Summary: "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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Summary: 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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Summary: 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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Ames, Louise Bates.

Contents: Orientation -- Development : a key concept -- Individuality -- The ten-year-old -- The eleven-year-old -- The twelve-year-old -- The thirteen-year-old -- The fourteen-year-old -- Total action system -- Self-care and routines -- Emotions -- The growing self -- Interpersonal relationships -- Activities and interests -- School -- Ethical sense -- After fourteen-what comes next?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dell 1989

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Ames, Louise Bates.

Summary: Describes typical characteristics of nine-year-olds and suggests solutions to behavior problems.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Trade Paperback 1991

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Eames, Andrew

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2005

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Tames, Richard

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1995

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Ames, 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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Ames, 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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Tames, Richard.

Summary: Chronicles the history, beliefs, and everyday lives of the ancient Greek peoples.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lorenz Books 1998

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Humes, James C.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 1997

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Summary: A compelling combination of storytelling and science, this series uses genealogy, oral histories, family stories and DNA to trace roots of several accomplished African Americans down through American history and back to Africa.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006

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Jakes, John

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1977

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Japel, Stefanie.

Summary: Contains knitting projects for making matching mother and daughter clothes, including surfer tees, classic cardigans, puebla tops, and artist's vests.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2012

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Jaynes, Gregory.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1986

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Jukes, Geoffrey.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1968

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Wilson, Jamia

Summary: "Explore the points where gender, race, class, ability, sexuality, and culture meet. Learn from author Jamia Wilson's lived experiences, read the statistics, and gain strength in quotes from feminist firebrands and activists. Along the way, respond to calls to action and form your own views on the 'F' word. This book is for everyone."--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint off The Quarto Group 2021

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Camus, Albert

Summary: Withheld from publication in France for twenty-nine years after his death, and now in English for the first time, Camus's final journals give us our rawest and most intimate glimpse yet into one of the most important voices of French letters and twentieth-century literature. The first two volumes of his Notebooks began as simple instruments of his work; this final volume, recorded over the last...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ivan R. Dee 2008

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Davis, Camas

Summary: Camas Davis was at an unhappy crossroads. A longtime magazine writer and editor in the food world, she'd returned to her home state of Oregon with her boyfriend from New York City to take an appealing job at a Portland lifestyle magazine. But neither job nor boyfriend delivered on her dreams, and in the span of a year, Davis was unemployed, on her own, with nothing to fall back on....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018

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Eaves, Elisabeth

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002

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Jaher, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2015

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Joyes, Claire.

Summary: One of the most influential painters of modern times, Claude Monet lived for half his life in the famous house at Giverny. It was after moving here in 1883 with his future second wife, Alice Hoschede, and their eight children that Monet's work finally achieved recognition. His growing success meant that he was able to indulge his passion for comfort and good living. Family meals, special...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1989

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