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African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans in motion pictures Engineers Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris) 1909-1998 Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio) 1911-1978 Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) 1908-1973 Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1917-1963 Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) 1913-1994 Wallace, George C. (George Corley) 1919-1998 Women engineersFilter By Subjects
African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans in motion pictures Engineers Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris) 1909-1998 Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio) 1911-1978 Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) 1908-1973 Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1917-1963 Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) 1913-1994 Wallace, George C. (George Corley) 1919-1998 Women engineersSummary: [Head] An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music, this fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DRAMA AME
Orchard, William C.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Museum 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.582 ORCContents: I Can Feel It(4:58 min) -- Bahari Boys: Simba Yuna Nguruma(4:11 min) -- Celina, Kamaru: Mukurara Nake / Kamaru Celina Band(3:29 min) -- Orchestre Conga Internationale: Nakupenda Sana(4:43 min) -- The Rift Valley Brothers: Mucang'ang'o Ugiraga Mukindirio(4:52 min) -- L'Orchestre Central International: Jane Jaber(4:37 min) -- The Lulus Band: Daina(4:36 min) -- Les Mangelepa: Nseya / Orchestre Les...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soundway Records 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KENDeibert, Amanda
Summary: Diana Prince is used to being the best in everything in school, but to beat her foe she will have to rely on her friends to help her combat this newly dangerous menace.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DEIC Leigh J Richards
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Sunbeam 1954
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMChadwick, Barbara Picard
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: B.P. Chadwick 1983
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.2 DESTROISMAISONS CHARichards, Susan C.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dearborn Financial 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 RICWeichmann, Louis J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.13 WEISummary: Prepare yourself for a terrifying onslaught of monstrous man-eating Graboid, flying Ass-Blasters, and heat-seeking Shriekers in this complete collection of all Seven movies in the Tremors franchise. Throughout the years and may International locations, the Graboids have evolved and become ever more menacing and deadly. Only the gonzo survivalist Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) can stop them all....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRESummary: Cry macho: When an aging rodeo star takes a job of bringing the teenage son of his former boss from Mexico, where he lives with his alcoholic mother, to his father's ranch in Texas, he connects with the boy and finds redemption through teaching the boy what it meansto be a man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CRYSummary: 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 OSummary: At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart both find themselves on Chicago's famed Murderess Row. They also share Billy Flynn, the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOvie Chicago 2002Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CHISummary: 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
Summary: "Follow Jason Voorhees as he cuts and hacks a swath of fear from Crystal Lake to the mean streets of Manhattan." Friday the 13th: Camp Crystal Lake has been closed for over twenty years due to several vicious and unsolved murders. New owners reopen the camp, only to have each counselor stalked by a violent killer. This 24-hour nightmare of blood unfolds into a film which is widely acclaimed for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR FRISummary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAKContents: Blue disc: Dive / Steven Curtis Chapman -- Holy / Nichole Nordeman -- I can only imagine / Mercy Me -- In Christ alone / Brian Littrell -- One of these days / FFH -- Big enough / Chris Rice -- Lead me on / Amy Grant -- Place in this world / Michael W. Smith -- Gather at the river / Point of Grace -- Redeemer / Nicole C. Mullen -- Testify to love / Avalon -- Awesome God / Rich Mullins -- On my...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Provident Label Group 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS WOWTaylor, Diane C. (Diane Carol)
Summary: Discusses what engineering is, highlighting female engineers who revolutionized the role of women in the field and providing activities, including building a suspension bridge, designing and building a kite, and investigating processed food.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 TAYBorkowski, Richard C.
Summary: With a quarter of a century behind it, Norfolk Southern is one of the oldest Class 1 railroads operating in North America. This illustrated history tells how Norfolk Southern came to be what it is today, from the merger of two of American railroadings most legendary roads-- Southern Railway and Norfolk and Western--through its rise to the heights of the worlds leading transportation companies. ...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MBI Pub. Co. and Voyageur Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385 BORCarpenter, Richard C.
Summary: The third and largest volume in this acclaimed series includes 276 maps and drawings and focuses on Indiana, Lower Michigan, and Ohio. These states could be called the crossroads of the national railroad network, where east-west transcontinental lines crossed north-south inter-regional lines. Carpenter depicts the major rail centers of Indianapolis, Gary, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, and...
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2008
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 385 CARMorais, Richard C.
Summary: "From the writer whose debut sleeper, The Hundred-Foot Journey, charmed readers in the United States and around the world (18 countries and counting) comes another modern day fairytale also about a man who finds his true calling while living in a foreignland"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORSchneider, Richard C.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: R. Schneider 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5097 SCNCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.5 SCHSummary: A prequel set in the 1990s that will chronicle the early years of Kanan Stark, the character first played by executive producer Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV POWCrepeau, Richard C.
Summary: "The National Football League was founded in 1920 as the American Football Association. At first is struggled in the shadow of baseball as a vaguely disreputable professional sport, and had trouble competing for athletes and fans. Through a series of mergers, moves between cities, and the advent of television, the NFL gradually grew into one of the nation's most successful professional sports,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.332 CREFrancis, Richard C.
Summary: Draws on history, archaeology, anthropology, and twenty-first-century ideas in biology to explain domestication as an evolutionary process.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2015