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Summary: Offers a diagnosis of the country's economic ills and argues that Americans can restore the virtues of fairness, honesty, and foresight as the foundations of national prosperity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Summary: [The author] sets the stage by drawing a ... conceptual map of the world economy and the different categories into which countries fall. Then ... he explains why, over the past two hundred years, wealth has diverged across the planet in the manner that it has and why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the cruel vortex of poverty. The groundwork laid, he explains his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2005
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Summary: Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 SACSummary: We all use mathematics every day-- but in a world of body counts, multiple criminal masterminds, and percentages involving perpetrators who may act again, figures are especially valuable. This is the world of Numb3rs. Don Eppes is an FBI agent who recruits his mathematically gifted brother Charlie to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles, thus tackling the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NUMWert, Jeffry D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7349 WERWert, Jeffry D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7455 WERWert, Jeffry D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.74 WERWert, Jeffry D.
Summary: "Before the Civil War, America had undergone a technological revolution that made large-scale industry possible, yet, except for the expanding reach of railroads and telegraph lines, the country remained largely rural, with only pockets of small manufacturing. Then the war came and woke the sleeping giant. The Civil War created a wave of unprecedented industrial growth and development,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.7 WERBach, P. D. Q.
Contents: Opening & introduction (4:50) -- Short-tempered clavier : preludes and fugues in all the major and minor keys except for the really hard ones : S. easy as 3.14159265 (31:47) -- Introduction (3:16) -- Little pickle book (9:59) -- Introduction (1:16) -- Sonata da circo = Circus sonata : S. 3 ring (8:43) -- Calliope frustration (:42) -- Introduction (1:07) -- Three chorale-based piecelets : S. III...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BACFalksen, G. D. (Geoffrey D.)
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Kitty Granger has always known that others consider her peculiar. She hates noise and crowds, tends to fixate on patterns, and often feels acutely aware of her surroundings even as she struggles to interpret the behavior of people around her. As a working-class girl in London's East End, she's spent her whole life learning to hide these traits. Until the day when she notices...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda LAB 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FALMerritt, Jeffrey D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 1979
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 909.82 MERClements, Jeffrey D.
Contents: Introduction: what's at stake -- American democracy works, and corporations fight back -- Corporations are not people; and they make lousy parents -- If corporations are not people, what are they? -- Corporations don't vote; they don't have to -- Did corporate power destroy the working American economy? -- Corporations can't love -- Restoring democracy and republican government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.3 CLEMeldrum, D. Jeffrey
Summary: A scientist takes a scholarly, objective look at the mystery of sasquatch and at evidence and research that could hold the key to a large but previously undiscovered North American primate, reviewing the scientific pros and cons for its existence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.944 MELSummary: Eddie Murphy entertains with celebrity impersonations and his observations on '80s love, sex, marriage, his remembrance of Mom's hamburgers, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Pampered African Prince Akeem is a rebel who is against an arranged marriage and heads to Queens, New York to find a new bride. His regal father agrees to allow the prince 40 days to roam the U.S., sending the prince's faithful retainer Semmi along to make sure nothing untoward happens. To avoid fortune hunters, Prince Akeem conceals his true identity and gets a "regular" guy job at a fast-food...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, 14 hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore's birth in 1858 to Eleanor's death...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROOSummary: In her new role as a CIA station chief, Carrie convinces Saul and Quinn to help her hunt down one of the world's most dangerous terrorists. But when Carrie recruits a young Pakistani as an asset, the lines between right and wrong blur and the operation spins out of control. Facing unclear loyalties at every turn, Carrie must take extreme measures and risk everything to protect her country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HomelandSummary: Madagascar: A lion and zebra and two other of their pampered friends, from New York's Central Park Zoo, accidentally find themselves on a ship heading for Africa. When their vessel is hijacked, they become shipwrecked on the exotic island of Madagascar where they discover it really is a jungle out there!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MADSummary: After the death of her husband, Claire Underwood becomes the first female President of the United States, but faces formidable threats to her legacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUSummary: In 1970s England, Dalgliesh and his junior, DS Kate Miskin, investigate the murders of a forensic scientist, a controversial lawyer, and a young doctor at odds with his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DALSummary: A teenage girl is obsessed with making enough cash to get out of Buffalo. When the acceptance letter to her dream school arrives, she must hustle to find a job that will pay for tuition. But after getting scammed by a debt collector she works for, Peg decides to cheat the system like it cheated her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BUFT Sacco D Smith A Lewis
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Olman 1934
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in 'The French Dispatch.'
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021