Reich, Steve
Summary: "Steve Reich is a living legend in the world of contemporary classical music. As a leader of the minimalist movement in the 1960s, his works have become central to the musical landscape worldwide, influencing generations of younger musicians, choreographers and visual artists. He has explored non-Western music and American vernacular music from jazz to rock, as well as groundbreaking music and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.92 REISummary: We often think that people from a thousand years ago were living in the Dark Ages. But from the 7th century onward in Muslim civilization there were amazing advances and inventions that still influence our everyday lives. People living in the Muslim world saw what the Egyptians, Chinese, Indians, Greek, and Romans had discovered and spent the next one thousand years adding new developments and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 297.2 ONEContents: CD 1: Lost and found (Matthew Herbert remix) / Lianne La Havas -- 9 years (DJ Koze remix) / Roman Flügel -- You and me / Ada -- In the dust of this planet / Axel Boman -- Bump with you / Nasrawi -- I does it / Funkstörung feat. Sensational -- Pacemaker / Jackmate feat. Nik Reiff -- Glow / Lawrence -- Snowshoe / Dntel --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC PAMLustmord, B.
Summary: The Fall is a deconstruction of November by Dennis Johnson. Written for solo piano in 1959, November is the first example of minimalist music composition and was the inspiration for La Monte Young's The Well-Tuned Piano (1964). The 66-minute piece is a collaboration between legendary artist Lustmord and renowned classical pianist Nicolas Horvath, in which they reduce Johnson's original November...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC LUSHassell, Jon
Contents: Chor moiré (2:18) -- Courage (3:28) -- Dream theory (5:13) -- Datu bintung at jelong (7:03) -- Malay (10:10) -- These times -- (2:52) -- Gift of fire (5:00).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tak:til 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD AVANT-GARDE HASMoondog
Contents: Theme and variations -- Down is up -- Bumbo -- Big cat -- Oo debut -- Lament 1 "Birds's lament" -- Moondog's symphony 1 (Timberwolf) -- Moondog's symphony 2 (Sagebrush) -- Rabbit hop -- Rimshot -- Snaketime rhythm -- Instrumental round -- Double bass duo -- Why spend the dark night with you -- All is loneliness -- Snaketime rhythm -- Dragon's teeth -- Oboe round -- Be a hobo -- Dog trot --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Honest Jons Records 2005
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Summary: Includes updates on many of the performers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Glendower Media LLC 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 RYADunn, Kyle Bobby
Contents: disque un. Ouverture de Peter Hodge Transport -- An excrement suite (for voices lost again) -- Boring foothills of foot fetishville -- Variation on a theme by St-Dipshit -- Rue de Guy-Mathieu -- Saison triste on Lac of Baies -- Mon retard -- Confessions of the mildly miserable -- La failure et la chance.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DUNHauschka
Contents: La dilettante -- Paddington -- One wish -- Chicago morning -- Kleine Dinge -- Belgrade -- Sweet spring come -- Femmeassise -- Watercolour milk -- Zahnluecke -- Fjorde -- Old man playing boules.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fatcat Records 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC HAUSummary: "From rock's backpages, the online library of rock and roll. Comes this anthology of timeless rock writing from the good to the bad to the plain ugly. The sound and the fury spans four decades and comes at rock and roll from all angles, among the pieces ..."--BOOK JACKET.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 SOUSummary: "The Girl Group Sound, made famous and unforgettable by acts like The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas, took over the airwaves by capturing the mix of innocence and rebellion emblematic of America in the 1960s. As songs like "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "Then He Kissed Me," and "Be My Baby" rose to number one, Girl Groups cornered the burgeoning post-war market of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 BUTJiha, Park
Contents: Pam ŭl to wa = Throughout the night... (5:00) -- Sigan ŭi ch'ukchŏk = Accumulation of time (6:40) -- Communion (6:56) -- Tal ege sŏjŏn hae tŭrŭn sori = Sounds heard from the moon (9:05) -- Mŏrŏjin kan'gyŏk ŭi kŭrium = The longing of the yawning divide (3:17) -- All Soul's Day (9:05) -- Maju anjŭn ch'ŏt maŭm = The first time I sat across from you (with sax. version) (8:33).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Glitterbeat Records 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN JIHBrenner, Michael
Summary: "In 1935, Adolf Hitler declared Munich the "Capital of the Movement." It was here that he developed his anti-Semitic beliefs and founded the Nazi party. Though Hitler's immediate milieu during the 1910s and 1920s has received ample attention, this book argues that the Munich of this period is worthy of study in its own right and that the changes the city underwent between 1918 and 1923 are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943 BREAdams, John Luther
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL ADAAdler, Laure.
Summary: A selection of sixty powerfully seductive women, from Biblical times to the present day, featuring mythical and real heroines. The most memorable stories throughout history feature a powerful, seductive woman who has an irresistible hold over the man in her life. The alluring Cleopatra, like Helen of Troy, inspired lovers to the battlefield in a brave display of loyalty. Eve and Pandora...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704 ADLAli-Khan, Sofia
Summary: "A leading advocate for social justice excavates the history of forced migration in the twelve American towns she's called home, revealing how White supremacy has fundamentally shaped the nation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALI-KHAN, SOFIA ALIDuncan, Dayton
Summary: "The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today-a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo-our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Contents: Flex (2:50) -- Nolan (6:57) -- The Teeth Behind The Kisses (3:12) -- Secant (4:55) -- Diphenyl Oxalate (1:31) -- Venter (6:45) -- No Sorrowing (4:27) -- Sola Fide (6:27) -- A Single Point Of Blinding Light (3:17).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mute 2014
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Kelkar, Supriya.
Summary: The story of the world's most famous diamonds -- stolen from South Asia during colonization and now among the crown jewels in London -- is a call to action for readers to decolonize and hold their heads high.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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Contents: On time out of time -- 4 (E+D) 4 (ER = EPR)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Temporary Residence Ltd. 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC BASAngus, Charlie
Summary: "The world is desperate for cobalt. It fuels the digital economy and powers everything from cell phones to clean energy. But this 'demon metal,' this 'blood mineral,' has a horrific present and troubled history. Then there is the town in northern Canada, also called Cobalt. It created a model of resource extraction a hundred years ago -- theft of Indigenous lands, rape of the earth,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anansi 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.2 ANGLari, Zahra
Summary: "After watching an ice-skating movie, young Zahra sets her mind to learn how to ice skate even though her family and friends doubt her abilities. After all, she's too old to learn, the rink is too cold, and figure skaters don't look like her... not yet at least! Illustrated with Sara Alfageeh's energetic lines and colors that pop right off the page, we follow Zahra's story as she glides across...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2024
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Summary: "In What a Difference a Day Makes: Women Who Conquered 1950s Music, Steve Bergsman highlights the Black female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the early 1960s. Many of the singers of this era became wildly famous and respected, and even made it into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. However, there were many others, such as Margie Day, Helen Humes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 782.42 BERReynolds, Terry S.
Summary: In Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847--2006, Terry S. Reynolds and Virginia P. Dawson tell the story of Cleveland-Cliffs, the only surviving independent American iron mining company, now known as Cliffs Natural Resources. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland-Cliffs played a major role in the opening and development of the Lake Superior mining district and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2011