Taubman, William
Summary: A comprehensive biography of the final leader of the Soviet Union chronicles Gorbachev's rise from peasant to politician and describes how his liberal policies ended the Cold War and unintentionally provoked the breakup of the USSR. "When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR. was one of the world's two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B GORBACHEV TAUSummary: Theodore Roosevelt-cowboy, soldier, explorer, hunter, historian, reformer, naturalist, and last but not least, President of the United States. He led America exuberantly into the 1900s, but for all his unswerving patriotism and over-brimming confidence, his tenure as Chief Executive was as laden with complexity as the new century itself. In this program, Bill Moyers joins Roosevelt biographer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Kirkman, Marissa
Summary: "Describes the life and time of Pocahontas and the First Colonies"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 975.501 KIRCommander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen (Musical group)
Contents: Southbound -- Don't let go -- California Okie -- Willin' -- The boogie man boogie -- Hawaii blues -- House of blue lights -- Keep on lovin' her -- Devil and me -- Four or five times -- That's what I like about the south.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wounded Bird Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK COMSummary: This superb documentary covers the long and extraordinary life of Picasso, beginning with the first period of his life in Malaga, La Coruna, and Barcelona (the time of his classic painting) and continuing in Paris, Vallauris, and Vouvenargue. This beautifully photographed program follows the development of this genius through the Pink and Blue Periods, surrealism, cubism, sculpture, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Follows Andy Goldsworthy's bohemian free spirit all over the world as he demonstrates and opens up about his creative process. From his long-winding rock walls and icicle sculptures to his interlocking leaf chains and multi-colored pools of flowers. Goldsworthy's painstakingly intricate masterpieces are made entirely of materials found in Mother Nature - who threatens and often succeeds in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2004
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Summary: "The definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable and least understood Americans of the twentieth century--a wholly original account that will forever change the way Americans understand the man, his presidency, and his battle against the Great Depression. An impoverished orphan who built a fortune. A great humanitarian. A president elected in a landslide and then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOOVER, HERBERT WHYSummary: This rare documentary examines the life and work of German literary icon Thomas Mann, beginning with Mann's nomination for the 1949 Goethe Prize. His symbolic representation of Germany in exile after the war, and his status as a representative of the liberal, humanist tradition, are juxtaposed against Mann's private life. The program discusses how his works, such as Death in Venice, explore the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This superb documentary covers the long and extraordinary life of Picasso, beginning with the first period of his life in Malaga, La Coruna, and Barcelona (the time of his classic painting) and continuing in Paris, Vallauris, and Vouvenargue. This beautifully photographed program follows the development of this genius through the Pink and Blue Periods, surrealism, cubism, sculpture, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Dougherty, Nancy
Summary: "A biography of Reinhard Heydrich and his wife, Lina von Osten Heydrich"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEYDRICH, REINHARD DOUSummary: Celebrate the nation's sixteenth president. Presents a complex portrait of a man who many consider to be our greatest commander-in-chief, but who considered himself a lonely man. Brings to life the tumultuous time in which he led the country, some of his finest Civil War moments, and his final hours.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LINSummary: An introduction, not only to Goya's work, but to the critical period in Spanish history which he recorded. In a period largely bereft of major literary masterpieces, it is to Goya that we look to find out what Spain was like in the period spanning the decline of neoclassicism, the devastation of the Napoleonic Wars, and the rise of Romanticism and Impressionism.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Paul, Joel R.
Summary: A portrait of the influential chief justice, statesman, and diplomat illuminates his pivotal role in the establishment of the Constitution and Supreme Court and recounts his work as an advisor to multiple presidents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MARSHALL PAUGreenberg, Robert
Summary: Examines the life and works of Joseph Haydn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAYDN, JOSEPH GREGreenberg, Robert
Summary: Examines the life and works of Gustav Mahler.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAHLER, GUSTAV GRESummary: In this program, Pulitzer Prize-winner Alice Walker and renowned Langston Hughes biographer Arnold Rampersad talk about "The Poet Laureate of Harlem" with award-winning filmmaker Bruce Schwartz. Together they discuss experiences that shaped young Langston, how he came to be a writer, the beauty of his writing style, his practice of reaching out to aspiring writers, and the Harlem Renaissance as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Murrow, Vita
Summary: What if princesses didn't always marry Prince Charming and live happily every after? This stunning anthology features 15 favorite fairytales retold for a new generation. From Sleeping Beauty who becomes a world-famous sleep disorder specialist to Cinderella who goes on to become Prime Minister to Little Red Riding Hood, the environmentalist and Princess of the Wolves, these princesses are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J FIC MURSummary: Frida Kahlo was more than a great painter: her life and art reflected the maelstrom of revolution and culture that defined the first half of the twentieth century in her native Mexico and around the world. She was at times a socialist, a communist, and a revolutionary. This program presents her life as a reflection of her cultural history, her art, and the times in which she lived. The film...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Isaacson, Walter.
Summary: The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available. Biographer Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk--a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate--became the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD 921 EinsteinHecimovich, Gregg A.
Summary: "A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a preface by Henry Louis Gates Jr."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRAFTS, HANNAH HECGreenberg, Robert
Summary: Examines the life and works of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN GREDamrosch, Leopold
Summary: "Leo Damrosch draws on discoveries made over the past thirty years to tell the story of Swift's life anew. Probing holes in the existing evidence, he takes seriously some daring speculations about Swift's parentage, love life, and various personal relationships and shows how Swift's public version of his life--the one accepted until recently--was deliberately misleading. Swift concealed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SWIFT, JONATHAN DAMBrands, H. W.
Summary: The first "common man" to rise to the presidency, Jackson embodied the spirit and the vision of the emerging American nation; the term "Jacksonian democracy" is embedded in our national lexicon. Historian Brands follows Jackson from his days as rebellious youth, risking execution to free the Carolinas during the Revolutionary War, to his years as a young lawyer and congressman from the newly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2005