistic and logical analysis in lectures on Ayer and Wittgenstein. Also discussed is the structuralism of Claude Levi-Strauss and the attempts to develop rational...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRE

Summary: As a compassionate American Ambassador to the strife-torn Southeast Asian nation of Sarkhan, Brando tries to keep Communists in the North from overrunning the weakened democracy in the South by making sure a vital road into the country's inaccessible interior goes through.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA UGL

Gellman, Barton

Summary: "Edward Snowden chose three journalists to tell the stories in his Top Secret trove of NSA documents: Barton Gellman of The Washington Post, Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian and filmmaker Laura Poitras, all of whom would share the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Poitras went on to direct the Oscar-winning Citizenfour. Greenwald wrote an instant memoir and cast himself as a pugilist on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 GEL

Fullilove, Michael

Summary: Documents the lesser-known role of the President and five influential diplomats in overturning American isolationist beliefs and pulling the country into World War II, citing the reports that led to America's support of Great Britain and Russia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D FUL

Wolf, Brandon J.

Summary: "Growing up in rural Oregon, Brandon Wolf grappled with the devastating loss of his supportive mother and with the embedded racism and homophobia of a community that made him feel like an unwelcome stranger. After the lack of connection and role models led him down a spiral of risky behavior, Wolf escaped to survive. In Orlando, he found what he'd been searching for: belonging--in a community...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOLF, BRANDON J. WOL

Summary: Ash is the stock boy, who is an aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead. When a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, Ash is finally forced to face his demons; personal and literal. Destiny, it turns out, has no plans to release the unlikely hero from its "Evil" grip.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ASH

Summary: Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carmegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States. a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: History 2012

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MEN

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Me

Artist Not Provided

Summary: Zach and Annie learn about different virtues with the help of their philosophical animal friends.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Porchlight Home Entertainment 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ADV

Stern, Seth (Seth Ross)

Summary: This book is a sweeping and revealing insider look at court history and the life of William Brennan, champion of free speech and public access to information, and widely considered the most influential Supreme Court justice of the twentieth century.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRENNAN, WILLIAM J STE

Artist Not Provided

Summary: Zach and Annie learn about different virtues with the help of their philosophical animal friends.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Porchlight Home Entertainment 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ADV

Johnson, Bruce D.

Summary: Zach and Annie learn about different virtues with the help of their philosophical animal friends.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Porchlight Home Entertainment 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ADV

Kaag, John J.

Summary: "John Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind, a ruin of an estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that belonged to the eminent Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. Hocking was one of the last true giants of American philosophy and a direct intellectual descendent of William James, the father of American philosophy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 190 KAA

Croke, Vicki.

Summary: The story of James Howard "Billy" Williams, whose uncanny rapport with elephants in 1920's Burma transformed him from a carefree young man into the charismatic World War II hero known as Elephant Bill.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 CRO

Johnson, Bruce D.

Summary: Zach and Annie learn about different virtues with the help of their philosophical animal friends.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Porchlight Home Entertainment 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ADV

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