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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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Kibuishi, Kazu
Summary: "After the tragic death of their father, Emily and Navin move with their mother to the home of her deceased great-grandfather, but the strange house proves to be dangerous. Before long, a sinister creature lures the kids' mom through a door in the basement. Em and Navin, desperate not to lose her, follow her into an underground world inhabited by demons, robots, and talking animals. Eventually,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix 2008
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Amulet KibuishiCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KIBRoss, Joel N.
Summary: "In this futuristic high-stakes adventure, humanity clings to cities on the highest mountain peaks above the deadly Fog, and airships transport the pirates of the skies. Daring 13-year-old tetherboy Chess and his salvage crew must face the dark plans of Lord Kodoc and work to save their beloved Mrs. E"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ROSKibuishi, Kazu
Summary: After chasing the monster that kidnapped their mother, Emily and Navin find themselves in a magical world of man-eating demons and shadowy enemies, where they must learn to control an amulet given to them by their grandfather.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC KIBLebrecht, Norman
Summary: "In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the way we see the world. Many of them are well known--Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich, no chemotherapy. Without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.009 LEBKibuishi, Kazu
Summary: After chasing the monster that kidnapped their mother, Emily and Navin find themselves in a magical world of man-eating demons and shadowy enemies, where they must learn to control an amulet given to them by their grandfather.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KIBCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC KIBKibuishi, Kazu
Summary: Emily, Navin and their crew of resistance fighters charter an airship and set off in search of the lost city of Cielis. there they hope to find held from the Guardian Council's powerful Stonekeepers. It's a mission that Alledia's survival depends on, and time is running out -- Emily's got to find Cielis before the Elf King finds her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC KIBKibuishi, Kazu
Summary: Emily survived the chaos of the Guardian Academy, but Max Griffin has stolen the Mother Stone. With it, the Elf King forges new amulets that will give him the power to invade and destroy the nation of Windsor. Emily and her friends lead the soldiers of the Cielis Guard in a fight to stop him, but Max stands in their way. And when she seeks information from the Voice of her Amulet, she discovers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC KIBDonegan, Lonnie.
Contents: Disc 1. Rock Island Line -- John Henry -- Diggin' my potatoes -- Bury my body -- Lost John -- Stewball -- Bring a little water, Sylvie -- Dead or alive -- Don't you rock me Daddy-0 -- I'm Alabammy bound -- Cumberland Gap -- Love is strange -- Gamblin' man -- Puttin' on the style -- My Dixie darling -- I'm just a rollin' stone -- Jack O'Diamonds -- Ham 'n' eggs -- Grand Coolie Dam -- Nobody...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Castle Music Ltd. 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DONWard, Geoffrey C.
Summary: As companion to the PBS series airing in September 2007, "The War" focuses on the citizens of four towns--Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama, following more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Maps and hundreds of photographs enrich this compelling, unflinching narrative.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.5373 WARKibuishi, Kazu
Summary: "After her confrontation with Ikol, Emily finally understands the stone's power and what she must do to defend Alledia from the shadows. As she travels to Typhon to help her mom and Navin, Prince Trellis returns to the Kingdom of the Elves to save his countrymen -- and confront the fraud who has seized power in the absence of a king. The threat of darkness follows all Stonekeepers closely, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KIBCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC KIBSummary: By December 1944, Americans had grown weary of the war: the stream of newspaper headlines telling of new losses and telegrams bearing bad news seemed endless. In episode 6, The Ghost Front, Ken Burns explores the unpredictable and unnerving months toward the near-end to the war. In the Pacific, American progress had been slow and costly, while in Europe, no one was prepared for the massive...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Overy, R. J.
Summary: "Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the 'great imperial war', a violent end to almost a century of global imperial expansion which reached its peak in the ambitions of Italy, Germany and Japan in the 1930s and early 1940s, before descending into the largest and costliest war in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 OVEBig Maceo
Contents: Worried life blues (2:54) -- Ramblin' mind blues (3:09) -- County jail blues (2:55) -- Can't you read (3:09) -- So long baby (2:43) -- Texas blues (2:53) -- Tuff luck blues (3:01) -- I got the blues (2:49) -- It's all up to you (3:08) -- Bye bye baby (2:55) -- Why should I hang around (3:09) -- Poor Kelly blues (3:17) -- Some sweet day (2:48) -- Anytime for you (2:51) -- My last go around...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES BIGContents: Teasin' you / Earl King (Willie Tee) -- Got to get you off my mind / Burke, Burke & Moore (Solomon Burke) -- I want to do everything for you / Joe Tex (Joe Tex) -- I've been loving you too long / Redding & Butler (Otis Redding) -- A sweet woman like you / Joe Tex (Joe Tex) -- In the midnight hour / Pickett & Cropper (Wilson Pickett) -- See-saw / Covay & Cropper (Don Covay) -- Respect / Otis...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Recording Corp. 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES ATLOwens, Buck
Contents: Disc 1. Down on the corner of love -- Hot dog -- There goes my love -- Sweet thing -- Second fiddle -- Under your spell again -- Above and beyond -- 'Til these dreams come true -- Foolin' around -- Nobody's fault but yours -- Under the influence of love -- Keeper of the key -- Down to the river -- Fool me again -- My heart skips a beat -- Sweethearts in Heaven -- Love's gonna live here -- Down,...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Omnivore Recordings 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY OWECooke, Alistair
Summary: Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Cooke, a newly naturalized citizen, set out to see his country as it was undergoing a monumental change. He wanted to "see what the war had done to people, to the towns I might go through, to some jobs and crops, to stretches of landscape I loved and had seen at peace; and to let significance fall where it might." Working throughout the war, Cooke...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5373 COOSummary: This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 EAR3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 1
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Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 3
Memphis Slim.
Contents: Beer drinkin' woman (2:56) -- Beer drinkin' woman : (take 2) (3:16) -- You didn't mean me no good (2:52) -- Grinder man blues (3:05) -- Empty room blues (2:48) -- Shelby County blues (2:55) -- I see my great mistake (2:55) -- I see my great mistake : (take 2) (2:54) -- Old Taylor (2:38) -- I believe I'll settle down (3:02) -- Jasper's gal (2:49) -- You got to help me some (2:53) -- Two of a...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA 1997
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MEMManchester, William
Summary: Spanning the years of 1940-1965, this third volume in Manchester's monumental biography the Last Lion picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister-when his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany and continues through Churchill's fight against the rising tide of communism
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown & Co. 2012
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHURCHILL, WINSTON MANLochery, Neill
Summary: "When Nazis looked to flee Europe with stolen art, gems, and gold in tow, certain "neutral" countries were all too willing to assist them. By the end of January 1945, it was clear to Germany that the war was lost. The Third Reich was in freefall, and its leaders, apart from those clustered around Hitler in his Berlin bunker, sought to abscond before they were besieged. But they wanted to take...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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Contents: Funkiest man alive -- Give me the green light -- Itch and scratch -- Turn your damper down -- Funky hot grits -- I'm getting better -- Sophisticated sissy -- Funky Mississippi -- Git on up and do it -- Breakdown -- Do the push and pull -- Do the funky penguin -- Do the double bump -- Funky robot -- Memphis train -- Let the good times roll -- Funky bird -- Rock me back aka rock back.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Stax Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES THOSummary: World War II - American troops retake Manila from the Japanese.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1945