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101) Chanukah
Publisher
Sisu Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 32 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A fun-filled, fact-filled journey to Israel and its rich cultural heritage. A holiday special where the kids join the Sesame gang for a Chanukah celebration. Take a trip down memory lane to beautiful Modi'in and the land of the Maccabees. Play everyone's favorite game "Dreidel of Fortune" and the grouchy gourmet cooks up delicious jellyfish doughnuts.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
247 pages : illustrations (black and white) photographs, charts ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cultural infrastructure has been designed to maintain structures of inequality, and while it doesn’t seem to be explicitly about race, it often is. Blunt Instruments helps readers identify, contextualize, and name elements of our everyday landscapes and cultural practices that are designed to seem benign or natural but which, in fact, work tirelessly to tell us vital stories about who we are, how we came to be, and who belongs. Examining landmark...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The gripping true story of the bold and determined museum curators who saved the priceless treasures of China's Forbidden City in the years leading up to World War II and beyond"--
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxxi, 355 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"McKenzie Long visits thirteen national monuments, from Golde Butte in Nevada to Katahdin Woods and Waters in Maine, and writes an eye-opening exploration of the stories these natural sites tell, the passions they stir, and the controversies surrounding them today. In essays both contemplative and resonant, This Contested Land confronts an unjust past and imagines a collaborative future that bears witness to these regions' enduring Indigenous connections"--
"One...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxii, 454 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Hitler's armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind's greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes--artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt--embarked from Naples on the tresure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of how a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts into hiding when al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines a fraught and fascinating account of one of the planet's extraordinary places, and the myths from which it has become...
Author
Publisher
Icon Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xix, 377 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley. So began the biggest evacuation of art and antiquities in history. As the Germans neared Paris in 1940, the French raced to move the masterpieces still further south, then again and again during the war, crisscrossing the southwest of France. Throughout the German occupation, the Louvre's staff fought...
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Back Bay media tie-in edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 473 pages., 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the lesser-known effort by an Allied division to find and secure European art that had been looted by the Nazis, outlining how they risked their lives and raced against time with limited supplies and scraps of information.
110) Saving Venice
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rising sea levels and sinking land threaten to destroy Venice. Leading scientists and engineers are racing against the clock and battling the forces of nature to try to save this historic city for future generations.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction-and surprising survival-of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
455 pages, 27 pages : illustrations, photograph ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A tale told in two historical periods follows da Vinci's ambitious 1492 creation of Portrait of a Lady with an Ermine and a conservator's life-risking effort to save the painting from Nazi destruction centuries later.
113) Information hunters: when librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in World War II Europe
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
10 CDs (11 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause. Galvanized by the events of war into acquiring and preserving the written word, as well as providing critical information for intelligence purposes, these American civilians set off on missions to gather...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
465, 32 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Separated by 500 years, two women--Anne Guichard, a young archivist at the Louvre, who at the dawn of WWII must keep treasures safe from the Nazis; and house servant, Bellina Sardi, who is tasked with keeping an impossible secret--each hide Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa with unintended consequences.
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