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Anthology series Anthology series (Motown Record Corporation) Charlie Saunders Collection Fire and ink, the legacy of Latin American literature Giant awakes Glories of Spanish literature Motion picture soundtrack anthology Motown master series New Yorker anthology series UNESCO collection of representative works. Japanese seriesSummary: The history and social structures of Latin America's native peoples were neither simple nor peaceful before the arrival of Europeans. Wars were fought, empires were created and destroyed, and-as this program illustrates-narrative tapestries of fact and fiction were woven in the process. Underscoring the linguistic sophistication that flourished for thousands of years in the region, the program...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: The history and social structures of Latin America's native peoples were neither simple nor peaceful before the arrival of Europeans. Wars were fought, empires were created and destroyed, and-as this program illustrates-narrative tapestries of fact and fiction were woven in the process. Underscoring the linguistic sophistication that flourished for thousands of years in the region, the program...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Contents: Disc l. The Nyingmapa sect. Chant asking the blessing of the Guru Drakmar. -- Instruments of the monastery orchestra. Two shawms (rGyaling) ; Two long trumpets (dung) ; Two shell-trumpets made from conches (dung-dkar) ; Two short horns (rKang-ling) ; Hand-bell (drilbu) and hand-drum (damaru) ; Cymbals (rolmo) ; Cymbals (silnyen) ; Pole-drum (rGna) ; Ritual (for attaining the qualities of)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN ANTStanley Brothers
Contents: A vision of Mother (2:58) -- The white dove (3:12) -- Gathering flowers for the Master's bouquet (2:48) -- Angels are singing (in Heaven tonight) (3:02) -- It's never too late to start over (2:30) -- Have you someone (in Heaven waiting) (2:40) -- Little glass of wine (2:57) -- Let me be your friend (2:42) -- We'll be sweethearts in Heaven (2:37) -- I love no one but you (2:36) -- Too late to...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY STARuoff, A. LaVonne Brown.
Summary: Examines the history, evolution, and culture of the American Indians, discussing both oral and written literature.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 RUOVoth, Grant L.
Summary: In this course, you'll sample some of the greatest literary expressions the world has known and experience storytelling in its many forms, including poetry, drama, and narrative.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2007
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4 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 809 VOT PART 1Call number: CD 809 VOT PART 2
Call number: CD 809 VOT PART 3
Call number: CD 809 VOT PART 4
Modern Jazz Quartet
Contents: Medley. They say it's wonderful ; How deep is the ocean ; I don't stand a ghost of a chance with you ; My old flame ; Body and soul -- Between the Devil and the deep blue sea -- La Ronde. Drums ; Night in Tunisia -- Yesterdays -- Bags' groove -- Baden-Baden.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1959
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ MODSummary: In this remarkable anthology, some of the world's greatest writers provide a master class on the transformative power of learning and literature. Culled from a course developed by Pulitzer Prize'winning author Robert Coles for the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Teaching Stories is an invaluable collection in which novelists, essayists, and poets "render school life in all its complexity...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TEASummary: Moving roughly chronologically, An Anthology of Chinese Literature gathers texts according to genres, themes, forms, and other groupings to show the way essential texts build off one another and how the tradition echoes itself. Including a range of forms - songs, letters, anecdotes, stories, plays, political oratory, traditional literary theory, and more - the anthology's innovative structure...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 895.108 ANTKeene, Donald.
Summary: Collection of Japanese works including poetry, prose and drama.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Weidenfeld 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 895.608 KEESummary: With the death of Franco came a loosening of political restrictions and a restoration of many civil liberties. In this program, respected authorities look at the past 25 years of literature in post-Franco Spain and the literary inclinations of the next up-and-coming generation of poets, authors, and playwrights. Dramatic readings include excerpts from Manuel Vazquez Montalban's "Sin Memoria,"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Modern Jazz Quartet
Contents: CD 1: All the things you are (3:15) -- La ronde (3:08) -- Vendome (3:12) -- Rose of the Rio Grande (2:12) -- The queen's fancy (3:12) -- Delaunays's dilemma (3:57) -- Autumn in New York (3:38) -- But not for me (2:55) -- In a sentimental mood (3:16) -- The stopper (3:44) -- Almost like being in love (3:21) -- No moe (3:27) -- Django (7:03) -- One bass hit (2:59) -- Milano (4:21) -- Le ronde...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Prestige 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MODMullins, Carrie
Summary: "This treasure trove for book lovers explores fifteen classic novels with memorable maternal figures, and examines how our cultural notions of motherhood have been shaped by literature. Sweet, supportive, dependable, selfless. Long before she had children of her own, journalist Carrie Mullins knew how mothers should behave. But how? Where did these expectations come from-and, more importantly,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The 18th century in Spain was less a period of literary achievement than a time of intellectual ferment, as the Bourbon monarchs attempted sweeping social and cultural reforms. In this program, renowned experts put into perspective the writings of those who kept the flame of literature alight during the Age of Reason. Dramatic readings include excerpts from Torres Villarroel's El Censor, Benito...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Garland, Judy.
Contents: Every Sunday. Waltz with a swing/Americana ; Opera vs. jazz -- Broadway melody of 1938. Everybody sing ; Yours and mine ; Your Broadway and my Broadway -- Thoroughbreds don't cry. Got a pair of new shoes ; Sun showers -- Everybody sing. Down on Melody Farm ; Why, because! ; Ever since the world began/Shall I sing a melody? -- Love finds Andy Hardy. In between ; It never rains, but what it pours...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Classic Movies Music/Rhino Movie Music 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC GARSummary: Spans a century of poems, short stories, novels, memoirs, and essays by Sait Faik Abasiyanik, Azra Abbas, Ghulam Abbas, Abu Salma, Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa'id Asbar), Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Pegah Ahmadi, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Nazik al-Malāʼikah, Mozaffar al-Nawwab, Melih Cevdet Anday, ʻArrār (Mustafa Wahbi al-Tal), Manouchehr Atashi, Reza Baraheni, Faraj Bayraqdar, Simin Behbahani, Alireza Behnam, Sadeq...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 TABRare Earth (Musical group)
Contents: I just cried (2:19) -- King of a rainy country (2:46) -- Get ready (2:49) -- Generation (Light up the sky) (2:43) -- Child of fortune/One world (13:17) -- In bed (3:02) -- (I know) I'm losing you (3:39) -- Long time leavin' (4:48) -- Born to wander (2:59) -- What'd I say (3:19) -- I just want to celebrate (2:52) -- If I die (3:29) -- Hey big brother (4:45) -- Good time Sally (2:53) -- Think of...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Motown 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RARSummary: Characterized by expressions of individuality, popularismo, criticism, stoicism, humor, piety, and dignity, the literature of Spain spans ten centuries, includes some of history's most significant writers, and contains landmark works of every major literary genre. This program provides an overview of Iberian history as it relates to Spanish literature. The formation of regional tongues and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Modern Jazz Sextet
Contents: Tour de force -- Dizzy meets Sonny -- Ballad medley : Old folks -- What's new? -- How deep is the ocean? -- Mean to me -- Blues for Bird.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MODSummary: From Tiger Woods to bullfighter Sidney Franklin, from the Chinese Olympics to the U.S. Open, the greatest plays and players, past and present, are all covered in "The Only Game in Town." At "The New Yorker," it's not whether you win or lose--it's how you write about the game.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 ONLSummary: Two Communist Party officials cruise the dusty streets of Ma Bei village in a new Cadillac. Welcome to China at the end of the 20th century. Fueled by profits from private businesses, the town is booming, while at a plant up the road thousands of workers, formerly protected under the communist system, may lose their jobs under privatization. Similar situations are developing all over China, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006