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Richard Meier : Museums : 1973/2006

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preface by Richard Meier ; introduction by Germano Celant ; afterword by Michael E. Shapiro ; design by Massimo VignelliPublication Details
BookRizzoli International Publications2006Links
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This beautifully photographed volume is the first to document Meier’s complete catalogue of museum and gallery projects, including the seminal High Museum in Atlanta (recently featured on a U.S. postage stamp in a series that includes the Guggenheim Museum and the Chrysler Building), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, the Getty Center, and the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
Red And Me : My Coach, My Lifelong Friend

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Bill Russell with Alan SteinbergPublication Details
Book1st edHarperCollins2009Description
Red Auerbach, one of the greatest coaches in sports history, died on October 28, 2006. Through thirteen years of building a sports dynasty together, one that remains among the greatest of all time, their relationship evolved into a rare, telling example of deep male friendship: confident, supportive, understanding, founded in common goals, even as their feelings remained largely unspoken. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) GV884.A8 R87 2009 AVAILABLE
The Tragedy Of The Vietnam War : A South Vietnamese Officer’s Analysis

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Van Nguyen DuongPublication Details
BookMcFarland & Co2008Description
The Vietnam War actually began in December 1946 with a struggle between the communists and the French for possession of the country. Written by an officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces, this poignant memoir seeks to clarify the nuances of South Vietnam’s defeat. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) DS559.5 .D853 2008 AVAILABLE
A New Deal For Native Art : Indian Arts And Federal Policy, 1933-1943

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Jennifer McLerranPublication Details
BookUniversity of Arizona Press2009Description
In A New Deal for Native Art Jennifer McLerran reveals how positioning the native artist as a pre-modern Other served the goals of New Deal programs?and how this sometimes worked at cross-purposes with promoting native self-sufficiency. In this first book to address the ways in which New Deal Indian policy specifically advanced commodification and colonization, McLerran reviews its multi-pronged effort to improve the market for Indian art through the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, arts and crafts cooperatives, murals, museum exhibits, and Civilian Conservation Corps projects. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E98.A73 M37 2009 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
Red Land, Red Power : Grounding Knowledge In The American Indian Novel

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Sean Kicummah TeutonPublication Details
BookDuke University Press2008Description
In lucid narrative prose, Sean Kicummah Teuton studies the stirring literature of ?Red Power,? For this tribal realist position, Teuton enlarges the concepts of Indigenous identity and tribal experience as intertwined sources of insight into a shared world. While engaging a wide spectrum of Native American writing, Teuton focuses on three of the most canonized and, he contends, most misread novels of the era?N. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS153.I52 T48 2008 AVAILABLE
Of Spies And Spokesmen : My Life As A Cold War Correspondent

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Nicholas DaniloffPublication Details
BookUniversity of Missouri Press2008Description
In this riveting memoir, Daniloff describes the reality of journalism behind the Iron Curtain: how Western reporters banded together to thwart Soviet propagandists, how their official sources were almost always controlled by the KGB–and how those sources would sometimes try to turn newsmen into collaborators. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN4874.D353 A3 2008 AVAILABLE
Reading Mark Strand : His Collected Works, Career, And The Poetics Of The Privative

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James F. NicosiaPublication Details
Book1st edPalgrave Macmillan2007Links
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Reading Mark Strand is a thorough reading and critical assessment of the key developments in the career of one of America’s most important living poets. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3569.T69 Z79 2007 AVAILABLE
Sheila Hicks Weaving As Metaphor

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Arthur C. Danto, Joan Simon ; Nina Stritzler-Levine, editorPublication Details
BookPublished for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York by Yale University Press2006Links
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This intriguing book examines the small woven and wrought works artist Sheila Hicks has produced for the past fifty years. From initial experiments based on pre-Columbian weaving structures to a 2005 sculptural project using ninety colors of synthetic filaments, these small works offer a unique opportunity to access and examine the artist’s conceptual and technical forays. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NK3012.A3 H52 2006 AVAILABLE
Jane Goodall : The Woman Who Redefined Man

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Dale PetersonPublication Details
BookHoughton Mifflin Co2006Links
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When Louis Leakey first heard about Jane Goodall’s discovery that chimps fashion and use tools, he sent her a telegram: “Now we must redefine tool, redefine man, or accept chimpanzees as human.” Peterson details not only how Jane Goodall revolutionized the study of primates, our closest relatives, but how she helped set radically new standards and a new intellectual style in the study of animal behavior. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) QL31.G58 P47 2006 AVAILABLE
Black Hawk Down : A Story Of Modern War

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Mark BowdenPublication Details
BookPenguin Books2000Description
The acclaimed New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down is “a shocking account of modern warfare . and Young.”– Bob Shacochis, The New York Observer “If Black Hawk Down were fiction we’d rank it up there with the best war novels: The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer, or The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien.”– Tom Walker, The Denver Post “Stands in a league with Shelby Foote’s stirring Civil War Diary, Shiloh.”– Jim Haner, The Baltimore Sun “One of the most gripping and authoritative accounts of combat ever written.”– Kirk Spitzer, USA Today “Amazing . (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) DT407.4 .B69 2000 AVAILABLE
Feelings Are Facts : A Life

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Yvonne RainerPublication Details
BookMIT Press2006Description
Rainer studied with Martha Graham (and heard Graham declare, “when you accept yourself as a woman, you will have turn-out”–that is, achieve proper ballet position) and Merce Cunningham in the late 1950s and early 1960s, cofounded the Judson Dance Theater in 1962 (dancing with Trisha Brown, Steve Paxton, David Gordon, and Lucinda Childs), hobnobbed with New York artists including Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Morris (her lover and partner for several years), and Yoko Ono, and became involved with feminist and anti-war causes in the 1970s and 1980s. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GV1785.R25 A3 2006 AVAILABLE
The West Side Of Any Mountain : Place, Space, And Ecopoetry
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