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[The Modern library of the world's best books] Art of the state Beekman history of the world wars library Library of the world's myths and legends Modern library of the world's best books Modern Library of the World's Best Books Slaves of the Sword State of the planet Tales of the world The Modern library of the world's best booksSummary: From his childhood on a kibbutz through his contentious military career, this program presents a biographical sketch of Moshe Dayan. Complex and charismatic, Dayan became a hero and international icon with his aggressive approach to the issue of Palestine - but fell from grace after the Yom Kippur War. Archival footage gives viewers a vivid look at the Middle Eastern conflict in the early 20th...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: Yitzhak Rabin called himself ”a solider in the army of peace,” distancing himself from the uncompromising policies of David ben-Gurion and Moshe Dayan. As prime minister he opposed the illegal Israeli settlement of land occupied by Palestinians - but he also underestimated the frustration of the Arabs who had been living as refugees for so long. This program chronicles Rabin’s political career,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: Called “remarkably balanced” by Jewish Week, this program examines the controversial military and political career of Ariel Sharon. Supporters and critics comment on the events that made Sharon a polarizing figure even in his own country: the Qibya Massacre, the bulldozing of refugees’ homes, the planting of Israeli settlements in densely populated Palestinian areas, the unpopular 1982 Lebanon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Whelan, Gloria.
Summary: "Yatandou lives in a Mali village with her family and neighbors. And though she is only eight years old and would much rather play with her pet goat, she must sit with the women and pound millet kernels. To grind enough millet for one day's food, the women must pound the kernels with their pounding sticks for three hours. It is hard work, especially when one is eight years old. But as they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHEWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: In Japan, as a provincial governor, his wife, and daughter Yuki, followed by 1,000 attendants, travel the historic Tokaido Road to the Shogun's palace in Edo, Yuki keeps up with her lessons by writing poems describing the journey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1978
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PHIHansberry, Lorraine
Summary: A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle-class African American family living on Chicago's Southside in the 1950s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Modern Library 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.54 HANPiggott, Juliet.
Summary: Discusses the mythology of Japan, its origins in Shintoism and Buddhism, and the gods, spirits, men, and animals that appear in the many legends and stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chancellor 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.56 PIGFeldman, Heather.
Summary: Describes the physical characteristics, different species, and common behavior of king snakes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597.962 FELAuden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh)
Summary: A selection of works from American and British poets. It includes the poetry of William Blake, Robert Burns, George Crabbe, Philip Freneau, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Sir Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Hartley Coleridge, William Cullen Bryant, Walter Savage Landor, Thomas Moore, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Darley, John Keats, Leigh Hunt, Thomas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1982
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 AUDDinesen, Isak
Summary: A collection of seven stories by the Danish author, written in English and first published in 1934.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DINDumas, Alexandre
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chancellor Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.72 BURDinesen, Isak
Summary: In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1992
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chancellor 1997
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1950
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIEKafka, Franz
Summary: Franz Kafka's enigmatic, deadpan, and deeply pessimistic stories are central to literary modernism. In 'The Metamorphosis', the estrangement of everyday life becomes corporealized when Gregor Samsa wakes up as a giant bug and wonders how he is going to get to work on time. Kafka inverts the implied degradation of a man's transformation into an animal in 'A Report of the Academy', an ape's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1952
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chancellor Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.8 OSBFormat: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beekman House 9730
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: At the current rate of resource depletion, humankind stands to lose fully half of Earth's remaining species over the next 100 years. At this crucial point in world history, a choice must be made: will coming generations inhabit a healthy planet or, quite possibly, a dying one? In this program, David Attenborough searches for solutions to this impending eco-disaster. The research of demographer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Modern library 1940
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORJoyce, James
Summary: This account of several lower class citizens of Dublin describes their activities and tells what some of them were thinking one day in 1904.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1992
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Joyce 1992Summary: The most striking feature of life on Earth is its richness and variety. But research shows that the planet's biodiversity is seriously threatened with destruction by human activities. From the depths of the oceans to the tops of rainforest canopies, from the African savannas to the soil underfoot, this program hosted by David Attenborough reveals the extent of that living bounty-and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Wanning, Esther.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 1998