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Airport terminals Automobiles Technological innovations Church and education United States History Study and teaching History, Modern 20th century National Society, Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century Membership National Society, Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century Registers Rap (Music) United States WarJACKSON, HELEN.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1964
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.5 JACSpeakman, Shawn
Summary: "Forever shamed for family actions a century earlier, Antiquity Grey is a young woman living in a far-future city of Erth. It is a life of danger and hardship, dragons and advanced technology. But when she discovers an outlawed and operational mech buried in the sands of her planet, she realizes its secrets hold the power to reverse her family's dishonor while challenging the Imperium's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grim Oak Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPENational Society, Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century
Summary: This current edition of the Lineage Book was authorized for the benefit of newer members and Chapters, prospective members, and other researchers of early colonial ancestors. It is an index with both original and supplemental lines and services, names of the living descendant member with the Chapter affiliation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield Company 2013
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.373 ROB 1896-1999Pearman, Hugh.
Summary: The airport terminal, the most important building type in the world of transportation, is also the site of the most ambitious and innovative achievements in 20th-century architecture. From the timber runway used during the Wright Brothers' first powered flight to modern glass-and-steel structures, from military buildings housing fighter planes to public spaces for both travel and shopping,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 720 PEAWolny, Philip
Summary: "Cruise liners, destroyers and aircraft carriers, and oil tankers are some of the massive watercraft breaking records and keeping the world economy moving and safe. This fascinating resource provides snapshots of innovative and impressive ships of the future, using these awe-inspiring vessels as an introduction to basic engineering principles. A dynamic overview of present and future seagoing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing, LLC. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 623.82 WOLNational Society, Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century
Summary: This current edition of the Lineage Book was authorized for the benefit of newer members and Chapters, prospective members, and other researchers of early colonial ancestors. It is an index with both original and supplemental lines and services, names of the living descendant member with the Chapter affiliation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield Company 2013
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.373 ROB 1896-1989Summary: Innovation enabled the United States to take on the mantle of world leadership-most importantly, innovation in military technology. But among the great minds that drove American innovation, using science to make war sometimes led to questions, dilemmas, and even second thoughts. In this program, Bill Moyers presents a profile of I. I. Rabi, winner of the 1944 Nobel Prize in physics and an early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This final episode describes the Cold War as a continuation of the “war of the world” in which millions died in proxy wars conducted by the two superpowers. World War II may have been the central act of an epic struggle between rival empires, but the Cold War continued the turbulence that marked the entire 20th century as the most violent period in history. The end of the Cold War led to great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Schlögel, Karl
Summary: "The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least int he material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR? What did it look. fell smell, and sound like? In The Soviet Century, Karl Schlögel, one of the world's leading historians of the Soviet Union, presents a spellbinding epic that brings to life the everyday world of a unique...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 947.084 SCHHolme, Bryan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1982
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 659.109 HOLSummary: This first episode posits that economic volatility, ethnic conflict and empires in crisis combined to spawn the 20th century’s bloodiest conflicts. This led to the rise of the brutal regimes of Germany, Japan and Russia, the “age of genocide” and a preoccupation with racial purity. It gives an excellent work up to the 20th century in conflict. Spanning Asia and Europe, it portrays the human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Wolbrecht, Christina
Summary: "How have American women voted in the first 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment? How have popular understandings of women as voters both persisted and changed over time? In A Century of Votes for Women, Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder offer an unprecedented account of women voters in American politics over the last ten decades. Bringing together new and existing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 WOLSummary: Declares "the American century", the name Henry Luce gave to an era of American prosperity beginning in 1941, dead, and collects essays explaining what the American century was and meant, and why many believe it has met a premature demise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 SHOSummary: The horrors of World War II are the subject of this episode. We’ve been told all our lives that this war was our greatest triumph, the moment when the forces of light - the Western democracies and the Soviet Union - prevailed over the forces of darkness, the Nazis and the other Axis powers. It was a conflict that began in Europe in September 1939 and ended with the dropping of the atomic bomb...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Mara, Wil.
Summary: "Our homes, businesses, and other buildings would not exist without the expert craftsmanship of dedicated trade workers. In this book, readers will learn what it is like to work as a carpenter. They will find out what carpenters do each day, what kind of education is required to become a carpenter, and much more. Includes table of contents, author biography, sidebars, glossary, index, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Job MaraHegseth, Pete
Summary: Early in the twentieth century, Progressives quietly transformed America's schools. A hundred years later, they've succeeded beyond their wildest hopes. Behind a smokescreen of "preparing students for the new industrial economy," early Progressives had political control in mind. America's original schools didn't just make kids memorize facts or learn skills; they taught them to think freely and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside Books, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.11 HEGFrench Kicks
Contents: One more time -- Don't thank me -- The trial of the century -- Oh fine -- The falls -- Was it a crime -- Following waves -- You could not decide -- Yes, I guess -- Only so long -- Better time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Startime International 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FrencGilfoyle, Timothy J.
Contents: The trials of Quimbo Appo -- Urchins, Arabs, and gutter-snipes -- A house of refuge at sea -- Appo on: violence -- Factories for turning out criminals -- The "guns" of Gotham -- Drafted -- Opium dens and Bohemia -- The old homestead -- The dives -- Appo on: Jack Collins -- Tombs justice -- Appo on: Good fellows -- Fences -- "That galling yoke of servitude" -- Danny Driscoll and the Whyos --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 GILContents: The gift of Cochise / Louis L'Amour -- The tin star / John M. Cunningham -- Killers' country! / Dan Cushman -- Timberline / Owen Wister -- All gold canyon / Jack London -- The lamb of the Flying U / B.M. Bower -- Gun job / Thomas Thompson -- The burial of Letty Strayhorn / Elmer Kelton -- Hell on the draw / oren D. Estleman -- The attack on the mountain / Glendon Swarthout -- Fear / Bill...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2001
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1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: Western SC Century 2000Jarausch, Konrad Hugo.
Summary: "A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, and promise. Konrad Jarausch describes how the European nations emerged from the nineteenth century with high hopes for continued material progress and proud of their imperial command over the globe, only to become embroiled in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5 JARNiver, Heather Moore
Summary: As technology and engineering advance, the automotive industry moves right along with them. In fact, one might argue that the cars of the twenty-first century are a little ahead of the curve. Readers will learn all about the most innovative cars, whether they are eye-opening concept cars or environmentally friendly, fuel-efficient green cars that help people get from place to place with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing, LLC. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.222 NIVBuckley, William F.
Summary: "A unique collection of eulogies of the twentieth century's greatest figures, written by conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and compiled by National Review and Fox News chief Washington correspondent James Rosen. In a half-century on the national stage, William F. Buckley Jr. achieved unique stature as a polemicist and the undisputed godfather of modern American conservatism. He knew...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 BUCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BUCRuffin, Jimmy.
Contents: What becomes of the broken hearted -- I've passed this way before -- Gonna give her all the love I've got -- I'll say forever my love -- It's wonderful (to be loved by you) -- Since I've lost you -- As long as there is l-o-v-e love -- Farewell is a lonely sound -- Living in a world I created for myself -- Don't you miss me a little bit baby -- Stand by me (duet with David Ruffin).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Motown 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES RuffiIves, Burl
Contents: A little bitty tear -- Funny way of laughin' -- Lavender blue (Dilly dilly) -- Blue tail fly -- Wild side of life -- Call me Mr. In-between -- Pearly shells (Popo o ewa) -- Mary Ann regrets -- The same old hurt -- Big rock candy mountain -- Foggy, foggy dew -- Goober peas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Records 2001