Summary: A biography of the man who made public parks an essential part of American life. He made enormous contributions to the American landscape, believing a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted's efforts to preserve nature created an "environmental ethic" decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712.0237 FRE

Summary: It tells the astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the United States military. Why would Indian men and women put their lives on the line for the very government that took their homelands? The film relates the stories of Native American warriors from their own points of view, stories of service and pain, of courage and fear.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD 355 Warrior 2019

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WAR

Summary: John James Audubon's story is dramatic and surprising. He was not born in America, but saw more of the North American continent than virtually anyone alive. His growing apprehension about the destruction of nature became his prophecy. As an artist and naturalist his achievements were monumental. John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature creates a meaningful portrait of Art and Science in the first...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2016

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JOH

Scott, Laurence

Summary: Drawing on the intersection of philosophy, politics, and memoir, an existential meditation on personal loss and the role of digital tech in how we find meaning in today's world illuminates the transition into self-defined but vulnerable intangible realities. --Publisher

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128 SCO

Thiadens, Saskia R. J.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jones and Bartlett Publishers 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.42 THI

Scotti, R. A.

Summary: It was the splendor--and the scandal--of the age, the defining event of the high Renaissance. In 1506, the ferociously ambitious Renaissance Pope Julius II tore down the most sacred shrine in Europe--the millennium-old St. Peter's Basilica built by the Emperor Constantine over the apostle's grave--to build a better basilica. Construction of the new St. Peter's spanned two centuries, embroiled...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 726.5094 SCO

Scotti, R. A.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 363.3492 SCO

Scotti, R. A.

Summary: Part love story, part mystery, "Vanished Smile" reopens the case of the most audacious and perplexing art theft ever committed--the theft of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" from the Paris Louvre on August 21, 1911.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Books 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.5 SCO

Kotlikoff, Laurence J.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MIT Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 KOT

Stott, John R. W.

Contents: Nonconformity -- Christlikeness -- Maturity -- Creation care -- Simplicity -- Balance -- Dependence -- Death.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: IVP Books 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Christ Stott

Stott, John R. W.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: IVP Books 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Rel Stott 2006

Moore, R. Laurence (Robert Laurence)

Summary: "From colonial times into the twentieth century, our laws and court cases ignored atheism, assuming that all good Americans were religious. Americans came to associate atheism with radical social philosophies that advocated violence--especially anarchism and communism. Avowed nonbelievers were derided, even the famous patriot Thomas Paine. Only in the twentieth century, with the passage of laws...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211 MOO

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Summary: An abridged production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Magic Flute for television.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Opera 2006

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA MAG

Stott, John R. W.

Contents: The postmodern world -- Essentials : God's vision for his church -- A learning church -- A caring church -- A worshiping church -- An evangelizing church -- Worship : glorying in God's holy name -- Biblical worship -- Congregational worship -- Spiritual worship -- Moral worship -- Evangelism : mission through the local church -- Forms of evangelism -- The church must understand itself : its...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: IVP Books 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Christ Stott

Summary: Travel back in time, from the Arctic Ocean to Pacific tide pools, with a pioneering group of scientists who make surprising discoveries that transform human understanding of nature and ecology.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SER

Kotlikoff, Laurence J.

Summary: "Learn the secrets to maximizing your Social Security benefits and earn up to thousands of dollars more each year with expert advice that you can't get anywhere else. Want to know how to navigate the forbidding maze of Social Security and emerge with the highest possible benefits? You could try reading all 2,728 rules of the Social Security system (and the thousands of explanations of these...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.6 KOT

Epstein, Lawrence J. (Lawrence Jeffrey)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.7 EPS

Summary: The Fellowship divides to conquer, as Frodo and Sam, with the help and hindrance of Gollum, continue on their way to Mount Doom. Gandalf and Pippin ride to Minas Tirith to help defend Gondor, while Merry remains with Eowyn and the other Rohan fighters. Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli seek aid from those that live in the Cursed Mountains. All these battles have one ultimate goal in mind: to distract...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY LOR

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Lord 2004

Pollack, Pam

Summary: Best known for his epic Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien was born in British-occupied South Africa. His early life was full of action and adventure. Tolkien spent his childhood roaming the British countryside with his family and could read and write by age four. He was naturally gifted with languages and used this skill as a signals officers in World War II as well as in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Turtleback Books 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TOL

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET TOLKIEN

Kotlikoff, Laurence J.

Summary: "In 2016, Social Security rules changed radically. Do you know how - and how these changes might apply to you? Americans have left literally billions of Social Security dollars on the table - benefits we have earned, are eligible to take, but simply aren't aware of. Fully revised and carefully updated in light of the new law, Get What's Yours is the indispensable guide to collecting the maximum...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.6 KOT

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging Kotlikoff

Kotlikoff, Laurence J.

Summary: "Laurence Kotlikoff, one of our nation's premier personal finance experts... harnesses the power of economics and advanced computation to deliver a host of spellbinding but simple money magic tricks that will transform your financial future. Each trick shares a basic ingredient for financial savvy based on economic common sense, not Wall Street snake oil. Money Magic offers a clear path to a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 KOT