Singer, Peter
Summary: An investigation of the food choices people make and practices of the food producers who create this food for us leading to a discussion of how we might put more ethics into our shopping carts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 178 SINSinger, Peter
Summary: Arguing that our current response to world poverty is not only insufficient but ethically indefensible, philosopher Peter Singer offers a seven-point plan that mixes personal philanthropy (figuring how much to give and how best to give it), local activism (spreading the word in your community), and political awareness (contacting your representatives to ensure that your nation's foreign aid is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.5 SINSinger, Peter
Summary: Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important books such as Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, and The Life You Can Save, he helped launch the animal rights and effective altruism movements and contributed to the development of bioethics. Now, in Ethics in the Real...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 SINSinger, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 SINSinger, P. W. (Peter Warren)
Summary: "What will the next global conflict look like? Find out in this ripping, near-futuristic thriller. The United States, China, and Russia eye each other across a twenty-first century version of the Cold War, which suddenly heats up at sea, on land, in theair, in outer space, and in cyberspace. The fighting involves everything from stealthy robotic-drone strikes to old warships from the navy's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SINSinger, P. W. (Peter Warren)
Summary: "America is on the brink of a revolution, one both technological and political. The science fiction of AI and robotics has finally come true, but millions are angry and fearful that the future has left them behind.After narrowly stopping a bombing at Washington's Union Station, FBI Special Agent Lara Keegan receives a new assignment: to field-test an advanced police robot. As a series of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SINSinger, P. W. (Peter Warren)
Summary: Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter and Facebook to create chaos and destruction. This urgent report is required reading, from defense expert P.W. Singer and Council on Foreign Relations fellow Emerson Brooking. Social media are transforming war, crime, and diplomacy. Terrorists can broadcast attacks, "Twitter wars" produce real-world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 302.23 SINSinger, P. W. (Peter Warren)
Summary: "Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter and Facebook to create chaos and destruction. This urgent report is required reading, from defense expert P.W. Singer and Council on Foreign Relations fellow Emerson Brooking"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult BrookingSinger, P. W. (Peter Warren)
Summary: The United States, China, and Russia eye each other across a twenty-first century version of the Cold War, which suddenly heats up at sea, on land, in the air, in outer space, and in cyberspace. The fighting involves everything from stealthy robotic-drone strikes to old warships from the navy's "ghost fleet." Fighter pilots unleash a Pearl Harbor-style attack; American veterans become low-tech...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SINSinger, P. W. (Peter Warren)
Summary: "Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter and Facebook to create chaos and destruction. This urgent report is required reading, from defense expert P.W. Singer and Council on Foreign Relations fellow Emerson Brooking"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 SINSinger, P. W. (Peter Warren)
Summary: "America is on the brink of a revolution, one both technological and political. The science fiction of AI and robotics has finally come true, but millions are angry and fearful that the future has left them behind.After narrowly stopping a bombing at Washington's Union Station, FBI Special Agent Lara Keegan receives a new assignment: to field-test an advanced police robot. As a series of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SINSinger, P. W. (Peter Warren)
Summary: A military expert reveals how science fiction is fast becoming reality on the battlefield, changing not just how wars are fought, but also the politics, economics, laws, and ethics that surround war itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.04 SINSummary: Examined Life takes philosophy into the hustle and bustle of the everyday. The "rock star" philosophers of our time take "walks" through places that hold special resonance for them and their ideas. These places include crowded city streets, deserted alleyways, Central Park, and a garbage dump.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Zeitgeist Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EXAContents: Introduction / Peter Singer -- Utilitarianism and animals / Gaverick Matheny -- The scientific basis for assessing suffering in animals / Marian Stamp Dawkins -- On the question of personhood beyond Homo sapiens / David DeGrazia -- The animal debate : a reexamination / Paola Cavalieri -- Religion and animals / Paul Waldau -- Speciesism in the laboratory / Richard D. Ryder -- Brave new farm? /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackwell Pub. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.3 INBrandt, Nick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.32 BRAPinter, Jason.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PINSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Seeger, Pete
Contents: Goofing-off suite. Opening theme ; Kumbaya ; Twelve gates to the city (Oh, what a beautiful city) (7:14) -- Coal Creek march ; Pay day at Coal Creek ; Roll down the line ; Arkansas traveler (8:47) -- Fox chase ; Right on that shore ; Pick a bale of cotton (4:57) -- Rozhenkes mit Mandlen ; In Tarrytown ; Clean-O ; Ladies auxillary [sic] (8:57) -- Bells of Rhymney ; Sinking of the Reuben James ;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SEEMacCarry, Noel
Summary: Presents the life of the folk singer and social activist, and discusses his role in the union, anti-war, civil rights, and environmental movements and the opposition he sometimes aroused for his radical views.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB SEGER MACSeeger, Pete
Contents: If I had a hammer (1:52) -- Banks of marble (3:12) -- Which side are you on (2:06) -- Casey Jones : (The union scab) (1:54) -- Talking union (3:01) -- Joe Hill (2:29) -- Union maid (2:12) -- Step by step (1:33) -- Solidarity forever (2:51) -- Where have all the flowers gone (2:01) -- Talking atom (2:25) -- Crow on the cradle (2:21) -- Last night I had the strangest dream (2:21) -- Study war no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SEESeeger, Pete
Summary: "In this new book, we hear directly from the artist through the widest array of sources--letters, notes to himself, published articles, rough drafts, stories, and poetry--creating the most detailed picture available of Seeger as a musician, an activist, and a family man, in his own words and from his own perspective... The portrait that emerges is not a saint, not a martyr, but a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paradigm Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEEGER, PETE SEESeeger, Pete
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.543 SEESeeger, Pete
Summary: Banished from the town for making mischief, a little boy and his father are welcomed back when they find a way to make the dreaded giant Abiyoyo disappear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.21 SEESeeger, Pete
Contents: Vol. 1. John Henry (4:28) -- Shenandoah (1:47) -- Blue-tailed fly (Jimmy crack corn) / D. Emmett (2:31) -- Black girl / arr. H. Ledbetter (2:29) -- Skip to my Lou (3:08) -- The big rock candy mountain / H. McClintock (3:05) -- Clementine / P. Montrose (3:02) -- Yankee Doodle (1:36) -- Home on the range / B. Higley ; D.E. Kelley (1:48) -- John Brown's body (2:56) -- Goodnight, Irene / H....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 2009