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Buddhism Chimpanzees Tanzania Gombe National Park Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho 1935- Emotions Religious aspects Buddhism Goodall, Jane 1934- Oppenheimer, J. Robert 1904-1967 Primatologists Tanzania Biography Women primatologists Tanzania Biography Zambia Zola, Émile 1840-1902 DramaContents: Listen to me (or I will kick your ass) / Chikondi Salanje -- Women today take care of business / Stefano Nyerenda -- Please, don't kill my child / Thomas Binamo -- A message (I will take you) / Ben Masekese -- Jealous neighbor / Elias Chimenya -- I see the whole world dying of AIDS / Officer Ines Kaunde -- Give me back my child / Henderson Damiano -- The floods / James Justin -- Taking my life...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Six Degrees 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ZOMKamkwamba, William
Summary: An enterprising teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from scraps he finds around his village and brings electricity, and a future, to his family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KAMSummary: A difficult look at a country whose children are being orphaned at an alarming rate due to AIDS, their lack of education, and how they try to survive living in one of the poorest countries in the world. Includes interviews with President Bill Clinton, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF IKamkwamba, William
Summary: "When 14-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought in 2001, everyone's crops began to fail. His family didn't have enough money for food, let alone school, so William spent his days in the library. He came across a book on windmills and figured out how to build a windmill that could bring electricity to his village. Everyone thought he was crazy but William persevered and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KAMBird, Kai
Summary: J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2005
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Summary: A true story of tenacity and imagination describes how an African teenager built a windmill from scraps to create electricity for his home and his village, improving life for himself and his neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 621.453 KAMRussell, Sharman Apt
Summary: "An important, hopeful book that looks at the urgent problem of childhood malnutrition worldwide and the revolutionary progress being made to end it. From the much-admired writer of luminous prose and humane heart, winner of the John Burroughs Medal for distinguished nature writing. A healthy Earth requires healthy children. Yet nearly one fourth of the world's children--one in four--are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.19639 RUSSummary: Elderly Nana Chinegowe is left to care for her three orphaned grandchildren. Other than occasional casual work as a day laborer, she has no mean to support them and they often go without food. This film tells the story of Malawi's ultra poor, and investigates the Millennium Development Goals of reducing maternal mortality, hunger, and poverty.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Robeson, Teresa
Summary: "Follow the 14th Dalai Lama's harrowing escape to India in 1959, as he fled Chinese suppression of a national uprising in Tibet. A story of risk and political tension, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves in the incredible story of the Tibetan spiritual and political leader--brought to life by gripping narrative and vivid full-color illustrations that jump off the page"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: J 921 DALTelemann, Georg Philipp
Contents: Concerto in a minor for recorder, viola da gamba and strings (15:24) -- Suite (Overture) in D major for viola da gamba and strings, TWV 55:D6 (21:14) -- Suite (Overture) in a minor for recorder and strings, TWV 55a:2 (29:17) -- Sinfonia in F major for alto recorder, viola da gamba and strings, TWV 50:3 (7:41).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harmonia Mundi France 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL TELHolmes, Timothy
Summary: A culturally rich nation, Zambia has a history back to the twelfth century. Vivid storytellers, Zambians are known for passing on tradition and culture through word of mouth. This book contains vivid images, detailed sidebars, and informative references to engage and inform young readers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 968.94 HOLSeverin, Timothy.
Summary: Presents the author's reflections on his 1996 adventure in the Malay Archipelago, describing the unique features of the region and paying tribute to Victorian scientist Alfred Russel Wallace, whose 1896 travelogue of the Spice Islands served as a guide on the journey.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.8 SEVCorey, Shana.
Summary: This Step 4 Biography Reader shares the inspiring story of Malala Yousafzai, the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Even as a young girl in Pakistan, Malala spoke up about the importance of girls' education, via speeches and a blog. Since the Taliban regime was intent on denying girls an education and silencing anyone who disagreed with their laws, this was very dangerous. Malala was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR RED CORArtist Not Provided
Summary: Champion ballroom instructors Alec Mazo and Edyta Sliwinska teach four different dances, breaking them into beginning, intermediate, and advanced sections.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Retroactive Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.3307 DANSummary: Scooby-Doo! and the legend of the vampire: While on vacation in Australia, Scooby and the gang attend a music festival at Vampire Rock. When a legendary creature called Yowie Yahoo begins kidnapping the acts and turning them into vampires Scooby and crew help crack the mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCOWitch (Musical group)
Contents: [disc] one. Introduction, and In the past. Introduction -- Home town -- You better know -- Feeling high -- Like a chicken -- See you mama -- That's what I want -- Try me -- No time -- Living in the past -- Young lady -- Chance -- It's alright -- I've been away -- I like the way I am -- The only way -- Smiling face -- She is mine -- Mashed potato.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Now-Again Records 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN WITPerry, Alex.
Summary: "In 2006, the Wall Street pioneer and philanthropist Ray Chambers flicked through some holiday snapshots taken by his friend, development economist Jeff Sachs, and remarked on the placid beauty of a group of sleeping Malawian children. They're not sleeping, Sachs told him. They're in malarial comas. A few days later, they were all dead. Chambers had long avoided the public eye, but this moment...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.532 PERSummary: In 1862 Paris, Emile Zola is barely scratching out a living writing muckraking articles about the poverty of the French people and the corruption of their leaders. Until "Nana," about the life of a prostitute, becomes a smash hit and turns Zola into a celebrity, champion of the people. As he churns out a string of similar books that make him quite rich, his old friend Paul Cezanne tells him "An...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIFSummary: Jamal Malik is an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" When the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating. Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SLUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Slumdog 2009Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SLUHill, Thomas William
Contents: Carriages -- Furnace -- Curvature -- Refract -- Tongue -- Willow -- Filament -- Flock -- Whorl.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC HILSummary: Malaria is one of humanity's oldest and most devastating plagues. In many parts of the world, it remains an ever-present scourge that sickens or kills millions of people each year. What if it could finally be defeated? Now, scientists may be on the verge of a breakthrough with a promising new vaccine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Looks back at Jane Goodall's career as a primatologist, animal rights advocate, and environmental activist. Comprised of present-day interview segments with Goodall and archival footage of her work studying chimpanzees at Tanzania's Gombe National Park shot by Hugo van Lawick in the 1960s for National Geographic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Distributed by] 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JANEnglish, Charlie
Summary: The story of how a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts into hiding when al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines a fraught and fascinating account of one of the planet's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017