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Collector's edition (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.) ; 31 Decades of twentieth century America Decades of twentieth-century America History in 50 Icons of twentieth century design Legends of the world Music of the 20th century Music of the twentieth century Penguin twentieth-century classics The War of the WorldJarausch, 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 JARRichards, Marlee.
Summary: Discusses the political, economic, social, cultural, and technology landscape of the United States in the eighth decade of the 20th century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.924 RICLindop, Edmund.
Summary: Discusses the political, economic, social, cultural, and technology landscape of the United States in the fifth decade of the 20th century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.917 LINLindop, Edmund.
Summary: Looks at life in the United States in the 1930s, discussing notable people, events and developments in politics, society, the economy, culture and technology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.916 LINMauceri, John
Summary: "This book offers a major reassessment of classical music in the twentieth century. John Mauceri argues that the history of music during this span was shaped by three major wars of that century: World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Probing why so few works have been added to the canon since 1930, Mauceri examines the trajectories of great composers who, following World War I, created...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.9 MAUContents: My Boyfriend's back (The Angels) -- My girl (The Temptations) -- Rescue me (Fontella Bass) -- California dreamin' (The Mamas & the Papas) -- You can't hurry love (The Supremes) -- Somebody to love (Jefferson Airplane) -- Whiter shade of pale (Procol Harum) -- What a wonderful world (Louis Armstrong) -- With a little help from my friends (Joe Cocker) -- I heard it through the grapevine (Marvin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hip-O 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BESEaton, Gale
Summary: What do the Trojan Horse, Piltdown Man, Keely Motor Company, and Ponzi Scheme have in common? They were all famous hoaxes, carefully designed and bolstered with false evidence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 001.9 EATSummary: 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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Lindop, Edmund.
Summary: Presents the social, political, economic, and technological changes in the United States during the nineteen sixties, including the civil rights movement, the popularization of rock music, and the expedition to the Moon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.923 LINLovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
Summary: Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Phillips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and envisioning instead mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. Love craft's preeminent interpreter S. T. Joshi presents a selection of the master's fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVSummary: This program describes a great musical culture in decline in turn-of-the-century Vienna, and discusses how that decline led to the musical revolution whose reverberations are still felt today. Names like Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg still strike terror in the hearts of many concert-goers. With the help of Simon Rattle, however, we hear in their powerful, brooding music the collapse of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Brill, Marlene Targ.
Summary: Explores the political, social, cultural and economic developments that shaped America during the 1980s and highlights the people, inventions, innovations and landmark events that defined the decade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.927 BRISummary: An alcoholic, failed attorney is reduced to ambulance chasing. A friend gives him a supposedly easy malpractice case which becomes a last chance to redeem himself and his career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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Summary: The author argues that American society is leaning toward despotism and totalitarianism and looks back at the 20th century for examples of how totalitarianism has taken over before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.9 SNYBrill, Marlene Targ.
Summary: Looks at life in the United States in the 1990s, discussing notable people, events and developments in politics, society, the economy, culture and technology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.928 BRILindop, Edmund.
Summary: Provides accounts of key events that occurred during the 1950s in the areas of science, technology, transportation, the economy, society, literature, art and architecture, fashion, stage and screen, music, sports and recreation, and war, and includes photographs and primary sources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.921 LINSummary: 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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Summary: In section one of this program, London's massive subway system is described in conjunction with the stylized map-the brainchild of an electric circuit diagram designer-that since 1933 has made sense of it. Section two focuses on Ferdinand Porsche's people's automobile: the Volkswagen Beetle, an emblem of industrial Modernism supported by Adolf Hitler and adored by drivers on both sides of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Palacios, Argentina.
Summary: A young chief who had been protected by a hummingbird is killed by his jealous uncle and then transformed into a quetzal, symbol of freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Troll Associates 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 PALSummary: 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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Ebon, Martin
Contents: But can you prove it? By M. Ebon.--Lullaby from a previous life, by F. Portland.--The two Alexandrinas, by E. Brenner.--A Canadian soldier who "took the walls," by A. Mackenzie.--Reincarnation in Burma, by L. Markham.--The return of a woman who died in childbirth, by J. S. Singer.--Rebirth of a salesman: an Edgar Cayce reading, by V. M. Shelly.--Thirty centuries later, by H. Curtis.--I will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Pub. Co. 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.9013 REIBoles, Frank
Summary: "The Great Lakes create a vast transportation network that supports a massive shipping industry. In this volume, seamanship, cargo, competition, cooperation, technology, engineering, business, unions, government decisions, and international agreements all come together to create a story of unrivaled interest about the Great Lakes ships and the crews that sailed them in the twentieth century....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.54 BOLSnyder, Timothy
Summary: "The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2017