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Summary: Commercial motion pictures were invented at the Edison Laboratory between 1888 and 1893. Perhaps none of the component parts were strictly new, but the ability of Edison and his staff to reorganize them for a specific purpose was an extraordinary cultural achievement. In 1894, Edison was the sole producer of motion pictures in the world. Many Edison films continue to be impressive as the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2005

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EDI

Pincus, Steven C. A.

Contents: The unmaking of a revolution -- Rethinking revolutions -- Going Dutch: English society in 1685 -- English politics at the accession of James II -- The ideology of Catholic modernity -- The practice of Catholic modernity -- Resistance to Catholic modernity -- Popular revolution -- Violent revolution -- Divisive revolution -- Revolution in foreign policy -- Revolution in political economy --...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.2 PIN

Childress, C. A.

Summary: Provides a brief primer on the features of the narcissistic personality parent that impact the role of legal professionals working with children and families surrounding divorce and child custody issues.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oaksong Press 2016

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 616 CHI

Summary: It all ends with a bang! In the final episodes, Emmy winners Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul bring the saga of Breaking Bad to a bloody conclusion in their roles as meth kingpin, Walter White and his guilt-ridden partner, Jesse Pinkman. As each tries to get clear of the wreckage they left behind in the meth world, DEA agent Hank Schrader's obsessive pursuit of "Heisenberg" gains steam, leading up...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRE

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRE RATED R

Grayling, A. C.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 GRA

WHIPPLE, A. B. C

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Publisher / Publication Date: 1958

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WHITCOMB, JOHN C. A

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Publisher / Publication Date: BAKER 0000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 222.11 WHI

Weisbecker, A. C. (Alan C.)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.0009 WEI

Jampoler, Andrew C. A.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2008

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.7092 SUR

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 SURRATT, JOHN H JAM

MacDonald, C. A.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 MAC

Summary: The final section in the series, Part 7 details the skeptical and critical answers reached in the second half of the twentieth century to the questions posed in the previous fifty years. This section covers the work of late twentieth-century philosophers and theorists who focused on two critical features of modernity. One issue focused on modern political theory and practice. The other focused...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRE

Weichmann, Louis J.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1975

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.13 WEI

Sirois, Jamie L.

Summary: The Common Core, a new set of national educational standards, has been adopted by 45 states across the nation. But if you learned math the "old" way, the new teaching methods may be unfamiliar to you. If you want to help your children with homework, you'll need to learn these new methods, which focus on critical thinking and conceptual understanding. With the help of math teachers, you'll...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 372 SIR

Hart, C. A. (Charles Anthony)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 579 HAR

Contents: Preface / David Haynes -- Introduction: A Festschrift for Professor Magnaghi -- Story maps / Robert Archibald -- An immense world of delight: The U.P. in prose / Ted Bays -- Witness to five centuries: The history of Ste. Anne's Parish, Mackinac Island / Steven C. Brisson -- Hungarians in Michigan's Copper Country / Bernard Cook -- "A most unpleasant circumstance" : Personality and provocation...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: The lectures in Part 6 bring the progress of philosophy into the present day, beginning with the work of Nietzsche and the American pragmatists William James and John Dewey. This section explains the work and consequence of modern linguistic and logical analysis in lectures on Ayer and Wittgenstein. Also discussed is the structuralism of Claude Levi-Strauss and the attempts to develop rational...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRE

Teffi, N. A. (Nadezhda Aleksandrovna)

Summary: In 1918, in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Teffi, whose stories and journalism had made her a celebrity in Moscow, was invited to read from her work in Ukraine. She accepted the invitation eagerly, though she had every intention of returning home. As it happened, her trip ended four years later in Paris, where she would spend the rest of her life in exile. None of this was...

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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TEFFI, N.A TEF

Burland, C. A. (Cottie Arthur)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hamlyn 1973

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 BUR

Burland, C. A. (Cottie Arthur)

Summary: A cultural history of the 600 year Inca civilization, examining social structure, transportation and communication, agriculture, government, and crafts and design.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1968

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 980.3 BUR

Summary: Presents a collection of the year's best essays as selected by best-selling author Alexander Chee.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BES

Summary: In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KEN

Carter, W. C. (William C.)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Regional Pub. Co. 1975

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 974.841 CAR

Markwell, F. C.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1989

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.341 MAR

Summary: A portrait of the late photographer Francesca Woodman, told through the young artist's work (including experimental videos and journal entries) and remarkably candid interviews with her artist parents Betty and George (a ceramic sculptor and painter/photographer), who have continued their own artistic practices while watching Francesca's professional reputation eclipse their own.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lorber Films 2011

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