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…”
Bossypants Book Club (February 2019 Selection): Educated by Tara Westover
Book Overview Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalist in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her “head-for-the-hills bag”. In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and…
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.