Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Danes, Emma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 786.2 DANWhitlock, Janis
Summary: Parents who discover a teen's self-injurious behavior are gripped by uncertainty and flooded with questions - Why is my child doing this? Is this a suicide attempt? What did I do wrong? What can I do to stop it? And yet basic educational resources for parents with self-injuring children are sorely lacking. Healing after Self-Injury provides desperately-needed guidance to parents and others who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 WHIForman, Janis
Summary: Storytelling can be a lifelong and life sustaining habit of mind, a personal inheritance that connects us to our communities. It can also serve as an organizational inheritance -- a management tool that helps businesses to develop and thrive. For more than a decade, award-winning author Janis Forman has been helping executives to tell stories in service of their organizational objectives. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 FORRubenstein, David M.
Summary: "What do the most successful investors have in common? David M. Rubenstein, cofounder of one of the world's largest investment firms, has spent years interviewing the greatest investors in the world to discover the time-tested principles, hard-earned wisdom, and indispensable tools that guide their practice.​"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.678 RUBIan, Janis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1975
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK IANJones, David M. (David Michael)
Summary: This is a comprehensive encyclopedia of the Incas and other ancient people of South America with more than 1000 photographs. It provides an exploration of the political and social history, art, architecture and mythology of the lost cultures of the Andes including the Paracas, Chavin, Nazca, Moche, Wari, Lambayeque-Sipan, Tiwanaku, Chimu and Inca.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lorenz 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 985 JONSummary: Naturalist and nineteenth century painter, John James Audubon was one of the most remarkable men of early America. The program brings to life his timeless paintings with dazzling footage of the living birds he immortalized, and celebrates visually the natural world he described in his writings. Interviews reveal the man, explore his art, and put his groundbreaking work in modern perspective.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AUDHENDRICKSON, JANIS
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1988
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 HENHerbert, Janis
Summary: Discusses the events of the American Revolution, from the hated Stamp Act and the Boston Tea Party to the British surrender at Yorktown and the writing of the Constitution. Activities include making a tricorn hat and discovering local history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 HERCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 HERHerbert, Janis
Summary: Teaches about the Civil War from the secession debates to Appomattox, by means of activities like making butternut dye, decoding wigwag, and baking hardtack. Includes a resource section with a glossary and pertinent web sites.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 HERHerbert, Janis
Summary: An account of the Lewis and Clark expedition sent by President Jefferson to explore the land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Includes related activities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Jibrin, Janis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hearst Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.25 JIBGilmore, Janis Walker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Genealogical Society 2011
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3757 GILDurham, Janis Heaphy
Summary: The author chronicles how--after intense paranormal activity in the wake of her husband's death--she launched into an investigative spiritual journey, interviewing scientists and spiritual practitioners along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133 DURMamet, David
Summary: Exposing how oppressive cultural codes-encapsulated in buzzwords such as inclusion, diversity, social justice, appropriation-are constricting the vibrant intellectual life of the world's freest country, a renowned author and playwright examines how politics and cultural attitudes about rebellion have shifted in the U.S. throughout history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 MAMJaher, David
Summary: In 1924 the wife of a Boston surgeon came to embody the raging national debate over Spiritualism, a movement devoted to communication with the dead. Reporters dubbed her the blonde Witch of Lime Street, but she was known to her followers simply as Margery. Her most vocal advocate was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who believed so thoroughly in Margery's powers that he urged her to enter a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAGERY JAHMamet, David.
Summary: Playwright and screenwriter Mamet gives us a subversive inside look at Hollywood from the perspective of a filmmaker who has always played the game his own way. Who really reads the scripts at the film studios? How is a screenplay like a personals ad? Whose opinion matters when revising a screenplay? Why are there so many producers listed in movie credits? And what do those producers do,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 384.80973 MAMKarpinski, Janis L.
Summary: The inside story of the first female general ever to command troops in a combat zone, and of how the scandal of Abu Ghraib destroyed her career. It traces the rise of a groundbreaking woman from the Republican suburbs of New Jersey to a commanding position in a man's army. She earned her insignia as a master parachutist, received the Bronze Star in the first Gulf War, and as the leader chosen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 KARMamet, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press, c1976. 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812 MAMSpring, Janis Abrahms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.736 SPRLongacre, Doris Janzen.
Summary: "Recipes and suggestions by Mennonites on how to eat better and consume less of the world's limited food resources"--Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Herald Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.566 LONBareau, Juliet Wilson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philadelphia Museum of Art 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005