Chagnon, Napoleon A.

Summary: Chagnon describes his controversial life-long research among the Yanomam Indians, describing how his beliefs in the evolutionary advantages of their inherent violence have been systematically rejected by politically correct scientists.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013

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Summary: The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic weapons that would eventually end WWII. As they awaited rescue, they endured extreme thirst, hunger, and relentless shark attacks.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: "In harm's way": An epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, details the devastating sneak attack on the Naval base as well as the explosive behind-the-scenes stories, and the counter-offensive. (167 min.).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006

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Eisner, Peter

Summary: The true story of three intrepid people who successfully eluded the Japanese in Manila for more than two years, sabotaging enemy efforts and preparing the way for MacArthur's return. One was a debonair polo-playing expatriate businessman who was also a U.S. Navy intelligence officer. Another was a defiant enlisted American soldier. And the third was a wily American woman, an intinerant torch...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017

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Byatt, A. S 1936-

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1996

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Summary: Worshipped as a national savior, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson masterminded the naval victories that thwarted Napoleon's plans to invade Britain. Yet, in the midst of public adulation, rumors swirled about his private life. Nelson took a friend's wife as a mistress and even fathered a child by her in secret. Seen through the eyes of four people close to him: his wife, who feels bitter and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008

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Napoleon

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cassell 1992

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Napoleon

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ediciones La Calavera 1998

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Napoleon

Summary: Creating the fighting force -- Preparations for war -- A military education -- The combat arms -- Generalship and the art of command --Army organization -- Strategy -- Fortification -- The army in the field -- The operational art.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 1999

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J R Shannon (1914)

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: M.Witmark 1914

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Smith, Nikki Shannon

Summary: Matthew, a young African American with asthma who dreams of becoming an Olympic runner like his hero, Jesse Owens, accompanies his journalist father to the 1936 Olympics in Germany.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2021

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Summary: A tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and nurse Catherine Barkley during World War I. The action takes place in Italy and the two fall in love during the war and will stop at nothing to be together. The film also analyzes Lt. Henry's feelings on war and the purpose of fighting.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Osiris Entertainment 2009

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Earle, Sylvia A.

Summary: A brief introduction to coral reefs, including where they are found, how they grow, what lives in them, their importance, and efforts being made to protect and restore them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2016

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Milne, A. A 1882-1956

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1998

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Milne, A. A 1882-1956.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1998

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Cannon, William A.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: TAB Books 1986

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L'Amour, Louis 1908-1988

Summary: Wilderness explorer Jubal Sackett was the son of Barnabas Sackett, the first of that line to come to the New World. Jubal feared no man, nor did he back away from any challenge. His determination to blaze new trails took him across the vast savage North American continent where no white man had been before. Living and fighting among the Indian tribes, Jubal forged a legend as a powerful...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007

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Milne, A. A 1882-1956

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1998

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Milne, A. A 1882-1956

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1998

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Summary: In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of America's entry into the war on April 6, 1917, a six-hour documentary presented over three nights, explores how World War I changed America and the world. Drawing on the latest scholarship, including unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, it tells the rich and complex story of the conflict through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Milne, A. A 1882-1956

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Childrens Books 1995

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