Summary: Origami may seem an unlikely medium for understanding and explaining the world. But around the globe, several fine artists and theoretical scientists are abandoning more conventional career paths to forge lives as modern-day paper folders. Through origami, these offbeat and provocative minds are reshaping ideas of creativity and revealing the relationship between art and science. This film...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Fuse Films 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BETSummary: "Musician Daryl Davis has an unusual hobby. He's played all over the world with legends like Chuck Berry and Little Richard, but it's what Daryl does in his free time that sets him apart. In an effort to find out how anyone can 'hate me without knowing me' he takes an interesting line of research. Daryl likes to meet and befriend members of the Ku Klux Klan, something few black men can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ACCSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Summary: Chronicles a man's search for his lost brother who was sent out to Israel for adoption after World War II when he was a child in a displaced persons camp.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AIDStavans, Ilan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0468 STAOman, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum 1982
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 747.3 OMABator, Ulan.
Contents: Hemisphere.--Santa Lucia.--Etoile Astre.--Let go ego.--Hiver.--Selva.--La joueuse de tambour.--Soeur violence.--Echo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: sn 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ULATolan, Sandy.
Summary: Describes how a simple act of faith and the relationship between two families--one Israeli, one Palestinian--represents a personal microcosm of decades of Israeli-Palestinian history and symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 956.94 TOLTOLAN, MARY
Summary: A biography of the consumer advocate who devotes his life to crusading for citizens' rights, such as safer cars, cleaner food, and truthful advertising.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1991
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB NADER TOLMeinhardt, Olaf.
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Publisher / Publication Date: C.J. Bucher Verlag Gmbh 2007
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 915.1704 MEINolan, Alan T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1961
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.741 NOLTolan, Sandy
Summary: "In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the househe was greeted by Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family left fled Europe for Israel following the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2020
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People TolanSoule, Charles.
Summary: Needing a revolutionary idea to complete his thesis, mathematics student Heller Wilson tracks down the possibly insane Dr. Spencer Brownfield, who claims he's been controlling New York City for decades with the butterfly effect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archaia Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SOUSoule, Deb
Summary: "A guide to growing and harvesting healing plants, with advice on how to create herbal preparations and in-depth discussions of the properties and uses of various plants"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2021
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Summary: "A mother-daughter memoir exploring loss, love, and healing, told in two alternating voices, from the critically acclaimed novelist and her teenage daughter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CAOTolan, Sandy.
Summary: The tale of a simple act of faith between two young people--one Israeli, one Palestinian--that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East. In 1967, not long after the Six-Day War, three young Arab men ventured into Israel, on a pilgrimage to see their childhood homes; their families had been driven out nearly twenty years earlier. Two were turned away, but the third was met at the door by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Pub. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld TolanMoullé, Jean-Pierre.
Summary: Jean-Pierre and Denise Moullé met on a street corner in Berkeley, California, in 1980; six months later they were married. French Roots is the story of their lives told through the food they cook—beginning with the dishes of old-world France, the couple’s birthplace, and focusing on the simple, pared-down preparations of French food common in the postwar period. The story then travels to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5944 MOUYan, Lan
Summary: "In recounting her family history, Lan Yan brings to life a century of Chinese history from the last emperor to present day, including the Cultural Revolution which tore her childhood apart. The little girl who was crushed by the Cultural Revolution has become one of the most active businesswomen in her country. In telling her and her family's story, she serves up an intimate account of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 YANNolan, Hamilton
Summary: "The thesis is simple: Inequality is America's biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that working people have to fix this problem. But the labor movement of today has failed to enable enough individuals to join unions. Thus, organized labor's powerful potential is being wielded incompetently. And what is happening inside of organized labor will-far more than most people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2024
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Summary: Authentic, easy-to-prepare Texas beef and BBQ recipes from Baseball Hall of Famer and cattle rancher Nolan Ryan. Legendary pitcher Nolan Ryan grew up in Texas and early on developed a passion for cattle ranching that rivaled his interest in baseball. His first cookbook offers 75 recipes for sizzling T-bone and rib-eye steaks, mouthwatering burgers, slow-cooked barbecue ribs, and more. Working...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.662 RYAStephens, Olin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mystic Seaport Museum 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.8302 STECook, Lan
Summary: Here are traditional tales from every corner of the globe, all featuring bold and clever heroines who battle dragons, fight sea serpents or save their village from monstrous thieves. This is a sequel to the best-selling title Forgotten Fairy Tales of Brave and Brilliant Girls. Diverse range of characters. Lively retellings for a modern audience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 COOVarol, Ozan O.
Summary: "We're experiencing a second age of spaceflight, and the renaissance of rocket science is captivating the world. Movies and television shows set in this sphere consistently top the charts, and millions tune in to watch SpaceX launches. Although we glamorize rocket science, we assume that it's beyond comprehension by mere mortals who don't have a special kind of genius baked into their DNA...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 VARSummary: Authors David M. Chalmers (Hooded Americanism) and Wyn Craig Wade (The Fiery Cross) trace the history of the Klan from its birth in 1866 to the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2005