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Firme, Tom

Summary: "Learn about the history of the Cold War (1945-1991) in this volume of History Summarized. Each volume in this series concisely surveys a major historical event or interrelated series of events or a major cultural, economic, political, or social movement." -- Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 909.825 FIR

Summary: "Immediately following World War II, former allies the United States and the Soviet Union began an open yet restricted rivalry that became known as the Cold War and played out around the world until the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991. Many conflicts, such as the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Arab-Israeli wars, acted as proxy wars for the U.S.-Soviet competition....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Educational Publishing in association with Rosen Educational Services 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909 COL

Summary: A sweeping look at nearly five decades of global history, a crystallization of a massive, three-year-long effort helmed by award-winning documentarian Jeremy Isaacs (The World at War). Isaacs's team shot more than 1,000 hours of original footage and gathered archival footage from all over the world to include historically important, and often emotionally stunning, images, many never before seen...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV COL

Westad, Odd Arne

Summary: "We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Bancroft Prize-winning scholar Odd Arne Westad argues that the Cold War must be understood as a global ideological confrontation, with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 WES

Honne (Musical group)

Contents: Warm On A Cold Night -- Til The Evening -- Someone That Loves You -- All In The Value -- Treat You Right -- Out Of My Control -- Coastal Love -- It Ain't Wrong Loving You -- The Night -- Good Together -- One At A Time Please -- FHKD.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES HON

Summary: This episode of Rockets! looks at post-WW II rocketry and the creation of the first Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. The U.S. military developed the science and technology that would explore the outer reaches of the earth's atmosphere. This effort was redirected during the Cold War, fueled by a desperate race with the U.S.S.R. to deploy nuclear-tipped ICBMs, and later to orbit the first...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1997

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Summary: Helps children understand the relationship between water, air and heat and how they interact to make weather happen. Children also learn how to build their own homemade weather station.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkeroo 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WAY

Summary: The 1950s in America were a time of nostalgia and neurosis. Factories poured out goods, the dollar was powerful, and the United States - filled with the heady optimism of victory in World War II - believed that it could politically, culturally, and militarily lead the world. But the decade also saw the solidification of the Iron Curtain in Europe, the entrenchment of Communism in China, years...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1984

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Hornfischer, James D.

Summary: "A close-up, action-filled narrative about the crucial role the U.S. Navy played in the early years of the Cold War, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Fleet at Flood Tide This landmark account of the U.S. Navy in the Cold War, Who Can Holdthe Sea, combines narrative history with scenes of stirring adventure on--and under--the high seas. In 1945, at the end of World War II, the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2022

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Summary: The post Cold War era began with a decade of conflicts often mediated by the United States as the world's only remaining superpower. The September 11 terrorist attacks, however, marked the dawning of a new era. The United States became preoccupied by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, while around the world, new challenges and threats emerged: a more assertive Russia, an increasingly powerful...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Educational Publishing in association with Rosen Educational Services 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909 POS

Summary: This program examines how brand identity is influenced by consumer perceptions through the struggle between Coca-Cola, icon of American culture, and rivals Qibla Cola and Mecca Cola for market share in Muslim locales. Qibla's Zafer Iqbal and Mecca's Tawfiq Mathlouthi tell the story of two opportunistic, politically correct Davids taking on a marketplace Goliath-and each other-while Coke...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: Set in 1968 in Chicago at the time of the Democratic National Convention, this is the story of a TV cameraman and his involvement with the realities of hate and hypocrisy he finds in his filming.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MED

Green, Sara

Summary: ""Engaging images accompany information about Coca-Cola. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--Provided by publisher"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media, Inc. 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 338.7 GRE

Russell, Luther

Contents: Deep feelings -- Can't be sad -- The sound of rock & roll -- Corvette summer -- At your feet -- Have you heart? -- Sad lady -- Talkin' to myself -- Blue balloon -- Can't turn away

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2019

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RUS

Gellately, Robert

Summary: This book is a chilling, riveting account based on newly released Russian documentation that reveals Joseph Stalin's true motives -- and the extent of his enduring commitment to expanding the Soviet empire -- during the years in which he seemingly collaborated with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the capitalist West. At the Big Three conferences of World War II, Stalin...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.084 GEL

Llanas, Sheila Griffin

Summary: In this title, unwrap the life of talented Coca-Cola Inventor John Pemberton! Readers will enjoy getting the scoop on this Food Dude, beginning with his childhood in Georgia. Students can follow Pembertons success story from his early days in the Confederate Army to his work in medicine after the Civil War and his invention of Coca-Cola. Pembertons family life and the sale of his secret recipe...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LLA

MacGregor, Iain

Summary: "Checkpoint Charlie is the story of the men and women - from both sides of the Cold War's political divide - who lived, served on, or escaped through the Berlin Wall during its life span (13th August 1961 - 9th November 1989). This physical monstrosity created by the East German communist state was to divide one of the most beautiful and by 1961, ruined cities of the world; dividing families,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 943 MAC

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.155 MAC

Summary: Totally reptile!: Discover the last living remnants of the dinosaur era - the awesome reptiles who roam our planet. Come face to face with crocodiles, snakes, scorpions and other totally rockin' reptiles and bugs. Crazy creepy crawlers: Nature's neatest creepy crawlers are here for you to explore.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Marshmallow Media Group 2007

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WAY

Summary: Likened to "a strange religion. with millions of invisible believers," Radio Free Europe gave listeners in Eastern Bloc countries a much-needed alternative to government media. This program examines the impact of RFE broadcasts on Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania and the lengths to which Romanian authorities went to suppress U.S.-backed radio. Viewers learn how the 1977 Vrancea Earthquake enabled...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010

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Summary: "Discussion of advantages and disadvantages associated with the use of coal as a source of energy."--From source other than the Library of Congress

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenhaven Press 2007

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 553.24 COA

Shank, Bud.

Contents: Wailing vessel -- Baby's birthday party -- You don't now what love is -- Sing something simple -- Valve head -- Cool fool -- Little girl blue -- Mobile -- Wailing vessel -- Low life -- When your lover has gone -- Out of this world -- There's a small hotel -- Rustic hop -- You are too beautiful -- With wind and rain in your hair -- Low life.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Fresh Sound Recordings 2003

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ Shank

Spence, Alexander.

Contents: Little hands -- Cripple Creek -- Diana -- Margaret-tiger rug -- Weighted down (The prison song) -- War in peace -- Broken heart -- All come to meet her -- Books of Moses -- Dixie peach promenade -- Lawrence of euphoria -- Grey ; Afro -- This time he has come -- It's the best thing for you -- Keep everything under your hat -- Furry heroine (Halo of gold) -- Givin' up things -- If I'm good -- You...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sundazed 1999

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK Spenc

Cold War Kids

Contents: Love is mystical -- Can we hang on? -- So tied up (featuring Bishop Briggs) -- Restless -- LA river -- No reason to run -- Open up the heavens -- Invincible -- Wilshire protest -- Luck down -- Ordinary idols -- Cameras always on -- Part of the night -- Free to breathe.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2017

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK COL

War (Musical group)

Contents: Disc 1. -- Spill the wine. -- Tobacco Road. -- All day music. -- Slippi' into darkness. -- Get down. -- Nappy head. -- The world is a ghetto. -- City, country, city. -- The Cisco kid. -- Where was you at. -- Four cornered room. -- Gypsy man. -- Me and baby brother. -- Deliver the word. -- Southern part of Texas. -- Ballero. -- Why can't we be friends?. -- Disc 2. -- Low rider. -- Don't let no...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Records 2003

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES WAR

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