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Contents: Essays. Collecting the image of America : Charles Willson Peale's The artist in his museum and Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre / Judith Russi Kirshner -- Painting the image of America : portraiture and genre in the 19th century / Elizabeth Milroy -- Americans in the landscape / D. Scott Atkinson -- American impressionism / Elizabeth Milroy -- America and the modernist spirit / D....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Museum of American Art 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.73 PROSmithsonian American Art Museum
Contents: From distant shores -- This other Eden -- Liberty more than life -- Ever westward -- Hand to the plow -- Brother against brother -- The rise of industry -- An eye for beauty -- Seeing the city -- The Harlem renaissance -- South by southwest -- The Great Depression -- Folk traditions -- Americans at midcentury -- The abstract impulse -- Toward the millennium -- Catalogue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 SLOMuseum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abradale Press/H.N. Abrams in association with the Museum of Modern Art, New York 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.04 MUSMetropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 1989
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 232.9 LIFNational Museum of American Art (U.S.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution 1996
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779 FORMetropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N. Y.)
Summary: Presents artworks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art arranged by such themes as animals, family, music, dance, play, and country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books For Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709.747 IBernasek, Lisa
Contents: The Imazighen and their arts -- Touring Kabylia -- Harvard in the Rif -- Collecting Tuareg art -- Amazigh art today -- Color plates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 730.089 BERJewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)
Contents: Foreword / Joan Rosenbaum -- The Jewish museum and its history / Joan Rosenbaum -- Museum without walls / Maurice Berger -- The collection of the Jewish Museum -- Memory and history -- Spirituality and faith -- Society and politics -- Portraiture and identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jewish Museum 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 704.0392 BERGates, Henry Louis
Summary: "A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind. The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 GATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 GATDetroit Institute of Arts
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Hills Press 0000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 AmeClifford, Karen.
Contents: Principles of success for the family historian -- Organizing family information -- Becoming acquainted with your genealogy program -- Why document? -- Printing your records -- Your family history notebook -- Developing a sense of our ancestors' environment -- Resolving conflict -- State vital records offices, public libraries, courthouses and local repositories -- Resources of the Family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.1 CLI1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.1 CLI
Muskegon Museum of Art
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1994
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Contents: World currencies -- The United States dollar -- The euro -- Other European money -- Canadian money -- Mexican money -- Japanese money -- Money in Asia -- Money in South America -- Money in Africa -- Money in Australia -- Currency exchanges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rourke Pub. LLC 2009
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Contents: Bellarosa -- Carvin' the rock -- Cookin' -- Brownie speaks -- De-dah -- You got to my head [i.e. You go to my head] -- Carvin' the rock (alternate take #1) -- Cookin' (alternate take) -- Carvin' the rock (alternate take #2) -- Wail bait -- Hymn of the Orient -- Brownie eyes -- Cherokee -- Easy living -- Minor mood -- Wail bait (alternate take) -- Cherokee (alternate take) -- Hymn of the Orient...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BROSummary: "The first volume in more than 20 years tells a new and modern story of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms, one of the top collections of American fine and decorative arts in existence. The art of United States diplomacy has been conducted over more than two centuries with figures from all over the world, in peacetime and in conflict. For the last six decades, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2023
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Contents: Introduction : Disney's troubled utopia -- Disney and the politics of public culture -- Learning with Disney : from Baby Einstein to High school musical -- Children's culture and Disney's animated films -- Disney, militarization, and the national-security state after 9/11 -- Globalizing the Disney empire -- Conclusion : turning the world into a Disney store.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 384.8 GIRSummary: Backed by a Church struggling to connect with the faithful, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio painted images imbued with physical immediacy and in-your-face drama. As this program shows, there was a trade-off: Caravaggio's biblical scenes frequently eschew, in the words of presenter Simon Schama, "any vision of consolation or redemption." Exploring the artist's humble origins, penchant for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Conner, Clifford D.
Summary: Challenges popular beliefs that credit such figures as Galileo, Newton, and Einstein with bringing about modern science, explaining how everyday laborers participated in creating science and continue to do so today, in an account that also documents how the development of science affects ordinary people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509 CONBrown, Clifford.
Contents: Waltz hot / S. Rollins (7:43) -- I feel a song comin' on / McHugh, Fields (5:17) -- What's new / B. Haggart (3:16) -- Daahoud (5:22) -- Sweet Clifford (5:37) -- I get a kick out of you / C. Porter (7:45) -- The blues walk (11:35).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fresh Sound Records 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BROThoreau, Henry David
Summary: Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here in a single volume. Interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 THOBirkerts, Sven.
Summary: "In The Art of Time in Memoir, critic, editor, and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. "Memoir is, for better and often for worse, the genre of our times," Birkerts writes. But what makes one memoir memorable and another self-serving? What determines the difference between graceful disclosure and sensational self-exposure? Birkerts argues that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.93592 BIRAdams, Henry
Contents: Contains the last two parts of History of the United States of America during the first administration of James Madison, and History of the United States of America during the second administration of James Madison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.46 ADAHenry, O.
Summary: A collection of Western American short stories by O. Henry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1993