Summary: Never underestimate the educational value of chocolate ganache! This ABC News report profiles the Careers in the Culinary Arts Program, a groundbreaking curriculum that teaches students the craft of fine cuisine-and important life skills along the way. The documentary visits the Queens high school where this nationwide teaching trend began, interviewing one of its graduates-now a successful...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program features profiles of three women who have stirred up successful careers in the culinary industry: Josee Bagdadi, a gourmet butcher who considers her trade an essential part of fine cooking; Heather Irvine, a commercial baker specializing in artisan breads; and Lisa Gardin, an apprentice chef who plans to open her own restaurant one day. Additional information from co-workers and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Arts, Tenille
Contents: Back then right now -- That's my friend you're talking about -- One bedroom apartment -- Breakup songs / feat. Callista Clark -- Life goes like that -- Girl t girl -- Heartbreak regulars -- Mama's boy -- Over you is you / feat. Matt Stell -- Give it to me straight -- High school sweetheart -- Sweet sixteen -- Growing old young.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY ARTInterlochen Arts Academy (Interlochen, Mich.)
Contents: Pegasus / John Gibson -- Excerpt from Serenade, op. 44 / Antonin Dvorak -- Five variants of "Dives and Lazarus" / Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Vine Street Rumble / Benny Carter -- Brandenburg Concerto no.3, allergro / J.S. Bach -- Through the looking glass - suite / Deems Taylor -- Rhythm song / Paul Smadbeck, arr Alfieri -- Concerto for 23 winds, andante-allergro non troppo / Walter Hartley --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Interlochen Center for the Arts 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL INTWhitcombe, Dave.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Treasure 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 794.3 WHISummary: Segment one of this program presents Rodin's The Kiss, Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, and Picasso's The Three Dancers to chart the progression of distortion as a means of expressing more than what a figurative subject can represent. Segment two uses Kandinsky's Cossacks and Pollock's Summertime: Number 9A to illustrate how color, line, and shape communicate ideas and emotions...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: How do musicians find the inspiration to create? Do most songwriters come up with lyrics first, or music? What does it mean to be a composer in today's high-tech world? This program addresses questions young people may have about embarking on a career in music or musical composition. Focusing on current styles like rock, techno, and hip-hop, the video includes interviews with a classically...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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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
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.73 PROSummary: In the mid-1990s, Liz Coleman remade Bennington College in the pursuit of a new vision: she believed that higher education could be conducted in the same manner as a performing art. In this TEDTalk, Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical higher education reform. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary education -...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Ramadan, Tariq
Summary: "Whether the issue is violence, terrorism, women's rights or slavery, Muslims are today expected to provide answers and to justify what Islam is-or is not. Whether the issue is violence, terrorism, women's rights or slavery, Muslims are today expected to provide answers and to justify what Islam is-or is not. But little opportunity exists, either in the media or in society as a whole, to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 RAMCollison, Campbell.
Summary: Readers learn how to make their own cowboy hats, gold nugget pouches, and woven baskets as they explore the history of the American West! These crafts and more are shown to readers through step-by-step instructions and helpful photographs of the process and the finished product. The included crafts are meant to enhance the lessons readers learn about the settlement of the West, including the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press Pub. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978 COLSummary: This in-depth, graphics-driven program introduces students to the world of synthetic and naturally occurring polymers. The video sheds light on a number of monomers and the processes of addition polymerization and condensation polymerization which produce a desired polymer. Properties of thermosetting and thermoplastic polymers are also investigated; likewise, the relationship between the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The hardest part about working in the hospitality field may simply be deciding on which of its many popular career paths to pursue! This video will help interested students make an informed choice by describing commercial and noncommercial hospitality establishments and key hospitality departments such as management, food and beverage, gaming and entertainment, customer service, security,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Interlochen Arts Academy
Contents: No exit / Lynn Glassock -- Rhythm song / Paul Smadbeck; John Alfieri, arr. -- Prelude from Holberg suite, op. 40 / Edvard Grieg ; Eric Forester, arr. -- The doomsday machine / Michael Burritt -- Adagio, op. 11 / Samuel Barber ; John Alfieri, arr. -- Improvisations on Agbekor / John Alfieri -- Minuano / Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays ; Bob Curnow, arr. -- Llava tierra / Tom Miller.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Interlochen Arts Academy 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL INTSutherland, Stuart
Summary: Join the Smithsonian to explore the latest paleontological discoveries and what they reveal about life on Earth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 560 INTCall number: DVD 560 INT
Detroit Institute of Arts
Summary: Full of colorful photos to satisfy any art enthusiast
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Hills Press, in association with the Founders Society, Detroit Institute of Arts 1985
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 ONESummary: "An Introduction to Number Theory is a great introduction to the field for anyone who loves numbers, is fascinated by math, and wants to go further into the relationships among these mysterious objects"--Publisher's web site.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510.1 INTDetroit Institute of Arts
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press 1995
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 730.09 AFRDetroit Institute of Arts
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Hills Press 0000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 AmeSummary: Can a noun have a number? What do demonstrative pronouns demonstrate? And is an article really an adjective? After a concise explanation of grammar and SEAE-Standard Edited American English-this program explains the ins and outs of common, proper, compound, and demonstrative nouns; personal, possessive, and demonstrative pronouns; and adjectives, including the tiny article. Singular and plural...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Visionist
Contents: By design -- Form -- Allowed to dream -- Nearly god -- A born new -- The fold -- Lie digging -- Winter sun -- Cast.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC VISVan Oosbree, Ruthie
Summary: This how-to book provides readers with information they need to get started on a career in graphic arts. Included are the history and cultural significance of graphic art, graphic arts tools and techniques, graphic arts career paths, and highlights of successful graphic artists. Step-by-step projects help readers practice graphic arts skills, and idea spreads inspire ways to apply what they've...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo & Daughters, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 760 VANScandiffio, Laura.
Summary: An eloquent survey of a variety of martial arts including judo, jujitsu, karate, kung fu, tai chi, aikido, and kendo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 796.8 SCASayer, Chloë
Summary: Offers a portrait of the Mexican people, their lifestyles, and a representative sampling of their crafts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1990