Summary: A documentary presenting the live recording of Aretha Franklin's album 'Amazing grace' at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles, in January 1972.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AMACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC AMASummary: "The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames is widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products ... But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life ... has been less widely understood. Narrated by James...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EAMDebeljak, Ales
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lumen Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.8415 DEBSummary: Powers of ten ... illustrates a picnic in Chicago and then begins moving ten times farther out every ten seconds, until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light. Then, we move inward into the hand of a sleeping picnicker with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. A rough sketch ... is an earlier version of the same concept illustrated in Powers of ten. 901, after 45 years of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILBales, Kevin.
Summary: In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern day slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States. In "The Slave Next Door "we find that slaves are all around us, hidden in plain sight: the dishwasher in the kitchen of the neighborhood restaurant, the kids on the corner selling cheap...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 BALWhite, Adam.
Summary: "Motown: The Sound of Young America is the definitive, visual history of the Detroit-based independent record company which became a style unto itself, a prolific and hugely successful production line of suave, sassy and sophisticated music through the sixties, seventies and eighties. Featuring extensive, specially commissioned photography of treasures gathered from the archives, this landmark...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson Ltd. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 WHIAlda, Alan
Summary: The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 ALDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation AldaAls, Hilton.
Summary: Analyzes literature, history, culture, entertainment, race, and gender through the lens of people the author terms "white girls," including Louise Brooks, Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Richard Pryor, Malcolm X, and Michael Jackson.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeneys Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.6 ALSAlda, Alan
Summary: One of America's most recognizable and acclaimed actors, the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances. The son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, he spent his early childhood backstage in the erotic and comic world of burlesque and went on, after early...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.028 ALDAves, Edward
Summary: Explains in simple terms how science really works and offers stories of ingenuity and endeavor that convey the sense of wonder that inspired great scientists past and present.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 509 AVEAlda, Alan
Summary: The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 153 ALDOakes, Alma.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Batsford 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391 OAKAmes, Louise Bates.
Summary: Discusses the behavior, health, intellectual development, and personal relationships of seven-year-old children.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Publishing 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.124 AMEAmes, Louise Bates.
Contents: Characteristics of the age -- The child and other people -- Routines, health, and tensional outlets -- Techniques -- General interests and abilities -- The child's mind -- School -- The six-year-old party -- Individuality -- Stories from real life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dell 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.124 AMEFales, Dean A.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 749.213 FALSummary: Complilation of 7 films with introduction to the work of designers Charles and Ray Eames. 'Toccata for toy trains' is a trip through a world of antique toys, and toy trains. 'House : after five years of living' illustrates the home and studio designed and built by Charles Eames on a hill in California overlooking the ocean. 'Lucia chase vignette' follows a sister chasing her brother through the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILApps, Judy.
Summary: "A small, hardback pocket book to reach for whenever you're stuck for wordsAh, what could be better than good food, good wine and stimulating conversation? The food and wine can be bought...but good conversation is harder to acquire. If you want to be atthe top of everyone's dinner party invite list then Judy Apps and The Art of Conversation can help you master the knack of conversing like a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.346 APPEpstein, Bette Marie
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Jersey Dept. of State, Division of Archives and Records Management 1987
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 016.929 GUIFales-Hill, Susan.
Summary: The daughter of a Broadway actress who performed with Lena Horne and Alvin Ailey recounts the inspiration she received from her mother and the challenges she endured as a half-white, half-African American television writer in Hollywood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 FALHales, Dianne R.
Summary: "A genius immortalized her. A French king paid a fortune for her. An emperor coveted her. No face has ever captivated so many for so long. Every year more than nine million visitors trek to her portrait in the Louvre. Yet while everyone recognizes her smile, hardly anyone knows her story. This book rests on the premise that the woman in the Mona Lisa is indeed the person identified in its...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945 HALSummary: Documentary chronicling the 16-year history of rock band the Foo Fighters. Includes concert footage and videos.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1990
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1971
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MAMNew York State Archives and Records Administration
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of the State of New York, State Education Dept., State Archives and Records Administration 1993