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BT 0085 Agitation and Aggression in Psychosis
Summary: Definitions of agitation, aggression, and violence. Neurobiologic and Neurochemical factors, assessment for violent behavior, pharmacologic management of aggression and non-pharmacological management of aggression. AUDIO

BT 0096 Amazing English!: An Integrated ESL Curriculum "TLLC"
Summary: This work is based in part on TLLC: Teaching language, literature, and culture. A multicultural early childhood program. AUDIO 1996 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS

BT 0018 America, Lost & Found
Summary: Anthony Bailey was seven in 1940 when he was evacuated to the United States--one of 16, 000 children sent overseas at a time when a Nazi invasion of England seem likely. For four years the Spaeths were his family, while the memories of his parents and younger sister grew faint. This is an account of a double childhood--of a small boy who became American while never ceasing to be British. 300 Min. AUDIO 1987

BT 0069 American College Of Cardiology Extended Learning, The
Summary: Introduction - Managing Arrythmias: Balancing Benefit and Risk. A Multi-Center Double-Blind crossover comparison of Disopyramide, Atenolol, and Placebo for Symptomatic Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation. 240 Min. AUDIO 1995

BT 0108 Art of Caring, The
Summary: Relaxation, opening the door to change, Imagery, awakening the inner healer, Music therapy, hearing the melody of the soul, Touch, connecting to the healing power. 240 Min. AUDIO 1996

BT 0080 Art of Caring, The
Summary: Relaxation: Opening the Door to Change, Imagery: Awakening the Inner Healer, Music Therapy: Hearing the Melody of the Soul, Touch: Connecting to the Healing Power. 295 Min. AUDIO 1996

BT 0058 Art of Healing, The
Summary: Clinical evidence is beginning to show that patients benefit measurably when their psychological needs are attended to along with their purely physical needs; compassion and caring not only help patients feel better but help them get better. This program looks at medical professionals who are employing a model of medical care based on the idea that emotional states play an important role in people's vulnerability to disease - and in their recovery. Author: Bill Moyers. 057 Min. AUDIO 1993 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY Series: HEALING AND THE MIND

BT 0105 Barbara Bush, A Memoir
Summary: An autobiography by Barbara Bush, read by the author. AUDIO 1994

BT 0014 Battle of the Little Bighorn, The
Summary: What would Custer say about the battle that made him a legend? We will never know of course, but Marissa Sandoz, in her version of his legendary and much disputed battle, provides a suitable version to that drama of a century ago. 360 Min. AUDIO 1992 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, NATIVE AMERICAN

BT 0075 Beauty's Release
Summary: Beauty's adventures on the dark side of sexuality make her the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan and a prisoner in the exotic confines of the harem. As this voluptuous adult fairy tale moves toward conclusion, all Beauty's encounters with the myriad variations of sexual fantasy are presented in a sensuous, rich prose that intensifies this exquisite rendition of love's secret world. Author: Anne Rice. 180 Min. AUDIO 1994

BT 0079 Being with Dying
Summary: Being with Dying, Perspectives on Impermanence, Mindfulness Meditation, Council Practice, The Myth of Chiron, Meditation on the Dissolution of the Body before Death. 443 Min. AUDIO 1997

BT 0102 Best of SkillPath, The
Summary: Includes: How to Manage People, Powerful Proofreading and Editing Skill s, Reading Essentials: How to Read Faster and Improve Your Retention, How to Pro vide Excellent Customer Service, Managing Multiple Projects, Priorities and Dead lines, How to Supervise People. AUDIO 1989

BT 0073 Billy
Summary: Whitely Strieber's newest novel about a young boy who is kidnaped by a deranged misfit is a shocking look into the dark soul of a psychopath. Whitely Strieber is also the author of such novels as "Communion" and "Transformation." 180 Min. AUDIO 1990

BT 0043 Bright Orange for the Shroud
Summary: Travis had thought he'd have a quiet summer until a walking zombie of a man, Arthur Wilkinson, stumbles aboard The Busted Flush. He's the latest victim of a fragile-looking blond sexpot who uses the blackest arts of love to lure unsuspecting suckers into a web of sordid schemes. Gone, suddenly, are those lazy, hazy days of summer as Travis becomes embroiled in one of the most dangerous, downright dirtiest cases of his career. Author: James D. MacDonald. 180 Min. AUDIO 1965 Subject: WRITERS

BT 0065 Chamber, The
Summary: In 1967 in Greenville, Mississippi, Klan member Sam Cayhall is accused of bombing the law offices of Jewish civil rights activist Marvin Kramer, killing Kramer's two sons. Cayhall's first trial, with an all white jury and a Klan rally outside the courthouse, ends in a hung jury; a retrial six months later has the same outcome. Twenty years later an ambitious District Attorney in Greenville reopens the case. Much has changed since 1967, and this time, with a jury of eight whites and four blacks, Cayhall is convicted and transferred to the state penitentiary at Parchman to await execution on death row. In 1989, in the huge Chicago law firm of Kravitz & Bane, a young lawyer, Adam Hall, asks to work on the Cayhall case, which the firm has handled on a pro bono basis for years. The case is all but lost and time is running out: within weeks Sam Cayhall will finally go to the gas chamber. Why in the world would Adam want to get involved? Author: John Grisham. 360 Min. AUDIO 1994

BT 0001 Closing of the American Mind, The
Summary: A completely articulated, historically accurate summary of the development of the higher mental life in the democratic U.S.A. Author: Allan Bloom. 150 Min. AUDIO 1987 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY

BT 0011 Confessions of Nat Turner, The
Summary: Turner's Rebellion took place in the long hot summer of 1831, in the state of Virginia. When it was over, 59 white people were dead; the insurgents were rounded up and either hanged or worse; and Nat Turner, a preacher, confessed to his part in the only effective revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery. In his introduction of this Pulitzer Prize winner, Styron says "it has been my own intention to try to re-create a man and his era, and to produce a work that is less an historical novel in conventional terms than a meditation on history. Author: William Styron. 999 Min. AUDIO 1985 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, AFRICAN-AMERICAN , CIVIL RIGHTS

BT 0066 Crichton-Sphere
Summary: As Michael Crichton's ingenious and suspenseful bestseller begins, an astonishing discovery is made. A spaceship has been found resting on the ocean floor-a spaceship at least 300 years old. Has it come from an alien culture? From different universe? Four scientists rush to scene and descend together into the depths of the sea to search for answers. What they find there only raises more and increasingly ominous questions. 180 Min. AUDIO 1987

BT 0023 Cry, The Beloved Country
Summary: An old Zulu parson from the hills above Ixopo sets out for Johannesburg, the "city of evil, " looking for his son. He finds his boy in prison, charged with the murder of a white man who had devoted his life to justice for the black race. Author: Alan Paton. 540 Min. AUDIO 1982

BT 0072 Cry to Heaven
Summary: Anne Rice reveals the dark, eerie beauty of the 18th century Italian society of the castrati: the castrated males - sterile yet sexually functional - who were celebrated and adored for their glorious soprano voices. Of the hundreds submitted to the knife at an early age - some sold by their parents, some brought by well meaning maestros to the conservatoria of Naples to serve the music of the Church and State - few will achieve a voice so sublime, so crystalline, so pure that they will gain entrance to the mysterious, haunting world of the castrati. 180 Min. AUDIO 1982

BT 0098 CW2 Layne Heath
Summary: Billy Roark went to Vietnam looking for adventure. He found it in the cockpits of the helicopters that ferried men and weapons in and out of combat. There he was, still a teenager, courting disaster as he took his Huey chopper in to hot Landing Zones between A Shau Valley and the DMZ. He soon grew to love the danger itself, so much so that after a year in the states following his first tour of duty, Billy signed up for a second. 180 Min. AUDIO 1990

BT 0015 Dancing Wu Li Masters, The
Summary: Gary Zukav has written the bible for those who are curious about the mind-expanding discoveries of advanced physics, but who have no scientific background. 720 Min. AUDIO 1992 Subject: PHYSICS

BT 0092 Dog's Life, A
Summary: Now, Boy, an uncannily perspicacious and shaggy canine of undetermined origin, takes center stage, recounting his event filled life in the French countryside. Boy's understanding human foibles and his stylistic insouciance make for a unique and rollicking memoir. 120 Min. AUDIO 1995

BT 0094 Dog Stories
Summary: The magic of James Herriot's world-famous storytelling creates more unique and wonderful stories about the animal he loves most, the dog. Through situations that often make us laugh and sometimes even cry, we appreciate and perhaps begin to understand the ability and power of these creatures to touch our hearts. 282 Min. AUDIO 1992

BT 0013 Florence Nightingale
Summary: It's been said that the three people who did most to alleviate human suffering in the 19th century were the inventors of antiseptics and chloroform-- and Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale lived to be over 90 yet spent less than two years in the military hospitals at Scutari, where the inventors of the Lady of the Lamp was created. The "ministering angel" was in reality a tough domineering and brilliant administrator, scholar and writer of government reports. Author: Elspeth Huxley. 360 Min. AUDIO 1989

BT 0044 Frontiers of Management, The
Summary: An indispensable, time-and-trouble-saving reference for managers in all fields, and exciting opportunity to plug into the unique genius of Peter Drucker. Beating the hiring odds-how to make effective staffing and promotion decisions. Assessing the effects of the baby boom and baby bust on job promotion opportunities. Controlling staff work for maximum productivity. Keeping your firm young while benefitting from the experience of older executives. 045 Min. AUDIO 1987 Subject: MANAGEMENT

BT 0034 Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, The Pt.1
Summary: Philosophy and Faith--From Athens to Jerusalem. AUDIO

BT 0037 Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, The Pt 4
Summary: Philosophy in the Epoch of Ideology. AUDIO

BT 0038 Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, The Pt 5
Summary: Modernism and the Age of Analysis. AUDIO

BT 0057 Healing From Within
Summary: Examines two therapies that involve neither drugs nor surgery. One is a form of Buddhist meditation; the other, group psychotherapy. Both teach patients to use their minds to improve the healing capacities within their bodies. Author: Bill Moyer. 087 Min. AUDIO 1993 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY Series: HEALING AND THE MIND

BT 0012 Heroes of History
Summary: "HEROES OF HISTORY" is a collection of short biographical sketches taken form Churchill's four-volume work "THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES". The author believed people shaped events, indeed his own life proved it, so his interpretations of William the Conqueror, Joan of Arc, George Washington, Queen Victoria and others are strong and sure. 360 Min. AUDIO 1990 Subject: EUROPEAN STUDIES, BIOGRAPHY

BT 0051 Holy Bible, The - New Testament
Summary: 12 tapes: The New Testament, Matthew - Revelation AUDIO 1978

BT 0047 Holy Bible, The - Volume 1
Summary: 12 tapes: Genesis - Deuteronomy AUDIO 1980

BT 0048 Holy Bible, The - Volume 2
Summary: 12 tapes: Joshua - II Chronicles AUDIO 1980

BT 0049 Holy Bible, The - Volume 3
Summary: 12 tapes: II Chronicles - Ecclesiastes AUDIO 1980

BT 0050 Holy Bible, The - Volume 4
Summary: 12 tapes: Isaiah - Malachi AUDIO 1980

BT 0017 Honorable Men
Summary: Chip Benedict appears to have everything: wealth, good looks, education. Called to serve in WW II, he returns a hero and eventually becomes chairman of the family firm. Despite his many gifts, Chip is morally flawed. Thus when it comes to choosing sides on the issue of Vietnam, he faces a decision that challenges his character at its deepest level. Author: Louis Auchincloss. 720 Min. AUDIO 1987

BT 0103 How to Manage Projects
Summary: Shows how to set realistic goals and objectives, plan and track progress, and use practical techniques for keeping projects on course. AUDIO 1989

BT 0074 Inside Oyneg-Shabes: Yiddish Writing in the Nazi Ghettos
Summary: Tape 1: The Time Capsules from Nowolipki Street: Inside the Oyneg-Shabes Archive, Tape 2: The Documentary Imperative, Tape 3: The Art of Lamentation. Author: David Roskies. AUDIO 1995

BT 0081 Internal Medicine Update 1997
Summary: From the State of the Art Lecture Series which took place at the University of Miami from January 27-31, 1997. Lectures include: Significant advances in internal medicine, diagnosis and management of cardiac arrhythmias, lyme disease, recognition and management of respiratory failure, etc... There are a total of 12 lectures. 999 Min. AUDIO 1997

BT 0003 Iron John: A Book About Men
Summary: Book on Tape "Iron John: A Book About Men" Here is the long-awaited work of renowned poet and storyteller Robert Bly that explores and challenges the male psyche. In it, Bly brings to light a burgeoning "underground" of men seeking to find a lost heritage of emotional connection-to their fathers, their children, their wives, themselves. 180 Min. AUDIO 1990

BT 0028 James Joyce Audio Collection (Sound Cassette)
Summary: Cyril Cusack reads selections from Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake. Author: James Joyce. 046 Min. AUDIO 1992

BT 0067 Jewish Short Stories From Eastern Europe And Beyond
Summary: From a boisterous wedding thrown by a Jewish gangster in Odessa to an unorthodox Christmas play in the Bronx, these stories range from the hilarious to the tragic, capturing the humor, vitality, conflicts and contradictions of modern Jewish life. Written in English or translated from Yiddish, Hebrew or Russian, the stories come to life in readings by leading actors of stage and screen. Each story reflects the wide range of secular, religious, political and cultural experiences of immigrant Jews from Russia, Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe. AUDIO 1995

BT 0106 Journey Through Shame, The
Summary: Lerner identifies shame as the core recovery issue for addicts and co-dependents, and discusses how we can turn from shame and self hate to compassion, spirituality and well being. 060 Min. AUDIO 1986

BT 0007 Jungle Book, The
Summary: Explores the theme of man's innocence in nature. He gives us animals that embody vices as well as virtues. Included are seven stories: "Mowgli's Brothers, " "Kaa's Hunting, " "Tiger-Tiger!, " "The White Seal, " "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, " "Toomai of the Elephants" and "Servants of the Queen." Author: Rudyard Kipling. 360 Min. AUDIO 1982 Subject: LITERATURE-I

BT 0062 K is for Killer
Summary: Korna Kepler was beautiful and willful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. Maybe that's what killed her. Her death had raised a host of tough questions. The cops suspected homicide, but they could find neither motive nor suspect. Author: Sue Grafton. AUDIO 1994

BT 0083 Kevin Trudeau's Mega Memory
Summary: 15 lessons from the world's largest memory training school. AUDIO 1989

BT 0071 Less Than Zero
Summary: In the novel's short weeks, the 18 year old narrator Clay takes you into a world of youth, privilege, and alienation - a world governed by sex, drugs, and music. He tells you about the dreadened lives of the beautiful, burned out teens of L.A. leaving nothing out: the relentless, ostentatious parties, the cocaine vials and needle tracks, the prostitution and pornography, and the dazed, drugged indifference to it all. "Disappear Here, " a billboard on Sunset Boulevard beacons...and, unlike Clay's friends, you can't look away. Author: Bret Easton Ellis. 180 Min. AUDIO 1986

BT 0097 Luck Factor, The: How to Take the Chance Out of Becoming a Success
Summary: Brian Tracy teaches you the skills you need to experience higher levels of success and satisfaction in all areas of your life. AUDIO

BT 0004 Managing for the Future
Summary: Managing for the Future - Today even more than ever before, Peter Drucker, the world's most influential management thinker, is being looked to and listened to by business leaders and economic scholars grappling with the latest, most stimulating and enlightening views on the now world business order and management imperatives of the 1990's and beyond. Peter Drucker brings clear-sighted analysis and practical inspiration to an arresting array of subjects: the end of the blue-collar worker; the myths about the Japanese economic juggernaut; the formula for excellence in American export; and much more. Managing for the Future offers proof positive that the incomparable Peter Drucker remains at the peak of his extraordinary powers. 180 Min. AUDIO 1992 Subject: MANAGEMENT

BT 0101 Managing Projects, Priorities, and Deadlines
Summary: Discover the secrets of optimum effectiveness and put yourself on target for greater business success. AUDIO 1990

BT 0084 Mega Math
Summary: From Scott Flasburg, the human calculator and Kevin Trudeau. AUDIO 1996 Subject: MATHEMATICS

BT 0027 Modern Poets Reading Their Own Poetry
Summary: Poets heard from include; Aiken, Auden, Cummings, Eberhart, Eliot, Empson, Frost, Graves, MacLeish, MacNeice, Moore, Pound, Sitwell, Spender, Stein, Stevens, Thomas, Wilbur, Williams and Yeats. 095 Min. AUDIO 1988

BT 0055 Mystery of Chi, The
Summary: On location in Beijing and Shanghai, Bill Moyers, with the help of his guide, David Eisenberg, M.D., of Harvard Medical School, explores traditional Chinese medicine and its approach to healing through "Chi", the energy force that is at the root of all Chinese medicine. Author: Bill Moyers. 058 Min. AUDIO 1993 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY Series: HEALING AND THE MIND

BT 0054 New Southerners
Summary: 14 Radio Programs from the NPR radio show SOUNDINGS concerning Southern literature and writers. 203 Min. AUDIO 1995 Subject: WRITERS

BT 0005 Organized Executive, The
Summary: "The Organized Executive"-From the author of the audio bestseller and New York Times bestseller "Getting Organized" comes the definitive guide to mastering the systems and routines that are most efficient and profitable for your company. Based on management consultant Stephanie Winston's best selling book, "The Organized Executive" will revolutionize your thinking about time and task management. It's a powerful reference tool, with specific strategies for handling time, paper and people. Author: Stephanie Winston. 045 Min. AUDIO 1987 Subject: MANAGEMENT

BT 0024 Phantom of the Opera, The
Summary: L'Opera de Paris, the words carry beauty and gaiety in their lilt. How can there be any truth in the dark rumors? But then a startlingly beautiful woman disappears. In a moment the opera's facade falls away, not only away but into a pit where all the perverse impulses of art grow visible and manifest. Suddenly we want out! Author: Gaston Leroux. 630 Min. AUDIO 1988 Subject: DRAMA

BT 0019 Picture of Dorian Gray
Summary: The tale of a young man's quest for eternal youth and beauty, a quest that ends in scandal, depravity and death. Author: Oscar Wilde. 480 Min. AUDIO 1980

BT 0109 Power of Effective Listening, The
Summary: Instructions on how to be a good listener including how to provide feed back that encourages honesty and openness. Accompanying workbook includes exercises to be used with the tapes. AUDIO 1989

BT 0021 Prince of Thieves
Summary: In the jargon of the criminal underworld, a master forger is called the "Prince of Thieves." Such a man is Peter "Tony" Milano. When freelance writer Brian Boyer first heard of Tony Milano, he suspected that the story of his career might make a provocative novel. He interviewed Milano, and eventually turned hours of his taped recollections into PRINCE OF THIEVES, a fictionalized biography of the world's greatest forger. 480 Min. AUDIO 1976

BT 0110 Psychology of Achievement, The
Summary: Phoenix seminar developer/leader Brian Tracy presents techniques and modes to channel the mind, including conquering fear, doing things considered impossible and making all the right moves. AUDIO 1984

BT 0090 Rainbow, The
Summary: Set in the rural midlands of England, "The Rainbow" revolves around three generations of the Brangwens, a family deeply involved with the land and noted for their strength and vigor. 375 Min. AUDIO

BT 0042 Remember Me
Summary: Menley Nichols has never stopped blaming herself for the accidental death of her two-year-old son, a tragedy that strained her marriage and her sanity. When she and her husband Adam, a high-profile attorney, are blessed with a beautiful new baby daughter, they dedicate themselves to rebuilding their lives together, unaware that someone in their midst has a very different agenda for them. Author: Mary Higgins Clark. 180 Min. AUDIO 1994 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS, WRITERS

BT 0010 Renaissance, The
Summary: It is impossible to measure but difficult to underestimate the impact this book has had on thought, sensibility and artistic achievements of the last hundred years. Pater's writing influenced not only aesthetes and artists who worked in the visual media, but also authors in the forefront of modernism - James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf and W.B. Yeats. Author: Walter Pater. 420 Min. AUDIO 1991 Subject: ART

BT 0029 Robert Frost (Sound Cassette)
Summary: Robert Frost reads his works. Includes; The Road Not Taken, The Pasture, Birches, Death of A Hired Man, Mending Wall, and other of his poems. 100 Min. AUDIO 1950

BT 0076 Season in Purgatory, A
Summary: Explores the carefully built world of a wealthy and powerful senator threatened by the revelation of a past "mistake" - a murder committed and covered up. Young Harrison Burns is overwhelmed when he is "accepted" into the privileged fold of his school chum Constant Bradley. But as Harrison soon learns, friendship with the social elite often has its price. Friendly favors are one thing, but keeping silent about a murder is something else. When he can no longer live with the secret, he resolves to tell the horrifying truth only to find that Bradley's family will stop at nothing to keep him quite. Author: Dominick Dunne. 180 Min. AUDIO 1993

BT 0088 Secrets of Power Negotiating, The
Summary: Includes: the facts about negotiating, three stages of negotiating, tactics and contertactics of negotiating, power: understanding it and gaining it, managing time and information, personality types, body language, hidden meaning in conversation. AUDIO 1987

BT 0068 Shakespeare and the Varieties of the Human Experience
Summary: 1. The Taming of the Shrew: The Actor as Hero. 2. Measure for Measure: Sexual Desire and Civil Authority. 3. Richard III: The Actor as Villain. 4. Macbeth and Imaginative Villainy. 5. Romeo and Juliet: Explosive Contraries. 6. Troilus and Cressida: Exploded Myths. 7. Othello: Love and Chaos. 8. Julius Caesar: The Roman History. 360 Min. AUDIO 1995 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SUPERSTAR TEACHERS SERIES

BT 0111 Still Me
Summary: A biography about Christopher Reeve, read by Christopher Reeve. AUDIO 1998 Subject: BIOGRAPHY

BT 0026 Story of My Life, The (Helen Keller)
Summary: Before she was two years old a serious illness destroyed Helen Keller's sight and hearing. At seven, alone and withdrawn, she was rescued by Anne Sullivan, her teacher and friend. By the time she was 16, Helen could speak well enough to attend preparatory school. Later she went to Radcliffe, from which she graduated with honors in 1904. This is Keller's autobiography. 240 Min. AUDIO 1983 Subject: ED EXCEPT , BIOGRAPHY

BT 0100 Taking Control of Your Workday
Summary: Tells you how to respond to other people's demands while still accomplishing your own goals. That means discovering which activities you control, and which you don't, creating to do list that really get done, and deciding priorities quickly and logically. 245 Min. AUDIO 1992

BT 0016 Through A Window
Summary: Through A Window is the saga of 30 years in the life of a community, of birth and death, sex and love, power and war. The community is Gombe and its principal residents are chimpanzees. It reads like a novel, but it is one of the most important scientific works ever published. Author: Jane Goodall. 720 Min. AUDIO 1991

BT 0022 Up From Slavery-Booker T. Washington
Summary: Booker T. Washington's autobiography describes his rise from slavery to national eminence as an educator. Born in 1856, the son of a slave woman and a white man, he became the most influential black leader of his time in the United States. 480 Min. AUDIO 1984 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, CIVIL RIGHTS , BIOGRAPHY

BT 0093 Valley of Fear and Hound of the Baskervilles
Summary: A collection of two Sherlock Homes stories. Valley of Fear is about a rich American who is murdered in mysterious circumstances in a manor house in Sussex, England. Sherlock Holmes, accompanied by Dr. Watson, is invited to help with the investigation. The Hound of Baskervilles is a marvelous story of the ruthless exploitation of a family legend by an unscrupulous outsider who is foiled by Holmes and Watson. 360 Min. AUDIO 1994 Series: SHERLOCK HOLMES

BT 0006 Waiting To Exhale
Summary: Savannah Jackson is attractive, educated and as her mother and sister keep reminding her unmarried at age 36. Bernadine Harris has 11 years of marriage, the house, the BMW and the kids, but a 24 year-old white bookkeeper has her husband. Robin Stokes is a successful professional recovering from a dead-end love affair. And Gloria Matthews owns Oasis, one of the few hair salons for black women in Phoenix. These are the heroines of Terry McMillan's affecting new novel-four African-American women who lean on each other while "waiting to exhale", waiting for that man who will take their breath away. 900 Min. AUDIO 1992 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS

BT 0031 What Followers Expect From Leaders
Summary: In discussions and interviews, James Kouzes and Barry Posner reveal the characteristics followers say are most important in leaders--and tell how anyone can learn to cultivate those qualities and lead more effectively. 120 Min. AUDIO 1988 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY

BT 0025 What's Next? Career Strategies After 35
Summary: Jack Falvey touches on the basics. About ability: "It's harder than you might think to get in over your head. Things are not that complex." About career security: "A job for life, a no-layoff policy, tenure, or early retirement are not career goals. They are life sentences." About career planning: "Setting goals distant enough that no present action is required is not planning. It is self-delusion." 300 Min. AUDIO 1989 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY

BT 0045 While My Pretty One Sleeps
Summary: Gossip columnist Ethel Lambston knew everything about everybody who was somebody-and there were more than enough suspects in her murder. But for Neeve Kearny, owner of an expensive Madison Avenue boutique, the killing of one of her best customers had eerie echoes of another death that occurred many years earlier-the murder of her own mother. Suddenly, Neeve is plunged into the mystery of Ethel Lambston's murder, following a trail that leads from the glittering pleasure palaces of New York's rich and beautiful to the Mafia underworld. Author: Mary Higgins Clark. 180 Min. AUDIO 1989 Subject: WRITERS

BT 0087 Winning Management Strategies for the Real World
Summary: Includes: Getting the job done, people helping people, how to de-clutter your life, innovation - move as fast as you can, selling innovation through results, the decentralization of information, the problem with marketing, no such thing as a tiny improvement, saying thanks, exceptional service/fewer people, what's your mission. AUDIO 1986 Subject: MANAGEMENT

BT 0033 Woman's Worth, A
Summary: Drawing on her own experiences and reflections, as well as her interactions with thousands of women across the country, Marianne Williamson gives us a unique and very personal view of the feminine spirit. She explores the many facets of contemporary womanhood, family, work, sex, love, power, and investigates the distinctive contours of women's spiritual and emotional life. She also examines the enduring power of female archetypes, from women healers to women who run with wolves. 180 Min. AUDIO 1993

BT 0107 Women, Power and Self-Esteem
Summary: Explore ways to take control of yourself, your family, your career and your world. You'll learn how being responsible for your choices gives you more personal freedom -- and leads to a life of purpose and empowerment. AUDIO 1990

BT 0020 Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey
Summary: More than a quarter of a million Americans crossed the continental United States between 1840 and 1870 in one of the greatest migrations of modern times. Frontiersmen have become part of the legend but pioneering was in fact, a family matter, and the western experiences of American women are central to an accurate picture of what life was like on the frontier. Author: Lillian Schlissel. 540 Min. AUDIO 1988 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES

BT 0059 Wounded Healers
Summary: Clinical evidence is beginning to show that patients benefit measurably when their psychological needs are attended to along with their purely physical needs; compassion and caring not only help patients feel better but help them get better. This program looks at medical professionals who are employing a model of medical care based on the idea that emotional states play an important role in people's venerability to disease - and in their recovery. Author: Bill Moyer. 057 Min. AUDIO 1993 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY Series: HEALING AND THE MIND

BT 0086 Writing the Jewish Future: Global Conversation, A
Summary: These audio tapes are from the Jewish Writers Conference which was held February 1-8, 1998 in the San Francisco Bay area. AUDIO Subject: WRITERS

BT 0089 You've Got To Be Believed To Be Heard 180 Min. AUDIO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION