Shaw, Bernard
Contents: A patchwork self-portrait, 1898-1950.--Preface: Who I am.--Plays for puritans.--Cerebral capers.--The court experiment.--The practical impossibilities of censorship.--Shavian busts.--Tree and a potboiler.--War madness.--Joy riding at the front.--Crash of an epoch.--Burglars.--A member by baptism.--Back to Methuselah.--How to write a play.--Saint Joan.--Fabian politics.--The apple cart.--Touring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weybright and Talley 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.9 SHAShaw, Art
Summary: On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, 1.5 million men gathered aboard 1,500 Allied ships off the coast of the Japanese island of Okinawa, to launch the largest amphibious assault on the Pacific Theater. then-Major Shaw was the first American officer ashore, a unit commander in the U.S. Army's 361st Field Artillery Battalion of the 96th Infantry Division, nicknamed the Deadeyes. For the next three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAW, ART SHAShaw, Gina
Summary: Introduces readers to Nintendo, one of the most influential companies in the video game industry and creator of some of the top-selling video game franchises of all-time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Shaw, Artie
Contents: Frenesi -- Begin the beguine -- Back bay shuffle -- They say -- Traffic jam -- Comes love -- Star dust -- Thanks for everything -- Deep in a dream -- Nightmare
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Publisher / Publication Date: BMG Special Products 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SHABond, Michael Shaw
Summary: "How is it that we can walk unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction? Come up with shortcuts on the fly, in places we've never traveled? The answer is the complex mental map in our brains. This feature of our cognition is easily taken forgranted, but it's also critical to our species's evolutionary success. In From Here to There Michael Bond tells stories of the lost and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 BONShaw, Woody.
Contents: CD 1. Rosewood. Rosewood / Woody Shaw (7:12) ; Everytime I see you / Onaje Allan Gumbs (7:14) ; The legend of Cheops / Victor Lewis (6:04) ; Rahsaan's run / W. Shaw (5:11) ; Sunshowers / Clint Houston (7:49) ; Theme for Maxine / W. Shaw (7:16) -- CD 2. Stepping stones : live at the Village Vanguard. Stepping stone (9:12) ; In a Capricornian way (11:17) / W, Shaw ; Seventth Avenue / V. Lewis...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SHASummary: 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 2010Shaw, Gina
Summary: "The first international women's soccer match was in 1881, but the Women's World Cup didn't become official until 1991--110 years later! Read about the courageous, soccer-loving women who worked hard to have a World Cup of their own in this addition to the Who HQ series. Young readers will learn about the history of women's soccer, star players, and iconic wins! From Team USA's record-breaking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Sport What ShawDurant, Will
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 901.9 DUREngland, Frances.
Summary: Frances England has filled her third album with fun indie pop songs that the whole family can enjoy. An easy mix of songs from a child's perspective. The title song is about children maneuvering through parents' rules.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances England 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV ENGShaw, Artie
Contents: Krazy Kat (3:20) -- I cover the waterfront (3:18) -- Fred's delight (4:12) -- Stardust (3:45) -- Aesop's foibles (3:47) -- Orinoco (2:44) -- They can't take that away from me (2:59) -- Smooth 'n easy (3:28) -- I get a kick out of you (3:27) -- Afro-cubana (3:48) -- So easy (3:27) -- 'S wonderful (3:06) -- Innuendo (4:35) -- Similau (3:32) -- Carnival (3:12) -- Mucho de nada (3:53).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Musicmasters 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SHAWShaw, Nancy (Nancy E.)
Summary: "Get ready for whimsical, woolly adventures in this collection of eight funny stories of everyone's favorite sheep by bestselling author Nancy Shaw and illustrator Margot Apple! Ride along with this crowd of mischievous, well-meaning sheep as they take a ride in a jeep, create chaos in a shop, and much more! Each adventure can be read aloud in five minutes, making it a perfect book for story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Summary: "When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as the outcome of underlying conditions such as a faltering economy, social tensions, or the influence of Enlightenment thought. But what did Parisians...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 944.361 DARSummary: Many Americans who set out to change the West found the West changed them instead. This program explores a broad panorama of western experiences: those of Great Plains homesteaders and farmers, Chinese immigrants and Hispanic townspeople in California, Mormons in Utah, Buffalo Bill Cody, cowboys during the fall of the great ranching boom, African-American sharecroppers seeking a “promised...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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West, Kara
Summary: "Mia finds out that her regular school will be putting on a play about superheroes. As soon as the casting call goes out, Mia's sure that the main character role was made just for her. Because after all, who better to play the part than a real-life superhero? But when show day comes around and nerves are running high, will Mia be able to take the stage and be herself without revealing her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE WESSummary: A look at an eclectic array of musical talent, hand-picked by Johnny Cash himself, many for their first network appearance. Includes performances by Bob Dylan, George Jones, Neil Young, Loretta Lynn, Ray Charles, Joni Mitchell, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Entertainment, Inc. 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Through first-hand accounts, viewers relive the rush for gold and other opportunities in the West and witness the effect of westward migrations on Native Americans. This program explores the adventures of the ’49ers on the overland trails and witness the prosperity of the gold rush towns like San Francisco, as well as broken treaties with the Plains Indians and the slaughter of Native American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: Experience the rich cultural diversity of Native American tribes and the impact that early white explorers had on their lives. In this program, viewers will learn about the mysterious disappearance of the Anasazi culture and the successful Pueblo revolt against their Spanish conquerors. First-person accounts bring to life the adventures of early explorers, from Cabeza de Vaca, the first white...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Taylor, Alan
Summary: Recreates the events that inspired hundreds of slaves to pressure British admirals into becoming liberators by using their intimate knowledge of the countryside to transform the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.503 TAYAusten, Jane
Summary: "History of England..." is an (20 p.) historical satire produced by 16-year-old Jane Austen. It is a spoof on the history of the British monarchy from 1399 to 1649. What you find are brief, opinionated pieces, ranging from two sentences on Edward V who "lived so little a while that nobody had time to draw his picture" to 19 sentences on Elizabeth, of whom "It was the peculiar misfortune . . ....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942 AUSSummary: "From more than a thousand pamphlets published on both sides of the Atlantic during the period [of 1764-1776], acclaimed historian Gordon S. Wood has selected thirty-nine of the most influential and emblematic to reveal as never before how this momentous revolution unfolded. Here, in the first volume of a two-volume set, are nineteen works from the trans-Atlantic debate triggered by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 AMECopeland, Lori.
Summary: June leaves her home in Michigan to become a mail-order bride to a young Washington State pastor and finds herself faced with difficult choices that challenge her faith and her heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COPShaw, John (John Allen)
Summary: Near the end of the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II, a homeless Dust Bowl refugee named Woody Guthrie originally drafted "This Land Is Your Land" as an anthem that encompassed the tough realities of those dark times--and as a rebuttal to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America." But the song that Guthrie despised had its own complexities. Irving Berlin had risen from homelessness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 SHAWest, Hedy.
Summary: Hedy West was one of the most individual and inspiring folk musicians to grace the North American and European folk scenes. Ace UK's remastered release of her two solo albums for Vanguard is available for the first time anywhere apart from limited-edition, expensive imports or bootlegs. A major restoration to the marketplace, none of this material has ever been released commercially in Europe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard UK 2012