Koeberle-Schmid, Alexander
Contents: List of figures -- Preface -- Structures for family and business : family business governance -- Maximizing success through professional family business governance -- Challenges to the governance of the family enterprise -- Responsible ownership -- Structures for the business : business governance -- CEO & CEO succession -- The benefits of control instruments & control systems -- Structures for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658 KOESummary: Selected, annotated and produced by Stephen Wade, the 30 tracks on this release were all recorded during 1933 and 1946. There are recordings from Kentucky, Arkansas, Virginia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Kansas, Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and New York.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK TREContents: Just a little while to stay here (Eureka Brass Band) (3:56) -- Shine-hambone (Shoeshine boy) (1:02) -- Tiger rag (Freddie L. Small) (1:42) -- Blackberries! (Dora Bliggen) (:18) -- Red white and blue got the golden band (Mardi Gras Indians) (5:07) -- Times done changed (Sister Dora Alexander) (1:24) -- Dark was the night (Rev. Lewis Jackson and Charlotte Rucell) (:52) -- Back to the time (Choir...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES CLASummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARE Pola J Marks
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: M.Witmark 1942
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: It centers on a family of beekeepers living in stark isolation in the Tuscan countryside. The dynamic of their overcrowded household is disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenage boy taken in as a farmhand and a reality TV show intent on showcasing the family. Both intrusions are of particular interest to the eldest daughter, who is struggling to find her footing in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WONOstuno, Earnest J.
Contents: Prelude to disaster -- Saugatuck to Holland -- Hudsonville to Lakeview -- Portage Point to Grand Traverse Bay -- Bangor to Lowell -- Aftermath -- Preparing for the next big tornado outbreak.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Rapids Historical Society 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4043 OSTMatthews, Dona J. (Dona Joyce)
Summary: An essential guide for parents and educators, offering practical suggestions and strategies for raising smart, well-balanced, happily productive children.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anansi 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 MAT1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 649 MAT
Gaines, Ernest J.
Summary: Set on a Louisiana sugar can plantation in the 1970s, the book is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAIGaines, Ernest J.
Summary: In a small Cajun community in 1940s Louisiana, a young black man is about to go to the electric chair for murder. A white shopkeeper had died during a robbery gone bad; though the young man on trial had not been armed and had not pulled the trigger, in that time and place, there could be no doubt of the verdict or the penalty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GAIGaines, Ernest J.
Summary: "Ernest J. Gaines's new novella revolves around a courthouse shooting that leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power in his small town and the relationship between the white sheriff and the black man who "whipped children" to keep order. After Brady Sims pulls out a gun in a courtroom and shoots his own son, who has just been convicted of robbery and murder, he asks...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAIFinney, Ernest J.
Summary: A novel on immigrant farm workers in 1930s California. The protagonists are three families--Italian, Japanese and Portuguese--and the novel follows their fortunes during the Depression and in World War II. By the author of Flights in the Heavenlies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nevada Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINGaines, Ernest J.
Summary: Story of a black lady born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation, freed at the end of the Civil War, who lives for one-hundred more years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GAISummary: A group of seemingly "perfect" high-school buddies lead double lives. They fly high in a world of petty crime and material excess - a free-wheeling lifestyle that soon takes a downward spiral, leading to an unexpected, violent end.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BETDolphy, Eric
Contents: Conversations. Jitterburg waltz / F. Waller (7:18) ; Music matador / W. Lawsha, H. Simmons (9:37) ; Love me / N. Washington, V. Young (3:22) ; Alone together / R. Dietz, A. Schwartz (13:36) ; Muses for Richard Davis (previously unissued [take] 1) / R. Hanna (7:39) ; Muses for Richard Davis (previously unissued [take] 2) / R. Hanna (8:31) -- Iron man. Iron man / E. Dolphy (9:14) ; Mandrake / E....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ DOLSummary: Set in England on the cusp of World War II, the final film by Ernst Lubitsch is a zany comedy of manners that sends up British class hierarchy with his famously light touch. Cluny Brown is an irrepressible heroine with a zeal for plumbing. Sent to work as a parlormaid at a stuffy country manor, she proceeds to turn the household upside down with plenty of help from Adam Belinski, an eccentric...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY CLUSummary: 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010J Lefavre W C Polla
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: C.C.Church 1919
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMJ,Lefavre W C Polla
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Publisher / Publication Date: C.C.Church 1920
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMJ Lefavre W C Polla
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: C.C.Church & Co. 1919
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMCardenal, Ernesto.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Curbstone Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 861 CARRowling, J. K.
Summary: "Discover magical places, study the art of potion-making, encounter fantastic beasts, and find out about the witches and wizards who lived. From the Sorting Hat to the secrets of the Forbidden Forest, it's all inside this official companion to the Harry Potter books."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023
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Summary: Isaac and Marco already know sixth grade is going to change their lives. But it won't change things at home, not without each other's help. This year, star basketball player Isaac plans on finally keeping up with his schoolwork. Better grades will surely stop Isaac's parents from arguing all the time. Meanwhile, straight-A Marco vows on finally winning his father's approval by earning a spot on...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC CISLecuona, Ernesto
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Chappell & Co. 1942