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Summary: Film director Martin Scorsese presents a look at the American film and its practitioners, from silents to the movies of the 1970s, and discusses how it has shaped his own artistic vision.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004

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Clancy, Tom

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, 1996, c1995. 1996

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CLA

Clancy, Tom

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, 1996. 1997

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Summary: Jacques Rivette's two-part historical epic telling the story of Joan of Arc, and her journey from ordinary teenager to legendary figure.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JOA

Summary: Steven Shorter is a rock music phenomenon. His popularity, carefully engineered by his corporate handlers, has reached dizzying proportions. When artist Vanessa Ritchie is hired to paint his portrait, she discovers that he is unhappy and unstable.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Project X Distribution 2008

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

Summary: War game: A dramatization of the possible effects of nuclear warfare on Great Britain. Explores the physical damage effects, the psychological effects on the survivors, the societal logic for the existence of nuclear arms, and the attempts to understand how the balance of power keeps atomic weapons in check.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2006

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

Summary: As long as the holy site known as 'where the green ants dream' is safe, the aboriginal natives believe that their culture, and Earth itself, will be safe. When a major corporation plans to mine the site, it sparks a revolt.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Tango Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHE

Summary: In a desert zone in California, a civilian tribunal sentences groups of dissidents and gives them the option of participating in law enforcement exercises in the Bear Montain National Punishment Park. Now these prisoners have to fight for their lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2005

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

Rovin, Jeff

Summary: "In this action-packed thriller in the New York Times bestselling Tom Clancy's Op-Center series, America's elite task force must take down a group of ruthless domestic terrorists determined to paralyze the country through extreme acts of violence. They are known as the Black Order. Self-proclaimed patriots and survivalists, they refuse to surrender their values and beliefs to the left-leaning...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROV

Clancy, Tom

Summary: The Op-Center's crack team of crisis management operatives uncovers a harrowing power play that threatens American defense and intelligence.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 1995

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Clancy, Tom

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Rovin, Jeff

Summary: In this race-to-the-finish thriller in the best selling Tom Clancy's Op-Center series, an attempt to exfiltrate a Chinese scientist threatens to incite a full-fledged war between China and the United States.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROV

Galdorisi, George

Summary: ISIS reigns supreme in huge swathes of Iraq and Syria and poses a threat to stability in the Middle East. When an American airstrike kills the ISIS leader's only son, he vows revenge. He discovers that a U.S. Navy admiral, now on duty in the Pentagon, led the strike. The ISIS leader has him kidnapped by American home-grown ISIS sympathizers. Their orders: smuggle him out of the United States...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2016

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GAL

Rovin, Jeff

Summary: As fears of a dangerous nuclear confrontation between China and the US escalate, China targets individual members of the Black Wasp team.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROV

Rovin, Jeff

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Summary: "As fears of a dangerous nuclear confrontation between China and the US escalate, China targets individual members of the Black Wasp team in this heart-pounding entry in the bestselling series. After successfully extricating one of Beijing's top scientists from captivity and escorting him to America, the Black Wasp commandos find themselves targeted by Chinese assassins. The killers are not...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2023

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROV

Rovin, Jeff

Summary: "When the launch of their powerful new hypersonic missile ends in destruction, the Chinese government needs someone to blame. Was it a failure of engineering, or sabotage? The chief engineer on the project, Dr. Yang Dàyóu, is targeted as the scapegoat and arrested-unable to help his family as they are hunted down by the military. Op-Center's Lt. Grace Lee is sent to China on a solo...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROV

Summary: An intimately epic exploration of the convergence between artistry and eroticism. Edouard Frenhofer is a reclusive painter living in the French countryside with his wife. Their lives are radically upended with the arrival of a younger artist and his girlfriend, who becomes the muse that awakens Edouard's fading passions. Rivette creates a layered character study, while also offering an...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2018

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BEL

Summary: This program describes a great musical culture in decline in turn-of-the-century Vienna, and discusses how that decline led to the musical revolution whose reverberations are still felt today. Names like Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg still strike terror in the hearts of many concert-goers. With the help of Simon Rattle, however, we hear in their powerful, brooding music the collapse of the...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Summary: Section one of this program examines the prodigious volume of products created by Tapio Wirkkala, including the 1963 cutlery set called Composition-a testimonial to the artist's love of nature, knowledge of ergonomics, and refined sense of taste. In section two, the sensational Swatch-a pop culture phenomenon-is featured, showing how its styling has helped the Swiss watch industry fight...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010

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Brahms, Johannes

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Classics 1999

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BRA

Brill, Marlene Targ.

Summary: Presents the social, political, economical and technological changes in the United States during the first decade of the twentieth century, including labor unions, the invention of the airplane and popularization of the automobile.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.911 BRI

Lindop, Edmund.

Summary: Provides accounts of key events that occurred during the 1950s in the areas of science, technology, transportation, the economy, society, literature, art and architecture, fashion, stage and screen, music, sports and recreation, and war, and includes photographs and primary sources.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.921 LIN

Summary: This program examines 20th-century music from the perspective of its most fundamental force-rhythm. It shows how western orchestral music has freed itself from the domination of melody and explored the richness of musical pulse. Starting with the driving power of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Rattle uses works by Gustav Mahler, Sibelius, and modern composer Steve Reich to show that the labels...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: An anthology exploring the history of the pop art movement, drawn from art magazines, art historical journals, newspapers, and news magazines.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 Pop

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