Summary: "Nearly a hundred years ago, a radical artistic utopia was born in Germany. Founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, Bauhaus was supposed to unite sculpture, painting, design and architecture into a single combined constructive discipline. Bauhaus constituted one of the most significant contributions to everyday 20th-century culture and influential contemporary designs, and it was never just an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BAUWeber, Nicholas Fox
Summary: In this extraordinary group biography, Weber brilliantly brings to life the Bauhaus geniuses and the community of the pioneering art school in Germany's Weimar and Dessau in the 1920s and early 1930s. --from publisher description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WeberAmbler, Frances
Summary: "Trace The Story of Bauhaus through the 100 personalities, designs, ideas and events that shaped this monumental movement. Learn about leaders Paul Klee, Walter Gropius, Anni Albers and Wassily Kandinsky; witness wild parties and groundbreaking events that would revolutionise contemporary design; and discover a range of innovative ideas and new ways of thinking. Now 100 years old, the Bauhaus...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ilex 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 707.1 AMBCorso, Phil
Summary: "The martial art of tae kwon do is based on more than 5,000 years of Korean tradition. It's a combat system that focuses not only on physical performance but also on mental and spiritual wellness. The name of this martial art loosely means foot, fist, and discipline, and tae kwon do combines the strength of the body with the agility of the mind. Today, tae kwon do is a popular martial art for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.815 CORMeyer, Judith L.
Contents: Revolutionary ideas and evolutionary processes -- The discovery accounts -- Following in the footsteps -- The art of the Yellowstone -- Experiencing Yellowstone -- The idea of the ideal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roberts Rinehart 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.752 MEYHunt, Helen
Summary: ""Let me suggest, then, that the opening Chapter go farther back than 1848. From the time of the first Convention on Women-in New York 1837-the battle began." - Lucretia Mott, to Elizabeth Cady Stanton A decade prior to the Seneca Falls Convention, blackand white women joined together at the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention in the first instance of political organizing by American women, for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Feminist Press at CUNY 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 HUNWanning, Esther.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.2 WANAdamson, Thomas K.
Summary: Presents information on tae kwon do, including basic skills, training, competitions, and safety.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: SportsZone/Abdo Publishing 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.815 ADARusch, Elizabeth.
Summary: The story of the two robot vehicles, Spirit and Opportunity, that were sent to explore Mars, lasting far past their projected lives of 3 months and sending back invaluable images of the environmentally hostile planet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children 2012
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Contents: Essays. Collecting the image of America : Charles Willson Peale's The artist in his museum and Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre / Judith Russi Kirshner -- Painting the image of America : portraiture and genre in the 19th century / Elizabeth Milroy -- Americans in the landscape / D. Scott Atkinson -- American impressionism / Elizabeth Milroy -- America and the modernist spirit / D....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Museum of American Art 1987
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.73 PROFrank, Robert
Summary: An educational psychologist and family therapist draws on his own experiences as a dyslexic to help parents understand their own dyslexic child and their fears, frustrations, and goals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92 FRAWildman, Wesley J.
Summary: "Technology can now control the spiritual experience. This is a journey through the high-tech aids for psychological growth that are changing our world, while exploring the safety, authenticity and ethics of this new world. We already rely on technology to manage our health, sleep, relationships, and finances, so it's no surprise that we're turning to technological aids for the spiritual...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 204 WILJaher, David
Summary: In 1924 the wife of a Boston surgeon came to embody the raging national debate over Spiritualism, a movement devoted to communication with the dead. Reporters dubbed her the blonde Witch of Lime Street, but she was known to her followers simply as Margery. Her most vocal advocate was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who believed so thoroughly in Margery's powers that he urged her to enter a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAGERY JAHJacobson, Sidney.
Contents: The motorcycle diarist -- The plight of Latin America, 1953 -- Back on the road -- Cuba -- Victory -- Crisis after crisis -- The revolutionary -- The Congo misadventure.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GUEVARA, ERNESTO JACSummary: Examines the myth and reality of Che Guevara including his friendship with Castro, his world travels, his days as guerilla leader and his death at age 39.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHEBirkerts, Sven.
Summary: "In The Art of Time in Memoir, critic, editor, and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. "Memoir is, for better and often for worse, the genre of our times," Birkerts writes. But what makes one memoir memorable and another self-serving? What determines the difference between graceful disclosure and sensational self-exposure? Birkerts argues that the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.93592 BIRBaron, Dennis E
Summary: "The story of how we got from he and she to zie and hir and singular they. Like trigger warnings and gender-neutral bathrooms, pronouns are suddenly sparking debate, prompting new policies in schools, workplaces, even prisons, about what pronouns to use. Colleges ask students to declare their pronouns; corporate conferences print nametags with space for people to add their pronouns; email...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Hinn, Costi W.
Summary: "This fun fable teaches children the importance of having self-control and explains how true change--the kind only the great King Jesus can bring--always starts in our hearts. In the city of Thad, no one is more powerful than King Ira. But Thad has a big problem: Their king has no self-control. When Ira's anger leads to destruction, Lady Wisdom points the wayward king back to Jesus. After...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 2024
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HINSociety of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy 1976
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.374Shimer, Porter
Summary: "Discover how the Native-American tradition uses plants and herbs, heat, movement and sound, visualization, and spirituality to heal dozens of everyday ailments and illnesses--from back pain to insect bites to flu and sore throat and much more. Broken into sections, the book covers such topics as "The Healing Spirit" (including dream therapy, spirituality, and prayer), "The Native American Spa"...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tess Press 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.88 SHIWeber, Nicholas Fox
Summary: Nicholas Fox Weber, in this deft, entertaining, and brilliant rumination on art and technology, writes of the iPhone as the essence of the Bauhaus principles of form following function--of honesty of design and materials that reflect the true nature of objects and buildings, favoring linear and geometrical forms; adhering to line, shape, and colors; synthesizing art to modern times; the fusion...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.5 WEBGoodchild, Claire
Summary: As long as people have lived, they have longed for wisdom and comfort from those who have died. In The Book of Séances, artist, author, and witch Claire Goodchild takes readers on a journey over the historical landscape of spiritualism and guides questers through safe practices for cultivating a connection with the other side. The Book of Séances details the four types of spiritual encounters,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Voracious / Little, Brown and Company 2022