Summary: A region-by-region travel guide to India featuring descriptions of the country's history and culture; practical details on hotels, restaurants, and other aspects of trip planning; and many color photos and maps.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.4 INDSrinivasan, Radhika
Summary: "India is a land of variety: cultures, ethnic groups, and languages, landscapes, religions, and art forms. This huge country has a history that stretches over thousands of years, over a backdrop woven of all these threads, and a future that has both profound challenges and much promise"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 954 SRIDi Palma, Carlo
Summary: Explores the life and career of Italian cinematographer Carlo Di Palma.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WATSummary: This program captures the increasingly political nature of Hinduism and its volatile relationship with Islam-India's leading minority religion. It argues that this volatility results from their past history, when large parts of India were dominated by the Muslim rulers, the Mughals. Today, many Hindus demand greater recognition of Hinduism in governmental affairs and oppose what they feel is...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Mattern, Joanne
Summary: "In this book, readers will learn about the unique and defining features of India. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn more about the key details of the country including geography, climate, culture, and resources. Compelling questions encourage further inquiry"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Kagda, Falaq.
Summary: "This book explores the exciting culture and many festivals that are celebrated in India"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 394.26954 KAGDi Palo, Lou
Summary: "The ultimate guide to the finest foods of Italy from the oldest, most celebrated Italian market in New York City. In the heart of New York City's Little Italy sits Di Palo's, a family-owned food shop that has been the treasure of the neighborhood for more than a century. The four generations of Di Palos who have run this Italian specialty market have made it their mission to bring customers...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5945 DIPWolpert, Stanley A.
Contents: River -- Heat -- Monsoon rains -- Mountain walls -- Pre-Aryan urbanization -- Aryan conquests and emerging synthesis -- Ancient imperial unification and its limits -- Islamic conquests -- Westernization and modernization -- Young India's revolutions and reforms -- Impact of Mahatma Gandhi -- Yoga and Shaivism -- Mother Goddess worship -- Nonviolent Buddhism and Jainism -- Laws of action and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954 WOLAnderson, Corey
Summary: "With one of the largest populations in the world, India is a land of crowded cities, but it's also known for its beautiful mountains and serene beaches ... Explore India's colorful culture and traditions, how Indians celebrate, and what they eat."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: India is the planet's biggest producer of over 22 different cash crops, making its agricultural economy the second largest in the world. Why then does most of its rural population live below subsistence level, relying on foreign NGOs for aid? This program looks at reasons why working villagers remain in poverty, including government policies that direct funding away from development and towards...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Covering such destinations as Delhi, Rajasthan, the Taj Mahal, and Mumbai, this Gold Guide to India contains full-color photos, detailed maps, and illustrated features to provide visitors with much-needed information.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fodor's Travel 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 TRAVEL INDIASummary: This program looks at identity and the roots of India's famous "unity in diversity." Using all the tools available to the historical detective-archaeology, cultural anthropology, climatology, DNA research, and more-Michael Wood takes viewers to Kerala to witness surviving human sounds and rituals that predate spoken language; to a village in Tamil Nadu where everyone still bears the genetic...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In this program, Michael Wood tells how a foreign multinational, Britain's East India Company, gradually and almost by chance took power over great swathes of the Indian subcontinent; how after the shock of the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion, the British state assumed total control over the country and transformed it into the Raj; and how the freedom movement, epitomized by Mahatma Gandhi, succeeded in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Di Spigna, Christian
Summary: A detailed portrait of Founding Father, Dr. Joseph Warren, examines his work as an architect of the colonial rebellion, before his hero's death at Bunker Hill obscured his essential role in America's independence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WARREN, JOSEPH DIPSummary: While protecting his friend from a school bully, sixteen-year-old Wei Bu pushes the bully down a staircase. He later learns that the bully is hospitalized, gravely injured. Wei's neighbor, 60-year-old Wang Jin, decides to join him as does Huang Ling, Wei's classmate. Together, they decide their only hope is to flee town. They board a bus to Manchuria, where it is a rumored that a circus...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ELEMukerjee, Madhusree.
Summary: Examines Winston Churchill's efforts to defeat the freedom movement in India during World War II, comparing his actions in Europe to the decisions he made between 1940 and 1944, which resulted in the deaths of more than three million men, women, and children in India.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.0359 MUKDonizetti, Gaetano
Contents: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 1: Preludio - "Percorrete le spiagge vicine" (Normanno, Chorus) (4:24) -- Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 1: "Tu sei turbato!" (Normanno, Enrico, Raimondo) (2:41) -- Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 1: "Cruda, funesta smania" (Enrico, Normanno, Raimondo) (1:53) -- Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 1: "Il tuo dubbio e omai certezza" (Chorus, Normanno, Enrico, Raimondo) (2:00) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Classics 2014
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Boyd, Damien.
Summary: A trainee jockey has been kicked to death by an aggressive stallion at the local stables. Deemed an accidental death, the case is closed. But when the jockey's brother returns from active service, he sparks an armed siege, demanding the investigation be re-opened and the truth uncovered.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYSummary: The second installment of Michael Wood's journey through Indian history covers the Age of Buddha, the incursions of the ancient Greeks, and the rule of Emperor Ashoka as they relate to the enduring power of Indian ideas. Drawing upon archaeology, living traditions, legends, and India's "Rosetta stone," Wood explores the imperishable principle of nonviolence and the tenets of Buddhism as he...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: At the time of the fall of the Roman Empire in the West and the Dark Ages that followed, India experienced a series of great flowerings of culture, both in the north and the south. In this program, Michael Wood shows viewers some of the amazing achievements of India during this time. Breakthroughs in astronomy and mathematics, mastery of wrought iron and bronze technologies, island conquests...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Surrogacy is big business in India. It's now worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year - fueled by tax breaks for medical tourism, childless couples around the world trying to start a family, and young Indian women desperate for a pay day that could set their families up for life. But are ethics and adequate regulation being dismissed in the rush to supply thousands of foreigners and rich...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2014
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Boyd, Damien.
Summary: Rock climbers can't afford to make careless mistakes. But Detective Inspector Nick Dixon's former climbing partner, Jake Fayter, died doing just that. Or so it seems. Dixon suspects foul play, but his only leads are unreliable accounts of something odd happening in Cheddar Gorge seconds before Jake fell. As the body count rises, Dixon bends the rules to breaking point to lure out a killer and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYBoyd, Damien.
Summary: Rock climbers can't afford to make careless mistakes. But Detective Inspector Nick Dixon's former climbing partner, Jake Fayter, died doing just that. Or so it seems. Dixon suspects foul play, but his only leads are unreliable accounts of something odd happening in Cheddar Gorge seconds before Jake fell. As the body count rises, Dixon bends the rules to breaking point to lure out a killer and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BOYSummary: This program featuring Michael Wood takes viewers to the India of the early centuries AD, a time that saw Indian civilization grow into a major participant in the first global economy as trade enriched it through contact and exchange. The rediscovered site of Rome's most significant trading port in India and a trip to Madurai, the ancient capital of South India, offer insights into the spice...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008