Ashcroft, Frances M.

Summary: Looks at the role of electricity in the human body, covering the colorful history of how scientists discovered this role, the current state of knowledge of electrophysiology, and how new discoveries are driving advances in medicine.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2012

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Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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Summary: While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by her son's fiancee, is appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who, over-stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting to rape the young woman.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2000

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Berg, Francie M.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Healthy Weight Network 2001

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Summary: A group of passengers with nothing in common is stuck inside a coach that is being attacked by bandits and Indians.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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Summary: On the evening of December 11, 1936, England's King Edward VIII formally broadcast his farewell to a nation. Torn between duty and love, he had decided to follow his heart. Follows the true story and the unforgettable romance that developed between the Prince of Wales and an extraordinary American woman named Wallis Simpson. That she was already married and rumored to have had other affairs,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2005

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Summary: Trading Christmas: Emily Springer is disappointed in her daughter, Heather, won't make the cross-country trip from Harvard to visit at Christmas. Emily decides to surprise Heather and trades houses with Charles Brewster, a college professor. Emily is the one who is surprised when she finds out her daughter left for Florida with her boyfriend and has only Charles' brother for company. In this...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Franck, Irene M.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: H.W. Wilson 2001

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Parsons, Frances M.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallaudet University Press 1988

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Summary: A collection of plays by Chekhov originally produced for television by the BBC.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008

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Summary: Follows Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater's tumultuous election year, as well as other years in a career that encompassed numerous political and ideological triumphs. Though he never achieved the ultimate prize, the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 vindicated the conservative agenda Goldwater had long championed. Ironically, in later years, Goldwater's support of issues like abortion and gay...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007

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Waal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1997

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Whiting, Richard A.

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: 1930

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Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 1999

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Waal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.)

Summary: 'It's the animal in us', we often hear when we've been bad, But why not when we're good? 'Primates and Philosophers' tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2006

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Cranes

Contents: Diorama -- Worlds -- Feathers -- Wires -- Panorama -- Wonderful things -- Collecting stones -- Invisible -- Move along -- Sleepwalking -- High and low

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Mute Song Ltd. 0000

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Frames

Summary: You're three tracks into The Cost before you find a song, "The Rise," that opens with anything but singer Glen Hansard's voice as the first thing you hear. The beauty is, you're waiting for the voice, with its hints of Cat Stevens's tonality and its utterly distinct Irish lift. It's Hansard that provides the Frames with such a rising vibe, the sense of a band always lifting off, pressed higher...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Antidote UK 2006

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Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley Pub. 2004

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Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)

Summary: Americans Sara Porter and Tim Garton entertain beautiful and talented visitors at their farmhouse in neutral 1938 Switzerland, as war in Europe gathers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2016

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Waal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.)

Summary: Mama's Last Hug opens with the dramatic farewell between Mama, a dying fifty-nine-year-old chimpanzee matriarch, and biologist Jan Van Hooff. This heartfelt final meeting of two longtime friends, widely shared as a video, offers a window into how deep and instantly recognizable these bonds can be. So begins Frans de Waal's whirlwind tour of new ideas and findings about animal emotions, based on...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)

Contents: Map of another town -- A considerable town.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1983

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