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American essays 21st century American fiction 21st century Detective and mystery stories, American Detective and mystery stories, Canadian Discoveries in geography Indians of Central America Social life and customs Indians of Mexico Social life and customs Photography History Short stories Short stories, AmericanSummary: In 1900, 6% of America's children graduated from high school; by 1945, 51% graduated and 40% went on to college. This program recalls how massive immigration, child labor laws, and the explosive growth of cities fueled school attendance and transformed public education. Also explored are the impact of John Dewey's progressive ideas as well as the effects on students of controversial IQ tests,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Vronsky, Peter
Summary: "Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the so-called "surge" or epidemic years of serial murder. With books like Serial Killers, Female Serial Killers, and Sons of Cain, Peter Vronsky has established himself as the foremost expert on the history of serial killers. In this first definitive history of the worst decades of American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 VROSummary: The power of the photographic image remains undiminished in the latter part of the 20th century, even though it faces new challenges from television, technology, motion pictures, and elsewhere. Photography Transformed examines surveillance photography and the Cuban Missile crisis, searing images from the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights violence—while highlighting the transformation to the new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1999
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Murray, Charles A.
Summary: A critique of the white American class structure argues that the paths of social mobility that once advanced the nation are now serving to further isolate an elite upper class while enforcing a growing and resentful white underclass.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 MURKovel, Ralph M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Reference 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.1 KovelSummary: Although photography was invented in the first half of the 19th century, the beginning of the 20th century marked extraordinary changes. The Developing Image travels back to the very first time in history when inexpensive hand-held cameras gave ordinary people the opportunity to create their own visual images. Through archival footage and interviews with historians and notable photographers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1999
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Summary: Producer David Merrick conquered Broadway in 1981 with an adaptation of the movie musical 42nd Street. But soon the biggest hits were arriving from an unexpected source-London. This program illustrates the reshaping of the Broadway musical as the curtain fell on the 20th century and reopened on the 21st. From Stephen Sondheim’s contemplative Sunday in the Park with George to blockbusters like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Dobson, David
Summary: Prior to 1855, gravestone inscriptions represent almost the sole source of death information in Scotland. In recent years the precariousness of Scottish tombstones has been underscored by their deteriorating condition, prompting various genealogical societies to transcribe the information found on them. When one considers that a number of these gravestone inscriptions contain references to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield 1998
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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3411 DobsonCall number: R GEN 929.3411 Dobson Vol. II
Phillips, Charles
Summary: Aztec & Maya: The Complete Illustrated History uncovers the rise and fall of the many different empires of Mexico and Central America--their political and military campaign, their legends and myths, and their art, architecture and social history. Ground plans and detailed photographs explore over 20 magnificent and vitally important World Heritage sites, including Teotihuacán, Tenochtitlán,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Books 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Foreword / Robert Atwan -- Introduction: deciderization 2007 - a special report / David Foster Wallace -- Werner / Jo Ann Beard -- The freedom to offend / Ian Burma -- Iraq: the war of the imagination / Mark Danner -- Fathead's hard times / W.S. Di Piero -- An orgy of power / George Gessert -- What the dog saw / Malcolm Gladwell -- Afternoon of the sex children / Mark Greif -- Operation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BESContents: The presidential election of 2008 -- Our Michelle -- Reverend Wright revisited -- The United States, past and present -- Personalities -- Profiles -- Race talk -- Sports -- Rita Dove -- African American literature -- Racial identity, enslavement, and the law -- In memoriam: John Hope Franklin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World, Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BESMorris, Jan
Contents: The 1950s -- Mount Everest, 1953 -- A benign republic: USA -- Kingdom of troubles: the Middle East -- South African White and Black -- Confusions in paradise: the Caribbean -- Europe: after the war was over -- Orientalisms: The Far East -- The 1960s -- The Eichmann Trial -- The Cold War -- South American frissons -- Oxford, 1965 -- Australia -- A New Africa -- Manhattan, 1969 -- The 1970s --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.825 MORWaldman, Carl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 WALSummary: Collects original comic strips from American authors and illustrators published in 2009 in graphic novels, newspapers, magazines, and on the Internet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BESGriffith, Elisabeth
Summary: "The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. A century later, women are still grappling with how to use the vote and their political power to expand civil rights, confront racial violence, improve maternal health, advance educational and employment opportunities, and secure reproductive rights. Formidable chronicles the efforts of white and Black women to advance sometimes competing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 GRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.42 GRIContents: Foreword / read by Dave Eggers -- Introduction: dead men talking / read by Zadie Smith -- The guide to being a groupie / by Lisa Gabriele, read by the author -- Things we knew when the house caught fire / by David Drury, read by the author -- The pretenders / Chuck Klosterman, read by the author -- How to write suspense / by James Patterson, read by the author -- Stuff / by J.T. Leroy, read by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 810.8 BESSummary: Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary "antenna for what is going on in the world" ("Chicago Tribune)." The collection boasts great variety from "famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds" ("St. Louis Post-Dispatch)," ensuring yet another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEST 2009KUNITZ, STANLEY J., ED.
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