Summary: Explore the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design, and architecture. Making a reputation with her traditional lacquer work in the first decade of the twentieth century, she became a critically acclaimed and sought-after designer and decorator before...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2017

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Hungry Wolf, Adolf.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Book Pub. Co. 1990

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Hesse, Josiah

Summary: "Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind meets Christopher McDougall's Born to Run in this immersive, investigative look at the hidden culture of cannabis use among elite athletes (as well as weekend warriors)--and the surprising emerging science behind the elusive, exhilarating "runner's high" they all seek"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021

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Summary: It is the story of the most influential figures of the 20th century, those who caused and those who cured our most troubled times. A parallel biography of the most significant figures of the twentieth century from the last shot fired in the First World War to the victory of Mao Zedong. A story of the power to lead and mislead, to inspire and to cause mass destruction. This is a series, at its...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Bunting, Josiah

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2004

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Bunting, Josiah

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2004

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Hochhuth, Rolf.

Summary: Full English translation of the uncut, original text. Play raises the question of how Pope Pius 12th could fail to speak out against the mass murder of six million Jews during the World War.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1964

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Soyinka, Wole.

Summary: In The Open Sore of a Continent, Soyinka, whose own Nigerian passport was confiscated by General Abacha in 1994, explores the history and future of Nigeria in a compelling jeremiad that is as intense as it is provocative, learned, and wide-ranging. He deftly explains the shifting dramatic personae of Nigerian history and politics to Westerners unfamiliar with the players and the process,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1996

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Conder, J. (Josiah)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha International 2002

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Summary: A portrait of the most famous and controversial artist of the second half of the twentieth century. Explores the complete spectrum of Warhol's artistic output, from the late 1940s to his death in 1987.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006

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Summary: Working for change: Explores the birth of the social documentary in the U.S. and U.K. during the years of the Great Depression and the New Deal, featuring interviews with several of the people who helped define and shape the form.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Conder, J. (Josiah)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha International 2004

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Christian, Frank

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 1996

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Jacobsen, Rolf.

Summary: An early champion of modernism, Jacobsen published a body of work that earned him international recognition and established him as one of Europe's great poets. This bilingual collection spans Jacobsen's fifty-year career and includes, for the first time in English, his final poems.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2001

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Kraiker, Rolf

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Boston Mills Press 1999

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Wolf, Naomi

Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Naomi Wolf, Outrages explores the history of state-sponsored censorship and violations of personal freedoms through the inspiring, forgotten history of one writer’s refusal to stay silenced.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2020

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Wolf, Naomi.

Summary: "When an unexpected medical crisis sends [the author] on a deeply personal journey to tease out the intersections between sexuality and creativity, she discovers, much to her own astonishment, an increasing body of scientific evidence that suggests that the vagina is not merely flesh, but an intrinsic component of the female brain--and thus has a fundamental connection to female consciousness...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2012

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Wolf, Robb

Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author of The Paleo Solution...One Month to Reset Your Metabolism for Lasting Fat Loss One Week to Discover the Carbs that are Right for You. Do you struggle to lose weight and get healthy? Are you playing the blame-game and berating yourself for "cheating" on your diet? This struggle should come as no surprise, as we are genetically wired to eat more and move...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2017

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Flichtbeil, Rolf.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2006

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