Filter By Subjects
Art dealers Compact discs Conservatism United States History 20th century Culture conflict United States History 20th century Invisibility Political culture United States History 20th century Prayer Rock musicians England Biography Social problems United States History 20th century SymphoniesFilter By Subjects
Art dealers Compact discs Conservatism United States History 20th century Culture conflict United States History 20th century Invisibility Political culture United States History 20th century Prayer Rock musicians England Biography Social problems United States History 20th century SymphoniesEade, Philip.
Summary: Chronicles the first thirty years of Prince Philip's life from his childhood in Greece, France, Nazi Germany, and Britain to his marriage to Queen Elizabeth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PHILIP, PRINCE CONSORT EADEHook, Philip
Summary: Philip Hook takes the lid off the world of art dealing to reveal the brilliance, cunning, greed, and daring of its practitioners. In a richly anecdotal chronological narrative he describes the rise and occasional fall of the extraordinary men and women who over the centuries have made it their business to sell art to kings, merchants, nobles, entrepreneurs, and museums. From its beginnings in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Experiment 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HOONorman, Philip
Summary: "Since the age of twenty-one, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock-n-roll lives played out on the most public of stages. Now, Paul's story is told by rock music's foremost biographer, with McCartney's consent and access to family members and close friends who have never spoken on the record before. Paul McCartney reveals the complex character behind the façade and sheds new light...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MCCARTNEY NORFarmer, Philip José.
Contents: Lovers.--Sail on! Sail on!--Mother.--God business.--Alley man.--My sister's brother.--Uproar in Acheron: Introduction.--Uproar in Acheron.--King of beasts.--Shadow of space.--Riders of the Purple Wage or The great gavage.--Don't wash the carats: A polytropical paramyth.--Jungle rot kid on the nod.--Oogenesis of bird city.--Sliced-crosswise only-on-Tuesday world.--Sketches among the ruins of my...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Suberranean Press 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FARGlass, Philip
Contents: Opening (6:09) -- Truman Sleeps ("The Truman Show") (2:40) -- The Poet Acts (4:01) -- Morning Passages (6:10) -- How Now (29:52) -- Something She Has To Do (3:59) -- I'm Going To Make A Cake (3:20) -- Olympian: Lighting Of The Torch (3:32) -- Mad Rush (16:17) -- Dead Things (4:41) -- Tearing Herself Away (5:14) -- Wichita Sutra Vortex (7:22) -- Escape! (4:34) -- Choosing Life (4:42) -- The...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2015
View online at Hoopla
Gulley, Philip.
Contents: Porch talk -- A curious obsession -- Charley -- The jig's up -- Call me coach -- Pond life -- The slow life -- You get what you pay for -- The compact -- The tornado -- The state of housing -- Better late than never! -- Exercise and other dirty words -- My conflicted life -- Too many friends -- Professional thinkers -- Zipper -- The writing life -- My wife, the scofflaw -- The death of freedom...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 242 GULNorman, Philip
Summary: "Despite being hailed as one of the best guitarists of his era, George Harrison, particularly in his early decades, battled feelings of inferiority. He was often the butt of jokes from his bandmates owing to his lower-class background and, typically, was allowed to contribute only one or two songs per Beatles album out of the dozens he wrote. Now, acclaimed Beatles biographer Philip Norman...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Ball, Philip
Summary: Takes us on a journey through China's past and present, offering a unique window through which we can begin to grasp the overwhelming complexity and teeming energy of the country and its people. Water is a key that unlocks much of Chinese history and thought.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951 BALRoth, Philip.
Summary: A reader's edition of key writings by the acclaimed author includes the National Book Award-winning "Goodbye, Columbus" and the trenchant psychological portrait, "Letting Go."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTRoth, Philip.
Contents: The counterlife -- The facts: a novelist's autobiography -- Deception -- Patrimony: a true story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSRoth, Philip.
Contents: American pastoral -- I married a communist -- The human stain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTRoth, Philip.
Contents: The ghost writer -- Zuckerman unbound -- The anatomy lesson -- The Prague orgy -- Appendix: The Prague orgy, a television adaptation -- Chronology -- Note on the texts -- Notes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTRoth, Philip.
Contents: When she was good -- Portnoy's complaint -- Our gang -- The breast.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTHoare, Philip.
Summary: Taking us deep into the whales domain, Hoare shows us these mysterious creatures as they have never been seen before. He explores the troubled history of man and whale; visits the historic whaling locales of New Bedford, Nantucket, and the Azores; and traces the whale's cultural history from Johah to Free Willy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.5 HOAFuria, Philip
Summary: Traces the history of song in film, both in musicals and in dramatic movies such as High Noon. --from publisher description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42164 FURRoth, Philip.
Summary: "Published together for the first time as the author intended, Nemeses is a quartet of novels whose terrain is the human body and whose subject, the common experience that terrifies us all"--Publisher description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTGulley, Philip.
Summary: While many denominations claim to be growing, the largest group in American religious life is the disillusioned--people who have been involved in the church yet see few similarities between the church's life and the person of Jesus. In the midst of elaborate programming, professional worship teams, and political crusades, they ask, "Is this really what Jesus called us to do?" While the church...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.1 GULDick, Philip K.
Contents: Stability -- Menace react -- Roog -- The little movement -- Beyond lies the wub -- The gun -- The skull -- The defenders -- Mr. Spaceship -- Piper in the woods -- The infinites -- The preserving machine -- Expendable -- The variable man -- The indefatigable frog -- The crystal crypt -- The short happy life of the brown Oxford -- The builder -- Meddler -- Paycheck -- The great C -- Out in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICPullman, Philip
Summary: "Lyra Silvertongue thought her adventuring days were long over. Now a twenty-year-old undergraduate at St. Sophia's College, she could almost begin to doubt that she'd once traveled to the world of the dead were it not for the painful separation from her daemon, Pantalaimon. But intrigue is swirling around Lyra once more. Pantalaimon witnesses a brutal murder, and the dying man entrusts them...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC PULShort, Philip.
Contents: A family apart -- The captive -- Schisms of war -- Loose ends, new beginnings -- The staircase of power -- Requiem for empire -- Crossing the desert -- De Gaulle again -- Union of the left -- Politics is war -- The novitiate -- The sphinx -- The Florentine -- The monarch -- The survivalist -- The testament -- Acronyms.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MITTERRAND, FRANCOIS SHOSheridan, Philip Henry
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHERIDAN, PHILIP HENRY SHEJenkins, Philip
Contents: Mainstreaming the sixties -- Going too far : bicentennial America -- Against the grain -- The politics of children : 1977 -- Predators -- Captive America : 1980 -- Into the Reagan era -- Evil empires -- Dark victories -- The abuse epidemic -- Wars without end.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 JENBall, Philip
Summary: If offered the chance--by cloak, spell or superpower--to be invisible, who wouldn't want to give it a try? We are drawn to the idea of stealthy voyeurism and the ability to conceal our own acts, but as desirable as it may seem, invisibility is also dangerous. It is not just an optical phenomenon, but a condition full of ethical questions. As esteemed science writer Philip Ball reveals in this...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 535 BALZaleski, Philip.
Contents: The foundations of prayer -- Magic -- Deeper magic -- The refugee -- The devotee -- The ecstatic -- The contemplative -- Prayer and tradition -- Prayer and the modern arts -- Prayer and the public square -- Prayer and healing -- The efficacy of prayer -- The mystery of prayer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2005