Allen, John

Summary: In this practical knitter's guide, John Allen covers all aspects of the tradition of Fairisle knitting and provides complete instructions for a wide variety of garments, fully illustrated with charts and photographs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1991

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 746.9 ALL

Allen, John

Summary: Presents the life and accomplishments of the famed chemist, from her education at the Sorbonne in Paris to her work in radioactivity and her scientific accolades.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2016

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CUR

Allen, John L.

Summary: Insider's guide to the politics and personalities that will have a tremendous impact on one of the world's most secretive and important events -- the election of a pope to succeed John Paul II. John L. Allen, Jr., takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the issues, parties, and people most likely to determine the outcome. Setting the election within a broader context, he explains why it...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Image/Doubleday 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 262.135 ALL

Allen, John L.

Summary: The first serious journalistic investigation of the highly secretive, controversial organization Opus Dei provides unique insight about the wild rumors surrounding it and discloses its significant influence in the Vatican and on the politics of the Catholic Church. Opus Dei (literally "the work of God") is an international association of Catholics often labeled as conservative who seek personal...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 267.18 ALL

Paulos, John Allen.

Contents: Lani "Quota Queen" Guinier: Voting, Power, and Mathematics -- Bosnia: Is It Vietnam or World War II?: Psychological Availability and Anchoring Effects -- Recession Forecast If Steps Not Taken: Unpredictability, Chaos, and Pooh-Poohing the Pooh-Bahs -- Afta Nafta, Lafta; Free Traders Exult: Headlines and the Inverted Pyramid -- Pakistan's Bhutto Gambles in Trade Negotiations: On Dice and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: BasicBooks 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 081 PAU

Shaw, John (John Allen)

Summary: Near the end of the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II, a homeless Dust Bowl refugee named Woody Guthrie originally drafted "This Land Is Your Land" as an anthem that encompassed the tough realities of those dark times--and as a rebuttal to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America." But the song that Guthrie despised had its own complexities. Irving Berlin had risen from homelessness...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 SHA

Paulos, John Allen.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 PAU

Paulos, John Allen.

Summary: John Allen Paulos cleverly scrutinizes the mathematical structures of jokes, puns, paradoxes, spoonerisms, riddles, and other forms of humor, drawing examples from such sources as Rabelais, Shakespeare, James Beattie, Rene Thom, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Koestler, W.C. Fields, and Woody Allen.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1982

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.7 PAU

Paulos, John Allen.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 519.5 PAU

Toussaint, Allen

Contents: Disc 1. Toussaint. From a whisper to a scream -- Chokin' kind / Harland Howard -- Sweet touch of love -- What is success -- Working in a coal mine -- Everything I do gonna' be funky -- Pickles -- Louie -- Either -- Cast your fate to the wind / C. Werber, V. Guaraldi -- bonus tracks. Number nine ; Poor folks.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Raven Records 2015

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES TOU

Summary: Alien clowns aren't so funny when young lovers Debbie and Mike discover they are eating everyone in town

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Killer

Summary: Based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EMP

Summary: From the streets and taverns of colonial America, in vaudeville, on television and under the bright lights of today's Broadway stage, puppets have been a favorite form of American entertainment. This documentary is the first to chronicle the fascinating evolution of this unique art form. Examines the lives and recounts the significant contributions of men and women who, throughout the years,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mazzarella Media 2007

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STO

Summary: Inspired by the true story of Dublin crime reporter Veronica Guerin. This is about an Irish journalist who investigates the world of violent crime and the bosses who control the drugs and the violence.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2001

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY WHE

Summary: Taught by acclaimed linguist, author, and Professor John McWhorter of Columbia University, Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage dispels the cloud of confusion that clings to English, giving you a crystal-clear view of why we use it the way we do and where it fits into the diverse languages of the world. After completing these 24 lectures, you will think about how you use English in a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2012

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 420.9 McW
Call number: DVD 420.9 McW

Summary: "This season begins with a power vacuum that protagonists across Westeros and Essos look to fill. At Castle Black, Jon Snow struggles to balance the demands of the Night's Watch with those of the newly-arrived Stannis Baratheon, who styles himself as the rightful king of Westeros. Meanwhile, Cersei scrambles to hold on to power in King's Landing amidst the Tyrells and the rise of a religious...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GAM

Summary: "With the Army of the Dead--led by the Night King, his White Walkers and an undead dragon--bearing down on Jon and Dany and their combined forces, a denouement eight seasons in the making will be reached, answering a myriad of questions surrounding the fate of the series' protagonists. Meanwhile, Jon's true identity promises to undermine Dany's claim to the Iron Throne...and, or course, Cersei...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GAM

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GAM

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GAM

Summary: Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-made, self-important banker Josiah...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HAR

Summary: Scott is distressed to learn that his ex-wife and her husband have informed his son, Charlie, that there is no Santa Claus. While a sullen Charlie visits his dad on Christmas Eve, a noise on the roof brings them outside. It turns out that there is a Santa after all, and Scott has just accidentally killed him. Because of "the Santa clause," Scott inherits the job of Santa. As the next year...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2002

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Santa

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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday S

Summary: An Italian-American teenage gang prowl the Bronx in 1963 feeling that something is slipping away from them as they are about to graduate high school. This is a rich fabric of comedy and tragedy, fantasy and farce that recalls every mystery and complexity of adolescence. Wonderful '60's soundtrack.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WAN

Sun Ra.

Contents: Burton Greene introduction -- Sun Ra and his band from outer space -- The shadow world -- Interpolation -- The satellites are spinning -- Advice to medics -- Velvet -- Space aura -- The exotic forest -- Theme of the star gazers -- Outer space ways incorporated -- Dancing shadows -- Imagination -- The second stop is Jupiter -- The next stop Mars -- The satellites are spinning -- Velvet --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: ESP-Disk' 2010

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SUN