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A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers America in the 20th century America in the twentieth century (Hamilton, N.J.) Fire and ink, the legacy of Latin American literature Glories of Spanish literature Great courses (Compact disc) Great courses (DVD) Music of the 20th century Music of the twentieth century The Genocide FactorRenner, Rolf Günter.
Summary: "Hopper is simply a bad painter, but if he were a better one, he would probably not be such a great artist." Clement Greenberg.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.13 RENMiller, Steve
Contents: Nobody but you baby. -- I want to make the world turn around. -- Slinky. -- Living in the 20th century. -- Maelstrom. -- I wanna be loved (but by only you). -- My babe. -- Big boss man. -- Caress me baby. -- Ain't that lovin' you baby. -- Behind the barn.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Records 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MILSummary: 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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Urasawa, Naoki
Summary: "Out in the middle of Tokyo Bay, a man called Shogun is trying to break out of Umihotaru Prison, a maximum-security island fortress, so he can save the world. Accompanied by a frightened young manga artist, these two men are prepared to risk everything as their daring escape plan grows deadlier by the minute. However, the prison authorities will do whatever it takes to return Shogun and his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TWESummary: It is a creative impulse as old as humanity itself: to depict life faithfully, accurately, in words or images. This program shows how that impulse led to Realism—a widespread artistic movement, born in the latter half of the 19th century, which rejected pretense, distortion, and sentimentality. Incorporating interviews with art historians and literary scholars, the program explores the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Liulevicius, Vejas G.
Summary: Examines the fundamental question of our times: why was the 20th century so violent? It looks at the ideologies that promised utopias and total solutions to social problems and relates the terrible human toll of attempts to realize these ideas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 UTOCall number: DVD 909 UTO PART 1
Call number: DVD 909 UTO PART 2
Summary: Despite the political and economic chaos of the 19th century-or perhaps because of it-this period produced brilliant literature while setting the stage for the Generation of '98. In this program, respected authorities elaborate on the lives and works of the masters of Romanticism and Realism. Dramatic readings include excerpts from Jose Espronceda's Cancion del Pirata, Jose Zorrilla's Romances...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program describes a great musical culture in decline in turn-of-the-century Vienna, and discusses how that decline led to the musical revolution whose reverberations are still felt today. Names like Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg still strike terror in the hearts of many concert-goers. With the help of Simon Rattle, however, we hear in their powerful, brooding music the collapse of the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Liulevicius, Vejas G.
Summary: Examines the fundamental question of our times: why was the 20th century so violent? It looks at the ideologies that promised utopias and total solutions to social problems and relates the terrible human toll of attempts to realize these ideas.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 909 LIUSummary: Russia had its intelligentsia, the U.S. its cultural elite (a pejorative term), but "intellectuals" emerged in France with the Dreyfus affair. When 30,000 people reverently accompanied Jean-Paul Sartre's funeral cortege in 1980, the event marked the demise of the breed of intellectuals. This documentary series by Bernard-Henri Levy retraces the concepts and ideals that motivated France's...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: State-sanctioned violence has always existed, but technological advances have facilitated its use as a viable means of exerting political power. This program continues the examination of the history of genocide, focusing on the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, the 1923 Rosewood Massacre, Stalin's forced Ukrainian famine, the Japanese Rape of Nanking, and the Holocaust. A host of survivors, experts, and...
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: The recession of 2008 has cast serious doubt on whether free-market capitalism, an idea set that functioned reasonably well in the 20th century, is a healthy economic ideology to carry over into the 21st. Has free-market capitalism become an outdated economic model? That is the question in this Oxford Union-style debate as panelists make their case. Speakers for the motion argue that capitalism...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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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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Lightman, Alan P.
Summary: An unprecedented explosion of creativity, insight, and breakthrough occurred in every field of science in the last century. These discoveries profoundly changed the way we understand the world and our place in it. Now physicist and novelist Lightman tells the stories of two dozen of the most seminal discoveries. He paints the intellectual and emotional landscape of each discovery, portrays the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509 LIGMisty, Father John
Summary: Father John Misty returns with his fifth album and first new material since the release of God's Favorite Customer in 2018. It was written and recorded from August through December 2020 and features arrangements by Drew Erickson. The album sees Father John Misty, aka Josh Tillman, and producer/multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Wilson resume their longtime collaboration, with Dave Cerminara...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FATPrincess Superstar
Contents: Intro: last of the great 20th century composers -- Do it like a robot -- Meet you halfway (Keep it on the alright) -- I hope I sell a lot of records at Christmastime -- Come up to my room (feat. Baron Ricks) -- Kool Keith's A♯! -- Bump your A♯ off (feat. ChessTBunz, Slick Muffins & Brock) -- NYC C--T -- Year two thousand (feat. John Forte) -- Love/hate to be a player -- Sex (I like) -- Do it...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Corrupt Conglomerate 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP PRISummary: Songs about a certain time and place are more than sentimental musings-they also serve as departure points for cultural and sociological studies. This program uses popular 20th-century French music to explore the rich character and modern-era development of Paris. Juxtaposing commentary from French scholars, performers, and business leaders with classic recordings by Edith Piaf, Brigitte...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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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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Summary: Innovation enabled the United States to take on the mantle of world leadership-most importantly, innovation in military technology. But among the great minds that drove American innovation, using science to make war sometimes led to questions, dilemmas, and even second thoughts. In this program, Bill Moyers presents a profile of I. I. Rabi, winner of the 1944 Nobel Prize in physics and an early...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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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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Ruderman, David B.
Summary: God, Torah, and Israel. These three concepts (i.e., personal belief, the meaning of Jewish ritual acts, and the purpose of continued Jewish existence) have been the focus of Jewish thought throughout history. But the last four centuries presented Jewish thinkers with difficult challenges. These lectures address the challenges to Jewish intellectual thought in the past 500 years, identifying...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296 JEWSummary: Starting with Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, this program follows the United States through its mobilization for war and into battle in North Africa, Europe, and the Pacific. It also explains the dramatic domestic changes that total war made necessary-from rationing and recycling, to war bonds and government economic controls, to new roles for women in society-and the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006