Summary: In the fullness of time, his failings have become obvious. Yet, even after the collapse of global Communism, Karl Marx stands undiminished as one of history’s most influential thinkers. This program chronicles Marx’s life and intellectual development, including the publication and impact of his major writings. Beginning with his birth and religiously confused childhood in Prussia, the video...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Marx, Groucho
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.7 MARSummary: The impact of Marx on the 20th century was all-pervasive and worldwide, costing tens of millions of lives where Communism was imposed, resulting in brutal wars to contain or expand it, and vastly improving the lives of workers where fear of Communism resulted in social reform. This program looks at the man, at the roots of his philosophy, at the causes and explanations of his philosophical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Wheen, Francis.
Summary: Looks at the life of the father of Communism focusing primarily on the human side of the man rather than his works.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARMarx, Groucho
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.7 MARMarx, Groucho
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.7 MARDiehl, August
Summary: Follows the early lives of Karl Marx, his wife Jenny, and Friedrich Engels, as they roam between Paris, Brussels, and London, helping to lead the developing labor movement.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF YOUClaeys, Gregory
Summary: Karl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in history. He died quietly in 1883 and a mere eleven mourners attended his funeral, but a year later he was being hailed as "the Prophet himself" whose name and writings would "endure through the ages." He has been viewed as a philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, even a literary craftsman....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 335 CLASummary: "Duck soup": To rescue the small country of Freedonia from bankruptcy, Mrs Teasdale agrees to donate 20 million dollars if Rufus T. Firefly is appointed its new president. "Horse feathers": Professor Quincy Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College. "Monkey business": While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MARSummary: Two classic Marx Brothers movies. Room Service: Groucho Marx plays a producer with no money who's stalling to avoid eviction from his hotel room. At the circus: When a loan shark man, a strongman and a midget set out to steal "Wilson's Wonder Circus" from the owner, two circus attendants (Chico and Harpo) enlist the help of a lawyer named Attorney Loophole (Groucho).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROOSummary: A journey through the art and life of the Brazilian landscape architect and painter best known for the iconic black-and-white mosaic promenades that line Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach.This documentary shows the full contribution of the landscape artist to the national flora. Directed and written by João Vargas Penna, the film is a walk through the art and personality of Roberto Burle Marx,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LANSummary: In Go West: It's 1870 and the Marx Brothers are out to get rich in Dead Man's Gulch. In The Big store: The Brothers reduce an enormous inventory of upscale merchandise into a multilevel disaster as they pursue and evade villains via bicycles, skates, unicycles, broad jumps, shipping chutes, elevator cables, high wires, pole vaults and pseudo-Tarzan chandelier swinging.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2004
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GORius.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARX, KARL RIUMarx, Harpo
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bookroom 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 MARSummary: In his most achingly personal film to date, legendary Italian Filmmaker Marco Bellocchio uses the occasion of a family reunion in his hometown of Piacenza to excavate and discuss a traumatic event: the death of his twin brother Camillo, who committed suicide in the late '60s at age 29. Through detailed conversations with his siblings, archival footage providing context about 20th-century...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MARKleinman, Paul
Summary: Presents an introduction to philosophy, covering the origins of the discipline, some of the major figures of the past, and philosophical issues which still continue to be debated in the present day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 100 KLEMarx, Jonny
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 360 Degrees, an imprint of Tiger Tales 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 938 MARMarx, Karl
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 335.42 MARMarx, Groucho
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1977
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN MARBrown, Nacio Herb
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: 1935
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMMarx, Richard
Summary: "Legendary musician Richard Marx offers an enlightening, entertaining look at his life and career"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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Summary: The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes, is one of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated. After four years of collaboration, the authors produced this incisive declaration of their idea of Communism, in which they envisage a society without classes, private property or a state. They argue that increasing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Classics 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320 MARMarx, Jonny
Summary: "With 26 habitats to explore and more than 250 animals from the amoeba to the whale, this beautifully illustrated book puts into context the size of all creatures, great and small"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 360 Degrees 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allied Vaughn 2024