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Anchor Yale Bible reference library Behold humanity! a sociological perspective Evolution of society Flying Dutchman jazz classics Selected shorts : a celebration of the short story Selected shorts : a celebration of the short story 16 Selected shorts : a celebration of the short story 19Summary: Marx divided the industrial world into two antagonistic classes: the bourgeois and the proletariat. In today's society, this simple dichotomy fails to capture the many segments of a global marketplace. From the communal hunter/gatherers and agrarian cultures; to ancient empires and medieval fiefdoms; to the technocrats, executives, laborers, and others of the stratified modern world, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Scott-Heron, Gil
Contents: The revolution will not be televised (3:05) -- Save the children (4:25) -- Lady Day and John Coltrane (3:34) -- Home is where the hatred is (3:19) -- When you are who you are (3:21) -- I think I'll call it morning (3:29) -- Pieces of a man (4:52) -- A sign of the ages (4:01) -- Or down you fall (3:12) -- The needle's eye (4:48) -- The prisoner (9:25) -- Chains (3:23) -- Peace (6:07) -- A toast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SCOContents: Night the ghost got in / James Thurber ; read by Isaiah Sheffer (11:50) -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton ; read by Maria Tucci (23:12) -- Mak westing / Jack London ; read by Steven Gilborn (19:41) -- Rocking-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence ; read by John Shea (38:11) -- Lottery / Shirley Jackson ; read by Marian Seldes (21:21) -- Most dangerous game / Richard Connell ; read by Charles Keating...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELScott, James
Contents: I. John Galt and the formation of the Canada Company -- II. The opening of the tract-Galt, Dunlop and Van Egmond -- III. Galt's departure -- IV. The beginning of settlement -- V. Land lease and the Thomas Mercer Jones Regime -- VI. Rebellion: and later military history -- VII. Development of Agriculture -- VIII. The struggle for schools -- IX. A country emerges -- X. The development of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ryerson Press 1019
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 971.3 SCOScott-Heron, Gil
Contents: Paint it black (:31) -- Evolution (and flashback) (3:02) -- Free will (3:31) -- Whitey on the moon (1:45) -- The vulture (4:18) -- Small talk at 125th and Lenox (1:20) -- Billy Green is dead (1:30) -- Ain't no new thing (4:38) -- Get out of the ghetto blues (5:07) -- The King Alfred plan (2:48) -- No knock (2:11) -- Enough (4:12) -- Who'll pay reparations on my soul? (5:14) -- Home is where the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Victor 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SCOCharlesworth, James H.
Summary: The serpent of ancient times was more often associated with positive attributes like healing and eternal life than it was with negative meanings. This groundbreaking book explores in plentiful detail the symbol of the serpent from 40,000 BCE to the present, and from diverse regions in the world. In doing so it emphasizes the creativity of the biblical authors' use of symbols and argues that we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.6 CHASummary: Selected war time short stories read aloud by an assortment of distinguished actors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc 1. Yma dream / Thomas Meehan (10:46)-- Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara (20:00)-- The fix / Percival Everett (29:22)-- disc 2. The H Street sledding record / Ron Carlson (21:01)-- The third and final continent / Jhumpa Lahiri (51:50)-- disc 3. Valor / Richard Bausch (47:25)-- Enough / Alice McDermott (20:06).
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELMichener, James A. (James Albert)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 MICShort, Philip.
Contents: A family apart -- The captive -- Schisms of war -- Loose ends, new beginnings -- The staircase of power -- Requiem for empire -- Crossing the desert -- De Gaulle again -- Union of the left -- Politics is war -- The novitiate -- The sphinx -- The Florentine -- The monarch -- The survivalist -- The testament -- Acronyms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MITTERRAND, FRANCOIS SHOHankins, James
Summary: "Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society. Everywhere they saw problems. Corrupt and reckless tyrants sowing discord and ruling through fear; elites who prized wealth and status over the common good; military leaders waging endless wars. Their solution was at once simple and radical. "Men, not walls, make a city," as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 HANContents: Disc 1. Good living / Aleksandar Hemon (performed by Boyd Gaines) (13:22) -- Hell-heaven / Jhumpa Lahiri (performed by Rita Wolf) (49:29) -- Disc 2. The thing around your neck / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (performed by Condola Rashad) (25:04) -- Breaking and entering / Sherman Alexie (performed by B.D. Wong) (30:20).
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELMoss, David A.
Summary: Historian David Moss adapts the case study method made famous by Harvard Business School to revitalize our conversations about governance and democracy and show how the United States has often thrived on political conflict. These 19 cases ask us to weigh choices and consequences, wrestle with momentous decisions, and come to our own conclusions.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2017