Wills, Garry
Summary: In this examination of the life of a founding father, renowned historian Wills takes a fresh look at the life of James Madison, from his rise to prominence in the colonies through his role in the creation of the Articles of Confederation and the first Constitutional Congress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books/Henry Holt 2002
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Summary: Garry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Qur'an Meant, Wills invites readers to join him as he embarks on a timely and necessary reconsideration of the Qur'an, leading us through perplexing passages with insight and erudition. What does the Qur'an actually say about veiling women? Does it justify religious war? There was a time when ordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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Summary: An examination of Christianity's place in American life through history, from the Puritans to the administration of George W. Bush. The struggle within American Christianity, historian Wills argues, has been between the head and the heart: reason and emotion, Enlightenment and Evangelism. 18th century America saw a religious revolution--an Enlightenment culture emerged whose hallmarks were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 277.3 WILSummary: An American tail: While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1970
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Summary: For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the fresh, keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis has won him a Pulitzer Prize, Gary Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his influential interpretation of the Christian doctrines of mind and body, wisdom and God. Saint...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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Summary: A study of the three operas that Verdi adapted from Shakespeare: Macbeth, Otello, and Falstaff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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Summary: Garry Wills, the prizewinning historian, argues that changes have been the evidence of life in the Catholic Church. It has often changed, sometimes with bad consequences, more often with good, good enough to make it perdure. In this brilliant and incisive study, he gives seven examples of deep and serious changes that have taken place (or are taking place) within the last century. None of them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1968
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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Summary: Chronicles the history of the Catholic Church and its hierarchy from the nineteenth century to the present, focusing on the Church's devious practices and stubborn resistance to the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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Summary: Examines the goals, methods, and styles of the evangelists and how these shaped the gospels' messages. The earliest book, Mark, emphasizes Jesus the sufferer; in Matthew, Jesus the teacher; in Luke, Jesus the reconciler; and in John, Jesus the mystic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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Summary: The author recounts his own experiences as a Jesuit seminarian and a Catholic layman, traces the origins of the papacy and explains why this often fallible institution is not the same as the Church, and discusses the Apostle's Creed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: SIMON 0000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1992
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Summary: "Shakespeare's plays abound with kings and leaders who crave a public stage and seize every opportunity to make their lives a performance: Antony, Cleopatra, Richard III, Othello, and many others. Such self-dramatizing characters appear in the work of other playwrights of the era as well, Marlowe's Edward II and Tamburlaine among them. But Elizabethan playwrights were not alone in realizing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale Univ Pr 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1991
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Summary: In what are billed as "culture wars," people on the political right and the political left cite Jesus as endorsing their views. Wills argues that Jesus subscribed to no political program--He was far more radical than that. It is only by dodges and evasions that people misrepresent what Jesus plainly had to say against power, the wealthy, and religion itself. Jesus came from the working class,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 232 WILSummary: Reap the wild wind: Two sailors battle pirates and compete for the affections of a Southern belle in 1840s Key West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie John 2007Summary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSummary: Into the Amazon tells the remarkable story of the journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon into the heart of the South American rain forest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon. Two of the most celebrated men from their respective nations, Roosevelt and Rondon set out with twenty other adventurers in 1914. Over eight eventful weeks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
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Summary: Martians invade a small town in 1950s California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2020
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI WARSummary: Molly and Lawless John: The wife of a brutal sheriff falls for a condemned prisoner. She helps him escape. Together they do their best to elude the sheriff who has vowed to get his wife back and to take vengeance on the outlaw. Blue River: In the small Wisconsin town of Blue River, secrets run deep. And for Henry Howland, high school principal and repressive moral beacon of his community, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2009