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The life of Leonardo da Vinci [videorecording] / by Bosetti, Giulio.; Castellani, Renato,1913-1985.; Leroy, Philippe,1930-; Solmo, Peter.; Vlad, Roman,1919-; Questar, Inc.;
Original music, Roman Vlad.Philippe Leroy ; narrator, Giulio Bosetti.An in-depth look at the life of the greatest artist of the Renaissance, using over 100 actors and many of the actual locations where Da Vinci lived and worked.E.DVD; full screen presentation, region 0, NTSC.
Subjects: Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.; Artists; Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Scientists;
© c2011., Questar,

The constellation Taurus : the story of the bull / by Ringstad, Arnold.; Morrow, J. T.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.LSC
Subjects: Stars; Constellations; Mythology, Roman;
© c2014., Child's World,

The constellation Scorpius : the story of the scorpion / by Ringstad, Arnold.; Morrow, J. T.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.LSC
Subjects: Stars; Constellations; Mythology, Roman;
© c2014., Child's World,

The constellation Orion : the story of the hunter / by Ringstad, Arnold.; Morrow, J. T.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.LSC
Subjects: Stars; Constellations; Mythology, Roman;
© c2014., Child's World,

The constellation Cassiopeia : the story of the queen / by Owings, Lisa.; Morrow, J. T.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.LSC
Subjects: Stars; Constellations; Mythology, Roman;
© c2014., Child's World,

The constellation Ursa Minor : the story of the little bear / by Owings, Lisa.; Morrow, J. T.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.LSC
Subjects: Stars; Constellations; Mythology, Roman;
© c2014., Child's World,

The constellation Draco : the story of the dragon / by Van Zee, Amy.; Morrow, J. T.;
Includes bibliographic references (p. 31) and index.Retells the story of Draco the dragon and Hercules, discusses the astronomical features of the constellation Draco, and describes the history of the constellation and its myths in world culture.LSC
Subjects: Stars; Constellations; Mythology, Roman;
© c2014., Childs World,

Emperor of Rome : ruling the ancient Roman world / by Beard, Mary,1955-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean. Now, drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and writing about Roman history, Beard turns to the emperors who ruled the Roman Empire, beginning with Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) and taking us through the nearly three centuries--and some thirty emperors--that separate him from the boy-king Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). Yet Emperor of Rome is not your typical chronological account of Roman rulers, one emperor after another: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Instead, Beard asks different, often larger and more probing questions: What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? What kind of jokes did Augustus tell? And for that matter, what really happened, for example, between the emperor Hadrian and his beloved Antinous? Effortlessly combining the epic with the quotidian, Beard tracks the emperor down at home, at the races, on his travels, even on his way to heaven. Along the way, Beard explores Roman fictions of imperial power, overturning many of the assumptions that we hold as gospel, not the least of them the perception that emperors one and all were orchestrators of extreme brutality and cruelty. Here Beard introduces us to the emperor's wives and lovers, rivals and slaves, court jesters and soldiers, and the ordinary people who pressed begging letters into his hand--whose chamber pot disputes were adjudicated by Augustus, and whose budgets were approved by Vespasian, himself the son of a tax collector. With its finely nuanced portrayal of sex, class, and politics, Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman fantasies (and our own) about what it was to be Roman at its richest, most luxurious, most extreme, most powerful, and most deadly, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented before."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Emperors; Emperors;

Risen [videorecording] / by Aiello, Patrick,film producer,screenwriter.; Curtis, Cliff,1968-actor.; Felton, Tom,1987-actor.; Fiennes, Joseph,1970-actor.; Firth, Peter,1953-actor.; Liddell, Mickey,film producer.; Reynolds, Kevin,1952-film director,screenwriter.; Shilaimon, Pete,film producer.; Columbia Pictures,presenter.; LD Entertainment,presenter.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Joseph Fiennes, Tom Felton, Peter Firth, Cliff Curtis.Clavius, a powerful Roman Military Tribune, and his aide Lucius, are tasked with solving the mystery of what happened to Jesus in the weeks following the crucifixion, in order to disprove the rumors of a risen Messiah and prevent an uprising in Jerusalem.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; for Biblical violence including some disturbing images.DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.40:1) presentation; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Bible films.; Christian films.; Religious films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ; Romans;
For private home use only.

All my puny sorrows / by Toews, Miriam,1964-author.;
Elfrieda, a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yolandi, divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men as she tries to find true love: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive. But Elf's latest suicide attempt is a shock: she is three weeks away from the opening of her highly anticipated international tour. Can she be nursed back to "health" in time? Does it matter? As the situation becomes ever more complicated, Yoli faces the most terrifying decision of her life.
Subjects: Fiction.; Sisters; Suicidal behavior; Sisters.; Suicidal behavior.; Roman.; Amerikanisches Englisch.;

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