Summary: "Nova takes viewers on a fascinating quest with a group of pioneering mathematicians determined to decipher the rules that govern fractal geometry. Their remarkable findings are deepening our understanding of nature and stimulating a new wave of scientific, medical and artistic innovation, stretching from the ecology of the rainforest to fashion design." - Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FRASummary: Fractal geometry - the revolutionary new branch of mathematics - has changed the way we see the world and opened up a vast new territory to scientific analysis and understanding. NOVA explores the work of Benoit Mandelbrot, who discovered one of nature’s biggest design secrets - an odd looking, jagged repeating shape, which occurs all over biology and has greatly influenced computer design...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: The Mandelbrot set-someone has called it the thumbprint of God-is one of the most beautiful and remarkable discoveries in the entire history of mathematics. With Arthur C. Clarke as narrator and interviews with a number of notable mathematicians, including Benoit Mandelbrot, this program graphically illustrates how simple formulas can lead to complicated results: it explains the set, what it...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Music Inc. (Musical group)
Contents: Grand Max / Tolliver (11:08) -- Truth / Tolliver (10:13) -- Prayer for peace / Cowell (15:08) -- Our second father / Tolliver (15:57) -- Repetition / Hefti (12:37).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Strata-East 1973
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ TOLContents: Parlato -- 'Ndrangheta, camurra e mafia = 'Ndrangheta, Camorra and the Mafia (El Domingo) -- Sangu chiama sangu = Blood cries for blood (F. Cimbalo) -- U lupu d'Asprumunti = The wolves of Aspromonte (Franco Caruso) -- Parlato -- I cunfirenti = The traitors (Salvatore Macheda) -- U ballu da famigghja Muntalbanu = Dance of the Muntalbanu family (Caserta Plutino) -- Parlato -- Non su' lupu -- U...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: PIAS America 2002
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN MUSSummary: This program covers the start of the International Music Festivals and Venice's role as host to Hindemith, Schoenberg, Bartok, and Stravinsky; the rise to fame of Malipiero, Nono, and Maderna; and the role of today's avant-gardists. Live performances in the Albrizzi Palace and on the Lido.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Coil (Musical group)
Contents: Are you shivering? -- Red birds will fly out of the east and destroy Paris in a night -- Red queen -- Broccoli -- Strange birds -- The deramer is still asleep.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dais 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC COISummary: Whenever the pressure of air is changed rapidly-by the beating of a drum, rattling a stick in a can, plucking a string stretched across a box-the ear-brain system detects the pressure changes as sound, which travels from source to listener as sound waves. This program examines sound waves: why some sounds are musical and others just noise, and the relationship of regularity or irregularity of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Roland, James
Summary: "While any career requires a certain amount of hard work, perseverance and talent, that is especially true of musical artists and others in the music industry. The competition, changing audience tastes, and the difficulty of just getting that first big break, let alone maintaining a successful career, can be daunting"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 780.23 ROLBorge, Victor.
Contents: Comedy in music (26:26) -- Comedy in music: medley of popular songs (14:34) -- Comedy in music: Warsaw Concerto/Auf wiederseh'n, sweetheart (10:12).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Special Products 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD EASY LISTENING BorgeVarious Artists
Contents: Got my mojo working -- Natural disaster -- River hip mama -- Time will tell -- Chicken, gravy and biscuits -- B movie boxcar blues -- I stepped in quicksand -- Midnight drive -- The son I never knew -- Don't do it -- Two-fisted mama -- Pawnbroker -- I can't understand -- Your lies -- Rollin' with my blues -- Lollipop mama -- Silent thunder in my heart -- I don't believe -- Down home blues.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alligator 1981
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES GENRoxy Music (Musical group)
Contents: Re-make/Re-model -- Street life -- Ladytron -- While my heart is still beating -- Out of the blue -- A song for Europe -- My only love -- In every dream home a heartache -- Oh Yeah! -- Both ends burning -- Tara -- More than this -- If there is something -- Mother of pearl -- Avalon -- Dance away -- Jealous guy -- Editions of you -- Virginia plain -- Love is the drug -- Do the Strand -- For your...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Eagle Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ROXThird Rail (Musical group)
Contents: Run, run, run -- The ballad of General Humpty -- Is Mr. Peters coming? -- Swinger -- Jack Rabbit -- Boppa do down down -- From a parachute -- Invisible man -- No return -- Dream Street.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Epic 1967
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK THISummary: "I am a mathematician, and I would like to stand on your roof." That's how Ron Eglash greeted many African families he met while researching the fractal patterns he'd noticed in villages across the continent. In this TEDTalk, Eglash, an ethnomathematician, illustrates how math and culture intersect by showing that many aspects of African design - in architecture, art, and even games - are based...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Baby Einstein Music Box Orchestra
Contents: Variations (Twinkle, twinkle), K265/300e / Mozart -- Minuet in G from Anna Magdalena / Bach -- Piano sonata in C, K 545, 2nd movement / Mozart -- Spring song / Mendelssohn -- Piano sonata in D, K 576, 3rd movement / Mozart -- Jesu, joy of man's desiring, BWV 147 / Bach -- Canon / Pachelbel -- The Moldau / Smetana -- Preludes, Book II, Clair de lune / Debussy -- Sonata no. 14 (Moonlight), 2nd...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Records 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV BABFiasco, Lupe
Contents: The lion's deen / feat. Ayesha Jaco -- Ghoti -- Autoboto / feat. Nayirah -- Precious things / feat. Nayirah -- Kiosk -- Ms. Mural ; Interlude -- Naomi / feat. Crystal the Indigo -- Drill music in Zion -- Seattle / feat. Nayirah -- On faux nem.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP FIAContents: City Disc. Mardi Gras in New Orleans / Dirty Dozen Brass Band (5:28) -- That's enough of that stuff / Marcia Ball (4:27) -- Three keys / James Booker (3:17) -- Tee nah nah / Tuts Washington (1:54) -- Shoo-fly / Bo Dollis ; Monk Boudreaux ; Rebirth Brass Band (6:09) -- On the prowl / Walter "Wolfman" Washington (4:01) -- Back on track / Dalton Reed (3:27) -- Hold to God's unchanging hand / Irma...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 1995
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4 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN LOUOzawa, Seiji
Summary: An intimate conversation about music and writing illuminates the perspectives and shared interests of the internationally acclaimed author of "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage" and his close friend, the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 OZACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 784.2092 OZAGalaxie 500 (Musical group)
Contents: This in our music. Fourth of July -- Hearing voices -- Spook -- Summertime -- Way up high -- Listen, the sneow is falling -- Sorry -- Melt away -- King of Spain, part two -- Bonus Track: Here she comes now.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Revolver USA 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GALSummary: Dazzling computer animation combined with the genius of Benoit Mandelbrot and Edward Lorenz present a captivating discussion of fractals and the fundamental concepts of fractal geometry-self-similarity and chaos. Mandelbrot uses a simple head of broccoli to demonstrate the complexity of fractals. Narrating over the three-dimensional animations, Mandelbrot discusses how fractals serve as an...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Contents: CD 1. Y que bien (Juan Pablo Torres y Algo Nuevo) (4:24) -- Por que lo haces (Orquesta los Van Van) (4:10) -- Quemando (Los Latinos) (2:46) -- Amame y no pienses mas (Farah María) (4:13) -- Muevete con las fuerzas del corazon (Fa 5) (5:53) -- Como arrullos de palma (Tambores de Enrique Bonne) (2:47) -- Expreso ritmico (Ricardo Eddy Martinez) (4:11) -- Solo de tumba y bongo (Los Papines) (5:31)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN CUBQuestlove
Summary: Music Is History combines Questlove's deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 QUECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B QUESTLOVE QUEContents: Fiebre (Ile) -- Burundanga (Milly Quezada) -- Este pueblo tiene sabor (La India y son Divas) -- Muchos quieren tumbarme (Villano Antillano) -- Mujer divina (Cherly) -- Ya me canse (Didi Romero) -- Asi es mi tierra (Chabela Rodriguez y Chamir Bonano) -- Ella (Ana Isabelle) -- Se oyo en borinquen/Desilusion (Lucecita Benitez) -- Everybody's dancing now (Melina León) -- Solina solina (Nydia Caro)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN ELLSundfør, Susanne
Contents: Mantra -- Reincarnation -- Good luck bad luck -- The sound of war -- Music for people in trouble -- Bedtime story -- Undercover -- No one believes in love anymore -- The golden age -- Mountaineers (featuring John Grant).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2017