Wagner, Eric Loudon
Summary: "How life bounces back from epic destruction On May 18, 1980, people all over the world watched with awe and horror as Mount St. Helens erupted in southwestern Washington. Fifty-seven people were killed, and hundreds of square miles of what had been lush forests and wild rivers were to all appearances destroyed. While most people thought of the eruption as a catastrophe, a small, ragtag team of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Washington Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577 WAGWagner, Richard
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: "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: Explore the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design, and architecture. Making a reputation with her traditional lacquer work in the first decade of the twentieth century, she became a critically acclaimed and sought-after designer and decorator before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRAWeiner, Eric
Summary: Draws on the author's experiences as a foreign correspondent to evaluate more than three dozen countries for their happiness potential, in a survey that includes profiles of such locales as the American shores, glacial Iceland, and the Bhutan jungles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Auio 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD 910.4 WeinerWeiner, Eric
Summary: Retraces the journeys of forefront intellectuals from Epicurus and Gandhi to Thoreau and Beauvoir to illuminate how their practical and spiritual lessons can be applied in today's unsettled world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 100 WEIWeiner, Eric
Summary: After a health scare, an atheist travels the world searching for an experience of the divine, from meditating with Tibetan lamas in Nepal and unblocking his chi in China, to studying the Kabbalah in Israel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200 WEIWeiner, Eric.
Summary: Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, this book takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2008
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Summary: In a true story of crime and detection in fifteenth century Paris, Guillaume de Tignonville, the Provost of Paris and one of history's first detectives, uncovers a conspiracy while investigating the murder of Louis of Orleans, brother to King Charles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.026 JAGWeiner, Eric
Summary: In The Geography of Genius, acclaimed travel writer Weiner sets out to examine the connection between our surroundings and our most innovative ideas. He explores the history of places, like Vienna of 1900, Renaissance Florence, ancient Athens, Song Dynasty Hangzhou, and Silicon Valley, to show how certain urban settings are conducive to ingenuity. And, with his trademark insightful humor, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 WEISummary: 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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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INTGrice, Gordon (Gordon D.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 570 GRILofton, LouAnn.
Summary: "Investing isn't a man's world anymore--and this book shows why that's a good thing for individual portfolios, Wall Street, and the world's financial system"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 332.6 LOFWeiner, Eric Daniel
Summary: Hello! Freddie Parrott III here with some exciting news. Too exciting, in fact. The stories I have to tell you are rather feather-raising. But don't worry. Somehow my butler and best friend, Peccary, always finds a way to save the day. Then he and I have a big chuckle--at my expense. They don't call me famously funny for nothing!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED WEISummary: Returns to rural southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie, a troubled young boy from ten years ago. The film began as a way of discovering what forces shaped Stevie's life. Part way through the filming, Stevie is arrested for a serious crime, and tears his family apart. The modest profile turned into a chronicle of Stevie, his broken family, the justice system and the filmmaker himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Studio Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STESummary: The tragedy and horror of the 9/11 attacks triggered a host of changes in America, including a reassessment of the role of sports and its accompanying hero-worship. Batting averages and home run totals were no longer paramount, particularly in New York, but in the Fall of 2001 baseball played a significant role in the city's recovery efforts. Revisits that remarkable and inspiring phenomenon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NINSummary: Filmmaker Werner Herzog explores a triple homicide case in Conroe, Texas and "probes the human psyche to explore why people kill--and why a state kills". Through intimate conversations with those involved, including 28-year-old death row inmate Michael Perry (scheduled to die within eights days of appearing on-screen), Herzog achieves what he describes as 'a gaze into the abyss of the human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INTRamsay, Gordon
Summary: Create chef-quality food without spending hours in the kitchen. With unlimited access to recipes, why does anyone need another cookbook? Because not all recipes are born equal. Not all of them have been created by a global superstar chef who has built his reputation on delivering the very best food - whether that's the ultimate fine dining experience at his 3 Michelin-star Restaurant Gordon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 RAMBrin, Geri
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sixth&Spring Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.34 BRISummary: "The Legend of ZeldaTM: Art and Artifacts contains over four hundred pages of fully realized illustrations from the entire thirty-year history of The Legend of ZeldaTM"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books, a division of Dark Horse Comics, Inc. 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK WAIWainwright, Loudon
Summary: The influential singer, songwriter, and actor shares meditative personal reflections on relationships and creativity, tracing the struggles with alcoholism, infidelity, and competitiveness that have challenged his celebrity family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2017