Campbell, Kenneth D.
Summary: Leaving his Pennsylvania steel town home as a young man, author Kenneth D. Campbell scrambled to land a magazine writer’s job in Manhattan. He followed his new boss’s instruction to “Watch that rat hole,” newspaper slang for a “beat” or coverage topic. Campbell’s “rat hole” was the real estate investment trusts or REITs, untested entities just approved by Congress. In Watch that Rat Hole,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archway Publishing 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAMPBELL, KENNETH D CAMSummary: After losing the war against the Cylon robots, the Battlestar Galactica crew heads toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth. Galactica Commander Adama and President Laura Roslin are facing the problems of waning supplies and crushed morale. Along the way they have to deal with the credible threat that Cylons may be aboard the ship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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Summary: Todd Newman has a seemingly life-limiting learning disability. A born and bred Vermonter, he speaks differently than his neighbors. His words don’t flow, and he can be difficult to understand. These differences make him feel trapped and troubled, which makes him lash out. After being arrested for arson, Todd’s life begins to change. He returns home to his small New England town, where his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Richard D. Kennett 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENSummary: In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KENHitchens, Christopher
Summary: "At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as "the four horsemen," the heralds of religion's unravelling--Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett--sat down over cocktails for a filmed discussion. The video of the enthralling, path breaking evening that followed was released on YouTube and soon went viral. This is intellectual inquiry at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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Summary: Combining ideas from philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, Daniel Dennett leads the reader on a fascinating journey of inquiry, exploring such intriguing possibilities as: Can any of us really know what is going on in someone else's mind? What distinguishes the human mind from the minds of animals, especially those capable of complex behavior? If such animals, for instance,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: In this memoir, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel C. Dennett reflects on his amazing career and lifelong scientific fascinations, and provides a master class in the dominant themes of twentieth-century philosophy and cognitive science--including language, evolution, logic, religion, and AI--revealing both the mistakes and breakthroughs that shaped his theories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Daniel C. Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering the thorniest, most fundamental mysteries of the mind. Do we have free will? What is consciousness and how did it come about? What distinguishes human minds from the minds of animals? Dennett's answers have profoundly shaped our age of philosophical thought. In I've Been Thinking, he reflects on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: In this book Kenneth Ackerman re-creates an American political landscape where fierce battles for power unfolded against a chivalrous code of honor in a country struggling to emerge from the long shadow of recent war. He casts familiar Civil War figures like Ulysses S. Grant and Winfield Scott Hancock in unfamiliar roles as politicos alongside feuding machine bosses like senators Roscoe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GARKing, Kenneth D.
Summary: "Original designs for beaded borders, backgrounds, edgings, motifs, and fringes to embellish bridal, evening, and casual fashions. Complete basics section teaches the stitches and skills needed"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Pub. International 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.5 KINCampbell, Scott D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 690.89 CAMDennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement)
Summary: A leading philosopher offers a major new account of the origins of the conscious mind that explores the deep interactions of evolution, brains, and human culture, demonstrating the role of culture in installing memes, including language, in the mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128 DENSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUKennedy, Brian D.
Summary: "Wade Westmore is used to being in the spotlight. So when he's passed over for the lead in the spring musical, it comes as a major blow--especially when the role goes to his ex-boyfriend, Reese...Shy sophomore Elijah Brady is used to being overlooked. Forget not knowing his name--most of his classmates don't even know he exists. So when he joins the stage crew for the musical, he seems destined...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KENSummary: When celebrated scholar Joseph Campbell sat down with veteran journalist Bill Moyers for a discussion about his life's work, the nation was captivated. The series brought Campbell's theories into popular culture and led to a bestselling companion book. Includes six episodes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2010
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JOSSummary: Blade on the feather: Jason is a reclusive author who is visited by Daniel. Daniel is a young admirer of Jason's. After Daniel seduces Jason's daughter, dark secrets to emerge. Both men are more than they claim to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Vision 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DENSummary: "Dark Stars, edited by John F.D. Taff, is a tribute to horror's longstanding short fiction legacy, featuring 12 terrifying original stories from today's most noteworthy authors, with an introduction by bestselling author Josh Malerman and an afterword by Ramsey Campbell. Created as an homage to the 1980 classic horror anthology, Dark Forces, edited by Kirby McCauley, this collection contains 12...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DARDavis, Kenneth C.
Summary: Looks at what it is like to be king or queen of England, examines the reigns of over twenty monarchs from William I, 1066-1087, to Elizabeth II who has ruled since 1959, and points out some of the benefits and drawbacks of being royal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Around DavisSummary: Rio bravo : On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing a murderous cohort from jail. On the other is Sheriff John T. Chance and his two deputies: one a recovering drunkard, the other a crippled codger. Also in their ragtag ranks are an unseasoned, trigger-happy youth and a woman with a past-- and her eye on Chance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RioSummary: Crime abounded in late Victorian and Edwardian times--from the streets of London to the country houses of nobility; from the royal apartments of Vienna to the hotel rooms of quiet Copenhagen. Sherlock Holmes took on many of the era's crooks, killers, blackmailers, and schemers, but so did the fictional sleuths of other celebrated writers of the time. (from container.).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RIVNewton, D. B. (Dwight Bennett)
Summary: "A man could smell the violence in the valley when he rode down through it. War hung heavy in the air -- between the rich ranchers and the wild, lawless tribe who squatted above them -- and Jesse Craven was caught in the middle. Jesse Craven was ramrod of the valley's biggest spread. He was born to the hills' most savage mongrel clan -- and now, Jesse had a terrible choice to make. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W NEWSummary: The bullet that killed his daughter was meant for Boston cop Thomas Craven. That's what police brass and Craven himself think, but that's not what the investigation finds. Clue after clue and witness after witness, the search leads him into a shadowy realm where money and political intrigue intersect. If Craven wasn't a target before, he, and anyone linked to his inquiry, now is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EDGNewton, D. B. (Dwight Bennett)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NEWSummary: The true life story of Christian music megastar Jeremy Camp and his remarkable journey of love and loss that proves there is always hope in the midst of tragedy, and that faith tested is the only faith worth sharing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020