Summary: How will producers, advertisers, and consumers be affected when information and entertainment merge into the on-demand environment of the Internet? Segment one of this program deals with the displacement of broadcast TV, while segment two examines the rise of cultural capitalism and the vanishing distinction between producers and consumers. A collage of interviews with Peter Schwartz, of Global...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Linden, David J.
Summary: A leading brain scientist's look at the neurobiology of pleasure--and how pleasures can become addictions. Whether eating, taking drugs, engaging in sex, or doing good deeds, the pursuit of pleasure is a central drive of the human animal. Here, Johns Hopkins neuroscientist David J. Linden explains how pleasure affects us at the most fundamental level: in our brain. As he did in The Accidental...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 LINLabaree, David F.
Summary: Read the news about America's colleges and universities - rising student debt, affirmative action debates, and conflicts between faculty and administrators - and it's clear that higher education in this country is a total mess. But as David F. Labaree reminds us in this book, it's always been that way. And that's exactly why it has become the most successful and sought-after source of learning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378 LABLieberman, David J
Summary: A holistic look at the underlying emotional, physical, and spiritual causes of anger cites the shortcomings of traditional anger-management techniques while explaining how to shift one's perspective to maintain a state of calm. When we fight the urge to blow up or melt down, we fight against our own nature. Sometimes a change in perspective is all that is needed to help keep from flying off the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152 LIELankes, R. David
Summary: "Libraries have existed for millennia, but today the library field is searching for solid footing in an increasingly fragmented (and increasingly digital) information environment. What is librarianship when it is unmoored from cataloging, books, buildings, and committees? In The Atlas of New Librarianship, R. David Lankes offers a guide to this new landscape for practitioners. He describes a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Reference Office Reference, Call number: OFR 020.1 LanSilverman, David J.
Summary: Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.4 SILStone, David (David J. A.)
Contents: Pt.1. Origins -- Myths, Legends and History -- Conceived in Chaos: Germany and the Thirty Years War, 1618-1648 -- 'For King and Fatherland': Brandenburg and Prussia, 1640-1713 -- Masters of the Battlefield: the Army of 'the Soldier King', 1713-1740 -- masters of the Battlefield: the Army of Frederick the Great, 1740-1786 -- Complacency, Stagnation and Defeat, 1786-1806 -- Renaissance,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.1 STORothkopf, David J. (David Jochanan)
Summary: "Political historian and commentator David Rothkopf shows how Trump will be judged by history. (Spoiler alert: not well) in Traitor. Donald Trump is unfit in almost every respect for the high office he holds. But what distinguishes him from every other bad leader the U.S. has had is that he has repeatedly, egregiously, betrayed his country. Regardless of how Senate Republicans have let him off...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 ROTSirota, David (David J.)
Summary: Job outsourcing. Perpetual busy signals at government agencies. Slashed paychecks. Stolen elections. A war without end, fatally mismanaged. Ordinary Americans on both the Right and Left are tired of being disenfranchised by corrupt politicians of both parties and are organizing to change the status quo. Author Sirota takes us far from the national media spotlight into the trenches where real...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 SIRBauer, David G.
Summary: From the Publisher: Revisions and additions reflect the enormous changes and challenges that have occurred in the grants marketplace since the last edition. The exhibits and tables have been updated to reflect advances in technology and computer usage. Over half of the book is new to enhance the reader's ability to compete in the current grants marketplace-and to avoid the failure and wasted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Council on Education 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.1522 BAUMcCullough, David G
Summary: "This timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States--winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many other honors--reminds us of fundamental American principles. Over the course of his distinguished career, David McCullough has spoken before Congress, the White House, colleges and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 MCCRose, David
Summary: We are now standing at the precipice of the next transformative development: the Internet of Things. Soon, connected technology will be embedded in hundreds of everyday objects we already use: our cars, wallets, watches, umbrellas, even our trash cans. These objects will respond to our needs, come to know us, and learn to think on our behalf. David Rose calls these devices--which are just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.48 ROSStubbs, David
Summary: A comprehensive history of electronic music from the earliest experimental instruments to the modern EDM scene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber & Faber 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 786.7 STUNutt, David J.
Summary: "We are on the cusp of a major revolution in psychiatric medicine and neuroscience. After fifty years of prohibition, criminalization and fear, science is finally showing us that psychedelics are not dangerous or harmful. Instead, when used according to tested, safe and ethical guidelines, they are our most powerful newest treatment of mental health conditions, from depression, PTSD, and OCD to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 615.7 NUTJ. Geils Band
Summary: With hits including Freeze Frame and Love Stinks, the J. Geils Band became one of the biggest rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s. This collection features all of their greatest hits, including 9 top 40 songs and the number one hit Centerfold.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Records 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GEISmith, David J. (David Julian)
Summary: Comparing the world population to a village of 100 persons, the author reveals such facts as the languages of the village, how much each earns, if the person is literate, has a television and has enough to eat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 304.6 SMIGonzález, Echo Elise
Summary: A graphic-style nonfiction adventure into fundamental concepts in computer science. -- adapted from publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: What is the price of free speech? Protected by their First Amendment rights and the Internet's cultural philosophy of "post it all and let the readers decide," American hate groups are having a field day on the World Wide Web, creating virulent virtual communities of intolerance. In this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel investigates the proliferation of hate online with Don Black, founder of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Richo, David
Summary: "Why is that despite our best efforts, many of us remain fundamentally unhappy and unfulfilled in our lives? In this provocative and inspiring book, David Richo distills thirty years of experience as a therapist to explain the underlying roots of unhappiness--and the surprising secret to finding freedom and fulfillment. There are certain facts of life that we cannot change--the unavoidable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170.44 RICBrill, David
Summary: "In 1979, David Brill became one of the first of a new generation to complete the Georgia-to-Maine hike on the Appalachian Trail. 'As Far as the Eye Can See', now a classic, chronicles his six-month, 2,100-mile walk, a quest to live simply and deliberately, with room to grow, to breathe, to change, to discover what really mattered to him."
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Tennessee Press 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.5 BRIStark, David
Summary: "This volume explores twenty-five of Stark's elaborate-yet-economical events--and a majority of private celebrations--with over 200 color photographs and lively, witty short texts that outline how or where he found the inspiration for each event's theme"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.2 STASchenker, David J.
Summary: "The best of ancient Greek literature retains a freshness and immediacy that reaches far beyond its time and place of creation and speaks to readers and audience members today. In these 36 lectures, we discuss selections from that group of masterpieces, starting in every case with the cultural and historical background of each, then focusing on close readings of the works themselves"--Page 1...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2007
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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 880.9 MASCall number: DVD 880.9 MAS PART 1
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Veloso, Maria.
Summary: With the rise of social networks, "Twitterized" attention spans, and new forms of video content, the techniques that worked in crafting attention-grabbing, clickable, and actionable online copy a few years ago are simply not as effective today. Thoroughly revised, the third edition of Web Copy That Sells gives readers proven methods for achieving phenomenal success with their online sales and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Management Association 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.8 VELRotheray, J.
Summary: Never conquered by foreigners, this proud and ancient land has been shaped by Buddhism, the monarchy, and the military. Today it is a manufacturing powerhouse and a tourist paradise that welcomes more than 30 million visitors a year. Yet despite the veneer of Western modernity, the country and its people remain an enigma for many visitors. "Culture Smart! Thailand" describes how the Thai people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kuperard 2021