Search Results for "Consciousness"

Title: The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind

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Author: Jaynes, Julian, 1920-1997.
ISBN: 9780395564721
Summary: What is human consciousness, where did it come from, and how does it determine who we are and how we live in the world? At the heart of this book is the theory that human consciousness did not develop over time--that, in fact, ancient peoples from mesopotamia to Peru did not "think" as we do and therefore were not conscious. Drawing on laboratory studies of the brain and clos examination of archaeological evidence, the author concludes that consciousness is not a product of evolution but of catastrophic events in our own history, events that occurred as recently as three thousand years ago.
Pub Date: 1990
Call Number BF 311 .J36 1990
Format Books

Title: The nature of human consciousness: a book of readings,

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Series A Series of books in psychology
Series Title A Series of books in psychology
Author: Ornstein, Robert E. comp. (Robert Evan), 1942-
ISBN: 0670504807 071670790X (pbk.)
Pub Date: 1973
Call Number BF 311 .O73 1973
Format Books

Title: Being you : a new science of consciousness

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Author: Seth, Anil K., author.
ISBN: 9781524742874
Summary: "Being you is an unprecedented tour of consciousness thanks to new experimental evidence, much of which comes from Seth's own lab. His radical argument is that we do not perceive the world as it objectively is, but rather that we are prediction machines, constantly inventing our world and correcting our mistakes by the microsecond, and that we can now observe the biological mechanisms in the brain that accomplish this process of consciousness."--Provided by publisher.
Pub Date: 2021
Call Number 612.82 SET 2021
Format Books

Title: Reinventing the body, resurrecting the soul

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Series Academic Video Online (leased)
Series Title Academic Video Online (leased)
Author: Chopra, Deepak, speaker. ProQuest (Firm) Alexander Street Press
Summary: Dr. Chopra will discuss the nature of consciousness as a fundamental reality that differentiates in-to cognition, moods and emotions, perception, behaviors, biology, social interactions, personal relationships, environment and the forces of nature. He will address the deeper meaning of our existence, and explain how the greatest spiritual secrets are tied up in this simple answer. It takes a total shift in perception to realize that you are not in the world; the world is in you. Educational Objectives: 1) To define the nature of consciousness. 2) To describe three elements that address the deeper meaning of existence.
Pub Date: 2011
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Title: Then I am myself the world : what consciousness is and how to expand it

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Author: Koch, Christof, 1956- author.
ISBN: 9781541602809
Summary: "Christof Koch explores the only thing we directly experience: consciousness. At the book's heart is integrated-information theory, the idea that the essence of consciousness is the ability to exert causal power over itself, to be an agent of change. Koch investigates the physical origins of consciousness in the brain and how this knowledge can be used to measure consciousness in natural and artificial systems"--
Pub Date: 2024
Call Number 612.823 KOC 2024
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Title: Sentience : the invention of consciousness

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Author: Humphrey, Nicholas, author.
ISBN: 9780262047944
Summary: "An accessible overview of Humphrey's evolving views on consciousness -- particularly the topic of phenomenal consciousness -- from his early neurophysiology studies in the 1960's to his debates with philosophers today"--
Pub Date: 2023
Call Number 128.2 HUM 2023
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Title: Nineteen ways of looking at consciousness

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Author: House, Patrick, author.
ISBN: 9781250151179
Summary: "A concise, elegant, and thought-provoking exploration of the mystery of consciousness and the functioning of the brain. Despite decades of research, remarkable imagery, and insights from a range of scientific and medical disciplines, the human brain remains largely unexplored. Consciousness-the awareness of our own and others' existence-has eluded explanation. Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness offers a brilliant overview of the state of modern consciousness research in twenty brief, revealing chapters. Neuroscientist and author Patrick House describes complex concepts in accessible terms, weaving brain science, technology, gaming, analogy, and philosophy into a tapestry that illuminates how the brain works and what enables consciousness. This remarkable book fosters a sense of mystery and wonder about the strangeness of the relationship between our inner selves and our environment"--
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number 153 HOU 2022
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Title: Living untethered : beyond the human predicament

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Author: Singer, Michael A., author.
ISBN: 9781648480935
Summary: "The book you need right now is finally here! From beloved spiritual teacher Michael A. Singer-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Untethered Soul-this transformative and highly anticipated guide will be your compass on an exciting new journey toward self-realization and unconditional happiness. Now more than ever, we're all looking to feel more joy, happiness, and deeper meaning in our lives. But are we looking in all the wrong places? When our sense of wholeness depends on things or people outside ourselves-whether it's a coveted job, a new house, a lavish vacation, or even a new relationship-sooner or later we're bound to feel unsatisfied. That's why we must look inside for real freedom, love, and inspiration. But how do we embark on this inner journey? Living Untethered is the book to reach for. At once profoundly transcendent and powerfully practical, it provides clear guidance for moving beyond the thoughts, feelings, and habits that keep you stuck-so you can heal the pain of the past and let your spirit soar. On each page, you'll discover a deeper understanding of where your thoughts and emotions come from, and how they affect your natural energy flow. Finally, you'll find freedom from the psychological scars, or samskaras, that block you and keep you from reaching your highest potential. It's time to stop struggling and start experiencing. This miraculous book will show you how to put the spiritual teachings of Michael A. Singer into practice every day, and propel you toward a life of liberation, serenity, openness, and self-knowledge. Isn't it time you started Living Untethered? This book is copublished by New Harbinger Publications, Inc., the premier publisher of psychology and self-help books for nearly fifty years; and Sounds True, the leading multimedia publisher of original works by world-renowned spiritual teachers"--
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number 153 SIN 2022
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Title: Feeling & knowing : making minds conscious

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Author: Damasio, Antonio R., author. Damasio, Hanna, illustrator.
ISBN: 9781524747558
Summary: "From one of the world's leading neuroscientists--a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigation of the phenomenon of consciousness and its relation to life. In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the question of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings in biology, neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence have given us the necessary tools to solve its mystery. Now, he not only elucidates its myriad aspects, but presents his analysis and insights in a way that is faithful to our own intuitive sense of the experience of consciousness. In the 48 brief chapters of the book, he helps us understand the relation between consciousness and mind; why being conscious is not the same as either being awake or sensing; the essential role of feeling; and the biological brain and development of consciousness. He synthesizes the recent findings of various sciences with the outlook of philosophy, and, most significantly, presents his original research which has transformed our understanding of the brain and human behavior. Here is an indispensable guide to understanding consciousness, the fundamental human capacity for informing--and transforming--our experience of the world around us and our perception of our place in it"--
Pub Date: 2021
Call Number 153 DAM 2021
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Title: Universal human : creating authentic power and the new consciousness

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Author: Zukav, Gary, author.
ISBN: 9781982169879
Summary: "Universal Human gives us new tools to grow spiritually and shows us how to transform everyday experiences of hopelessness, emptiness, and pain into fulfillment, meaning, and joy. It points us toward a startling new destination--a species that is beyond culture, religion, nation, ethnic group, and gender, a species whose allegiance is to Life first and all else second--and shows us how to get there."--
Pub Date: 2021
Call Number 158.1 ZUK 2021
Format Books

Title: Conscious : a brief guide to the fundamental mystery of the mind

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Author: Harris, Annaka, author.
ISBN: 9780062906717
Summary: "What is consciousness? How does it arise? And why does it exist? We take our experience of being in the world for granted. But the very existence of consciousness raises profound questions: Why would any collection of matter in the universe be conscious? How are we able to think about this? And why should we? /In this wonderfully accessible book, Annaka Harris guides us through the evolving definitions, philosophies, and scientific findings that probe our limited understanding of consciousness. Where does it reside, and what gives rise to it? Could it be an illusion, or a universal property of all matter? As we try to understand consciousness, we must grapple with how to define it and, in the age of artificial intelligence, who or what might possess it. /Conscious offers lively and challenging arguments that alter our ideas about consciousness--allowing us to think freely about it for ourselves, if indeed we can." -- book jacket.
Pub Date: 2019
Call Number 153 HAR 2019
Format Books

Title: The deep history of ourselves : the four-billion-year story of how we got conscious brains

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Author: LeDoux, Joseph E., author. Sorrentino, Caio Da SIlva, illustrator.
ISBN: 9780735223837
Summary: "Renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux digs into the natural history of life on earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between us and our ancestors in deep time. This page-turning survey of the whole of terrestrial evolution sheds new light on how nervous systems evolved in animals, how the brain developed, and what it means to be human." --Amazon.
Pub Date: 2019
Call Number 612.8 LED 2019
Format Books

Title: Rethinking consciousness : a scientific theory of subjective experience [book on cd]

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Author: Graziano, Michael S. A., 1967- author. De Vries, David, 1958- narrator. HighBridge Audio (Firm), publisher.
ISBN: 9781684573875
Summary: Examines the evolution of consciousness and how the development of a sense of being has enabled humans to experience empathy and live as social beings. Discusses the advantages and risks of artificial intelligence on the future of human evolution.
Pub Date: 2019
Call Number BCD 153 GRA
Format Audio disc

Title: Breathe, empower, achieve : 5-minute mindfulness for women who do it all

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Author: Moralis, Shonda, author.
ISBN: 9781615195848
Summary: "Psychotherapist Shonda Moralis coaches readers through her five-minute "mindful breaks"-each prompted by an everyday situation-and shares how to breathe to promote calm and awareness with meditation; empower yourself with assertiveness and self-confidence; and achieve your dreams by setting, and conquering, goals"--
Pub Date: 2019
Call Number 155.3 MOR 2019
Format Books

Title: Rethinking consciousness : a scientific theory of subjective experience

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Author: Graziano, Michael S. A., 1967- author.
ISBN: 9780393652611
Summary: "Neuroscientist and psychologist Michael S. A. Graziano puts forward a groundbreaking new theory on the origin of consciousness. Focusing attention can help an animal find food or flee a predator. It also may have led to consciousness. Tracing evolution over millions of years, Graziano uses examples from the natural world to show how neurons first allowed animals to develop simple forms of attention: taking in messages from the environment, prioritizing them, and responding as necessary. Then some animals evolved covert attention--a roving mental focus that can take in information apart from where the senses are pointed, like hearing sirens at a distance or recalling a memory. Graziano proposes that in order to monitor and control this specialized attention, the brain evolved a simplified model of it--a cartoonish self-description depicting an internal essence with a capacity for knowledge and experience. In other words, consciousness. In this eye-opening work drawn from his and other scientists' experiments, Graziano accessibly explores how this sense of an inner being led to empathy and formed us into social beings. The theory may point the way to engineers for building consciousness artificially, and even someday taking the natural consciousness of a person and uploading it into a machine for a digital afterlife. Graziano discusses what a future with artificial conscious might be like, including both advantages and risks, and what AI might mean for our evolutionary future."--Dust jacket.
Pub Date: 2019
Call Number 153 GRA 2019
Format Books

Title: Out of my head : on the trail of consciousness

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Author: Parks, Tim, author.
ISBN: 9781681373973
Pub Date: 2018
Call Number 153 PAR 2018
Format Books

Title: Living in a mindful universe : a neurosurgeon's journey into the heart of consciousness

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Author: Alexander, Eben, author. Newell, Karen, author.
ISBN: 9781635650327
Summary: Aims to show that the brain is not responsible for consciousness, and uses this assertion to explore profound love and human connection. "Dr. Eben Alexander, author of international phenomenon Proof of Heaven, shares the next phase of his journey to understand the true nature of consciousness and how to cultivate a state of harmony with the universe and our higher purpose. In 2008, Dr. Eben Alexander's brain was severely damaged by a devastating case of bacterial meningitis, and he lapsed into a weeklong coma. It was almost certainly a death sentence, but he miraculously survived and brought back with him an astounding story. During those 7 days in coma, he was plunged into the deepest realms of consciousness and came to understand profound truths about the universe we inhabit. What he learned changed everything he knew about the brain, mind, and consciousness and drove him to ask a question confounding the entire scientific community: How do you explain the origins of consciousness if it is not a byproduct of the brain? His challenge relates to a revolutionary shift now underway within our modern scientific understanding. Ultimately, direct experience is key to fully understanding how we are all connected through the binding force of unconditional love and its unlimited power to heal. In Living in a Mindful Universe, [the author] shares his insights into the true nature of consciousness. Embracing his radically new worldview, he began a committed program of personal exploration into nonlocal consciousness. Along the way, he met Karen Newell, who had spent most of her lifetime living the worldview he had only just discovered was possible. Her personal knowledge came from testing various techniques and theories as part of her daily routine. With Living in a Mindful Universe, they teach you how to tap into your greater mind and the power of the heart to facilitate enhancement of healing, relationships, creativity, guidance, and more. Using various modalities related to meditation and mindfulness, you will gain the power to access that infinite source of knowing so vital to us all, ultimately enriching every facet of our lives."--Jacket.
Pub Date: 2017
Call Number 153 ALE 2017
Format Books

Title: The river of consciousness

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Author: Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015, author.
ISBN: 9780385352567
Summary: "Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee. The best-selling author of On the Move, Musicophilia, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks is known for his illuminating case histories about people living with neurological conditions at the far borderlands of human experience. But his grasp of science was not restricted to neuroscience or medicine; he was fascinated by the issues, ideas, and questions of all the sciences. That wide-ranging expertise and passion informs the perspective of this book, in which he interrogates the nature not only of human experience but of all life. In The River of Consciousness, Dr. Sacks takes on evolution, botany, chemistry, medicine, neuroscience, and the arts, and calls upon his great scientific and creative heroes--above all, Darwin, Freud, and William James. For Sacks, these thinkers were constant companions from an early age; the questions they explored--the meaning of evolution, the roots of creativity, and the nature of consciousness--lie at the heart of science and of this book. The River of Consciousness demonstrates Sacks's unparalleled ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless endeavor to understand what makes us human."--Dust jacket flap.
Pub Date: 2017
Call Number 612.8 SAC 2017
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Title: From bacteria to Bach and back : the evolution of minds

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Author: Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement), author.
ISBN: 9780393242072
Summary: A leading philosopher offers a major new account of the origins of the conscious mind that explores the deep interactions of evolution, brains, and human culture, demonstrating the role of culture in installing memes, including language, in the mind.
Pub Date: 2017
Call Number 128.2 DEN 2017
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Title: Consciousness : confessions of a romantic reductionist

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Series Representation and mind
Series Title Representation and mind Representation and mind.
Author: Koch, Christof, 1956-
ISBN: 9780262533508
Summary: "What links conscious experience of pain, joy, color, and smell to bioelectrical activity in the brain? How can anything physical give rise to nonphysical, subjective, conscious states? Christof Koch has devoted much of his career to bridging the seemingly unbridgeable gap between the physics of the brain and phenomenal experience. This engaging book--part scientific overview, part memoir, part futurist speculation--describes Koch's search for an empirical explanation for consciousness. Koch recounts not only the birth of the modern science of consciousness but also the subterranean motivation for his quest--his instinctual (if 'romantic') belief that life is meaningful. Koch describes his own groundbreaking work with Francis Crick in the 1990s and 2000s and the gradual emergence of consciousness (once considered a 'fringy' subject) as a legitimate topic for scientific investigation. Present at this paradigm shift were Koch and a handful of colleagues, including Ned Block, David Chalmers, Stanislas Dehaene, Giulio Tononi, Wolf Singer, and others. Aiding and abetting it were new techniques to listen in on the activity of individual nerve cells, clinical studies, and brain-imaging technologies that allowed safe and noninvasive study of the human brain in action. Koch gives us stories from the front lines of modern research into the neurobiology of consciousness as well as his own reflections on a variety of topics, including the distinction between attention and awareness, the unconscious, how neurons respond to Homer Simpson, the physics and biology of free will, dogs, Der Ring des Nibelungen, sentient machines, the loss of his belief in a personal God, and sadness. All of them are signposts in the pursuit of his life's work--to uncover the roots of consciousness."--Jacket.
Pub Date: 2017
Call Number B 808.9 .K63 2017
Format Books

Title: The tides of mind : uncovering the spectrum of consciousness

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Author: Gelernter, David Hillel, author.
ISBN: 9780871403803
Summary: An "exploration of the human psyche that shows us how the very purpose of the mind changes throughout the day. Indeed, as Gelernter explains, when we are at our most alert, when reasoning and creating new memories is our main mental business, the mind is a computer-like machine that keeps emotion on a short leash and attention on our surroundings. As we gradually tire, however, and descend the 'mental spectrum,' reasoning comes unglued. Memory ranges more freely, the mind wanders, and daydreams grow more insistent. Self-awareness fades, reflection blinks out, and at last we are completely immersed in our own minds"--Dust jacket flap.
Pub Date: 2016
Call Number 128.2 GEL 2016
Format Books

Title: Consciousness and the brain : deciphering how the brain codes our thoughts

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Author: Dehaene, Stanislas.
ISBN: 9780670025435
Summary: "A breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness deep in the brain How does our brain generate a conscious thought? And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious? Thanks to clever psychological and brain-imaging experiments, scientists are closer to cracking this mystery than ever before. In this lively book, Stanislas Dehaene describes the pioneering work his lab and the labs of other cognitive neuroscientists worldwide have accomplished in defining, testing, and explaining the brain events behind a conscious state. We can now pin down the neurons that fire when a person reports becoming aware of a piece of information and understand the crucial role unconscious computations play in how we make decisions. The emerging theory enables a test of consciousness in animals, babies, and those with severe brain injuries. A joyous exploration of the mind and its thrilling complexities, Consciousness and the Brain will excite anyone interested in cutting-edge science and technology and the vast philosophical, personal, and ethical implications of finally quantifying consciousness"--
Pub Date: 2014
Call Number QP411.D44 2014
Format Books

Title: Letting go : the pathway of surrender

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Author: Hawkins, David R., 1927- author.
ISBN: 9781401945015
Summary: "Letting Go describes a simple and effective means by which to let go of the obstacles to Enlightenment and become free of negativity. During the many decades of the author's clinical psychiatric practice, the primary aim was to seek the most effective ways to relieve human suffering in all of its many forms. The inner mechanism of surrender was found to be of great practical benefit and is described in this book. Dr. Hawkins' previous books focused on advanced states of awareness and Enlightenment. Over the years, thousands of students had asked for a practical technique by which to remove the inner blocks to happiness, love, joy, success, health, and, ultimately, Enlightenment. This book provides a mechanism for letting go of those blocks. The mechanism of surrender that Dr. Hawkins describes can be done in the midst of everyday life. The book is equally useful for all dimensions of human life: physical health, creativity, financial success, emotional healing, vocational fulfillment, relationships, sexuality, and spiritual growth. It is an invaluable resource for all professionals who work in the areas of mental health, psychology, medicine, self-help, addiction recovery, and spiritual development" --Amazon.com, viewed May 29, 2014.
Pub Date: 2014 2012
Call Number 128.2 HAW 2014
Format Books

Title: Soul dust : the magic of consciousness

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Author: Humphrey, Nicholas.
ISBN: 9780691138626
Pub Date: 2011
Call Number 126 HUM 2011
Format Books

Title: Ericksonian approaches to hypnosis and psychotherapy. Creating consciousness : continuing Milton Erickson's legacy of research on rehabilitation & healing

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Series Ericksonian approaches to hypnosis and psychotherapy
Series Title Ericksonian approaches to hypnosis and psychotherapy Academic Video Online (leased)
Author: Rossi, Kathryn, speaker. ProQuest (Firm) Alexander Street Press
Summary: Creative Psychosocial Genomics is proposed as the new foundation that underpins the neuroscience of therapeutic hypnosis and many psychotherapies. Currently it is the only evidence-based moleculargenomic approach to mind-body healing and problem solving that that facilitates (1) stem cell activation and a reduction of (2) chronic inflammation & (3) cellular oxidation. Educational Objectives: 1) List 3 evidence-based molecular-genomic foundations of therapeutic hypnosis. 2) List 3 behaviors that facilitate gene expression & brain plasticity.
Pub Date: 2011
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Title: The untethered soul the journey beyond yourself

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Author: Singer, Michael A. Berkrot, Peter. Tantor Media.
ISBN: 9781452605166
Summary: Michael A. Singer explores the question of human identity . He shows how the development of consciousness can enable listeners all to dwell in the present moment and achieve happiness and self-realization.
Pub Date: 2011
Call Number BCD 153 SIN
Format Audio disc

Title: The ESP enigma : the scientific case for psychic phenomena

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Author: Powell, Diane Hennacy.
ISBN: 9780802716064
Pub Date: 2009
Call Number 133.8 POW 2009
Format Books

Title: Out of our heads : why you are not your brain, and other lessons from the biology of consciousness

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Author: Noë, Alva.
ISBN: 9780809074655
Pub Date: 2009
Call Number 612.8 NOE 2009
Format Books

Title: The untethered soul : the journey beyond yourself

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Author: Singer, Michael A.
ISBN: 9781572245372
Pub Date: 2007
Call Number 153 SIN 2007
Format Books

Title: Exploring consciousness

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Author: Carter, Rita, 1949-
ISBN: 9780520237377
Pub Date: 2002
Call Number 153 CAR
Format Books

Title: Consciousness reconsidered

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Author: Flanagan, Owen J.
ISBN: 9780262061483
Pub Date: 1992
Call Number B 808.9 .F57 1992
Format Books

Title: Consciousness explained

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Author: Dennett, Daniel Clement.
ISBN: 9780316180658
Pub Date: 1991
Call Number 126 DEN
Format Books

Title: Cosmic consciousness : a study in the evolution of the human mind

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Author: Bucke, Richard Maurice, 1837-1902.
ISBN: 9780140193374
Summary: This classic study in the evolution of the human mind is a pioneering work as valuable today as when it was first published in 1901. At that time it was enthusiastically acclaimed by both William James and P.D. Ouspensky. It has long been accepted as a landmark in the field of mysticism. In reviewing the mental and spiritual activity of the human race, Dr. Bucke discovers that at intervals certain individuals have appeared who are gifted with the power of transcendent realization--or Illumination. Their experiences constitute a definite advance in man's relation with the Infinite. Moreover, the author shows from available records that this transfiguring endowment of Illumination is on the increase, and he gives full details of practically all the cases on record up to the time when the book was written.
Pub Date: 1991 1923
Call Number BF 311 .B8 1991
Format Books

Title: Consciousness explained

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Author: Dennett, Daniel Clement.
ISBN: 9780316180658
Pub Date: 1991
Call Number B 105 .C477 D45 1991
Format Books

Title: Time and free will; an essay on the immediate data of consciousness

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Series Muirhead library of philosophy.
Series Title Muirhead library of philosophy.
Author: Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941 Pogson, Frank Lubecki.
Pub Date: 1959 1910
Call Number BF 622 .B45
Format Books

Title: Where Buddhism meets neuroscience : conversations with the Dalai Lama on the spiritual and scientific views of our minds

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Series Core teachings of the Dalai Lama
Series Title Core teachings of the Dalai Lama Core teachings of the Dalai Lama.
Author: Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935- author. Houshmand, Zara, editor. Livingston, Robert B. (Robert Burr), 1918-2002, editor. Wallace, B. Alan, editor, translator. Thupten Jinpa, translator.
ISBN: 9781559394789
Summary: "Organized by the Mind and Life Institute, this discussion addresses some of the most troublesome questions that have driven a wedge between Western science and religion. Where Buddhism Meets Neuroscience resulted from meetings of the Dalai Lama and a group of eminent neuroscientists and psychiatrists. Is the mind an ephemeral side effect of the brain's physical processes? Are there forms of consciousness so subtle that science has not yet identified them? How does consciousness happen? The Dalai Lama's incisive, open-minded approach both challenges and offers inspiration to Western scientists. The book consists primarily of dialogue and intense, frank conversations between the Dalai Lama and participants. Questions of perception, dualism, categories of consciousness, memory, dreams, the nature of mental illness, and the mind during and after death are all explored"--
Pub Date: 2018 1999
Call Number 294.3 BST 2018
Format Books

Title: The weirdness of the world

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Author: Schwitzgebel, Eric, author.
ISBN: 9780691215679
Summary: "How all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the fundamental structure of the cosmos are bizarre--and why that's a good thing. Do we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know virtually nothing? Is consciousness a purely physical matter, or might it require something extra, something nonphysical? According to the philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel, it's hard to say. In The Weirdness of the World, Schwitzgebel argues that the answers to these fundamental questions lie beyond our powers of comprehension. We can be certain only that the truth--whatever it is--is weird. Philosophy, he proposes, can aim to open--to reveal possibilities we had not previously appreciated--or to close, to narrow down to the one correct theory of the phenomenon in question. Schwitzgebel argues for a philosophy that opens. According to Schwitzgebel's 'Universal Bizarreness' thesis, every possible theory of the relation of mind and cosmos defies common sense. According to his complementary 'Universal Dubiety' thesis, no general theory of the relationship between mind and cosmos compels rational belief. Might the United States be a conscious organism--a conscious group mind with approximately the intelligence of a rabbit? Might virtually every action we perform cause virtually every possible type of future event, echoing down through the infinite future of an infinite universe? What, if anything, is it like to be a garden snail? Schwitzgebel makes a persuasive case for the thrill of considering the most bizarre philosophical possibilities" --
Pub Date: 2024
Call Number 128.2 SCH 2024
Format Books

Title: Murmur

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Author: Eaves, Will, 1967- author.
ISBN: 9781942658641
Summary: "In Murmur, a hallucinatory masterwork, Will Eaves invites us into the brilliant mind of Alec Pryor, a character inspired by Alan Turing. Turing, father of artificial intelligence and pioneer of radical new techniques to break the Nazi Enigma cipher during World War II, was later persecuted by the British state for "gross indecency with another male" and forced to undergo chemical castration. Set during the devastating period before Turing's suicide, Murmur evokes an extraordinary life, the beauty and sorrows of love, and the nature of consciousness" --
Pub Date: 2019
Call Number F EAV
Format Books

Title: The phenomenology of mind

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Series Dover philosophical classics
Series Title Dover philosophical classics Dover philosophical classics.
Author: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. Baillie, J. B. (James Black), Sir, 1872-1940.
ISBN: 9780486432519
Pub Date: 2003 1931
Call Number 193 HEG 2003
Format Books

Title: Why? : the purpose of the universe

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Author: Goff, Philip, 1978- author.
ISBN: 9780198883760
Summary: "Western thought has been dominated by the dichotomy of traditional religion and secular atheism. But do we have to choose between these options? In this pioneering work, Philip Goff argues that it is time to move on from both God and atheism. Though an exploration of contemporary cosmology and cutting-edge philosophical research on consciousness, Goff argues for cosmic purpose: the idea that the universe is directed towards certain goals, such as the emergence of life. In contrast to religious thinkers, Goff argues that the traditional God is a bad explanation of cosmic purpose. Instead, he explores a range of alternative possibilities for accounting for cosmic purpose. Instead, he explores a range of alternative possibilities for accounting for cosmic purpose, from the speculation that we live in a computer simulation to the hypothesis that the universe itself is a conscious mind. Goff scrutinizes these options with analytical rigour, laying the foundations for a new paradigm of philosophical enquiry into the middle ground between God and atheism. Ultimately, Goff outlines a way of living in hope that cosmic purpose is still unfolding, involving political engagement and a non-literalist interpretation of traditional religion."--
Pub Date: 2023
Call Number 113 GOF 2023
Format Books

Title: You are enough : revealing the soul to discover your power, potential, and possibility

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Author: Desai, Panache, author.
ISBN: 9780062932570
Summary: Offers a straightforward, non-judgmental, and approachable process of revealing the soul, of coming into alignment and harmony with our true selves. Combining personal narrative, clear and inspiring philosophy, and prescriptive practices, it reveals that the way through is the way in; that the way through fear, self-doubt, and anxiety is accepting and embracing dissonance and emotional and psychological blockages, so that we can approach our lives and the world from a perspective that understands our fears are not who we are. Desai's goal is simple: to guide readers through radical self-acceptance toward a life of ultimate peace and fulfillment. --
Pub Date: 2020
Call Number 204.4 DES 2020
Format Books

Title: Idiot brain : what your head is really up to

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Author: Burnett, Dean, author.
ISBN: 9780393253788
Summary: "A delightful tour of our mysterious, mischievous gray matter from neuroscientist and massively popular Guardian blogger Dean Burnett,"--NoveList.
Pub Date: 2016
Call Number 612.8 BUR 2016
Format Books

Title: Taming the drunken monkey : the path to mindfulness, meditation, and increased concentration

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Author: Mikulas, William L.
ISBN: 9780738734699
Summary: Provides comprehensive instruction for developing and improving three basic behaviors of the mind: concentration, awareness, and flexibility.
Pub Date: 2014
Call Number 158.1 MIK 2014
Format Books

Title: On looking : eleven walks with expert eyes

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Author: Horowitz, Alexandra.
ISBN: 9781439191255
Summary: On Looking begins with inattention. It is about attending to the joys of the unattended, the perceived 'ordinary.' Horowitz encourages us to rediscover the extraordinary things that we are missing in our ordinary activities. Even when engaged in the simplest of activities like taking a walk around the block, we pay so little attention to most of what is right before us that we are sleepwalkers in our own lives.
Pub Date: 2013
Call Number BF 311 .H646 2013
Format Books

Title: On looking [eleven walks with expert eyes]

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Author: Horowitz, Alexandra.
ISBN: 9781442359321
Summary: On Looking begins with inattention. It is about attending to the joys of the unattended, the perceived 'ordinary.' Horowitz encourages us to rediscover the extraordinary things that we are missing in our ordinary activities. Even when engaged in the simplest of activities like taking a walk around the block, we pay so little attention to most of what is right before us that we are sleepwalkers in our own lives.
Pub Date: 2013
Call Number BCD 158.1 HOR
Format Audio disc

Title: Tertium Organum : the third canon of thought, a key to the enigmas of the world

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Author: Uspenskiĭ, P. D. (Petr Demʹi͡anovich), 1878-1947.
ISBN: 9781495417948
Pub Date: 2012
Call Number 197 USP 1981
Format Books

Title: I am a strange loop

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Author: Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945-
ISBN: 9780465030781
Summary: Hofstadter's long-awaited return to the themes of Gödel, Escher, Bach--an original and controversial view of the nature of consciousness and identity. What do we mean when we say "I"? Can a self, a soul, a consciousness, an "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? This book argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains. Deep down, a human brain is a chaotic soup of particles, on a higher level it is a jungle of neurons, and on a yet higher level it is a network of abstractions that we call "symbols." The most central and complex symbol in your brain or mine is the one we both call "I." But how can such a mysterious abstraction be real--or is our "I" merely a convenient fiction?--From publisher description.
Pub Date: 2007
Call Number BD 438.5 .H64 2007
Format Books

Title: Psychonauts : drugs and the making of the modern mind

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Author: Jay, Mike, 1959 December 14- author. Yale University Press, publisher.
ISBN: 9780300257946
Summary: "Until the twentieth century, scientists investigating the effects of drugs on the mind did so by experimenting on themselves. Vivid descriptions of drug experiences sparked insights across the mind sciences, pharmacology, medicine, and philosophy. Accounts in journals and literary fiction inspired a fascinated public to make their own experiments--in scientific demonstrations, on exotic travels, at literary salons, and in occult rituals. But after 1900 drugs were increasingly viewed as a social problem, and the long tradition of self-experimentation began to disappear. From Sigmund Freud's experiments with cocaine to William James's epiphany on nitrous oxide, Mike Jay brilliantly recovers a lost intellectual tradition of drug-taking that fed the birth of psychology, the discovery of the unconscious, and the emergence of modernism. Today, as we embrace novel cognitive enhancers and psychedelics, the experiments of the original psychonauts reveal the deep influence of mind-altering drugs on Western science, philosophy, and culture." --
Pub Date: 2023
Call Number 154.4 JAY 2023
Format Books

Title: The novelist

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Author: Castro, Jordan, author.
ISBN: 9781593767136
Summary: "The Novelist, which follows a young man over the course of a single morning as he fails to write an autobiographical novel about his heroin addiction and recovery, finding himself drawn into the infinite spaces of Twitter, quotidian rituals, and his own mind. The Novelist is influenced by and references Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine and Thomas Bernhard's Woodcutters, and in the end is a wholly original novel about language and consciousness, the Internet and social media, and addiction and recovery. It is a literary manifesto of optimism about deciding to live, even if the project of living includes a great deal of suffering."--
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number F CAS
Format Books

Title: Journey of the mind : how thinking emerged from chaos

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Author: Ogas, Ogi, author. Gaddam, Sai, author.
ISBN: 9781324006572
Summary: "Why do minds exist? How did mud and stone develop into beings that can experience longing, regret, love, and compassion-beings that are aware of their own experience? Until recently, science offered few answers to these existential questions. Journey of the Mind is the first book to offer a unified account of the mind that explains how consciousness, language, the Self, and civilization emerged incrementally out of chaos. The journey begins three billion years ago with the emergence of the simplest possible mind, a nanoscopic archeon, then ascends through amoebas, worms, frogs, birds, monkeys, and AI, examining successively smarter ways of thinking. The authors explain the mathematical principles generating conscious experience and show how these principles led cities and democratic nations to develop new forms of consciousness-the self-aware "superminds." Journey of the Mind concludes by contemplating a higher stage of consciousness already emerging-and the ultimate fate of all minds in the universe"--
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number 128.2 OGA 2022
Format Books

Title: Unfollow your passion : how to create a life that matters to you

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Author: Trespicio, Terri, author.
ISBN: 9781982169244
Summary: "Is following your passion the key to personal and professional success? Your average self-help book or motivational speaker would likely respond to this question with a resounding YES and proceed to offer a detailed how-to guide to finding that passion and living up to it. Unfollow Your Passion does the unconventional opposite. In the spirit of Pixar's Soul, it encourages you to consider what you lose when you get laser-focused on a single pursuit. There is more to life than a single "spark." By narrowly focusing on the constant search for your one, defining passion-you might miss the infinite number of sparks that exist in anything and everything around you. Rich in playful banter, psychological research, and personal anecdotes, Terri Trespicio encourages you not to succumb to the pressure of defining yourself by your passion. Instead, it emboldens you to keep moving and engage passionately with your present"--
Pub Date: 2021
Call Number 158.1 TRE 2021
Format Books

Title: Know thyself : the science of self-awareness

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Author: Fleming, Stephen M., author.
ISBN: 9781541672840
Summary: "The seconds tick by as the Jeopardy music plays. You know the category like the back of your hand! So why can't you get the answer? Worse: You know you know it, and yet it remains just out of your mind's grasp. And once Alex Trebek reveals the response, it clicks into place. You were right: you had known the answer! So how could you know you knew, but not remember? Why would our magnificent brains be built to do something so, well, stupid? In Know Thyself, Steve Fleming shows that those frustrating moments of knowledge just beyond our grasp aren't some kind of design flaw in our minds. Surprisingly, they are actually examples of our brain's greatest power. Scientists and philosophers call it metacognition, but you might just call it the ability to think about our own minds. It enables us to fuse together our intellects, our memories, and our consciousness in ways that our nearest competitors for brainiest resident of Earth--our computers and our animal brethren--can't come close to matching. Metacognition enables us to answer questions as straightforward as what skills we need to practice or what facts we need to study to do better on a test. And it is the reason we can wonder about issues as big as what we should do with our lives. At least as far back as Socrates, philosophers have encouraged us to know ourselves. In Know Thyself, Fleming reveals both the science of how we do it and why it matters--and crucially, how we can do it better. Like Range and Grit before it, Know Thyself shows us not simply a powerful new aspect of the science of human nature, but shows us how we can put it to use for ourselves"--
Pub Date: 2021
Call Number 153.4 FLE 2021
Format Books

Title: Metazoa : animal life and the birth of the mind

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Author: Godfrey-Smith, Peter, author.
ISBN: 9780374207946
Summary: "A philosopher of science explains how the animal kingdom gave rise to human consciousness"--
Pub Date: 2020
Call Number 590 GOD 2020
Format Books

Title: Stealing fire : how Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALS, and maverick scientists are revolutionizing the way we live and work

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Author: Kotler, Steven, 1967- author. Wheal, Jamie, author.
ISBN: 9780062429650
Summary: The author Steven Kotler and high-performance expert Jamie Wheal spent four years investigating how Silicon Valley executives, the Navy SEALS, and maverick scientists are harnessing rare and controversial states of consciousness to solve critical challenges and outperform the competition--
Pub Date: 2017
Call Number 154.4 KOT 2017
Format Books

Title: Mind : a journey to the heart of being human

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Author: Siegel, Daniel J., 1957- author.
ISBN: 9780393710533
Summary: "What is the mind? What is the experience of the self truly made of? How does the mind differ from the brain? Though the mind's contents--its emotions, thoughts, and memories--are often described, the essence of mind is rarely, if ever, defined. In this book, noted neuropsychiatrist and New York Times best-selling author Daniel J. Siegel, MD, uses his characteristic sensitivity and interdisciplinary background to offer a definition of the mind that illuminates the how, what, when, where, and even why of who we are, of what the mind is, and what the mind's self has the potential to become. MIND takes the reader on a deep personal and scientific journey into consciousness, subjective experience, and information processing, uncovering the mind's self-organizational properties that emerge from both the body and the relationships we have with one another, and with the world around us. While making a wide range of sciences accessible and exciting--from neurobiology to quantum physics, anthropology to psychology--this book offers an experience that addresses some of our most pressing personal and global questions about identity, connection, and the cultivation of well-being in our lives,"--Amazon.com.
Pub Date: 2017
Call Number 150 SIE 2017
Format Books

Title: In search of being : the fourth way to consciousness

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Author: Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch, 1872-1949.
ISBN: 9781611800371
Pub Date: 2012
Call Number 197 GUR 2012
Format Books

Title: This will make you smarter : new scientific concepts to improve your thinking

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Author: Brockman, John, 1941-
ISBN: 9780062109392
Summary: This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant but accessible ideas to expand every mind. What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world's most influential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers of psychology, philosophy, economics, physics, sociology, and more. Surprising and enlightening, these insights will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the world.
Pub Date: 2012
Call Number 612.8 THI 2012
Format Books

Title: Willful blindness : why we ignore the obvious at our peril

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Author: Heffernan, Margaret, 1955-
ISBN: 9780802719980
Summary: Presents an analysis of the human tendency towards selective ignorance, discussing why people practice denial and assessing the impact of the phenomenon on private and working lives as well as within governments and organizations.
Pub Date: 2011
Call Number 153.7 HEF 2011
Format Books

Title: Human : the science behind what makes us unique

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Author: Gazzaniga, Michael S.
ISBN: 9780060892883
Summary: One of the world's leading neuroscientists explores how best to understand the human condition by examining the biological, psychological, and highly social nature of our species within the social context of our lives. In Human, Gazzaniga explores a number of related issues, including what makes human brains unique, the importance of language and art in defining the human condition, the nature of human consciousness, and even artificial intelligence.
Pub Date: 2008
Call Number 612.82 GAZ 2008
Format Books

Title: Nocturnal

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Series Asian film online
Series Title Asian film online Academic Video Online (leased)
Author: Alimohammadi, Keivan. ProQuest (Firm) Alexander Street Press
Summary: While attending a friend's party, Shabnam, an accomplished photographer, receives the message that her brother Hamed, a well-known war photojournalist, has been critically injured. To help calm her down, one of Shabnam's friends offers her a sedative. However, as her sense of reality begins to shift, Shabnam realizes that the drug she ingested was in fact a potent narcotic. So begins her descent into a night of altered perception where reality morphs into illusion. While she waits for the effects of the drug to subside, a police squad is sent in to raid the party. In an effort to escape the authorities, Shabnam risks climbing over a banister on the eleventh floor. Still under the influence of the drug, she is visited by the spirit of her brother who is trying to bring her back to reality. Awards/Festivals: Third Eye Festival 2008; Al Kasaba International Film Festival 2009.
Pub Date: 2006
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Call Number FEATURE FILMS.
Format Electronic Resources

Title: The Oxford guide to the mind

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Author: Underwood, Geoffrey (Geoffrey D. M.) Gregory, R. L. (Richard Langton)
ISBN: 9780198600831
Pub Date: 2001
Call Number BF 311 .O94 2001
Format Books

Title: Ancient drugs

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Series Academic Video Online (leased)
Series Title Academic Video Online (leased)
Author: Talley, Steven R. Ackroyd, David. Arts and Entertainment Network. Filmroos Inc. History Channel (Television network)
Summary: Since mankind's beginning, in every civilization, human beings have found ways to alter their consciousness in search of something "greater" than everyday reality. This film delves into mankind's psyche in search of the key to our pervasive drive to experience something "beyond." Historians and spiritualists explore the ancient rituals of cultures worldwide that have sought visions and truth through altered consciousness.
Pub Date: 1998
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Call Number NON -FICTION FILMS.
Format Electronic Resources

Title: The search for the beloved : journeys in mythology and sacred psychology

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Series An inner work book
Series Title An inner work book Inner workbook
Author: Houston, Jean.
ISBN: 9780874778717
Pub Date: 1997
Call Number BF 311 .H655 1997
Format Books

Title: The evolution of consciousness : of Darwin, Freud, and cranial fire : the origins of the way we think

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Author: Ornstein, Robert E. (Robert Evan), 1942-
ISBN: 9780135875698
Pub Date: 1991
Call Number BF 701 .O76 1991
Format Books

Title: The modern novel.

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Series Hutchinson University Library: Modern languages and literature
Series Title Hutchinson University Library: Modern languages and literature
Author: West, Paul, 1930-
Pub Date: 1965 1963
Call Number PN 3448 .P8 W4 1965 V.01
Format Books

Title: Bergson and the stream of consciousness novel.

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Author: Kumar, Shiv Kumar, 1921-
Pub Date: 1963 1962
Call Number PN 3448 .P8 K8 1963
Format Books

Title: Sleepaway

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Author: Prufer, Kevin, author.
ISBN: 9781946724717
Summary: It's 1984, and the invisible mists are falling, mists that cause people to slip into dreamless slumber--sleeps from which most, but not all, awaken. Those who do wake live in fear of the next mist, and the next, each a little longer and more dangerous than the last. Alternating between the perspectives of a kleptomaniac waitress named Cora and her twelve-year-old friend Glass, Sleepaway depicts a small-town America turned alarming. This is a place where loved ones are lost to a state between life and death; where denial, delusion, and desperation take hold of those remaining; where dealers of the antisleep drug Eight Track disappear into shadows, and a murderous wannabe kingpin hunts for victims. As civilization is shaved away one sleep storm at a time, people struggle to go on, making and losing allies and discovering new strengths and weaknesses. Cora sets out on an ill-fated road trip hoping to reclaim her sister's love, only to discover a more powerful bond than blood. Glass, having lost his only parent to one of the first mists, searches for a stability he has never had and may never achieve. All the while, buildings rise outside town to cope with the mounting number of sleepers. Some see them as hospitals, others as repositories, and yet soon the air around them fills with ash.
Pub Date: 2024
Call Number SF PRU
Format Books

Title: Notes on complexity : a scientific theory of connection, consciousness, and being

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Author: Theise, Neil, author.
ISBN: 9781954118256
Summary: "An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave--from cells to human beings, ecosystems, the known universe, and beyond--that profoundly reframes our understanding and illuminates our interconnectedness. Nothing in the universe is more complex than life. Throughout the skies, in oceans, and across lands, life is endlessly on the move. In its myriad forms--from cells to human beings, social structures, and ecosystems--life is open-ended, evolving, unpredictable, yet adaptive and self-sustaining. Complexity theory addresses the mysteries that animate science, philosophy, and metaphysics: how this teeming array of existence, from the infinitesimal to the infinite, is in fact a seamless living whole and what our place, as conscious beings, is within it. Physician, scientist, and philosopher Neil Theise makes accessible this "theory of being," one of the pillars of modern science, and its holistic view of human existence. He notes the surprising underlying connections within a universe that is itself one vast complex system--between ant colonies and the growth of forests, cancer and economic bubbles, murmurations of starlings and crowds walking down the street. The implications of complexity theory are profound, providing insight into everything from the permeable boundaries of our bodies to the nature of consciousness. Notes on Complexity is an invitation to trade our limited, individualistic view for the expansive perspective of a universe that is dynamic, cohesive, and alive--a whole greater than the sum of its parts. Theise takes us to the exhilarating frontiers of human knowledge and in the process restores wonder and meaning to our experience of the everyday"--Publisher's website.
Pub Date: 2023
Call Number 501 THE 2023
Format Books

Title: I am thinking my life

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Author: Atwater, Allysun, author. Lewis, Stevie, illustrator.
ISBN: 9781611808971
Summary: "A children's book that inspires dreams, kindles hopes, and empowers you to believe in yourself. permeate your children's minds and their actions with positivity"--
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number E ATW
Format Books

Title: Mr. Colostomy

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Author: Thurber, Matthew, author, illustrator.
ISBN: 9781770465473
Summary: "Who is Mr. Colostomy? Why, he's a manifestation of a searching consciousness, a marginally employable horse detective who sleeps outside, standing up. He opens up cans of worms faster than they can restock the Goya on your bodega shelves. Thurber's daily strip honors the mistake as the desired or hidden expression of the unconscious. All that matters is that the comic is funny, or real, or neither!"--
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number 741.5 THU 2022
Format Books

Title: Today is a me day

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Author: Starkey, E.V., author. Haapalainen, Kristiina, illustrator. Vähä-Aho, Sami, illustrator.
ISBN: 9781648230028
Summary: In a world filled with commitments, a young girl decides to take a day just to herself, filling it with all the activities that maker her happy and center her soul, from having a picnic with her teddy bear to working on her warrior pose. Maybe tomorrow she'll take over the world, but Today is a me day.
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number E STA
Format Books

Title: Be mindful : developing self-awareness

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Author: Hubbard, Ben, 1973- author.
ISBN: 9781496695222
Summary: "Whether it's school, extracurricular activities, jobs, or home life, stress and anxiety find ways to overwhelm our minds. It can be easy to get lost in problems. Being mindful and living in the present moment can help. Learn techniques to clear your mind, relax, and shut out distraction. Take the next step to being mindful"--
Pub Date: 2021
Call Number J 158.1 HUB 2021
Format Books

Title: Tomorrow is a brand-new day

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Author: Bell, Davina, author. Colpoys, Allison, illustrator.
ISBN: 9781950354306
Summary: "Good or bad, the things you do are all a part of being you - of learning how to take your boat on stormy seas and stay afloat. From the creators of All the Ways To Be Smart comes a message of hope- hard days come and go, but love is with us always. A healing and uplifting tribute to learning and growing - to making mistakes and making amends."--Provided by publisher
Pub Date: 2021
Call Number E BEL
Format Books

Title: Numerology

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Series The psychic arts
Series Title The psychic arts Psychic arts.
Author: Atwood, Megan, author.
ISBN: 9780756561031
Summary: Basic introduction to numerology including history, how to use numbers in fortune telling, and the meanings of numbers.
Pub Date: 2019
Call Number J 133.3 ATW 2019
Format Books

Title: The blind spot effect : how to stop missing what's right in front of you

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Author: Boys, Kelly, author.
ISBN: 9781622039975
Summary: From our earliest years, we all acquire blind spots in the way we perceive, feel, and think. Driven by our biology, life experiences, cultural messages, and physical environment, they profoundly affect us throughout our lives. This informative and practical guide invites us to understand: how we get them, how to bring them to light, and how to work with that newfound awareness to improve our lives.
Pub Date: 2018
Call Number 158 BOY 2018
Format Books

Title: Other minds : the octopus, the sea, and the deep origins of consciousness

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Author: Godfrey-Smith, Peter, author.
ISBN: 9780374227760
Summary: "Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In this book, he brings his parallel careers together to tell a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself. Mammals and birds are widely seen as the smartest creatures on earth. But one other branch of the tree of life has also sprouted surprising intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. New research shows that these marvelous creatures display remarkable gifts. What does it mean that intelligence on earth has evolved not once but twice? And that the mind of the octopus is nonetheless so different from our own? Combining science and philosophy with firsthand accounts of his cephalopod encounters, Godfrey-Smith shows how primitive organisms bobbing in the ocean began sending signals to each other and how these early forms of communication gave rise to the advanced nervous systems that permit cephalopods to change colors and human beings to speak. By tracing the problem of consciousness back to its roots and comparing the human brain to its most alien and perhaps most remarkable animal relative, Godfrey-Smith's Other Minds sheds new light on one of our most abiding mysteries." -- Goodreads.com summary.
Pub Date: 2016
Call Number 612.8 GOD 2016
Format Books

Title: The secret life of sleep

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Author: Duff, Kat, 1952-
ISBN: 9781582704685
Summary: Citing a high percentage of Americans who routinely experience sleep problems or shortages, the award-winning author of The Alchemy of Illness draws on a wide range of disciplines to reveal the healing benefits of sleep and argue for its prioritizing. --Publishers description.
Pub Date: 2014
Call Number 612.821 DUF 2014
Format Books

Title: The 15 invaluable laws of growth : live them and reach your potential

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Author: Maxwell, John C., 1947-
ISBN: 9781599953663
Summary: Are there tried and true principles that are always certain to help a person grow? John Maxwell says the answer is yes. He has been passionate about personal development for over fifty years, and for the first time, he teaches everything he has gleaned about what it takes to reach our potential. This third and final book in John Maxwell's Laws series (following The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork) will help you become a lifelong learner whose potential keeps increasing and never gets "used up."--Publisher description.
Pub Date: 2012
Call Number 158 MAX 2012
Format Books

Title: How to create a mind : the secret of human thought revealed

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Kurzweil, Ray.
ISBN: 9780670025299
Pub Date: 2012
Call Number 612.82 KUR 2012
Format Books

Title: Flashforward the complete series.

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Author: Fiennes, Joseph, 1970- Cho, John, 1972- Vance, Courtney B. Walger, Sonya. Monaghan, Dominic, 1976-
Summary: Out of nowhere, a mysterious flash causes nearly everyone in the world to lose consciousness and gain a glimpse of his or her life six months into the future. As one elite FBI unit attempts to solve the mystery, the rest of the world's population soon discovers that, when it comes to destiny, nothing is set in stone. Includes 22 episodes, featurettes, commentary, interviews, blooper reel, and deleted scenes.
Pub Date: 2010
Call Number DVD FLA
Format Video disc

Title: Self comes to mind : constructing the conscious brain

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Author: Damasio, Antonio R.
ISBN: 9780307378750
Pub Date: 2010
Call Number 612.8 DAM 2010
Format Books

Title: Monks in the laboratory

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Series Academic Video Online (leased)
Series Title Academic Video Online (leased)
Author: Morel, Delphine. ProQuest (Firm) Alexander Street Press
Summary: Why are Western researchers turning to Eastern spiritual practitioners for illumination on the workings of the mind? Buddhists have studied the nature of the mind for 2500 years. Now scientists at Princeton, University of California, and University of Wisconsin are investigating what happens to the brain during the different stages of meditation. They want to learn how meditation affects attention and consciousness, how it controls the emotions, and how compassion develops. The Tibetan Buddhists involved in this project were pleased to participate in these studies.In the early 1990's the Mind and Life project was started at the University of California, Davis. With the support of the Dalai Lama, scientists were doing field research in India on yogis to discover ways of reducing stress. Psychologist Paul Eckman has made a study of facial movements, with regard to how they reflect emotion. He points out how unaware most people are of the emotional impulses that lead to action. Self awareness is one of the cornerstones of Buddhism; scientists feel that developing this would help people in their everyday lives.At the University of Wisconsin scientists explore how to cultivate compassion.They have located the emotion in the networking between the pre-frontal and the parietal cortex. The hope is that the cooperation of the spiritual and scientific community can add to the understanding of human nature and the cultivation of positive life skills.
Pub Date: 2007
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Call Number DOCUMENTARY .
Format Electronic Resources

Title: Muwāṭin wa-mukhbir wa-harāmī = A citizen, a detective & a thief

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Author: Sayed, Daoud Abdel. Naga, Khaled Abol. Abdallah, Salah. Rehim, Shabaan Abdel. Diogenes Film Production (Firm)
Summary: A handsome and successful writer triggers an elaborate chain of events when he visits police headquarters to report his car stolen.
Pub Date: 2006
Call Number DVD CIT
Format Video disc

Title: Healing the soul in the age of the brain : becoming conscious in an unconscious world

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Frattaroli, Elio.
ISBN: 9780670861897
Pub Date: 2001
Call Number RC 506 .F67 2001
Format Books

Title: Q.E.D. Glimpses of death

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Series Academic Video Online (leased)
Series Title Academic Video Online (leased)
Author: Edwards, Tony. Clare, Anthony. British Broadcasting Corporation. ProQuest (Firm) Alexander Street Press
Summary: Dr Peter Fenwick, an expert in brain function, has made a special study of `near death experiences'. He considers whether they are hallucinations, true glimpses of the after-life, or evidence of a new dimension of human consciousness.
Pub Date: 1988
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Call Number DOCUMENTARY FILMS.
Format Electronic Resources

Title: Where is Joey? : lost among the Hare Krishnas

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Yanoff, Morris.
ISBN: 9780804004145
Pub Date: 1981
Call Number BL 1220 .Y36 1981
Format Books

Title: Harold

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Author: Wright, Steven, 1955- author.
ISBN: 9781668022696
Summary: "From the outside, Harold is an average seven-year-old third grader growing up in the 1960s. Bored by school. Crushing on a girl. Likes movies and baseball--especially the hometown Boston Red Sox. Enjoys spending time with his grandfather. But inside Harold's mind, things are a lot more complex and unusual. His thoughts come to him as birds flying through a small rectangle in the middle of his brain. Harold documents the meandering, surreal, often hilarious, and always thought-provoking stream-of-consciousness ruminations of the title character during a single day in class"--
Pub Date: 2023
Call Number F WRI
Format Books

Title: Being a human : adventures in forty thousand years of consciousness

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Foster, Charles, 1962- author.
ISBN: 9781250783714
Summary: "A radically immersive exploration of three pivotal moments in the evolution of human consciousness, asking what kinds of creatures humans were, are, and might yet be"--
Pub Date: 2021
Call Number 155.7 FOS 2021
Format Books

Title: The consciousness instinct : unraveling the mystery of how the brain makes the mind

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Author: Gazzaniga, Michael S., author.
ISBN: 9780374715502
Summary: How do neurons turn into minds? How does physical "stuff"--atoms, molecules, chemicals, and cells--create the vivid and various worlds inside our heads? The problem of consciousness has gnawed at us for millennia. In the last century there have been massive breakthroughs that have rewritten the science of the brain, and yet the puzzles faced by the ancient Greeks are still present. In The Consciousness Instinct, the neuroscience pioneer Michael S. Gazzaniga puts the latest research in conversation with the history of human thinking about the mind, giving a big-picture view of what science has revealed about consciousness.
Pub Date: 2018
Call Number 612.82 GAZ 2018
Format Books

Title: The mind and its place in nature

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Series International library of psychology, philosophy and scientific method
Series Title International library of psychology, philosophy and scientific method
Author: Broad, C. D. (Charlie Dunbar), 1887-1971
Pub Date: 1980 1925
Call Number BF 121 .B8
Format Books

Title: The four realms of existence : a new theory of being human

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Author: LeDoux, Joseph E., author.
ISBN: 9780674261259
Summary: "Joseph LeDoux offers a new framework for understanding how biological processes give rise to the sense of being an independent personality in the world. Theorizing the intricate interdependence of the bodily, neural, cognitive, and conscious realms, Ledoux explores the evolution of the human as an "ensemble of being" unique among Earth's animals"--
Pub Date: 2023
Call Number 612.823 LED 2023
Format Books

Title: Love every day : 365 relational self-awareness practices to help your relationship heal, grow, and thrive

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Solomon, Alexandra H., author.
ISBN: 9781683736530
Summary: "Love has the power to wound us...and the power to heal us. And modern love is complicated. Which is why the ability to cultivate healthy relationships is the key to joy, peace, and a meaningful life. In Love Every Day, relationship expert and best-selling author Dr. Alexandra Solomon offers 365 daily practices to cultivate a curious and compassionate approach to your relationships with others, as well as your relationship with yourself. Inspired by her popular Instagram feed (@dr.alexandra.solomon) and grounded in her life-changing approach to relationships--Relational Self-Awareness--each practice in Love Every Day will help you understand the impact of your past (and your partner's past), get your needs met, enhance intimacy, improve communication, and address relationship problems. Whether you're single, in a relationship, or between relationships, this book invites you to develop awareness, curiosity, and empowerment so that you can be seen and loved as your most authentic self--and heal from times when you weren't."--Amazon website.
Pub Date: 2023
Call Number 152.41 SOL 2023
Format Books

Title: The book of minds : how to understand ourselves and other beings, from animals to AI to aliens

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Author: Ball, Philip, 1962- author.
ISBN: 9780226795874
Summary: "In this book, popular science writer Philip Ball surveys a range of sciences to map our answers to a big, philosophically rich question, one with practical and ethical consequences for today. How do we even begin to think about minds that are not human? Sciences from astronomy to biology, computer science to neuroscience, are mapping the mind in their own disciplinary territories, and Ball pulls the pieces together so that we can appreciate the full picture-the "mindscape" or "space of possible minds." This map makes plain what sorts of minds we might expect to find in the universe. By plotting properties of mind without prioritizing the human, he sheds welcome, new light on a host of fascinating questions: What moral rights should we afford animals? Can we communicate with them? Should we worry that AI is going to take over and run society according to its own agenda? If there are intelligent aliens out there, how would we know? Could we communicate with them? Should we? Understanding the mindscape also reveals ways of making advances in understanding some of the most challenging questions in contemporary science: What is thought? What is consciousness? And what (if anything) is free will? Before Ball turns to other minds, however, he addresses the human mind: what is it? Is it different from the brain? From one person to the next? In this fascinating book of minds, we come to better know our own"--
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number 153 BAL 2022
Format Books

Title: The end of the moment we had

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Author: Okada, Toshiki, 1973- author. Malissa, Sam, translator.
ISBN: 9781782274162
Summary: "On the eve of the Iraq War, a man and a woman meet in a nightclub in Tokyo. They go to a love hotel, and spend the next five days in a torrid affair. Written in a stream of consciousness, with the reader's perceptions shifting and melting into one another, what is remarkable in this story is not what happens, but the ability of the writer to enter the minds and memories of the protagonists. In the second story, a woman living in a damp flat obsesses on the filthy state of her dwelling. She remains in bed for the duration of the narrative, but the drama and tension of her inner life - spiralling further and further into her memories and anxieties - keep the reader engrossed to the very end. The End of the Moment We Had demonstrates the fluidity and richness of this extraordinarily gifted writer's language and ideas."--Publisher's description.
Pub Date: 2018
Call Number F OKA
Format Books

Title: The romance of reality : how the universe organizes itself to create life, consciousness, and cosmic complexity

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Azarian, Bobby, 1980- author.
ISBN: 9781637740446
Summary: "In The Romance of Reality, cognitive neuroscientist Bobby Azarian explains the science behind this new view of reality and explores what it means for all of us. In engaging, accessible prose, Azarian outlines the fundamental misunderstanding of thermodynamics at the heart of the old assumptions about the universe's evolution, and shows us the evidence that suggests that the universe is a "self-organizing" system, one that is moving toward increasing complexity and awareness"--
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number 523.1 AZA 2022
Format Books

Title: Sometimes I feel embarrassed

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Series Name your emotions
Series Title Name your emotions Pebble emerge Name your emotions.
Author: Jaycox, Jaclyn, 1983- author.
ISBN: 9781977124661
Summary: "What does it mean to be embarrassed? Learn what embarrassment feels like and what may trigger this emotion. Children will explore different ways to deal with their feelings and turn bad feelings into good ones. A mindfulness activity will give kids the chance to practice managing their emotion"--
Pub Date: 2021
Call Number E 152.4 JAY 2021
Format Books

Title: Zen teen : 40 ways to stay calm when life gets stressful

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Richardson, Tanya Carroll, 1974- author.
ISBN: 9781580057820
Summary: In the last decade, studies have reported a drastic rise in teens who experience anxiety, panic, and an inability to cope with the pressures of daily life. As mental health challenges become less stigmatized, young people are more likely than ever before to know how to identify their feelings and ask for help. Even celebrity teen icons like Selena Gomez are "coming out" as anxiety sufferers. Zen Teen addresses this epidemic with powerful coping mechanisms and creative tools-including two fun quizzes, tons of engaging exercises and a cool playlist-designed for the teenage mind.
Pub Date: 2018
Call Number Y 155.5 RIC 2018
Format Books

Title: Belong : find your people, create community, & live a more connected life

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Agrawal, Radha, author.
ISBN: 9781523502059
Pub Date: 2018
Call Number HM 1033 .A525 2018
Format Books

Title: The personality brokers : the strange history of Myers-Briggs and the birth of personality testing

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Emre, Merve, author.
ISBN: 9780385541909
Summary: "An unprecedented history of the personality test that has achieved cult-like devotion, devised a century ago by a pair of homemakers and found today in boardrooms, classrooms, and beyond. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It has been harnessed by Fortune 100 companies, universities, hospitals, churches, and the military. Its language--of extraversion vs. introversion, thinking vs. feeling--has inspired online dating platforms and Buzzfeed quizzes alike. And yet despite the test's widespread adoption, experts in the field of psychometric testing, a $500 million industry, struggle to account for its success--no less to validate its results. How did the Myers-Briggs test insinuate itself into our jobs, our relationships, our Internet, our lives? First conceived in the 1920s by the mother-daughter team of Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers, a pair of aspiring novelists and devoted homemakers, the Myers-Briggs was designed to bring the gospel of Carl Jung to the masses. But it would take on a life of its own, reaching from the smoke-filled boardrooms of mid-century New York to Berkeley, California, where it was honed against some of the twentieth century's greatest creative minds. It would travel across the world to London, Zurich, Cape Town, Melbourne, and Tokyo; to elementary schools, nunneries, wellness retreats, and the closed-door corporate training sessions of today. Drawing from original reporting and never-before-published documents, The Personality Brokers examines nothing less than the definition of the self--our attempts to grasp, categorize, and quantify our personalities. Surprising and absorbing, the book, like the test at its heart, considers the timeless question: What makes you you"--
Pub Date: 2018
Call Number 155.28 EMR 2018
Format Books

Title: Connecting with the inner self in psychotherapy

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Series Academic Video Online (leased)
Series Title Academic Video Online (leased)
Author: Gilligan, Stephen G., 1954- speaker. ProQuest (Firm) Alexander Street Press
Summary: Gilligan (2008) on connecting with the inner self in psychotherapy.
Pub Date: 2008
Streaming media accessible only to current MCCC students, faculty, and staff. Click here to view.
Call Number NONFICTION FILMS.
Format Electronic Resources

Title: The passion of the Western mind : understanding the ideas that have shaped our world view

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Author: Tarnas, Richard.
ISBN: 9780517577905
Pub Date: 1991
Call Number 190 TAR
Format Books

Title: The reflection in me

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Author: Colagiovanni, Marc, author. Reynolds, Peter H. (Peter Hamilton), 1961- illustrator.
ISBN: 9781338810486
Summary: Talking to their reflection in the mirror, a young child explores and affirms all the things that make them unique and, in fact, perfectly perfect.
Pub Date: 2024
Call Number E COL
Format Books

Title: The candy house [large print]

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Author: Egan, Jennifer, author.
ISBN: 9781432895587
Summary: "Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own Your Unconscious" -- that allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others -- has seduced multitudes. But not everyone. In spellbinding interlocking narratives, Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades." --
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number LP EGA
Format Books

Title: Influenced : the impact of social media on our perception

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Boxer Wachler, Brian S., author.
ISBN: 9781538164198
Summary: "This book unpacks what happens to our brains and our behaviors each time we click 'Like' or even just scroll for new content on social media. Through interviews with top influencers, the latest studies, and pop-culture anecdotes, and Dr. Boxer Wachler's own expertise as both a scientist and an influencer himself, he reveals how influence works"--
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number 153.7 BOX 2022
Format Books

Title: The human instinct : how we evolved to have reason, consciousness, and free will

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Author: Miller, Kenneth R. (Kenneth Raymond), 1948- author.
ISBN: 9781476790268
Summary: Explores how humans evolved to develop reason, consciousness, and free will, achieving a level of self-awareness and understanding unrivaled by the creatures they evolved alongside.
Pub Date: 2018
Call Number 155.7 MIL 2018
Format Books

Title: White sands : experiences from the outside world

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Author: Dyer, Geoff, author.
ISBN: 9781101870853
Summary: "From "one of our most original writers" (Kathryn Schulz) comes an expansive and exacting book--firmly grounded, but elegant, witty, and always inquisitive--about travel, unexpected awareness, and the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves. Geoff Dyer's perennial search for tranquility, for "something better," continues in this series of fascinating and seemingly unrelated pilgrimages--with a tour guide who is in fact not a tour guide at the Forbidden City in Beijing, with friends at the Lightning Field in New Mexico, with a hitchhiker picked up near a prison at White Sands, and with "a dream of how things should have been" at the Watts Towers in Los Angeles. Weaving stories about places to which he has recently traveled with images and memories that have persisted since childhood, Dyer tries "to work out what a certain place--a certain way of marking the landscape--means; what it's trying to tell us; what we go to it for." He takes his title from Gaugin's masterwork, and asks the same questions: Where do we come from, what are we, where are we going? The answers are elusive, hiding in French Polynesia, where he travels to write about Gaugin and the lure of the exotic; at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where he goes to see the masterpiece in person only to be told it is traveling; and in Norway, where he and his wife journey to see, but end up not seeing, the Northern Lights. But at home in California, after a medical event that makes Dyer see everything in a different way, he may finally have found what he's been searching for"--
Pub Date: 2016
Call Number 824 DYE 2016
Format Books

Title: The art of healing : uncovering your inner wisdom and potential for self-healing

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Siegel, Bernie S. Hurn, Cynthia.
ISBN: 9781608681853
Summary: "In 1979, Siegel, a successful surgeon, took a class from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross that focused on crayon drawing for healing, especially with patients facing life-threatening disease. Siegel incorporated these techniques - many of which were laughed at by others in the medical community. But his Exceptional Cancer Patients' "carefrontation" protocol facilitated healings, often deemed miraculous, and attracted attention. Dr. Bernie found and shared the fact that while patients might need antibiotics, surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, their bodies also want to heal. This innate propensity could be aided by unconventional practices, including drawing. Why? Drawing produces symbols often representing the subconscious. Siegel shows how to interpret drawings to help with everything from why we are sick to treatment decisions and communications with loved ones. All those facing ill-health, and those caring for them, personally and professionally, will welcome the hands-on, patient-proven practices offered here"-- "Complementary approaches to healing pioneered in the author's career as a surgeon working with cancer patients. Siegel shows ways to access the subconscious mind's guidance, involving dreams, intuition, and, as introduced to him by Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, drawing pictures, and suggests healing strategies, including visualization, laughter, and connection with animals"--
Pub Date: 2013
Call Number 615.8 SIE 2013
Format Books

Title: The 15 invaluable laws of growth live them and reach your potential

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Maxwell, John C., 1947-
ISBN: 9781478983668
Summary: Are there tried and true principles that are always certain to help a person grow? John Maxwell says the answer is yes. He teaches listeners everything he has gleaned about what it takes to reach their potential.
Pub Date: 2012
Call Number BCD 158 MAX
Format Audio disc

Title: Philosophy of mind brains, consciousness, and thinking machines.

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Series Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & intellectual history
Series Title Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & intellectual history Great courses (DVD)
Author: Grim, Patrick. Teaching Company.
ISBN: 9781598034240
Pub Date: 2008
Call Number DVD 128.2 PHI PT. 1
Format Video disc

Title: A great mystery

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Series Inside out ; episode 110
Series Title Inside out ; Counseling and therapy in video, volume 2 Academic Video Online (leased)
Author: Beaty, Sally. Farley, Cody. Aquarius Health Care Media (Firm) INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications (Firm) ProQuest (Firm)
Summary: Discusses consciousness, a frequently debated topic in psychology. Neuroscience researchers debate the mystery of consciousness and investigate awareness, circadian rhythms, sleep and dreams, and sleep disorders, including recent discoveries about narcolepsy.
Pub Date: 2006
Streaming media accessible only to current MCCC students, faculty, and staff. Click here to view.
Call Number STREAMING MEDIA.
Format Electronic Resources

Title: Mindful eating : a guide to rediscovering a healthy and joyful relationship with food

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Bays, Jan Chozen, author.
ISBN: 9781611804652
Summary: "How mindfulness can restore the healthy relationship with food we were meant to have--with striking effects on disorders such as overeating, anorexia, and bulimia--an extensively revised edition of this bestseller that includes important new data. Apply mindfulness to your relationship with food and you may be surprised to find that eating becomes a source of joy--instead an angst-ridden activity haunted by nutritionally based guilt, calorie-counting, and even more serious problems like eating disorders. For nearly a decade, Jan Bays's guide to eating mindfully has been transforming people's relationship with food--and based on her continued work with those people as well as new data emerging on the topic, she has created this significantly revised and refined version of the original, which contains even more essential information on mindful eating, as well as inspiring new examples from her workshop participants. She shows how to: Tune into your body's own wisdom about what, when, and how much to eat; Eat less while feeling fully satisfied; Identify your habits and patterns with food; Develop a more compassionate attitude toward your struggles with eating; Discover what you're really hungry for. The 75-minute audio program of exercises from the original book has also been revised and will now be available as an audio download"--
Pub Date: 2017
Call Number 613 BAY 2017
Format Books

Title: Blood wedding

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Lemaître, Pierre, 1951- Wynne, Frank, translator.
ISBN: 9781681445311
Summary: Normally happy and well-adjusted, Sophie Duguet doesn't understand what's happening to her: she has begun losing things, from her recently delivered mail to the car she parked the night before. She is constantly forgetting things she's said and done, too... only to be reminded of them by her acquaintances. She's even detained by the police for shoplifting--a crime she has no memory whatsoever of having committed. But this is just the beginning. As she slowly sinks deeper into dementia, things go from troubling to alarming. Soon she finds herself connected to the deaths of several people around her: a neighbor boy she is babysitting is murdered while in her care; a stranger seeks shelter with her and winds up dead; and finally, her employer is killed in a way that suggests she was responsible. And she doesn't remember a thing about any of it. To escape the nightmare, a confused and horrified Sophie changes her name and relocates, hoping to outrun the demons that have begun to plague her. But this may not be enough to stop the evil that has poisoned her life and begun to claim the lives of everyone around her.
Pub Date: 2016
Call Number M LEM
Format Books

Title: As I lay dying : authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism

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Series A Norton critical edition
Series Title A Norton critical edition Norton critical edition.
Author: Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Gorra, Michael Edward.
ISBN: 9780393931389
Pub Date: 2010
Call Number PS 3511 .A86 A85 2010
Format Books

Title: The candy house

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Series Goon Squad ; 2
Series Title Goon Squad ; Goon Squad ; 2.
Author: Egan, Jennifer, author.
ISBN: 9781476716763
Summary: "The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own Your Unconscious"--That allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others-has seduced multitudes. But not everyone. Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades...The Candy House is also a testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for real connection, love, family, privacy, and redemption."--Dust jacket flap.
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number F EGA
Format Books

Title: The thoughtful Octopus : a story about building self-awareness

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Bureau, Vicky, author. Bohórquez, Gisela, illustrator.
ISBN: 9781638970644
Summary: "Have you ever wondered what makes you YOU? Take a trip to Serenity Cove with Thoughtful Octopus and explore your sense of belonging, identify what makes you unique, and learn how you can shape your world through your actions, attitude, and self-awareness."--page [4] of cover.
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number E BUR
Format Books

Title: Cosmos and psyche : intimations of a new world view

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Tarnas, Richard.
ISBN: 9780670032921
Pub Date: 2006
Call Number 113.509 TAR 2006
Format Books

Title: Children's dreaming and the development of consciousness

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Foulkes, David, 1935-
ISBN: 9780674116207
Pub Date: 1999
Call Number BF 1099 .C55 F67 1999
Format Books

Title: Betrayal of the spirit : my life behind the headlines of the Hare Krishna movement

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Muster, Nori J. (Nori Jean), 1956-
ISBN: 9780252022630
Pub Date: 1997
Call Number 294.5 MUS
Format Books

Title: The rediscovery of the mind

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Searle, John R.
ISBN: 9780262193214
Pub Date: 1992
Call Number BD 418.3 .S43 1992
Format Books

Title: A psalm for the wild-built

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Series A Monk and Robot book ; [#1]
Series Title A Monk and Robot book ; Monk and Robot book ; #1.
Author: Chambers, Becky, author.
ISBN: 9781250236210
Summary: "In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk & Robot series gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered. But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how. They're going to need to ask it a lot. Becky Chambers's new series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?"--
Pub Date: 2021
Call Number PS 3603 .H347 P73 2021
Format Books

Title: Girls against God

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Author: Hval, Jenny, 1980- author. Idriss, Marjam, translator.
ISBN: 9781788738958
Summary: "Ellinor, a jaded PR consultant, is landed with an unusual brief when a colleague commits suicide. She finds herself working with the Norwegian Post and Communications Union, focused on a strange, inspiring story of one undelivered letter. What follows is a story of mundane lives raised to the pitch of heroism"--
Pub Date: 2020
Call Number F HVA
Format Books

Title: Co-creating at its best : a conversation between master teachers

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Dyer, Wayne W. Hicks, Esther, 1948-
ISBN: 9781401948443
Summary: " What happens when you bring together one of the most inspirational spiritual teachers of all time and the Master Sages of the Universe? A magical, insightful, invigorating encounter you will never forget! In this awe-inspiring book based on a live event in Anaheim, California, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer sits down with Esther Hicks and the wise Collective Consciousness known as Abraham. Wayne asks all the questions he has accumulated from his more than 40 years of teaching others about self-reliance and self-discovery, and Abraham delivers the answers we all need to hear. Topics include: Parenting, parents, and the continuum of life Can we reach the state of "love that has no opposite"? Dharma, destiny, and being on your path Dealing with bad news Are there ascended masters and guides? Monsanto and GMOs and many more! While Wayne and Esther have been friends for years, this is the first time that he engages with Abraham in an extended dialogue about life's many lessons and perplexing questions. Read this book and experience this extraordinary meeting of the minds for yourself!"--
Pub Date: 2014
Call Number 133.93 DYE 2014
Format Books

Title: Nursing Assessment. The Nervous System. Objective Data. Tests for Consciousness and Cognition

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Series Academic Video Online (leased)
Series Title Academic Video Online (leased)
Author: Medcom, inc., production company. ProQuest (Firm) Alexander Street Press
Summary: This instructional video, from the Nursing Assessment series produced by Medcom, Inc., is about tests for consciousness and cognition.
Pub Date: 2012
Streaming media accessible only to current MCCC students, faculty, and staff. Click here to view.
Call Number FILM EXCERPTS.
Format Electronic Resources

Title: How to train a wild elephant and other adventures in mindfulness

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Bays, Jan Chozen.
ISBN: 9781590308172
Summary: A growing body of research is showing that mindfulness can reduce stress, improve physical health, and improve our overall quality of life. Jan Chozen Bays, physician and Zen teacher, has developed a series of simple practices to help us cultivate mindfulness as we go about our ordinary, daily lives.
Pub Date: 2011
Call Number 294.3 BAY 2011
Format Books

Title: Light in August : the corrected text

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Series Vintage international
Series Title Vintage international
Author: Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
ISBN: 9780679732266
Summary: Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man. Light in August is the story of Lena Grove's search for the father of her unborn child, and features one of Faulkner's most memorable characters: Joe Christmas, a desperate drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.
Pub Date: 1990 1932
Call Number F FAU
Format Books

Title: Liam the lion

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Series Liam Kingbird's kingdom
Series Title Liam Kingbird's kingdom Liam Kingbird's kingdom.
Author: Stark, Andrew (Ojibwa Indian), author. Johnson, Emily Faith, illustrator.
ISBN: 9781666395051
Summary: Liam is an Ojibwa boy starting at a new school, and he is self conscious because of his cleft lip--especially after another boy tells him that he looks like a lion.
Pub Date: 2023
Call Number J STA
Format Books

Title: Tell me I'm an artist

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Martin, Chelsea, 1986- author.
ISBN: 9781593767211
Summary: "At her San Francisco art school, Joey enrolls in a film elective that requires her to complete what seems like a straightforward assignment: create a self-portrait. Joey inexplicably decides to remake Wes Anderson's Rushmore despite having never seen the movie. As Tell Me I'm An Artist unfolds over the course of the semester, the assignment hangs over her as she struggles to exist in a well-heeled world that is hugely different from any she has known. Miles away, Joey's sister goes missing, leaving her toddler with their mother, who in turn suggests that Joey might be the selfish one for pursuing her dreams. Meanwhile, her only friend at school, the enigmatic Suz, makes meaningful, appealing art, a product of Suz's own singular drive and talent as well as decades of careful nurturing by wealthy, sophisticated parents"--
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number F MAR
Format Books

Title: I'm thinking of ending things [book on cd]

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Reid, Iain, 1981- author. Thaxton, Candace, narrator.
ISBN: 9781508215202
Summary: A man and his girlfriend are on their way to a secluded farm. When the two take an unexpected detour, she is left stranded in a deserted high school, wondering if there is any escape at all. What follows is a twisted unraveling that will haunt you long after the last page is turned.
Pub Date: 2016
Call Number BCD REI
Format Audio disc

Title: The soul of an octopus : a surprising exploration into the wonder of consciousness

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Montgomery, Sy, author.
ISBN: 9781451697711
Summary: "An investigation of the emotional and physical world of the octopus"-- "In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus--a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature--and the remarkable connections it makes with humans. Sy Montgomery's popular 2011 Orion magazine piece, "Deep Intellect," about her friendship with a sensitive, sweet-natured octopus named Athena and the grief she felt at her death, went viral, indicating the widespread fascination with these mysterious, almost alien-like creatures. Since then Sy has practiced true immersion journalism, from New England aquarium tanks to the reefs of French Polynesia and the Gulf of Mexico, pursuing these wild, solitary shape-shifters. Octopuses have varied personalities and intelligence they show in myriad ways: endless trickery to escape enclosures and get food; jetting water playfully to bounce objects like balls; and evading caretakers by using a scoop net as a trampoline and running around the floor on eight arms. But with a beak like a parrot, venom like a snake, and a tongue covered with teeth, how can such a being know anything? And what sort of thoughts could it think? The intelligence of dogs, birds, and chimpanzees was only recently accepted by scientists, who now are establishing the intelligence of the octopus, watching them solve problems and deciphering the meaning of their color-changing camouflage techniques. Montgomery chronicles this growing appreciation of the octopus, but also tells a love story. By turns funny, entertaining, touching, and profound, The Soul of an Octopus reveals what octopuses can teach us about consciousness and the meeting of two very different minds." -- Publisher's description.
Pub Date: 2015
Call Number 594.56 MON 2015
Format Books

Title: Ideas roadshow. The limits of consciousness : a conversation with Martin Monti

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Series Academic Video Online (leased)
Series Title Academic Video Online (leased)
Author: Burton, Howard, 1965- interviewer, director. Monti, Martin Max, 1978- interviewee. Open Agenda Publishing, production company. ProQuest (Firm) Alexander Street Press
Summary: Martin describes how his innovative work with patients in the vegetative state has led to some surprising results that might well prove to be integral to our development of a deeper understanding of consciousness.
Pub Date: 2015
Streaming media accessible only to current MCCC students, faculty, and staff. Click here to view.
Call Number FILMED INTERVIEWS.
Format Electronic Resources

Title: Spilt milk

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Author: Buarque, Chico, 1944- Entrekin, Alison.
ISBN: 9780802120083
Summary: Centenarian Eulalio Assumpcao has reached the end of his long life. From his modest bed in a Rio public hospital, as his mind falters, he grandly recounts his past to passing nurses, his visiting daughter and the whitewashed ceiling. His eccentric stories are seemingly nothing more than the ramblings of a dying man, yet as he overlaps each confused memory, they begin to coalesce into a brilliant and bitter eulogy for himself and for Brazil.
Pub Date: 2012
Call Number F BUA
Format Books

Title: Voices in the park

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Author: Browne, Anthony, 1946-
ISBN: 9780789425225
Summary: Lives briefly intertwine when two youngsters meet in the park.
Pub Date: 1998
Call Number E BRO
Format Books

Title: Tides

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Author: Freeman, Sara, 1985- author.
ISBN: 9780802159175
Summary: "An intoxicating, compact debut novel, Tides is the story of a lost woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town by the winner of the Henfield Prize, Sara Freeman. After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy beach town with a dead cellphone and barely any money. Mired in her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her days of self-imposed exile scrounging for food and swimming in the night ocean. In her state of emotional extremis, the sea at the town's edge is rendered bleak, luminous, implacable. As her money runs out and tourist season comes to a close, Mara finds a job at the local wine store. There, she meets Simon, the shop's soft-spoken, lonely owner. Confronted with the possibility of connection with Simon and the slow thawing of her desires and appetites, the facts of her flight begin to emerge. With echoes of Rachel Cusk, Jenny Offill, and Marguerite Duras, Tides is a spare, visceral debut novel about the nature of selfhood, intimacy, and the private narratives that shape our lives. A shattering and unforgettable debut"--
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number F FRE
Format Books

Title: Nervous Nigel

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Author: Christou, Bethany author.
ISBN: 9781536223866
Summary: Nigel loves swimming. The water is his favorite place to be, and he comes from a long line of swimming champions. His mother is the fastest swimmer in crocodile history, and his sister was the first crocodile to get a perfect diving score. But Nigel doesn't like competitions. His heart hammers when the whistle blows, and his tail trembles when he hears the shouting from the sidelines. But he doesn't want to disappoint his family, so he never tells them how he really feels. And when they enter him in his first real competition, Nigel doesn't know what to do. Will he ever find the courage to tell his family the truth?
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number E CHR
Format Books

Title: Unequal childhoods : class, race, and family life

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Author: Lareau, Annette.
ISBN: 9780520271425
Summary: This book is a portrayal of class inequalities in the United States. It contains analysis of the processes through which inequality is reproduced, and it engages with methodological and analytic dilemmas usually glossed over in academic texts.
Pub Date: 2011
Call Number HQ 767.9 .L37 2011
Format Books

Title: The tusks of extinction

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Author: Nayler, Ray, author.
ISBN: 9781250855527
Summary: "When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA. Moscow has resurrected the mammoth. But someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out, again. The late Dr. Damira Khismatullina, the world's foremost expert in elephant behavior, is called in to help. While she was murdered a year ago, her digitized consciousness is uploaded into the brain of a mammoth. Can she help the magnificent creatures fend off poachers long enough for their species to take hold? And will she ever discover the real reason they were brought back?" -- Publisher website.
Pub Date: 2024 2023
Call Number SF NAY
Format Books

Title: The candy house [book on cd]

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Series Goon Squad ; 2
Series Title Goon Squad ; Goon Squad ; 2.
Author: Egan, Jennifer, author.
ISBN: 9781797128405
Summary: It's 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He's forty, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or 'externalizing' memory. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, Own Your Unconscious, that allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others, has seduced multitudes. But not everyone.
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number BCD EGA
Format Audio disc

Title: Dayswork

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Author: Bachelder, Chris, author. Habel, Jennifer, author.
ISBN: 9781324065401
Summary: "Dayswork tells the story of a woman who spends the endless days of the pandemic sorting fact from fiction in the life and work of Herman Melville. Obsessed by what his devotion to his art reveals about cost, worth, and debt, she delves into Melville's impulsive purchase of a Massachusetts farmhouse, his fevered revision of Moby-Dick there, his intense friendship with neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne, and his troubled and troubling marriage to Elizabeth Shaw. As the narrator's fascination grows and her research deepens, she examines Melville's effect on the imagination and lives of generations of biographers and writers, including Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell. Ultimately, her quarantine project is a midlife reckoning with her own marriage and ambition."--
Pub Date: 2023
Call Number F BAC
Format Books

Title: A prayer for the crown-shy

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Series A Monk and Robot book ; [2]
Series Title A Monk and Robot book ; Monk and Robot book ; 2.
Author: Chambers, Becky, author. Harris, Lee, editor.
ISBN: 9781250236234
Summary: "A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a story of kindness and love from one of the foremost practitioners of hopeful SF. After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to determine what humanity really needs) turn their attention to the villages and cities of the little moon they call home. They hope to find the answers they seek, while making new friends, learning new concepts, and experiencing the entropic nature of the universe. Becky Chambers's new series continues to ask: in a world where people have what they want, does having more even matter?"--
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number SF CHA
Format Books

Title: Awakening Artemis : deepening intimacy with the living earth and reclaiming our wild nature

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Series Penguin life
Series Title Penguin life Penguin lives series.
Author: Chakour, Vanessa, author.
ISBN: 9781984882097
Summary: "Combining Chakour's story of her own healing journey with practical plant-based knowledge, Awakening Artemis is rooted in the belief that healing happens through reclaiming an intuitive connection to ourselves, to the natural world, and to our own "inner wild." Having experienced a series of physical traumas growing up--including chronic asthma, a car accident that fractured her back and neck, and sexual trauma--Chakour pursued various approaches to therapeutic movement from martial arts to yogic practices, and explored traditions honoring the mind-body connection while forging a path to recovery. Twenty years now into her journey to reconcile her daily routines with her yearning for greater purpose and connection, Chakour shares the eclectic mix of elements that have brought her deeper self-awareness, a richer understanding of her place in the world, and the confidence and clear boundaries to truly connect with her loved ones. Organized into four sections that move through the seasons and realms of our consciousness, each chapter within in the four sections focuses on a single plant: on it's power to connect us to the season and to illuminate a new part of our psyche. Using storytelling from her own life, Chakour connects the plants power and characteristics to issues we all grapple to heal from and even to understand--from the alienating consequences of cultural appropriation and to the intersection between a forest's mycelial network and the neural pathways of our brains. For those seeking to recognize the power and omnipresence of the natural world--from the mugwort sprouting in the city sidewalk to the majesty of a thousand year old oak in rural Scotland--and harness that to push into new realms of self-discovery, Awakening Artemis is an intimate, unforgettable resource capturing one woman's journey to heal her traumas that opens up a world of potential growth and healing for us all"--
Pub Date: 2021
Call Number 158.1 CHA 2021
Format Books

Title: Angela's glacier

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Author: Scott, Jordan, 1978- author. Sudyka, Diana, illustrator.
ISBN: 9780823450824
Summary: "A girl grows up visiting Snæfellsjökull, the glacier near her home, but when preteen life throws her off-center she must reconnect with her icy old friend"--
Pub Date: 2024
Call Number E SCO
Format Books

Title: Do what they say or else

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Author: Ernaux, Annie, 1940- author. Beach, Christopher, 1959- translator. Noland, Carrie, 1958- translator.
ISBN: 9781496228000
Summary: "Set in the mid-1970s, Do What They Say or Else tells the story of a fifteen-year-old girl named Anne, who lives with her working-class parents in a small town in Normandy"--
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number F ERN
Format Books

Title: Things I learned from falling

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Author: Nelson, Claire (Journalist), author.
ISBN: 9780063070172
Summary: Surviving a twenty-five-foot fall while at Joshua Tree National Park, a journalist reflects on the four days during which she was exposed to the elements and wilderness of Southern California, sharing what she learned about herself and her will to survive while waiting to be rescued.
Pub Date: 2021 2020
Call Number B NEL 2021
Format Books

Title: Pioneers. Daniel C. Dennett : do lobsters have free will?

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Series Academic Video Online (leased)
Series Title Academic Video Online (leased)
Author: Jalochowski, Karol, director, editor of moving image work. Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement), interviewee. ProQuest (Firm) Alexander Street Press
Summary: Daniel C. Dennett (b. 1942) from Tufts University is one of the key philosophers today and a great reformer in the field of knowledge. For nearly half a century he has been searching for the answer to the following questions: What is consciousness? What is free will? Is faith a natural phenomenon? The film is a recording of a one-to-one meeting with the philosopher at his home in northern New England. About the Series: Pioneers is one and only film project devoted to the most unorthodox contemporary thinkers who have had the courage to challenge current paradigms. The emotions of discovering and stress-testing new theories; the passion which prompts one to go against the expectations of others, against the "publish or die" model; the joys and sorrows of exploring frontiers of the known and the unknown - this is what Pioneers is about.
Pub Date: 2015
Streaming media accessible only to current MCCC students, faculty, and staff. Click here to view.
Call Number EDUCATIONAL FILMS.
Format Electronic Resources

Title: Just like Millie

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Author: Castillo, Lauren, author, illustrator.
ISBN: 9781536224818
Summary: "When a young girl and her mother move to an apartment in a new city, the girl feels fine on her own. She would rather play by herself than meet new kids at the park or have a playdate with the other children in her building. And when her mom takes her to story time at the bookstore, she breaks down in tears. But things start to change when she meets Millie, a rescue dog who is not too big, not too small. On their daily walks, Millie isn't afraid to meet new people seems to like friends. When she sees another shy girl at the dog park, will the girl find the courage to be just like Millie and make new friends?"--Jacket flap.
Pub Date: 2024
Call Number E CAS
Format Books

Title: Touched

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Author: Mosley, Walter, author.
ISBN: 9780802161840
Summary: Martin, his wife, and his two children are the only Black family on their neighborhood block in the Hollywood hills of Los Angeles. Suddenly, Martin is both father and Antibody, husband and Cure, occasionally slipping into an alternate consciousness - equipped with unprecedented physical strength - to violently defend them. The family is stalked by Tor Waxman - the pale, white-haired embodiment of death who wears a dapper suit, carries a cane, and seeks to destroy all life with his fatal touch. Martin must convince his family of the danger and get them to engage with him in a battle beyond all imagining.
Pub Date: 2023
Call Number SF MOS
Format Books

Title: River woman, river demon : a novel

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Author: Givhan, Jennifer, author.
ISBN: 9781665057509
Summary: Eva Santos Moon is a burgeoning Chicana artist who practices the ancient, spiritual ways of brujer̕a and curanderisma, but she's at one of her lowest points--suffering from disorienting blackouts, creative stagnation, and a feeling of disconnect from her magickal roots. When her husband, a beloved university professor and the glue that holds their family together, is taken into custody for the shocking murder of their friend, Eva doesn't know whom to trust--least of all, herself. She soon falls under suspicion as a potential suspect, and her past rises to the surface, dredging up the truth about an eerily similar death from her childhood. Struggling with fragmented memories and self-doubt, an increasingly terrified Eva fears that she might have been involved in both murders. But why doesn't she remember? Only the dead women know for sure, and they're coming for her with a haunting vengeance. As she fights to keep her family out of danger, Eva realizes she must use her magick as a bruja to protect herself and her loved ones, while confronting her own dark history.
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number F GIV
Format Books

Title: The companions : a novel

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Author: Flynn, Katie M., author.
ISBN: 9781982122157
Summary: "In the wake of a highly contagious virus, California is under quarantine. Sequestered in high rise towers, the living can't go out, but the dead can come in--and they come in all forms, from sad rolling cans to manufactured bodies that can pass for human. Wealthy participants in the 'companionship' program choose to upload their consciousness before dying, so they can stay in the custody of their families. The less fortunate are rented out to strangers upon their death, but all companions become the intellectual property of Metis Corporation, creating a new class of people--a command-driven product-class without legal rights or true free will."--Provided by publisher.
Pub Date: 2020
Call Number SF FLY
Format Books

Title: Mrs. Dalloway

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Series Title Gale study guides to great literature. Literary masterpieces (Detroit, Mich.) ; v. 11
Author: Lane, Richard J., 1966-
ISBN: 9780787652425
Pub Date: 2001
Call Number 823.912 WOO 2001
Format Books

Title: Manatee summer

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Author: Griffith, Evan, author.
ISBN: 9780063094918
Summary: "Peter and his best friend, Tommy, have a goal for their last summer before middle school: finish their Discovery Journal, a catalog of the wildlife around their Florida town. When they spot a manatee in a canal, Peter knows they've found something special--and when the manatee is injured by a boat, something to protect! As Peter joins the fight to save Florida manatees, he also finds himself taking care of his ailing grandfather and facing an unwelcome surprise that jeopardizes his friendship with Tommy. Soon Peter is adrift, navigating shifting tides and realizing that he has as much to discover about himself as he does about the world around him"--Provided by publisher.
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number J GRI
Format Books

Title: Dark room etiquette

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Author: Roe, Robin, author.
ISBN: 9780063051737
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Sayers Wayte has everything: popularity, good looks, perfect grades--there's nothing Sayers' family money can't buy. Until he's kidnapped by a man who tells him the privileged life he's been living is based on a lie. Trapped in a windowless room, without knowing why he's been taken or how long the man plans to keep him shut away, Sayers faces a terrifying new reality. To survive, he must forget the world he once knew, and play the part his abductor has created for him. But as time passes, the line between fact and fiction starts to blur, and Sayers begins to wonder if he can escape... before he loses himself.
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number Y ROE
Format Books

Title: Life, part two : seven keys to awakening with purpose and joy as you age

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Author: Chernikoff, David (David Barry), author.
ISBN: 9781611808612
Summary: "For those of us who feel deeply committed to spiritual realization and to being instruments of benefit in the world, what Carl Jung called "the second half of life" represents a remarkable curriculum for awakening. The challenges inherent in the aging process can become a direct pathway to the actualization of our best human qualities-qualities like wisdom, loving, kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity. Using the author's life experiences to illustrate key themes, Life, Part Two is an invitation to embrace seven essential elements of conscious living that enable us to contribute with ever greater power and purpose, as we age, in a world crying out for new visions of how to live. These are: embracing the mystery, choosing a vision, cultivating intuitive wisdom, committing to inner work, suffering effectively, serving from the heart, and celebrating the journey"--
Pub Date: 2021
Call Number 155.67 CHE 2021
Format Books

Title: Everytime I die

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Author: Milch, David M., film producer. Katzir, Gal, screenwriter. Michael, Robi, screenwriter, film director. Menchaca, Marc, 1975- actor. MacEdo, Michelle, actor.
Summary: When Sam is murdered in a remote lake, his consciousness begins to travel through the bodies of his friends in an effort to protect them from his killer. This dark passage leads him on a greater journey, discovering his own true identity.
Pub Date: 2019
Call Number DVD EVE
Format Video disc

Title: Ducks, Newburyport

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Author: Ellmann, Lucy, 1956- author.
ISBN: 9781771963077
Summary: "Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what's happening at the factory farm down the interstate--not to mention what was done to the land's first inhabitants. A torrent of consciousness, narrated in a single sentence by a woman whose wandering thoughts are as comfortably familiar as they are heartrendingly honest, Ducks, Newburyport is a fearless indictment of our contemporary moment."--
Pub Date: 2019
Call Number F ELL
Format Books

Title: Altered states

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Author: Hurt, William. Brown, Blair. Balaban, Bob. Haid, Charles, 1943- Gottfried, Howard.
ISBN: 9780780664036
Summary: Research scientist Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) believes other states of consciousness are as real as everyday reality. Using sensory deprivation, then adding powerful hallucinogenic drugs, he explores these altered states ... and endures experiences that make madness seem a blessing.
Pub Date: 2010 1998
Call Number DVD ALT
Format Video disc

Title: Ulysses

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Series Title Vintage international
Author: Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
ISBN: 9780679722762
Pub Date: 1990
Call Number PR 6019 .O9 U4 1990
Format Books

Title: The vanishing point

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Author: Brundage, Elizabeth, author.
ISBN: 9780316430371
Summary: Julian Ladd and Rye Adler cross paths as photography students in the Brodsky Workshop. As roommates, Julian believes he will never achieve Rye's certain success. Both are fascinated with their classmate Magda, whose captivating images of her Polish neighborhood set her apart. Twenty years later Rye is at the top of his field, famous for his photographs of celebrities and far removed from the downtrodden and disenfranchised subjects who'd secured his reputation. When Magda reenters his life, Rye finds himself in a broken landscape of street people and addicts, forcing him to reckon with the artist he once was. Months later, when Julian discovers Rye's obituary, the paper makes it sound like a suicide. At the funeral, Julian begins to question not only Rye's death, but the very foundations of his life. -- adapted from jacket
Pub Date: 2021
Call Number F BRU
Format Books

Title: Demian : the story of Emil Sinclair's youth

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Author: Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962, author. Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955, writer of introduction. Roloff, Michael, translator. Lebeck, Michael, translator. Albert B. Kahn Foundation (in honor of Dr. Richard K. Greenfield)
Summary: This first major novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Hermann Hesse incorporates a theme he returned to again and again in most of his works: the fundamental duality of existence. The youthful protagonist, Emil Sinclair, however, his older friend, Max Demian, manages to both clarify and complicate Sinclair's confusion about life's conflicting values. Recounted in engaging prose, rich in sympathy and imagination, this brilliant exploration of the polarities of human nature has retained its remarkable power as a poignant statement of the terrors and torments of adolescence.
Pub Date: 1965
Call Number PZ 3 .H4525 DE8
Format Books

Title: Ulysses : an illustrated edition

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Author: Joyce, James, 1882-1941, author. Arroyo, Eduardo, 1937-2018, illustrator.
ISBN: 9781635420265
Summary: "This strikingly illustrated edition presents Joyce's epic novel in a new, more accessible light, while showcasing the incredible talent of a leading Spanish artist. The neo-figurative artist Eduardo Arroyo (1937-2018), regarded today as one of the greatest Spanish painters of his generation, dreamed of illustrating James Joyce's Ulysses. Although he began work on the project in 1989, it was never published during his lifetime: Stephen James Joyce, Joyce's grandson and the infamously protective executor of his estate, refused to allow it, arguing that his grandfather would never have wanted the novel illustrated. In fact, a limited run appeared in 1935 with lithographs by Henri Matisse, which reportedly infuriated Joyce when he realized that Matisse, not having actually read the book, had merely depicted scenes from Homer's Odyssey. Now available for the first time in English, this unique edition of the classic novel features three hundred images created by Arroyo-vibrant, eclectic drawings, paintings, and collages that reflect and amplify the energy of Joyce's writing"--
Pub Date: 2020
Call Number F JOY
Format Books

Title: Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway : bookmarked

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Series Bookmarked
Series Title Bookmarked Bookmarked.
Author: Black, Robin (Robin E.), 1962- author.
ISBN: 9781632461339
Summary: "In this deeply personal volume, Robin Black writes about Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, a book she returned to again and again when she began writing at nearly forty and found herself gaining a sense of emotional stability for the first time in her life."--From back cover.
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number 823.912 BLA 2022
Format Books

Title: Find your happy

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Author: Coxhead, Emily, author, illustrator. Coxhead, Emily, illustrator.
ISBN: 9781684644490
Summary: A little sloth explores all different kinds of emotions and learns how cope with unpleasant feelings and seek out a happy place.
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number E COX
Format Books

Title: Criminal justice

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Author: Moffat, Peter, 1962- Wilkie, Pier. Bathurst, Otto. Watson, Luke, 1971- Whishaw, Ben, 1980-
Summary: In the first series, Ben Coulter wakes up with a hangover and blood on his hands after a one-night stand. Lying beside him, fatally stabbed, is the body of a woman. A nightmare begins that changes Ben's life forever, as damning evidence emerges to incriminate him in a murder that he has no recollection of committing. While in prison awaiting his trial, Ben must endure terrifying forms of 'justice' from hardcore inmates. Will he survive prison long enough to make it through a trial he has little chance of winning?
Pub Date: 2009 2008
Call Number DVD CRI
Format Video disc

Title: River woman, river demon [large print]

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Author: Givhan, Jennifer, author.
ISBN: 9798200953905
Summary: Burgeoning Chicana artist Eva Santos Moon is at one of her lowest points, suffering from disorienting blackouts. When her husband is arrested for the murder of their friend, Eva doesn't know whom to trust.
Pub Date: 2023 2022
Call Number LP GIV
Format Books

Title: The guest lecture

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Riker, Martin, 1973- author.
ISBN: 9780802160416
Summary: "With "a voice as clear, sincere, and wry as any I've read in current American fiction" (Joshua Cohen), Martin Riker's poignant and startlingly original novel asks how to foster a brave mind in anxious times, following a newly jobless academic rehearsing a speech on John Maynard Keynes for a surprising audience. In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to her sleeping husband and daughter. Anxious that she is grossly underprepared for a talk she is presenting tomorrow on optimism and John Maynard Keynes, she has resolved to practice by using an ancient rhetorical method of assigning parts of her speech to different rooms in her house, and has brought along a comforting albeit imaginary companion to keep her on track-Keynes himself. Yet as she wanders with increasing alarm through the rooms of her own consciousness, Abby repeatedly finds herself straying from her prepared remarks on economic history, utopia, and Keynes's pragmatic optimism. A lapsed optimist herself, she has been struggling under the burden of supporting a family in an increasingly hostile America after being denied tenure at the university where she teaches. Confronting her own future at a time of global darkness, Abby undertakes a hero's quest through her memories to ideas hidden in the corners of her mind-a piecemeal intellectual history from Cicero to Lewis Carroll to Queen Latifah-as she asks what a better world would look like if we told our stories with more honest and more hopeful imaginations"--
Pub Date: 2023
Call Number F RIK
Format Books

Title: Make me a liar

2024-07-01T12:12:44Z

Author: Landers, Melissa, author.
ISBN: 9781368098380
Summary: "It's an open secret at Harvey Davis High School that Tia Dante can solve all your problems (for a fee, of course). As one of the few blessed with the genetic gift of transferable consciousness, she can slip inside your mind and do your dirty work--humiliate your cheating boyfriend, bring a bully to his knees, tell your boss where to stick it--and then return your body with no one the wiser. No task is too awkward, and unlike the competition, she takes care of business without peeking at your goods. Her rules are simple: pay in full, don't report her side hustle to the government, and let her gorge on all the foods that would otherwise send her and her weak stomach fleeing to the nearest bathroom. Everything is going smoothly during a routine job, until Tia catches a breaking news broadcast: live video coverage of her (body) murdering the town prosecutor in cold blood. With the crime caught on camera and no concrete alibi, Tia is forced to ask her infuriatingly gorgeous ex to help clear her name and bring the criminal who hijacked her unconscious body to justice. But they quickly find the heat is on, in more ways than one, as their investigation unearths multiple scandals, massive corruption, and more than a few stray bullets. With a cliff-hanger at the end of every chapter, Melissa Landers weaves an unputdownable mystery that will have everyone talking"--
Pub Date: 2023
Call Number Y LAN
Format Books

Title: Coma

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Author: Garbus, Liz. Kennedy, Rory. Rothstein, Jed. Sim, Karen K. H. Gold, Daniel B.
ISBN: 9781419865169
Summary: Explores the mysteries of the injured brain and its ability to heal. The special goes inside a top U.S. medical facility for the treatment of head trauma and follows four coma survivors over the course of a year. Includes film not originally featured.
Pub Date: 2008
Call Number DVD 616.8 COM
Format Video disc

Title: Consciousness & the novel : connected essays

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Author: Lodge, David, 1935-
ISBN: 9780674009493
Pub Date: 2002
Call Number 823.083 LOD
Format Books

Title: Junior high drama. The runaround rumor

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Series Junior high drama
Series Title Junior high drama
Author: Simonson, Louise, author. Cho, Sumin (Illustrator), illustrator.
ISBN: 9781496547088
Summary: Allie is a star on the track team at Memorial Middle School, but when she passes out at a local track meet, she is diagnosed with diabetes, and afraid of what the other kids will think she tries to keep it a secret--a plan that backfires when her furtive and erratic behavior leads to rumors that she is on drugs, or worse.
Pub Date: 2019 2018
Call Number J 741.5 JUN 2018
Format Books

Title: Braced

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Author: Gerber, Alyson.
ISBN: 9780545902144
Summary: When twelve-year-old Rachel learns that her scoliosis has worsened and she will need to wear a back brace to keep her spine straight, she is devastated; afraid that she will not be able to play soccer, and terrified that she will not be able to hide her condition from her friends and classmates--but her mother is determined to spare her the spinal fusion surgery that she herself had as a teenager.
Pub Date: 2017
Call Number J GER
Format Books

Title: Faith Bass Darling's last garage sale

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Author: Rutledge, Lynda.
ISBN: 9780399157196
Summary: Faith Bass Darling, the richest woman in Bass, Texas, and a twenty-year recluse, holds a garage sale on the last day of the millennium, sparking curiosity and protectiveness throughout her Texas community.
Pub Date: 2012
Call Number F RUT
Format Books

Title: Ulysses

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Author: Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
ISBN: 9780679455134
Summary: This account of several lower class citizens of Dublin describes their activities and tells what some of them were thinking one day in 1904.
Pub Date: 1997
Call Number F JOY
Format Books

Title: Leonor will never die

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Author: Escobar, Martika Ramirez, film director, screenwriter. Jiménez, Monster, film producer. Cornejo, Mario, film producer. Francisco, Sheila, actor. Cabrera, Bong, actor.
Summary: Leonor Reyes was once a groundbreaking figure in the Filipino film industry during its ragtag action cinema glory days, but now she struggles with old age, mounting bills, and the untimely death of her son. While revisiting an unfinished script about a fearless protagonist trying to avenge his brother's murder, Leonor is struck on the head by a falling television set and knocked into a coma. As she lays unconscious in the hospital, fantasy and reality begin to blur when Leonor finds herself awake inside her script, becoming the hero of her own story.
Pub Date: 2023 2022
Call Number DVD LEO
Format Video disc

Title: The super adventures of Ollie and Bea. It's owl good : meet Ollie and Bea (They don't know it yet, but they are about to become best friends.)

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Series The super adventures of Ollie and Bea
Series Title The super adventures of Ollie and Bea
Author: Treml, Renée, author, illustrator.
ISBN: 9781663977175
Summary: Ollie is an owl who wears glasses; Bea is a bunny with very big feet, and both are very self-conscious about what they see as flaws--but when they meet they help each other turn what seem at first to be problems into superpowers, and so become good friends.
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number J 741.5 TRE 2022
Format Books

Title: To the lighthouse

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Series A Harvest book
Series Title A Harvest book Harvest book.
Author: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
ISBN: 9780151907366
Summary: At their holiday home in Cornwall, a distant lighthouse holds a haunting attraction for the members of an Edwardian family as disillusionment, turmoil, and a world on the brink of war plague the family's relationships.
Pub Date: 1981 1955
Call Number F WOO
Format Books

Title: To the lighthouse

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Title: Tough guys don't dance

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Author: Mailer, Norman, author, screenwriter, film director. Golan, Menahem, 1929-2014, film producer. Globus, Yoram, film producer. O'Neal, Ryan, actor. Rossellini, Isabella, actor.
Summary: Tim Madden wakes up from a drinking binge to find blood in his car and a severed head in his basement. With a corrupt police chief watching his every move, Tim must piece together the events of the night before to solve a murder he may have committed.
Pub Date: 2021 1987
Call Number BLU-RAY TOU
Format Video disc

Title: Ulysses

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Series [The Modern library of the world's best books]
Series Title [The Modern library of the world's best books]
Author: Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
ISBN: 9780679600114
Summary: Serialized first in the Little Review in 1918 and published first in Paris in 1922, although its censorship for obscenity in America and England were not lifted until the mid-1930sIn terms of its story it defies abridgement or explanation except that it all takes place on one day, 16 June 1904, or Bloomsday, which was the anniversary of Joyces first walk with his beloved Nora Barnacle. It (very) loosely follows the episodes of Ulysses from the Odyssey of Homer though in a reordered form, with Stephen Dedalus representing Telemachus, Leopold Bloom Ulysses and Molly Bloom Penelope. The central characters explore various sites and happenings around Dublin such as a newspaper office, a brothel, a funeral, and public houses.
Pub Date: 1992
Call Number F JOY
Format Books

Title: To the lighthouse

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Series Penguin vitae
Series Title Penguin vitae Penguin classics Penguin vitae. Penguin classics.
Author: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941, author. McNichol, Stella, editor. Lockwood, Patricia, writer of foreword. Lee, Hermione, writer of introduction.
ISBN: 9780143137573
Summary: "The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women."--
Pub Date: 2023 1927
Call Number F WOO
Format Books

Title: Double blind [book on cd]

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Author: St. Aubyn, Edward, 1960- author. Cumberbatch, Benedict, 1976- narrator.
ISBN: 9781250804549
Summary: Follow three close friends and their circle through a year of extraordinary transformation. Set between London, Cap d'Antibes, Big Sur, and a rewilded corner of Sussex, this thrilling, ambitious novel is about the headlong pursuit of knowledge, for the purposes of pleasure, revelation, money, sanity, or survival, and the consequences of fleeing from what people know about others and themselves.
Pub Date: 2021
Call Number BCD SAI
Format Audio disc

Title: Replicas

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Author: Nachmanoff, Jeffrey, film director. Hamel, Stephen, film producer, screenwriter. St. John, Chad, screenwriter. Di Bonaventura, Lorenzo, film producer. Riefkohl, Luis A., 1971- film producer.
Summary: The very laws of science are called into question when William Foster, a neuroscientist, seeks to bring back his dead family members. A car accident takes everyone he loves from him, but the synthetic biologist decides to put all of his scientific knowledge to the test when his grief overwhelms him. If Foster wants to be successful though, he'll have to take on not only scientific experimentation, but a government task force out to stop him.
Pub Date: 2019 2018
Call Number DVD REP
Format Video disc

Title: Keeping up appearances. 2, Hints from Hyacinth

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Author: British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.
ISBN: 9780790773889
Summary: Social climber Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced 'Bouquet, ' of course!) puts her best foot forward in this high-class comedy. In A strange man, Hyacinth is appalled when she sees a strange man next door at Elizabeth's after he has obviously spent the night there. In Driving Mrs. Fortescue, Hyacinth is thrilled to be asked for a ride by the wealthy Mrs. Fortescue. In Candlelight supper, Hyacinth plans one of her famous candlelight suppers to impress Emmet, head of the local amateur operatic society with her vocal talents. In Golfing with the major, Hyacinth decides that she and husband Richard should have a weekend of golf so that they can keep up with the major. In The googley-eyed registrar, Hyacinth is put in her place by a chance run-in with the imposing registrar.
Pub Date: 2003
Call Number DVD KEE
Format Video disc

Title: Keeping up appearances. 1, My way or the Hyacinth way

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Author: British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.
ISBN: 9780790773872
Summary: Social climber Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced 'Bouquet, ' of course!) puts her best foot forward in this high-class comedy. She performs selfless acts of charity for the lower classes (her sisters), doles out invaluable advice to her husband Richard, acts the part of adoring eldest daughter to her incapacitated Daddy, and still finds time to keep the neighbors on edge with her morning coffees and candlelight dinner parties.
Pub Date: 2003
Call Number DVD KEE
Format Video disc

Title: Luckiest girl alive [large print]

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Author: Knoll, Jessica.
ISBN: 9781628997170
Summary: Twenty-eight-year-old New Yorker Ani FaNelli seems to have it all: she's a rising star at The Women's Magazine, impossibly fit, perfectly groomed, and about to marry Luke Harrison, a handsome blueblood. But behind that veneer of perfection lies a vulnerability that Ani holds close and buries deep -- a very violent and public trauma from her past that has left her constantly trying to reinvent herself. And only she knows how far she would go to keep her secrets safe. When a documentary producer invites Ani to tell her side of the chilling incident that took place when she was a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School, she hopes it will be an opportunity for public vindication. Armed with the trappings of success--expensive clothes, high-powered byline, a massive engagement ring--she is determined to silence the whispers of suspicion and blame from her past, and prove once and for all how far she's come since Bradley. She'll even let them film her lavish wedding on Nantucket, the final step in her transformation. But perfection doesn't come without cost. As the wedding and filming converge, Ani's meticulously crafted facade begins to buckle and crack--until an explosive revelation offers her a final chance at redemption, even as it rocks her picture-perfect world.
Pub Date: 2015
Call Number LP KNO
Format Books

Title: Keeping up appearances. 4, Deck the halls with Hyacinth

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Author: BBC Video (Firm) Warner Home Video (Firm). British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.
ISBN: 9780790773902
Summary: Social climber Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced 'Bouquet, ' of course!) puts her best foot forward in this high-class comedy. In A very merry Hyacinth, Hyacinth roars into the Christmas season and eventually ends up kissing a most unexpected partner under the mistletoe. In Sea fever, Hyacinth and Richard go on a holiday cruise on the QE2. In Angel Gabriel blue, Hyacinth is busy planning a new kitchen while trying to deal with the fact that someone who isn't Daddy has been found in Daddy's bed. In Historical pageant, Hyacinth organizes a local pageant called "Our Town in the Civil War."
Pub Date: 2003
Call Number DVD KEE
Format Video disc

Title: Squeals on wheels

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Series The super adventures of Ollie and Bea
Series Title The super adventures of Ollie and Bea Super adventures of Ollie and Bea.
Author: Treml, Renée, author, illustrator.
ISBN: 9781666314892
Summary: "Ollie is having a hoot on his roller skates-but Bea is full of excuses for why she can not join in. Will Bea realize that real friends do not mind if you sometimes look silly?"--
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number J 741.5 TRE 2022
Format Books

Title: Do better : spiritual activism for fighting and healing from white supremacy

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Author: Ricketts, Rachel, 1984- author.
ISBN: 9781982151270
Summary: "Thought leader, racial justice educator, and sought-after spiritual activist Rachel Ricketts offers mindful and practical steps for all humans to dismantle white supremacy on a personal and collective level. Includes culturally informed, secular spiritual exercises, such as guided meditations, transformative breathwork, and journaling prompts"--
Pub Date: 2021
Call Number 305.8 RIC 2021
Format Books

Title: Replicas

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Author: Nachmanoff, Jeffrey, film director. Hamel, Stephen, film producer, screenwriter. St. John, Chad, screenwriter. Di Bonaventura, Lorenzo, film producer. Riefkohl, Luis A., film producer.
Summary: The very laws of science are called into question when William Foster, a neuroscientist, seeks to bring back his dead family members. A car accident takes everyone he loves from him, but the synthetic biologist decides to put all of his scientific knowledge to the test when his grief overwhelms him. If Foster wants to be successful though, he'll have to take on not only scientific experimentation, but a government task force out to stop him.
Pub Date: 2019 2018
Call Number BLU-RAY REP
Format Video disc

Title: VeggieTales. God made you special

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Series Title Source: Midwest Tapes
Author: Big Idea Productions. Genius Products, Inc.
Summary: A collection of stories that help kids learn they are special just the way God made them. A shepherd boy realizes that little guys can do big things too. A trip to outer space helps the Veggies learn to appreciate the differences in others. A self-conscious Snoodle realizes that he is uniquely made and all the Veggies are reminded that each one of us is special.
Pub Date: 2007
Call Number JDVD VEG
Format Video disc

Title: Recovering your story : Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison

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Author: Weinstein, Arnold L.
ISBN: 9781400060948
Pub Date: 2006
Call Number 823.909 WEI 2006
Format Books

Title: Gay giant

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Author: Ebensperger, Gabriel, author, artist.
ISBN: 9781951491161
Summary: "A child who feels like an outsider in a world that's set against him. A boy who sings on the playground instead of playing soccer, who likes Barbies, and whose secretly favorite car is the one called Tutti Frutti. Gabriel Ebensperger shares with us his struggles with his own inadequacy, his feelings of guilt, and above all, his fear that his "difference" will be discovered. The vibrant bright pink pages of Gay Giant paint a picture of what it was like to grow up being gay in the '90s, through the voice of an endearing character, who on the way to becoming an adult realizes that the rejection of the world is never over, and that true acceptance comes from within yourself."--provided by publisher.
Pub Date: 2022
Call Number 741.5 EBE 2022
Format Books

Title: The snows of Kilimanjaro

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Series Title Cinema classics collection Source: Midwest Tapes
Author: Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 1902-1979. Robinson, Casey. King, Henry, 1886-1982. Peck, Gregory, 1916-2003. Hayward, Susan, 1918-1975.
Summary: Harry Street, a frustrated author/big game hunter lies dying in the shadow of Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro, reliving his life, adventures, ambitions, frustrations ... and many loves. Wounded both in his leg and in his spirit, Street lapses in and out of consciousness while memories of his love life pass before his eyes: from the spoiled countess who sought to possess him to the one who loved but left him, taking his spark of life with her long before he set foot on Kilimanjaro.
Pub Date: 2007
Call Number DVD SNO
Format Video disc