Duby, Georges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bookking International 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skira 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 DubySummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Into the Amazon tells the remarkable story of the journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon into the heart of the South American rain forest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon. Two of the most celebrated men from their respective nations, Roosevelt and Rondon set out with twenty other adventurers in 1914. Over eight eventful weeks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INTBucay, Jorge
Contents: What does it mean to be a parent? -- Unconditional love -- Ambivalent love -- Inheritance -- Upbringing -- Setting an example : parents as role models -- Educating parents as teachers -- Motivating arents as guides -- Wants and expectations -- When a parent' job is done -- Epilogue -- Works cited.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: P306.874 BucayLucey, Donna M.
Summary: "In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey illuminates four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny intuition, Sargent hinted at the mysteries and passions that unfolded in his subjects' lives. Elsie Palmer traveled between her father's Rocky Mountain castle and the medieval...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LUCSummary: 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Lucey, Donna M.
Summary: John Armstrong Chanler (known as Archie) was an heir to the Astor fortune, an eccentric, dashing, and handsome millionaire. Amelie Rives, from a Southern family and the goddaughter of Robert E. Lee, was a daring author, a stunning temptress, and a woman ahead of her time. Filled with glamour, mystery, and madness, their love affair and marriage made them the talk of society in the Gilded Age....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 LUCLucey, Donna M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 305.4 LUCLacy, Scott M.
Summary: Find out what makes us human by learning where we came from.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 823 Anthropology 2017BORGES, JORGE LUIS
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Publisher / Publication Date: UMISC 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 868 BORJohnson, Lacy M.
Summary: "Lacy Johnson was held prisoner in a soundproofed room in a basement apartment that her ex-boyfriend rented and outfitted for the sole purpose of raping and killing her. She escaped, but not unscathed. The Other Side is the haunting account of a first passionate and then abusive relationship, the events leading to Johnson's kidnapping and imprisonment, her dramatic escape, and her hard-fought...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, LACY M JOHLucas, George.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 LUCCohan, George M. (George Michael)
Summary: Presents the complete text of this patriotic song that was written for a Broadway musical, chronicles the history of the American flag, and recounts the life of the song's composer, George M. Cohan. Includes instructions for making a flag wind sock.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAKGeorge, Judy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747 GEOSummary: Samuele is twelve years old and lives on an island in the middle of the sea. He goes to school, and loves shooting his slingshot and going hunting. He likes land games, even though everything around him speaks of the sea and the men, women, and children who try to cross it to get to his island. But his is not an island like the others, its name is Lampedusa and it is the most symbolic border of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2017
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Church, George M. (George McDonald)
Summary: A heady overview of the emerging discipline of synthetic biology and the wonders it can produce, from new drugs and vaccines to biofuels and resurrected wooly mammoths. In this authoritative, sometimes awe-inspiring book, geneticist Church and veteran science writer Regis team up to explore how scientists are now altering the nature of living organisms by modifying their genomes, or genetic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 572.8 CHUJohnson, George M. (George Matthew)
Summary: "This is a memoir of George's boyhood in New Jersey, growing up with their brother and two cousins, all under the supervision of their larger-than-life grandmother"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 JOHJohnson, George M. (George Matthew)
Summary: In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2020
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2 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 JOHRosenberg, Liz
Summary: A portrait of the author of "Anne of Green Gables" shares revelations about Montgomery's final days as well as the complexities of her brilliant but often troubled life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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Summary: A treasury which recreates Anne's world and brings a beloved time and place to life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1991
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 745.59 COLBrownridge, Lucy
Summary: "Georgia O'Keeffe is known as the Mother of American Modernism, discover why in this first story book about Georgia O'Keeffe. From humble beginnings living on a prairie farm, to taking the New York art scene by storm, to living a solitary life in the New Mexican desert, find out how Georgia's extraordinary life unfolded and how each place changed the ways her paintings came out. See how her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 O'KESummary: 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