Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANJames, Thurston
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Betterway Publications 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 731.75 JAMSummary: 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 2010James, Thurston
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Betterway Publications 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.025 JAMThorson, Robert M.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 693.1 THOSummary: 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 HISHorton, James.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.454 HORHorton, James
Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Judith Jadinger, RE (Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers) -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 : Defining a Wood Engraving -- Chapter 2 : History of Wood Engraving as It Pertains to Commercial Engraving -- Chapter 3 : The Commercial Wood Engraver -- Chapter 4 : The Tools and Specialized Processes of the Wood Engraver -- Chapter 5 : The Sander Engraving...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Craft Wood Horton 2020Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD O PURCEDiamond, Jared M.
Summary: Jared Diamond, Professor of Physiology at the UCLA School of Medicine, goes beyond weapons, war tactics, and politics to show how biological and environmental factors changed and shaped thousands of years of history.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 303.4 DIASummary: John Jasper, a choirmaster and opium addict, struggles with fits of paranoia and jealousy as he watches the women he loves fall in love with his nephew, Edwin Drood; Fanny Price, a young impoverished woman, arrives at her uncle's country estate, and is snubbed by everyone except her cousin Edmund, whom she soon grows to love; mystery surrounds a pretty Victorian governess and her two young...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLASummary: A sheriff attempts to capture an escaped convict before a bloodthirsty mob lynches him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Eminent psychiatrist Frasier Crane continues his life in Seattle in this wry and witty sitcom. Contains the entire 24 episodes from the second season.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FrasierSummary: Eminent psychiatrist Frasier Crane leaves Boston to start life afresh in Seattle. Contains the entire 24 original episodes from the first season.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FrasierSummary: Inflicted with a deadly curse, a young warrior named Ashitaka sets out to the forests of the west in search of the cure that will save his life. Once there, he becomes inextricably entangled in a bitter battle that matches Lady Eboshi and a proud clan of humans against the forest's animal gods who are led by the brave Princess Mononoke, a young woman raised by wolves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Considered by many to be the very first feminist, Wollstonecraft lived a life of scandal, loving a woman and at least three men, bearing an illegitimate child during the French Revolution, and wrting and publishing her shocking "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2000
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Summary: Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this groundbreaking book, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. Here, at last, is a world history that really is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1999
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Summary: "In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crises while adopting selective changes -- a coping mechanism more commonly associated with individuals recovering from personal crises....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.48 DIACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 DIADiamond, Jared M.
Summary: Draws on decades of field work in the Pacific islands and other world regions to illuminate the degree to which modern society reflects traditional cultures from earlier and ancient time periods.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.89 DIADiamond, Jared M.
Summary: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture of Easter Island to the formerly flourishing Native American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya, the doomed medieval Viking...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.28 DIACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 304.28 DIADiamond, Jared M.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Co. 2001