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Weems, Scott

Summary: "Humor, like pornography, is famously difficult to define. We know it when we see it, but is there any way to figure out what we really find funny? In this fascinating investigation into the science of humor and laughter, neuroscientist Scott Weems uncovers what's happening in our heads when we giggle, guffaw, or double over with laughter. Beginning with the premise that humor arises from inner...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.43 WEE

Summary: For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns eleven, the fire becomes harder and harder to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIR

Pak, Greg

Summary: The Dark Knight and the Man of Steel uncover a plot by the Toymaster to use a secret, potentially deadly element in his new video game, the characters created by players manifest in real life. The ultimate fighting game results--and a world-wide network of players must team up to create the most powerful, skilled Super Heroes imaginable with one goal: To kill Batman. When Batman and Superman...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BAT

Contents: Disc one. Rumble (Link Wray) -- Peter Gunn (Duane Eddy) -- Buckeye (Johnny & the Hurricanes) -- Tequila (the Champs) -- Wild weekend (the Rockin' Rebels) -- Big shot (Johnny Cannon) -- Bongo rock (Preston Epps) -- Teen beat (Sandy Nelson) -- Walk don't run (the Ventures) -- Apache (the Shadows) -- Rebel rouser (Duane Eddy) -- Red river rock (Johnny & the Hurricanes) -- Moon dawg! (the Gamblers)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Famous Flames Recording 2012

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BAC

Various artists

Contents: Where has my little dog gone? / Trad. (Hoosier Hot Shots) (2:53) -- Tennessee hound dog / B. & F. Bryant (Osborne Brothers) (2:22) -- Dog / M. H. Adcock-F. Walton (Eddie Adcock Band) (2:52) -- Bull dog down in sunny Tennessee / Dock Walsh (Dock Walsh with the Carolina Tar Heels) (2:22) -- Old Rattler / L. M. Jones (Grandpa Jones) (2:04) -- Dad gave my dog away / T. Texas Tyler (2:34) -- Hound...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: CMH Records 1994

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY DOG

Summary: Casanova has to begin searching for a wife. He is a womanizer with many conquests and If he cannot show he is living a more respectable life, the Church will throw him out of Venice. He is quickly engaged to Victoria, a woman with a pure reputation. As soon as that is arranged, he meets Francesca, a feminist who hates all he stands for. He pretends to be someone else to get into her good...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CAS

Bartholomew, Dave

Contents: Disc 1. Ain't gonna do it / (Dave Bartholomew) -- Don't marry too soon / (Jewel King) -- Shrewsbury blues / (Tommy Ridgely) -- Stack-a-lee / (Archibald) -- The blues jumped over the rabbit / (Joe Turner) -- Blow your top / (Rodney Harris & Dave Bartholomew) -- 3 x 7 = 21 / (Jewel King) -- Little girl sing ding a ling / (Dave Bartholomew) -- I'm gone / (Shirley & Lee) -- Pony tail / (T-Bone...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Records 1992

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BAR

Summary: Bert Kreischer rose to fame as a stand-up comedian known as The Machine, and in his signature set he recounts his true experience with Russian mobsters while on a booze-soaked college trip. Now, 23 years later, that trip has come back to haunt him as he and his estranged father are kidnapped back to Russia by the mob to atone for something they say he did. Together, Bert and his father must...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MAC

Summary: Two years after the bachelor party in Las Vegas, Phil, Stu, Alan, and Doug jet to Thailand for Stu's wedding. Stu's plan for a subdued pre-wedding brunch, however, goes seriously awry.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HAN

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAN

Summary: Set in the 1970s metropolis of Bay City, two undercover police detective, Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson and Dave Starsky, always seem to get the toughest cases from their boss, Captain Dobey. They rely on their street informer Huggy Bear and race to the scene of the crimes in their souped-up 1974 Ford Torino hot rod. The two are on their first big case which involves a former college campus drug...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STA

Summary: Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship Qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PHA

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHA

Scorn

Contents: Ends -- French field middle of the night -- Mates corner -- At one point -- Thanks for getting back -- After tasting -- Tick -- Something that was -- Distortion -- Don't and never have.

Format: sound recording-musical

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SCO

Contents: Street fighting man (Walter Lure and the Ramones) -- Ballrooms of Mars (T. Rex) -- She talks to rainbows (Ronnie Spector) -- I love you (Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers) -- Bird dance beat (The Trashmen) -- Baby let's twist (The Dictators) -- Personality crisis (New York Dolls) -- Do you want to dance (Bobby Freeman) -- Give him a great big kiss (The Shangri-las) -- Can't seem to make you...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJ

Scntst.

Contents: Velour -- Wavez Change -- Park by Night -- Percee Scan -- Kid Adventure -- Murder -- Throwback -- Loqui -- Chilliger Track (feat. Jean Bordello) -- So Tough -- Fovea -- Mintra -- The King of the Beats -- Self Therapy.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Boysnoize Records 2013

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SCN

Teebs.

Contents: You've changed -- Bound ball -- Double fifths -- While you doooo -- Moments -- Burner -- Wind loop -- Lakeshore Ave. -- Arthur's birds -- Gordon -- Bern rhythm -- Felt tip -- King bathtub -- My whole life -- Long distance featuring Gaby Hernandez -- Why like this -- Humming birds -- Autumn antique.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brainfeeder Records 2010

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC TEE

Summary: These legendary documentaries have only been released on VHS until now. Penelope Spheeris' Decline of Western Civilization was perceived as shocking and outrageous at the time of its original release in 1981. Parts II and III were no less extraordinary and unprecedented. Today, museums and educational institutions around the world present them as historically significant works of art....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory 2015

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC DEC
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD MUSIC DEC

Summary: Out of the ashes of World War I, a new generation of Titan rises: Pierre Du Pont, Walter Chrysler, J.P. Morgan Jr., Henry Ford, and William Boeing. Their fight to reach the top will transform America as they compete to dominate new industries, from the highways to the skyways. After years of fighting each other, and FDR, these rivals must unite during World War II to defeat a greater enemy and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TIT

Teebs.

Contents: The endless -- View point -- Holiday (featuring Jonti) -- Shoouss lullaby -- SOTM -- Hi hat (featuring Populous) -- NY, pt. 1 -- Piano days -- Piano months -- NY, pt. 2 (featuring Prefuse 72) -- Mondaze -- Wavxxes (featuring Lars Hornveth).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brainfeeder 2014

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC TEE

Summary: Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carmegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States. a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: History 2012

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MEN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Me

Summary: Bryan Cranston stars in a riveting look at the formidable challenges and demons faced by President Lyndon Johnson on his tumultuous first year in office, from his accidental ascension to the presidency in November 1963, to his relentless fight to win passage of a landmark Civil Rights Bill with the election of 1964 looming.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ALL

Summary: "Amin Jaafari ..., an Israeli Palestinian surgeon, fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society, has a loving wife, an exemplary career, and many Jewish friends. But his picture-perfect life is turned upside down when a suicide bombing leaves nineteen dead, and the Israeli police inform him that his wife, who also died in the explosion, was responsible. Convinced of her innocence, Amin abandons the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ATT

Summary: Set 5: With the end of World War II slowly but inevitably approaching, Foyle and his fellow citizens learn the price of victory and face a peace that will transform their lives in unexpected ways.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOY

Deems, Barrett.

Contents: 'Deed I do (7:04) -- New Orleans (4:25) -- Shine (5:10) -- After you've gone (6:15) -- Seven come eleven (6:19) -- Six appeal (5:31) -- I love Paris (3:01) -- Get happy (4:03).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Delmark 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ DEE

Schott, Ben

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 031.02 SCH

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Misc Schott

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