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 2010Daughters of the American Revolution
Summary: Highlights some of the members of the Daughters of the American Revolution who made an impact during the suffrage era. Book published to accompany an exhibit by the same name.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 ORDBurt, Alfred S.
Contents: Ah, bleak and chill the wintry wind -- All on a Christmas morning (Oh, who are these that throng the way) -- Carol of the mother (Sleep, baby mine) -- Caroling, caroling -- Christ in the stranger's guise -- Christmas cometh caroling -- Come, dear children -- Jesu parvule (Poor little Jesus) -- Nigh Bethlehem (Nigh Beth'lem on a wintry night) -- O hearken ye -- Some children see Him -- The star...
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Hollis Music 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.28 BURGreenwood, Rosie
Summary: Explores common questions about how and why explorers did what they did when exploring the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 910.92 GRECannadine, David
Summary: To live in nineteenth-century Britain was to experience an astonishing and unprecedented series of changes. Cities grew vast; there were revolutions in transportation, communication, science, and work–all while a growing religious skepticism rendered the intellectual landscape increasingly unrecognizable. It was an exhilarating time, and as a result, most of the countries in the world that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941 CANSummary: As Africa continues to modernize, the influence of the media in daily life is growing ever larger. This program examines the importance of the press, radio, the Internet, and TV via segments involving the Sowetan, a widely circulated South African newspaper that has its roots in the anti-apartheid struggle; KKC Kagadi, a rural community radio station in Uganda; Kenya-based Africa Online, an...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Grant, R. G.
Summary: Discover the misery of life in the trenches -- and how the Great War devastated Europe. Here is an original and exciting guide to the grim challenge of life or death on the Western Front. Devastating first-hand reports and contemporary photographs of the battles that slaughtered millions, together with a clear account of how nation upon nation sent their men to join the carnage, combine to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.3 GRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 940.4 GRASummary: Apartheid - Johannesburg slum clearance; narrator says this black section is poor and squalid, hopeful that new housing will make the black residents' lives better. Racism, poverty.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1937
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Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISBlumrosen, Alfred W.
Contents: Somerset's journey sparks the American Revolution -- The tinderbox -- Virginia responds to the Somerset Decision -- The Virginia Resolution unites the Colonies and leads to the First Continental Congress in 1774 -- John Adams supports the South on slavery -- Colonies claim independence from Parliament -- The immortal ambiguity : "all men are created equal" -- The Articles of Confederation...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.311 BLUMeijer, Hendrik G.
Summary: The idea that a Senator—Republican or Democrat—would put the greater good of the country ahead of party seems nearly impossible to imagine in our current climate of gridlock and divisiveness. But this hasn’t always been the case. Arthur H. Vandenberg (1884–1951), Republican from Grand Rapids, Michigan, was the model of a consensus builder, and the coalitions he spearheaded continue to form the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VANDENBERG, ARTHUR MEISummary: In Africa-where infant mortality is sky-high, tens of millions have AIDS, and life expectancies can be as meager as 39 years-death is an all-too-frequent presence. This program presents sub-Saharan perspectives on the end of life: lavish Ghanaian funerals involving caskets shaped into whatever is most emblematic of the deceased; funeral rites of the Dogon, in Mali, where alcohol fermentation is...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: When Adolf Hitler begins his campaign of conquest in 1939, most Germans actually don't want war. But Hitler and his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels use every tool of propaganda to change their minds. German pride is invoked to justify the invasion of Poland and France. Messages of hatred are used to persuade Germans that minorities should be stripped of their rights, deported or sent to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Davis, Richard G.
Contents: Desert Shield : the Kuwait crisis and the decision to intervene. -- The initial deployment -- The offensive air campaign plan -- The offensive deployment, morale, and training -- Desert Storm : The decision for war -- Thunder and hail over Baghdad: the initial attacks -- Weather and the great Scud hunt -- Continuing the air offensive against Iraq -- Assessment.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 DAVHahn, Steven
Summary: "A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's provocative reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War (and leading into the twentieth century); the next volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner. In this ambitious story of American imperial conquest and capitalist development, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Steven Hahn takes on the conventional...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 HAHKenny G.
Contents: Summertime (featuring George Benson) -- The look of love -- What a wonderful world (Louis Armstrong with Kenny G) -- Desafinado -- In a sentimental mood -- The girl from Ipanema (featuring Bebel Gilberto) -- Stranger on the shore -- Body and soul -- 'Round midnight -- Over the rainbow.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arista Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD EASY LISTENING KENHitchcock, Alfred
Summary: An anthology series featuring murder and crime stories with an ironic twist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ALFJones, Seth G.
Summary: "Following the September 11 attacks, the United States successfully overthrew the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. The U.S. established security throughout the country--killing, capturing, or scattering most of al Qa'ida's senior operatives--and Afghanistan finally began to emerge from more than two decades of struggle and conflict. But Jones argues that as early as 2001, planning for the Iraq...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 JONJones, Martha S.
Summary: This volume explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership. Martha Jones reveals how, throughout the 19th century, the "woman question" was at the core of movements against slavery and for civil rights.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 JonMcDougall, Walter A.
Summary: From its shocking curtain-raiser--the conflagration that consumed Lower Manhattan in 1835--to the climactic centennial year of 1876, with a corrupt, deadlocked presidential campaign (fought out in Florida), this sequel to Freedom Just Around the Corner carries the saga of the American people's continuous self-reinvention from the inauguration of President Andrew Jackson through the eras of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008