OLLI Presents American Crime Film Classics
From the desk of Leslie West, Adult Services Librarian.
A content review of Hans Gumbrecht’s „Ein freundliches Ende der Geisteswissenschaften?“
“A friendly end for the humanities? Would educated people outside the university notice if the humanities disappeared from these institutions? The process has begun.”
¿Por qué brilla el Sol?
“Cada segundo, el Sol transforma millones de toneladas de átomos de hidrógeno en átomos de helio…”
Mozart, 1762-1770.
An excerpt from “Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven”, by Prof. Dr. C. Krebs.
We the People
Thus begins the Preamble to the United States Constitution. And though this phrase [might] be only three words, it is a complicated and ever-shifting expression.
Jane Austen Regency Ball
Jane Austen died in 1817, when she was just 41. But in her short life, she exerted more of a lasting influence on British literature and culture than many of her peers who lived twice as long.