De La Torre, Miguel A.
Summary: "How curiously different is this white God from the one preached by Jesus who understood faithfulness by how we treat the hungry and thirsty, the naked and alien, the incarcerated and infirm. This white God of empire may be appropriate for global conquerors who benefit from all that has been stolen and through the labor of all those defined as inferior; but such a deity can never be the God of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8 DE LŽižek, Slavoj.
Summary: In this provocative and original work, Slavoj Zizek takes a look at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. From the sinking of the Titanic to Hitchcock's Rear Window, from the operas of Wagner to science fiction, from Alien to the Jewish Joke, the author's acute analyses explore the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society. Zizek takes issue with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An epic detective story that offers a gripping expose on why the world is so unequal. Professor Jared Diamond traveled the globe for over 30 years trying to answer this question. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? Diamond dismantles racially based theories of human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2005
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GUNFortey, Richard A.
Summary: Scientist Richard Fortey chronicles what he found on his four acres of woodland in the Chiltern Hills of Oxfordshire, England over the course of one year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.3 FORSummary: On July 16, 1054, a dramatic event occurred during the worship service in the Church of Hagia Sophia: a papal delegation delivered a document excommunicating the Patriarch of Constantinople, and the Patriarch promptly excommunicated the Pope in return. Known as The Great Schism, the act divided Eastern from Western Catholic Christianity. Going on location to the most venerated sites in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Two thousand years after the crucifixion of Jesus, Christianity has a greater number of followers than any other religion in the world. What are its essential beliefs? Where did they come from? How are they understood by different denominations? How do they affect the way we live? Zondervan Handbook of Christian Beliefs has been written by an international team of expert contributors with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 230 ZONMeyer, Stephen C.
Summary: Charles Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. In what is known today as the "Cambrian explosion," 530 million years ago many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of rock. In Darwin's Doubt Stephen C. Meyer tells the story of the mystery surrounding this explosion of animal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 MEYSummary: Now identified mainly with Fundamentalism, the Evangelical movement that began in 18th-century Britain was an exuberant expression of Protestantism that quickly spread across the globe. What made it so compelling that slaves and slave-owners, the poor and the powerful alike, embraced it in America, Africa, and Asia? This program studies the cultural, theological, and political framework of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This program brings viewers to exceptional sacred sites throughout the Near East and Asia to trace the first expansion of Christianity from Jerusalem - which was not to Rome with Paul, but to Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Armenia, and Ethiopia. After the Siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD followers of Jesus fled to Asia Minor, establishing a thriving ecclesiastical community at least 100 years before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Bird, F. A.
Summary: "Introduces young readers to the Cheyenne people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Cheyenne are keeping their culture alive today"--OCLC.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.0497 BIRBird, Frederick A.
Summary: "Introduces young readers to the Apache people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Apache are keeping their culture alive today"--OCLC.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.0497 BIRSummary: In this TEDTalk, philosopher and scientist Daniel Dennett calls for religion - all religion - to be taught in schools so it can be addressed as a natural phenomenon. He then takes on Rick Warren's book The Purpose Driven Life, disputing its claim that to be moral, one must deny evolution. Dennett sums up his recent work with this statement: "You might say it's about the reverse engineering of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Bird, F. A.
Summary: "This book introduces young readers to the Comanche people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Comanche are keeping their culture alive today"--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.0497 BIRBird, F. A.
Summary: "This title introduces readers to the Seminole people. Text covers traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more. Also discussed is contact with Europeans, as well as how the people keep their culture alive today"--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.0497 BIRSummary: Through the Wormhole explores the deepest mysteries of existence, the questions that have puzzled mankind for eternity. The series brings together the brightest minds and best ideas from the very edges of science to reveal the extraordinary truth of our universe, and to raise even more philosophical questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Science 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV THRFeathers, Beka
Summary: "Why the people? Is democracy actually the best form of government? Does it ever work like it's supposed to? Join Lin and Julie as they wonder aloud how America can ever be a democracy when citizens seem to disagree about everything. With them, we are whisted through political history, journeying through different systems of power, including monarchy, theocracy, dictatorship, and oligarchy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 FEASummary: If God exists, why is there so much suffering? What happens after you die? Does God hear our prayers? In this program a panel of teens pose the hard questions to a Catholic pilgrimage leader, a Sufi Muslim practitioner, and an Anglican minister as together they examine the relationship between the physical world and the spiritual. The group find areas of agreement between Christianity and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: For more than a millennium Western civilization looked to the Church for answers to questions about life’s meaning. But for many, acceptance of ecclesiastical doctrine wasn’t enough. This program traces the roots of modern religious skepticism back over 400 years to examine both the unraveling and the endurance of Christian belief. It explores challenges to established theologies in the ideas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The Reformation was a period of rebellion, upheaval, and war - all sparked by one man whose revolt against church authority led to the creation of Protestantism and ultimately, to a reinvigoration of the Catholic faith. This program travels to churches in Europe, Britain, and Mexico to explore the key figures, philosophies, and movements of the Protestant Reformation. It looks at the issues...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Ehrman, Bart D.
Summary: Presents a history of Christianity from the time of Jesus to the end of the fourth century. Includes examination of Jewish-Christian relationships, Christian relationships with the Roman Empire, persecution of Christians, and the development of church offices and theology.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2004
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Schaefer, Lola M.
Summary: "In this interactive picture book, young readers push, press, and pound rocks on the page, using their imagination to explore. They learn about different types of rocks, the structure of Earth, and how we humans use rocks and minerals. Back matter includes a real-world experiment for investigating the hardness of rocks"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
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Summary: "An unprecedented history of the personality test that has achieved cult-like devotion, devised a century ago by a pair of homemakers and found today in boardrooms, classrooms, and beyond. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It has been harnessed by Fortune 100 companies, universities, hospitals, churches, and the military. Its language--of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.2 EMRForrest, Barbara
Contents: How the wedge began -- The wedge document: a design for design -- Searching for the science -- Paleontology lite and Copernican discoveries -- A conspiracy hunter and a Newton -- Everything except science I -- Everything except science II -- Wedging into power politics -- Religion first - and last.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 231.765 FORBird, F. A.
Summary: "This book introduces young readers to the Navajo people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Navajo are keeping their culture alive today"--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022