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Zoology [videorecording] : understanding the animal world by Moore, Donald E.,III,author,instructor.; Smithsonian Institution,sponsoring body.(CARDINAL)141176; Teaching Company,production company.(CARDINAL)349444;

Disc 1. What do zoologists do? -- Animal reproduction: genes and environment -- Mammal reproduction: pandas and cheetahs -- How animals raise their young -- Helpful corals, clams, and crustaceans -- Bees, butterflies, and saving biodiversity -- Disc 2. Deadly invertebrates: vectors and parasites -- Bony fish, skates, sharks, and rays -- Amphibians, metamorphosis, and ecology -- Reptiles: adaptations for living on land -- Beaks, claws, and eating like a bird -- Form and function: bird nests and eggs -- Disc 3. Taking to the sky: bird migration -- What makes a mammal? hair, milk and teeth -- Herbivore mammals: ruminants and runners -- Carnivore mammals: feline, canine, and ursine -- Primate mammals: diverse forest dwellers -- Size, structure, and metabolism -- Disc 4. Protection, support, and homeostasis -- Animal energetics and the giant panda problem -- Ethology: studying animal behavior -- Think! how intelligent are animals? -- Combating disease in the animal kingdom -- Animal futures: frontiers in zoology.Lecturer: Dr. Donald E. Moore III, Director Oregon Zoo; Senior science advisor, Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.The Great Courses teams up with the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, to take you behind the scenes of the animal world. This introduction to zoology brings you up close and personal with a breathtaking variety of animal species through the eyes of a trained zoologist. Throughout these lectures, you'll explore the fundamentals of zoology (including the relationship between genetics and environment), dive into the different orders of life on our planet (from the ocean depths to the highest tree tops), and investigate special subjects intriguing today's zoologists (including animal behavior and conservation). You'll also meet some of the most incredible animals on Earth: butterflies, bears, crocodiles, tigers, giant pandas, elephants, gorillas, and more. And thanks to exclusive footage from the Smithsonian's National Zoo, you'll be able to see these animals in action, up close and without the crowds.DVD.

Subjects: Documentary films.; Educational films.; Instructional films.; Amphibians.; Animals.; Birds.; Fishes.; Invertebrates.; Mammals.; Reptiles.; Zoologists.; Zoology.;

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The tusk that did the damage / by James, Tania,author.(CARDINAL)494292;

From the critically acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns and Aerogrammes, a tour de force set in South India that plumbs the moral complexities of the ivory trade through the eyes of a poacher, a documentary filmmaker, and, in a feat of audacious imagination, an infamous elephant known as the Gravedigger. Orphaned by poachers as a calf and sold into a life of labor and exhibition, the Gravedigger breaks free of his chains and begins terrorizing the countryside, earning his name from the humans he kills and then tenderly buries. Manu, the studious younger son of a rice farmer, loses his cousin to the Gravedigger's violence and is drawn, with his wayward brother, Jayan, into the sordid, alluring world of poaching. Emma is a young American working on a documentary with her college best friend, who witnesses the porous boundary between conservation and corruption and finds herself in her own moral gray area: a risky affair with the veterinarian who is the film's subject. As the novel hurtles toward its tragic climax, these three story lines fuse into a wrenching meditation on love and betrayal, duty and loyalty, and the vexed relationship between man and nature. WIth lyricism and suspense, Tania James animates the rural landscapes where Western idealism clashes with local reality; where a farmer's livelihood can be destroyed by a rampaging elephant; where men are driven to poaching. In James' arrestingly beautiful prose, The Tusk That Did the Damage blends the mythical and the political to tell a wholly original, utterly contemporary story about the majestic animal, both god and menace, that has mesmerized us for centuries. -- Jacket flap.

Subjects: Novels.; Thrillers (Fiction); Documentary films; Elephants; Poaching; Wildlife conservation;

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Pre-K academy [video-enabled device] : lavender pack. by Findaway World, LLC issuing body.(CARDINAL)345268; Playaway Products, LLC, issuing body.(CARDINAL)868990;

Puzzingo Princess -- Kids peg puzzle 2 pro -- Monsters matching -- Miffy's world -- Choo Choo school -- Storybook animations: salmon for supper -- Storybook animations: what's new? -- Lost acorn -- Gnome Bros -- The largest waterslide -- Storybook animations: elephant work -- Digging for toys in kinetic sand and core word what -- Spider toss game and core word OPEN/educational video with fluent AAC. "Launchpad Pre-K Academy gives preschool-aged children 5 different paths to explore on their way to kindergarten. Using this Academy can help little learners develop the skills needed to enter their first year of school and inspire them to try new things with confidence. - Support critical thought processes - Aid in fine motor skill development - Explore large muscle movements through play - Build hand eye-coordination" Pre-K to K.

Subjects: Educational films.; Educational games.; Launchpad.; Mobile apps.; Movement education; Thought and thinking; Video games.|9 63009;

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The elephants in my backyard : a memoir / by Surendra, Rajiv,author.(CARDINAL)547080;

The author recalls how, after reading Life of Pi and learning that it was going to be adapted into a major motion picture, he threw himself into extensive preparations to try to land the lead role that led him around the world, and discovered himself in the face of failure."What happens when you spend ten years obsessively pursuing a dream, and then, in the blink of an eye, learn that you have failed? In 2003, Rajiv Surendra was filming Mean Girls, playing the beloved rapping mathlete Kevin Gnapoor, when a cameraman insisted he read Yann Martel's Life of Pi. Mesmerized by all the similarities between Pi and himself--both are five-foot-five with coffee-colored complexions, both share a South Indian culture, both lived by a zoo--when Rajiv learns that Life of Pi will be made into a major motion picture he is convinced that playing the title role is his destiny. In a great leap of faith, Rajiv embarks on a quest to embody the sixteen-year-old Tamil schoolboy. He quits university and buys a one-way ticket from Toronto to South India. He visits the sacred stone temples of Pondicherry, he travels to the frigid waters off the coast of rural Maine, and explores the cobbled streets of Munich. He befriends Yann Martel, a priest, a castaway, an eccentric old woman, and a pack of Tamil schoolboys. He learns how to swim, to spin wool, to keep bees, and to look a tiger in the eye. All the while he is really learning how to dream big, to fail, to survive, to love, and to become who he truly is. Rajiv Surendra captures the uncertainty, heartache, and joy of finding ones place in the world with sly humor and refreshing honesty. The Elephants in My Backyard is not a journey of goals and victories, but a story of process and determination. It is a spellbinding and profound book for anyone who has ever failed at something and had to find a new path through life. "--Dust jacket.

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Surendra, Rajiv.; Actors;

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The elephant in the room : silence and denial in everyday life / by Zerubavel, Eviatar.(CARDINAL)136799;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-149) and indexes.Preface -- Chapter 1. A conspiracy of silence -- Chapter 2. The rules of denial -- Chapter 3. The politics of denial -- Chapter 4. The social structure of denial -- Chapter 5. Breaking the silence -- Chapter 6. Some things are better left unsaid -- Chapter 7. The trouble with elephants -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Author index -- Subject index.The fable of the Emperor's New Clothes is a classic example of a conspiracy of silence, a situation where everyone refuses to acknowledge an obvious truth. But the denial of social realities -- whether incest, alcoholism, corruption, or even genocide -- is no fairy tale. In this book, the author sheds new light on the social and political underpinnings of silence and denial -- the keeping of "open secrets." The author shows that conspiracies of silence exist at every level of society, ranging from small groups to large corporations, from personal friendships to politics. Drawing on examples from newspapers and comedy shows to novels, children's stories, and film, the book travels back and forth across different levels of social life, and from everyday moments to large-scale historical events. At its core, the book helps us understand why we ignore truths that are known to all of us. The author shows how such conspiracies evolve, illuminating the social pressures that cause people to deny what is right before their eyes. We see how each conspirator's denial is symbiotically complemented by the others, and we learn that silence is usually more intense when there are more people conspiring -- and especially when there are significant power differences among them. He concludes by showing that the longer we ignore "elephants," the larger they loom in our minds, as each avoidance triggers an even greater spiral of denial. Social life in families, organizations, communities and even entire nations is full of situations where the emperor has no clothes. The book illuminates the dynamics behind these situations, revealing why we ignore obvious and alarming realities.

Subjects: Denial (Psychology); Avoidance (Psychology); Silence.; Secrecy.; Social psychology.; Secrecy.;

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Ripped from the headlines! : the shocking true stories behind the movies' most memorable crimes / by Schechter, Harold,author.(CARDINAL)352996;

Includes bibliographic references (pages 329-337) and index.The necktie murders in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy; Chicago's Jazz Age crime of passion; the fatal hookup in Looking for Mr. Goodbar; the high school horrors committed by the costumed slasher in Scream. These and other cinematic crimes have become part of pop-culture history. And each found inspiration in true events that provided the raw material for our greatest blockbusters, indie art films, black comedies, Hollywood classics, and grindhouse horrors. So what's the reality behind Psycho, Badlands, The Hills Have Eyes, A Place in the Sun, Arsenic and Old Lace, and Dirty Harry? How did such tabloid-ready killers as Bonnie and Clyde, body snatchers Burke and Hare, Texas sniper Charles Whitman Jr., nurse-slayer Richard Speck, and Leopold and Loeb exert their power on the public imagination and become the stuff of movie lore? In this collection of revelatory essays, true-crime historian Harold Schechter takes a fascinating trip down the crossroads of fact and fiction to reveal the sensational real-life stories that are more shocking, taboo, and fantastic than even the most imaginative screenwriter can dream up.

Subjects: True crime stories.; Essays.; Crime in motion pictures; Motion picture authorship; Motion pictures; True crime stories;

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I got you babe : a celebration of Cher / by Zaleski, Annie,Author(DLC)n 2021000887; Lauper, Cyndi,1953-Writer of forewordauthor of introduction, etc.(DLC)n 84072418;

Covering her life and sixty-year career from Sonny & Cher to show-stopping solo performer, award-winning actress, fashion icon, and beyond, this is a glorious retrospective of one of the world's most enduring entertainers, Cher. Featuring a foreword by Cyndi Lauper!   Commemorating six decades since her first #1 hit in 1965, I Got You Babe captures Cher's one-of-a-kind life. Written by award-winning writer and editor Annie Zaleski, this celebration of the fearless, down-to-earth "Goddess of Pop" explores key moments in her life and career in words and photos. Among the topics covered: Her 50-year friendship with fellow diva Tina Turner, which began in 1975 when they performed "Shame, Shame, Shame" together. Her story of creating a "revenge dress" with designer Bob Mackie for the 1986 Oscars after being snubbed for a nomination for her performance in Mask. The night in 1989 she made the Navy wish it could "Turn Back Time" by arriving at the USS Missouri to film her video not wearing the coveralls they expected but a barely-there fishnet bodysuit. Cher's unfiltered social media presence. From classic posts like "BREAKING NEWS: IM BEING BURIED IN MY FISHNETS" to weighing in on issues she believes in. When Cher learned about Kaavan, dubbed "the world's loneliest elephant." The creature was kept in chains in a zoo in Pakistan and forced to perform for decades. After fans brought the problem to her attention, Cher eventually helped get him moved in 2021, and her efforts were captured in a Smithsonian documentary. Amid these moments are photo after photo of some of the most eye-popping outfits ever worn in life and on stage. As an avid clothes horse who wasn't afraid to wear a see-through dress to the Met Gala in 1974, Cher's many looks will be given their due in this engaging, career-spanning retrospective.

Subjects: Biographies; Illustrated works; Cher, 1946-; Women singers; Singers;

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When everyone knows that everyone knows... : common knowledge and the mysteries of money, power, and everyday life / by Pinker, Steven,1954-author.(CARDINAL)332272;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-343) and index.The emperor, the elephant, and the matzo ball -- Common knowledge and common sense -- Fun and games -- Reading the mind of a mind reader -- The department of social relations -- Laughing, crying, blushing, staring, glaring -- Weasel words -- The canceling instinct -- Radical honesty, radical hypocrisy.Common knowledge is necessary for coordination, for making arbitrary but complementary choices like driving on the right, using paper currency, and coalescing behind a political leader or movement. It's also necessary for social coordination: everything from rendezvousing at a time and place to speaking the same language to forming enduring relationships of friendship, romance, or authority. Humans have a sixth sense for common knowledge, and we create it with signals like laughter, tears, blushing, eye contact, and blunt speech. But people also go to great lengths to avoid common knowledge -- to ensure that even if everyone knows something, they can't know that everyone else knows they know it. And so we get rituals like benign hypocrisy, veiled bribes and threats, sexual innuendo, and pretending not to see the elephant in the room. Pinker shows how the hidden logic of common knowledge can make sense of many of life's enigmas: financial bubbles and crashes, revolutions that come out of nowhere, the posturing and pretense of diplomacy, the eruption of social media shaming mobs and academic cancel culture, the awkwardness of a first date. Artists and humorists have long mined the intrigues of common knowledge, and Pinker liberally uses their novels, jokes, cartoons, films, and sitcom dialogues to illuminate social life's tragedies and comedies. Along the way he answers questions like: Why do people hoard toilet paper at the first sign of an emergency? Why are Super Bowl ads filled with ads for crypto? Why, in American presidential primary voting, do citizens typically select the candidate they believe is preferred by others rather than their favorite? Why did Russian authorities arrest a protester who carried a blank sign? Why is it so hard for nervous lovers to say goodbye at the end of a phone call? Why does everyone agree that if we were completely honest all the time, life would be unbearable? Consistently riveting in explaining the paradoxes of human behavior, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... invites us to understand the ways we try to get into each other's heads and the harmonies, hypocrisies, and outrages that result.

Subjects: Informational works.; Knowledge, Sociology of.; Knowledge, Theory of.; Communication.; Common sense.;

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La nana [videorecording] by Celedon, Claudia,1966-; García-Huidobro, Andrea.; Goic, Alejandro.; González, Gregorio,1974-; Loyola, Mariana,1976-; Peirano, Pedro.; Saavedra, Catalina,1968-; Silva, Sebastian.; Elephant Eye Films.; Oscilloscope Pictures.(CARDINAL)348523;

Director of photography, Sergio Armstrong ; editor, Danielle Fillios.Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedón, Mariana Loyola, Andrea García-Huidobro, Alejandro Goic, Agustín Silva.Raquel has worked as a housemaid for an upper-class Santiago, Chile, family for 23 years. On Raquel's 41st birthday, Pilar Valdez and family force the sullen, withdrawn maid to emerge from her kitchen sanctum and join the family for a celebration, but her discomfort is as strong as the family's need to acknowledge their awkward dependence on her. Raquel becomes unable to care for the house alone and new help is hired, which throws her into a jealous frenzy. The home soon becomes the stage for Raquel's darkly comedic tricks as she drives away anyone trying to take her place.Not rated.DVD, region 1; widescreen (1.78:1 aspect ratio); Dolby digital 5.1 surround or 2.0.World Cinema jury prize and Special Jury Prize Acting,Sundance film festival, 2009; Breakthrough Award Catalina Saavedra, Gotham Awards, 2009.

Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Upper class families; Women household employees;

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