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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Fiechter, Jean-Jacques.
Summary: Shares stories about convincing Egyptian art forgeries that were considered authentic for decades before being withdrawn from major collections, including those in the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum, and the British Museum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709.32 FIERousseau, Jean-Jacques
Contents: Chronology of Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Discourse on the Sciences and Arts or First Discourse. Replies to Critics. Letter to M. l'Abbe Raynal. Observations [to Stanislas, King of Poland]. Letter to Grimm. Last Reply. Letter about a New Refutation. Preface to Narcissus. Preface of a Second Letter to Bordes -- Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men or Second Discourse....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320 ROURousseau, Jean-Jacques
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320 ROUPetter, Jean-Jacques
Summary: This stunningly illustrated guide to the world's primates covers nearly 300 species, from the feather-light and solitary pygmy mouse lemurs of Madagascar--among the smallest primates known to exist--to the regal mountain gorillas of Africa. Organized by region and spanning every family of primates on Earth, the book features 72 splendid color plates, facing-page descriptions of key features of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.8 PETDuval, Jean Jacques
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crowell 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 748.5 DUVRousseau, Jean-Jacques
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 848 ROUSummary: Part 4 covers the period during the 17th and 18th centuries that saw widespread questioning of religious and other traditional authorities, growing faith in science, and early responses to the budding industrial revolution. This period marks the intellectual flowering that led to the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRESummary: 1804: the hidden history of Haiti is a documentary film about the untold history of the Haitian Revolution. Produced by the creator of the best-selling Hidden Colors film series, 1804 goes in-depth about the four principal players who were instrumental in Haiti's independence: Makandal, Dutty Boukman, Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines. This documentary gives a compelling look into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: King Flex Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EIGSummary: This series of lectures introduces the greatest of universal museums. Its aim is not comprehensive. The focus is narrowed to the Department of Paintings, which is responsible for European paintings from the Middle Ages until the mid-19th century. These works of art form an encyclopedic summary of the achievements of painters that can be called the single most important such collection in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 708.4 MUSCall number: DVD 708.4 MUS
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 708.4 MuseumSummary: Simone Bitton, a Jewish woman born in Morocco who identifies with both Arab and Jewish cultures, examines the personal, cultural, and monetary costs of the Israeli West Bank Barrier, a wall being built to separate Israelis and Palestinians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Life Size Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WALSummary: "In this compendium of 5-minute really true stories about bedtime, you can go on a journey of wonder and learning to find out the answers to all these questions, and many more! Travel to Ancient Egypt to explore the beds of Tutankhamun, jet off into space to see how astronauts get ready for bed, or even plunge underwater to learn how hibernating turtles breathe through their bottoms! There are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Books 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Betty is a best selling novelist who has invented her name to escape a troubled past made worse by her emotionally unstable and violent mother. When her young son is killed in an accident, her mother brings her a "replacement", a boy she kidnapped off the street.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALICousteau, Jean-Michel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 1989
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 919.53 COUDurant, Will
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 901.9 DURSummary: Collections of 11 episodes from the TV series "Cousteau's rediscovery of the world" and "Cousteau's Papua New Guinea journey." Covers multiple Cousteau Society expeditions throughout Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cousteau Society 2005
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JACSummary: A documentary investigation that traces violent riots said to be caused by a rare and dangerous French film. Through conversations with filmmakers, producers, journalists, historians and psychologists, this documentary slowly uncovers the truth about the most cursed and disturbing movie ever made.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FURBaker, Chet
Contents: Belgium, 1964. Bye bye blackbird ; Isn't it romantic ; Airegin ; Time after time ; So what -- Norway, 1979. Interview ; Blue train ; Softly, as in a morning sunrise ; Five years ago ; Love for sale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reelin' in the Years Productions 2006
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC CHEJacquet, Luc.
Summary: Chronicles how emperor penguins endure the coldest place on Earth to mate and hatch their young, with references to the making of the documentary film depicting their ordeal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 598.47 JACJacquet, Jennifer
Summary: "Science is so powerful that the powerful want to control it. From the author of Is Shame Necessary?, comes a biting satire of the techniques used by the corporate world to obfuscate and deny scientific truths. Taking the form of a corporate meeting agenda, The Playbook highlights the tactics used by the business elite to contradict climate change, ignore health risks, and undermine worker...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 JACKimball, Jeana
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Publisher / Publication Date: That Patchwork Place 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 KIMJehn, George.
Summary: Final Destination: Disaster informs the public, for the very first time, of what actually precipitated the controversial sale of Eastern Air Lines--at one time the second largest airline in the free world--to Frank Lorenzo's Texas Air Corporation, which led to its certain demise. This unbelievable story is written by an eighteen-year veteran Eastern pilot who was intimately involved in many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016