Summary: Depicts the harrowing true story from World War II of the Nazis' efforts to develop an atom bomb and the Allies' desperate struggle to prevent it from happening. The series starts in Stockholm in 1933 as the German scientist Werner Heisenberg is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, and although considered unreliable by the Nazis, he is allowed into the secret Nazi nuclear energy project,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HEASummary: The true story of how Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, altering the course of film and military history in the process. Early movie giants D.W. Griffin and Harry Aiken send Frank Thayer to Mexico to persuade the cash-strapped, publicity-hungry Villa to let them film his revolution. Stepping into the literal cross fire, Thayer's crew risk their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANDPinter, Jason.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In harm's way": An epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, details the devastating sneak attack on the Naval base as well as the explosive behind-the-scenes stories, and the counter-offensive. (167 min.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMESummary: 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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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Singer, Peter
Summary: An investigation of the food choices people make and practices of the food producers who create this food for us leading to a discussion of how we might put more ethics into our shopping carts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 178 SINSinger, Peter
Summary: Arguing that our current response to world poverty is not only insufficient but ethically indefensible, philosopher Peter Singer offers a seven-point plan that mixes personal philanthropy (figuring how much to give and how best to give it), local activism (spreading the word in your community), and political awareness (contacting your representatives to ensure that your nation's foreign aid is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.5 SINSeeger, Pete
Contents: Goofing-off suite. Opening theme ; Kumbaya ; Twelve gates to the city (Oh, what a beautiful city) (7:14) -- Coal Creek march ; Pay day at Coal Creek ; Roll down the line ; Arkansas traveler (8:47) -- Fox chase ; Right on that shore ; Pick a bale of cotton (4:57) -- Rozhenkes mit Mandlen ; In Tarrytown ; Clean-O ; Ladies auxillary [sic] (8:57) -- Bells of Rhymney ; Sinking of the Reuben James ;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SEESinger, Peter
Summary: Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important books such as Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, and The Life You Can Save, he helped launch the animal rights and effective altruism movements and contributed to the development of bioethics. Now, in Ethics in the Real...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 SINMacCarry, Noel
Summary: Presents the life of the folk singer and social activist, and discusses his role in the union, anti-war, civil rights, and environmental movements and the opposition he sometimes aroused for his radical views.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB SEGER MACSeeger, Pete
Summary: Banished from the town for making mischief, a little boy and his father are welcomed back when they find a way to make the dreaded giant Abiyoyo disappear.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.21 SEESeeger, Pete
Contents: Vol. 1. John Henry (4:28) -- Shenandoah (1:47) -- Blue-tailed fly (Jimmy crack corn) / D. Emmett (2:31) -- Black girl / arr. H. Ledbetter (2:29) -- Skip to my Lou (3:08) -- The big rock candy mountain / H. McClintock (3:05) -- Clementine / P. Montrose (3:02) -- Yankee Doodle (1:36) -- Home on the range / B. Higley ; D.E. Kelley (1:48) -- John Brown's body (2:56) -- Goodnight, Irene / H....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SEESeeger, Pete
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 784.4 SEESeeger, Pete.
Contents: CD 1: Talking union -- All I want -- Teeroo teeroo -- The sinking of the Reuben James -- The coast of high barbary -- Liza James -- Casey Jones -- Cumberland bear chase -- Union maid -- Erie Canal -- Deliver the goods -- Blow ye winds, heigh ho -- Ground hog -- The golden vanity.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Goldies 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SEESinger, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 SINSeeger, Pete
Contents: If I had a hammer (1:52) -- Banks of marble (3:12) -- Which side are you on (2:06) -- Casey Jones : (The union scab) (1:54) -- Talking union (3:01) -- Joe Hill (2:29) -- Union maid (2:12) -- Step by step (1:33) -- Solidarity forever (2:51) -- Where have all the flowers gone (2:01) -- Talking atom (2:25) -- Crow on the cradle (2:21) -- Last night I had the strangest dream (2:21) -- Study war no...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SEESeeger, Pete
Summary: "In this new book, we hear directly from the artist through the widest array of sources--letters, notes to himself, published articles, rough drafts, stories, and poetry--creating the most detailed picture available of Seeger as a musician, an activist, and a family man, in his own words and from his own perspective... The portrait that emerges is not a saint, not a martyr, but a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paradigm Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEEGER, PETE SEESeeger, Pete
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.543 SEESeeger, Pete
Contents: If I had a hammer (2:51) -- We shall overcome (3:40) -- Lolly-too-dum (3:29) -- Wimoweh (The lion sleeps tonight) (1:45) -- John Henry (4:11) -- Barbara Allen (4:28) -- Little boxes (2:52) -- Michael, row the boat ashore (2:09) -- Where have all the flowers gone (1:53) -- Turn, turn, turn (To everything there is a season) (3:10) -- Darlin' Corey (2:45) -- Guantanamera (4:35) -- This land is...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Special Products 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SEESeeger, Pete
Contents: Introduction -- Manyura manyah -- Malaika -- Oh Mary don't you weep -- The foolish frog -- Deep blue sea -- Never wed an old man -- Old Joe Clark ; Oh had I a golden thread -- Holy ground -- Demonstration of banjo styles. Darlin' Corey ; Skip to my lou ; Going across the mountains -- Midnight special -- It takes a worried man -- Coal Creek march -- Where have all the flowers gone -- Down by the...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Records 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SEESeeger, Pete
Contents: Well may the world go (2:36) -- My rainbow race (3:43) -- Huddie Ledbetter (4:08) -- The water is wide (6:14) -- All mixed up (3:28) -- Sailing down my golden river (3:15) -- Kisses sweeter than wine (3:48) -- Living in the country (2:28) -- How can I keep from singing (3:00) -- Garbage (3:44) -- Natural history (spider's web) (1:17) -- Old devil time (2:33) -- Of time and rivers flowing (4:39)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Living Music 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SEESeeger, Pete
Contents: Introduction -- John Henry -- Aunt Rhody -- Lonesome valley -- Amazing grace -- Recorder improvisation : introduction to l'Internationale -- L'Internationale -- Old time religion -- Down-a-down -- Introduction of Louis Killen -- Rothesay-o (Killen, vocals) -- Old settler's song -- Acres of clams -- Abiyoyo -- Teaching song -- Cristo ya nació -- Sicilian tarantella (instrumental) -- Homestead...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian/Folkways 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SEESeeger, Pete
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SEESeeger, Pete
Contents: Audience -- Banjo medley. Cripple Creek ; Old Joe Clark ; Leather britches -- Lady Margret -- Mrs. McGrath -- Mail myself to you -- My rambling boy -- A little brand new baby -- What did you learn in school today -- Little boxes -- Mrs. Clara Sullivan's letter -- Who killed Norma Jean? -- Who killed Davy Moore? -- Farewell -- A hard rain's a-gonna fall -- Didn't he ramble : (fragment) -- Keep...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1989