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April 1, 2010 - June 30, 2010



Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Rain forest destruction
By: McLeish, Ewan, 1950-
Call No:  CRC  QH541.5.R27 M43 2007
Subject: Includes bibliographical references (p. 47) and index Paradise lost -- Rain forests in retreat -- Timber! -- Valuable resource -- Climate shifts -- Dwindling race? -- Turning the tide -- Value-added rain forests -- Glossary -- Further information -- What would you do? -- Index
Rain forest ecology -- Juvenile literature Rain forest conservation -- Juvenile literature Rain forests -- Juvenile literature Deforestation -- Tropics -- Juvenile literature 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Rainbow Six [sound recording]
By: Clancy, Tom, 1947-
Call No:   PS3553.L245 R35 1998 CD
Subject: Abridged Read by David Dukes John Clark, a master of secret operational missions, has been named head of an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism. Clark tries to figure out where a recent string of terrorist attacks is heading but there is no way to predict the reak threat. A threat that could mean the end of life on earth as we know it
Terrorists -- Fiction Terrorism -- Prevention -- Fiction Audiobooks 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More The rainforest grew all around
By: Mitchell, Susan K
Call No:  CRC  QH86 .M58 2007
Subject: The jungle comes alive as children learn about a wide variety of animals and plants living in the Amazon rainforest, in this adaptation of the song The green grass grew all around. Includes For Creative Minds section with animal and plant adaptation facts and a recipe
Rain forests -- Juvenile literature 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Random notes on natural history
By: A catalogue of the shell-bearing mollusca of Rhode Island / by Horace F. Carpenter
Call No:  Special Collections  QH1 .R36
Subject: Natural history -- Periodicals 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest : myth, history and Holocaust
By: Levine, Paul A. (Paul Ansel)
Call No:  Main Collection  D804.66.W35 L38 2010
Subject: Wallenberg, Raoul, 1912-1947 Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Biography Diplomats -- Sweden -- Biography Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Hungary -- Budapest World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Hungary -- Budapest Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Rape and sexual power in early America
By: Block, Sharon, 1968-
Call No:   HV6561 .B56 2006
Subject: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia. Includes bibliographical references and index
Rape -- United States -- History Sex crimes -- United States -- History United States -- History -- 18th century United States -- History -- 19th century 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Rapid assessment of the acutely ill patient
By: Adam, Sheila K
Call No:  Main Collection  RT48 .A33 2010
Subject: Nursing assessment Intensive care nursing Emergencies -- nursing Acute Disease -- nursing Nursing Assessment Nursing Care -- methods 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More The Razor's edge [videorecording]
By: Byrum, John, 1947- Murray, Bill, 1950 Sept. 21- Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965 Hicks, Catherine, 1951- Elliott, Denholm Keach, James Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)
Call No:  Videos  PN1997.R3824 2002 DVD
Subject: World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- Drama Upper class -- Drama Film remakes Feature films 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Reaching standards and beyond in kindergarten : nurturing children's sense of wonder and joy in learning
By: Jacobs, Gera
Call No:  CRC  LB1139.35.A37 J365 2010
Subject: Early childhood education -- Activity programs Creative activities and seat work Play 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Reactions to the market : small farmers in the economic reshaping of Nicaragua, Cuba, Russia, and China
By: Enriquez, Laura J
Call No:  Main Collection  HD1333.F57 E57 2010
Subject: Farms, Small -- Former communist countries Land reform -- Former communist countries Former communist countries -- Economic policy 


The reader's encyclopedia
By: Benet, William Rose, 1886-1950
Call No:   PN41 .B4 1965b
Subject: v. 1. A-L -- v. 2. M-Z
Literature -- Dictionaries Art -- Dictionaries Music -- Dictionaries 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More The real story of Ah-Q and other tales of China : the complete fiction of Lu Xun
By: Lu, Xun, 1881-1936
Call No:  Main Collection  PL2754.S5 .A15 2009
Subject: New translation --Cover Includes bibliographical references Translated from the Chinese
Lu, Xun, 1881-1936 -- Translations into English China -- Social life and customs -- Fiction 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Rebel daughters : women and the French Revolution
By: Melzer, Sara E Rabine, Leslie W., 1944-
Call No:   DC158.8 .R44 1992
Subject: Papers from the conference on Women and the French Revolution that took place in Oct. 1989 at UCLA Includes bibliographical references and index Representing the body politic : the paradox of gender in the graphic politics of the French Revolution / Joan B. Landes -- Love and patriotism : gender and politics in the life and work of Louvet de Couvrai / Kathryn Norberg -- Incorruptible milk : breast-feeding and the French Revolution / Mary L. Jacobus -- Women and militant citizenship in Revolutionary Paris / Darline Gay Levy and Harriet B. Applewhite -- A woman who has only paradoxes to offer : Olympe de Gouges claims rights for women / Joan Wallach Scott -- Outspoken women and the rightful daughter of the Revolution : Madame de Stael's Considerations sur la Revolution Francaise / Linda Orr -- Triste Amerique : Atala and the postrevolutionary construction of woman / Naomi Schor -- Being Rene, buying Atala : alienated subjects and decorative objects in postrevolutionary France / Margaret Waller Exotic femininity and the rights of man : Paul et Virginie and Atala, or the revolution in stasis / Marie-Claire Vallois -- The engulfed beloved : representations of dead and dying women in the art and literature of the revolutionary era / Madelyn Gutwirth -- Equality and difference in historical perspective : a comparative examination of the feminisms of French Revolutionaries and utopian socialists / Claire Goldberg Moses -- English women writers and the French Revolution / Anne K. Mellor -- Flora Tristan : rebel daughter of the Revolution / Dominique Desanti
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Women France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Literature and the revolution Women revolutionaries -- France -- History -- 18th century Women in public life -- France -- History -- 18th century 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Recipe for America : why our food system is broken and what we can do to fix it
By: Richardson, Jill, 1980-
Call No:   HD9005 .R525 2009
Subject: Includes bibliographical references From eater to activist -- The not-so-green revolution -- Sustainable agriculture -- Yes, I've heard the one about 'whole paycheck' -- Living la vida locavore -- Barriers to building a sustainable food system -- Labeling -- Food safety -- Protecting children -- Human and animal rights -- The Farm Bill
Food supply -- United States Sustainable agriculture -- United States 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Reckoning : the ends of war in Guatemala
By: Nelson, Diane M., 1963-
Call No:   F1466.7 .N45 2009
Subject: Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-386) and index Under the sign of the Virgen de Transito -- Intertext 1. Those who are transformed -- The postwar milieu : means, ends, and identi-ties -- Intertext 2. Co-memoration and co-laboration : screening and screaming -- Horror's special effects -- Intertext 3. Confidence games -- Indian giver or nobel savage? : Rigoberta Menchu Tum's stoll/en past -- Intertext 4. Welcome to bamboozled! : a modern-day minstrel show -- Anthropologist discovers legendary two-faced Indian -- Intertext 5. Look out! Step right up! : paranoia and other entertainmeants -- Hidden powers, duplicitous state/s -- Intertext 6. Counterscience in colonial laboratories -- Life during wartime -- Intertext 7. How do you get someone to give you her purse? -- Accounting for the postwar, balancing the book/s -- The ends
Guatemala -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1996 -- Peace Guatemala -- History -- 1985- Guatemala -- Politics and government -- 1985- 


Record of the service of the Forty-fourth Massachusetts volunteer militia in North Carolina, August 1862 to May 1863
By: Gardner, James Brown, b. 1842 United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 44th (1862-1863)
Call No:  Special Collections  E513.5 44th .R4 1887
Subject: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 44th (1862-1863) 


Recueil de quatre-vingts patiences
By: Durkheim, Carl Jakob
Call No:  Special Collections  GV1261 .D87 1857
Subject: Solitaire (Game) 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Recycle this book : 100 top children's book authors tell you how to go green
By: Gutman, Dan
Call No:  CRC Reference  TD171.7 .R43 2009
Subject: What do I do to help save the environment? / by Seymour Simon -- The ugly truth about spit / by Gennifer Choldenko -- A few small steps / by Rich Wallace -- Confessions of a catalogaholic / by Libba Bray -- Hanging out / by Lois Lowry -- One-yard penalty for clipping / by David Lubar -- Drinking dog water / by Peg Kehret -- Cold pizza for breakfast / by Jane Yolen -- Be a superhero / by Eoin Colfer -- Paperback writer / by Joseph Bruchac -- Turn it off! / by Eric A. Kimmel -- Since we can't stop moose from belching / by Todd Strasser -- Celebrate Arbor Day! / by Katy Kelly -- The hoax / by Gary Schmidt -- There is no meat in chocolate cake / by Maryrose Wood Green and gracious / by Kirby Larson -- The joy of worm composting / by Ralph Fletcher -- I'm green / by David A. Adler -- Plunger-man / by Gordon Korman -- I zapped my tv set! / by Bruce Coville -- Living in the city / by Elizabeth Levy -- Be passive! / by Gail Gibbons -- Wrong century / by Debbie Dadey -- My house has vampires! / by Megan McDonald -- Green ... and greener / by Cynthia DeFelice -- Your pick / by Gail Carson Levine -- The garbologist / by Matt Tavares -- Zeus says: zap this! / by Rick Riordan -- Walk, chill, and make a pile / by Meg Rosoff -- A bright idea / by April Halprin Wayland -- Small choices, big results / by Andrew Clements -- It's a wrap! / by Lurlene McDaniel -- SixIiches in the bathtub and hold the shampoo / by Eve Bunting -- Washing dogs and dishes / by Peter Catalanotto -- All wet / by Bruce Hale -- Get the dirt out! / by Lisa Desimini -- From reverence to recycling / by Pamela Jane -- Birthday greed / by Kathleen Krull -- Free your inner artist (start with spaghetti) / by James Howe -- Alternative power rocks / by Shannon Hale -- Be a sun scout! / by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor -- Talking trash / by Dana Reinhardt Have stage, will recycle / by Diane Roberts -- The swap shop / by Coleen Paratore -- Go green at school / by Kenneth Oppel -- A vote for the environment / by Jennifer Armstrong -- Become a scientist! / by Vicki Cobb -- Try to teach others / by Laurence Pringle -- We're history / by Michael Dooling -- The green classroom / by Mabel and Jack Gantos -- Paper saver / by Sarah Mlynowski -- Giant robots-they're alive! / by Jim Paillot -- Saving gas / by Lois Duncan -- Swap, share, save / by Kay Winters -- The safe way to carry on / by Norma Fox Mazer -- In praise of feet / by Ann Brashares -- Be a green detective / by Kathleen V. Kudlinski -- And the award goes to / by Bonnie Bryant -- Proud to be a NIMBY / by Iain Lawrence -- Where the animals and birds still live / by Gloria Whelan -- Stamp out witch's drawers / by Jon Scieszka -- Sharing our wealth / by Johanna Hurwitz -- Blowin' in the wind / by Margie Palatini Passing it on(line) / by Margo Rabb -- Save the toys! / by Suzy Kline -- What's in the bag? / by Linda Sue Park -- Peanuts, anyone? / by Sonia Levitin -- Eat a real tomato, save the plants / by Will Hobbs -- Plants: a matter of life and breath / by Pat Brisson -- Earth angels / by Tanya Lee Stone -- Found objects / by Susan Patron -- Greenkid / by Rosemary Wells -- You don't need a pedigree to purr / by Susan Beth Pfeffer -- Be a voice for a river / by Nancy F. Castaldo -- Legs / by Roland Smith -- Secret karma / by Matt de la Pena -- Captain Mean-Green's ten rules to save the planet / by Robert Lipsyte -- Kidpower / by Susan Cooper -- Earth rules! (and some simple rules for life on earth!) / by Rafe Martin -- A house with a round door / by Jeanne DuPrau -- Beach blues / by Marcie Aboff -- Buying new stuff / by Jerry Spinelli -- Sharky / by Graham Salisbury -- When in doubt, don't / by Daniel Pinkwater -- Nooses, muzzles and jellyfish / by Sara Pennypacker -- Turning worry into action / by Karen Cushman -- When the rain refuses to fall / by Mem Fox -- Keep plastic to yourself / by Steve Swinburne -- Slaying dragons with votes / by Elvira Woodruff -- Our small corner of the planet / by Laurie Halse Anderson -- Recycling our thinking / by Ferida Wolff -- A view from the top of the world / by Shelley Gill -- Shout / by Bruce Balan -- A jungle village : then, now, and future / by William Sleator -- A beach is made of many small pieces of sand / by Mike Shoulders -- You, me, us / by Kathleen Duey -- The temperature is rising / by Jack Prelutsky -- Enough / by Floyd Cooper -- Use less stuff! / by Tony Abbott -- Choose well / by Donna Jo Napoli -- Bit by bit by bit / by DyAnne DiSalvo -- Poop power / by Barbara Seuling -- Eating locally and seasonally / by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver -- My savings save the world / by Caroline Cooney -- The world-our home / by Ben Mikaelsen With essays from renowned children's book authors such as Ann Brashares, Jeanne DuPrau, Caroline B. Cooney, Laurie Halse Anderson, Bruce Coville, Gennifer Choldenko, and over 100 others, each piece is an informative and inspiring call to kids of all ages to understand what's happening to the environment, and to take action in saving our world. Features helpful tips and facts interspersed throughout the book
Environmental protection -- Citizen participation -- Juvenile literature Sustainable living -- Juvenile literature 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Rediscovering abundance : interdisciplinary essays on wealth, income, and their distribution in the Catholic social tradition
By: Alford, Helen J., 1964-
Call No:  Main Collection  BR115.W4 R43 2006
Subject: Includes bibliographical references and index Wealth creation -- Wealth as abundance and scarcity : perspectives from Catholic social thought and economic theory / Charles M.A. Clark -- Wealth creation within the Catholic social tradition / Robert G. Kennedy -- A Pauline catechesis of abundance / John C. Haughey -- Entrepreneurship in papal thought : creation of wealth and the distribution of justice / Francis T. Hannafey -- Wealth creation in the global economy : human labor and development / Simona Beretta -- Wealth distribution -- Wealth and poverty : the preferential option for the poor in an age of affluence / Charles M.A. Clark -- Inequality in income and wealth : when does it become immoral, and why? / Dennis P. McCann -- Wealth distribution in economic discourse : Catholic social thought and the individualistic paradigm / Stefano Zamagni -- Equitable global wealth distribution : a global public good and a building block for the global common good / Helen Alford -- The role of indirect employers in wage distribution : economic data and Laborem exercens / Carlo Dell'Aringa and Claudio Lucifora -- Two business applications -- Implementing just wages and ownership : a dialogue / Michael J. Naughton and Robert L. Wahlstedt -- The problem of wealth distribution in the global apparel industry : locating responsibilities in the supply chain / Lee A. Tavis
Wealth -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church Income distribution Economic development -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Rehabilitation counseling : an empowerment perspective
By: Sales, Amos
Call No:  Main Collection  HV1553 .S24 2007
Subject: People with disabilities -- Rehabilitation -- United States Rehabilitation counseling -- United States 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Rehabilitation counseling : basics and beyond
By: Parker, Randall M., 1940- Szymanski, Edna Patterson, Jeanne Boland
Call No:   HV1553 .R445 2005
Subject: Includes bibliographical references and indexes Rehabilitation counseling: the profession / Jeanne Boland Patterson, Edna Mora Szymanski, and Randall M. Parker -- Philosophical, historical, and legislative aspects of the rehabilitation counseling profession / Jeanne Boland Patterson ... [et al.] -- Professional practice in rehabilitation service delivery systems and related system resources / Ellen S. Fabian and Kim L. MacDonald-Wilson -- Ethics and ethical decision making in rehabilitation counseling / Jeanne Boland Patterson and Terry L. Blackwell -- Rehabilitation counseling theories / Randall M. Parker ... [et al.] -- Rehabilitation counseling practice: considerations and interventions / Jeanne Boland Patterson, Denise DeLaGarza, and James Schaller -- Psychosocial impact of disability / Hanoch Livneh and Daniel Cook -- An ecological approach to vocational behavior and career development of people with disabilities / Edna Mona Szymanski and David B. Hershenson -- People with disabilities in the workplace / Dennis Gilbride and David Hagner -- Psychological assessment in rehabilitation / Randall M. Parker and Brian Bolton -- Research in rehabilitation counseling / Randall M. Parker and Brian Bolton -- Technology in rehabilitation counseling / Martin G. Brodwin ... [et al.] -- Beyond the basics: sociopolitical context of rehabilitation counseling practice / Edna Moon Szymanski, Randall M. Parker, and Jeanne Boland Patterson
People with disabilities -- Rehabilitation -- United States Rehabilitation counseling Counseling Disabled Persons -- rehabilitation 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More The rehearsal
By: Catton, Eleanor, 1985-
Call No:   PR9639.4.C39 R45 2009
Subject: First published in Great Britain by Granta Publications, 2009 --T.p. verso
High school students -- Fiction Teenage girls -- Fiction Music teachers -- Fiction Sex scandals -- Fiction Theater -- Fiction Teacher-student relationships -- Fiction Adolescence -- Fiction 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More The reign of Charles V
By: Maltby, William S., 1940-
Call No:  Main Collection  DD180.5 .M25 2002
Subject: Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-141) and index
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558 Holy Roman Empire -- History -- Charles V, 1519-1556 Holy Roman Empire -- Kings and rulers -- Biography 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Reiki : a comprehensive guide
By: Miles, Pamela, 1951-
Call No:  Main Collection  RZ403.R45 M525 2008
Subject: Reiki (Healing system) Alternative medicine Integrative medicine Therapeutic Touch Complementary Therapies 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Reinventing the sacred : a new view of science, reason and religion
By: Kauffman, Stuart A
Call No:  Main Collection  Q175.32.C65 K38 2008
Subject: Complexity (Philosophy) Religion and science Reductionism Life sciences -- Philosophy 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More The relentless revolution : a history of capitalism
By: Appleby, Joyce Oldham
Call No:   HB501 .A648 2010
Subject: Includes bibliographical references and index The puzzle of capitalism -- Trading in new directions -- Crucial developments in the countryside -- Commentary on markets and human nature -- The two faces of eighteenth-century capitalism -- The ascent of Germany and the United States -- The industrial leviathans and their opponents -- Rulers as capitalists -- War and depression -- A new level of prosperity -- Capitalism in new settings -- Into the twenty-first century -- Of crises and critics
Capitalism -- History Economic history 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Religion and American foreign policy, 1945-1960 : the soul of containment
By: Inboden, William, 1972-
Call No:  Main Collection  E813 .I54 2008
Subject: United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953 United States -- Foreign relations -- 1953-1961 Cold War Christianity and politics -- United States -- Protestant churches -- History -- 20th century Religion and politics -- United States -- History -- 2 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Religion and magic in ancient Egypt
By: David, A. Rosalie (Ann Rosalie)
Call No:  Main Collection  BL2441.3 .D38 2002
Subject: Includes bibliographical reference (p. 434-453) and index
Egypt -- Religion Magic, Egyptian 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Remade in Hollywood : the global Chinese presence in transnational cinemas
By: Chan, Kenneth
Call No:   PN1993.5.C4 C38 2009
Subject: Filmography: p. [219]-227 Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-244) and index Introduction : remaking Chinese cinemas, Hollywood style -- Visualizing Hong Kong : diasporic cinematic gaze on the 1997 handover -- Facing the red dragon : Hollywood's 1997 response to the Hong Kong handover -- The global return of the Wuxia pian (Chinese sword-fighting movie) -- Enter the triads : American cinema's new racialized criminal other -- Hollywood's Sino-chic : Kung fu parody, mimicry, and play in cross-cultural citationality -- Chinese supernaturalism : mythic ethnography and the mystical other -- Coda : global cinematic technologies of ethnic (un)representation
Motion pictures, Chinese Hong Kong (China) -- In motion pictures China -- In motion pictures 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Rembrandt drawings
By: Slive, Seymour, 1920-
Call No:   NC263.R4 S55 2009
Subject: Includes bibliographical references and indexes Biography of Rembrandt -- Self-portraits -- Family portraits -- Portraits -- Model and study sheets -- Figure drawings -- Life of women -- Life of women and children -- Genre scenes -- Nudes -- Animals -- Landscapes -- Buildings and ruins -- Copies of works of art -- Mythological and historical subjects -- Religious subjects -- Varia
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669 -- Criticism and interpretation 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More The reproductive system at a glance
By: Heffner, Linda J
Call No:  Main Collection  QP251 .H39 2010
Subject: Human reproduction Reproductive health Generative organs -- Diseases Reproduction -- physiology Genital Diseases, Female Genital Diseases, Male Pregnancy Complications Sexually Transmitted Diseases 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Resorts [videorecording] : paradise reclaimed
By: Grigor, Murray Stern, Robert A. M
Call No:  Videos  NA6800. R47 2005 DVD
Subject: Resorts -- United States Educational films 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Restoring faith in reason : with a new translation of the Encyclical letter, Faith and reason of Pope John Paul II : together with a commentary and discussion
By: Hemming, Laurence Paul Parsons, Susan Frank
Call No:  Main Collection  BT50 .F5313 2003
Subject: Faith and reason -- Christianity Catholic Church -- Doctrines Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Restoring the balance : First Nations women, community, and culture
By: Valaskakis, Gail Guthrie Stout, Madeleine Dion Guimond, Eric
Call No:   E98.W8 R47 2009
Subject: Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-379) Introduction / Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, Madeleine Dion Stout, and, Eric Guimond -- Trauma to resilience: notes on decolonization / Cynthia C. Wesley-Esquimaux -- Contributions that count: first nations women and demography / Cleo Big Eagle and Eric Guimond -- First nations women's contributions to culture and community through Canadian law / Yvonne Boyer -- Leading by action: female chiefs and the political landscape / Kim Anderson -- Creating an indigenous intellectual movement at Canadian universities: the stories of five first nations female academics / Jo-Ann Archibald -- Reflections on cultural continuity though aboriginal women's writings / Emma LaRocque -- Sisters in spirit / Anita Olsen Harper -- Heart of the nations: women's contribution to community healing / Marlene Brant Castellano -- A relational approach to cultural competence / Gaye Hanson -- A culture of art: profiles of contemporary first nations women artists / Viviane Gray -- Looking for stories and unbroken threads: museum artifacts as women's history and cultural legacy / Sherry Farell Racette -- The role of first nations women in language continuity and transition / Mary Jane Norris Restoring the Balance combines elements of First Nations traditions and mainstream feminism to produce an outstanding collection of historical and critical accounts of the impacts Aboriginal women have had in the areas of law, politics, education, community healing, language, art, and cultural retention. Fifteen scholars, activists and community leaders illuminate long-standing gender imbalances within the oral and written historical records that have limited the self-actualization of First Nations women, and offer insight into the tangible work that Aboriginal women perform in community and cultural development. --BOOK JACKET
Indian women -- Canada -- Social conditions Indian women -- Canada -- History Women in community development -- Canada Indian women -- Canada -- Biography Resilience (Personality trait) 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Rhapsodies in black [sound recording] : music and words from the Harlem Renaissance
Call No:   M1366 .R47 2000 CD
Subject: Jazz and blues Compilation produced by Shawn Amos --Container Musical works originally issued on 78 rpm discs Compact discs in container (26 cm.) Program notes by Shawn Amos, Patrick Kraus, Gerald Early, Richard Powell, Allen Lowe, and Paul Oliver, words of the readings, and bibliography (98 p. : ill. ) included Struttin' & stridin'. The Negro speaks of rivers (0:45) Cotton Club stomp (2:18) The Harlem strut (2:33) Brother Low Down (2:51) Letter from Aaron Douglas to Langston Hughes (0:52) There'll be some changes made (3:21) Sounds of Africa (3:11) Sweet man o' mine (3:15) The weary blues (1:27) Blues ain't nothin else but! (3:10) Kansas City man blues (2:55) Indianola (2:39) Hard hearted Hannah (2:59) Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem (0:51) St. Louis blues (3:13) Copenhagen (2:51) Cake walking babies from home (2:59) Long gone (0:58) Railroad blues -- Testifyin' & philosophyin' (2:58). Smoke, lillies and jade! (1:54) (Lookie lookie lookie) Here comes Cookie (2:51) Charleston (2:41) Chili pepper (2:47) Lucy Long (2:51) Chain gang blues (3:06) Mother to son (0:37) Deep river (2:21) East St. Louis toodle-o (3:40) Lazy drag (2:59) How it feels to be colored me (2:59) Sengalese stomp (2:58) After you've gone (3:04) Dead drunk blues (3:10) No images (0:18) Woke up with the blues in my fingers (3:10) Worried blues (2:44) Humpty Dumpty (3:02) Ham and eggs (3:01) Sugar -- Preachin' & prayin' (3:19). If we must die (0:50) Honey, I'm all out and down (3:13) My handy man (3:02) Ain't misbehavin' (3:21) A handfull of riffs (3:06) Bright boy blues (3:08) The debt (0:28) Harlem fuss (3:21) Nobody knows you when you're down and out (2:57) Fare thee honey blues (3:21) Soon (0:30) Smashing thirds (3:07) Do shuffle (2:54) Wherever there's a will, baby (2:58) Dee blues (2:56) Odyssey of Big Boy (2:42) Minnie the moocher (The hi de ho song) (3:09) Panama (3:18) Royal garden blues (3:02) America (0:52) Jesus gonna make up my dying bed -- Lustin' for love & life (3:02). I want to die while you love me (0:49) Stormy weather (Keeps rainin' all the time) (3:10) Corrine Corrina (3:03) Sweetie dear (2:50) The damnation of women (2:26) Baby (3:09) Happy as the day is long (2:24) I got rhythm (2:44) Let's get together (3:04) Their eyes were watching God (1:45) Oh, Lady be good (3:24) S Compilation produced by Shawn Amos Various performers Recorded 1918-1935 (music) and 1999-2000 (readings)
Jazz -- 1921-1930 Jazz -- 1931-1940 Blues (Music) -- To 1931 Blues (Music) -- 1931-1940 African Americans -- Music American literature -- African American authors Harlem Renaissance 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Rhode Island
By: Doherty, Craig A
Call No:  CRC  F82 .D64 2005
Subject: Rhode Island -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Juvenile literature Rhode Island -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Juvenile literature 


Rhode Island salt ponds fisheries inventory
By: Stolgitis, John A
Call No:  Special Collections  SH328 .S76 1976
Subject: Fisheries -- Rhode Island 


Rhode Island student loan authority : Financial statements, schedules and supplementary information years ended . . . and independent auditor's report
By: Rhode Island. Student Loan Authority
Call No:   J87.R4893 S23
Subject: Auditors' reports -- Rhode Island 


Rhode Island year book
Call No:  Special Collections  F76 .R55


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Ride with the devil [videorecording]
By: Lee, Ang, 1954- Hope, Ted Colesberry, Robert F Schamus, James, 1959- Maguire, Tobey, 1975- Ulrich, Skeet Jewel, 1974- Wright, Jeffrey Baker, Simon, 1969- Rhys-Meyers, Jonathan, 1977- Caviezel, Jim, 1968- Elmes, Frederick
Call No:  Videos  PN1997.R5 2010 DVD
Subject: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Drama War films Historical films Fiction films Film adaptations Feature films Video recordings for the hearing impaired 


Rim Drive cultural landscape report : Crater Lake National Park, Oregon
By: Mark, Stephen R
Call No:  Main Collection  F882.C8 M37 2009
Subject: Shipping list no.: 2010-0125-P Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-237) and index
Crater Lake National Park Co. (Crater Lake, Or.) -- History Cultural landscape report Cultural landscapes -- Oregon -- Crater Lake National Park Roads -- Oregon -- Crater Lake National Park -- Design and construction -- History Rim Drive (Or.) Crater Lake National Park (Or.) Rim Drive (Crater Lake National Park, Or.) -- History 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Rising plague : the global threat from deadly bacteria and our dwindling arsenal to fight them
By: Spellberg, Brad
Call No:  Main Collection  QR177 .S64 2009
Subject: Drug resistance in microorganisms 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Rising road : a true tale of love, race, and religion in America
By: Davies, Sharon L., 1960-
Call No:  Main Collection  HQ1031 .D37 2010
Subject: Interracial marriage -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century Anti-Catholicism -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century Murder -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Risorgimento : the history of Italy from Napoleon to nation-state
By: Riall, Lucy, 1962-
Call No:  Main Collection  DG551 .R486 2009
Subject: Italy -- History -- 1815-1870 Italy -- History -- 1815-1870 -- Historiography Nationalism -- Italy -- History -- 19th century 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More A river in the sky
By: Peters, Elizabeth, 1927-
Call No:  Browsing Area  PS3563.E747 R58
Subject: Peabody, Amelia (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Emerson, Radcliffe (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Historical fiction 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Rivers of paradise : water in Islamic art and culture
By: Blair, Sheila Bloom, Jonathan (Jonathan M.) Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture (2nd : 2007 : Dawhah, Qatar)
Call No:   NX650.W37 R58 2009
Subject: The following essays are the written record of the second biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture, held at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts in Doha, Qatar (VCUQatar), from 4 to 6 November 2007 --Introd Includes bibliographical references and index Foreword / Richard E. Toscan -- Introduction / Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom -- Gardens beneath which rivers flow : the significance of water in classical Islamic culture / Carole Hillenbrand -- Control and abandon : images of water in Arabic poetry and gardens / Yasser Tabbaa -- From the heavens and hills : the flow of water to the fruited trees and ablution fountains in the Great Mosque of Cordoba / D. Fairchild Ruggles -- Sip, dip, and pour : toward a typology of water vessels in Islamic art / Linda Komaroff -- Stones to bring rain? : magical inscriptions in linear Kufic on rock crystal amulet-seals / Venetia Porter -- Charity and piety : Sabil-Kuttabs and the conception of water during the Mamluk period / Howayda al-Harithy -- Art, infrastructure, and devotion : Ottoman water architecture / Walter Denny -- Water on the ground : water systems in two Ottoman Greek port cities / Marcus Milwright and Evanthia Baboula -- Drinking-water as message : the sabil of Muhammad 'ali Pasha in Cairo / Agnieszka Dobrowolska -- Far from the desert : water traditions in the South Asian landscape / Catherine B. Asher -- Paradise flooded : water and architecture in Bangladesh / Perween Hasan -- Landscape and hardscape : historical problems and contemporary solutions to the scarcity of water in the Islamic world / Mohammad al-Asad
Water in art -- Congresses Islamic arts -- Congresses Water and architecture -- Islamic countries -- Congresses Water and civilization -- Congresses 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More The road to abolition? : the future of capital punishment in the United States
By: Ogletree, Charles J Sarat, Austin
Call No:   KF9227.C2 R63 2009
Subject: Includes bibliographical references and index Toward and beyond the abolition of capital punishment / Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat -- Pt. I. Assessing the prospects for abolition. The executioner's waning defenses / Michael L. Radelet -- Blinded by science on the road to abolition? / Simon A. Cole and Jay D. Aronson -- Abolition in the United States by 2050 : on political capital and ordinary acts of resistance / Bernard E. Harcourt -- The beginning of the end? / Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker -- Rocked but still rolling : the enduring institution of capital punishment in historical and comparative perspective / Michael McCann and David T. Johnson -- Pt. II. Debating lethal injection. For execution methods challenges, the road to abolition is paved with paradox / Deborah W. Denno -- Perfect execution : abolitionism and the paradox of lethal injection / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn -- No improvement over electrocution or even a bullet : lethal injection and the meaning of speed and reliability in the modern execution process / Jurgen Martschukat -- Pt. III. Putting the death penalty in context. Torture, war, and capital punishment : linkages and missed connections / Robin Wagner-Pacifici -- Making difference : modernity and the political formations of death / Peter Fitzpatrick
Capital punishment -- United States 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Robert Altman : the oral biography
By: Zuckoff, Mitchell
Call No:  Main Collection  PN1998.3.A48 Z83 2009
Subject: Includes filmography and index Act I: 1925-1969. Kansas City -- Into the river -- 307th Bomber Group -- Making pictures -- The Calvin company -- The delinquents -- California -- Kathryn -- Cheese -- No milk -- Countdown -- Act II: 1970-1980. M*A*S*H -- After M*A*S*H -- Mccabe -- Fatherhood I -- Mirrors -- Split, California -- Nashville -- Diamond cutter -- Active verbs -- Scotty -- Popeye -- Act III: 1981-2006. The wilderness -- I made this -- The player -- Short cuts -- Heart in a cooler -- Mr. A and the women -- Home stretch -- Fatherhood II -- Boots on -- Not a tragedy Mitchell Zuckoff--who was working with visionary director Robert Altman on his memoirs before he died--weaves the Hollywood legend's final interviews, an incredible cast of voices, and contemporary reviews and news accounts, into a riveting tale of an extraordinary life
Altman, Robert, 1925-2006 Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography 


The Rocky Mountain region [electronic resource]
By: Newby, Rick Credo Reference (Firm)
Call No:   F721 .R74 2004e
Subject: Rocky Mountains Region -- Civilization -- Encyclopedias Rocky Mountains Region -- History -- Encyclopedias Rocky Mountains Region -- Social life and customs -- Encyclopedias Popular culture -- Rocky Mountains Region -- Encyclopedias Regionalism -- Rock 


Roger Williams, his life, work, and ideals, by Charles Smull Longacre ... illustrations by Robert M. Eldridge
By: Longacre, Charles Smull
Call No:  Main Collection  F82 .W787 1939
Subject: Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683 


Roger Williams. Marshall Woods lecture in Sayles Hall, October 26, 1936
By: Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970
Call No:  Special Collections  F82 .W87 1937
Subject: Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More The Roman Forum
By: Watkin, David, 1941-
Call No:   DG66.5 .W38 2009
Subject: Originally published : London : Profile Books, 2009 Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-246) and index Life in the Forum in antiquity -- Visiting the ancient buildings with Piranesi -- What Piranesi does not show -- Churches in the Forum -- From the Renaissance to the Grand Tour -- From Byron to King Victor Emmanuel -- From Mussolini and Hitler to holes in the ground -- Making a visit
Roman Forum (Rome, Italy) Historic buildings -- Italy -- Rome Rome (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc Architecture, Roman -- Italy -- Rome Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities City and town life -- Italy -- Rome -- History Rome (Italy) -- Social life and customs Rome -- Antiquities Rome -- Social life and customs 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More The routes of man : how roads are changing the world and the way we live today
By: Conover, Ted
Call No:  Main Collection  HE341 .C66 2010
Subject: Roads -- Social aspects Conover, Ted -- Travel 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More The ruin of the Roman Empire
By: O'Donnell, James Joseph, 1950-
Call No:   DG311 .O49 2008
Subject: Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-408) and index Rome in 500 : looking backward -- The world that might have been -- Being Justinian -- Opportunities lost -- Wars worse than civil -- Learning to live again -- Constantinople deflated : the debris of empire -- The last consul Recounts the sixth-century events and circumstances that led to the fall of the Roman Empire
Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D Byzantine Empire -- History 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Russian ark [videorecording]
By: Deryabin, Andrey Meurer, Jens Stoter, Karsten Nikiforov, Anatoly Sokurov, Aleksandr, 1951- Dontsov, Sergei, 1941- Kuznetsova, Maria Mozgovoy, Leonid Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh (Russia) Hermitage Bridge Studio Egoli Tossell Film AG Russia (Federation). Minis
Call No:  Videos  PN1997.R878 2003 DVD
Subject: Special features includes 2 documentaries (In one breath, the making of Russian ark and Mon parais, Der Winterpalast), interviews, optional commentary with producer Jean Meurer, filmographies, and theatrical trailer Director of photography, Tilman Buttner music, Sergey Yevtushenko DVD, widescreen presentation In Russian with optional subtitles in English and French Sergei Dontsov, Maria Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, David Giorgobiani, Aleksandr Chabin, Maksim Sergeyev A modern filmmaker magically finds himself transported to the 18th century where he embarks on a time-traveling journey through 300 years of Russian history. The first feature film ever created in a single take
Russia -- History -- Drama Feature films 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More The Russian dreambook of color and flight
By: Ochsner, Gina, 1970-
Call No:  Main Collection  PS3615.C48 R87 2010
Subject: Art museums -- Russia (Federation) -- Fiction 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Russian foreign policy : the return of great power politics
By: Mankoff, Jeffrey, 1977-
Call No:  Main Collection  JZ1616 .M36 2009
Subject: Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations -- 21st century 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Russian literature
By: Wachtel, Andrew
Call No:  Main Collection  PG2951 .W26 2009
Subject: Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-307) and index Introduction: Labyrinth of links: Russian literature and its cultural contexts -- The origins: Russian Medieval culture -- The spirit of Peter: Russian culture in the eighteenth century -- The spirit of poetry: Russian culture in the age of Alexander I (1801-25) -- The Russian idea: the quest for national identity in nineteenth-century Russian culture -- Russian psychology: the quest for personal identity in nineteenth-century Russian culture -- Life as theatre: Russian modernism -- The art of the future: the Russian avant-garde -- The future as present: Soviet culture -- After the future: Russian thaw culture -- Instead of the apocalypse: Russian culture today -- Conclusion: whither Russian literature
Russian literature -- History and criticism Literature and society -- Russia -- History 

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