Menon, Rajan

Summary: The current conflict in Ukraine has spawned the most serious crisis between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. It has undermined European security, raised questions about NATO's future, and put an end to one of the most ambitious projects of U.S. foreign policy -- building a partnership with Russia. It also threatens to undermine U.S. diplomatic efforts on issues ranging from...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 MEN

Summary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PAC

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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Summary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV PAC

Block, Eugene B.

Contents: America's pioneer detective: Allan Pinkerton.--A great detective: Raymond C. Schindler.--Chief of the FBI: J. Edgar Hoover.--A prophecy come true: Frederick R. Cherrill.--Pandora's box: George W. Cornish.--Dope traffickers' nemesis: George Hunter White.--Great Teigin mystery: Tamegoro Ikii.--War on the Mafia: Joseph Petrosino.--Trapping dynamiters: William J. Burns.--A game of cat and mouse:...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1967

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 BLO

Lewis, E. E. (Elmer Eugene)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 609 LEW

Cotton, James

Contents: Mississippi freight train -- You didn't think about that -- Pacific blues -- Take a message -- Hungry country girl -- Hucklebuck -- One little piece of shade -- Living the blues -- Black knights -- Mississippi saxophone -- Cotton in the kitchen -- Certified -- Mississippi freight train (pt. 2).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Gitanes Jazz 1994

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES COT

Rumer

Contents: Slow -- Come to me high -- Am I forgiven -- Aretha -- Blackbird -- Healer -- Saving grace -- Take me as I am -- Thankful -- On my way home -- Goodbye girl.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 2012

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RUM

Summary: This HBO Films drama tells the dramatic, poignant and often-exasperating story of the early days of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial. This film boasts an all-star cast,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOR

Rumer

Contents: P.F. Sloan -- It could be the first day -- Be nice to me -- Travelin' boy -- Soulsville -- Same old tears on a new background -- Sara smile -- Flyin' shoes -- Home thoughts from abroad -- Just for a moment -- Brave awakening -- We will.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 2012

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RUM

Sledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant)

Summary: As a society, America needs from time to time to question the conduct of its foreign relations. WITH THE OLD BREED, by Eugene B. Sledge, provides the ultimate "reality check" by serving as a graphic reminder of the horrors America has periodically required its young men to endure for the higher cause of defending freedom. The battles of Peleliu (1944) and Okinawa (1945) were particularly...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1996

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 SLE

Summary: A computer malfunction causes nuclear-equipped American bombers to destroy Moscow and the president of the United States has to take terrible measures to appease the Soviets and prevent all-out nuclear war.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER FAI

Summary: In 1193 B.C., Prince Paris, the son of the King of Troy falls in love with Helen, the wife of the king of Sparta, and convinces her to follow him away from her husband, Menelaus, the result is an epic war. The Greeks sail to Troy and lay siege. Achilles, the greatest warrior in all the world, is called in to fight against Troy and give Greece the upper hand. Hector, the eldest son of Priam,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Troy 2005

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Tr

Summary: Based on Eugene O'Neill's 1956 autobiograpy, this film depicts a day in the life of a family deteriorating under drug addiction, alcoholism, and imminent death.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Pictures 2004

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LON

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Long 2004

Summary: "This unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military's chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Working from a contemporary best seller, screenwriter Walter Bernstein and director Sidney Lumet wrench harrowing suspense from the doomsday...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FAI

B Green,L Brown B Homer

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Edwin Morris 1944

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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Summary: "In one volume, three unforgettable memoirs that capture the brutality, fear, and heroism of the American land, air, and sea war in the Pacific. "Every generation is a secret society," former Marine pilot Samuel Hynes wrote. "The secret that my generation--the one that came of age during the Second World War--shared was simply the war itself." This volume brings together the powerful memoirs of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WOR

Turner, Ike.

Contents: Disc 1 Rocket 88 / Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats -- Come back where you belong / Jack Brenston & His Delta Cats -- I'm lonesome baby / Ike Turner & His Kings of Rhythm -- Heartbroken and worried / Ike Turner & His Kings of Rhythm --My real gone rocket / Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats -- Independent woman / Jack Brenston & His Delta Cats -- How many more years / Howlin Wolf -- Riding in the...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Secret Records Limited 0000

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES TUR

Swain, Roger B.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons & Burford 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 SWA

Yepsen, Roger B.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 1998

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 635 YEP

Summary: Based on the true story of young anthropologist Dian Fossey who travels to the African mountains to study rare mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 1999

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOR

Armpriester, Kate

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 684.16 ARM