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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Contents: CD 1: Monks and troubadours I. Antiphons: Hosanna (0:48) ; Pueri Hebraerorum (2:56) -- En mai, quant rosier sont flouri (2:07) -- Antiphon: Cum audisset (5:51) -- Alle, psallite cum luya (1:07) -- Antiphons: Coeperunt omnes (1:34) ; Occurrunt turbae (1:18) ; Cum angelis (0:37) ; Ante sex dies (2:53) -- S'on me regarde (2:23) -- Hymnus: Gloria, laus et honor (6:41) -- El mois de mai (1:35) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The debut performance from Jonas Kaufmann as Goethe's love-lorn hero in Massenet's romantic opera. Kaufmann is supported by a cast including Sophie Koch and Ludovic Tézier.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2010
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA WERTocqueville, Alexis de
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Politic de TocquevilleCook, William R. (William Robert)
Summary: Professor Cook leads you on an engaging and energetic discussion on Alexis de Tocqueville, his journey, his writing of Democracy in America and, most of all, his thoughts on the young nation he was observing. For Tocqueville, it seems, had opinions about almost everything he encountered in America, and not exclusively politics and "classical" issues such as the nature of the judiciary and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 TOCTocqueville, Alexis de
Summary: Describes the unprecedented "equality of conditions" the author found in the United States during his visit in 1831-32, and provides enduring insight into the political consequences of widespread property ownership, the potential dangers to liberty inherent in majority rule, the importance of civil institutions in an individualistic culture dominated by the pursuit of material self-interest,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 TOCSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISAde, King Sunny
Contents: Samba.--Suku Suku Bam Bam.--Appreciation.--Ode ma ti p'ogidan s'oko.--Solution.--Ogidan o ni se barber.--Ariya.--Merciful God.--Sijuade.--Congratulations (Happy birthday).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mesa 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ADEAde, King Sunny
Contents: Ja funmi -- Eje nlo gba ara mi -- Mo beru agba -- Sunny ti de ariya -- Ma jaiye oni -- 365 is my number/The message -- Samba/E falabe lewe.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mango 1982
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ADEADE, KING SUNNY
Contents: Jig jigi isape (5:36) -- Easy motion tourist (5:59) -- Alaji rasaki (5:19) -- Mo ri keke kan (4:04) -- Kiti kiti (6:18) -- Natuba (6:15) -- Aiye nreti eleya mi (12:50) -- Ibi won ri o (3:33) -- Kawa to bere (5:32) -- eri okan (Conscience) (9:56) -- Kini mba ro (4:35).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic/Mesa 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ADEAde, King Sunny.
Contents: Sunny ti de (complete 5 song medley) (17:53). -- Sunny ti de. -- Bombibele horojo. -- Oro towo baseti. -- Ko salapata. -- African beats lu nsere. -- Synchro system (18:09). -- Ibanuje mon iwon (9:28). -- Afai bowon (6:40). -- Ogun party part 1 (9:01). -- Adena ike (5:35).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Shanachie 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ADESummary: 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...
Format: moving image
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
Summary: Follow Umberto D., an elderly pensioner, as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic boom. Alone, except for his dog, Flike, Umberto strives to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a city where traditional human kindness seems to have lost out to the forces of modernization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UMBDe Anda, Diane.
Summary: Because ten-year-old Tito is at risk of developing diabetes like some of his relatives, Tia Sofia spends a day teaching him and his cousins about healthy, low-sugar or sugar-free treats.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pinata Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Set Spanish de Anda 2012Boer, Afke den.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Washington Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 784.19 BOESummary: It is an uplifting comedy about Martha, a woman who moves into a retirement community and starts a cheerleading squad with her fellow residents, Sheryl, Olive, and Alice, proving that it's never too late to follow their dreams.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE POMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Poms 2019Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PoAutre Ne Veut
Contents: Play by play -- Counting -- Promises -- Ego free sex free -- A lie -- Warning -- Gonna die -- Don't ever look back -- I wanna dance with somebody -- World war.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Software 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AUTde Anda, Rudy
Contents: In my shoes -- Hey Mr. Sun -- June gloom (smilin') -- Miel -- Tu mirada -- WYD -- Por ti -- Coronado / Where are you baby -- The murder mystery pt. 2 -- I can't change you.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DE ANSummary: It's the beginning of the summer. In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences. The family home slowly turns into a prison, classes on housework and cooking replace school, and marriages begin to be arranged.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MUSSummary: A down on his luck detective travels from the tough streets of Brooklyn, to the hot jazz clubs of New Orleans, and finally to voodoo rituals in the swamps of Louisiana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ANGSummary: During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana Spencer, struggling with mental health problems, decides to end her decade-long marriage to Prince Charles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SPECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SPECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPELogic
Contents: Cruisin' through the universe (feat. RZA) -- Wake up (feat. Lucy Rose) -- Lightsabers (feat. C Dot Castro) -- Clone wars III -- Redpill VII -- Playwright (feat. Andy Hull) -- Gaithersburg freestyle (feat. C Dot Castro, Big Lenbo, Fat Trel & Ade) -- Insipio -- Self medication (feat. Seth MacFarlane, Redman & Statik Selektah) -- Shimmy (feat. Joey Bada$$)-- Paradise II (feat. Norah Jones) -- Come...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP LOGSummary: With reality fraying at the edges, Aubrey finds herself following a string of mixtapes left by her dead friend. The clues unravel the secrets of a mysterious signal: one that could either save the world--or condemn it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Starfish Pictures, LLC 2019
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STASummary: Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors heralding the rise of National Socialism. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm but the authorities believe he is the problem.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021