Filter By Subjects
African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans in motion pictures Bonobo Behavior Chimpanzees Behavior Emotions in animals Gilbreth, Frank Bunker 1868-1924 Gilbreth, Lillian Moller 1878-1972 Industrial engineers United States Biography Primates Behavior PSYCHOLOGY Animal & Comparative PsychologyFilter By Subjects
African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans in motion pictures Bonobo Behavior Chimpanzees Behavior Emotions in animals Gilbreth, Frank Bunker 1868-1924 Gilbreth, Lillian Moller 1878-1972 Industrial engineers United States Biography Primates Behavior PSYCHOLOGY Animal & Comparative PsychologyWilderson, Frank B.
Summary: "In the tradition of Edward Said's Orientalism and Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks, Afropessimism is an unparalleled account of the non-analogous experience of being Black. A seminal work that strikingly combines groundbreaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorizes blackness through...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton and Company 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILDERSON, FRANK WILSummary: Set in the early 20th century, this classic family comedy follows the efforts of a husband and wife as they try to maintain control in a home with 12 children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHEWaal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1997
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.88 WAAGilbreth, Frank B. (Frank Bunker)
Summary: A time-and-motion expert and his engineer wife use scientific principles to raise their twelve children. No growing pains have ever been more hilarious than those suffered loudly by the riotous Gilbreth clan. First there are a dozen red-haired, freckle-faced kids to contend with. Then there's Dad, a famous efficiency expert who believes a family can be run just like a factory. Finally there's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 GILWaal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.)
Summary: 'It's the animal in us', we often hear when we've been bad, But why not when we're good? 'Primates and Philosophers' tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 171.7 WAAGilbreth, Frank B. (Frank Bunker)
Summary: The pleasure continues as the Gilbreths return, a little older, a little wiser, but no less delightful! Father has passed away, but the antics of this resourceful clan continue unabated.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GILGilbreth, Frank B. (Frank Bunker)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1984
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 GILSummary: Play Misty for me: A radio disc jockey becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end a torrid love affair with a fan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Gilbreth, Frank B. (Frank Bunker)
Summary: A time-and-motion expert and his engineer wife use scientific principles to raise their twelve children.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD GILHesterman, Oran B.
Summary: Describes the dysfunctions in the current food system, from chemical runoff to inhumane treatment of animals, and presents new principles and concrete steps to restructure how food is grown, packaged, delivered, marketed, and sold.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 HESBrand, Irene B.
Summary: What can a California girl do with a few dusty acres of land in rural Nebraska? So Kennedy Blaine wonders after she inherits a ranch in the small, western-style town of Valentine, Nebraska. As Kennedy makes arrangements to sell the property, she finds herself drawn to the ranch and to its attractive manager, Derek Sterling. She decides to spend the summer in her ancestral home and reconnect...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Summerside Press 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRAWaal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.)
Summary: One of the world's foremost primatologists explores what our two closest relatives in the animal kingdom--the violent, power-hungry chimpanzee and the cooperative, empathetic bonobo--can tell us about the duality of our own human nature. We have long attributed man's violent, aggressive, competitive nature to his animal ancestry. But what if we are just as given to cooperation, empathy and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 156 WAASchubert, Franz
Contents: An die Entfernte, D. 765 / Goethe (3:14) -- Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D. 774 / Stolberg (3:24) -- Der Schiffer, D. 536 / Mayrhofer (1:49) -- Der Wanderer, D. 649 / von Schlegel (3:46) -- Nachtgesang, D. 314 / Kosegarten (3:56) -- Das Zügenglöcklein, D. 871 / Seidl (3:54) -- Der Jüngling und der Tod, D. 545 / von Spaun (4:08) -- Das Heimweh, D. 456 / Hell (1:23) -- Das Lied im Grünen, D. 917 /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI 1988
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL SchubWOODFORD, FRANK B
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1961
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 973.747 WOOFrank, Richard B
Summary: "The first book in a new three-volume history of the Asia-Pacific War, by the acclaimed author of Downfall and Guadalcanal. In 1937 the swath of the globe from India to Japan contained half the world's population, but only two nations with real sovereignty (Japan and Thailand) and two with compromised sovereignty (China and Mongolia). All other peoples in the region endured under some form of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 FRAWaal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.)
Summary: Primatologist Frans de Waal draws on decades of observation and studies of both human and animal behavior to argue that despite the linkage between gender and biological sex, biology does not automatically support the traditional gender roles in human societies. While humans and other primates do share some behavioral differences, biology offers no justification for existing gender inequalities.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 612.6 WAAWaal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.)
Summary: Primatologist Frans de Waal examines how empathy comes naturally to a great variety of animals, including humans.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Waal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.)
Summary: Mama's Last Hug opens with the dramatic farewell between Mama, a dying fifty-nine-year-old chimpanzee matriarch, and biologist Jan Van Hooff. This heartfelt final meeting of two longtime friends, widely shared as a video, offers a window into how deep and instantly recognizable these bonds can be. So begins Frans de Waal's whirlwind tour of new ideas and findings about animal emotions, based on...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 599.885 WAAWOODFORD, FRANK B
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1962
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 921 GROWOODFORD, FRANK B
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1965
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 027.477 WOOWOODFORD, FRANK B
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1958
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 WoodfordTran, G. B.
Summary: A memoir in graphic novel format about the author's experiences as the son of Vietnamese immigrants who fled to America during the fall of Saigon describes how he learned his tragic ancestral history and the impact of the Vietnam War on his family while visiting their homeland years later.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Villard 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0495 TRASummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Edwards, Frank B.
Summary: A farmer who offers too many animals a ride to the fair makes a crash landing on his arrival.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pokeweed Press 1999