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Empire of blue water [large print] : Captain Morgan's great pirate army, the epic battle for the Americas, and the catastrophe that ended the oulaws' bloody reign / by Talty, Stephan.(CARDINAL)670790;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-312) and index.Introduction : The lost city -- "I offer a new world" -- The tomb at the Escorial -- Morgan -- Into the past -- Sodom -- The art of cruelty -- Portobelo -- Rich and wicked -- An amateur English theatrical -- Black clouds to the east -- The isthmus -- City of fire -- Aftermath -- Apocalypse.The real story of the pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean as a privateer in the service of the English became legendary. His daring attacks on the mighty Spanish Empire on land and at sea determined the fates of kings and queens, and his victories helped shape the destiny of the New World. Morgan gathered disaffected European sailors and soldiers, hard-bitten adventurers, runaway slaves, and vicious cutthroats, and turned them into the most feared army in the Western Hemisphere. They terrorized Spanish merchant ships and devastated the cities where great riches in silver, gold, and gems lay waiting. His last raid, a daring assault on the fabled city of Panama, helped break Spain's hold on the Americas forever.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Large print books.; Morgan, Henry, 1635?-1688.; Pirates;
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 14
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Critical role : the Mighty Nein origins, Caleb Widogast / by Houser, Jody,writer.(CARDINAL)351369; Mercer, Matthew,1982-writer.(CARDINAL)604126; O'Brien, Liam,1976-writer.; Espiritu, Selina,artist.(CARDINAL)677794; Sousa, Diana,colourist.(CARDINAL)846921; Maher, Ariana,letterer.(CARDINAL)430822;
"When Bren Aldric Ermendrud was chosen to attend the Soltryce Academy, everyone knew he would have an important future in service to the Empire. But nobody--least of all Bren himself--could foresee the cruelty he would endure, the ways in which it would break and remake him. Witness the events that transformed Bren into the Mighty Nein's Caleb Widogast, and how they informed the path he'd take in the future"--
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Comics (Graphic works); Fiction.; Critical role (Television program); Adventure and adventurers; Heroes; Quests (Expeditions); Gay men;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Empire of blue water : Captain Morgan's great pirate army, the epic battle for the Americas, and the catastrophe that ended the outlaws' bloody reign / by Talty, Stephan,author.(CARDINAL)670790; Aher, Jackie,cartographer.(CARDINAL)755336;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-312) and index.The real story of the pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean as a privateer in the service of the English became legendary. His daring attacks on the mighty Spanish Empire on land and at sea determined the fates of kings and queens, and his victories helped shape the destiny of the New World. Morgan gathered disaffected European sailors and soldiers, hard-bitten adventurers, runaway slaves, and vicious cutthroats, and turned them into the most feared army in the Western Hemisphere. They terrorized Spanish merchant ships and devastated the cities where great riches in silver, gold, and gems lay waiting. His last raid, a daring assault on the fabled city of Panama, helped break Spain's hold on the Americas forever.--From publisher description.Introduction : The lost city -- "I offer a new world" -- The tomb at the Escorial -- Morgan -- Into the past -- Sodom -- The art of cruelty -- Portobelo -- Rich and wicked -- An amateur English theatrical -- Black clouds to the east -- The isthmus -- City of fire -- Aftermath -- Apocalypse.
Subjects: Biographies.; Morgan, Henry, 1635?-1688.; Pirates; Governors; Buccaneers; Pirates;
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 16
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Paper knives, paper crowns : political prints in the Dutch Republic / by Warren, Maureen,curator,author.(CARDINAL)873616; Cillessen, Wolfgang,contributor.(CARDINAL)875082; Hale, Meredith McNeill,contributor.(CARDINAL)873652; Horst, Daniel,contributor.(CARDINAL)872021; Seydl, Jon L.,1969-writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)306442; Veldman, Ilja M.,contributor.(CARDINAL)199821; Distributed Art Publishers,distributor.(CARDINAL)784868; Krannert Art Museum,organizer,publisher,host institution.(CARDINAL)133781; Smith College.Museum of Art,host institution.(CARDINAL)153854; University of San Diego.University Galleries,host institution.(CARDINAL)873693;
Includes bibliographical references."Paper Knives, Paper Crowns: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic explores the myriad and complex visual strategies early modern Netherlandish printmakers used to memorialize historical events, lionize and demonize domestic and international leaders, and form consensus for collective action. Netherlandish printmakers experimented with graphic visual language in a daring and subversive fashion. They supplemented conventions and tropes inherited from medieval and Renaissance maps, city views, book illustrations, news prints, and polemical prints and established new forms of expression. While some of their prints employ visual puns and humor that even the illiterate could enjoy, others were captioned in Latin or French as well as Dutch, enticing educated elites across Europe to explore the relationship between text and image. Through mercantile and diplomatic channels, Dutch political prints transcended national and temporal boundaries to make a lasting impact. The catalogue essays present a comprehensive chronological arc and thematic overview, addressing multiple types of printmaking as well as the medium's relationship to other art forms, including "fine art" printmaking, painting, drawing, sculpture, and architecture. As such, the book engages deeply with art historical scholarship and studies of early modern political history and theory. The publication will demonstrate that methods of using images to comment upon, manage, and understand political life in practice today are indebted to the radical innovations of early modern printmakers in the Dutch Republic"--
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Political art; Prints, Dutch;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Irish king / by Rose, Dahlia,author.;
"Ian 'King' Mordha, son of Collin Mordha, runs one of the biggest crime families in Chicago. If he obeys his father's wishes and accepts his role, he could lose something he didn't even know he wanted. One freezing cold night he saved a life and changed his own, but there's a cost. Kiya Gunn, sister of a cop, and a teacher at Chicago's Art School for Disabled Children. She sees behind the mask to who he really is, his strength far outweighs the power of his fists. The gentleness in his heart belies the cruelty associated with his name. With a turf war brewing against their rivals. Can Ian keep Liya safe or will he lose the only sunshine in his life? Or worse, will he pay the ultimate price to keep the woman he loves safe?" -- Cover.
Subjects: Gangster fiction.; Urban fiction.; Romance fiction.; Man-woman relationships; Street life.; Gangs; Women teachers; African American families; African American women; Women, Black; African American authors.; African American interest.; African Americans.; African Americans; Teachers; Irish Americans;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Rip it up and start again : postpunk 1978-1984 / by Reynolds, Simon,1963-(CARDINAL)284838;
Subjects: Rock music; Rock music; Punk rock music;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Sontag : her life and work / by Moser, Benjamin,author.(CARDINAL)663947;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 775-787) and index.Benjamin Moser's biography of Susan Sontag, is a portrait of the iconoclastic and prolific essayist, novelist, and critic and her role in the history of American intellectualism. No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture. She was there when the Cuban Revolution began, and when the Berlin Wall came down; in Vietnam under American bombardment, in wartime Israel, in besieged Sarajevo. She was in New York when artists tried to resist the tug of money-and when many gave in. No writer negotiated as many worlds; no serious writer had as many glamorous lovers. Sontag tells these stories and examines the work upon which her reputation was based. It explores the agonizing insecurity behind the formidable public face: the broken relationships, the struggles with her sexuality, that animated-and undermined-her writing. And it shows her attempts to respond to the cruelties and absurdities of a country that had lost its way, and her conviction that fidelity to high culture was an activism of its own. Utilizing hundreds of interviews, and featuring nearly one hundred images, this is a definitive portrait based on the writer's restricted archives, and on access to many people who have never before spoken about Sontag, including Annie Leibovitz.
Subjects: Biographies.; Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.; Authors, American; Women authors, American;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 17
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The Borgia chronicles / by Hollingsworth, Mary.(CARDINAL)225888;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The Borgia family of Renaissance Italy has become a byword for pride, lust, cruelty, avarice, splendour and venomous intrigue. They have inspired abomination and fascination in almost equal measure, comparable to the Corleone clan depicted in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather. Indeed, Puzo himself featured the Borgias in his last novel, The Family, and the Borgias have inspired many other works of fiction together with plays, films, and even an opera - Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia. Of Spanish origin, the Borgias came to prominence in the Italy of the 15th century, at a time when the spiritual values of the medieval Church were being swept aside by the worldly secularism of the Renaissance. They also became notorious for licentiousness, venality and indeed all forms of immorality, while at the same time their patronage of the arts helped to bring about some of the greatest artistic masterpieces of the Renaissance.
Subjects: Biographies.; Borgia family.; Nobility;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Moriarty the patriot. [manga] by Takeuchi, Ryosuke,author.(CARDINAL)814793; Miyoshi, Hikaru,artist.(CARDINAL)851545; Beck, Adrienne,translator.(CARDINAL)340183; Christman, Annaliese,letterer.(CARDINAL)607358; Based on (work):Doyle, Arthur Conan,1859-1930.Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.(CARDINAL)745646;
"The untold story of Sherlock Holmes' greatest rival, Moriarty! Before he was Sherlock's rival, Moriarty fought against the unfair class system in London by making sure corrupt nobility got their comeuppance. But even the most well-intentioned plans canspin out of control--will Moriarty's dream of a more just and equal world turn him into a hero...or a monster? In the late 19th century, Great Britain rules over a quarter of the world. Nobles sit in their fancy homes in comfort and luxury, while the working class slaves away at their jobs. When young Albert James Moriarty's upper-class family adopts two lower-class orphans, the cruelty the boys experience at his family's hands cements Albert's hatred of the nobility he was born into. He asks the older ofthe two boys--who has a genius mind and a killer instinct--to help him rid the world of evil, starting with Albert's own family!"--Publisher description.Older Teen (16+)
Subjects: Detective and mystery comics.; Historical comics.; Graphic novels.; Manga.; Moriarty, Professor (Fictitious character); Holmes, Sherlock; Nobility; Criminals; Graphic novels;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Survival of the friendliest : understanding our origins and rediscovering our common humanity / by Hare, Brian,1976-author.(CARDINAL)402200; Woods, Vanessa,1977-author.(CARDINAL)328151;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Thinking about thinking -- The power of friendliness -- Our long lost cousins -- Domesticated minds -- Forever young -- Not quite human -- Uncanny valley -- The highest freedom -- Circle of friends."For most of the approximately 200,000 years that our species has existed, we shared the planet with at least four other types of humans. They were smart, they were strong, and they were inventive. Neanderthals even had the capacity for spoken language. But, one by one, our hominid relatives went extinct. Why did we thrive? In delightfully conversational prose and based on years of his own original research, Brian Hare, professor in the department of evolutionary anthropology and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University, and his wife Vanessa Woods, a research scientist and award-winning journalist, offer a powerful, elegant new theory called "self-domestication" which suggests that we have succeeded not because we were the smartest or strongest but because we are the friendliest. This explanation flies in the face of conventional wisdom. Since Charles Darwin wrote about "evolutionary fitness," scientists have confused fitness with strength, tactical brilliance, and aggression. But what helped us innovate where other primates did not is our knack for coordinating with and listening to others. We can find common cause and identity with both neighbors and strangers if we see them as "one of us." This ability makes us geniuses at cooperation and innovation and is responsible for all the glories of culture and technology in human history. But this gift for friendliness comes at cost. If we perceive that someone is not "one of us," we are capable of unplugging them from our mental network. Where there would have been empathy and compassion, there is nothing, making us both the most tolerant and the most merciless species on the planet. To counteract the rise of tribalism in all aspects of modern life, Hare and Woods argue, we need to expand our empathy and friendliness to include people who aren't obviously like ourselves. need to expand our empathy and friendliness to include people who aren't obviously like ourselves. Brian Hare's groundbreaking research was developed in close collaboration with Richard Wrangham and Michael Tomasello, giants in the field of cognitive evolution. Survival of the Friendliest explains both our evolutionary success and our potential for cruelty in one stroke and sheds new light onto everything from genocide and structural inequality to art and innovation"--
Subjects: Evolutionary psychology.; Social evolution.; Human evolution.; Friendship.; Empathy.; Friendships.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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