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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: Jonas Taylor leads a research team on an exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean. Their voyage spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival. Pitted against colossal, prehistoric sharks and relentless environmental plunderers, they must outrun, outsmart and outswim their merciless predators.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Belgian filmmaking team of brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne turned heads with Rosetta, an intense verite drama that closely follows a poor young woman struggling to hold onto a job to support herself and her alcoholic mother. It's a swift and simple tale made revelatory by the raw, empathic way in which the directors render Rosetta's desperation, keeping the camera nearly perched on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROSSummary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISFarmer, Art.
Contents: Disc 1. Isis -- Ah-leu-cha -- Love walked in -- Blue 'n' boogie -- Soul dance -- Nancy -- Au privave -- Little moon.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: C.A.M. 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ FARSummary: A 1950 update of the Orphic myth by Jean Cocteau that depicts a famous poet scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead through Cocteau's famous mirrored portal. Orpheus represents the legendary Cocteau at the height of his abilities for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ORP1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ORP
Di Piero, W. S.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 DI PPeru Negro
Contents: Como cantan, como bailan los negros -- Taita guaranguito -- Jolgorio de los negritos-guaranguito -- De España -- A Ronaldo -- Carnaval Negro -- Afro -- Son de los Diablos -- Alcatraz -- Picarón -- Con su toque de violín -- Villancico negro -- Negrito.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Times Square Records 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN PERContents: v. 1. (1934-1945) The continental / Fred Astaire -- Lullaby of Broadway / Dick Powell -- The way you look to-night / Fred Astaire -- Sweet Leilani / Bing Crosby -- Thanks for the memory / Bob Hope & Shirley Ross -- Over the rainbow / Judy Garland -- When you wish upon a star / Cliff Edwards -- The last time I saw Paris / Kate Smith -- White Christmas / Bing Crosby -- You'll never know / Dick...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ENVValldeperez, Pere
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Publisher / Publication Date: BARRN 0000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 748.5 VALPakroo, Peri
Summary: Build a foundation for your business, online and off. Create and implement business and marketing plans. Comply with tax rules, including those affecting home businesses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346.0652 PAKWolfman, Peri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 648.8 WOLPERE UBU.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PERContents: Stampede ; Wrappin' it up / Fletcher Henderson (Fletcher Henderson and his orchestra) -- Dinah / Henry Akst (Red Nichols and his Five Pennies) -- Moten swing / Bennie and Buster Moten (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra -- I ain't got nobody / Spencer Williams (Fats Waller) -- Honky tonk train blues / Meade Lewis (Meade Lewis) -- Body and soul / Johnny Green (Benny Goodman Trio) -- Body and...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Collection of Recordings 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SMISummary: A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempts to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, it deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NIGPakroo, Peri
Summary: With practical advice, legal information, tips, and step-by-step instruction, this guide will help you get your nonprofit up and running. It explains how to: develop a strategic plan and budget; recruit and manage board members, volunteers, and staff; market your organization to your target audience; raise money including traditional methods and crowdfunding; build a website, use social media...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2019
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Summary: Provides detailed information related to business start-up and management, while giving attention to the concerns commonly reported by women entrepreneurs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ingram Pub Services 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: C. Potter 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 690.8927 WOLBotsford, Diana Dru.
Summary: Shortly after Daniel Jackson returns from his time among the ascended Ancients, he volunteers to join an archaeological survey of Chinese ruins on P3Y-702. But after accidentally activating a Goa'uld transport ring, Daniel finds himself the prisoner of the Goa'uld Lord Yu. Blaming himself for Daniel's capture, Jack O'Neill vows to go to any lengths to get him back - even if it means taking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Press 2011
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Summary: Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. But new evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he sketched them out in his notebooks, some even 1700 years before him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LEODr. Dre
Contents: Side A. The chronic (intro) -- F___ with Dre day -- Let me ride -- The day the niggaz took over.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Death Row Records 1992
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Summary: "The concluding volume of the first authorized biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved of 20th century sculptors, and one of the greatest artists in the cultural history of America--a vividly written, illuminating account of his triumphant later years. The concluding volume of this magnificent biography begins during World War II, when Calder--known to all as Sandy--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CALDER, ALEXANDER PERSummary: L'Armee des Ombres is a stark and unvarnished story about Resistance fighters in Vichy France in 1942-43 when the French leadership allowed the Nazis to occupy the country. The members of this army are cold, hungry, desperate men and women, with false names and no addresses, who can be betrayed in an instant by a traitor or an accident. They know they will probably die. A meditation on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007