Marker, Chris

Summary: In Paris after World War III, a few survivors research time travel hoping to send someone to the past to help their situation; the meditations of a world traveler on various world-wide locations are narrated.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007

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Sagner-Düchting, Karin.

Summary: Between the motif and the artist Claude Monet (1840-1926) was both the most typical and the most individual painter of Impressionism. His long life and extraordinary work capacity - coupled with a sometimes furious perfectionism--he dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape offer the human eye.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 2004

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Sagner-Düchting, Karin.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New York 1998

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Rilke, Rainer Maria

Summary: In April 1898 Rainer Maria Rilke, not yet 23, began a diary of his Florence visit. It was to record, in the form of an imaginary dialogue with his mentor and then-lover, Lou Andreas-Salome, his firsthand experiences of early Renaissance art. Two others followed. In these "Schmargendorf" and "Worpswede" diaries, Rilke began to reach toward other people - among them the sculptor Clara Westhoff,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1997

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Summary: Discover the stories, ideas, and methods behind today's most compelling artists; features sixteen artists from North America (Chicago, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Vancouver).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Rilke, Rainer Maria

Summary: Over the last fifteen years, in his two volumes of New Poems as well as in The Book of Images and Uncollected Poems, Edward Snow has emerged as one of Rainer Maria Rilke's most able English-language interpreters. In his translations, Snow adheres faithfully to the intent of Rilke's German while constructing nuanced, colloquial poems in English.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2000

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Rilke, Rainer Maria

Summary: "With more than two hundred and fifty selected poems by Rilke, including complete translations of the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies, The Poetry of Rilke spans the arc of Rilke's work, from the breakthrough poems of The Book of Hours to the visionary masterpieces written only weeks before his death. This landmark bilingual edition also contains all of Snow's commentaries on Rilke, as...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2009

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Rilke, Rainer Maria

Summary: "The definitive bilingual version of Rilke's New Poems--faithful to the original German, with insightful commentary on every poem. Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the world's best-selling poets, and New Poems contains many of his most iconic pieces. Throughout, Rilke he is obsessed with shapes and different layers of physical containment--from an image held in a panther's eye to a cathedral...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2014

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Rilke, Rainer Maria

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2005

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Rilke, Rainer Maria

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2000

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Summary: In his final film as director, Gordon Parks turned the camera upon himself and created a deeply personal and remarkably poetic self-portrait. Moments Without Proper Names blends Parks's striking photographs with newly-shot footage of the artist, his own musical compositions, and personal reminiscences performed by a trio of esteemed actors: Avery Brooks, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Joe Seneca.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Turner, Chris

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2004

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Contents: More distance from your driver -- Maximum power -- The all important routine -- Troublesome trees -- Flop shots -- Wet ground conditions -- Match play tips -- Chipping techniques -- Elements of a great putting stroke -- Pre-game putting warm-up -- Putting practice

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PGA

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Gardner, Chris (Chris P.)

Summary: The author shares the life lessons that enabled him to rise from a homeless single father to a millionaire businessman and outlines steps for recovering from professional or physical setbacks and finding the motivation to pursue new challenges.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2009

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Summary: An unearthly child: Teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright are in for the adventure of a lifetime when they follow student Susan Foreman home to an odd police box in a junkyard and meet the Doctor, a strange old man who claims to be Susan's grandfather, who takes them on a short excursion back to 200,000 B.C. ; The Daleks: When the TARDIS lands on the seemingly dead planet Skaro, the Doctor...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2012

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Contents: Gaining distance off the tee -- Par 3 efficiency -- Creating muscle memory -- Trouble shots -- Perfeting your pitching -- Feet outside the bunker shot -- Distance control on long putts -- Making more putts -- Practice game: putts with break -- Off season training

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PGA of America

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Gardner, Chris (Chris P.)

Summary: "Chris Gardner, popular speaker and the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and major motion picture The Pursuit of Happyness presents, in the tradition of The Last Lecture and The Alchemist, a powerful book on dreaming your way to the next level of your life"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2021

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Duffy, Chris (EDT)

Summary: A collection of graphic novel adaptations of popular fables includes the tales of the hare and the tortoise, the boy who cried wolf, the town mouse and the country mouse, and the grasshopper and the ants.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2015

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Smith, Kevin

Summary: Oliver Queen, a.k.a. the Green Arrow, comes back to life, unaware that he was dead, and encounters superheroes including Hal Jordan, Aquaman, and Batman as he struggles to adjust to a world vastly different from the one he left.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2002

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Wagner, Richard

Summary: The four operas of The Ring Cycle.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2012

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