Contents: The hand that holds the bread / George F. Root (1:25) -- The anti-monopoly war song / R.J. Harrison? (2:15) -- The Pacific railroad / George F. Root (2:15) -- The song of the red man / Henry C. Work (2:54) -- The future America / trad. and H.C. Dodge (1:37) -- Drill, ye tarriers, drill / Thomas F. Casey? (2:53) -- A laborer you see, and I love liberty / George W. Loyd (1:03) -- Out of work /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: New World Records 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK HANSummary: 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
Hawking, S. W. (Stephen W.)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.1 HAWSummary: It follows the exploits of eleven-year-old Alexander as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life, a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another. But when Alexander tells his upbeat family about the misadventures of his disastrous day, he finds little sympathy and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALE RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AlCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ALEHawking, S. W. (Stephen W.)
Summary: Presents seven lectures by physicist Stephen Hawking on such topics as black holes, string theory, space-time, and a "unified theory of everything," accompanied by images from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Millennium Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 HAWHawking, S. W. (Stephen W.)
Contents: Introduction -- Ideas about the universe -- The expanding universe -- Black holes -- Black holes ain't so black -- The origin and fate of the universe -- The direction of time -- The theory of everything -- Index.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Millennium Press 2002
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 523.1 HawkingHawking, S. W. (Stephen W.)
Summary: "In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the intervening years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 HAWHawking, S. W. (Stephen W.)
Summary: In this book Stephen Hawking takes us to the cutting edge of theoretical physics to explain in laymen's terms the principles that control our universe. Like many in the community of theoretical physicists, Professor Hawking is seeking to uncover the grail of science-the elusive Theory of Everything that lies at the heart of the cosmos. He guides us on his search to uncover the secrets of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.12 HAWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Science HawkingGibbia, S. W.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Van Nostrand Reinhold 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 684.084 GIBR W S Hoskin
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Sheridan Publishing Co. 1947
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: "Cloaked in the guise of a Japanese musical drama, The Mikado is a spoof of Victorian English society. Centered on Ko-Ko, a lowly tailor, it chronicles his transformation from prisoner in a country jail to the rank of Lord High Executioner. But Ko-Ko is plagued by a terrible quandary: the emperor has instructed him to produce a head -- or forfeit his own!"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the U.S. by Acorn Media 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This 1953 classic spotlights the careers of W.S. Gilbert (Robert Morley, The African Queen), a barrister turned-comic-writer, and Arthur Sullivan (Maurice Evans, Planet Of The Apes), a classic composer (converted against his will) to light music, who together wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and Iolanthe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS STODi Piero, W. S.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 DI PMerwin, W. S.
Contents: The moving target -- The lice -- The carrier of ladders -- Writings to an unfinished accompaniment.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 MERW Jerome S Furth
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: William Jerome 1917
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMW FrankeHarling S Coslow
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Famous Music 1930
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMMerwin, W S
Summary: Following The Second Four Books, this collection returns to print a large body of work by one of the premier poets of this century. W.S. Merwin was the first recipient of the Tanning Prize. "The terms of the Tanning Prize stipulate that it be given to 'a master'... here be fore us, and for many years to come, we have in William Merwin an embodied emblem of the best we can hope for, both as...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 MERS Coslow W Grosz
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Larry Spier 1939
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: Manhattan melodrama: Two brothers, orphaned by a steamship disaster, grow up on different sides of the law. Evelyn Prentice: A woman, hurt by the inattention of her lawyer husband, begins a flirtation of her own, with disastrous consequences. Double wedding: A romantic comedy featuring Powell as a Bohemian artist who becomes involved with a would-be actress and her uptight, domineering sister....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYRSummary: Tensions abound and the music swells in the story about the famous musical team of Gilbert and Sullivan. The two men who were extremely different in size and stature were even more different in temperament and style. Yet, they still managed to create memorable theater. This is the story of the making of one of their most famous collaborations, The Mikado.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: USA Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRESummary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPMcAlister, Caroline
Summary: Before C.S. Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia, he was a young boy named Jack who spent his days dreaming up stories of other worlds filled with knights, castles, and talking animals. His brother, Warnie, spent his days imagining worlds filled with trains, boats, and technology. One rainy day, they found a wardrobe in a little room next to the attic, and they wondered, What if the wardrobe...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2019