Summary: In 1940, Hitler's archaeologists excavated sites in Poland to try to prove that Germans had lived there before the Poles-an anthropological justification for political aggression and military invasion. This program explores the use of archaeology as a tool for propaganda and diplomatic machination by focusing on the long-standing connections between Germany and Greece. The program also looks at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: In the last 250 years, archaeologists have changed the basic understanding of time and human existence. This program looks at the birth of modern archaeology, an event that stirred all of Europe's imagination: the unearthing of the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the 18th century, buried since Roman times under volcanic ash. It follows the early excavations of Pitt Rivers in Egypt and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: For decades, local food producers in the West have faced a shrinking market share. But if well-intentioned Americans and Europeans stop eating vegetables from Africa, will Africans have more to eat? Or will we simply deprive African farmers of a living? This program delves into that issue and other food-related problems, some of which have solutions while others urgently await answers. Viewers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Simpson, Sturgill
Summary: Written and recorded in less than a week, and featuring the same ace musicians who played on last year's Cuttin' Grass albums, the album tells a classic American story of a Civil War-era couple torn apart by violence and reunited by love.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY SIMSummary: By grim coincidence, archaeologists are ideally suited by their conventional techniques to determine whether or not war crimes have been committed. This program looks at forensic archaeologist Richard Wright, whose work has greatly helped the international community in the pursuit of justice. The program shows details of his team's findings at the Ukrainian village of Serniki, proving with such...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Rubalcaba, Jill
Summary: "Have you ever wondered about the real location of the Garden of Eden? Or how Moses could have parted the Red Sea? Well, archaeologists have wondered, too, and they have some ideas. Journey to the ancient world through lovely retellings of popular bible stories paired with classical art. Explore fascinating archaeological discoveries that illuminate how or where these stories might have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 220.95 RUBSummary: Archaeology was born of treasure-seeking, but it became the stimulus for rampant pillaging of antiquities in the 18th and 19th centuries. This program charts the escalation of archaeological acquisition from gentlemanly passion to national plunder, from Lord Elgin and the marble friezes of the Parthenon to Richard Lepsius and his Egyptian collection that took sixty barges to transport to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Archaeology institute of America9n 1000038232.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 930.1 ARCFoucault, Michel
Contents: Part I: Introduction -- Part II: The discursive regularities -- The unities of discourse -- Discursive formations -- The formation of objects -- The formation of enunciative modalities -- The formation of concepts -- The formation of strategies -- Remarks and consequences -- Part III: The statement and the archive -- Defining the statement -- The enunciative function -- The description of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.2 FOUSchlögel, Karl
Summary: "The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least int he material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR? What did it look. fell smell, and sound like? In The Soviet Century, Karl Schlögel, one of the world's leading historians of the Soviet Union, presents a spellbinding epic that brings to life the everyday world of a unique...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 947.084 SCHCline, Eric H.
Summary: Join the Great Courses and National Geographic for a spellbinding journey to wondrous ancient sites, and explore the greatest marvels of archaeology.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 930.1 CliCall number: DVD 930.1 Cli
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 930.1 ARCBroken Social Scene (Musical group)
Contents: Our faces split the coast in half -- Ibi dreams of pavement (a better day) -- 7/4 (shoreline) -- Finish your collapse and stay for breakfast -- Major label debut -- Fire eye'd boy -- Windsurfing nation -- Swimmers -- Hotel -- Handjobs for the holidays -- Superconnected -- Bandwitch -- Tremoloa debut -- It's all gonna break.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arts & Crafts 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BrokeWallach, Jennifer Jensen
Summary: Wallach sheds a new and interesting light on American history by way of the dinner table. While undeniably a "melting pot" of different cultures and cuisines, America's food habits have been shaped as much by technological innovations and industrial progress as by the intermingling and mixture of ethnic cultures. Understanding the American diet is the first step toward grasping the larger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.12 WALSummary: Richard Greene once again takes up the bow and brings to life the stories of this classic literary character featured in this entertaining program from the 1950's. robin hood, Friar Tuck, Maid Marian and the rest of the Merry Men continue their efforts to thwart the forces of the Sheriff of Nottingham and bring hope to the citizens of Nottingham. Robin Hood and his fellow Sherwood Forest...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ADVGoodkind, Terry.
Summary: In a world as rich and real as our own, Richard Rahl and Kahlan Ammell stand against the ancient forces which hesiege the New World--forces so terrible that when they threatened, they could only be withstood by sealing off the Old World from whence they came.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GOO ST #3Standage, Tom
Summary: Chronicles social media over two millennia, from papyrus letters that Cicero used to exchange news across the Empire to today, reminding us how modern behavior echoes that of prior centuries and encouraging debate and discussion about how we'll communicate in the future.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2014
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2 STASinger, P. W. (Peter Warren)
Summary: "Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter and Facebook to create chaos and destruction. This urgent report is required reading, from defense expert P.W. Singer and Council on Foreign Relations fellow Emerson Brooking"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult BrookingMorgan, Rachel
Summary: "Rachel Morgan's frank and incisive history begins with Richard Wetherill's "discovery" of Mesa Verde in Colorado in 1888. Subsequent expeditions by amateurs, looters, and budding professional archaeologists abetted the devastation of Indigenous sites throughout the Southwest. These expeditions became the proving grounds for different conceptions of what archaeology should be and how it should...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 MORSummary: What are the concerns of archaeology today? How will improved methods and scientific technology shift perspective on the past? The last episode of this series looks at the shift from excavating grand palaces to discovering and learning more about some of the earliest communities, such as at San Jose Magote in the Oaxaca Valley in Mexico, where evidence has been found of human habitation dating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Mike talks with his mouth full, Emma makes weird noises, and Gwen dresses most peculiarly. Even worse, Greg will not share, Barry never smiles, and Chase acts like a bully. In an effort to help these socially challenged students learn to get along with their classmates at Fairfield Junior High, the staff of the school newspaper decides to do a story on social skills. This dramatization uses...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Singer, P. W. (Peter Warren)
Summary: "Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter and Facebook to create chaos and destruction. This urgent report is required reading, from defense expert P.W. Singer and Council on Foreign Relations fellow Emerson Brooking"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 SINSummary: According to Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy at London's City University, future wars may be fought specifically over agricultural resources. Given the present volatility of food prices and the riots they provoked in 2008, his theory seems to be on the mark. This program assesses the potential for a global food crisis as it guides viewers through issues involving climate change, oil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Clark, Gregory
Summary: How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does this influence our children? More than we wish to believe! While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves that movement on the social ladder has changed little over eight centuries. Using a novel technique -- tracking...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.513 CLAGrateful Dead (Musical group)
Contents: Mississippi half-step uptown toodeloo -- Let me sing your blues away -- Row Jimmy -- Stella blue -- Here comes sunshine -- Eyes of the world --Weather report suite: Prelude -- Part 1 -- Part 2 Let it grow
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Grateful Dead Productions 1973