Gaiteros de San Jacinto
Contents: Fuego de cumbia : cumbia = Cumbia fire / Rafael Pérez García (5:24) -- Sigan bailando : puya = Keep on dancing / Manuel Antonio García Caro (2:23) -- El manolo : bullerengue / Juan Alberto Fernández Polo (4:37) -- El millo se modernizó : cumbia = The millo got modernized / Aurelio Fernández (3:51) -- Canto de zafra = Worksong / Juan Alberto Fernández Polo (5:09) -- El corcovado : gaita corrida...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/SOUTH AMERICAN GAISummary: 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: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINSummary: Kim Ki-teak's family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they gradually infiltrate the wealthy Park's home, attempting to take over their affluent lifestyle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PaSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISYan, Ge
Summary: "From one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Chinese literature, an uncanny and playful bestiary that blurs the line between human and beast ... In the fictional Chinese city of Yong'an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the stories of its fabled beasts. These creatures live alongside humans in near-inconspicuousness-save their greenish skin, serrated earlobes, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANSummary: Rachel, a young Jewish girl hiding from the Nazi's during World War II in The Netherlands, sees her hiding place blown up. She escapes with her rescuer, a young sailor, but the boat sails into a trap set by the Germans. She escapes and joins the resistance, and under the false name Ellis de Vries she meets SS-hauptsturmf┬⌐╞´hrer Ludwig Muntze on a train smuggling weapons. She goes to his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLASummary: A new arrival in British-occupied Hong Kong wants to open a martial arts academy to teach his unique Wing Chun style. But a corrupt cabal of martial arts masters, led by Master Hung, refuses to allow him to teach in peace until he proves himself in a series of fights against the local master, which Ip does, in style. But even after earning the respect of the local masters, Ip's troubles are...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IPSummary: "Son is Cuba's principal dance and song form and the root of salsa. Fusing African and Spanish elements, it ranges in style from simple, rustic bands to the brassy arrangements of New York salsa. This rough guide, literally a 'who's who' in Cuban music, explores this rich tradition, from its conception in the early 1900s to the present day big-band revival"--Container verso.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Music Network 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN ROUPiffaro
Contents: Adieu mes amours (1:26) ; Se j'ay perdu mon amy (1:56) ; Baisez-moy, ma doulce amye (2:12) / Josquin Desprez -- Musae Jovis / Nicolas Gombert (4:31) -- Bransles de village / anon. ; arr. Piffaro (5:00) -- Prélude ; Languir me fais / anon., Claudin de Sermisy (5:13) -- Allemandes / ed. Claude Gervaise ; arr. Piffaro (3:17) -- Pavane "Dellestarpe" ; Basse dance / ed. C. Gervaise, anon. (2:55) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Archiv Produktion 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL PiffaSummary: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PERSummary: After having the emperor's minister of defense executed, a power-grabbing eunuch sends assassins to trail the victim's children to a remote point on the northern Chinese border. But that bloodthirsty mission is confounded by a mysterious group of fighters who arrive on the scene, intent on delivering justice and defending the innocent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRASummary: A man returns to Kaili, Guizhou, the hometown from which he fled many years before. Back for his father's funeral, he recalls the death of an old friend, and searches for a lost love who continues to haunt him
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LONSummary: When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by French Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovered that he is the number 1 suspect for the murder of a historian Langdon had been scheduled to meet with. Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DAV RATED PG-13Summary: After getting out of jail, a Puerto Rican drug lord wants to go straight, but his cohorts in the New York underworld won't let him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2008
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY CARContents: Public enemies /Ennemis publics -- American gangster /Gangster Américain -- Casino -- Carlito's way /À la manière de Carlito -- Scarface /Le Balafré.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY LEGSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
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 MuseumDye, Dan.
Summary: The story of a dog who was born with the cards stacked against her, but whose passionate, joyful nature enabled her to save two people who thought they were saving her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.73 DYEDi Stefano, Sal
Summary: A personal trainer and co-founder of the Mind Pump Media podcast explains how weight training is the best way to burn fat, increase metabolism, and avoid injury and illness as you age.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go, an imprint of Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 DI SSummary: After a Mongolian desert herder hurts her back, she realizes that to support her family she must legally divorce her husband while looking for a man who will agree to take care of all of them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TUYSummary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARCul de Sac (Musical group)
Contents: Etaoin shrdlu 8:55. -- K 6:20. -- A voice through a cloud 9:23. -- Into the cone of cold 3:46. -- Far off, the fabulous iron serpent whistles 6:04. -- Father Silence 9:25. -- Hagstrom 9:17. -- Sands of Iwo Jima 12:24. -- Auf der maur 0:53. -- On the roof of the world 6:27.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Thirsty Ear Recordings Inc. 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CULSummary: God lives in human form as a cynical writer with his young opinionated daughter in present day Brussels, Belgium. She concludes that her dad is doing a terrible job and decides to rewrite the world, which leaves God angry, powerless and adamant to get his power back.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BRAVan der Vat, Dan.
Contents: Introduction -- So much was at stake -- The decisive front -- The plan -- A grand deception -- The forerunners -- Pegasus bridge -- Target: Ste-Mère-Englise -- The sea and air assault -- Utah and bloody Omaha -- Sword, Juno and Gold -- The gathering standoff -- The breakout --Finale at Falaise -- The beginning of the end.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2003