Summary: Complilation of 7 films with introduction to the work of designers Charles and Ray Eames. 'Toccata for toy trains' is a trip through a world of antique toys, and toy trains. 'House : after five years of living' illustrates the home and studio designed and built by Charles Eames on a hill in California overlooking the ocean. 'Lucia chase vignette' follows a sister chasing her brother through the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILHorton, James
Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Judith Jadinger, RE (Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers) -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 : Defining a Wood Engraving -- Chapter 2 : History of Wood Engraving as It Pertains to Commercial Engraving -- Chapter 3 : The Commercial Wood Engraver -- Chapter 4 : The Tools and Specialized Processes of the Wood Engraver -- Chapter 5 : The Sander Engraving...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Craft Wood Horton 2020Foley, James
Summary: Stella wants to be an astronaut. There is only one problem: Stella is an elephant. Every time she applies to Space Command, they come up with a new reason she can't join. But where there's a will, there's a way and Stella is determined to reach for the stars.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, a Division of EDC Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC FOLBaldwin, James
Summary: First published in 1963, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called "Negro problem." As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal account of the black experience in the United States, it is considered one of the most passionate and influential explorations of 1960s race relations, weaving thematic threads of love, faith, and family into...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 2019
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 305.8 BALMurray, James T.
Summary: From tiny stores tucked away on narrow side streets to well-known institutions on historic avenues, this book presents the individual images and shop owner stories that together make up a collective history. Up until now, there has been little attention paid to New York's storefronts; this book reverses that glaring omission and makes clear that the spirit of New York City is etched in its...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gingko 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 MURRule, James S.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: M. Witmark & Sons 1922
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMAudubon, John James
Summary: With this publication virtually the entire series of paintings created by John James Audobon for The Birds of America is reproduced for the first time in full color and with the accuracy made possible by modern photographic tecniques. There is nothing in American art to which this large collection of Audobon´s original work can be compared. No other artist of his time was so sensitively and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Heritage/Bonanza Books 1985
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 598 AUDJennings, Patricia
Summary: In spring 1939 O'Keeffe spent 9 weeks in Hawai'i. During her 2-week stay on Maui, she was guided by her host's 12-year old daughter. Now 85, Patricia tells of showing O'Keeffe the valleys and hills of Wailuku and the waterfalls, jungles, lava bridges, and black-sand beaches of Hana. The two formed a deep bond that influenced the rest of Patricia's life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Koa Books 2011