Summary: Walter Herzog's film Fitzcarraldo is the story of one man's attempt to build an opera house in the Amazon jungle. Filmmaker Les Blank captured the production, made perilous by Herzog's determination not to use models or special effects.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BURSummary: Examines efforts by a group of citizens in West Virginia to hold the industrial giant Du Pont responsible for poisoning the drinking water supply as a result of dumping toxic chemicals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEVSummary: "Yellowstone is no ordinary wilderness, it is the world's first national park, a lost world of vast plains and endless forests defended on all sides by towering mountains, home to America's last great bison herds, the grizzly bear and realm of the wolf ... Join the charismatic cast of Yellowstone's wildlife as they turn to face the extreme challenges of the seasons ... The daily struggles of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD YELSummary: Helen Macdonald's bestseller H Is for Hawk told the story of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. The goshawk is one of Mother Nature's own fighter jets, capable of finding and killing its prey with the speed of a lightning bolt. Now Macdonald digs deeper into the world of these raptors by following a family in the wild while raising and training a new goshawk of her own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598 H1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV H
Ferguson, Niall.
Summary: What causes rich countries to lose their way? Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, increasing inequality, aging populations, antisocial behavior. But what exactly has gone wrong? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues in The Great Degeneration, is that our institutions₇the intricate frameworks within which a society can flourish or fail--are degenerating.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.0917 FERSiegel, Randy
Summary: Follows the experiences of a penny born in Philadelphia that travels everywhere from New York to Portland, Oregon, to Puerto Rico describing in detail his many adventures along the way.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 737.4 SIESummary: A psychedelic precursor to music videos, in which The Mothers of Invention, a touring musical group, wreak havoc in Centerville, a stereotypical American town. The first color movie made on videotape and then transferred to film, it includes many visual effects.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE TWOPound, Ezra
Summary: Collects several of Pound's early poems and prose, including "The Seafarer," "Revolt," "Autumn," "What I Feel About Walt Whitman," and "The Serious Artist."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5208 POUKluck, Michelle
Summary: Instruction on reflexology massage to increase energy, ease muscle tension, pain and stress.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gaiam 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.8224 MASSummary: Tyson looks at the most confounding mysteries of Earth, space, and what it means to be human. He attempts to answer all of your most pressing questions, from how the brain works to the physics of comic book superheroes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523 STACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 523.1 TYSNagel, Ernest
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510.1 NAGCrockett, Rigel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.41 CROMigel, Parmenia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.8 MIGNagel, Susan
Summary: The biography of Marie Antoinette's only child to survive the revolution and the woman who helped shape the future of nineteenth-century Europe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANGOULEME, MARIE-THERESE NAGSummary: Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce star in their most widely recognised roles of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. After the film versions of The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes were released in 1939, Rathbone and Bruce reprised their film roles in a radio series, The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , which began in October 1939. This collection includes 30...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC SHEBrowning, Nigel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Betterway Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 BROCalder, Nigel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1980
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.6 CALLatta, Nigel.
Summary: Do your kids sometimes make you feel like your head is going to explode? Have you ever yelled until you were hoarse? Do you ever have days when all you feel like doing is making a run for the airport? Why is it so hard to be the parent you thought you would be? For harassed parents struggling to understand why they end up screaming at their kids and tearing their hair out trying to make them...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2010
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Palmer, Nigel
Summary: "With recipes for fermented plant juice, nutrient-rich extracts, and IMO using weeds, leaf mold, shells, bones, rock dust, and more Revitalize your garden by making your own biologically diverse inoculants and mineral-rich amendments using leaf mold, weeds, eggshells, bones, and other materials available for little or no cost from local woodlands, fields, restaurants, and markets. Gardener and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2020
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Summary: 110 vegetarian autumn and winter recipes that provide quick, easy, and filling plant-based suppers while paying homage to the seasons--from the bestselling author of Eat. Greenfeast: Autumn, Winter is a vibrant and joyous collection of recipes, perfect for people who want to eat less meat, but don't want to compromise on flavor and ease of cooking. With Slater's famous one-line recipe...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 SLASlater, Nigel.
Summary: "A comprehensive, deeply personal, and visually stunning guide to growing and cooking vegetables from Britain's foremost food writer, with more than 400 recipes and extensive gardening notes. In the tradition of Roast Chicken and Other Stories comes Tender, a passionate guide to savoring the best the garden has to offer. an instant classic when it was first published in the UK, Tender is a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.65 SLASlater, Nigel.
Summary: A memoir by a noted food writer and cookbook author shares the story of growing up in 1960s suburban England, remembering his childhood through the food in his family's pantry and the development of his own culinary talents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 SLAWest, Nigel
Summary: Modern historians have consistently condemned the Abwehr, Germany’s military intelligence service, and its SS equivalent, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), as incompetent and even corrupt organizations. However, newly declassified MI5, CIA and US Counterintelligence Corps files shed a very different light on the structure, control and capabilities of the German intelligence machine in Europe, South...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Frontline Books 2022