Criado-Perez, Caroline
Summary: "Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development to health care to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 CRIPrado, Pérez
Contents: Voodoo suite (& Shorty Rogers) -- St. James infirmary -- In the mood -- I can't get started -- Jumping at the Woodside -- Stomping at the Savoy -- Music makers -- Exotic suite of the Americas. Theme of two worlds ; Amoha ; Criollo ; Theme of two worlds ; Uamanna Africano ; Blues in C major ; Theme of two worlds -- Midnight in Jamaica -- Mama yo quiero -- Son of a gun -- Jacqueline and Caroline...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bear Family Records 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ PRAPerez-Prado, Aixa
Summary: "Come along for a day of exploring the sights and sounds of Argentina from morning light to city night. Snack on medialunas, count the stalls at la feria and ride the caballito on the carousel. Argentinian author and illustrator Aixa Pérez-Prado and Mariana Ruiz Johnson (Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, Run Little Chaski, The Last Hazlenut) draw on their lived experiences in Argentina to create...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD PERSummary: Presents a collection of sixteen books that cover a variety of science topics--with a focus on animals--and basic concepts, as well as an activity book that ties an exercise to each volume in the set.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Features a selection of songs specific to the 1950s, carefully curated by Martin Scorsese and music supervisor Randall Poster as a sonic companion to the film's enthralling narrative of organized crime in postwar America.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC IRICarlin, Peter Ames.
Summary: Takes a look at the whole life of the Beatles star, casting new light on his years with the band Wings and wife, Linda McCartney, and revealing a man as haunted by his legacy--and particularly his relationship with John Lennon--as he was inspired by it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCCARTNEY, PAUL CARSummary: Global icon and recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Dolly Parton, has joined forces with some of rock music's most legendary artists along with today's biggest stars for her first-ever rock album. The ever-evolving Parton teamed up with an all-star roster of musicians for the 30-song collection which includes nine original tracks and 21 covers of iconic rock anthems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY PARSummary: A retelling of one of the most notorious Tinseltown legends to circulate at the height of the studio era. In November 1924, a mysterious Hollywood death occurred aboard media mogul William Randolph Hearst's yacht. Included among the famous guests that weekend were Charlie Chaplin, starlet Marion Davies, the studio system creator and producer Thomas Ince, and feared gossip columnist, Louella...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CatSummary: "I.O.U.S.A. tells the story of America in debt. Faced with key deficits in budget, savings, trade and leadership, increased foreign competition and ballooning financial obligations, the federal government is critically overextended. With the economy already in shambles, 78 million baby boomers are now expecting retirement benefits from their indebted federal government. Weaving together...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Home Video 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC I.O.U.Summary: The Final Season revolves around more court machinations, complicated relationships, and coup attempts. Catherine is still in charge, meeting with peasants and nobles to get input on her quest to modernize Russia. She₂s working on bonding with Peter and their young son Paul. Meanwhile, the sidelined Peter tries his hand at "First Husband" duties like hunting and inventing new cuisines but soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GRECarlin, Peter Ames
Summary: "Recounts the life and achievements of the American music icon, detailing his youth as a grandchild of Jewish Hungarian immigrants, his celebrity relationships, and the definitive music that earned him fifteen Grammy Awards and two inductions into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame,"--NoveList. To have been alive during the last sixty years is to have lived with the music of Paul Simon. The boy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SIMON, PAUL CARContents: Disc one. I'll never smile again / Ruth Lowe -- I let a song go out of my heart / Henry Nemo ; Irving Mills ; Edward Ellington ; John Redmond -- Why was I born? / Oscar Hammerstein II ; Jerome Kern -- I should care / Sammy Cahn, Alex Stordahl, Paul Weston ; That old black magic / Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen (with Dizzy Gillespie & his orchestra) -- Close your eyes / Bernice Petkere -- S'posin'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hip-O Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HARCarlin, Peter Ames
Summary: "From journalist Peter Ames Carlin-the New York Times bestselling music biographer who chronicled the lives and careers of Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, the Beach Boys, and Paul Simon-Sonic Boom captures the rollicking story of the most successful record label in the history of rock and roll, Warner Bros Records, and the remarkable secret to its meteoric rise"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 CARCarlin, Peter Ames.
Summary: A sweeping portrait of the Grammy Award-winning music artist encompasses the breadth of his career and offers insight into his creative process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SPRINGSTEEN, BRUCE CARContents: Match box blues (Larry Hensley) -- Black snake moan (Cobb & Underwood) -- Johnson City blues (Clarence Green) -- Franklin County blues (Dixie Ramblers) -- Blue grass twist ; Bibb County grind (South Georgia Highballers) -- Barber's blues ; Dust pan blues (Frankie Marvin) -- I'm blue and lonesome (Gene Autry & Frankie Marvin) -- Do right daddy blues ; Black bottom blues ; The rheumatism blues ;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2005
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Summary: Goodnight Hawaiian Moon is a whimsical bedtime book with nighttime rhymes by Dr. Carolan and beautiful illustrations by Joanna Carolan. Children and adults will be transported to a tropical dreamland listening to the Read Along CD by Grammy Award Nominee, Amy Hanaiali'i. The CD includes her beautiful rendition of Brahms' Lullaby sung in Hawaiian and English. Amy is accompanied by the award...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Banana Patch Press 2006
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE GOOSummary: When several diamonds are stolen from a jewelry store in Marseilles, the heist bears the hallmarks of the supposedly retired Pink Panther gang. After a child is accidentally killed in their getaway, the thieves resort to desperate measures to fence the jewels. This sparks a series of events that set a British insurance-loss adjuster, a French-Algerian cop, and a Serbian soldier turned diamond...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: Interplanetary rulers from the 27th century send two teenaged boys, who should have been studying history instead of playing rock music, on a guided trip through time and history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BILSummary: The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these four contemporary British television mysteries. Death and dust: The impending marriage of a widowed doctor and a well-to-do divorcée motivates a murder of mistaken identity. Picture of innocence: In the midst of a "shooting war" between rival camera clubs, someone tries to frame Barnaby, and definitely not for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MIDSummary: As the alien Xenovirus reaches Britain, Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, now gifted with extraordinary longevity, joins with Alan Turing to set up a special organization, the Order of the Silver Helix, to outmaneuver the terrifying mutations of the virus in Britain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KNASummary: A sinister thriller from the fractured 1960s that concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who is urged (and blackmailed) to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life as a reborn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI SECSummary: Follows designer-activist Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller to rural Bertie County, the poorest in North Carolina, where they work with local high school students to help transform both their community and their lives. Living on credit and grant money and fighting a change-resistant school board, Pilloton and Miller lead their students through a year-long, full-scale design and build project...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IFSummary: Briggs and his companion Lulu, a Belgian Malinois, haul ass down the Pacific Coast in time to catch their best friend's and handler's funeral. One of them has a week to live; the other lives like every day is his last.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022