Simpson, M. J.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Justin, Charles & Co. 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, DOUGLAS SIM

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: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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

Summary: Welcome to Candleshoe, a stately English manor where a swashbuckling pirate hid a fortune in Spanish doubloons centuries ago. And that's what young orphan Casey and a sly con man are determined to find.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CAN

Summary: On the night of the dedication ceremony of the world's tallest skyscraper, a raging blaze breaks out, threatening the party-goers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE TOW

Summary: Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ROO

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

Summary: "Chicago suffered the worst heat disaster in U.S history in 1995, when 739 residents--mostly elderly and black--died over the course of one week. As Cooked links the deadly heat wave's devastation back to the underlying manmade disaster of structural racism, it delves deep into one of our nation's biggest growth industries: Disaster Preparedness. Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF COO

Simpson, J. A.

Summary: "What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? Can you drink a glass of balderdash? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you? The answers to all of these questions can be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, the definitive record of the English language. And there is no better guide to the dictionary's many wonderments, its quirks,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SIMPSON, J. A.

Summary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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

Summary: In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California. O.J. Simpson was tried for the crime in a case that captured the attention of the American people, but was ultimately found not guilty of criminal charges. The victims' families brought civil cases against Simpson, and he was found liable for willfully and wrongfully causing the deaths of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beaufort Books 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 SIM

Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Summary: The focus is on two members of Section 20, a secret British anti-terrorist organization, Michael Stonebridge is a British soldier trying to overcome a tragedy and Damien Scott a disgraced U.S. Delta Force operative. Contains episodes 41-50.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

Summary: "Banished to Earth by his father Odin, Thor starts a new life, meeting fascinating people like Jane Foster--and battling fearsome foes like Mr. Hyde! Then, as his friendship with Sif and the Warriors Three hang in the balance of a mystical force, Thor must resist temptation to save his fellow Asgardians! After tragedy strikes, the Thunder God flies into combat against Frost Giants and the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 THO

Summary: Presents a debate on the question of the existence of God between the philosophies of Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV QUE

Summary: Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of reconstruction, photography and storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome; opulent, parvenu Amsterdam; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; Victorian England...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SIM

Summary: Told from the perspective of the lawyers, it explores the chaotic dealings behind closed doors and how prosecution overconfidence, defense shrewdness and shocking courtroom twists led to one of the most earth-shattering verdicts of all time. It is based on the best-selling book The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: An essential examination of the rise and fall of Orenthal James Simpson, and parallels between his incredible story with that of race in America. This critically-acclaimed documentary series reveals how he first became a football star, why America fell in love with him off the field, what happened in the trial for his ex-wife's murder, and finally, why he is now sitting in jail for another...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC O.J.

M Parish E Sampson,B Goodman

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Robbins 1938

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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Summary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011

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

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BUR

Stimson, Melissa.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 917.74 STI

Various Artists

Contents: Let's get it started / Black Eyed Peas -- Lean back / Terror Squad (feat. Fat Joe & Remy) -- Goodies / Ciara (feat. Petey Pablo) -- I like that / Houston (feat. Chingy, Nate Dogg & I-20) -- Ch-check it out / Beastie boys -- My place / Nelly (feat. Jaheim) -- Sunshine / Lil' Flip (feat. LEA) -- You & me / J-Kwon -- Why / Jadakiss (feat. Anthony Hamilton) -- Locked up / Akon (feat. Styles P.) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Records 2004

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