Sunzi
Summary: For more than two thousand years, Sun-tzu's "The Art of War" has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.02 SUNTzu, Sun.
Summary: 1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State.
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Publisher / Publication Date: eBooksLib 2005
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Sunzi
Summary: The oldest known military treatise, Sun Tzu's the Art of War is still one of the world's most influential writings on strategic thought. Applicable everywhere from the boardroom to the bedroom, from the playing field to the battlefield, its wisdom has never been more highly regarded or used. Now available in its complete form-including an insightful English translation, the entire Chinese...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2008
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Summary: For more than two thousand years, Sun-tzu's "The Art of War" has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble 1994
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Summary: Creating the fighting force -- Preparations for war -- A military education -- The combat arms -- Generalship and the art of command --Army organization -- Strategy -- Fortification -- The army in the field -- The operational art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.02 NAPCoonts, Stephen
Summary: "The Chinese dragon is flexing its muscles. As its military begins to prey on neighbors in the South China Sea, attacking fishing vessels and scheming to seize natural resources, the US goes on high alert. But a far more ominous danger lurks closer to home: a Chinese sleeper cell has planted a nuclear weapon in the harbor at Norfolk, Virginia, the biggest naval base on the planet. The target: a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Coonts 2016Van Creveld, Martin
Summary: An in-depth series of military history studies, written by leading authorities in the field, combines important insights into each era; detailed analyses of battlefield campaigns, strategies and tactics, technology, weaponry, leadership, and the implications of the era in terms of global history; and numerous photographs, maps, diagrams, and illustrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins/Smithsonian 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.02 VANSmith, Mark
Summary: The Art of War by Sun Tzu has been a much-studied work of military strategy for hundreds of years, influencing great leaders in all walks of life. Here, respected business journalist Mark Smith applies the lessons to the role of the entrepreneur by showing how the axioms of General Sun Tzu apply to business and other ventures to develop strategies for long-term success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sirius Publishing, a division of Arcturus Publishing Limited 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A hero of the French and Indian conflict, Benjamin Martin had renounced fighting forever to raise his family in peace. However, when British troops arrive at his South Carolina home and endanger his family, he takes up arms alongside his idealistic patriot son, Gabriel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Patriot 2000Copies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAT RATED RGlubok, Shirley.
Summary: A survey of American art from 1940 to the present which includes "white writing," action painting, abstract expressionism, op art, pop art, stabiles, and kinetic sculpture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1976
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 709 GLUSummary: This program focuses on Berlin, where Hannah Hoch, George Grosz, and John Heartfield politicized the anarchist Dada movement, uniting it with the extreme Left. Nearby, the newly formed Bauhaus School, led by founder Walter Gropius and other influential architects and artists, encouraged students to reject history and embrace new techniques, materials, and styles. The film also features Gerhard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Hall, Jake
Summary: "The history of drag has been formed by many intersections: fashion, theatre, sexuality and politics--all coming together to create the show stopping entertainment millions witness today. In this extensive work, Jake Hall delves deep into the ancient beginnings of drag, to present day and beyond. Vibrant illustrations enhance the rich history from Kabuki theatre to Shakespearean, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nobrow Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 HALBarton, Chris
Summary: "When the British Royal Navy grew desperate to protect their ship from German U-Boat attacks, they created Dazzle ships in order to confuse the enemy of their location and destination."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.4 BARMurphy, Cullen
Summary: A history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut School, written by the son of the artist behind the popular strips "Prince Valiant" and "Big Ben Bolt," explores the achievements and pop-culture influence of these artists in the aftermath of World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MURPHY, JOHN CULLEN MURPressfield, Steven.
Summary: "In this powerful, straight-from-the-hip examination of the internal obstacles to success, bestselling author Steven Pressfield shows readers how to identify, defeat, and unlock the inner barriers to creativity. The War of Art is an inspirational, funny, well-aimed kick in the pants guaranteed to galvanize every would-be artist, visionary, or entrepreneur."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Irish Entertainment 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Friedman/Fairfax 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 758.9 CHEBeyer, Rick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plate of Peas Productions 2011
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 940.5421 BEYMartin, George R. R.
Summary: Perfect for fans of George R. R. Martin?s A Song of Ice and Fire novels and HBO?s Game of Thrones: a collection of wicked one-liners from the incomparable Imp of Casterly Rock, fully illustrated by Jonty Clark!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.88 MARSummary: Rodrigo Borgia becomes Pope Alexander VI, propelling him, his two sons Cesare and Juan, and his daughter, Lucrezia, to become the most powerful and influential family of the Italian Renaissance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOREnglish, Charlie
Summary: "This is a tragedy that begins in the halls of psychiatry and modern art and ends in the Nazis' first gas chambers. In the early 1920s, Hans Prinzhorn, a psychiatrist and aesthete, sought insight from the art of mental patients such as Franz Buhler. Buhler was a brilliant, well-known ironworker until his schizophrenia diagnosis, and his work was compared to that of Munch and Duhrer. Prinzhorn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700.943 ENGSummary: This program looks at the British Museum's extraordinary collection of Near Eastern antiquities from Sumer, Babylon, and Assyria, from 5000 BC to the 7th century AD. The Assyrian friezes, reliefs, and statuary provide a stark portrait of a brutal, efficient war machine on which depended the land of Nineveh and Nimrud. The camera also moves to the sites in Iraq where these and other excavations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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D'Souza, Dinesh
Summary: "For those who witnessed the global collapse of socialism, its resurrection in the twenty-first century comes as a surprise, even a shock. How can socialism work now when it has never worked before? In this pathbreaking book, bestselling author Dinesh D'Souza argues that the socialism advanced today by the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar and Elizabeth Warren is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: All Points Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 335.00973 D'SOSummary: An epic documentary bringing life to America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and the ordinary soldiers. A heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc CSummary: The History Channel's acclaimed series, Civil War Journal, takes viewers beyond the battles and into the personal stories of the War Between the States. Drawing on diaries, photographs and dramatic re-enactments, the intimate side of the epic conflict is exposed. This program profiles young men who rose to high rank in the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011