Stiegler, Bernd.
Summary: "Armchair travel may seem like an oxymoron. Doesn't travel require us to leave the house? And yet, anyone who has lost herself for hours in the descriptive pages of a novel or the absorbing images of a film knows the very real feeling of having explored and experienced a different place or time without ever leaving her seat. No passport, no currency, no security screening required--the luxury...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Univ of Chicago Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.9332 STIHeinrich, Bernd
Summary: "When a good friend with a severe illness wrote, asking if he might have his "green burial" at Bernd Heinrich's hunting camp in Maine, it inspired the acclaimed biologist/author to investigate a subject that had long fascinated him. How exactly does the animal world deal with the flip side of the life cycle? And what are the lessons, ecological to spiritual, raised by a close look at how the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.7 HEINBeans
Contents: Superstar destroyer (3:43) -- Deathsweater (4:01) -- Gluetraps (1:23) -- Electric eliminator (2:02) -- Electric bitch (3:47) -- Glass coffins (2:31) -- Blue movie (2:37) -- Mellow you out (2:08) -- Air is free (3:14) -- Forever living fresh (1:48) -- Anvil falling (0:53) -- Hardliner (3:36) -- Hunter (1:13).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Anticon 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP BEASummary: Follow Central Park Zoo animals, including, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo, along with the psychotic penguins, the monkeys, and the lemur leaders as they unexpectedly are now stranded in the middle of Africa. While Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria are rather happy with their new environment, they quickly realize that it's not all that it seems. Meanwhile,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2009
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Contents: Window y tower -- Slow recovery -- Boston Rwa -- I breathe the air (from other planets) -- Lasa-ma in pace -- Vent du Nord -- Hollow stars.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Zum Media 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP BEASummary: Madagascar: A lion and zebra and two other of their pampered friends, from New York's Central Park Zoo, accidentally find themselves on a ship heading for Africa. When their vessel is hijacked, they become shipwrecked on the exotic island of Madagascar where they discover it really is a jungle out there!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MADHeinrich, Bernd
Summary: In this part memoir, part scientific investigation, a biologist and natural historian uses his long-distance running to illuminate the changes to a human body over a lifetime, exploring the relationship between metabolism, diet, exercise, and age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEINRICH, BERND HEIHeinrich, Bernd
Summary: "From the DNA contained in an apple seed to the great choiring branches far beyond a young boy's reach, Heinrich explores a natural world in scientific and personal terms. Heinrich is a scientist, but his words speak with the power and subtle grace of a poet. He uses this gift and his intimate knowledge of his three hundred acres of Maine forest to expose the forest's rhythms, and in doing so,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cliff Street Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.3 HEIHeinrich, Bernd
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.044 HEIHeinrich, Bernd
Summary: In One Wild Bird at a Time, Heinrich returns to his great love: close, day-to-day observations of individual wild birds. Heinrich's observations lead to fascinating questions - and sometimes startling discoveries. A great crested flycatcher bringing food to the young acts surreptitiously and is attacked by the mate. Why? A pair of Northern flickers hammering their nest-hole into the side of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamscape Media, LLC 2016
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Summary: Naturalist Heinrich spends a year living in a log cabin he built, with no running water or electricity, conducting research on ravens, songbirds, insects, and mosses, and recounting his day-today experiences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Addison-Wesley 1994
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Contents: God save the young blood -- Faded heart -- Sweet dreams -- We don't care -- Man -- Iceberg -- Second night of summer -- I don't want u back -- Tension (Interlude) -- Supernatural -- Blue Madonna -- Bye-bye darling.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Interscope Records 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BORBØRNS
Contents: 10,000 emerald pools -- Dug my heart -- Electric love -- American money -- The emotion -- Holy Ghost -- Past lives -- Clouds -- Dopamine -- Overnight sensation -- Fool.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: "Scholars and laymen alike have long projected their fantasies onto the great expanse of the global North, whether it be as a frozen no-man's-land, an icy realm of marauding Vikings, or an unspoiled cradle of prehistoric human life. Bernd Brunner reconstructs the encounters of adventurers, colonists, and indigenous communities that led to the creation of a northern "cabinet of wonders" and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 948 BRUBrunner, Bernd
Summary: "Humans have always had a special appreciation for fruit that grows on trees. Could it be because orchard fruits grow closer to heaven than other plant products do as some poets have suggested? Or could it be because the places where these fruits grow are alive with light and shadow and redolent of sweet scents, offering us sanctuaries where we can retreat from the cares of daily life? Where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634 BRUBrunner, Bernd
Summary: In Winterlust, a farmer painstakingly photographs five thousand snowflakes, each one dramatically different from the next. Indigenous peoples thrive on frozen terrain, where famous explorers perish. Icicles reach deep underwater, then explode. Rooms warmed by crackling fires fill with scents of cinnamon, cloves, and pine. Skis carve into powdery slopes, and iceboats traverse glacial lakes. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.2 BRUHeinrich, Bernd
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 595.79 HEISummary: Germany 1967: murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism, and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the still-fragile German democracy. The radicalized children of the Nazi generation, led by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, and Gudrun Ensslin, are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism. The man who understands them is also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BAASummary: A mysterious German woman named Jasmin comes across a dilapidated motel and diner in the American desert. The diner's owner, Brenda, is initially taken aback by Jasmin's appearance and demeanor; but eventually the women find that there is a chemistry between them. Gradually, by using their unique individual skills, Jasmin and Brenda turn the once-fledgling diner into a thriving desert oasis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BAGBrunner, Bernd
Summary: Explores the roots of the Christmas tree tradition, tracing customs from the Middle Ages to the present day to reveal how it first became part of mainstream American culture and has since become popular worldwide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.2663 BRUHeinrich, Bernd
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cliff Street Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.864 HEIHeinrich, Bernd
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.97 HEIHeinrich, Bernd
Summary: Naturalist Heinrich brings us the same bottomless reserve of wonder and reverence for the teeming animal life of backwoods New England that he brought us in Winter World. Now he focuses on the animal kingdom in the extremes of the warmer months, with all its feeding, nesting, fighting, and mating. Whether presenting disquisitions on ant wars, the predatory characteristics of wasps, the mating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2009
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Summary: "The surprising, rich life of tree swallows in nesting season-with Heinrich's beautiful illustrations and photographs-by the acclaimed naturalist"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020