Spiegelman, Art
Summary: A memoir of Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and history. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice, Nazis as cats. Using a unique comic-strip-as-graphic-art format, the story of Vladek Spiegelman's passage through the Nazi Holocaust is told in his own words. Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph"...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1991
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SPICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 741.59 SPICopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SPI1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SPI
Art School Girlfriend (Musical group)
Contents: In the middle -- Is it light where you are -- Softer side -- Give -- Low light -- Colour me -- Helm -- Good as I wanted -- Bored of myself -- Eyes on you
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ARTHuber, Jeanne.
Summary: Ranging from shelving units and cabinets to window seats, an illustrated manual explains how to create a wide variety of beautiful and efficient built-in projects to suit any home or décor, with how-to instructions geared to readers of all skill levels, advice on materials and hardware, safety tips, and more than six hundred photographs featuring a host of built-in ideas and solutions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sunset Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 684.16 HUBBlakey, Art
Contents: In The Basement --Try A Little Tenderness --Little Girl Blue --On The Roof --Minority --Salute to Birdland --Eleanor --Futurity --Simplicity --Strictly Romantic --Hello --Mayreh.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve Records 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BLASummary: This episode of Frontline offers two starkly contrasting images: one of empty storefronts in Circleville, Ohio; the other, a sea of high rises in the South China boomtown of Shenzhen. The connection between American job losses and soaring Chinese exports? Wal-Mart. For Wal-Mart, China has become the cheapest, most reliable production platform in the world, the source of up to
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Krawcheck, Sallie
Summary: "Sallie Krawcheck has had it with advice implying that if women simply leaned in a little farther, played the game a little better, and demanded just a few more seats at the table--i.e. acted a little more like MEN--they could finally break through that glass ceiling. Yet this is a contest rigged to lose. A better strategy is to embrace and invest in the unique traits that make women better...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.3 KRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.3 KRAJoel, Mitch.
Summary: Explains the five key developments that have permanently altered the business world and describes how companies can embrace new media to change business models and adapt to the changes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Business Plus 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.8 JOESummary: This program focuses on Berlin, where Hannah Hoch, George Grosz, and John Heartfield politicized the anarchist Dada movement, uniting it with the extreme Left. Nearby, the newly formed Bauhaus School, led by founder Walter Gropius and other influential architects and artists, encouraged students to reject history and embrace new techniques, materials, and styles. The film also features Gerhard...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Follow Queen Elizabeth II's remarkable life, from her youth to her uncle Edward VIII's stunning abdication, and her father's coronation as King George VI. She defines the role of a modern monarch, leading the Royal Family and her subjects through the challenges of post-war reconstruction, decolonization, conflicts in South Africa, Northern Ireland and The Falklands, and the difficult days after...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QUESummary: Spotlighting techniques provided by parents, teachers, and childcare professionals, this program features helpful strategies for early childhood education. Topics include the importance of art, science projects in the home, integrating math activities, and learning through building with blocks. Hosted by former schoolteacher and veteran mom Debi Gutierrez.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Following her acclaimed run on Broadway in the Carole King musical Beautiful, Vanessa Carlton offers up her new album, which includes the single Future Pain.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CARNivhek.
Contents: After its own death -- Walking ub a spiral towards the house
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: W.25th 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NIVSummary: How do three talented individuals translate their unique artistic sensibilities into action? This program explains. Section one focuses attention on Jacques d'Amboise, one of the world's finest classical dancers and founder of the National Dance Institute, which exposes thousands of inner-city school children to the magic and discipline of dance. Section two introduces viewers to Andre Andreev...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Horn, Art
Contents: The people in your (work) neighborhood: The worrier; The controller; The fake; The attention-seeker; The victim; The prisoner -- Hell is not just other people: The transcendence model; Here comes the judge; Our shaky foundations; How we judge -- Moving from fear to freedom: What's your operating strategy?; A case of disidentification; There goes the judge; A way of being; A better way.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Management Association 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.13 HORHarris, Duchess
Summary: The civil rights sit-ins sparked the larger civil rights movement, inspiring many people to protest racial inequality. Civil Rights Sit-Ins discusses how the United States' history of slavery and segregation led people to make a change, how the sit-ins began to make businesses available to all, and how the protests changed the laws of a nation. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J323.1196 HARSummary: Partitions and walls containing plumbing pipes or heating ducts often need to be constructed differently in order to safely accommodate these systems and meet building codes. This program details a number of common industry techniques used in these situations, including accompanying electrical considerations. Correlates to the Competencies and Objectives of the National Center for Construction...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Sewing is a useful skill that is as handy in the home as it is profitable in the workplace. This video introduces students to the sewing machine, the key to high-volume stitching and a rewarding career in the clothing industry. First, the program names each part of the machine, from the thread take-up lever, to the bobbin winder spindle, to the presser foot lifter. Then, it demonstrates how to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: If your students don't know a seam ripper from a seam gauge, this video is a perfect place to start teaching the skills needed for sewing by hand. All of the basic tools of the trade are identified, including measuring instruments, tracing wheels and paper, fabric markers, scissors and shears, needles, ballpoint and sharp pins, basting tape, pin cushions, thimbles, irons, pressing cloths, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Farmer, Art.
Contents: Mox nix -- Fair weather -- Darn that dream -- The touch of your lips -- Jubilation -- Like someone in love -- I love you -- Cold breeze.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ FARNewell, Jennifer.
Summary: Book Description: Pacific Art in Detail introduces the riches of Oceanic art through astonishing close-up views of rarely seen treasures, allowing behind-the-scenes insight into this vibrant work that no conventional gallery tour affords. Carefully selected pieces from the world-renowned Oceanic collection at the British Museum-by artists employing a wide variety of materials and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709.95 NEWBarnes, Julian
Summary: "An extraordinary collection--hawk-eyed and understanding--from the Booker Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Sense of an Ending and Levels of Life. As Julian Barnes explains: "Flaubert believed that...great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting....But it is a rare picture that stuns,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knope 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 709.03 BARSummary: Are your students getting ready to "take off" and live on their own? Anthony is! In this video, he asks a pilot, his father, and his friends for advice on how to make moving away a successful experience. In the process, viewers will get an overview of things to consider as they make their own plans: budgeting, time management, adjustment issues, support systems, and more. Correlates to all...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Farmer, Art.
Contents: Disc 1. Isis -- Ah-leu-cha -- Love walked in -- Blue 'n' boogie -- Soul dance -- Nancy -- Au privave -- Little moon.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: C.A.M. 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ FARPepper, Art
Contents: Wee (Allen's Alley) (7:39) -- Over the rainbow (10:28) -- In the middle of a kiss (8:51) -- Broadway (6:29) -- Girl from Ipanema (10:31) -- Breakdown blues (10:01).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Pablo Records 1995