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Author
Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
The Waste Land is a long poem by T. S. Eliot. It is widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central text in Modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial. It was published in book form in December 1922. Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruelest month", "I will...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
[New ed.]
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 108 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
This collection of Eliot's first three volumes of verse includes "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, " "Portrait of a Lady, " "Gerontion, " and others. T.S. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.
3) Waste land
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 100 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of "catadores" -- or self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz's initial objective was to "paint" the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with...
4) Waste land
Series
Arthouse films volume 019
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes viewers on an emotional journey to the world's largest landfill of the day, Jardim Gramacho. Here the catadores, who number in the thousands, work under the hot sun collecting recyclable materials such as bottles, plastic, and metal to be sold to wholesalers. Muniz invites the catadores to add refuse to his art, photographing the work from overhead. The finished artwork will then be on display in museums...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
When Beijing journalist Ga Yu arrives in a remote Tibetan village, he immediately finds himself embedded in a relentless manhunt across the barren waste lands of Kekexili. Acting without the Chinese government's approval, this ragtag group of impoverished vigilantes has sworn to capture of kill the poachers responsible for decimating the sacred antelope of Kekexili.
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
42 sound discs (ca. 2520 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (381 p., 22 cm.)
Language
English
Description
To truly understand the United States of America, you must explore its literary tradition. Now, in this grand collection of 84 fascinating lectures, you'll get the chance to finally become familiar with America's true literary masterpieces (some you may already be familiar with, others you have yet to discover). Professor Weinstein has crafted these lectures to explain why some works become classics while others do not, why some "immortal" works fade...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born...
Author
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
Designed for readers with no experience and applicable to most areas in the English-speaking world except the tropics and hot deserts, this book shows that any family with access to 3-5,000 sq. ft. of garden land can halve their food costs using a growing system requiring just the odd bucketful of household waste water, perhaps two hundred dollars worth of hand tools, and about the same amount spent on supplies - working an average of two hours a...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In Underland, Macfarland delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. He takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through "deep time" -- the dizzying expanses of geologic time that stretch away from the present -- he moves from the birth of the universe...
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xv, 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here--some are well known; some you may have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. The solutions...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With a great reporter's narrative skill and the storytelling ability of a novelist, acclaimed journalist Sam Quinones weaves together two tales of capitalism catastrophically run amok. The unfettered prescribing of pain medications during the 1990s reached its peak in Purdue Pharma's campaign to market OxyContin, its new, expensive--extremely addictive--miracle painkiller. Meanwhile, a massive influx of black tar heroin--cheap, potent, and originating...
12) Flanders
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 91 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
André Demester leaves his farm in northern France to become a soldier in a far off land. On his last night of freedom he witnesses Barbe, his childhood friend and secret love, sleeping with another man. A twist of fate puts the two men side by side in combat where their undeclared personal war and the one they are fighting tragically merge. Left behind, Barbe, alone and wasting away, faces misfortunes of her own, while awaiting the soldiers return....
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The battle for the Solomon Islands was a grinding and wasting six-month campaign. After multiple bloody engagements on both land and sea, Admiral Yamamoto and the Japanese high command cut their losses. By then, so many ships had been sunk that the waters nearby became known as "Ironbottom Sound."
Author
Publisher
QEB Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the icy poles to the evergreen rainforests, life has found a way to flourish in nearly every environment on Earth. This book explores the startling discoveries of new life forms in extreme environments, such as the strange worlds of the ocean depths. Whilst marvelling the world around us, it also confronts the human impact on the environment. The mounting evidence for global warming is explored and challenges us to work towards a more sustainable...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (28 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Chinggis Khan's third son and successor, Ogedai, wasted no time striving to fulfill his father's dying order: "Life is short. I could not conquer all the world. You will have to do it!" The new khan took up unfinished business against the Jin dynasty in China and sent a force to subdue lands in Eastern Europe, defeating the cream of European knighthood. Discover what stopped his onslaught.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
xiv, 331 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the cold war, an eminent social critic examines the roots of America's anticommunist frenzy. What amounted to an American civil religion for nearly half a century was at least as much a spiritual as a political phenomenon, according to Joel Kovel. It succeeded because it mobilized fears about our own social and individual identities against a demonized enemy. Organized around a series of compelling portraits of leading politicians and...
17) No Milk No Honey
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file)
Language
English
Description
For many Britons the end of the First World War brought a sigh of relief and a period of optimism. However, this optimism quickly faded as thousands of ex-servicemen and unskilled civilians swelled the queues of Britain's Labour Exchanges to form part of a growing underclass of unemployed. When films and glossy brochures appeared at labour exchanges promising a new life, a new start, and "your own dairy farm in Australia", unsuspecting Britons scrambled...
18) Warning Warning
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 23 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Warning Warning focuses on San Francisco Bay ecological conditions in 1970 and threats to the Bay caused by the dumping of municipal, farming and industrial wastes into its tributary rivers and into the bay itself. The film was made in support of the Save the Bay movement that succeeded in stopping further land fill operations. At a time in the 1960's of increasing water pollution, when the Army Corps of Engineers projected that San Francisco Bay...
19) Richard II
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1984.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (158 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. Richard II, who ascended the throne as a child, is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is the rightful ruler of England, ordained by God, yet he is a weak and...
20) Silent creed
Author
Series
Ryder Creed novels volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ryder Creed and his K9 search-and-rescue dogs return in the second installment of an exciting new series, teaming up once more with FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell in their riskiest case yet. When Ryder Creed responds to a devastating mudslide in North Carolina, he knows that the difference between finding survivors and the dead is time. He and his sturdiest search-and-rescue dog, Bolo, get to work immediately, but the scene is rife with danger: continued...
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