Summary: Narrated by Udo Kier, the film asks what the Nazi cinema of the Third Reich reveals about its period and its people. About 1,000 feature films were made in Germany in the years between 1933-1945: musicals, melodramas, romances, costume dramas, and war films. Only a few were overtly Nazi propaganda films. But by the same token, even fewer of them can be considered harmless entertainment. How did...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HIT1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HIT
Safranski, Rüdiger.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NIETZSCHE, FRIEDRICH WILHELM SAFBarth, Rüdiger
Summary: November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between rival political parties, the Weimar Republic is on its last legs. In the halls of the Reichstag, party leaders scramble for power and influence as the elderly president, Paul von Hindenburg, presides over a democracy pushed to the breaking point. Chancellors Franz von Papen and Kurt von Schleicher spin a web of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.085 BARDahlke, Rüdiger.
Summary: “This exquisitely illustrated work has more than 100 mandalas, with an accompanying meditation for each one...a stunning collection of images in nature, mandalas that may be found all over the world; of American Indians...and many other significant mandalas in history...engrossing.”
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294 DAHRediger, Jeffrey
Summary: "When it comes to disease, who beats the odds - and why? When it comes to spontaneous healing, skepticism abounds. Doctors are taught that "miraculous" recoveries are flukes, and as a result they don't study those cases or take them into account when treating patients. Enter Dr. Jeff Rediger, who has spent over 15 years studying spontaneous healing, pioneering the use of scientific tools to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.08 REDRediker, Marcus.
Summary: Rediker turns his attention to the famed slave ship that set sail from Havana in 1839. Painstakingly researched, his account follows the slaves' point of view, from the joyous moments after they seized the ship through the harrowing court case that would become a touchstone in the struggle for civil rights.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 326.0973 REDKamenetz, Rodger
Contents: Sparks -- Flames -- Roadblocks -- Heights -- Blessings -- Contact -- The angel of Tibet and the angel of the Jews -- Always remind -- Debating monks and angels -- Shabbat Shalom and Tashe Delek -- Jewish Buddhists, Buddhist Jews -- JUBUs in America -- Tibetan intellectuals, Tibetan orphans -- An interview with the oracle -- Secret doors -- Tantra and Kabbalah -- Survival strategies -- One last...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.3 KAMKamenetz, Rodger
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.8 MCFStreitmatter, Rodger.
Summary: Profiles fifteen couples who made major contributions to this country in an impressive range of fields--from music and education to journalism and modern art.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 STRRediker, Marcus Buford.
Summary: Charts the history of slave ships, their crews, and their enslaved passengers, documenting such stories as those of a young kidnapped African whose slavery is witnessed firsthand by a horrified priest from a neighboring tribe responsible for the slave's capture.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.3 REDBouma-Prediger, Steven
Summary: "Explores the character traits and virtues required for Christians to be responsible keepers of the earth and to flourish in the challenging decades to come"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Radinger, Elli H.
Summary: Love your family, care for your those around you, never give up and always find time to have fun -- these are the golden rules of wolves. These remarkably intelligent animals take empathetic care of their old and injured, bring up their young lovingly and are able to forget everything when playing. They think, dream, make plans, communicate intelligently with one another -- and behave more like...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Michael Joseph 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.773 RADBöhme, Madelaine
Summary: "Somewhere west of Munich, Madelaine Böhme and her colleagues dig for clues to the origins of humankind. What they discover is beyond anything they imagined: the fossilized bones of Danuvius guggenmosi ignite a global media frenzy. This ancient ancestordefies our knowledge of human history-his nearly twelve-million-year-old bones were not located in Africa-the so-called birthplace of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.93 BOHLester, David
Summary: "Under the Banner of King Death explores the sub-culture and resistance of eighteenth-century pirates, telling the tales of John Gwin, an African American fugitive from bondage in South Carolina; Ruben Dekker, a common seaman from Amsterdam; and Mark/Mary Reed, an American woman who dressed as a man and went to sea"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 LESLester, David
Summary: "Prophet against Slavery illustrates the life and times of an eighteenth-century dwarf abolitionist who performed guerrilla theater against slaveowners and became one of the first to demand immediate and abolition"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.8 LESAberg-Riger, Ariel
Summary: "America Redux explores the themes that create our shared sense of American identity and interrogates the myths we've been telling ourselves for centuries. With iconic American catchphrases as chapter titles, these twenty-one visual stories illuminate the astonishing, unexpected, sometimes darker sides of history that reverberate in our society to this very day--from the role of celebrity in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 973 ABESummary: See how the Germanic tribes lived, fought and worshipped their gods. Intricate 3D animation shows how they built their settlements, buried their kings, vanquished their enemies. Roman cities such as the ancient Cologne, home of the Romanophile Germans, and the Roman limes, the border to free Germania, are also reconstructed through computer graphics and full-cast reenactments.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Winchester Press 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRERobicheaux, Coco.
Contents: Walking with the spirit -- Pit bull -- Spiritland -- Broken string -- We will fly away -- Working man -- I knew without asking -- Saturday night before Christmas -- Cryin' inside -- St. John's eve.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Orleans Records 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES ROBGabriel, Peter
Contents: [Disc 1]. Bright-side mix. Panopticom ; The court ; Playing for time ; i/o ; Four kinds of horses ; Road to joy ; So much ; Olive tree ; Love can heal ; This is home ; And still ; Live and let live -- [Disc 2]. Dark-side mix. Panopticom ; The court ; Playing for time ; i/o ; Four kinds of horses ; Road to joy ; So much ; Olive tree ; Love can heal ; This is home ; And still ; Live and let live...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CER1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CER
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CERLiedtke, Walter A.
Summary: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Mar. 8-May 27, 2001 and the National Gallery, London, June 20-Sept. 16, 2001.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 2001