A Price Above Rubies

cover image Barcode: 58957914 Call Number: Jewish Experience in America Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 116 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: English Creator: Directed by Boaz Yakin Description: "This widely acclaimed motion picture features outstanding performances from rising stars Renee Zellweger (Jerry Maguire) and Julianna Margulies (TV’s ER, The Newton Boys). Sonia (Zellweger) is a young woman who always did just what was expected: she married the right man, moved to the right neighborhood and had a beautiful baby. And yet, when she discovers an exciting world beyond her tightly knit community, it sparks a growing desire for independence that threatens the security of the ... Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection

A Quick Guide to LLAMA : Agile Project Management for Learning

cover image Edition: Iteration 2.0 Barcode: 58957605 Call Number: LRC Staff 1195A Tor Material Type: Print Language: English Creator: Megan Torrance Description: "You’ll find in short order that this book isn’t a how-to book. It’s a guide, a reference, a companion piece to your project management. Some of it applies to whatever project approach you’re using. Some of it is Agile-specific. As you go through the book, you will take the pieces that work for you and your project and make them your own. On Time. In Budget. What They Need (even if that changes!). That’s what you can expect as you implement LLAMA or any of the Agile project ... Collection: LRC Staff Collection

A Sanskrit Reader : With Vocabulary and Notes

cover image Volume Number: Volume 1, Parts 1-2 Barcode: 58995210 Call Number: IL-SAN Lan Material Type: Print Language: English, Sanskrit Creator: Charles Rockwell Lanman Description: Used in ASIANLAN 152 and 251. Introduction, vocabulary, and notes for "The Story of Nala and Damayanti," "From the Hitopadeca, The 'Book of Good Counsel,'" "Extracts from the Katha-sarit-sagara," "Extracts from the Manava-dharma-castra," and "Extracts from Vedic Literature" Collection: Language Resource Center

A Short Guide to Writing about Film

Barcode: 58945600 Call Number: PED-Film and Video Material Type: Print-Pedagogical Language: English Collection: Language Resource Center

A Space Exodus

cover image Barcode: 58965559 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 6 mins Language: English Creator: Directed by Larissa Sansour Description: "A Space Exodus quirkily sets up an adapted stretch of Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey in a Middle Eastern political context. The recognizable music scores of the 1968 science fiction film are changed to arabesque chords matching the surreal visuals of Sansour's film. The film follows the artist herself onto a phantasmagoric journey through the universe echoing Stanley Kubrick's thematic concerns for human evolution, progress and technology. However, in her film, Sansour ... Collection: Language Resource Center

A Stranger Among Us

cover image Barcode: 58957349 Call Number: Jewish Experience in America Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 110 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: English Creator: Directed by Sidney Lumet Description: A Stranger Among Us explores the mysteries of Hasidic Judaism through the eyes of an outsider - a gentile police detective - who enters this reclusive society to investigate a murder. Melanie Griffith stars as Emily Eden, a tough New York City Police detective assigned to solve the murder of a Hasidic diamond merchant from Brooklyn. While working undercover as a member of the community, Detective Eden is coached by a rabbi's son in the ways of his people to help her maintain her cover. ... Rating Audience (Video Only): MPAA rating: PG-13 Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection

A Time to Build

Barcode: 58949569 Call Number: L-SP36 Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 60 min. Language: English Creator: Martin Doblmeier Description: A video account of how the Catholic Church endured 40 years of repression in Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, andCzechoslavakia and the role the Church is playing in these new democracies. Includes a discussion guide and was produced by the Catholic Communication Campaign. United Stes Catholic Conference Collection: Language Resource Center

A Triumph of Faith

Barcode: 58949563 Call Number: L-SR166 Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 56 min. System Requirements: Region 1 DVD Region: Language: English Description: Documents the beauty and pageantry of the annual pilgrimages of Russian Orthodox Christians. It is a testimony of enduring faith even in the face of Communist oppression and political upheaval. Collection: Language Resource Center

A Visit to a Classroom of English Language Learners

Barcode: 58964693 Material Type: Video -Digital Language: English Description: ... Collection: Language Resource Center

A Woman Called Golda

cover image Barcode: 58957393 Call Number: Israel Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 199 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: English Creator: Directed by Alan Gibson Description: Golda Meir is best remembered as the tough but grandmotherly fourth Prime Minister of Israel - the role that culminated her lifetime of service to the State. A Woman Called Golda, a drama starring Ingrid Bergman, tells what came before, chronicling a life that parallels Israel's early years. In a visit to the Milwaukee school where she was valedictorian, a retired Golda recalls how, as a child during the pogroms of Russia, she clutched at the idea of a Jewish homeland in Israel. She held ... Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection

A Yiddish World Remembered

cover image Barcode: 58957863 Call Number: International Jewry Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 60 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: English Creator: Directed by Andrew Goldberg Description: In “A Yiddish World Rembmered” the story of Jewish life in Eastern Europe is brought to life again by some of the remaining eyewitnesses. Accompanied by never-before-seen archival films, vintage photographs, and, of course, traditional Klezmer and cantorial music, the documentary takes a realistic and enlightening look at this unique and all-but-vanished way of life. For those in rural communities, there was often no running water or electricity. For many, anti-Semitism was a part of ... Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection

A Zen Life

Barcode: 58965318 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 77 min. Language: English Creator: Directed by Michael Goldberg Description: "About the life & legacy of D.T. Suzuki (1870 - 1966), credited with introducing Zen philosophy to the West." -IMDb Collection: Language Resource Center

A, A - [A, A Prime]

Barcode: 58945724 Call Number: MAN-ENG Hag Material Type: Print-Manga Language: English Collection: Language Resource Center

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Barcode: 58965211 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 146 min. Language: English Creator: Directed by Steven Spielberg Description: "A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother." -IMDb Rating Audience (Video Only): PG-13 Collection: Language Resource Center

Aaron’s Magic Village - Aaron's Magic Village

cover image Barcode: 58946196 Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 80 min. System Requirements: NTSC Language: English Creator: Jacqueline Galia Benousilio ; Albert Hanan Kaminski Description: The town of Chelm is renowned in Jewish folklore for the imbecility of its residents. Issac Bashevis Singer was the Nobel Prize-winning author who wrote in Yiddish about Shetl life and captured its rich spirit world of golems, ghosts, and assorted imps. Put Chelm and Singer together, and you have a supernatural tale that pits good against evil, told with humor and gusto. In Aaron’s Magic Village, an animated feature based on Singer’s stories, an orphaned boy goes to live with his uncle ... Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection

About Translation

cover image Barcode: 58954556 Call Number: Translation 028 Material Type: Print-Pedagogical Language: English Description: He discusses political concepts, linguistic interference and the role of words and discourse in translation. There are chapters on teaching translation, teaching about translation, and the reasons for the growing international importance of translation. Finally Professor Newmark insists on the distinction between cultural and universal aspects of language, and sees translation as a critical and sometimes cruelly truthful weapon in exposing language, culture and literature. Collection: Language Resource Center

Academic Preparation in Foreign Language

Barcode: 25162 Call Number: PED-Transitions Material Type: Print Language: English Description: Discusses teaching for transition from high school to college. Written by College Entrance Examination Board and is one of six books in The Academic Preparation Series. Collection: Language Resource Center

Academic Writing for Graduate Students - Essential Tasks and Skills

Edition: 2nd ed. Barcode: 58950959 Call Number: WRITING Material Type: Print-Pedagogical Language: English Description: The second edition of this successful guide to writing for graduate-and undergraduate-students has been modified to include updates and replacements of older data sets; an increased range of disciplines with tasks such as nursing, marketing, and art history; discussions of discourse analysis; a broader discussion of e-mail use that includes current e-mail practices. Like its predecessor, this edition of Academic Writing for Graduate Students " explains understanding the intended audience, ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Adios

Barcode: 58994902 Call Number: Contact Staff for Access Material Type: Game -Digital System Requirements: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/adios-b378b4 Language: English Description: Adios is a cinematic first-person game about sticking to a complicated decision., Single Player, Controller Support Rating Audience (Video Only): Not Rated

Adolf

Volume Number: vol. 2 Barcode: 58949862 Call Number: MAN-ENG Tez Material Type: Print-Manga Language: English Description: On the eve of World War II, the destinies of three men named "Adolf"--including the infamous dictator of Germany's Third Reich-become inexorably intertwined. Collection: Language Resource Center

Adolf

Volume Number: vol. 3 Barcode: 58949863 Call Number: MAN-ENG Tez Material Type: Print-Manga Language: English Description: On the eve of World War II, the destinies of three men named "Adolf"--including the infamous dictator of Germany's Third Reich-become inexorably intertwined. Collection: Language Resource Center

Adolf

Volume Number: vol. 4 Barcode: 58949864 Call Number: MAN-ENG Tez Material Type: Print-Manga Language: English Description: On the eve of World War II, the destinies of three men named "Adolf"--including the infamous dictator of Germany's Third Reich-become inexorably intertwined. Collection: Language Resource Center

Adolf

Volume Number: vol. 5 Barcode: 58949865 Call Number: MAN-ENG Tez Material Type: Print-Manga Language: English Description: On the eve of World War II, the destinies of three men named "Adolf"--including the infamous dictator of Germany's Third Reich-become inexorably intertwined. Collection: Language Resource Center

Advanced Grammar in Use

cover image Edition: 3rd ed. Barcode: 58956495 Call Number: IL-ENG Hew Material Type: Print Language: English Creator: Martin Hewings Description: A self-study reference and practice book for advanced learners of English Collection: Sweetland Center for Writing

Advanced Spanish Program 1: Reviewing the Basics

cover image Barcode: 58947472 Call Number: V-SPA 180A Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 26 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: English, Spanish Description: Standard Deviants School is an educational and entertaining, lesson based learning supplement based on the award-winning Standard Deviants teaching style. Each program includes full classroom performance rights. Standard Deviants School will capture your students' attention and make your lectures come alive. Collection: Language Resource Center