Summary: An animated documentary on the life of controversial MIT professor, philosopher, linguist, anti-war activist and political firebrand Noam Chomsky. Through complex, lively conversations with Chomsky and brilliant illustrations by Gondry himself, the film reveals the life and work of the father of modern linguistics while also exploring his theories on the emergence of language.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Media Group 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ISSummary: It is the definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky, widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive, on the defining characteristic of our time, the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few. Through interviews filmed over four years, Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality, tracing a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Linguist, intellect, and activist Noam Chomsky discusses and reflects on the state of the world including the War in Iraq, September 11th, the War on Terror, media manipulation and control, social activism, fear, American foreign policy, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NOAChomsky, Noam.
Summary: In this collection of essays and lectures from 1969 to 2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky examines the nature of state power, from the ideologies driving the Cold War to the War on Terror, and reintroduces the moral and legal questions that all too often go unheeded. With unrelenting logic, he holds the arguments of empire up to critical examination and shatters the myths...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 CHOCasale, Jana
Summary: A college student's procrastination over reading a Noam Chomsky work becomes a metaphor throughout subsequent decades of milestones that reflect the disparity between the carefully planned life she wants and the person she is really meant to be.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEDepartment of Eagles (Musical group)
Contents: On glaze. -- Sailing by night. -- Noam Chomsky spring break 2002. -- The piano in the bathtub. -- Romo-Goth. -- Gravity's greatest victory/Rex snorted coke. -- Origin of love. -- Family romance. -- Forty dollar rug. -- We have to respect each other. -- The curious butterfly realizes he is... -- The horse you ride. -- Ghost in summer clothes.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Isota Records 2003