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 2010Summary: 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISRenoir, Auguste
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avenel Books 1978
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 759.4 MARLenoir, Frédéric.
Summary: A huge bestseller in Europe, Frederic Lenoir's Happiness is an exciting journey that examines how history's greatest philosophers and religious figures have answered life's most fundamental question: What is happiness and how do I achieve it? From the ancient Greeks on--from Aristotle, Plato, and Chuang Tzu to the Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad; from Voltaire, Spinoza, and Schopenhauer to Kant,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 LENRenoir, Pierre Auguste.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gramercy Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.4 RENJolicoeur, Claude
Summary: All around the world, the public's taste for fermented cider has been growing more rapidly than at any time in the past 150 years. At its best, cider is a pure, healthy beverage that reflects both the skill of the cider maker and the quality of the fruit that's used to make it. And with the growing interest in locally grown and artisan foods, many new cideries are springing up all over North...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 663.63 JOLMonet, Claude
Summary: Presents paintings of Claude Monet, accompanied by phrases in the painter's own words, edited to form a simple rhyme that runs through the text.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 2009
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Summary: Instructions for making folded paper figures beginning with each letter of the alphabet. Also explains how to say it in English, French, and Japanese.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Pub. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 736.982 SARClauss, Lauren
Summary: "When Energon hits the mall, it's soon clear that everything inside is more than meets the eye! Candy treats, sports equipment, electronics, food, school supplies, and more come to life as little Transformers robots called the BotBots!"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE CLABaudez, Claude.
Summary: Translation of Les cites perdues des Mayas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.81 BAUDebussy, Claude
Summary: This collection of Debussy's popular intermediate pieces includes "Clair de lune," "Reverie," "La petit n?gre," the complete "Children's Corner Suite" and other works. The introductory pages discuss symbolist poetry, French Impressionist painters and Debussy's musical style. A variety of photographs taken throughout the composer's life are also included.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred Pub. Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 786.2 DEBDebussy, Claude
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1987
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1986
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Summary: A comprehensive catalog highlights the artist's career with examples of his paintings from every period, drawings and pastels, and a year-by-year chronology of his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 1995
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.44 MONMonet, Claude
Summary: Discusses Monet's career, and shows his paintings of the water lily pond in his garden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Lane 1991
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 702 MONET STUPerrault, Claude
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Publisher / Publication Date: Payette Radio 1969
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3714 PERWatson, Claude M. (Claude Meacham)
Summary: This is the first of what the author hopes to be a four-book series; each book based on one pair of his great-grandparents. Both Gervas Watson and Mary Fielding were natives of Owston Ferry, Lincolnshire, England. After Mary's death in 1845, Gervas emigrated with his five children first to Bruce Mines, Ontario, Canada, then to Whitewater Township, Grand Traverse County, Michigan. Chapter 5 may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Meacham Pub. 2003
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 WATSON WatsonCroney, Claude.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Publishers; distributed by Watson-Guptill Publications, New York 1973
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 751.422 CRODrouin, Claude.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Serivces Genealogiques Claude Drouin 1989
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.2 TREMBLAY DROSteele, Claude.
Summary: "In Whistling Vivaldi, renowned social psychologist Claude M. Steele addresses one of the most perplexing social issues of our time: the trend of minority underperformance in higher education. With strong evidence showing that the problem involves more than weaker skills, Steele explores other explanations. Here he presents an insider's look at his research and details his groundbreaking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.385 STEGlaude, Eddie S.
Summary: "A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society America's great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, to the disaster visited upon poor and middle-class black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 GLAGlaude, Eddie S.
Summary: "Based on the Du Bois Lectures delivered at Harvard in 2011, We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For argues for the importance of self-cultivation in pursuit of justice as a critical feature of Black politics, what Eddie S. Glaude Jr. calls Black democratic perfectionism. Building on the political scientist Adolph Reed's work on 'Black custodial politics' Glaude critiques our impulse to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2024
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Summary: "The fascinating story of America's national anthem and an examination of its powerful meaning today. Most Americans learn the tale in elementary school: During the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key witnessed the daylong bombardment of Baltimore's Fort McHenry by British navy ships; seeing the Stars and Stripes still flying proudly at first light, he was inspired to pen his famous lyric. What...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 CLADenvir, Bernard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bulfinch Press 1993