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Cambridge illustrated history Charlie Saunders Collection Core curriculum video libraries (Cambridge educational (Firm)) Core curriculum video library Modern Library chronicles Modern philosophy (Princeton, N.J.) Modern Rock New Press people's history Rocko's modern life The War of the WorldMcMahon, Peter
Summary: In the summer of 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, rented a house on Planting Island, near the base of Cape Cod. Thus began a chapter in the history of modern architecture that has never been told _until now.The area was a hotbed of intellectual currents from New York, Boston, Cambridge and the country's top schools of architecture and design. Avant-garde homes began to appear in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolis Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 MCMSummary: The Cambridge illustrated history of religions provides a comprehensive survey of world religions from pre-history to the present day. Each religion is treated in depth, with text written by an acknowledged academic expert supported by lavish illustration. Images have been carefully chosen to complement the text. There are special box features and spreads. The religions covered include...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200.9 CAMMuseum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abradale Press/H.N. Abrams in association with the Museum of Modern Art, New York 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.04 MUSKitchen, Martin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943 KITModern 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MODJobson, Robert
Summary: "Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, is one of the world's most famous faces destined to one day lead the ancient institution of the British monarchy as King. Determined to do the right thing and to serve his country as his grandmother, The Queen, has done, William has created a public persona of a loving husband to Catherine and devoted father of three to George, Charlotte and Louis. Calm,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ad Lib Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAM, PRINCE JOBContents: Old records / Allen Toussaint (Irma Thomas) (4:15) -- A corn for crip / Ed Frank (the Ed Frank Quintet) (4:31) -- One way or another / W. Washington, T. Beckerman (Walter "Wolfman" Washington) (5:19) -- Come on home / Horace Silver, Jon Hendricks (the Dirty Dozen Brass Band) (5:50) -- On the sunny side of the street / Fields, McHugh (Tuts Washington) (2:26) -- Gemini rising / Tony Dagradi (New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES MODModern 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prestige 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MODSummary: When it comes to nutrition today, one size doesn't fit all. That's why the USDA created MyPyramid, a food guidance system that emphasizes a more individualized approach to improving diet and overall physical fitness. After watching this video, your students will have a clear understanding of the food pyramid's history, the six themes incorporated into the MyPyramid system, the main components...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Cambridge Singers
Contents: Music of the Latin rite: Ave Maria / Robert Parsons (4:25). Loquebantur variis linguis / Thomas Tallis (3:53). Miserere mei / William Byrd (3:46). Haec dies / William Byrd (2:23). Ave verum corpus / William Byrd (3:39) -- Music of the Reformation: If ye love me / Thomas Tallis (2:08). Hide not thou thy face / Richard Farrant (1:15). Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake / Richard Farrant (1:53). O...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collegium 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL FAICambridge Singers
Contents: Evening prayers -- In pace (5:16) -- Libera no, salva nos (3:49) / John Sheppard -- Justorum animae / Orlande de Lassus (3:06) -- Pater noster / Jacob Handl (4:22) -- O Lord, the maker of all thing / William Mundy (2:51) -- Visita, quaesumus domine / William Byrd (5:04) -- Abendlied / Josef Rheinberger (3:23) -- Evening Hymns -- O Christ who art the light and day / William Byrd (4:25) -- O...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collegium Records 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL LIGSummary: When excavation in downtown Manhattan unearthed an 18th-century Negro burial ground, New Yorkers were reminded that slavery was not limited to the South. This program explores an often-overlooked chapter in the history of the city and the colonies in general by examining the oldest slave cemetery ever found in North America. Scholars and leading experts conduct archaeological and forensic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1959
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ MODRousseau, Jean-Jacques
Contents: Chronology of Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Discourse on the Sciences and Arts or First Discourse. Replies to Critics. Letter to M. l'Abbe Raynal. Observations [to Stanislas, King of Poland]. Letter to Grimm. Last Reply. Letter about a New Refutation. Preface to Narcissus. Preface of a Second Letter to Bordes -- Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men or Second Discourse....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320 ROUMacMillan, Margaret
Summary: Explores the ways in which history has been used to influence people and government, focusing on how reportage of past events has been manipulated to justify religious movements and political campaigns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 901 MACMModern Jazz Quartet
Contents: Disc 1: Softly as in a morning sunrise -- The cylinder -- Summertime -- Really true blues -- What's new? -- Blues in A minor -- Confirmation -- 'Round midnight -- Night in Tunisia -- Tears from the children -- Blues in H (B) -- England's carol -- Disc 2: The golden striker -- One never knows -- Trav'lin' -- Skating in Central Park -- The legendary profile -- Concierto de Aranjuez -- The jasmine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MODDenver, Rorke.
Summary: Explaining the unique psychology behind the SEALs' legendary training program, a high-level SEAL officer reveals the modern techniques that transform a chosen few into lethal warriors and details how the SEALs' creative operations became front-and-center in America's War on Terror.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.984 DENCumings, Bruce
Summary: As Cumings eloquently explains, for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long fight filled with untold stories of bloody insurgencies and rebellions, massacres and atrocities. He incisively ties America's current foreign policy back to this remarkably violent war that killed as many as four million Koreans, two thirds of whom were civilians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.904 CUMSummary: What's a wallaby to do when he's surrounded by annoying neighbors, freeloading pals, heaps of laundry and the weight of life in general? Why, turn to his loyal canine, Spunky, dim-witted best pal, Heffer and neurotic nay-sayer Filburt to help him confront the trials and tribulations of modern life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROCWilliams, David
Summary: "A People's History of the Civil War is "bottom up" history, illustrated with little-known anecdotes and first-person testimony. David Williams brings to life the brutal, mundane experiences of the war - such as the mutilated bodies which, in the words of one soldier, lay "thick as autumn leaves" over the fields after every major battle - and the harsh realities of battlefield medicine and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 WILQuinn, Tom
Summary: "A colorful, fascinating look at growing up in the royal family over the centuries, from the Plantagenets and Tudors to the Windsors and Cambridges. For as long as the British royal family has existed, their children have been brought up in ways that seem bizarre and eccentric to the rest of us - the royal family's obsession with making their children tough and independent as early as possible,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this program with world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee, the late philosopher and radical political theorist Herbert Marcuse explains how the so-called Frankfurt School reevaluated Marxism when world economic crisis failed to destroy capitalism as predicted by Marx. He also analyzes the philosophical roots of the student rebellions of the sixties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Contents: Wild, wild west / The Escape Club -- Wishing well / Terence Trent D'Arby -- She drives me crazy / Fine Young Cannibals -- What's on your mind (pure energy) / Information Society -- Roam / The B 52's -- Veronica / Elvis Costello -- Hazy shade of winter / The Bangles -- Shattered dreams / Johnny Hates Jazz -- Sowing the seeds of love / Tears for Fears -- Waiting for a star to fall / Boy Meets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MODSummary: This final episode describes the Cold War as a continuation of the “war of the world” in which millions died in proxy wars conducted by the two superpowers. World War II may have been the central act of an epic struggle between rival empires, but the Cold War continued the turbulence that marked the entire 20th century as the most violent period in history. The end of the Cold War led to great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008