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70's feels so right [sound recording]. by Gomez, Leroy.; Johns, Sammy.; Atlanta Rhythm Section (Musical group); Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose.; Pilot (Musical group); Rare Earth (Musical group); Santana (Musical group)(CARDINAL)345062; Starbuck (Musical group); Stories (Musical group); Sweet (Musical group);
Various performers.
Subjects: Rock music; Rock music; Popular music;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Silver linings playbook [sound recording] original motion picture soundtrack. by Cash, Johnny.(CARDINAL)138847; Dylan, Bob,1941-(CARDINAL)127845; Elfman, Danny.(CARDINAL)340688; J, Jessie.; Paul, Les.; Wonder, Stevie.(CARDINAL)340368; Alabama Shakes (Musical group); Ambrosia Parsley and the Elegant Too (Musical group).; CrabCorps (Musical group).; Dave Brubeck Quartet.; Eagles of Death Metal (Musical group)(CARDINAL)346136; Rare Earth (Musical group); Sony Classical (Firm);
Various performers.
Subjects: Motion picture music;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sensational 70s [sound recording].
Various artists.
Subjects: Popular music; Rock music; Soul music.; Rhythm and blues music.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Working for the man, playing in the band : my years with James Brown / by Wood, Damon,1969-author.(CARDINAL)679391; Carson, Phil,author.(CARDINAL)648688;
"A white rock'n'roll guitarist on stage with the Godfather of Soul. In this unvarnished account of toiling under one of popular music's most notorious bosses, Damon Wood details his six years spent playing guitar for James Brown's Soul Generals. In a memoir certain to fascinate Mr. Dynamite's millions of fans, as well as musicians and industry insiders, Wood recalls how a chance encounter with James Brown led him to embrace soul and funk music under the tutelage of its greatest progenitor. Numerous interviews with bandmates provide multiple perspectives on James Brown's complex character, his leadership of his band, the nature of soul and funk, and insights and sometimes harsh lessons learned along the way. This is a sideman's story of the gritty reality of working close to the spotlight but rarely in it. Damon Wood describes life on the road - often on James Brown's infamous tour bus - with one guitar, a change of clothes, and two dozen comrades-in-arms as they brought the funk to clubs, theaters, and the biggest music festivals on earth. Working for James Brown could be fear-inducing, inspiring, exhilarating, and exasperating - all in the space of a single performance."--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Wood, Damon, 1969-; Brown, James, 1933-2006.; Soul Generals (Musical group); Guitarists;
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And the monkey learned nothing : dispatches from a life in transit / by Lutz, Tom,author.(CARDINAL)360880;
"Tom Lutz is on a mission to visit every country on earth. And the Monkey Learned Nothing contains reports from fifty of them, most describing personal encounters in rarely visited spots, anecdotes from way off the beaten path. Traveling without an itinerary and without a goal, Lutz explores the Iranian love of poetry, the occupying Chinese army in Tibet, the amputee beggars in Cambodia, the hill tribes on Vietnam's Chinese border, the sociopathic monkeys of Bali, the dangerous fishermen and conmen of southern India, the salt flats of Uyumi in Peru, and floating hotels in French Guiana, introduces you to an Uzbeki prodigy in the market of Samarkand, an Azeri rental car clerk in Baku, guestworkers in Dubai, a military contractor in Jordan, cucuruchos in Guatemala, a Pentecostal preacher in rural El Salvador, a playboy in Nicaragua, employment agents in Singapore specializing in Tamil workers, prostitutes in Colombia and the Dominican Republic, international bankers in Belarus, a teacher in Havana, border guards in Botswana, tango dancers in Argentina, a cook in Suriname, a juvenile thief in Uruguay, voters in Guyana, doctors in Tanzania and Lesotho, scary poker players in Moscow, reed dancers in Swaziland, young camel herders in Tunisia, Romanian missionaries in Macedonia, and musical groups in Mozambique. With an eye out for both the sublime and the ridiculous, Lutz falls, regularly, into the instant intimacy of the road with random strangers"--
Subjects: Lutz, Tom; Voyages and travels.; Travelers' writings, American.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Avatar / by Cameron, James,1954-DirectorProducerAuthor(DLC)n 91061506; Worthington, Sam,1976-Actor(DLC)no2007132642; Saldana, Zoë,1978-actor(DLC)no2001040634; Ribisi, Giovanni,1974-Actor(DLC)no2002070032; Rodriguez, Michelle,Actor(DLC)no2001052247; Weaver, Sigourney,1949-Actor(DLC)n 88032867; Lang, Stephen,1952-Actor(DLC)no 98081543; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.(DLC)n 78089065 ;
Music, James Horner ; editors, Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron ; production designers, Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg ; director of photography, Mauro Fiore ; visual effects and animation by WETA Digital ; senior visual effects supervisor, Joe Letteri.Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Giovanni Ribisi, Michelle Rodriguez, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang.When his twin brother dies in an accident, paraplegic ex-Marine Jake Sully takes his place on a mission to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. Sully works with a group of scientists cloning near-duplicates of the planet's inhabitants, the Na'vi, whom specially trained scientists can control mentally to foster peace between the corporation and the natives. But when Sully finds himself lost on Pandora and trapped in a Na'vi clone body, a beautiful Na'vi woman saves his life and Sully discovers the corporation's plan to mine the mineral--at any cost.Rating: PG-13; for intense epic battle sequences and warfare, sensuality, language and some smoking.DVD, widescreen (1.78:1) format ; Dolby digital ; NTSC 1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Animated films.; Science fiction films.; Human-alien encounters; Extraterrestrial beings; Life on other planets; Seres extraterrestres; Vida en otros planetas;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Straighten up and fly right : the life and music of Nat King Cole / by Friedwald, Will,1961-author.(CARDINAL)353279;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : O falling blossoms and paper moons. Prelude : Paris, 1930 ; Origin story (1919-1937) -- Act one. The King Cole Trio. The birth of the Trio : 1937-1943 ; The rise of the Trio : 1943-1946 ; Interlude : Nat and Norman : The "Jam sessions", 1942-1946 ; Expanding the canvas : 1946-1947 ; Entr'acte : Trio to quartet to solo, 1948-1951 -- Act two. Nat King Cole. Nat and Nelson : "Mona Lisa" to Two in love, 1950-1954 ; Assault on a King : 1955-1956 ; Years of Stardust, Night lights, and Fear of the dark : 1957-1959 ; The ends of the Earth : 1960-1961 ; Requiem for a King : 1962-1964 ; Postscript : The afterlife : 1965 and beyond."One of the most popular and memorable American musicians of the 20th century, Nat King Cole (1919-65) is remembered today as both a pianist and a singer, a feat rarely accomplished in the world of popular music. Now, in this complete life and times biography, author Will Friedwald offers a new take on this fascinating musician, framing him first as a bandleader and then as a star. In Cole's early phase, Friedwald explains, his primary task of keeping his trio going was just as much of a focus for him ashis own playing and singing, always a collective or group performance. In the second act, Cole's collaborators were more likely to be arranger-conductors like Nelson Riddle and Gordon Jenkins, rather than his sidemen on bass and guitar. In the first act,his sidemen were equals, in the second phase, his collaborators were tasked exclusively with putting the focus on him, making him sound good, while being largely invisible themselves. Friedwald brings his full musical knowledge to bear in putting the manin the work, demonstrating how this duality appears over and over again in Cole's life and career: jazz vs. pop, solo vs. trio, piano vs. voice, wife number one (Nadine) vs. wife number two (Maria), the good songs vs. the less-than-good songs, the rhythmnumbers vs. the ballads, the funny songs and novelties vs. the "serious" songs of love and loss, Cole as an advocate for the Great American Songbook vs. Cole the intrepid explorer of other options: world music, rhythm & blues, country & western. Cole wasdifferent from his contemporaries in other ways; for roughly ten years after the war, the majority of hitmakers on the pop charts were veterans of the big band experience, from Sinatra on down"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965.; Singers; African American singers; African American musicians; Pianists; Jazz musicians;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Human [videorecording] / by Amar, Armand,composer (expression); Arthus-Bertrand, Yann,film director.(CARDINAL)275068; GoodPlanet,production company.(CARDINAL)801763; Humankind Production,production company.; Kino Lorber, Inc.,distributor.(CARDINAL)347545;
Original score, Armand Amar ; executive producer, Jean-Yves Robin ; artistic producer, Florent Gilard ; film editors, Franc̦oise Bernard, Anne-Marie Sangla."HUMAN is a collection of stories and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human. Through these stories full of love and happiness, as well as hatred and violence, HUMAN brings us face to face with the Other, making us reflect on our lives. From stories of everyday experiences to accounts of the most unbelievable lives, these poignant encounters share a rare sincerity and underline who we are -- our darker side, but also what is most noble in us, and what is universal. Our Earth is shown at its most sublime through never-before-seen aerial images accompanied by soaring music, resulting in an ode to the beauty of the world, providing a moment to draw breath and for introspection. HUMAN is a politically engaged work which allows us to embrace the human condition and to reflect on the meaning of our existence"--Accompanying website."The product of over 2,000 interviews recorded in 60 countries, this unique and thrilling collection of stories and images leads inexorably to the core of what it means to be human. Stories full of love and happiness, hatred and violence, from everyday experiences to accounts of the most unbelievable lives, share a rare sincerity and underline what is universal. Intercut with never-before-seen aerial images accompanied by soaring music..."--Container.DVD-R.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Educational films.; Feature films.; Filmed interviews.; Nonfiction films.; Cultural pluralism.; Group identity.; Human beings.; Human ecology.; Identity (Psychology); Social ecology.; Social structure.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Are we alone? : scientists search for life in space / by Skurzynski, Gloria.(CARDINAL)723260;
Includes bibliographica references (page 92) and index.Flying saucers -- Extraterrestrial civilizations -- Telescopes -- Nodding at midnight -- A better way to look -- The quest -- It's elemental -- One extreme to another -- On top of the world -- The life boat model -- Back to E.T.I.In the jungle of Puerto Rico, next to a giant aluminum telescope bowl, we meet astronomers Peter Backus and Jill Tarter of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) program. This research program is determined to find evidence of extraterrestrial life by searching for its radio signals. They hope to catch radio waves created by some kind of life far out in space. These scientists love their work: Arriving in the control room, Jill puts on a tape of her favorite samba music by a group called Viva Brazil. Others in the room stay seated and propel themselves on their wheeled office chairs from workstation to workstation, but Jill usually gets up and sambas across the floor. In this rare combination of engaging narrative and factual information, Gloria Skurzynski uses techniques she's developed as a fiction writer to energize her science writing. This book not only brings the reader into the world of extra-terrestrial science, but is also very much about the hopes and dreams of real people. She lends a strong personal voice to the narrative, drawing the reader deep into the world of extraterrestrial study. Humans have always been fascinated with extraterrestrial life, and the book traces that interest, including the origination of the term "flying saucer." Sloan also explains why scientists don't buy it. There's been no hard evidence, not a single artifact left behind-a lost boot, or a shred of whatever material the UFO was made of, or even a flake of alien skin. But not believing in flying saucers doesn't mean scientists don't believe in extraterrestrial life. They look for it using telescopes, space missions, and planet explorations. They study extremophiles, organisms that live in extreme environments on Earth, in the hopes that they will lead us to a better understanding of how life may exist in space. Really, what could be out there? This book visits scientists across the globe who are trying to find out, from Puerto Rico to California, from Socorro, New Mexico to Chile, Finland, Spain, and Hawaii. And, what's on tap for the future of extraterrestrial study? Researchers study hydrothermal vents deep under the sea, create super-sensitive radio telescopes, and scour the highest lake in the world. Extremely well written, filled with little-known facts, and often quite humorous, this book brings to life a subject that children are intrigued by. Our time is truly a fascinating moment in scientific exploration, and this book will help anyone get a jump on the search for E.T. Who knows? Maybe there's an alien as close as next-door-a next-door planet, that is!1170LAccelerated Reader ARAccelerated Reader/Renaissance LearningA Junior Library Guild selection.
Subjects: Life on other planets;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Avatar [videorecording] / by Cameron, James,1954-director,screenwriter,producer,film editor.(CARDINAL)364623; Landau, Jon,1960-producer.(CARDINAL)815314; Worthington, Sam,1976-actor.(CARDINAL)340668; Saldana, Zoë,1978-actor.(CARDINAL)357173; Lang, Stephen,1952-actor.(CARDINAL)343723; Rodriguez, Michelle,actor.(CARDINAL)786327; Weaver, Sigourney,1949-actor.(CARDINAL)352841; Fiore, Mauro,director of photography.(CARDINAL)815195; Rivkin, Stephen E.,editor of moving image work.(CARDINAL)848534; Refoua, John,editor of moving image work.; Horner, James,composer (expression)(CARDINAL)731423; Carter, Rick,1950-production designer.(CARDINAL)565911; Stromberg, Robert(Robert R.),production designer.; Sinclair, Kim,1954-art director.; Letteri, Joe,1957-special effects provider.(CARDINAL)591408; Rosenbaum, Stephen,special effects provider.; Baneham, Richard,special effects provider.; Jones, Andrew R.,special effects provider.; Simkin, Margery,casting director.; Wilson, Colin,producer.(CARDINAL)681831; Kalogridis, Laeta,producer.(CARDINAL)548594; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.(CARDINAL)137420; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.(CARDINAL)340075; Lightstorm Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)815094; Weta Workshop,special effects provider.(CARDINAL)481141;
Director of photography, Mauro Fiore ; editors, Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron ; music, James Horner.Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Sigourney Weaver.DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation, dual layer; Dolby Digital 5.1 (English), THX Dolby surround (English, Spanish, and French).Theatrical version: Rating: PG-13; for intense epic battle sequences and warfare, sensuality, language and some smoking.Extended version: Unrated; contains material different from the PG-13-rated version.CHV rating: 14A; for violence, not recommend for children.Academy Award winner, 2010: Best Art Direction (Production design: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg ; Set decoration: Kim Sinclair) ; Best Cinematography (Mauro Fiore) ; Best Visual Effects (Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones)Experience the spectacular world of James Cameron's Avatar as never before with this collector's ed. release. Watch all three versions of the film, than treat your senses to an unprecedented beyond the scenes look at the greatest adventure of all time! When his twin brother dies in an accident, paraplegic ex-Marine Jake Sully takes his place on a mission to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. Sully works with a group of scientists cloning near-duplicates of the planet's inhabitants, the Na'vi, whom specially trained scientists can control mentally to foster peace between the corporation and the natives. But when Sully finds himself lost on Pandora and trapped in a Na'vi clone body, a beautiful Na'vi woman saves his life and Sully discovers the corporation's plan to mine the mineral--at any cost.Disc 1. Avatar part 1 -- Disc 2. Avatar part 2 -- Disc 3. Filmmakers' journey.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Science fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Human-alien encounters; Extraterrestrial beings; Life on other planets; Pandora (Imaginary place);
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 11
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