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Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) 1820-1906 ENIAC (Computer) Feminists United States Biography Locke, Alain 1885-1954 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady 1815-1902 Suffragists United States Biography United States Women Suffrage United States History 19th century Women's rights United States History 19th century World historyWard, Geoffrey C.
Summary: Meet important historical personalities, scientists, aviators, and athletes in this series that illustrate the impact dynamic leaders have on society. These books are sure to inspire young readers as they learn about the lives of famous people. Each book includes a timeline of important dates, a glossary, and an index. Included in the back of each book are additional resources such as At the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WARJ.-C. B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1993
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.371 GALMcCully, C. B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.12 McCOlson, David C. B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branden Press 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 OLSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 OLSLieven, D. C. B.
Summary: "A dazzling account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world's empires, a book that probes the essence of leadership and power through the centuries and around the world. From the rise of Sargon of Akkad, who in the third millennium BCE ruled what is now Iraq and Syria, to the collapse of the great European empires in the twentieth century, the empire has been the dominant form of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.23 LIEWard, Geoffrey C.
Summary: Meet important historical personalities, scientists, aviators, and athletes in this series that illustrate the impact dynamic leaders have on society. These books are sure to inspire young readers as they learn about the lives of famous people. Each book includes a timeline of important dates, a glossary, and an index. Included in the back of each book are additional resources such as At the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 WARGunn, Lewis C. (Lewis Carstairs)
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Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.] 1928
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.2 GunnEdwards, Sue Bradford
Summary: Discusses how in the 1950s, black women made critical contributions to NASA by performing calculations that made it possible for the nation's astronauts to fly into space and return safely to Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 EDW1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 EDW
Cooper, Brittney C.
Summary: "So what if it's true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting. Yet too often Black women's anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 COORumsch, BreAnn
Summary: This biography introduces readers to Rutherford B. Hayes including his early political career and key events from Hayes's administration including civil service reforms, the end of Reconstruction, and the passage of the Bland-Allison Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information....
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HAYKendall, Joshua C.
Summary: From the author of "The Man Who Made Lists" comes an absorbing biography of Noah Webster, whose name is synonymous with the dictionary he created, but whose life story is not nearly so ubiquitous.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio WebsterStein, Gertrude
Summary: "Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written, now illustrated by Maira Kalman"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOKLAS, ALICE B. STEStewart, Jeffrey C.
Summary: "A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro--the creative African Americans whose art, literature, music, and drama would inspire Black people to greatness. In The New Negro : The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOCKE, ALAIN STEMaddex, Diane.
Contents: Midwestern modern -- Composed order -- The studio -- The home -- The Dow gardens -- Facts -- The buildings of Alden B. Dow -- Patents and inventions -- Honors -- Professional and honorary memberships -- Alden B. Dow archives -- Sources -- Illustrations -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alden B. Dow Home and Studio 2007
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 720.92 MADKleiman, Kathy
Summary: "After the end of World War II, top-secret research continued across the United States as engineers and programmers rushed to complete their confidential assignments. Among them were six pioneering women, tasked with figuring out how to program the world's first general-purpose, programmable, all-electronic computer - a machine built to calculate a single ballistic trajectory in twenty seconds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 004.092 KLEKing, B. B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1996