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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"One evening, while completing his medical training in Pakistan, Haider Warraich went to the hospital gym to work out. He was in the middle of a set when he heard the sound of a loud click in his back. His body went limp, the weight held above his chest came crashing down, and Haider was rushed into the hospital, now suddenly a patient where just a few hours earlier he had been a doctor. A decade later, Warraich is now an internist in Boston, and...
Series
Fabulous forties ; 5
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Gung ho!: responsible for organizing a battalion to raid the Japanese-held Makim Island, Colonel Thorwald recruits his volunteers from the less-desirable prospects such as barroom brawlers, misfits and borderline psychos. Under his training and leadership, the battalion is forged into a tough fighting unit ready for the fierce battle.
The chase: an unemployed veteran returns a wallet and gets an unexpected job as the chauffeur to a tough mobster.
Whistle...
43) Dóra Maurer
Author
Publisher
Tate Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Published to accompany a remarkable 2019 display at Tate Modern, this book will examine the full career of Hungarian artist Dora Maurer (b.1937), spanning over four decades of her experimental practice from the 1970s to the present. From her early graphic works, photographs and films, to her 'displacement' canvases and most recent large-scale paintings which explore how geometric forms are affected by colour and colour perception, this publication...
Author
Publisher
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Charles James, often considered to be America's first couturier, was renowned in the 1940s and 1950s as a master at sculpting fabric for the female form and creating fashions that defined mid-century glamour. Although James had no formal training as a dressmaker, he created strikingly original and complex designs, including intricate ball gowns worn by members of high society in New York and Europe. This lavishly illustrated book offers a comprehensive...
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Shortly after be realized his long-held dream by masterminding the first Republican takeover of the House and Senate in forty years, House Speaker Newt Gingrich committed his followers to a daring and perilous goal: by scaling back or dismantling some of the nation's most cherished social welfare programs, they would balance the budget. Eliminating the deficit, once just one facet of the Republicans' plan to change America, soon became an all-consuming...
Author
Publisher
Whitney Museum of American Art
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A revealing exploration of Edward Hopper's inspired relationship to New York City through his paintings, drawings, prints, and never-before-published archival materials This engaging book delves into the iconic relationship between Edward Hopper (1882-1967) and New York City. This comprehensive look at an essential aspect of the revered American artist's life reveals how Hopper's experience of New York's spaces, sensations, and architecture shaped...
Publisher
Newport Public Library
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Rocky: Rocky Balboa is a struggling boxer trying to make the big time. When heavyweight champion Apollo Creed visits Philadelphia, his managers set up an exhibition match. It's supposed to be easily won by Creed, but someone forgot to tell Rocky - who sees this as his only shot at the big time.
Rocky II: Rocky, having sustained massive injuries in his win against heavyweight champion, Apollo Creed, announces his retirement. But he soon realizes he...
Publisher
Westerly Library and Wilcox Park
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Star Wars Episode IV, A New Hope: Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and two robots (R2-D2 and C-3PO) work together to rescue the princess and restore justice in the Empire.
Star Wars Episode V, The Empire Strikes Back: The battle for the galaxy intensifies as Imperial Forces launch an all-out attack on the Rebel Alliance. Han Solo and...
50) James Tissot
Publisher
de Young, Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Born in Nantes, France, James Tissot trained in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts. His mature career spanned both sides of the English Channel, where he garnered commercial and critical success. Despite recognition from patrons and peers, his reputation suffered posthumously. The critic John Ruskin's perception that Tissot created "unhappy mere color photographs of vulgar society" persists, and the artist is still too often classified as a painter...
Author
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
From Twenty Books of Verse published between 1940 and 1993, John Ciardi gives us poems of love written with care and honest discernment; poems of the natural world that reveal humanity's kinship to spiders and nebulae, oceans and thickets; and poems that tellingly render the ritual dance of human life and mortality.
Ciardi declared in the Saturday Review that "(e)very good poet writes one poem more than his index shows and that is the total poem...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In a world where shamans communicate with the dead and call forth the power of legendary spirits to defeat their enemies in both body and soul, Yoh is a teenager with the ultimate ambition: to become the Shaman King, the one and only shaman who may commune with the Great Spirit and help remake the world for the better. But the road to this pinnacle of spiritual power runs through the Shaman Fight, a gauntlet of battles with rival mediums who call...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
This volume corresponds to Vol. 13-15 of the original release, featuring updated translation and lettering, back in print more than 20 years after its initial release! In a world where shamans communicate with the dead and call forth the power of legendary spirits to defeat their enemies in both body and soul, Yoh is a teenager with the ultimate ambition: to become the Shaman King, the one and only shaman who may commune with the Great Spirit and...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[1861-1904]
Language
English
Description
The collection consists of the papers of the Arnold family, chiefly letters, but also circulars, invitations and other ephemera, dating from 1861 to 1904. Letters of the Arnold family consist mainly of personal correspondence. In some cases a family member held an office and their professional correspondence is also included.
The collection is organized alphabetically by family member (recipient or author) and is arranged chronologically. Correspondence...
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Covers today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, and important documents. Includes topics such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and more.
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