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bibliography biography Criticism, interpretation, etc. Music. Portraits. Sheet music.Mills, Kerry
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Jack Mills 1925
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMKerry Mills
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Publisher / Publication Date: F.A.Mills 0000
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMWills, Garry
Summary: In this examination of the life of a founding father, renowned historian Wills takes a fresh look at the life of James Madison, from his rise to prominence in the colonies through his role in the creation of the Articles of Confederation and the first Constitutional Congress.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books/Henry Holt 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MADWills, Garry
Summary: Garry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Qur'an Meant, Wills invites readers to join him as he embarks on a timely and necessary reconsideration of the Qur'an, leading us through perplexing passages with insight and erudition. What does the Qur'an actually say about veiling women? Does it justify religious war? There was a time when ordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 WILWills, Garry
Summary: An examination of Christianity's place in American life through history, from the Puritans to the administration of George W. Bush. The struggle within American Christianity, historian Wills argues, has been between the head and the heart: reason and emotion, Enlightenment and Evangelism. 18th century America saw a religious revolution--an Enlightenment culture emerged whose hallmarks were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 277.3 WILWills, Garry
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 WILWills, Garry
Summary: For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the fresh, keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis has won him a Pulitzer Prize, Gary Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his influential interpretation of the Christian doctrines of mind and body, wisdom and God. Saint...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AUGUSTINE WILWills, Garry
Summary: A study of the three operas that Verdi adapted from Shakespeare: Macbeth, Otello, and Falstaff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 WILWills, Garry
Summary: Garry Wills, the prizewinning historian, argues that changes have been the evidence of life in the Catholic Church. It has often changed, sometimes with bad consequences, more often with good, good enough to make it perdure. In this brilliant and incisive study, he gives seven examples of deep and serious changes that have taken place (or are taking place) within the last century. None of them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 282 WILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282 WILWills, Garry
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1968
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 WILWills, Garry
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.7 WILWills, Garry
Summary: Chronicles the history of the Catholic Church and its hierarchy from the nineteenth century to the present, focusing on the Church's devious practices and stubborn resistance to the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 262.13 WILWills, Garry
Summary: Examines the goals, methods, and styles of the evangelists and how these shaped the gospels' messages. The earliest book, Mark, emphasizes Jesus the sufferer; in Matthew, Jesus the teacher; in Luke, Jesus the reconciler; and in John, Jesus the mystic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 226.06 WILWills, Garry
Summary: The author recounts his own experiences as a Jesuit seminarian and a Catholic layman, traces the origins of the papacy and explains why this often fallible institution is not the same as the Church, and discusses the Apostle's Creed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002