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Charles Eliot Norton lectures 2016 Charlie Saunders Collection Early American wars Gender & American culture Great works of art exposed Ironweed American classics Library of America ; 29 Library of America paperback classics Military history of the United States Ten great works of art exposedThoreau, 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 THOSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Adams, 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 ADAAdams, Henry
Contents: Contains the first two parts of History of the United States of America during the first administration of Thomas Jefferson, and History of the United States of America during the second administration of Thomas Jefferson.
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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 ADABeers, Henry Putney
Contents: The French archives and American history -- Historians of American diplomacy -- Historians of the French regime in America -- State institutions and libraries -- The Carnegie Institution of Washington -- The Library of Congress -- Canadian institutions and historians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 1957
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.37 BEESchneider, Pierre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1968
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.4 SCHRenner, Rolf Günter.
Summary: "Hopper is simply a bad painter, but if he were a better one, he would probably not be such a great artist." Clement Greenberg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.13 RENStein, Gertrude
Contents: Stanzas in meditation -- Lectures in America -- The geographical history of America -- Ida -- Brewsie and Willie -- Other works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 STESummary: It's the revenge of power on those that dare to challenge it. So begins this program on Goya's haunting painting of defiance and despair, The Third of May 1808. The video keenly conveys the circumstances of the Spanish uprising against the French, relates Goya's deafness to his darkening artistic vision, examines Goya's painting technique, analyzes The Third of May's symbolism, illustrates the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Earls of Leicester (Musical group)
Contents: Big black train -- Don't let your deal go down -- I'll go stepping too -- Shuckin' the corn -- Till the end of the world rolls 'round -- Dig a hole in the meadow -- Some old day -- I won't be hanging around -- I don't care anymore -- On my mind -- You're not a drop in the bucket -- Dim lights, thick smoke -- The wandering boy -- Who will sing for me.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY EARMorrison, Toni
Summary: America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 MORJacobs, James Ripley
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hawthorn Books 1969
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Summary: Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved and widely admired artists of the twentieth century. Anybody who has ever set foot in a museum knows him as the inventor of the mobile, America's unique contribution to modern art. But only now, forty years after the artist's death, is the full story of his life being told in this biography,which is based on unprecedented access to Calder's letters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CALDER, ALEXANDER PERJames, Henry
Summary: Three major novels from James's early middle years: Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, and The Bostonians. These studies in the exercise of power between the sexes, classes, and cultures portray American women confronting crises of independence and possession. "James beginning to realize the height of his powers." $1 (BWall Street Journal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMBenn, Carl
Summary: Examines the events leading up to the War of 1812 and the major phases of the war, and describes the views of all parties--the Indians and the Canadians as well as the United States and Great Britain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Pub. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.52 BENSummary: This award-winning program brings to light the complex and controversial history of the mental institution in the U.S. through a detailed study of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. It also debates whether deinstitutionalization has proved an overall failure, leaving more patients homeless than are mainstreamed into society, and if the time has come to reintroduce the asylum as a place...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, HENRY ADAGee, Henry
Summary: "In the tradition of E.H. Gombrich, Stephen Hawking, and Alan Weisman-an entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story. In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place-in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 GEECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Earth GeeWalling, Henry Francis
Contents: Brief outline of history.--Summary of the history of education in Michigan.--Railroads of Michigan.--Census.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bookmark 1977
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2 available in Nelson Room Oversize, Call number: NEL 912.774 ATLSchlesinger, Henry R.
Summary: The first popular history of the technology which harnessed electricity and powered the greatest scientific and technological advances of the modern era. Line drawings throughout.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.31 SCHTetrault, Lisa.
Summary: "The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women's suffrage. In her provocative new history, Lisa Tetrault demonstrates that Stanton, Anthony, and their peers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 TerGrimes, Henry
Contents: Fish story (4:30) -- For Django (11:07) -- Walk on (3:10) -- Saturday nite what th' (3:32) -- The call (7:51) -- Son of Alfalfa (3:20).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GRIAlcott, Louisa May
Contents: The rival painters -- The masked marriage -- The rival prima donnas -- The little seed -- A New Year's blessing -- The sisters' trial -- Little Genevieve -- Bertha -- Mabel's May day -- The lady and the woman -- Ruth's secret -- The cross on the church tower -- Agatha's confession -- Little sunbeam -- Marion Earle; or, Only an actress -- Mark Field's mistake -- Mark Field's success -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ironweed Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCCloud, Henry.
Contents: pt. 1. What's the problem? -- Why hasn't God brought me the love of my life? -- Gut check -- Where I am coming from -- Dating is not about marriage -- pt. 2. The program -- Keep a log -- If you say, "there are no good prospects," you don't get it -- Meet five a week -- Change your traffic pattern -- Get over the stigma : join a service -- Stick with it, and get your numbers up -- Get your team...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2005