Summary: Explores the making and meaning of Film, a 1965 short film starring Buster Keaton, that was written by Samuel Beckett, directed by Alan Schneider, and produced by Barney Rosset. Topics covered include the circumstances leading to the film's production, the production process itself, and the film's critical reception. Includes outtakes, never-before-heard audio recordings of production meetings,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NOTWilson-Lee, Kelcey
Summary: "Revealing the truth behind the life of a royal princess in medieval England, the colorful story of the five remarkable daughters of King Edward I. Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealized--and largely mythical--notion of the medieval noblewoman still lingers. Yet the reality was very different, as Kelcey Wilson-Lee shows in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.03 WILSummary: "For many, Milton Glaser is the personification of American graphic design. Best known for co-founding New York Magazine and creating the enduring I (heart) NY campaign, the full breadth of Glaser's remarkable artistic output is revealed in this documentary portrait, Milton Glaser: to inform & delight. From newspapers and magazine designs, to interior spaces, logos and brand identities, to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MILSummary: "The first decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a blossoming of creative nonfiction. In this extraordinary collection, Phillip Lopate gathers essays by forty-seven of America's best contemporary writers, mingling long-established eminences with newer voices and making room for a wide variety of perspectives and styles. The Contemporary American Essay is a monument to a remarkably...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 CONMilton, Stephanie
Summary: Offers minecrafters a guide on how to create and play player-versus-player minigames in Minecraft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J793.4 MOJSummary: The lectures in Part 6 bring the progress of philosophy into the present day, beginning with the work of Nietzsche and the American pragmatists William James and John Dewey. This section explains the work and consequence of modern linguistic and logical analysis in lectures on Ayer and Wittgenstein. Also discussed is the structuralism of Claude Levi-Strauss and the attempts to develop rational...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GREJelley, Craig
Summary: Introduces such creative mode elements as functional and aesthetic decor, and provides directions for building a remote outpost, ocean observatory, and steampunk airship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The fact that John Lurie knows nothing about fishing doesn't stop him from taking his celebrity guests to exotic fishing locales for fishing and conversation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1999
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FISSummary: An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. Nick Broomfield's most personal and romantic film of his storied career starts on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960, where Leonard Cohen, then a struggling and unknown fiction writer, and Marianne Ihlen, a single mother with a young son, became part of community of expat artists,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MARWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WEIWagner, Richard
Summary: The four operas of The Ring Cycle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2012
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA RINQuaife, Milo Milton
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1930
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 QUACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 QUAQuaife, Milo Milton
Contents: Birth of the Commonwealth, by M. M. Quaife.--The developing Commonwealth, by Sidney Glazer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice-Hall 1948
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 QUA1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.03 QUA
Tilton, Marcy.
Summary: DEC ART Debut titles in Taunton Press's new sewing series, these guides take both new and experienced sewers completely through the construction process of a particular garment. Podolak, contributing writer to Threads Magazine, is quite expert in breaking down the construction of the jacket. Organization of chapters is very logical, starting with selection of style, fabric, and customizing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.435 TILChilton
Summary: Includes Popular American and Canadian makes and models, for model years 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chilton Book Company 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 American 1992-96Hatanaka, Kellen
Summary: Introduces the alphabet with artwork that depicts a range of careers, from aviator to zookeeper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2014
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE HATQuaife, Milo Milton
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Publisher / Publication Date: The J.L. Hudson company 1940
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2 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 QUACall number: NEL 977.4 QUAIF
Quaife, Milo Milton
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1951
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.434 QUAQuaife, Milo Milton
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1940
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 QUAContents: Introduction -- Season in New York -- Season in Chicago -- Little theater tournament -- Show-off / by George Kelly -- Hell-bent fer heaven / by Hatcher Hughes -- Swan / by Ferencz Molnar ; tr. by M.P. Baker -- Outward bound / by Sutton Vane -- Goose hangs high / by Lewis Beach -- Beggar on horseback / by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly -- Changelings / by Lee Wilson Dodd -- Sun-up / by Lula...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Small, Maynard & Co. 1924
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BESTilton, Buck.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.52 TILSummary: A documentary film that takes viewers on a scientific and spiritual journey where we discover that, by changing one's perceptions, beliefs, and emotions, the human body can heal itself from any disease.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Beyond Words Publishing 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Hampton, Kelle.
Summary: "The author of the popular blog Enjoying the Small Things interweaves lyrical prose and stunning four-color photography as she recounts the story of the first year of her daughter Nella--who has Down syndrome--and celebrates the beauty found in the unexpected, the strength of a mother's love, and, ultimately, the amazing power of perspective"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAMPTON, KELLE HAMBilton, Chrysta
Summary: "In this unputdownable story of nature, nurture, and coming to terms with one's true inheritance, the author, introducing her deeply dysfunctional yet fiercely loving family that is anything but "normal," reveals how a colorful cast of characters were thrown together by chance and DNA"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022