Summary: Fanda is an old man who refuses to grow up. Despite pleas from his exasperated wife, Emilie, and son who want him to make some serious about the future, he ignores their nagging and spends his days seeking amusement and adventure. Aided by a pal, Fanda keeps his acting skills sharpened by pretending he is a retired opera star in the market for an opulent country estate. When he fakes his own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AUTDehaene, Stanislas.
Summary: In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene provides an accessible account of the brain circuitry of reading and explores what he calls the "reading paradox": Our cortex is the product of millions of years of evolution in a world without writing, so how did it adapt to recognize words?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 418.4019 DEHDehaene, Stanislas
Summary: "In today's technological society, with an unprecedented amount of information at our fingertips, learning plays a more central role than ever. In How We Learn, Stanislas Dehaene decodes its biological mechanisms, delving into the neuronal, synaptic, and molecular processes taking place in the brain. He explains why youth is such a sensitive period, during which brain plasticity is maximal, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Kirschbaum, Stanislav J.
Summary: A history of Slovakia from prehistory to the 1990s. It includes a description of the development of a Slovakian consciousness, from the 19th century under the colonial rule of the Hungarians, through the merger into Czechoslovakia, Nazi-sponsored independence, the Russian invasion and independence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.73 KIRLem, Stanisław.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.8 LEMSummary: "The gripping true story of Stanislav Petrov, a man who single-handedly averted a fullscale nuclear world war, but now struggles to get his life back on track ... before it is too late. An epic and grand Cold War thriller that sends shivers down your spine and shows us just how close we came to apocalypse ... and it's not over yet! With a new Cold War rising and thousands of nuclear weapons on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MANSummary: More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, an aging actress decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent and the head of Miramount Studios, her alias will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want with no restrictions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: Adapted from a Stanislaw Lem novel. Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of theSolaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN SOLSpalding, Henry S. (Henry Stanislaus)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Benziger Brothers 1905
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL FIC SPASummary: In 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann made a sensation discovery; a powerful molecule with the ability to alter both the scientific world and human perception itself. But did its benefits outweigh its dangers? An informative and entertaining investigation into the history of a drug so potent that mere fractions of a milligram can alter a subject's perception of reality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SUBBocelli, Andrea.
Contents: En Aranjuez con tu amor / Rodrigo -- Mattinata / Leoncavello -- Barcarolle / Offenbach -- L'alba separa dalla luce l'ombra / Tosti -- Sogno d'amore / Liszt -- La serenata / Tosti -- L'ultima canzone / Tosti -- Malia / Tosti -- La danza / Rossini -- Ideale / Tosti -- Sogno / Tosti -- Plaisir d'amour / Martini -- Musica proibita / Gastaldon -- Occhi di fata / Denza -- 'A vucchella / Tosti --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philips 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BOCSummary: Dublin, 1904, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste. Over time Nora pulls him through phobias, tolerates his drinking, takes in his brother Stan and bests Joyce at 'the writin' game' to bring him back to Italy from Dublin where he's gone to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Ventures 2000
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Contents: Me & you vs the world / Space ; Beautiful alone / Strangelove ; The day before yestesday's man / The Supernaturals ; Golden skin / Silver Sun ; Twist / Symposium ; Neighbourhood / Space ; What the world needs now is love / Jackie DeShannon ; I'm a better man (for having loved you) / David McAlmont ; Body Medusa-Leftfield mix / Supereal ; Friends / The Wannadies ; Bluetonic / The Bluetones ; Do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Records 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC SHOSummary: Set within the vibrant dancehalls and historic crime corridors of 1940s Paris, a singer with "stars in her eyes" ignores the protest of her covetous husband and pursues a meeting with a lecherous movie financier. When her husband attempts to crash the rendevous, murder ensues. Enter the detective, whose seasoned instincts lead him down a circuitous path of alibis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN QUASummary: "Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness. In Solaris, legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOLSummary: When the bass guitarist of his band suddenly quits, Milan finds a replacement, and a romantic spark, in a free-spirited Kim. Just as rehearsals for recording his dream album start picking up steam, Milan's Serbian girlfriend Lela arrives with very different plans for their future. Lela wants them to go home to Serbia, but Milan is determined to stay in America at any cost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOVSummary: Fodor's correspondents highlight the best of Florida, including Miami's Art Deco District, Orlando's theme parks, the Gulf Coast's tempting beaches, and Major League Baseball's spring training. Includes must-see attractions from St. Augustine to the Florida Keys, perfect hotels for every budget, best restaurants to satisfy a range of tastes, valuable tips on when to go and ways to save, color...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fodor's Travel, a division of MH Sub I, LLC, dba Internet Brands 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Inspired by the real life heroics of Nicholas Winton who saved hundreds of Czech Jewish children from the Nazis. The Silberstein's are a large and close knit extended family living in Czechoslovakia. Believing in the decency of mankind, they don't pay heed to the Nazi threat. They finally realize the true horror of what is coming, but it is too late. Making the toughest possible decision, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALLSzymborska, Wisława.
Summary: "In this collection of contemplative, witty, and always surprising poems, Wislawa Szymborska writes with verve about everything from love unremembered to keys mislaid in the grass, from small-scale naughtiness to the happiness of skating on thin ice, from the district firemen's ball to the cosmos."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.85 SZYŻygulski, Zdzisław.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interpress Publishers 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 ZygulskiSummary: A milestone of Polish cinema, this electrifying international sensation by Andrzej Wajda, the final film in his celebrated war trilogy, entwines the story of one man's moral crisis on the final day of World War II with the fate of a nation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN ASHMuth, Jon J
Summary: In this graphic adaptation of a story by Stanislaw Lem, a meteoroid damages astronaut and space traveller Ijon's spaceship, and he finds himself caught in a time loop, contending with past and future versions of himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MUTSzymborska, Wisława.
Summary: An anthology by a Polish writer. In Bodybuilders' Contest, she writes: "He grunts while showing his poses and paces. / His back alone has twenty different faces. / The mammoth fist he raises as he wins / is tribute to the force of vitamins." By the author of Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1995