Hammer, Jan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HAMSummary: 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 2010Summary: Featuring an incredible array of the greatest musicians of the '70s and early '80s. It stands alone in the history of rock n roll as the first ever late-night live concert show on TV, capturing the spirit of a time when rock was exploding in so many new, exciting directions. For nine thrilling years, The Special brought audience the very best live music from every genre, rare performances right...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MIDHagan, Joe
Summary: A portrait of the founder of "Rolling Stone" magazine places his life and achievements against a backdrop of the music, culture, and politics of the late twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Louis Mazzini seeks to avenge his mother's disinheritance by ascending to her family's dukedom. To do this, he must kill eight of his relatives in the d'Ascoyne family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KINSummary: Explores the nature of Islam and unfolds many of its inner-dimensions. It dispels many myths and discusses contributions to science and math.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 LEGBen-Hanan, Eli.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COHSummary: Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: Four individuals of dual male and female spirit bring their healing arts from Tahiti to Hawaii, where they are beloved for their gentle ways and miraculous cures and where they imbue four giant boulders with their powers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WONForrest, Tim.
Summary: Every summer, entomologists around the world offer bug camps to kids, hoping to share the wonders of insects with the next generation of explorers and creative thinkers. Now, biologists Tim Forrest and Jen Hamel bring their decades of bug camp experience to a book filled with games, experiments, cool facts, stories, and good, old-fashioned fun. Rain or shine, indoors and out, Bug Camp is filled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moondance Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 595.7 FORWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WEISummary: Professor Gates' journey continues as a weekly series that will look at an ever-widening spectrum of our nation's fascinating ethnic mixture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FINLuxenberg, Steve
Summary: Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the nineteenth century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still felt into the twenty-first. Separate...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 342.73 LUXSummary: Presents a collection of the year's best essays as selected by author and critic Vivian Gornick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Summary: The four operas of The Ring Cycle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2012
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA RINSummary: Using interviews and rare archival footage, this chronicles Lewis's 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health care reform, and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, it explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family, and his meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. It also...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JOHSummary: Entertainer extrordinaire Michael Feinstein hosts a brand-new documentary on the evolution of the American popular music, told through stories of the greatest songwriters of all time, including Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George & Ira Gershwin and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC GREFrench, J. H. (John Homer)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heart of the Lakes Pub. 1980
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 917.47 FreSummary: In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager missions as a way of exploring the solar system's outermost planets, capturing images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and their moons. "The farthest" documents Voyager's journey, including first-hand accounts of the men and women who built the ships and guided their missions. Bonus film "Second genesis" explores the scientific quest to find life, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 919.9 FARSummary: Follow the courageous journey of John Lewis, a civil rights hero, congressional leader, and human rights champion whose unwavering fight for justice spans the past 50 years. The son of sharecroppers, Lewis grew up in the segregated South and rose from Alabama's Black Belt to the corridors of power on Capitol Hill. His humble origins have forever linked him to those whose voices often go unheard.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JOHSefusatti, Emiliano.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vernacular Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 SEFHagar, Sammy.
Summary: The popular rock singer delivers behind-the-scenes stories from his life in music, from his solo career to his decade-long tenure as lead singer of Van Halen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: !t Books 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HAGAR HARHomer
Summary: Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 883.01 HOMKramer, Mattea/ Comerford, Jo (CON)/ Dana, Samantha (CON)/ Heady, Sheila (CON)/ Hellman, Chris (CON)
Summary: From history of the budget process to detail about the ongoing conflict in Washington, from charts explaining where every federal dollar goes to simple explanations of budget terminology, this book about the federal budget also covers up-to-the-minute numbers and an explanation of President Obamas 2013 budget request.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2012