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 2010Prevost, Jean Pierre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 224.06 PREVernant, Jean Pierre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 292.13 VernaMoullé, Jean-Pierre.
Summary: Jean-Pierre and Denise Moullé met on a street corner in Berkeley, California, in 1980; six months later they were married. French Roots is the story of their lives told through the food they cook—beginning with the dishes of old-world France, the couple’s birthplace, and focusing on the simple, pared-down preparations of French food common in the postwar period. The story then travels to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5944 MOUVerdet, Jean-Pierre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520 VERPierce, Simon
Summary: "Some people have vocally opposed vaccines ever since they were first invented. In the 20th century, the anti-vax movement gained steam as celebrities such as Jenny McCarthy spread false information about their link to autism. The COVID-19 pandemic thrust the issue into the spotlight, and misinformation spread on social media helped turn many people against vaccination. This volume examines the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 615.3 PIESummary: This series of lectures introduces the greatest of universal museums. Its aim is not comprehensive. The focus is narrowed to the Department of Paintings, which is responsible for European paintings from the Middle Ages until the mid-19th century. These works of art form an encyclopedic summary of the achievements of painters that can be called the single most important such collection in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 708.4 MUSCall number: DVD 708.4 MUS
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 708.4 MuseumSummary: Simone Bitton, a Jewish woman born in Morocco who identifies with both Arab and Jewish cultures, examines the personal, cultural, and monetary costs of the Israeli West Bank Barrier, a wall being built to separate Israelis and Palestinians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Life Size Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WALSummary: Ici et ailleurs: In this meditation on how cinema records history, the filmmakers, members of the Dziga Vertov Group, contrast a French family's life with an impressionistic portrait of war in Palestine, as reflected through television, books, and other media.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gaumont vidéo 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 YOUSummary: This 6-part series will be shown on PBS in the Spring of 2006. Includes: Voyage To Kure (Parts I & II), The Gray Whale Obstacle Course, Sharks: At Risk, and America's Underwater Treasures (Parts I & II).
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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Summary: "In the middle of a depressing youth in a ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica, Robert Nesta Marley sees only one way out: music. And that music will be what Jamaica made of rock and pop locally that had hardly been heard anywhere else: reggae! It is Marley who brings the unmistakable beat of reggae to the entire world. From small stages in Jamaica, his partners of the Wailers accompany him all the way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Graphic Novels 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GAESummary: An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Part 3 explores the period from the Renaissance to the onset of the Enlightenment in the middle to late seventeenth century. This section marks the critical schism that developed between the claims of faith and those of science.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRERubalcaba, Jill
Summary: "Have you ever wondered about the real location of the Garden of Eden? Or how Moses could have parted the Red Sea? Well, archaeologists have wondered, too, and they have some ideas. Journey to the ancient world through lovely retellings of popular bible stories paired with classical art. Explore fascinating archaeological discoveries that illuminate how or where these stories might have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2017
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Summary: Explores the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HUNCoumont, Alain
Summary: "Le Pain Quotidien Cookbook presents over 100 recipes for simple, elegant and healthy fare - handmade bread, breakfast, tartines, soup, salads, sharing dishes and desserts. Le Pain Quotidien is best known for its organic bread and its signature tartines but it's also about sharing great food made with love at any time of the day. With everything from grissini, baguettes and focaccia to chia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 COUGarten, Ina
Summary: A collection of eighty-five all-new recipes by the James Beard Award-winning host of the Emmy Award-winning Food Network series features comforting twists on childhood favorites, including cheesy chicken enchiladas, tomato and goat cheese crostata, and banana rum trifle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 GARCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 GARSummary: Explores the indelible footprint that humans have left on this planet, and the catastrophic effects of environmental neglect and abuse, and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ELESherman, William T. (William Tecumseh)
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 SHESummary: Betty is a best selling novelist who has invented her name to escape a troubled past made worse by her emotionally unstable and violent mother. When her young son is killed in an accident, her mother brings her a "replacement", a boy she kidnapped off the street.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALISummary: "On September 13, 2022, a young Iranian student, Mahsa Amini, was arrested by the morality police in Tehran. Her only crime was that she wasn't properly wearing the headscarf required for women by the Islamic Republic. At the police station, she was beaten so badly she had to be taken to the hospital, where she fell into a deep coma. She died three days later. A wave of protests soon spread...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024