Haskins, Don

Summary: A basketball coach describes how, in 1966, as coach of Texas Western College, he used a starting lineup of five black players to beat the top-ranked University of Kentucky team, paving the way for desegregation of all Southern college teams.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2006

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Summary: They were one of the most famous, and infamous teams in college history. Arriving on the campus at the University of Michigan in the fall of 1991, these five freshmen (Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson) not only electrified the game, but also brought new style to the masses with their baggy shorts, black socks, and brash talk. Now viewers can see them in a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hart Sharp Video 2003

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Smith, Jay M.

Summary: "Examines athletic-academic corruption at UNC-Chapel Hill and in NCAA athletics"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press 2015

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Schroth, Sarah.

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Publisher / Publication Date: MFA Publications 2008

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Summary: Eight hundred years ago, Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt met on the bloody battlefields of the Crusades. Based on new research and scholarship about that fateful meeting, The Sultan and The Saint tells one of the great, lost stories from history as two men of faith fought against a century of war and distrust in a search for mutual respect and common ground.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2017

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Summary: "The Exiles" of the title are displaced Native Americans, living in late 1950s Los Angeles on Bunker Hill, a depressed area connected to the rest of the city by the Angels Flight trolley. The Indians were already exiles, from the moment they lost their ancestral lands and were confined to reservations. Starting on Friday afternoon and closing Saturday morning, the film follows pregnant Yvonne,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 2009

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Summary: Contemporary art reflects the ideas of our time, and artists are the creative role models grappling with today's most timely questions. What is the nature of reality? How do we respond to a world in flux? Why do some historical events shape the way we think today, and why have some been forgotten? Explore these ideas and many more in Season Six of Art in the Twenty-First Century. Spotlights...

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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2012

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DeVonyar, Jill.

Summary: Seeks to illuminate the themes present in the artist's works, presenting new material about Degas's highly informed relationship with the ballet of the nineteenth century.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams, in association with the American Federation of Arts 2002

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(BROWN, ALAN, ET. AL.)

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Publisher / Publication Date: 1974

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(Oberg, Erik, Et. Al.)

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Publisher / Publication Date: 1996

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Summary: The female pharaoh Hatshepsut reigned for nearly twenty years during Egypt's early New Kingdom in the fifteenth century B.C. First acting as regent for her young nephew/stepson Thutmose III, she in time assumed the title of king and exercised the full powers of the throne as senior co-ruler. In accordance with Egyptian tradition, Hatshepsut was often depicted as a male king. After her death,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2005

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Summary: The Great returns in Season Two from Golden Globe and Academy Award nominee Tony McNamara (The Favourite). Catherine finally takes the Russian throne for her own- but if she thought coup-ing her husband was difficult, it's nothing compared to the realities of liberating a country that doesn't want to be. She'll battle her court, her team, even her own mother in a bid to bring the Enlightenment...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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(Coleman, Jim, Et. Al.)

Summary: Includes specially commissioned interviews by such renowned hockey writers as Jim Coleman, Trent Frayne, Gare Joyce and Jim Taylor, of honored members of the Hockey Hall of Fame -- Jean Beliveau, Johnny Bower, Red Horner, Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Guy Lafleur, Teeder Kennedy, Brad Park and Red Storey, plus classic and rarely seen archival photographs selected from the Hockey Hall of Fame,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 1996

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HOLMAN,J.ALAN , ET AL.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 1989

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Summary: This is a dual narrative of Israeli and Palestinian history, where readers can track each against the other, noting both where they differ as well as where they correspond. This format reveals surprising juxtapositions and allows readers to consider and process the very different viewpoints and logic of each side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2012

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Summary: In 2016, a new exhibit on the work of visionary director Guillermo del Toro will begin at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), before moving on to the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and the Minneapolis Museum of Art (MIA). This book will be the perfect accompaniment to the exhibition, which focuses on del Toro’s creative process, including the well-defined themes that he obsessively...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Insight Editions 2016

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Summary: Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world around her, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge, colorful, sensual, strange works without precedent in painting. The subject of a recent smash retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, af Klint was for years an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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(Jordan, William R., Et. Al.)

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Publisher / Publication Date: 1987

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dept. of Resource Development, Michigan State University 1969

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Degas, Edgar

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Gallery Publications in association with the Art Institute of Chicago 1996

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Publisher / Publication Date: Guillaud Editions 1984

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