Fromm, Erich
Summary: "To have or to be? is one of the seminal books of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revelation to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Erich Fromm. His thesis is that two modes of existence struggle for the spirit of humankind: the having mode, which concentrates on material possessions, power, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128 FROSummary: A man goes to considerable lengths to avoid being seen. Beckett's first venture into the film medium is a one-character production without dialogue, based on Berkeley's theory Esse est percipi, or "to be is to be perceived."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FILAtkins, P. W. (Peter William)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 111.1 ATKSummary: Professor Robert C. Solomon of the University of Texas explores existentialism and the leading writers and philosophers who have been associated with this philosophical movement.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 142.78 SOLKaplan, Eric
Summary: Philosopher and comedy writer (Futurama, Big Bang Theory) Kaplan tackles a metaphysical paradox: there are some things we dearly believe in that are not universally acknowledged as real. Here, Kaplan shows how philosophy giants Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein strove to smooth over this uncomfortable meeting of the real and unreal--and failed. From there he turns to mysticism's attempts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 100 KAPWatterson, Bill
Summary: "In a fable for grown-ups by cartoonist Bill Watterson, a long-ago kingdom is afflicted with unexplainable calamities. Hoping to end the torment, the king dispatches his knights to discover the source of the mysterious events. Years later, a single battered knight returns" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WATSummary: Professor Robert C. Solomon of the University of Texas explores existentialism and the leading writers and philosophers who have been associated with this philosophical movement.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 142.78 SOLSolomon, Robert C.
Summary: This Lecture course by Professor Robert C. Solomon of the University of Texas explores existentialism and the leading writers and philosophers who have been associated with this philosophical movement.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 142.78 SOLMukherjee, Siddhartha
Summary: "The discovery of cells--and the reframing of the human body as a cellular ecosystem--announced the birth of a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulations of cells. A hip fracture, a cardiac arrest, Alzheimer's, dementia, AIDS, pneumonia, lung cancer, kidney failure, arthritis, COVID--all could be viewed as the results of cells, or systems of cells, functioning abnormally. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 571.6 MUKKing Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (Musical group)
Contents: K.G.L.W. -- Automation -- Minimum brain size -- Straws in the wind -- Some of us -- Ontology -- Intrasport -- Oddlife -- Honey -- The hungry wolf of fate.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KINMidthun, Joseph
Summary: "A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces plant and animal cells and their cycles, including cell diagrams, meiosis, mitosis, and disease"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 571.6 MIDSummary: "A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces plant and animal cells and their cycles, including cell diagrams, meiosis, mitosis, and disease"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2014