Summary: Follows the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his days as a lawyer in South Africa to his role as India's spiritual leader by using his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest that helped end British rule. Centers on the extraordinary man who fought for a nonviolent, peaceful existence and set an entire nation free.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GANFellman, Isaac R.
Summary: Lamat Paed understands paradoxes. She's a great mountain climber who's never summited, the author of a tell-all that didn't really tell anything. For years she guided pilgrims up the foothills of the Sublime Mount, leading them as high as God would let them go. And then she partnered the apostate Southern priest Mother Disaine on the most daring, most blasphemous expedition in history -- an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aqueduct Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FELSummary: Two and a half millennia ago, a new religion was born in Asia, generated from the ideas of Siddhartha Gautama, a mysterious Indian sage who gained enlightenment while he sat under a fig tree and became known as Buddha - the awakened one. The Buddha never claimed to be God or his emissary on earth, only that he was a human being who had found a kind of serenity that others could find, too. This...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Auel, Jean M.
Summary: Ayla struggles to find a balance between her duties as a new mother and her training to become a Zelandoni--one of the Ninth Cave community's spiritual leaders and healers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing 2011
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC AUESummary: “The American public, from time to time, wishes to see the trustee who looks neither right nor left, but only up to the heavens and down to the work before him,” says presidential scholar Richard Neustadt. But is an independent cast of mind the best approach to the U.S. presidency? In this program, we explore the presidencies of four men who pursued a course that took little account of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: The president has no greater responsibility than representing the nation on the world stage. Securing a stable world in which American interests can be asserted and defended has been a basic part of the president's job description from the very beginning of our constitutional history. This program profiles the lives of four men as they engage in this task at some of the most critical times in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Parker, Robert B.
Summary: Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole track down Virgil's sweetheart Allie and the three head north to start over in the town of Brimstone. Given their reputations as guns for hire, Everett and Virgil are able to secure positions as the town's deputies. But a sanctimonious leader of a local church stirs up trouble at the local saloons, and as the violence escalates into murder, the two struggle to keep...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ParCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: Western Parker 2009Subin, Anna Della
Summary: "A provocative history of men who were worshipped as gods that illuminates the connection between power and religion and the role of divinity in a secular age"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 202 SUBDick, Philip K.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2002
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Summary: Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole track down Virgil's sweetheart Allie and the three head north to start over in the town of Brimstone. Given their reputations as guns for hire, Everett and Virgil are able to secure positions as the town's deputies. But a sanctimonious leader of a local church stirs up trouble at the local saloons, and as the violence escalates into murder, the two struggle to keep...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARSummary: Why do the poor often seem happier than the rich? Must a society lose its traditions in order to move into the future? How does one reconcile a commitment to nonviolence when faced with violence? These are some of the questions posed to His Holiness the Dalai Lama by filmmaker and explorer Rick Ray. Ray examines some of the fundamental questions of our time by weaving together observations from...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Fox, Jennifer
Summary: Recognized at birth as the reincarnation of a famous spiritual teacher, Western-born Yeshi struggles to maintain a normal family life while his father, a Buddhist teacher, tries to convince him to embrace his cultural heritage and destiny as a leader of the Tibetan people.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MYParker, Robert B.
Summary: Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole track down Virgil's sweetheart Allie and the three head north to start over in the town of Brimstone. Given their reputations as guns for hire, Everett and Virgil are able to secure positions as the town's deputies. But a sanctimonious leader of a local church stirs up trouble at the local saloons, and as the violence escalates into murder, the two struggle to keep...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W PARSummary: How much power should the chief executive have? Though the powers of the presidency have expanded with the growth of the nation, the process has been anything but smooth. The prerogatives of the presidency are uncertain and their assertion is invariably contested. This program offers a close-up look at four presidencies that became the benchmarks in the development of executive power. It is a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: We forget that, in our nation's early years, taking part in political affairs was considered a duty and an honor, but not a way of life. However, in this program, we learn that it was not long before those whose lives were centered in politics, and the parties they represented, began to find their way to the White House. While the skills necessary for political success can be helpful to a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Dietz, William C.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIESummary: From the beginning, the presidential office has beckoned to national heroes renowned for their selfless service to their country. This affinity is especially strong for men of military fame, for the president is formally commander-in-chief as well as symbolically the steward of the national interest. The U.S. president-as-national hero exemplifies the value we all place on authenticity in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: In the late 1800s, a beautiful former prostitute (January Jones) is trying to build an honest life with her husband in the rugged plains of New Mexico. When she catches the eye of a sadistic and powerful religious leader (Jason Isaacs), her life is violently turned upside down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SWE RATED RGandhi, Vikram
Summary: In order to prove that self proclaimed Indian gurus are no more holy than anyone else, New Jersey filmmaker Vikram Gandhi transforms himself into guru Sir Kumaré and develops a following.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KUMKruse, Kevin Michael
Summary: "We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the idea of 'Christian America' is an invention--and a relatively recent one at that. As Kruse argues, the belief that America is fundamentally and formally a Christian nation originated in the 1930s when businessmen enlisted religious...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 KRUSummary: This program examines the ancient significance of sacred journeys, or pilgrimages, and why individuals undertake them. Pilgrimages are encouraged and even required by many religions. All able Muslims must go to Mecca at least once during their lifetime. Both Jews and Christians are drawn to Jerusalem. Catholics visit Rome and shrines where miracles have taken place. Mormons journey to Salt Lake...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Sonneborn, Liz.
Summary: Explores American Indians and their contributions to American society, including artists, athletes, religious leaders and chefs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.00497 SONSummary: Is the human brain hardwired for religion? This program examines work in the emerging field of neurotheology, focusing on links between religious ecstasy and the brain's temporal lobes. Dr. Michael Persinger, who has spent much of his career pursuing such a connection, uses magnetic field resonance to test his theories on renowned atheist Richard Dawkins. Inversely, Dr. Andrew Newberg performs...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Fundamentalism may be on the rise, but the American interfaith movement is also alive and well. This Emmy-nominated documentary follows seven women-all leaders in Chicago's Christian, Jewish, or Muslim communities-who have gathered to share views, express fears and concerns about the post-9/11 world, and build bridges of peace between their faiths. Participants include the Rev. Willie T....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007