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Summary: "The story of the invention and use of electricity has often been told before, but never from an environmental point of view. The assumption of safety, and the conviction that electricity has nothing to do with life, are by now so entrenched in the human psyche that new research, and testimony by those who are being injured, are not enough to change the course that society has set. Two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2020
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Summary: Algeria-born French intellectual Hélène Cixous is a feminist legend, a May 68 activist, and a major postmodern author. With friends like the philosopher Jacques Derrida, the artist Adel Abdessemed, and stage director Ariane Mnouchkine, Cixous examines the wounds of our time while allowing us to hear the cry of literature. In his "road movie" documentary EVER, RÊVE, HÉLÈNE CIXOUS, director...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC EVEFurstenberg, François.
Summary: Relates how a group of five French aristocrats sought refuge in the United States, a republic whose Enlightenment ideals mirrored their own, and spent the French Revolution in Philadelphia before eventually becoming involved in Franco-American diplomacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.4 FURFurstenberg, François
Summary: Relates how a group of five French aristocrats sought refuge in the United States, a republic whose Enlightenment ideals mirrored their own, and spent the French Revolution in Philadelphia before eventually becoming involved in Franco-American diplomacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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Contents: Op. 9 (17:00) -- Op. 15 (14:00) -- Op. 27 (12:00) -- Op. 32 (11:00) -- Op. 37 (14:00) -- Op. 48 (14:00) -- Op. 55 (12:00) -- Op. 62 (13:00) -- Op. 72 (4:40).
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Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Red Seal 1984
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL CHOFirstenberg, Paul B.
Contents: Transforming the dynamics of nonprofit boards : from passive to active agencies -- Reforming board practices -- Board responsibility for operational issues -- Preparing nonprofit directors for the coming changes in governance -- Maximizing your human resources -- The executive director : one of the most challenging assignments in the nonprofit world -- The effective cfo -- The scarcity of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Foundation Center 2009
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1 available in Foundation Collection, Call number: R-FC 658.048 FIRSummary: When Alex, an expert assassin, refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization, he becomes a target. FBI agents and Mexican intelligence are brought in to investigate the trail of bodies, leading them closer to Alex. With the crime syndicate and FBI in hot pursuit, Alex has the skills to stay ahead, except for one thing: he is struggling with severe memory loss, affecting his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD MEMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MEMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MemoryArthurs, Alexia
Summary: Presents a collection of stories set in Jamaica, New York City, and a Midwestern university, where multicultural main characters and their families navigate evolving senses of race, racism, family, and tradition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018
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Summary: "One of the most influential, admired, and innovative women of our time: fashion designer, philanthropist, wife, mother, and grandmother, Diane von Furstenberg offers a book about becoming the woman she wanted to be. Diane von Furstenberg started out with a suitcase full of jersey dresses and an idea of who she wanted to be--in her words, 'the kind of woman who is independent and who doesn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 0000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B VONFURSTENBER VONArthus-Bertrand, Yann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.36 ARTSummary: World-famous author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in this three-part adaptation of Julian Barnes' acclaimed novel follows the separate but intersecting lives of two very different men: a half-Indian son of a vicar who is framed for a crime he may or may not have committed, and Doyle, who investigates the case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ARTAlther, Lisa.
Summary: A fascinating new look at the infamous story of the Hatfields and the McCoys and their blood feud that began in 1865 with the murder of Harmon McCoy, a Union soldier, by a Confederate Hatfield relative.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.6 ALTMcarthur, Nancy
Summary: Two brothers discover the giant plants in their room are eating their junk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CAMLT 0000
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Contents: Moontrane (5:40) -- Swingin' (8:15) -- Moment's notice (7:18) -- Streets of desire (7:43) -- Real Mcbop (6:08) -- Weirdfun (6:27) -- Dizzy's atmosphere (3:50) -- Reflection (7:32) -- Woody (7:11) -- It never gets old (5:25) -- Mack "The knife" (5:41).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: GRP Records 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SANMcArthur, Adam
Summary: LankyBox duo Adam and Justin and their friends Foxy, Boxy, and Rocky love hanging out and playing games together. But when Justin gets hungry and decides to order donuts, he and Adam wind up kidnapped! An evil hacker has nabbed Adam and Justin, and he wants them to teach him the secret to online superstardom. If they can't, he's going to wipe out all the content in the world that's more popular...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley 2023
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Summary: A pickle tries to escape being eaten by fleeing through the city streets, pursued by a variety of other food items.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1993
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Summary: What does integrity do in the face of adversity/oppression? What does honesty do in the face of lies/deception? What does decency do in the face of insult? How does virtue meet brute force? These four questions posed by the great African American civil rights activist and author W. E. B. Du Bois in his 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk are expounded upon in a speech given by Dr. Cornel West...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ O'FAArmour, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Linford 1992
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W ARMArmour, Vernice
Summary: "The first female African American combat pilot, a former captain in the Marine Corps and a successful motivational speaker shares her phenomenal strategies for rocketing to the top in business and in life. Before she was thirty years old, Vernice "FlyGirl" Armour had become a decorated naval aviator, Camp Pendleton's 2001 Female Athlete of the Year and Strongest Warrior winner, the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 ARMO'Farrill, Arturo.
Contents: Moment's notice / John Coltrane -- Brava / Santa Debriano -- Chinas y criollas / Rob Mounsey -- Pure emotion / Chico O'Farrill -- Ya yo / Papo Vasquez -- Little Susan / Randy Weston -- Arturo's closet / Vasquez, O'Farrill -- Siboney / Ernesto Lecuona -- Walking batterie woman / Carla Bley -- Darn that dream / Delange, Van Heusen.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ O'FASandoval, Arturo.
Contents: Real McBop -- Eso es lo que hay -- Eastern blues -- Blues for Diz -- Lovely one -- Sureña -- If I ain't got you -- Rhythm of our world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Half Note Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SANSandoval, Arturo.
Contents: Luna de miel en Guama (3:58) -- Maria (2:56) -- Reggae mi lugar (4:51) -- A mi manera = My way (4:02) -- Almendra (4:27) -- Red moon (5:27) -- A night in Tunisia (15:36) -- Blues en dos partes (6:46)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milan Latino 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SandoSangalli, Arturo
Summary: The celebrated mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras left no writings. But what if he had and the manuscript had never been found? Where would it be located? Two mathematicians, one American, one British, set out, unbeknownst to each other, to find the missing manuscript.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANWirtenberg, Jeana (EDT)/ Russell, William G. (EDT)/ Lipsky, David (EDT)
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Publisher / Publication Date: AMACOM Books 2008