Summary: The technology of cloning has raised a host of moral, ethical, and religious questions, and this program examines many of them. The "dangers" of cloning, from shrinking gene pools, to the development of a "super race," to fears that cloned DNA could introduce genetic flaws into the population, are examined. A theologian discusses how cloning changes our notion of soul. Harold Shapiro, chairman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: The Nuclear Age-sprung upon the world with the atomic bomb-remains a bitter memory. How biotechnology, with its power to change life on Earth at the most fundamental level, will be viewed in the decades to come depends on decisions being made right now. This program confronts viewers with some of the ethical and moral implications of cloning, stem cell research, and animal testing. Commentary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Russell, Leon.
Contents: A song for you -- Lady blue -- Tight rope -- Bluebird -- This masquerade -- Roll away the stone (original version) -- Beware of darkness -- Crystal closet queen -- Delta lady -- Back to the island -- Stranger in a strange land -- Hummingbird (original version) -- Queen of the roller derby -- Of thee I sing -- Streakers' ball -- Roll in my sweet baby's arms -- Magic mirror.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Shelter Entertainment Group 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RUSRussell, Leon.
Contents: Mighty Quinn medley -- Shoot out on the plantation -- Dixie lullaby -- Queen of the roller derby -- Roll away the stone -- It's been a long time, baby -- Great day -- Alcatraz -- Crystal closet queen -- Prince of peace -- Sweet Emily -- Stranger in a strange land -- Out in the woods -- Some day -- Sweeping through the city -- Jumping Jack Flash/Youngblood medley -- Of thee I sing/Yes I am...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: The Right Stuff 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RUSRussell, Leon.
Contents: A song for you -- Dixie lullaby -- I put a spell on you -- Shoot out on the plantation -- Hummingbird -- Delta lady -- Prince of peace -- Give peace a chance -- Hurtsome body -- Pisces apple lady -- Roll away the stone -- Masters of war (Old masters).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: The Right Stuff 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RusseSummary: Will human cloning provide a panacea for ailments and diseases or usher in a nightmarish world of eugenics and designer people? This program presents an in-depth exploration of the ethical concerns regarding human cloning, a technology that has already prompted heated debate over its potential uses and abuses. A variety of perspectives are canvassed from the theological, legal, and scientific...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Redbone, Leon.
Contents: Sweet Mama Papa's gettin' mad -- Ain't misbehavin' -- She's my gal -- Goodbye Charlie blues -- Up a lazy river -- Czardas -- Polly wolly doodle -- Please don't talk about me when I'm gone -- Waitin' on you -- Think of me thinking of you -- Marie -- Sugar -- Big time woman -- Love letters in the sand -- Piano interlude -- I'm going home -- Diddy wa diddie -- Play gypsy play -- The whistling...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK REDKass, Mallory.
Summary: "For the past five hundred years, the Cahills have silently dominated the world. Their desperate hunt for the 39 Clues lies behind some of history’s biggest enigmas--the curse of the Hope diamond, the race to summit Mt. Everest, the wild life and death of Harry Houdini. And now-–finally-–the secrets are out. With an introduction by Rick Riordan, The 39 Clues: The Black Book of Buried Secrets...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC RIOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CLULogothetis, Leon
Contents: Taking risks is the only way -- There's no way to do this alone -- The way out of the comfort zone -- The way of the student -- The way to connect comes through disconnecting -- The way to mastery is getting out of your own way -- Giving back is the onlyway to take in life -- The way of the traveler starts at home -- The way of the traveler has just begun.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Readers Digest 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 LOGMorgan, Kass
Summary: In this thrilling conclusion to New York Times best-selling authors Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige's The Ravens duology, loyalty, love, and friendships are tested as sorority sisters Scarlett and Vivi must face the forces of hell itself when a rival sorority threatens to wreak havoc on campus. The ultra-exclusive Kappa Rho Nu--the Ravens--are determined to restore balance to the world. After...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MORLeon, Craig
Contents: The earliest trace -- Standing crosswise in the square -- The respondent in dispute -- Four floods of the point -- The twenty second step as well as the tenth -- The gates made plain -- Departure.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LEOSummary: One day very soon, ordinary people could have the ability to choose their children's genes and perhaps even grow themselves completely new body parts. In this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel and correspondent Robert Krulwich examine the breakthrough science behind cloning and delve into the ethical dilemmas surrounding advances in genetic science. Interviews with Harvard's Stephen Jay...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Redbone, Leon.
Contents: Dancin' on Daddy's shoes -- When I kissed that girl good-bye -- Bouquet of roses -- Truckin' -- Settin' by the fire -- Crazy over Dixie -- My little grass shack -- Love letters in the sand -- You're gonna lose your gal -- If I could be with you -- I'm crazy 'bout my baby -- I ain't got nobody.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Private Music 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK REDSummary: This book explores the history, science, applications, and ethical issues of cloning. Profiles include pioneers in the field, including John Bertrand Gurdon, Ian Wilmut, Shinya Yamanaka, and James Thomson.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Educational Publishing in Association with Rosen Educational Services 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 571 CLOLederman, Leon M.
Summary: Explains the concept of symmetry and its ramifications for art, music, and life on Earth, describing how symmetry is found everywhere in the universe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 LEDHesser, Leon F.
Contents: Letter from Dr. Norman Borlaug -- Chapter 1. Growing Up on an Iowa Farm -- Chapter 2. A Budding Scientist at the University of Minnesota -- Chapter 3. The Rockefeller Foundation Offers Borlaug a Challenge -- Chapter 4. Borlaug Builds a Revolutionary Wheat Breeding Program -- Chapter 5. Rockefeller's Mexico Program Goes International -- Chapter 6. Famine is Averted in India -- Chapter 7. Father...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Durban House Publishing Company, Inc. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BORLAUG, NORMAN HESKoterski, Joseph W.
Summary: A review of the views of Aristotle about morality through the study of his Nicomachean ethics.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 171.3 KOTRedbone, Leon.
Contents: Sweet Mama hurry home or I'll be gone -- Ain't misbehavin' : I'm savin' my love for you -- My walking stick -- Lazybones -- Marie -- Desert blues : Big Chief Buffalo Nickel -- Lulu's back in town -- Some of these days -- Big time woman -- Haunted house -- Polly wolly doodle.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK REDSummary: Regardless of how good a sales pitch is, the sale is not made until it is closed. In this program, Bob Kimball-author of the American Marketing Association's popular AMA Handbook for Successful Selling and professor of marketing at the University of West Florida-addresses the ins and outs of getting to "yes" while laying down the laws of making the sale: assume a closing mentality right from...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Lear, Jonathan.
Contents: After this, nothing happened -- Ethics at the horizon -- Critique of abysmal reasoning.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 LEARussell, Leon
Contents: On a distant shore dg (3:15) -- Love this way (3:48) -- Here without you dg (3:49) -- This masquerade (4:39) -- Black and blue (3:15) -- Just leaves and grass (5:00) -- On the waterfront (3:53) -- Easy to love (3:29) -- Hummingbird (4:05) -- The one I love is wrong (3:08) -- Where do we go from here (3:25) -- A song for you (3:36).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Palmetto 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RUSBaggini, Julian.
Summary: In [this book] Julian Baggini, one of Britain's best-known philosophers, condenses complex, contemporary issues of right and wrong into 20 key questions. He examines how we can start to answer them, what they might mean to us and how they influence the way we choose to live our lives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 BAGRoach, Mary.
Summary: Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. In this fascinating account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Photographs have the potential to present powerful truths-or to create convincing fictions. This program uses case studies involving Iwo Jima, Elian Gonzalez, and O. J. Simpson to show how images can be manipulated to influence the way viewers perceive events. The ethics of photography and the positive and negative impacts of digital technology, which is steadily eroding the border between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005