Contents: A Tale of Two Men at War (1:44) -- Defense of Remagen (1:49) -- The Rhine (2:17) -- Allied Troops Advance to Remagen (3:41) -- Allied Troops Across the Rhine (3:47) -- Travesty at the Ludendorff Bridge (2:13) -- Soldiers in France (2:56) -- After the Bridgehead at the Rhine (1:06) -- Credits: Bridgehead at the Rhine (1:06)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Contents: American B-29s (3:53) -- Japanese Defense (1:44) -- Tokyo Is Burning (1:50) -- Air Assault on Japan (5:46) -- Japan's Final Defensive Actions (1:56) -- Atom Bombs (3:19) -- Future of Warfare (1:00) -- Credits: 'The Bombing of Japan' (1:06)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: During the westward migration, stone and wood forts were refuge to tired pioneers. This program looks at Fort Union in New Mexico on the Santa Fe Trail and other outposts of civilization in the West.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Contents: Two Men At War (1:38) -- Credits: Anzio (0:23) -- Operation Shingle (3:25) -- 6th Army Core in Anzio (2:10) -- Expansion of Anzio Beach Head (2:57) -- The Anzio Front (2:03) -- Surviving Anzio (2:24) -- Hell's Half Acre (2:07) -- Anzio Pocket (1:26) -- Spring Offensive in Italy (3:20) -- German Retreat in Italy (1:31) -- After Anzio (0:39) -- Credits: Anzio (1:06)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Contents: Battle of Atlantic Begins (2:11) -- British Convoys (3:45) -- U-Boat Attacks (3:43) -- Convoy Challenges (5:23) -- U-Boat Surprise (1:55) -- Anti-Submarine Measures (2:15) -- Credits: 'Battle of the Atlantic' (1:05)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Contents: Japanese Troops in Burma (1:51) -- Battle in Kohima (2:22) -- Army Supplies in Kohima (1:39) -- Weather Affects Battle in India (1:57) -- Japanese Retreat to Burma (3:28) -- Casualties and Supplies in India (2:07) -- Irawati Navy (1:34) -- Battle for Mandalay (3:00) -- The Forgotten Front (0:56) -- Credits: Burma (1:04)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Contents: Lost Evidence of Normandy (1:37) -- Caen: July 10, 1944 (1:41) -- Code Name: Overlord (1:47) -- The Bocage (2:46) -- Operation Jupiter (3:22) -- Battle for Eterville and Maltot (3:06) -- Battle for Hill 112 (5:21) -- Operation Goodwood (0:56) -- American Forces in the Bocage (1:46) -- St Lo and Operation Cobra (2:16) -- Operation Cobra (3:09) -- American Breakthrough in Normandy (3:35) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Craven, John P.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.933 CRARosenbaum, Ron.
Summary: An alarming, deeply reported analysis of how close--and how often--the world has come to nuclear annihilation, and why we are once again on the brink.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.02 ROSContents: Operation Market Garden (2:12) -- Battle Plans for Arnhem (1:36) -- Flight over Arnhem (2:34) -- Situation at Arnhem (3:32) -- Second Air Drop of Arnhem (3:32) -- The Cauldron (3:04) -- Arnhem in Ruins (1:41) -- The Men of Arnhem (0:57) -- Credits: Arnhem (1:08) --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Contents: Japanese Relocation (2:32) -- Japanese-American Soldiers in Combat (1:59) -- The Gothic Line (2:15) -- Allied Diversionary Attack (4:45) -- British Diversionary Attack (4:06) -- German Retreat (3:37) -- Credits: 'Battle of the Gothic Line' (1:05) --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Austen, Ben
Summary: "FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF HIGH-RISERS comes a groundbreaking and honest investigation into the crisis of the American criminal justice system-through the lens of parole. Perfect for fans of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy The United States, alone, locks up a quarter of the world's incarcerated people. And yet apart from clichés-paying a debt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 364.6 AUSLarson, Doran
Summary: "In Inside Knowledge incarcerated people step forth as the primary witnesses and documentarians of the American prison's historical and ongoing defeat of the four cardinal rationales for the legal caging of human beings: rehabilitations, deterrence, containment, and retribution"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 365 LARSchmitt, Eric
Summary: Reveals the Pentagon's covert strategy for countering terrorism that developed when initial efforts following September 11 were unsuccessful, explaining how multiple agencies have adapted Cold War practices to disrupt key jihadist networks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 SCHSummary: DWB: Driving While Black. For many African-Americans, simply having dark skin seems to be grounds for being pulled over on the highway and searched for drugs. Police call it "profiling," based on years of successful drug interdiction through traffic stops, but angry and humiliated victims call it "racial profiling"-a blatant form of discrimination-and want it stopped. In part one of this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Chertoff, Michael
Summary: "Chertoff [posits] that our laws and policies surrounding the protection of personal information, written for an earlier time, need to be ... overhauled in the Internet era. On the one hand, the collection of data--more widespread by business than by government, and impossible to stop--should be facilitated as an ultimate protection for society. On the other, standards under which information...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 343 CHEHemenway, David
Summary: On an average day in the United States, guns are used to kill over ninety people and wound about three hundred more; yet such facts are accepted as a natural consequence of supposedly high American rates of violence. Private Guns, Public Health reveals the advantages of treating gun violence as a consumer safety and public health problem—an approach that emphasizes prevention over punishment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2017
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Summary: Since prehistory, bunkers have been built as protection from cataclysmic social and environmental forces, and as places of power and transformation. Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our greatest fears- from pandemics to climate change and nuclear war. And once you look, it doesn't take long to start seeing bunkers everywhere. In Bunker, acclaimed urban explorer and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.69 GARKanefield, Teri
Summary: Offers an overview of crime and the American criminal justice system, using extensive examples of real cases to illustrate difficult questions about what is considered criminal and what punishment is appropriate for different types of crimes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364 KANGrim, Patrick.
Summary: Philosophical examination of the wide range of decisions all of us encounter in pursuing our lives. Professor Grim places the accent on individual choice covering questions about evolution and ethics, about whether punishment is justified by retribution or by deterrence and about the differing lessons drawn from life's worst horrors by both religious and anti-religious traditions.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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Summary: Can Israel live with a nuclear Iran, or could the time be near for a preemptive strike? Is deterrence of a nuclear Iran possible? And if so, is there substantial danger of an escalation to a nuclear war nobody intends? Panelists debate these questions.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2013
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Summary: The submarine, first introduced to America's fleet in 1900, is today a 300-foot-long, 30-foot-wide vessel filled with some of the world's most sophisticated technology and courageous, skilled, all-volunteer personnel. In each submarine, over 100 crew members work together for months at a time to protect U.S. interests around the world. Written by an outstanding team, United States Submarines...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Books 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 359.93 UNISchell, Jonathan
Summary: Brave, eloquent, and controversial, these classic works by Jonathan Schell illuminate the nuclear threat to our civilization, and envision a way forward to peace. In The Fate of the Earth–an international bestseller that inspired the nuclear freeze movement–Schell distills the best available scientific and technical information to imagine the apocalyptic aftereffects of nuclear war. Dramatizing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1747 SCHRose, Stephanie
Summary: "Garden Alchemy is a hands-on guide for do-it-yourself gardeners who love to make things (and save money doing it!). This gardening project book is packed with creative and useful garden-related products you can make yourself. Each customizable project allows you to reduce expenses and fix common garden problems with minimal effort. Recipes for mixing your own potting soils and homemade organic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cool Springs Press 2020