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Seidman, Laurence I.

Summary: Traces the history of the gold rush in California and discusses its impact on the development of that state.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf : distributed by Random House 1976

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Summary: It's the revenge of power on those that dare to challenge it. So begins this program on Goya's haunting painting of defiance and despair, The Third of May 1808. The video keenly conveys the circumstances of the Spanish uprising against the French, relates Goya's deafness to his darkening artistic vision, examines Goya's painting technique, analyzes The Third of May's symbolism, illustrates the...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Tetrault, Lisa.

Summary: "The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women's suffrage. In her provocative new history, Lisa Tetrault demonstrates that Stanton, Anthony, and their peers...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 Ter

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Utah Press 1980

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3747 Eak

Summary: As controversy swirls around the issue of same-sex marriage, gay and lesbian couples in North America and abroad are speaking out for the right to marry. Filmed in British Columbia after the legalization of same-sex unions, this program introduces the victorious litigants, who share their views on marriage, religious and political opposition, child adoption, and, most of all, love. Interviews...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Clark, Christopher M.

Summary: "As history, the uprisings of 1848 have long been overshadowed by the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian revolutions of the early twentieth century. And yet in 1848 nearly all of Europe was aflame with conflict. Parallel political tumults spread like brush fire across the entire continent, leading to significant changes that continue to shape our world today. These battles for the future...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.2 CLA

Bikont, Anna.

Summary: "The devastating story of Jedwabne, which was the basis of Jan Gross's controversial Neighbors (2001). Based on the author's encounters with witnesses, survivors, murderers, and their helpers between 2000 and 2004, The Crime and the Silence raises important questions about the responsibility of Poles for the Holocaust"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BIK

Howe, Daniel Walker.

Summary: As part of the Oxford History of the United States series, this volume is a portrait of an era that saw dramatic transformations in American life. The author illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of the North American continent. This narrative...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 HOWE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.5 Howe,

Summary: In this program, Dennis Wholey has a conversation about the United Church of Christ with Hans Holznagel of the UCC Church House in Cleveland, Ohio. Topics of discussion include how the UCC came to be, the importance of social justice in UCC philosophy, and the "God Is Still Speaking" outreach campaign and "You're Welcome Here" television advertisements. In addition, the Reverend Felix Carrion...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Kalkaska Church of Christ (Kalkaska, Mich.)

Summary: History of the Kalkaska Church of Christ from 1888-2013.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 0000

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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 977.465 Kalkaska

Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt.

Summary: "A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. Here, we witness the varied and peculiar worlds of matsutake commerce: the worlds of Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 TSI

Roberts, Cokie.

Summary: Documents the experiences, influence, and contributions of the women of Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 ROB

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 ROB

Babe the Blue Ox (Musical group)

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Records, BMG Entertainment 1998

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

Green Day

Contents: Brutal love -- Missing you -- 8th Avenue serenade -- Drama queen -- X-Kid -- Sex, drugs & violence -- A little boy named Train -- Amanda -- Walk away -- Dirty rotten bastards -- 99 revolutions -- The forgotten.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise 2012

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

Detroit Institute of Arts

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Hills Press 0000

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 Ame

Summary: This video examines THC and the cannabinoids marijuana, hashish, and hash oil. Expert commentary is presented by former NFL player Charles Hunt, a pharmacist, a police officer, addiction counselors, a historian, a pastor, recovering addicts, and others. Together, they explain the history and biological effects of THC, investigating its use, abuse, and hazards, and its reputation as a gateway drug.

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Skogen, Jennifer

Summary: "After an unthinkable tragedy on Halloween, Jackson must decide if he should stay in Grey Hills, or pack up everything and leave with Sam and the others. ... When Jackson starts sleepwalking and hearing voices, he isn't sure if he is going crazy, or if he has inherited an unspeakable power. Meanwhile, Claire is determined to find out exactly what happened on Halloween, which brings Jackson...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SKO

Heilman, Anna.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Calgary Press 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 Heilm

Neff, Rachel Anna

Summary: After earning her Ph.D., the author found herself in the company of the 66 percent of doctoral graduates--more than 35,000 a year--who cannot find a full-time, tenure-track teaching job. She retraces the steps that took her from her moment of reckoning (aka "failure") to a new way of seeing and grasping success. Discover how to face a fear of "No"; how to see the bigger picture; how to find...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 650.14 NEF

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.14 NEF

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.14 NEF

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Business Neff

Shechtman, Anna

Summary: "Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen's Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator's compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women's work and feminist protest. The indisputable 'queen of crosswords,' Anna Shechtman published her first New York Times puzzle at age nineteen, and later,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024

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Summary: In this program, Dennis Wholey has a conversation about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with Palos Verdes Stake President Maurice Lam. Topics of discussion include the meaning of the term Latter-day Saints, the life and death of the prophet Joseph Smith, the core values of the LDS Church, The Book of Mormon as the key to the Bible, the structure and organization of the LDS...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Motz, Anna

Summary: "An examination of the psychology of women who commit violent crimes"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024

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Summary: In this program, Dennis Wholey has a conversation about Christian Science with Phil Davis of the Third Church of Christ, Scientist, in Washington, D.C. Topics of discussion include milestones in the life of founder Mary Baker Eddy, the main principles of Christian Science, Christian Science reading rooms, the solution-based journalism of The Christian Science Monitor, and the application of...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Summary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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