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...
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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 2010Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Travel back in time, from the Arctic Ocean to Pacific tide pools, with a pioneering group of scientists who make surprising discoveries that transform human understanding of nature and ecology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SERVoss, Edward G. (Edward Groesbeck)
Summary: Field Manual of Michigan Flora is the most up-to-date guide available for all seed plants growing wild in Michigan. Significantly expanding and updating the three-volume Michigan Flora, the book incorporates the discoveries of numerous additional species, recent systematic research, and a vast trove of new information on the shifting distributions of Michigan species. It presents concise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known today as a painter, but his reputation was in fact established through his prints, which were central to his creative process. His printmaking was experimental and innovative, and he continually revisited the subjects of his paintings in striking prints, in which he evoked a wide range of emotion and mood through the use of varied techniques. Munch's early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.81 EDVVarèse, Edgard
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL VARAshton, Jennifer
Summary: Dr. Jennifer Ashton is at the top of her field as an ob-gyn and news correspondent. But even at the top there's still room to improve, and with "The Self-Care Solution", she upends her life one month at a time, using her own experiences to help you improve your health and enhance your life. Dr. Ashton becomes both researcher and subject as she focuses on twelve separate challenges. Beginning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health AshtonAshton, Jennifer
Summary: The Chief Medical Correspondent at ABC News presents a guide to resilience in the era of COVID, sharing insights into how to understand evolving medical updates, adapt to evolving norms, and make responsible choices throughout the pandemic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.2 ASHNichols, Ashton
Summary: A series of 24 lectures on the New England Transcendalist Movement delivered by Ashton Nichols, Professor of English at Dickinson College.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 141.3 NICAshton, Dianne.
Summary: The ways in which Hanukkah was reshaped by American Jews reveals the changing goals and values that emerged among different contingents each December as they confronted the reality of living as a religious minority in the United States. Bringing together clergy and laity, artists and businessmen, teachers, parents, and children, Hanukkah has been a dynamic force for both stability and change in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.435 ASHAshton, Jeff.
Summary: The prosecuting attorney for the trial of Casey Anthony offers an inside account of the investigation, explaining how the prosecution built their case and why the media fixation on Anthony may have undermined the case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.1092 ASHLedward, Daphne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Robson/Parkwest Publications 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9671 LEDWagner, Eduard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spring Books 1967
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 623.441 WAGRadzinsky, Edvard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NICApplewhite, Ashton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.51 APPAshton, Jennifer
Summary: Shares the author's experiences after the suicide of her ex-husband, as well as the most recent insights into suicide from the medical community. When her ex-husband killed himself soon after their divorce, Ashton's world-- and that of her children-- was shattered. At once a deeply personal trauma, and a devastating public epidemic, suicide affects millions who are left behind and must work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.28 ASHAshton, Jennifer
Summary: "Sometimes the path to radical transformation begins small, not by losing twenty pounds or meditating for hours but by making the choice to try something good for you -- just for one month -- to see how it makes you feel. This was the basic idea Dr. Jennifer Ashton had one January, an idea that quickly evolved into a year-long journey to sample and understand how different areas of wellness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 613.2 ASHAston, Felicity
Summary: "The story of how British polar explorer Felicity Aston gathered a team of ten women from across Europe and the Middle East to ski over the frozen Arctic Ocean to the North Pole"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.911 ASTASHTON-WARNER, SYLVIA
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828.9 ASHAshmun, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.933 ASHGodward, Mary
Summary: "The second-largest country in South America, Argentina has been through great changes in recent years. Its journey from dictatorship to democracy has left many scars, but these are largely eclipsed by the pride and resilience of the Argentinian people, who have developed a style, a language, and a joie de vivre that are all their own. Embracing much more than gaucho, tango, and soccer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kuperard 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 918.2 ARGRushton, Brandon
Summary: "In The Air in the Air Behind It, Brandon Rushton's poems are wild ranging examinations of the untenable present and the unknowable future. They brim with ideas in a sonic rush-so full of vitality and the resilience required to rally the spirit inside a personal reckoning against the backdrop of collective resignation. "I came dangerously close to some / partition, some fog I can't stop / my...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tupelo Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 RUSAnstee, Ashlyn
Summary: Environmental mystery solvers Shelby and her best friend, Watts, who is never without his encyclopedia, must help Fred the hermit crab find all the shells that went missing from the beach.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 ANSLeroux, Gaston.
Summary: Alors qu'elle était enfermée dans sa chambre barricadée comme un coffre-fort, Mathilde, la fille du professeur Stangerson, est agressée. Frédric Larsan et Joseph Rouletabille mènent l'enquête.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallimard-Jeunesse 2007