Summary: As animators, puppeteers, designers, writers, or directors, Philadelphia natives and identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay are renowned for artisanal methods and unusual sources of inspiration. Described as 'Kafkaesque' or 'post-apocalyptically Bruegelian' their films are inspired by twentieth-century European visual and literary culture, especially the surrealist and expressionist...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International Corp. 2000
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Contents: The idea -- The setting -- Site -- Plan -- Structure -- Skin -- Details -- Style -- The past -- Taste.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 RYBGombrowicz, Witold.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOMSzabłowski, Witold
Summary: "A high-spirited, eye-opening, appetite-whetting culinary travel adventure that tells the story of the last hundred years of Russian power and propaganda through food"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.509247 SZARybczynski, Witold.
Summary: Traces the creation of a Pennsylvania residential subdivision from its planning stage to the residence of its first owners, in an account that offers insight into the long process of development and how it is related to sprawl and ex-urban growth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.76 RYBRybczynski, Witold.
Summary: "Before Andrea Palladio began designing his simple, gracious, perfectly proportioned villas, architectural genius was reserved for temples and palaces. Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art form, and he not only designed and built, he wrote. His late-sixteenth-century architectural treatises were read and studied by great thinkers as diverse as Thomas Jefferson and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 RYBRybczynski, Witold.
Summary: "In a collaboration between writer and subject, the author of Home and City life illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure and a man at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history. We know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes - among them, New York's Central Park, California's Stanford University campus, Boston's Back Bay Fens,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OLMSTED, FREDERICK LAW RybczynskiRybczynski, Witold.
Summary: "A deep exploration of modern life that examines our cities, public places, and homes."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 RYBSzablowski, Witold
Summary: "Traveling across four continents, from the ruins of Iraq to the savannahs of Kenya, Witold Szabłowski tracked down the personal chefs of five dictators known for the oppression and massacre of their own citizens: Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Uganda's Idi Amin, Albania's Enver Hoxha, Cuba's Fidel Castro, and Cambodia's Pol Pot-and listened to their stories over sweet-and-sour soup, goat-meat pilaf,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 SZAWm Witol
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: American Music Pub. 1923
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMO Abbey W Witol
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: American Music Pub. 1923
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: A biography of the man who made public parks an essential part of American life. He made enormous contributions to the American landscape, believing a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted's efforts to preserve nature created an "environmental ethic" decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712.0237 FRETold Slant
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TOLSzymanowski, Karol
Contents: Symphony no. 2 ; Symphony no. 3 "The Song of the Night" ; Violin concerto no. 2 / Szymanowski -- Concerto for orchestra ; Paroles tissGees ; Paganini variations ; Musique funebre / LutosŒawski.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: The Decca Record Company Limited 1969
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL SZYContents: Twin Peaks theme (Angelo Badalamenti) -- American woman (David Lynch remix) (Muddy Magnolias) -- Laura Palmer's theme (Love theme from Twin Peaks) (Angelo Badalamenti) -- Accident ; Farewell theme (Angelo Badalamenti) -- Grady groove (feat. Grady Tate) -- Windswept (reprise) (Johnny Jewel) -- Dark mood woods ; The red room (Angelo Badalamenti) -- The chair (Angelo Badalamenti) -- Deer meadow...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC TWIWild, Margaret
Summary: While waiting to leave the hospital, Hugo discovers a way to travel with exotic animals to faraway lands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILWild, Margaret
Summary: One day when Harry comes home from school, his faithful companion Hopper isn't there to greet him, in a touching story about the process of healing after losing a beloved pet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILWild, Margaret
Summary: While grannies come in all shapes and sizes "our granny" is unique.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ticknor & Fields 1994
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Contents: Vision in a plaster sky -- Another time -- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday -- Break down Juanita -- Toymaker -- Tired of waiting for you -- Girl -- Help me -- The sad thing -- Stop crying -- Burn down the cornfield -- Poor man -- Jessie -- High horse -- The way you look tonight -- The girl I left behind me -- Crimson and gold -- Tired of waiting for you -- At last I've found someone to love -- Just...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Shel Talmy Productions
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WILSummary: "Scarves and shawls are today's must-have accessories--every outfit deserves one! In these pages you'll find scarves and shawls to suit every style and every moment: ten miles long, short and sassy, thick and fluffy, or light as a feather. Scarves can begin as simply as a knitted rectangle or become as trendy as an infinity loop. Shawls can be made with simple stitches, bulky cables, or airy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trafalgar Square 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 KNISummary: "The True Cost is a groundbreaking new documentary film that pulls back the curtain on an unseen part of our world and asks us each to consider, who pays the price for our clothing? Filmed in countries all over the world, from the brightest runways to the darkest slums and features interviews with the world's leading influencers including Stella McCartney, Livia Firth, Vandana Shiva and many...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRUWild, Elle
Summary: Arriving in Dawson City, Yukon, journalist Jo Silver investigates the suicide of a local politician, a suicide that begins to look more and more like a murder, and before long, Jo becomes a suspect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TAP Books, Dundurn 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILWild, Margaret
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 1997
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Summary: When Piglet cannot find her mother, all of the barnyard animals try to make her feel better, but Piglet wants nothing but Mama.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 2005