Waters, Michael
Summary: In December 1935, Zdeněk Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women’s sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the same time, the celebrated British field athlete Mark Weston, also assigned female at birth, announced that he, too, was a man. Periodicals and radio programs across the world carried the news; both became global celebrities. A few decades later, they were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.086 WATWaters, Michael W.
Summary: Pastor, award-winning author, and rising civil rights leader Michael W. Waters (Stakes Is High, For Beautiful Black Boys Who Believe in a Better World) ruminates on the sacred places and spaces he visited as part of a cross-country trek in 2019-2020 through America's racial history. From reflections on the river's edge where Emmit Till's body was recovered in the 1950s, to the spot of Malcolm...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chalice Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 WATButterfield Blues Band
Contents: Walkin' blues / (3:15) -- Get out of my life, woman / (3:13) -- I got a mind to give up living / Traditional (4:57) -- All these blues / Traditional (2:18) -- Work song / Nat Adderly, Oscar Brown, Jr. (7:53) -- Mary, Mary / Michael Nesmith (2:48) -- Two trains running / Muddy Waters (3:50) -- Never say no / Traditional (2:57) -- East-West / Mike Bloomfield, Nick Gravenites (13:10).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Elektra 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BUTSummary: A high school student who belongs to the Heathers, a powerful but cruel clique, falls for the mysterious new boy in school. She and her new boyfriend grow to dislike the Heathers. Their dislike escalates into a murder, suicide and slushies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New World Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HEAYarsinske, Amy Waters
Summary: The author, a former intelligence officer, turns the spotlight on the case of an American pilot believed to be killed when his plane was shot down over Iraq who may be alive in an Iraqi jail.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listen & Live Audio 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 956.7044 YARMischel, Walter.
Summary: "Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it. A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behavior later in life? The world's leading expert on self-control, Walter Mischel has proven that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 MISMischel, Walter.
Summary: Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it. A child sits in front of a tray with one marshmallow on one side and two on the other. He is told he can either eat the one now or wait and get the two later. What will he do? And what are the implications for his behavior later in life?The world's leading expert on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014