Johnson, David K.
Summary: The McCarthy era is generally considered the worst period of political repression in recent American history. But while the famous question, "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" resonated in the halls of Congress, security officials were posing another question at least as frequently, if more discreetly: "Information has come to the attention of the Civil Service...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.6 JOHOld Gays (Group)
Summary: Ranging in age from 67 to 80, Mick, Jessay, Robert, and Bill are survivors whose lives have been transformed by sweeping cultural change. It was their generation that was devastated by AIDS, a health crisis that deprived us of so many brilliant, creative lives, including many of their friends. They offer their collective wisdom on a rainbow of topics, including coming out, sex, gay liberation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 OLDSummary: For decades, the medical establishment has focused on producing pharmaceutical weapons to fight cancer-but some scientists are disillusioned with that approach. This program looks at developments in late-20th-century cancer research, showing how environmental and dietary studies have become marginalized. Biostatistician John Bailar laments conventional wisdom, calling for more preventive...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Belew, Adrian
Contents: Of bow and drum -- Word play drum beat -- Six string -- Conversation piece -- All her love is mine -- I remember how to forget -- What do you know (part 1) -- Op zop too wah -- A plate of words -- Time waits -- What do you know (part 2) -- Modern man hurricane blues -- In my backyard -- A plate of guitar -- Live in a tree -- Something to do -- Beautiful -- High wire guitar -- Sky blue red bird...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Passenger 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BELSummary: This A&E Special chronicles the dual climax of World War II: the sweeping Allied advance in Europe that crushed the Third Reich and the final thrust in the Pacific that destroyed Imperial Japan. The Nuremberg trials and the start of the Cold War are also discussed.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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War on Drugs
Contents: Under the pressure -- Red eyes -- Suffering -- An ocean in between the waves -- Disappearing -- Eyes to the wind -- The haunting idle -- Burning -- Lost in the dream -- In reverse.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Secretly Canadian 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WARHoover, Herbert
Summary: The culmination of an extraordinary literary project that Herbert Hoover launched during World War II, his "magnum opus"--at last published nearly fifty years after its completion--offers a revisionist reexamination of the war and its cold war aftermath and a sweeping indictment of the "lost statesmanship" of Franklin Roosevelt. Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5373 HOOSummary: As tears go by: Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 LITTouré, Vieux Farka
Contents: Diack so -- Safare -- Doni doni -- Yer gando -- Nouhoume maiga -- Kele magni -- Future -- Allah wawi -- Peace -- Ay bakoy.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Six Degrees Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN TOULemmey, Huw
Summary: "Part revisionist history, part historical biography, Bad Gays is based on the hugely popular podcast series. The book subverts the notion of gay icons and queer heroes and asks what we can learn about LGBTQ history, sexuality, and identity through its villains and baddies"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 LEMSummary: Chronicles the final decades of the American frontier from the time of the Gold Rush until after the last gasp of the Indian wars at Wounded Knee.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WAYWar (Musical group)
Contents: The vision of Rassan (Dedication/Roll on kirk). -- Tobacco road (Tobacco Road/I have a dream/Tobacco Road). -- Spill the wine. -- Blues for Memphis Slim (Birth/Mother Earth/Mr. Charlie/Danish pastry/Mother Earth). -- You're no stranger.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Avenue 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BURSpence, 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 SpencSummary: How well do we understand the neurology of learning? Why does the brain's ability to learn diminish as we age? Can science find a way to extend brain "fitness," even for the very old? This program addresses those questions as it describes important medical experiments and studies. Topics include the central role of nerve cell connections in learning and cognitive development; cerebral...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Lowenstein, Roger
Summary: "In Ways and Means, journalist Roger Lowenstein reveals the unlikely story of how Abraham Lincoln used the urgency of financing the Civil War to transform a union of states into one united nation. Through a financial lens, he explores how this second American revolution, led by Lincoln, his cabinet, and his congress, changed the direction of the country"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 LOWShowalter, Elaine
Summary: "Julia Howe (1819 -1910) was a beautiful, studious New York heiress and aspiring poet when she married Bostonian Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, a hero of the Greek war of independence against the Turks and an internationally acclaimed pioneer in the education of the blind. Their marriage united two exceptional people. Together the Howes knew many of the key figures of their era, from Charles Dickens...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOWE, JULIA WARD SHOContents: When merit was not enough: Albert Sidney Johnston and Confederate defeat in the West, 1862 / Steven E. Woodworth -- "The responsibility is great": Joseph E. Johnston and the war in Virginia / Alan Downs -- Fighting for defeat? George B. McClellan's Peninsula campaign and the change of base to the James River / Ethan S. Rafuse --Generalship on trial: Don Carlos Buell's campaign to Chattanooga /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.73 CIVBlabey, Aaron
Summary: "The bad news? The world is ending. The good news? The Bad Guys are back to save it! Sure, they might have to "borrow" a rocket. And there might be something nasty in one of the spacesuits. And Mr. Piranha miiiiight have eaten too many bean burritos. Surviving this mission may only be one small step for man, but it's one giant leap for the Bad Guys."--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Bad Guys Blabey 2018Summary: This program illustrates the events of World War I as it was waged in the conflict's primary theater of operations, Europe. Topics include the root causes of the war and the military alliances that ignited it; the introduction of modern weaponry such as machine guns, poison gas, fighter planes, and U-boats; America's decisive involvement, including the participation of women and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Scott, Cavan
Summary: "Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are on a mission for the Jedi Council, but they need some help! With over twenty possible outcomes, readers will have to think like a true Jedi to keep Obi-Wan and Anakin safe from Separatist threats, bounty hunters, and much, much more! With so many different story paths, the adventures never end!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Lucasfilm Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SCOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SCOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SWCYDAmbrose, Stephen E.
Summary: An extraordinary chronicle of World War II for young readers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 AMBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 940.53 AMBDepartment of Eagles (Musical group)
Contents: In ear park -- No one does it like you -- Phantom other -- Teenagers -- Around the bay -- Herringbone -- Classical records -- Waves of rye -- Therapy car noise -- Floating on the lehigh -- Balmy night.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 4AD 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DEPHonne (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