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Walking with dinosaurs ( Visual )
8 editions published between 2000 and 2006 in English and held by 865 libraries worldwide
Examines the 155-million-year history of dinosaurs from the aggressive Coelophysis, who first learned to hunt in packs, to Tyrannosaurus Rex, the most terrifying carnivore on the planet. Covers the Late Triassic, Late Jurassic, Early Cretaceous, and Late Cretaceous periods.

Le retour de Martin Guerre The return of Martin Guerre ( Visual )
8 editions published between 1996 and 2006 in French and held by 785 libraries worldwide
The plot revolves around the unraveling of the identity of a 16th century peasant who disappeared as a young husband, and the man who returns to resume his marriage nine years later.

Merce Cunningham a lifetime of dance ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2001 in English and held by 340 libraries worldwide
Merce Cunningham, a colossus of 20th-century choreography, is perhaps most famous for his sheer fecundity--inventing steps, choreographing 200+ dances, and over 800 "Events" (site-specific works). At the forefront of the American avant-garde for more than 50 years, he abandoned conventional elements of dance structure, most controversially, the relationship of dance and music influenced by his collaboration with composer John Cage. Endlessly inventive and inquisitive, Cunningham collaborated with a wide range of composers, designers, and artists, incorporating video into pieces, and employing computerized choreography in his later years to instruct members of his company. Unlike most choreographers, movement itself was his principal subject matter--neither narrative nor musical form determines the dance structure. Cunningham leaves a vast legacy, but he expressed his view of his art saying, "Dancing is the art of the present tense."

Raising the mammoth ( Visual )
3 editions published in 2000 in English and Spanish and held by 335 libraries worldwide
An expedition travels to northern Siberia to excavate a woolly mammoth.

The Celts rich tradition & ancient myths ( Visual )
3 editions published between 1997 and 2003 in English and held by 328 libraries worldwide
Follows the story of the Celts from their earliest roots through the flowering of their culture and their enduring heritage today. Includes reconstructions of iron-age villages, dramatizations of major historical events and visits to modern Celtic lands.

The perfect corpse ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 316 libraries worldwide
Forensic scientists piece together the circumstances of the death of Old Croghan Man, a headless Iron Age corpse discovered in a bog in Ireland and thought to have been the sacrificial victim of Celtic ritual.

Réseau aérien; texte radiophonique by Michel Butor ( Book )
3 editions published in 1962 in French and held by 300 libraries worldwide

Brazil the north east ( Visual )
1 edition published in 1995 in English and held by 294 libraries worldwide
Captures the unplanned exploits of an adventurous independent traveller to Northeast Brazil, including a game of soccer on the beach, floating down the Amazon during a rainstorm, scaling a palm tree, and trying capoiera, a combination of martial arts and acrobatics.

The life and times of Sara Baartman "The Hottentot Venus ( Visual )
5 editions published between 1998 and 2000 in English and held by 287 libraries worldwide
A documentary film of the life a Khoikhoi woman who was taken from South Africa in 1810 and exhibited as a freak across Britain. The image and ideas for "The Hottentot Venus" (particularly the interest in her sexual anatomy) swept through British popular culture. A court battle waged by abolitionists to free her from her exhibitors failed. In 1814, a year before her death, she was taken to France and became the object of scientific research that formed the bedrock of European ideas about black female sexuality.

Charlemagne ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1994 and 1995 in English and held by 273 libraries worldwide
The life and times of Medieval Europe's most heroic and legendary figure are dramatized in Charlemagne. Intense passions, bloody betrayals and political intrigues surround an extraordinary leader who changes the course of history, and sets aside his own happiness for the greater good.