New College (University of Oxford)
Contents: Agnus Dei / Barber (7:57) -- Cantique de Jean Racine / Fauré (5:14) -- Kyrie (from Missa Papae Marcelli) / Palestrina (4:14) -- Ave Verum Corpus / Mozart (3:05) -- Jesus bleibet meine Freude / Bach (2:56) -- Ave Maria / Rachmaninov (3:25) -- Lux aeterna / Elgar (3:43) -- Totsu Tuus / Górecki (9:07) -- Hear my prayer / Mendelssohn (10:57) -- The lamb / Tavener (3:10) -- In paradisum (requiem) /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Erato 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL AGNContents: 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 ANTParnwell, E. C.
Summary: Teaches English as a second language to Russian speakers through the use of pictures dealing with everyday topics such as the body, post office, law, travel, and family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.73 PARRuoff, 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 RUOSummary: 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 TEAKeene, 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: This documentary portrays Australia's aborigines through the eyes of aboriginal women. Archival footage, excellent narration, and storytelling by the women themselves reveal the tribes' struggle for land rights, and the even greater struggle to retain traditional lifestyles and customs in a world that is fast disappearing. As the stories are told, ancient myths and legends including that of the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: 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,"...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Voth, 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
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
Contents: The forethought -- Of our spiritual strivings -- Of the dawn of freedom -- Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and others -- Of the meaning of progress -- Of the wings of Atalanta -- Of the training of Black men -- Of the Black belt -- Of the quest of the Golden Fleece -- Of the sons of master and man -- Of the faith of the fathers -- Of the passing of the first-born -- Of Alexander Crummell -- Of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 DU BGarland, 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: 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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Rare 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: "Completely revised and updated, the fourth edition of this established dictionary offers entries on all aspects of the classical world. With reception and anthropology as new focus areas and numerous new entries, it is an essential reference work for students, scholars, and teachers of classics and for anyone with an interest in the classical era"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2012
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 938.003 OXFSummary: 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 ONLGeorge Philip & Son
Summary: Provides maps and satellite photography that reflect the most recent political, economic, and demographic statistics, and presents articles addressing the environment and population matters in major cities of the world.
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: OVS 912 OXFDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
Contents: The planting colonies -- The farming colonies -- The trading colonies -- The period of revolution, 1774-1787 -- The federal convention, 1787 -- Toussaint L'Ouverture and anti-slavery effort, 1787-1806 -- The period of attempted suppression, 1807-1825 -- The international status of the slave-trade, 1783-1862 -- The rise of the cotton kingdom, 1820-1850 -- The final crisis, 1850-1870 -- The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326.1 DUBSummary: How did life in post-civil war Spain-a time of uncertainty and oppression-influence the writings of the period? In this program, renowned experts explore the literature of the Franco era through the experiences of Ana Maria Matute and other writers who chose to stay in Spain after the Nationalist victory in 1939. Dramatic readings include excerpts from Camilo Jose Cela's La Colmena, Luis...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Oxford Collapse.
Contents: Electric arc -- The birthday wars -- Vernon-Jackson -- Young love delivers -- Back of the yards -- A wedding -- Featherbeds -- For the winter coats -- Men & their ideas -- Children's crusade -- John blood -- B-roll -- I hate nobody.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sup Pop Records 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK OXFSummary: Includes the work of 201 Latino writers from the Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, and Dominican American traditions, as well as from the traditions of other Spanish-speaking countries. It traces five centuries of writing, from letters to the Spanish crown by sixteenth-century conquistadors to the cutting-edge expressions of twenty-first-century cartoonistas and artists of reggaeton.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 NORSummary: What if you could travel in time as well? Imagine yourself transported to the sparkling court society of 18th-century France, or sailing aboard a 19th-century whaling ship. What secrets would you learn about the human condition and the lives lived in distant lands and eras? And what about the most remarkable journey of all: the voyage inside the mind of another human being, in which you plumb...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2007
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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 CLACall number: DVD 809 CLA PART 1
Call number: DVD 809 CLA PART 2
Call number: DVD 809 CLA PART 3