Summary: Takes the viewer behind the walls of government, as CIA, Pentagon and foreign service experts speak out detailing the lies, misstatements and exaggerations that served as the reasons for fighting a "preemptive" war against Iraq that wasn't necessary. Includes interviews with more than 20 experts in opposition to the U.S. war in Iraq.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation Co. 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNCSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUFreeman, Charles
Summary: A radical reappraisal of the impact of Constantine's adoption of Christianity in 368 AD on the later Roman world, and on Western civilization. Adopting those aspects of the religion that suited his purposes, Constantine turned Rome on a course from the relatively open, tolerant and pluralistic civilization of the Hellenistic world, towards a culture that was based on the rule of fixed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.12 FRESummary: While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft, a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SHASummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Contents: Bull doze blues (Henry Thomas) -- Good looking girl blues (Furry Lewis) -- Mean black cat blues (Charley Patton) -- Cracking them things (Mississippi Sheiks) -- Miss Emma Liza (Blind Blake) -- Rattle snake groan (Luella Miller) -- Your enemies cannot harm you (but watch your close friend) (Rev. E.W. Clayborn) -- Long lonesome blues (Blind Lemon Jefferson) -- She's a long tall disconnected mama...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blues Images 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES BLUSummary: When Arthur Clennam returns to London after several years abroad, he wants to learn more about his mother's new seamstress, young Amy Dorrit. His search brings him to the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where he learns the truth about struggle and hardship in 1820s England.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LITSummary: 17th century Britain was a hotbed of revolution, treachery and court intrigue. Oliver Cromwell, the fiery ambitious commoner took on the monarchy and changed the course of Western civilization. He and King Charles I fought for absolute rule.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CROA J Neiburg S Timberg,W Sharples
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Famous Music Corp. 1939
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMContents: Els segadors / Spanish traditional (4:13) -- The ballad of the fallen : folk song from El Salvador (4:19) -- If you want to write me / Spanish traditional (3:55) -- Grandola vila morena / José Alfonson (2:11) -- Introduction to people / Carla Bley (3:55) -- The people united will never be defeated / Sergio Ortega (1:37) -- Silence / Charlie Haden (5:45) -- Too late / Carla Bley (8:20) -- La...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1983
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: disc 1. Casey Jones (Billy Murray) -- Casey Jones (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Southern Casey Jones (Jesse James) -- Steamboat Bill (Arthur Collins) -- Casey and Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Steamboat Bill boogie (Delmore Bros.) -- Red wing (Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr) -- Red wing (Doc Williams & the Border Riders) -- Just break the news to mother (George J. Gaskin) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY PROSummary: Lifelong buddies Willie, Joe, and Al decide to buck retirement and step off the straight and narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. To pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Going 2017Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OBaird, Charles W. (Charles Washington)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1973
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 284.5 BairdJefferys, Charles W. (Charles William)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ryerson Press 1970
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.371 JEFFSummary: Creed: Adonis Johnson never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there's no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed's legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: SDS 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CREEvers, C. W. (Charles W.)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: s.n. 1909
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-Gen 929.3771 EversShedd, Charlie W.
Summary: "... inspiring, true stories"--Jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Servant Publications 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 235.3 SHEWharves
Contents: The Strike -- Rays of light -- John the stitcher -- L'Autre -- Venus of hornchurch -- Old friend -- Sweet merry time -- Well well well -- Holy maid -- Your lies are fun -- Lived or died -- My will
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Gringo Records
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WHASummary: "It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? ... At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and an unpopular President with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant colonel uncovers the scheme. But are the seven fateful days ahead enough time...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEVJacobsen, Charles W.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: C. E. Tuttle Co. 1962
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.75 JACSmith, Charles W. G.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Pub. 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 SMISummary: Depicts the harrowing true story from World War II of the Nazis' efforts to develop an atom bomb and the Allies' desperate struggle to prevent it from happening. The series starts in Stockholm in 1933 as the German scientist Werner Heisenberg is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, and although considered unreliable by the Nazis, he is allowed into the secret Nazi nuclear energy project,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HEACarey, Charles W.
Summary: "The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, declared all Confederate slaves to be free. Because the order only applied to Southern states that the Union did not control, few slaves benefited immediately. Learn more about this historic document that served as a key turning point in the U.S. Civil War and in the movement to abolish slavery"--provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021