Mortimer, Ian
Summary: The author shows everyday life for people living in late 17th century Britain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942 MORHart, Roger
Summary: Using contemporary documents, paintings, and other primary source material describes the century that included the Civil War and the Great Fire and Plague.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.06 HARNational Society, Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century
Summary: This current edition of the Lineage Book was authorized for the benefit of newer members and Chapters, prospective members, and other researchers of early colonial ancestors. It is an index with both original and supplemental lines and services, names of the living descendant member with the Chapter affiliation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield Company 2013
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.373 ROB 1896-1999National Society, Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century
Summary: This current edition of the Lineage Book was authorized for the benefit of newer members and Chapters, prospective members, and other researchers of early colonial ancestors. It is an index with both original and supplemental lines and services, names of the living descendant member with the Chapter affiliation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield Company 2013
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.373 ROB 1896-1989Bosher, J. F. (John Francis)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Historic Sites, Parks Service, Environment Canada 1992
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.371 BOSSummary: Complacency has never been a hallmark of Latin American literature. As the 21st century dawned, many young writers-and even some who had fueled the Latin American Boom-grew disenchanted with the status quo. This program profiles the careers and the potential of literary artists at the forefront of the region's emerging narrative trends. Addressing the influence of the Crack Movement and the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Complacency has never been a hallmark of Latin American literature. As the 21st century dawned, many young writers-and even some who had fueled the Latin American Boom-grew disenchanted with the status quo. This program profiles the careers and the potential of literary artists at the forefront of the region's emerging narrative trends. Addressing the influence of the Crack Movement and the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Contents: Salve scema sanctitatis / John Dunstable (Pro Cantione Antiqua)-- Gloria / Leonel Power (Pro Cantione Antiqua) -- Las je ne puis / Jean Legrant -- El ferrarese / Antiono Cornazano [i.e. Cornazzano] -- Je loe amours / Gilles Binchois -- La figlio guiliemino / Domenico De Piacenza [i.e. Domenico da Piacenza] (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis) --Maria suesse meichdekyn -- Ghat sytten gij leven kynder /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: DHM/BMG Classics, c p1997. 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL CENSummary: In 1540, Portuguese navigators and Jesuit priests landed in a Japan of shoguns and samurai, where the arts of warfare had been refined to hitherto unknown heights of cruelty. Although Westernisms quickly became the rage in Japan, the Japanese soon recognized the long arm of colonialism. Christian priests and converts were persecuted and martyred and, in 1650, Japan shut tight its doors to the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Bangs, Jeremy Dupertuis
Summary: Transcriptions of more than four hundred Native American land conveyances from Plymouth Colony court records are now accessible to researchers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2002
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 BangsSummary: This was the age of the Tokugawa family, the era of Edo, a period of over two-and-a-half centuries during which Japan was hermetically sealed off from the rest of the world and only a few Dutch and Chinese-constantly watched and treated like pariahs-were allowed to live on Japanese soil and to trade with the Japanese. This program treats the history of Japan during this period: the established...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In the first decades of the 20th century, Brazilian avant-garde literature came into its own. This program examines the awakening of Modernismo and subsequent movements in Brazilian letters, from Sao Paulo's Week of Modern Art in 1922 to the politically focused milieu of the 1970s. Outlining historical events that helped shape the country's multifaceted culture, the program explores the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In the first decades of the 20th century, Brazilian avant-garde literature came into its own. This program examines the awakening of Modernismo and subsequent movements in Brazilian letters, from Sao Paulo's Week of Modern Art in 1922 to the politically focused milieu of the 1970s. Outlining historical events that helped shape the country's multifaceted culture, the program explores the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Contents: 3 Branles de Bourgogne / Jacques Moderne --Torion-Pavane-Gaillarde / Pierre Attaignant (Collegium Aureum) -- Soleasi nel mio cor; I'vo piangendo; Rendz-moy mon coeur / Orlando Di Lasso (Cantus CFolln) --Kyrie-Christe-Kyrie; Gloria / Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis) -- Dance music / Tielman Susato (Collegium Aureum) -- Udite, lacrimosi spirti d'averno / Giaches De...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: DHM/BMG Classics, c p1997. 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL CENContents: Angelus domini ; Vide domine / Leone Leoni -- Gloria / Johann RosenmFuller -- Sanctus-Osanna-Benedictus-Osanna ; Agnus dei / Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber -- Der Herr ist mein Hirt / Heinrich SchFutz -- Es haben mir die HoffFartigen / Sebastian KnFupfer -- Magnificat primi toni a 8 / Johann Stadlmayr -- Wo der Herr das Haus nicht bauet, SWV 473 / Heinrich SchFutz.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: DHM/BMG Classics 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL CENSummary: 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 2010Contents: Aquitanian monasteries: Alleluia! lustus ut palma florebit ; Clara sonent organa ; O Maria, deu maire ; Instrumental piece -- Saint Martial de Limoges: Rex Salomon fecit templum ; Letamini plebs hodie fidelis -- Rupertsberg: Instrumental piece ; Favus distillans ; O ecclesia ; Instrumental piece ; Santiago de Compostela: Ad superni regis decus ; Exultet celi curia. Fulget dies ; O adiutor ......
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: DHM/BMG Classics 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL CENContents: The ambush (Lu Pei-yuan, pʻipʻa) (6:29) -- Some ways of touching the chʻin (3:52) ; Water and clouds over the rivers Hsiao and Hsiang (10:11) (Tsar Teh-yun, chʻin) -- Wild geese descend on level sands (Chan Hon-kwong, cheng) (7:28) -- High moon : a composition in twelve movements describing the course of the moon from its rising to its setting (C.K. Wong, nan hsiao ; Lu Pei-yuan, pʻi pʻa)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy International 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN ELEEnglish, Charlie
Summary: "This is a tragedy that begins in the halls of psychiatry and modern art and ends in the Nazis' first gas chambers. In the early 1920s, Hans Prinzhorn, a psychiatrist and aesthete, sought insight from the art of mental patients such as Franz Buhler. Buhler was a brilliant, well-known ironworker until his schizophrenia diagnosis, and his work was compared to that of Munch and Duhrer. Prinzhorn...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700.943 ENGWolfe, Missy.
Summary: An historical account of the early history of Greenwich, Conn., as told through the words of Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Pequot Press 2012
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.374 WOLSummary: Characterized by expressions of individuality, popularismo, criticism, stoicism, humor, piety, and dignity, the literature of Spain spans ten centuries, includes some of history's most significant writers, and contains landmark works of every major literary genre. This program provides an overview of Iberian history as it relates to Spanish literature. The formation of regional tongues and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Robertson, Ritchie
Summary: A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness. One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech and the press, of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 190.9 ROBSummary: Adapted from his book, The Pleasures of the Imagination, this lavish exploration of the arts in eighteenth-century London is presented by historian John Brewer. Illustrated with period prints and paintings, along with artful reenactments of London cultural life, the program considers the world of commerce and celebrity in which Georgian culture was created-a world with many parallels to today....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Lerer, Seth
Summary: Presents lectures on the history of the English language.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 1998
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 420 LER PART ICall number: CD 420 LER PART III