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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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: 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 HISO'Brien, Edna
Summary: Traduction d'une biographie publiée en 1999 aux Etats-Unis. Edna O'Brien est une importante romancière irlandaise. Son approche admirative vise à tracer un portrait à la fois "grandiose et intime" de son compatriote. L'accent est mis sur les amitiés, les révoltes et l'exil volontaire de Joyce. Autre biographie recommandée par E. O'Brien: ##James Joyce## par Richard Ellmann (Gallimard, 2 tomes)....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fides 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 O'BRMillard, Candice.
Summary: A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin'sbullet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 MILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Pres MillardMillard, Candice.
Summary: A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.8 MilBirmingham, Kevin
Contents: Nighttown -- Nora Barnacle -- the vortex -- Trieste -- Smithy of souls -- Little modernisms -- The Medici of Modernism -- Zurich -- Power and postage -- The Woolfs -- Brutal madness -- Shakespeare and Company -- Hell in New York -- The Ghost of Comstock -- Elijah is coming -- The People of the State of New York v. Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap -- Circe burning -- The bible of the outcasts --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 BIRMussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
Contents: Songs and dances of death. Lullaby (4;56) ; Serenade (4:27) ; Trepak (4:54) ; The field-marshal (5:29) -- Symphony no. 14. De profundis (García Lorca) (4:47) ; Malagueña (García Lorca) (2:51) ; Lorelei (Apollinaire) (9:06) ; The suicide (Apollinaire) (8:02) ; On watch (Apollinaire) (3:13) ; Madam, look! (Apollinaire) (2:17) ; At the Santé Jail (Apollinaire) (9:17) ; The Zaporozhian Cossacks'...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL SHOHastings, Patrick
Summary: "This is a reader's guide, episode by episode, to James Joyce's notoriously difficult masterpiece Ulysses. It also offers enough original analysis and overviews of scholarly criticism to interest even seasoned Joyceans"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823 HASBrown, Nacio Herb
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: 1935
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMJoyce, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOYSummary: A fresh and relevant narrative about the men who led this country through change and the lives they affected, from an early idea of democracy to our first African-American President.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AMETobias, Charles
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: 1933
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMPound, Ezra
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Pub. Corp. 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 816.52 POUSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GREJarrow, Gail
Summary: "James Abram Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was assassinated when he was shot by Charles Guiteau in July 1881, less than four months after he was elected president. But Garfield didn't actually die until 80 days later. In this page-turner, award-winning author Gail Jarrow delves into the fascinating story of the relationship between Garfield and Guiteau, and relates the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 973.84 JARWeinstein, Arnold L.
Summary: "Great art discovers for us who we are," writes literature professor and critic Weinstein in this book about how we can better uncover and understand our own stories by reading five major modern writers who "reinvent the novel by exploding our sense of what we are." He invites us to discover our perceptions, our dreams, our own elusive, deepest stories in these masterpieces of modernist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823 WEIPerry, James M. (James Moorhead)
Summary: Examines the lives and careers of five presidents who served in the military during the Civil War, and the affect the war had on their presidency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.73 PERAckerman, Kenneth D.
Summary: In this book Kenneth Ackerman re-creates an American political landscape where fierce battles for power unfolded against a chivalrous code of honor in a country struggling to emerge from the long shadow of recent war. He casts familiar Civil War figures like Ulysses S. Grant and Winfield Scott Hancock in unfamiliar roles as politicos alongside feuding machine bosses like senators Roscoe...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GARBattle, Kathleen.
Contents: Honey and rue / Andre Previn ; text by Toni Morrison (26:00) -- Knoxville, summer of 1915 / Samuel Barber ; text by James Agee (14:54) -- Porgy and Bess. I loves you, Porgy (2:17) ; Summertime (2:40) / George Gershwin ; lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BATCampbell, Joseph
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 CAMWels, Susan
Summary: "It was heaven on earth--and, some whispered, the devil's garden. Thousands came by trains and carriages to see this new Eden, carved from hundreds of acres of wild woodland. They marveled at orchards bursting with fruit, thick herds of Ayrshire cattle and Cotswold sheep, and whizzing mills. They gaped at the people who lived in this place -- especially the women, with their queer cropped hair...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.77 WEITóibín, Colm
Summary: "Colm Tóibín begins his incisive, revelatory Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know with a walk through the Dublin streets where he went to university--a wide-eyed boy from the country--and where three Irish literary giants also came of age: Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce. Elegant, profound, and riveting, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know illuminates not only the complex relationships between three of the greatest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018