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History Indians of North America Social life and customs Indians of North America Wars International relations Jazz 1951-1960 Postwar reconstruction Social aspects Saxophone music (Jazz) Social sciences United States History United States Politics and government 1945-1955 World politics 1945-1955Belloc, Hilaire
Summary: From the Publisher: One of Hilaire Belloc's most famous works, "Cautionary Tales for Children" satirizes a genre of admonitory children's literature popular in England in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The seven stories contained in this work are macabre parodies of childhood lessons, and will entertain more sophisticated readers who can appreciate these tales of disproportionate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 821.912 BELContents: Disc 1. Hard travelin' / Woody Guthrie -- Old Man Atom / Sam Hinton -- Black, brown and white / Big Bill Broonzy -- Nottamun town / Jean Ritchie -- Darlin' Cory / Ed McCurdy -- One meat ball / Josh White -- Little boxes / Malvina Reynolds -- I was born 10,000 years ago / Oscar Brand -- Midnight special / Cisco Houston -- Wasn't that a time / Weavers -- Spanish is a loving tongue / Glenn...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Entertainment Company 2001
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK WasTangerine Dream.
Contents: This clamshell box of The Pink Years Albums 1970 -- 1973 features Electronic Meditation, Alpha Centauri, Zeit, and Atem packaged in replica card sleeves and also includes a poster.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Esoteric Recordings 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC TANSummary: Studebaker ad (TV commercial) touting the car's economy and fuel efficiency with "no fuel-eating extra weight
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1953
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Summary: In the aftermath of the Revolution, a newly independent America confronted one of its most daunting challenges: how to build a united nation out of thirteen disparate colonies. This program profiles the passionate crusade launched by Thomas Jefferson and continued by Noah Webster, Horace Mann, and others to create a common system of tax-supported schools that would mix people of different...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Williams, Glyndwr.
Contents: El Mar del Sur : the Spanish lake -- "The world encompassed" : Drake and his successors -- Geographical enigmas and literary utopias -- "They were not come out to go upon discovery" : buccaneers and interlopers in the South Sea -- "I speak as to the compass of my own knowledge" : Dampier's explorations and writings -- The "cruising voyages" of Dampier and Rogers -- "A gross, palpable illusion"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1997
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Place a hold to request this item.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 2010Summary: French Depression conditions
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1933
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Ruggles, 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 RUGBogue, Margaret Beattie
Summary: Examines the history of human use of the fish resources of the Great Lakes, and analyzes the changing nature of the fish populations, especially those that became popular in the commercial markets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Wisconsin Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.9561 BogueSummary: In June of 1950, the North Korean Army initiated a massive attack on its neighbor to the south, beginning a see-saw war that would engulf the entire Korean Peninsula. For the next three years, the United Nations and the Communists would wage a bloody and brutal war. Though the Korean conflict is often referred to as the "Forgotten War", those who fought and sacrificed for freedom will never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timeless Media Group 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Korea action and political comments before cease-fire
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1953
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Summary: Akron Ohio Soap Box Derby, shot Dinah Shore at event
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1953
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Ayers, Edward L.
Summary: The early decades of the nineteenth century saw the expansion of slavery, Native dispossession, and wars with Canada and Mexico. Mass immigration and powerful religious movements sent tremors through American society. Even as the powerful defended the status quo, others defied voices from the margins moved the center; eccentric visions altered the accepted wisdom, and acts of empathy questioned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 AYEContents: 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 BESSummary: Shots of life in Kenya under British rule
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1953
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Lone Bellow (Musical group)
Contents: Green eyes and a heart of gold -- Tree to grow -- Two sides of lonely -- You never need nobody -- You can be all kinds of emotional -- You don't love me like you used to -- Fire red horse -- Bleeding out -- Looking for you -- Teach me to know -- The one you should've let go.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Descendant 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY LONSummary: France unveils new automobile with futuristic flair.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1953
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Desmond, Paul
Contents: disc 1. Jazz at Storyville (1953) ; Jazz interweave (1954) ; Desmond (1954) -- disc 2. Featuring Don Elliott (1956) ; Gerry Mulligan-Paul Desmond Quartet (1957) -- disc 3. "First place again" playboy (1960) ; Desmond blue (1962) -- disc 4. Two of a mind (1962) ; Take ten (1963).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ DESSchumacher, Michael
Contents: "How could such a thing happen on a goddamn lake?" Lakes Superior and Michigan -- "So violent a storm": apocalypse on Lake Huron -- "You might not have light tonight": the storm visits Cleveland -- "I might see you in heaven": explorations of loss -- "This was not natural": discoveries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 977.033 SCHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.033 SCHReinhardt, Django
Contents: Peche a la mouche -- Minor blues -- For sentimental reasons -- Danse NorvGegienne -- Blues for Barclay -- Folie a amphion -- Vette -- Anniversary song -- Swing 48 -- September song -- Brazil -- I'll never smile again -- New York City -- Django's blues -- Love's mood -- I love you -- Topsy -- Moppin' the bride, micro -- Insensiblement -- Mano -- Blues --- Gipsy with a song (1) -- Gipsy with a...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: PolyGram Records 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ REISummary: Woman in kitchen with toddler, wears heels to do dishes, very 1950s; domestic; housewife; mother
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1953
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Berry, Chuck.
Contents: 1. 1955 to 1958: Maybelline ; Wee wee hours ; Thirty days ; You can't catch me ; No money down ; Downbound train ; Brown eyed handsome man ; Drifting heart ; Roll over Beethoven ; Too much monkey business ; Havana moon ; School day ; Rock and roll music ; O baby doll ; I've changed ; Reelin' and rockin' ; Rockin' at the Philharmonic ; Sweet little sixteen ; Johnny B. Goode ; Time was ; Around...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Chess 1988