Summary: "The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames is widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products ... But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life ... has been less widely understood. Narrated by James...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EAMSummary: Powers of ten ... illustrates a picnic in Chicago and then begins moving ten times farther out every ten seconds, until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light. Then, we move inward into the hand of a sleeping picnicker with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. A rough sketch ... is an earlier version of the same concept illustrated in Powers of ten. 901, after 45 years of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILBlackshaw, Pete.
Contents: The credibility of the commons and the core credibility drivers -- The consumer's the boss : today's new consumer-generated world -- Measuring CGM -- Not all marketers are liars : marketing and advertising with credibility -- Postcards from the welcome mat : credibility and your web site -- This company may be monitored for quality purposes : credibility in your product -- No place to hide :...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.812 BLASummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILAmes, Louise Bates.
Contents: Orientation -- Development : a key concept -- Individuality -- The ten-year-old -- The eleven-year-old -- The twelve-year-old -- The thirteen-year-old -- The fourteen-year-old -- Total action system -- Self-care and routines -- Emotions -- The growing self -- Interpersonal relationships -- Activities and interests -- School -- Ethical sense -- After fourteen-what comes next?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.12 AMETames, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 910.9 TAMAmes, Louise Bates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell 1980
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Summary: Describes typical characteristics of nine-year-olds and suggests solutions to behavior problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Trade Paperback 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.124 AMEEames, Andrew
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 EAMAmes, Louise Bates.
Contents: Characteristics of the age -- The child and other people -- Routines, health, and tensional outlets -- Techniques -- General interests and abilities -- The child's mind -- School -- The six-year-old party -- Individuality -- Stories from real life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.124 AMEBlackhawk, Terry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 BLAAmes, Louise Bates.
Summary: Discusses the behavior, health, intellectual development, and personal relationships of seven-year-old children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Publishing 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.124 AMETames, Richard.
Summary: Chronicles the history, beliefs, and everyday lives of the ancient Greek peoples.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lorenz Books 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 938 TAMJanes, Patricia
Summary: "Introduces the reader to tigers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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Summary: "The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.04 BLACopies Available at Woodmere
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Blackhawk, Terry
Summary: With great tenderness, Terry Blackhawk has woven both nature and art into her poems of love and grief. They share crystalline memories that span locations and times with her lost lover: a painting seen, words spoken, words unspoken but heard, and always, the river. Maumee, Maumee‘s cover is a painting from Neil Frankenhauser’s portfolio and the interior images are details from his works. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alice Greene & Co. 0000
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BLASummary: A compelling combination of storytelling and science, this series uses genealogy, oral histories, family stories and DNA to trace roots of several accomplished African Americans down through American history and back to Africa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AFRHumes, James C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 HUMCamus, Albert
Summary: Withheld from publication in France for twenty-nine years after his death, and now in English for the first time, Camus's final journals give us our rawest and most intimate glimpse yet into one of the most important voices of French letters and twentieth-century literature. The first two volumes of his Notebooks began as simple instruments of his work; this final volume, recorded over the last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ivan R. Dee 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 848.91403 CAMDavis, Camas
Summary: Camas Davis was at an unhappy crossroads. A longtime magazine writer and editor in the food world, she'd returned to her home state of Oregon with her boyfriend from New York City to take an appealing job at a Portland lifestyle magazine. But neither job nor boyfriend delivered on her dreams, and in the span of a year, Davis was unemployed, on her own, with nothing to fall back on....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVIS, CAMAS DAVEaves, Elisabeth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.7 EAVJaher, David
Summary: In 1924 the wife of a Boston surgeon came to embody the raging national debate over Spiritualism, a movement devoted to communication with the dead. Reporters dubbed her the blonde Witch of Lime Street, but she was known to her followers simply as Margery. Her most vocal advocate was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who believed so thoroughly in Margery's powers that he urged her to enter a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAGERY JAHJoyes, Claire.
Summary: One of the most influential painters of modern times, Claude Monet lived for half his life in the famous house at Giverny. It was after moving here in 1883 with his future second wife, Alice Hoschede, and their eight children that Monet's work finally achieved recognition. His growing success meant that he was able to indulge his passion for comfort and good living. Family meals, special...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5944 JOYJukes, Helen
Summary: "Helen Jukes is entering her thirties and feeling disconnected and trapped by her office job. Then, for good luck, she is given a colony of honeybees. According to folklore, a colony, freely given, brings good fortune, and the author embarks on an emotional, rewarding journey during the course of a year as she cares for these wondrous beings and learns the art of beekeeping." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020