Dow, Caroline
Summary: "This book shares ideas and techniques for transforming any space into a haven designed to bring balance, serenity, and joy into your life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Llewellyn Publications 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302 DOWNichols, Wallace J.
Summary: Blue Mind paints a fascinating picture of our relationship to the planet's most omnipresent resource - water. Grounded in cutting-edge studies in neurobiology, cognitive psychology, economics, and medicine, and made real by stories of innovative scientists, doctors, athletes, artists, environmentalists, businesspeople and lovers of nature - stories that fascinate the mind and touch the heart -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company 2015
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Summary: "The challenges facing our earth can feel overwhelming-recent research shows that more than 70% of Americans are worried about climate change and 51% say they feel helpless. Among millennials and Gen Z the numbers are even higher. How to Keep Your Cool While the World Is On Fire offers ten steps to help nourish, ground, and inspire anyone who is worried about climate change. Filled with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala Publications, Inc. 2023
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Summary: Argues that the biggest challenge to survival is faulty thinking about the environmental crises that are affecting the planet and offers "thought leaps" that will transform one's eco-mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.28 LAPVan Noy, Rick
Summary: In the spirit of Rachel Carson's The Sense of Wonder, Rick Van Noy journeys out of his suburban home with his children and describes the pleasures of walking in a creek, digging for salamanders, and learning to appreciate vultures. Through these and other "walks to school," the Van Noys discover what nature has to teach and why this matters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sierra Club Books 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.9 REDHorowitz, Alexandra.
Summary: On looking : Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes is structured around a series of eleven walks the author takes with experts on a diverse range of subjects, including an urban sociologist, a well-known artist, a geologist, a physician, and a sound designer. She also walks with a child and a dog to see the world as they perceive it. What they see, and how they see it, reveals the startling power of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 153 HORMarcus, Clare Cooper.
Summary: A journey of healing takes Clare Cooper Marcus on a 6-month long solitary retreat to the remote Scottish Island of Iona. Here she experiences a mirroring of her soul and reflects and reviews the life that brought her here to this magical place. Her compelling memoir "Iona Dreaming" is an inspirational account of personal survival and hope in which Clare shares her recovery from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nicolas-Hays 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARCUS, CLARE COOPER MARAlter, Adam L.
Summary: Why are people named Kim, Kelly, and Ken more likely to donate to Hurricane Katrina victims than to Hurricane Rita victims? Are you really more likely to solve puzzles if you watch a light bulb illuminate? How did installing blue lights along a Japanese railway line halt rising crime and suicide rates? Can decorating your walls with the right artwork make you more honest? The human brain is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "Flipping the script on climate change, Eisenstein makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction With research and insight, Charles Eisenstein details how the quantification of the natural world leads to a lack of integration and our "fight" mentality. With an entire chapter unpacking the climate change...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 EISCarpenter, Nora
Summary: In rural West Virginia, anti-fracking teen Viv discovers an ability to sense forests' energy, a power that becomes heightened the more she interacts with Dex, the new boy in town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Teens 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC CARSummary: The modern city is a complex maze of choices and decisions. This program describes the brain's empirical approach to finding sense amid confusion. Subconscious methods of information gathering, including visual scanning to find goods in a supermarket and direction finding while traversing an urban environment, are analyzed. In addition, the natural human ability to learn by trial and error is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Tan, Shaun.
Summary: Three stories explore how we lose and find what matters most to us, as a girl finds a bright spot in a dark world, a boy leads a strange, lost being home, and a group of peaceful creatures loses its home to cruel invaders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TANSummary: Who said statistics were boring? Using magic and circus motifs, this program demonstrates the significance of probability theory and the importance of using the correct test to analyze research data. Host Amy and her friend Matt the Magician guide viewers through the need to make probability statements, and along with a team of students, use juggling skills to explore choice of test. Setting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This video focuses on effective ways to understand and organize data using descriptive statistics. Analyzing data collected from studies of young music students, the video helps viewers sort through basic data-interpretation concepts: measures of central tendency, levels of measurement, measures of dispersion, and graphs. A wide range of organization principles are covered, including mode,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Adam suspects that most hairy dogs have balding owners. Testing his "pet" theory at a local park, he quickly finds flaws in his own experiment. This video demonstrates Adam's second test, involving better preparation, more rigorous analysis, and an exciting pasta cook-off. Showing how Adam can effectively determine the best spaghetti recipe, the program illustrates concepts that are central to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: A dream may be the most difficult human experience to quantify-but dreaming is an excellent topic for building qualitative research skills. This program illustrates experiments, designed and conducted by students, that revolve around sleep and dreams. In the process, it provides thorough insight into the issues relevant to collecting and utilizing qualitative data. Viewers are shown how to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Dalai Lama XIV
Summary: At the Dalai Lama's residence in Dharamsala, India, an unusual visitor has arrived. His Holiness interrupts his morning meditation to greet a troubled Giant Panda who has travelled many miles to see him. Welcoming him as a friend, His Holiness invites the Panda on a walk through a cedar forest. There in the shadow of the Himalayas, surrounded by beauty, they discuss matters great and small . ....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper One 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179 DALSummary: A smooth-tongued attorney must deal with an extremely eclectic staff and student body when he is forced to attend a local community college after his education is deemed invalid by the bar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD COMSummary: This program brings to life five of psychology's most significant studies: Bandura's Bobo Doll Experiment, 1961; Milgram's Study of Obedience, 1963; Ainsworth's Strange Situation Experiment, 1971 and 1978; Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment, 1973; and Loftus's Eyewitness Testimony Experiment, 1974. Footage from the original experiments and from contemporary reconstructions is featured...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Drawing upon laboratory and field experiments, this program compares and contrasts experimental research methods through an attractiveness study involving young adults. Section one observes how subjects respond to photos in two lab environments-one comfortable, and one not. Then, section two repeats the experiment in two field locales: a trendy bar and a dull coffee shop. Does context make a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Better self-control begins with an understanding of the psychological factors that affect behavior. Section one of this program focuses on the influence of brain structure, brain chemistry, and genetics on behavior; section two illustrates key concepts of psychoanalytic theory; and section three distinguishes between classical and operant conditioning. Strengths and limitations of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This program clarifies selected principles of science by contextualizing them through easily comprehensible applications of psychological research. Divided into five sections, the video illustrates the hypothetical-deductive model of scientific reasoning via Piaget's classic conservation experiment and Donaldson and McGarrigle's challenge of it; the analysis of statistics involving scenarios in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009