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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2004
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Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile comes the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.
“As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Combining...
“As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Combining...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
With humor and heart, award-winning filmmaker Michelle Boyaner shares her complex and devastatingly tender journey, as well as those of several other families, into the challenges and joys of adult children caring for their aging parents.
Publisher
Juno Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
With a poetic blend of curiosity, humor, sensuality and concern, this film chronicles the pleasures and politics of H2O from an ecosexual perspective. Travel with Annie, a former sex worker, Beth, a professor, and their dog Butch, in their E.A.R.T.H. Lab mobile unit, as they explore the role of water. Ecosexuality shifts the metaphor “Earth as Mother” to “Earth as Lover” to create a more reciprocal and empathetic relationship with the natural...
Publisher
Juno Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
For nearly four months, Linda Bishop, a prisoner of her own mind, survived on apples and rain water, waiting for God to save her, during one of the coldest winters on record. As her story unfolds from different perspectives, including her own, we learn about our systemic failure to protect those who cannot protect themselves.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 488 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Until fairly recently, religion as a major influence on the nature of individual societies around the world seemed to be on the wane. Now, far from being marginalized, the relationship between faith and society has moved to the center of politics and global conversation. Neil MacGregor's new book traces the ways in which different societies have understood and articulated their places in the cosmic scheme. It examines mankind's beliefs not from the...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Two cognitive scientists explain how the human brain relies on the communal nature of intelligence and knowledge, constantly gathering information and expertise stored outside our mind and bodies, to overcome its shortcomings of being error prone, irrational and often ignorant, "--NoveList.
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (23 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Savannah Burton is an actress from Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador. She’s found great success from landing a role on the television show, Beauty and the Beast.
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (14 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Eight top researchers (Mark Bevir, Frans de Waal, Emilie Hafner-Burton, Andy Hoffman, David Hollinger, Martin Jay, Josiah Ober, Philip Zimbardo) explore the question of how to constructively involve the public in pressing societal issues.
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (23 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
54-year-old Sandy Leo Laframboise has led an extremely tough life, beginning prostituting at age 12. This led to drugs and a destructive lifestyle. Once Sandy got clean she could begin healing. Through her first nation culture, she realized she is Two-Spirited, neither male or female. She embraces both genders. She spends her life now helping others full time, paying it forward.
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (23 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
51-year-old Stefonknee Wolscht risks everything in her life to transition from a man to a woman. This documentary follows the struggles of Stefonknee Wolscht, a transgender woman trying to rebuild her life. In his 40’s Stefonknee risked everything to transition from male to female. In this intimate documentary, learn about her journey, how it shaped her and what she hopes her tomorrow will look like. Follow her path that has been both liberating,...
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (23 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
73-year-old Gayle Roberts With the help of her second wife, Gayle is able to transition from male to female, but when she comes out a work, a comment made by one of her students parents overwhelms her.
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (232 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A series designed to record, share and celebrate the personal stories of transgender women and men, their stories of struggle, of courage and of triumph. Each program reflects the broad diversity that exists within the trans community. Though they vary in age, ethnicity and socioeconomic backgrounds, each person has fought to cast off the gender assigned to them at birth and embrace their true selves. These documentaries take us firsthand into the...
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (23 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
18-year-old Xavier Raddysh knew at an early age that he was not a girl. By the time he was a teen it was painful being treated as a girl. He began “cutting” and eventually attempted suicide, twice. Today he describes himself as a role model for other trans people; speaking to students so trans people know they can get through it and others can be more understanding.
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