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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WOR
Call number: DVD 709 WOR

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Murakami, Haruki

Summary: "The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami's extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public. Considered "the world's most popular cult novelist" (The Guardian), Haruki Murakami's books have galvanized millions around the world. Many of his fans know about his 10,000...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 895.6 MUR

Summary: Two of Japan's foremost contemporary cultural spokespersons met for an informal conversation with remarkable results. While their extended talk took place at a particular location at a particular moment in history, much of the content is timeless and universal. After popular acclaim in Japan, the transcript now makes its first appearance in English. Topics from the Contents: The meaning of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Daimon Verlag 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 895.609 HAR

Anatoli, A.

Summary: Babi Yar is a ravine outside the Ukrainian capital of Kiev and a site of massacres carried out by German forces and by local Ukrainian collaborators during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. The first and best documented of the massacres took place 29-30 September 1941, killing 33,771 Jews. This book records the author's experience under the Nazis in the Ukraine. Anatoli...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1970

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANA

Bellessi, Diana

Summary: "Fascinating collaboration between Diana Bellessi (Argentina) and Ursula K. Le Guin (US), each of whom translates a collection of poems by the other. The two poets worked in close consultation with each other, especially in the case of Le Guin, whose knowledge of Spanish is admittedly minimal. Bilingual format except for authors' introductions which are printed without translation"--Handbook of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arte Público Press 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 BEL

Borchert, Wolfgang

Summary: Collection of short stories and a one-act play.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [New Directions] 1971

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOR

Summary: A collection of documentaries made during World War II using actual newsreel footage, chronicling important events of the war.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2001

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WOR

Morvan, Jean David

Summary: "Award-winning writer JD Morvan and renowned photographer Abbas' stunning graphic novel masterpiece which uses iconic photos to uniquely illustrate the historical 'Rumble in the Jungle' boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. On the 30 th October 1974, the most famous boxing match of the 20th Century took place. Nicknamed the "Rumble in the Jungle", it pitted Muhammad Ali,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Comics 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.83 MOR

Walker, Alice

Summary: "Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple--"an American novel of permanent importance" (San Francisco Chronicle)--crafts a bilingual collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving. Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shares a timely collection of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 37 Ink/Atria Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 WAL

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 WAL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 WAL

Beckett, Samuel

Summary: This volume is an absurdist play in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. They claim he's an acquaintance but in fact hardly know him, admitting that they would not recognize him when they do see him. To occupy the time they eat, sleep, converse, argue, sing, play games, exercise, swap hats, and contemplate suicide --...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 842.914 BEC

Bagieu, Pénélope

Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 BAG

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 Bagieu

Murakami, Haruki

Summary: "A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in our...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 895.64 MUR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MURAKAMI MUR

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Summary: A classic of world literature, Goethe’s Faust is a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humor, and tragedy. Martin Greenberg re-creates not only the text’s varied meter and rhyme but also its diverse tones and styles—dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and soaring. His rendition of Faust is the first faithful, readable, and elegantly...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 832 GOE

Neruda, Pablo

Summary: Poems explore the depths of the distinguished Chilean writer's love for his wife.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 1986

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 NER

Strindberg, August

Contents: The father -- Miss Julie -- The dance of death -- A dream play -- The ghost sonata.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 839.7 STR

Kobayashi, Issa

Summary: A selection of haikus by the Japanese master. Through an illustrated collection of haiku, the inspirational moments in the life of one family throughout the course of a year are presented, bringing to light the preciousness of the moment and the wonder of today.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2007

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 895.613 KOB

Mizuki, Shigeru

Summary: "A fictionalized memoir of Shigeru Mizuki's time served in the Imperial Army in World War II."--P. [4] of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2011

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ONW

Nakazawa, Keiji.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Last Gasp of San Francisco 2008

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BAR

Summary: "The armed conflict in the east of Ukraine brought about an emergence of a distinctive trend in contemporary Ukrainian poetry: the poetry of war. Directly and indirectly, the poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war, reflecting on the themes of alienation, loss, dislocation, and disability; as well as justice, heroism, courage, resilience, generosity, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.7 WOR

Tagore, Rabindranath

Summary: Annotation A substantial selection ofpoems by Tagore (1861-1941), the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, and India's greatest modern poet. He was the most brilliant creative genius produced by the Indian Renaissance.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloodaxe Books 1991

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.4415 TAG

Summary: Some of the included authors are already familiar to readers in the West (Liu Cixin and Hao Jingfang, both Hugo winners); some are publishing in English for the first time. Because of the growing interest in newer SFF from China, virtually every story here was first published in Chinese in the 2010s.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

Horace.

Summary: A new bilingual translation of the works of a Roman poet, with Latin and English versions on facing pages. In Discipline, one reads, "Sweet and proper it is to die for your country / But Death would just as soon come after him / Who runs away."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 474.01 HOR

Tranströmer, Tomas

Summary: "Tomas Tranströmer--the recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature--can be clearly recognized not just as Sweden's most important poet, but as a writer of international stature whose work speaks to us now with undiminished clarity and resonance. Long celebrated as a master of the arresting, suggestive image, Tranströmer is a poet of the liminal: his verse is drawn again and again to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.7 TRA