Summary: Reveals how consumer demand for five species has America importing 90% of its seafood threatening fishing communities and public health. But pioneering chefs and fishermen are leading a movement to reconnect us back to our local seafood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FISSummary: Follows Damon Gameau as he embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as healthy. Highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THASummary: In the corner of a small cafe, Areum sits typing on her laptop. At the tables around her, other customers enact the various dramas of their lives. Is she merely writing what she hears? Or is she hearing what's been written? As dramas inside the cafe unfold, the plants outside grow taller.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GRABailey, Maria T.
Contents: Taking aim at the mom market -- Talking about my generation -- Working it: mothers in the office -- Baby boomers: parenting pioneers -- Gen X marks the spot -- Generation Y not? -- Silver birds, gilded wallets -- Messages for moms -- Reaching the right moms the write way -- Getting moms buzzing through public relations -- Connecting with moms through brand experiences -- Moms online and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dearborn Trade Pub. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.83 BAIBrown, Box
Summary: "Powered by the advent of television and super-charged by the deregulation era of the 1980s, media companies and toy manufacturers joined forces to dominate the psyches of American children. But what are the consequences when a developing brain is saturated with the same kind of marketing bombardment found in Red Scare propaganda? Brian "Box" Brown's The He-Man Effect shows how corporate...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 688.72 BRORies, Eric
Summary: "Most startups are built to fail. But those failures, according to entrepreneur Eric Ries, are preventable. Startups don't fail because of bad execution, or missed deadlines, or blown budgets. They fail because they are building something nobody wants. Whether they arise from someone's garage or are created within a mature Fortune 500 organization, new ventures, by definition, are designed to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2011
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Summary: "In nearly every realm of daily life--from health care to education, highways to home security--there is an invisible velvet rope rising, separating Americans into two radically different experiences of life. On one side of the velvet rope is a friction-free existence where, for a price, needs are anticipated and catered to. Red tape is cut, lines are jumped, appointments are secured, and doors...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.2 SCHLindström, Martin
Summary: Reveals pervasive marketing practices used by some of the world's largest companies to manipulate consumers and argues that guerilla market techniques intentionally tap the public's deepest fears, vulnerabilities, and dreams.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.8 LINSummary: This video describes how to construct formulas and equations, solve equations with one variable, and use formulas in basic computer spreadsheets. Dramatized segments and computer animations demonstrate ways to predict future sales and costs of cordless phones at an electronics store by using spreadsheets; select an economical rental car by devising a formula to compare competing rates; and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This video describes how to read, interpret, and evaluate data displayed in bar graphs, line graphs, and pie charts. Dramatized segments and computer animations illustrate ways to determine the financial advantages of a staggered breeding schedule at a dairy farm; allocate rack space in a CD store, based on regional and local sales figures; and decide whether an athlete's physical...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Walsh, Peter
Summary: Discusses how to apply organizational logic to weight-loss goals, sharing advice on how to adjust food choices, shopping habits, and a kitchen environment as part of maintaining a weight-conscious lifestyle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.25 WALWolfe, David B.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dearborn Trade Publishing 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 658.8 WolfeSummary: Showcasing the effect of a high sugar diet on a healthy body.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films, LLC 2016
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Ariely, Dan.
Summary: An evaluation of the sources of illogical decisions explores the reasons why irrational thought often overcomes level-headed practices, offering insight into the structural patterns that cause people to make the same mistakes repeatedly.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 ARISummary: This video describes how to estimate costs of products and services, determine the circumference of an object and its effect on motion, and calculate area and volume. Dramatized segments and computer animations illustrate ways to use measurements taken from blueprints to estimate construction costs; determine tire sizes, which affect vehicle speed; and calculate a running track's circumference...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This video describes how to perform computations using positive and negative numbers, interpret the results, and determine the break-even point in a business situation. Dramatized segments and computer animations illustrate why bridges require expansion joints; how to track the rushing yardage of a high school football player; and how to adjust profit and debt to bring a start-up lawn-care...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Belsky, Gary.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 BELDublanica, Steve.
Summary: Taken from the popular blog, WaiterRant.net, tells the story from the server's point of view about customer stupidity, arrogance, misbehavior and even human grace.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 642.6 DUBMoore, Kate
Summary: As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their bosses that the luminous material was safe, the women themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered from head to toe with the glowing dust. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" were...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Irwin 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.83408 StanlSummary: This video describes how to calculate the area of rectangles and other shapes-both geometrical and irregular-and how to determine the volume of a rectangular solid. Dramatized segments and computer animations focus on calculating lawn dimensions at a sod farm; creatively redesigning a cereal box while retaining the original volume; and using the Pythagorean Theorem to work out the coverage area...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This video describes how whole numbers and decimals are used in the monetary system, how to calculate costs in foreign currencies, and how to use exponents. Dramatized segments and computer animations focus on ways to determine the international value of U.S. dollars at a currency exchange; select chairs for an interior decorating job while staying within a budget; and calculate interstellar...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In the 1950s, American women discovered they could earn thousands, even millions of dollars, from bowls that burped. "Tupperware ladies" fanned out across the nation's living rooms, selling efficiency and convenience to their friends and neighbors through home parties. The secret behind Tupperware's success: the women of all shapes, sizes, and backgrounds who discovered they could move up in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TUPAnderson, M. T.
Summary: In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2002