Summary: A four-episode program on the history of mental illness, exploring the question: what is the best way to treat it?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "[This book] finds Gor, Kravis, and Mongtar making new allies and enemies across the greater Galactigon. With the help of an increasingly sapient D.O.N.A., the orcs face off with an eccentric scrapper bot, a cantankerous cat mechanic, and incur the wrath of a biker gang called the Fuzzballs to discover the truth about D.O.N.A.'s mysterious creator. Will they survive the stand-off with evil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC ORC 2Rashid, Ahmed.
Summary: The terrorist attacks of September 11 have turned the world's attention to areas of the globe about which we know very little. The author turns his skills as an investigative journalist to the five Central Asian republics adjacent to Afghanistan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.04 RASKhalidi, Rashid.
Summary: Analyzes three historical moments from the past thirty-five years to reveal how the U.S. and Israel have worked together to prevent the emergence of a Palestinian state.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.053 KHARashid, Mark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.1 RASRashid, Ahmed.
Summary: Rashid examines the region and the corridors of power in Washington and Europe to see how the promised nation building in these countries has progressed. His conclusions are devastating: an unstable and nuclear-armed Pakistan, a renewed al Qaeda profiting from a booming opium trade, and a Taliban resurgence and reconquest. While Iraq continues to attract most of American media and military...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.05 RASRashid, Mark.
Summary: Many horse trainers feel that horses who fail to obey a human's request are doing so as much out of perversity as ignorance. That's not Mark Rashid's view: "If we understand that horses can't separate the way they feel from the way they act, then we can start to see that unwanted behavior isn't bad behavior at all. More times than not, it's just the horse expressing the way he feels at that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.1 RASKhalidi, Rashid
Summary: A history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict told from the Palestinian perspective, arguing the period since the Balfour Declaration of 1917 has amounted to a hundred years of colonial war against the Palestinians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Aryana Farshad's quest in her native Iran to explore the religious rituals and traditions that have fascinated the Western world for centuries. Includes rare glimpses of the women's chamber at the Great Mosque, the fire rituals in Zarathustra, and the dance of the Dervishes in Kurdistan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Questar, Inc. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200 MYS1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MYS
Manji, Irshad.
Summary: A guide to finding the God of love within Islam explains how everyone can develop moral courage for a life defined by purpose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.5 MANManji, Irshad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 MANMohammed, Rahaf
Summary: In January 2019, then 18-year-old Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed escaped from her family while holidaying in Kuwait. She was fleeing systematic abuse of her human rights as a woman growing up in Saudi Arabia and, specifically, her family's threats to kill her because she desired the freedoms Western women take for granted. She boarded a plane bound for Bangkok, en route to Australia where she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOHAMMAD, RAHAF MOHRumer, Masha
Summary: "A candid portrait of the realities, challenges, and joys many contemporary immigrants confront while raising a new generation of Americans"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 RUMKheiriyeh, Rashin
Summary: "It's Rashin's first day of school in America! Everything is a different shape than what she's used to: from the foods on her breakfast plate to the letters in the books! And the kids' families are from all over! The new teacher asks each child to imagine the shape of home on a map. Rashin knows right away what she'll say: Iran looks like a cat! What will the other kids say? Open this book to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG KHENarayan, Rashmi
Summary: This practical travel guide to South India & Kerala features detailed factual travel tips and points-of-interest structured lists of all iconic must-see sights as well as some off-the-beaten-track treasures. Our itinerary suggestions and expert author picks of things to see and do will make it a perfect companion both, ahead of your trip and on the ground. This South India & Kerala guide book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rough Guides 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.48 SOUGessen, Masha.
Summary: Drawing on access to the band's members and their families and associates, recreates the feminist punk activists' fierce act of political confrontation in Moscow, which made national headlines as they were punished for their act of defiance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 GESKiper, Dasha
Summary: "These compelling case histories meld science and storytelling to illuminate the complex relationship between the mind of someone with dementia and the mind of the person caring for them. After getting a master's degree in clinical psychology, Dasha Kiper became the live-in caregiver for a Holocaust survivor with Alzheimer's disease. For a year, she endured the emotional strain of looking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 KIPCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 KIPCoppola, Francis Ford
Summary: A guide to a visionary new form of filmmaking discusses how advances in digital technology have made it possible to create a "live" film that can be sent instantly via satellite for viewing around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 COPWinters, Nasha
Summary: Winters and Kelley explain how to harness the anticancer potential of phytonutrients abundant in low-glycemic plant and animal foods to address the 10 hallmarks of cancer an approach Western medicine does with drug based therapies. Their optimized, genetically-tuned diet shuns grains, legumes, sugar, genetically modified foods, pesticides, and synthetic ingredients while emphasizing whole,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 WINGessen, Masha.
Summary: This is the chilling account of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress and made his country once more a threat to her own people and to the world. Handpicked by the "family" surrounding an ailing and increasingly unpopular Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin seemed like a perfect choice for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PUTIN, VLADIMIR GESCordova, Isabel de.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Laurel Glen 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 CordovaPrasad, Vinayak K.
Summary: "In this critical study of current cancer therapies, Dr. Prasad, an oncologist and hematologist, examines oncology practice and policy in the United States. His book is organized into four sections: (1) an overview of cancer drugs, (2) forces that distortcancer medicine and practice, (3) details about cancer research and practice, (4) recommended solutions on multiple levels (policy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 PRAAsad, Muhammad
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Publisher / Publication Date: Book Foundation 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.1227 ASARustad,Martha E.H
Summary: "Simple text accompanied by full-color photographs give an upclose look at ladybugs. Intended for kindergarten through third grade students"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media 2006