Greene, Robert
Summary: Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. It outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers. Some laws teach the need for prudence, the virtue of stealth, and many demand the total...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2000
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Summary: Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Edgy and often deeply personal, the twenty-one essays collected here come from a wide variety of writers. Some identify as witches, others identify as writers, musicians, game developers, or artists. What they have in common is that they've created personal rituals to summon their own power in a world that would prefer them powerless. Here, they share the rituals they use to resist self-doubt,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weiser Books, an imprint of Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.94 BECSummary: Kris is derailed from her life when she is drugged by a small-time thief. She is unknowingly drawn into the life cycle of a presence that permeates the microscopic world, moving to nematodes, plant life, livestock, and back again. Along the way, she finds another being-a familiar, who is equally consumed by the mysterious presence. The two search urgently for a place of safety within each other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2013
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER UPSDelaney, J P
Summary: "A psychological thriller that spins one woman's seemingly good fortune, and another woman's mysterious fate, through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death, and deception"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DELHill, Jess
Summary: "A deeply researched account from an award-winning journalist that uncovers the ways in which abusers exert control in the darkest-and most intimate-ways imaginable We fear dark alleys when in truth, home is the most dangerous place for a woman. Of the 87,000 women killed globally in 2017, more than a third (30,000) were killed by an intimate partner, and another 20,000 were killed by a family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2020
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Summary: Offers a look at the events of "Fifty Shades of Grey" through the eyes of the dominant Christian Grey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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Summary: "In the tradition of The Girl on the Train, The Silent Wife, and Gone Girl comes an enthralling psychological thriller that spins one woman's seemingly good fortune, and another woman's mysterious fate, through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death, and deception. Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life. The request seems odd, even intrusive--and for the two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELTchaikovsky, Adrian
Summary: "There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than now. The city chafes under the heavy hand of the Palleseen occupation, the choke-hold of its criminal underworld, the boot of its factory owners, the weight of its wretched poor and the burden of its ancient curse. What will be the spark that lights the conflagration? Despite the city's refugees, wanderers, murderers, madmen,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Head of Zeus 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TCHSummary: Echoing the infamous Milgram experiment from the 1960s, this ABC News program sets up a psychological test in which an authority figure urges men and women to inflict pain. Test administrator and social psychologist Dr. Jerry Burger interprets the disturbing findings. The program also analyzes the 1971 Stanford prison experiment as well as the 2004 hoax in which a McDonald's manager and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Philip Zimbardo has spent decades researching the transformation of character that occurs when generally good people are led to engage in evil actions. In this lecture, Zimbardo discourses on theories of conformity, prejudice, aggression, social influence, and antisocial behavior. Topics include the permeability of behavioral boundaries; the nature of evil and its societal consequences;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Urbaniak, Kasia
Summary: "How can so many women feel "good and mad" yet still reluctant to speak up in a meeting or difficult conversation? Why do women often feel like they're too much--and, at the same time, not enough? What causes us, at the most critical moments in our lives,to freeze? Kasia Urbaniak teaches power to women--and her answers to these questions may surprise you. Based on insights from her experiences...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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Summary: "The author of the legendary #1 New York Times bestseller The Seat of the Soul shows us step-by-fascinating-step how to create a life of love and where that now leads"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 ZUKSummary: Examining the use of torture over the past half-century, this program describes its horrific application in military and political settings and explores its profound human cost. Featuring interviews with confessed practitioners of the gruesome craft, the program exposes interrogation methods developed and carried out by French army officers against Algerian independence fighters, by British...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Mischel, Walter.
Summary: "Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it. A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behavior later in life? The world's leading expert on self-control, Walter Mischel has proven that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 MISGlasser, William
Summary: Outlines the "seven deadly habits" of parents with adolescent children and urges them to get real, abandon old strategies that do not work, and adopt the "Choice Theory" of parenting teenagers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.125 GLASEvans, Patricia M. (Patricia Marie)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bob Adams 1993
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Summary: "What makes us love Ellen DeGeneres and hate Anne Hathaway? How do politicians move away from policy talk and connect with their voters? Activist and former producer Steven Goldstein breaks down the industry of creating likability and how public figures manufacture their image"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302 GOLMaestripieri, Dario.
Summary: A primatologist examines unspoken social customs, from jilting a lover to being competitive on the job, to explain how behavioral complexities are linked to humans' primate heritage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.7 MAEApter, T. E.
Summary: A psychologist describes the five different types of difficult mothers, including angry, controlling, narcissistic, envious and emotionally neglectful and explains how adults can still suffer from these negative relationships and how they can overcome the challenges of their complex feelings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.924 APTSummary: Sondra Wellington is bossy, controlling, and extremely unpleasant but eveything changes when she's transformed into a chihuahua and her real body is in a coma.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie ChihuahuaLowry, Lois.
Summary: Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2012
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Lowry 1993Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LOWDoyle, Laura.
Summary: Explains how women can build a harmonious marriage by learning to trust their husbands, express their own needs while respecting their husband's choices, and giving up unnecessary control and responsibility.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.81 DOYAbrahams, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2003