Sedaris, Amy.
Summary: With her special brand of humor, Sedaris shows how to make popular crafts, such as crab-claw roach clips, tinfoil balls, and crepe-paper moccasins; how to remember which kind of glue to use with which material; how to create your own craft room and avoid the most common crafting accidents; and, how to cook your own edible crafts, from a crafty candle salad to sugar skulls, and many more recipes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2010
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 SEDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 SEDTankard, Judith B.
Summary: "In this thoroughly revised edition of "Gardens of the arts and crafts movement", landscape scholar Judith B. Tankard surveys the inspirations, characteristics, and development of garden design during the movement. Tankard presents a selection of houses and gardens of the era from Great Britain and the United States, with an emphasis on the diversity of designers who helped forge a truly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Bishara, Marwan.
Summary: "The Invisible Arab is a brilliant analysis from Marwan Bishara, one of the Arab world's leading public intellectuals, on how the Arabs broke their own psychological barrier of fear to kindle one of the first significant revolutionary transformations of the twenty-first century."--Jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.097 BISO'Malley, Padraig
Summary: Arguing that a two-state solution is no longer a viable path to lasting peace, a controversial assessment of the Israeli-Palestine conflict addresses key issues while outlining a framework for action.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 OMABeaven, Stephen W.
Summary: "By 1977 the University of Evansville's Purple Aces basketball team had won five small-college national championships. With a charismatic young coach and a freshman phenom, this small Indiana city hoped to see its team shine in the national spotlight. Then, on a foggy night, after just four games, the plane carrying the team and its coach crashed after takeoff, killing everyone on board. The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 BEABowman, Leslie Greene.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1990
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 745 BOWCole, Juan Ricardo.
Summary: "The ... blogger and Middle East expert Juan Cole illuminates the role of today's Arab youth--who they are, what they want, and how they will affect world politics"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 953 COLCrochet, Treena.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 747.88 CRORosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: Do recent changes in the Middle East signal peace? One Arab country after another is signing historic, game-changing peace, trade, investment, and tourism deals with Israel. At the same time, Russia, Iran, and Turkey are forming a highly dangerous alliance that could threaten the Western powers. Meanwhile, the U.S. is drawing down its military forces in the Mideast and focusing on matters...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.0917 ROSSky, Emma
Summary: Returning to the UK in September 2010 after serving in Iraq as the political adviser to the top American general, Emma Sky felt no sense of homecoming. She soon found herself back in the Middle East travelling through a region in revolt. 'In A Time of Monsters' bears witness to the demands of young people for dignity and justice during the Arab Spring; the inability of sclerotic regimes to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Books 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SKY, EMMA SKYLiu, Dane
Summary: Just before Chinese New Year, Dandan discovers that her family is moving to America, far away from her best friend Yueyue; before they leave Yueyue gives her a stack of red paper and a spool of string so she can share the art of paper cutting with Americans--and when Chinese New Year comes around again Dandan remembers Yueyue's gift and introduces her new friend Christina to this ancient art.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIURaab, Scott
Summary: "The powerful story of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, featuring dozens of never-before-seen color photos by the official site photographer"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 RAAKhalidi, Rashid
Summary: A history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict told from the Palestinian perspective, arguing the period since the Balfour Declaration of 1917 has amounted to a hundred years of colonial war against the Palestinians.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2019
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Rosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: "Marcus Ryker has spent his entire career studying killers. One thing he knows for sure: a peace summit is the ultimate stage for an assassination. President Andrew Clarke is determined to announce his historic peace plan from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. But when senior American officials who support the plan begin violently dying, Clarke orders Ryker and his team of CIA operatives to hunt...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ROSPetkova, Teodora
Summary: "Whether it's a four-leaf clover, beautiful blooms from a wedding bouquet, or something your child found for you in nature, sentimental projects abound in this complete guide to making resin crafts that includes 18 fun and beginner-friendly projects. Clear resin crafting is the perfect way for anyone to make gorgeous jewelry and keepsakes from memorable moments. From a ring dish and a photo...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Chapel Publishing 2022
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.572 PETPilcher, Alex
Summary: "Over the last century, many artists have made works that challenge dominant models of gender and sexuality. The results can be sexy or serious, satirical or tender, discreetly coded or defiantly outspoken. This book illustrates the wide variety of queer art from around the world -- exploring bodies and identity, love and desire, prejudice and protest through drawing, painting, photography,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tate Publishing 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 PILSummary: Charles Loloma was one of the first Native American jewelers to use gold instead of silver and diamonds and other precious gems in addition to turquoise, coral, and shell. His innovative designs, so sculptural in quality, were internationally acclaimed. And his clients included celebrities, monarchs, and presidents. This program examines the work of Charles Loloma-and how the visionary behind...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
View online at AVOD
Summary: This program examines the pottery of Grace Medicine Flower and her brother Joseph Lone Wolf, members of the renowned Tafoya family of Santa Clara Pueblo. They revived and expanded the traditional forms and techniques of their pre-Columbian ancestors, the Mimbres, to create exquisite works featuring abstract designs and emphasizing sgraffito and polychrome techniques. Together with their father,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
View online at AVOD
Summary: Sculptor Allan Houser won international recognition for his depiction of the stoic, powerful figures of his Chiricahua Apache and Navajo families in wood, stone, and metal. This program follows Houser-also acclaimed for his murals and paintings-from quarry to studio, where he sculpts a face in marble, and to the Shidoni Foundry, where he casts a bronze head. The art of Houser, whose father was...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
View online at AVOD
Darke, Rick.
Summary: “Quoting seminal figures....Darke reexamines the pertinence of arts and crafts ideals for our own gardens...[and] sidebar boxes...suggest[ing] specific plants and planting methods, and types of materials and decorative embellishments. A bevy of beautiful photographs illustrates Darke’s thoughtful and inspiring ruminations.”—Booklist.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Friedman/Fairfax 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 712 DARMiranda, Lin-Manuel
Summary: Lin-Manuel Miranda gives readers an extraordinary inside look at "In the Heights," his breakout Broadway debut, written with Quiara Alegria Hudes, soon to be a Hollywood blockbuster. Miranda offers untold stories, perceptive essays, and the lyrics to his songs. Features newly commissioned portraits and never-before-seen photos from backstage, the movie set, and productions around the world....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.6 MIRMercieca, Jennifer R.
Summary: "Political communication expert Jennifer Mercieca shows how the Trump campaign expertly used the common rhetorical techniques of a demagogue, a word with two contradictory definitions--"a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power" or "a leader championing the cause of the common people in ancient times" (Merriam-Webster, 2019). These...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Texas A&M University Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 MERKaplan, Wendy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1987
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 KaplanSummary: Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008