Shaw, Bernard
Contents: A patchwork self-portrait, 1898-1950.--Preface: Who I am.--Plays for puritans.--Cerebral capers.--The court experiment.--The practical impossibilities of censorship.--Shavian busts.--Tree and a potboiler.--War madness.--Joy riding at the front.--Crash of an epoch.--Burglars.--A member by baptism.--Back to Methuselah.--How to write a play.--Saint Joan.--Fabian politics.--The apple cart.--Touring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weybright and Talley 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.9 SHAJacobs, Alan
Contents: Introduction -- 1. Worlds of reading -- Sentences -- A commonplace book -- Robert Alter's fidelity -- A religion for atheists -- Bran flakes and harmless drudges -- On the recent publication of Kahlil Gibran's Collected Works -- The poet's prose -- The brightest heaven of invention -- Opportunity costs -- The youngest brother's tale -- 2. Signs and wonders -- Reading the signs -- The secret...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.9338 JACSummary: Philosopher Professor C.F.M. Joad and author George Bernard Shaw.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Shaw, Bernard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1956
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.912 SHAShaw, Bernard
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822 SHACornwell, Bernard
Summary: "My name is Uhtred. I am the son of Uhtred, who was the son of Uhtred and his father was also called Uhtred ... The Last Kingdom is one of the most successful historical fiction series of our time. The novels tell the epic story of the birth of England and introduces one of the greatest ever fictional heroes: the iconic Uhtred of Bebbanburg, the Saxon-born, Norse-raised warrior and rebel. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Contents: Boy gets girl / Rebecca Gilman -- The invention of love / Tom Stoppard -- King Hedley II / August Wilson -- Lobby Hero / Kenneth Lonergan -- Mnemonic / Complicite -- Nocturne / Adam Rapp -- The play about the baby / Edward Albee -- The producers / Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan -- Proof / David Auburn -- Urinetown / Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Limelight Editions 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BESContents: Introduction -- Season in New York -- Season in Chicago -- Deburau / by Sacha Guitry -- First year / by Frank Craven -- Enter Madame / by Gilda Varesi and Dolly Byrne -- Green goddess / by William Archer -- Liliom / by Frank Molnar -- Mary Rose / by J.M. Barrie -- Nice people / by Rachel Crothers -- Bad man / by Porter Emerson Browne -- Emperor Jones / by Eugene G. O'Neill -- Skin game / by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Small, Maynard, & Co. 1921
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BESBailyn, Bernard.
Summary: "From one of the most respected historians in America, twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a new collection of essays that reflect a lifetime of erudition and accomplishments in history. The past has always been elusive: how can we understand people whose worlds were utterly different from our own without imposing our own standards and hindsight? What did things feel like in the moment when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 900 BAIContents: The time of the cuckoo / by Arthur Laurents -- Bernardine / by Mary Chase -- Dial "M" for murder / by Frederick Knott -- The climate of Eden / by Moss Hart -- The love of four colonels / by Peter Ustinov -- The crucible / by Arthur Miller -- The emperor's clothes / by George Tabori -- Picnic / by William Inge -- Wonderful town / book by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov ; music by Leonard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dodd, Mead and Co. 1953
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BESShaw, Bernard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weybright and Talley 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.9 SHASummary: This overview of George Bernard Shaw's life and work from the Famous Authors series starts in Dublin, introducing Shaw's family and his mother's voice teacher and influential family friend, George Vandeleur Lee. The film discusses Shaw's experience as a Protestant in Ireland. Eventually Shaw moved to England, where his mother had started giving singing lessons, and set off writing. There he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Herrmann, Bernard
Contents: Journey to the centre of the Earth. Mountain top and sunrise ; Prelude ; The grotto ; Salt slides ; Atlantis ; The giant chameleon and the fight ; The shaft and finale -- The seventh voyage of Sinbad. Overture ; The duel with the skeleton ; Baghdad -- The day the earth stood still. Outer space ; Radar ; Gort ; The robot ; Space control ; Terror ; Farewell and finale -- Fahrenheit 451. Prelude ;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC HERPleasant, Barbara.
Summary: Presents a guide to cultivating an efficient and beautiful vegetable garden, from growing seedlings to preventing diseases, and provides twenty-four different plans for optimum crop yield.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Pub. 2010
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 635 PleConnolly, Bernard
Summary: "The book demolishes standard macroeconomic theory and shows how central banks' blinkered obeisance to that theory has, by making bubbles, crises, recessions and, latterly, inflation inevitable, undermined the pillars of a capitalist society. It has become a commonplace to blame central banks for recurrent bubbles and financial crises, recessions, massive wealth inequality and widespread...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Unicorn 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Blackbird / David Harrower -- The clean house / Sarah Ruhl -- The coast of Utopia / Tom Stoppard -- Dying city / Christopher Shinn -- Frost/Nixon / Peter Morgan -- The pain and the itch / Bruce Norris -- Passing strange / Stew and Heidi Rodewald -- Radio golf / August Wilson -- The scene / Theresa Rebeck -- Spring awakening / Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Limelight Editions 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BESRuggles, Glenn.
Contents: The early years, 1850-1870. Peter Dougherty, missionary; Abram Wadsworth, founder; Dexter-Noble, lumber company; Native Americans, sawmill, flour mill, Chain of Lakes -- The Principality is born, 1870-1890. "Pig Iron," Elk Rapids Iron Company, Bangor chemical plant, brewery, seven saloons, pollution, drunkenness, livestock running loose, cruising the Chain of Lakes -- The peak and decline,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Heron Press 2007
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.485 RUG1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.485 RUG
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.485 RUGWilliams, Tennessee
Contents: Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer. Sweet bird of youth. Period of adjustment. The night of the iguana. The eccentricities of a nightingale. The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. The mutilated. Kingdom of earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. Out cry. Vieux Carré. A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.54 WILDeSpain, Pleasant.
Contents: The courting of Miss Python (Central Africa) -- Why California has earthquakes (Native American) -- The talkative king (India) -- Leopard's magnificent drum (Ghana) -- The dancing turtle (Brazil) -- Wayamba the turtle (Australia) -- The monkey's liver (Japan) -- Tortoise and the sweet potatoes (South Africa) -- Father Wind and his four sons (Native American) -- The banana bet (Panama) -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: August House 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 DESDean, Kim
Summary: Pete the cat loves to play hide-and-seek! When his friends hide, Pete covers his eyes and counts to 10. He opens them and just knows he will find them soon. But finding his friends may be harder than Pete thought. Are they behind a tree or on a bus? Or will Pete give up? Find out how Pete learns to chill out in this cool story full of surprises at every peek!
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Bond, Michael Shaw
Summary: "How is it that we can walk unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction? Come up with shortcuts on the fly, in places we've never traveled? The answer is the complex mental map in our brains. This feature of our cognition is easily taken forgranted, but it's also critical to our species's evolutionary success. In From Here to There Michael Bond tells stories of the lost and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 BONShaw, Artie
Contents: Frenesi -- Begin the beguine -- Back bay shuffle -- They say -- Traffic jam -- Comes love -- Star dust -- Thanks for everything -- Deep in a dream -- Nightmare
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Publisher / Publication Date: BMG Special Products 0000
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Summary: Pete the Cat loves to play hide-and-seek! When his friends hide, Pete covers his eyes and counts to 10. He opens them and just knows he will find them soon. But finding his friends may be harder than Pete thought. Are they behind a tree or on a bus? Or will Pete give up? Find out how Pete learns to chill out in this cool story full of surprises at every peek!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Cornwell, Bernard
Summary: An illustrated account chronicles in detail events ranging from Napoleon's escape from Elba through Waterloo's three major battlefield events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015