Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.912 LAWBurns, Lawrence D.
Summary: "We stand on the brink of a technological revolution. In the near future, most of us will not own automobiles, but will travel instead in driverless electric vehicles summoned at the touch of an app. We will be liberated from driving, so that the time we spend in cars can be put to more productive use. We will prevent more than 90 percent of car crashes, provide freedom of mobility to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 388.3 BURWalkinshaw, Lawrence H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cranbrook Institute of Science 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.8 WALGraham, Lawrence.
Summary: Follows the lives and fortunes of the Bruce family, from Blanche Kelso Bruce, who was born a slave in 1841 and became the first black person to serve a full term in the Senate, to the scandal that sent his grandson to prison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 GRALawrence, Ellen
Summary: You can't go a day without seeing, drinking, or using water in some form, but you probably have questions about its properties. Lawrence shows you why water is special, how it changes from liquid to ice or steam, and why capillary action is important.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 553.7 LAWGoldstone, Lawrence
Summary: "Beginning in 1876, the Court systematically dismantled both the equal protection guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment, at least for African-Americans, and what seemed to be the guarantee of the right to vote in the Fifteenth. And so, of the more than 500,000 African-Americans who had registered to vote across the South, the vast majority former slaves, by 1906, less than ten percent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 GOLFreedman, Lawrence
Summary: In 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, wrote a short story about a war fought from underwater submersibles that included the sinking of passenger ships. At the time, it was dismissed by the British generals and admirals of the day not because the idea of submarines was technically unfeasible, but because no one could imagine that any nation would be so depraved as to sink...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 FREBuell, Lawrence.
Contents: Birth, heyday, and seeming decline -- Reborn from the critical ashes -- The reluctant master text : the making and remakings of Hawthorne's The scarlet letter -- "Success" stories from Benjamin Franklin to the dawn of modernism -- Belated ascendancy : Fitzgerald to Faulkner, Dreiser to Wright and Bellow -- Up-from stories in hyphenated America : Ellison, Roth, and beyond -- Uncle Tom's cabin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.009 BUELindsey, Lawrence
Summary: "An audacious and desperately needed primer on how America's Ruling Class have upended the Constitution and taken over our country--and how we must unite to regain control of our liberty. A Ruling Class have emerged in America against the hopes and designs of our Founding Fathers. Over the last hundred years, they have rejected the Constitution and expanded their own power, slowly at first and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.5 LINGoldstone, Lawrence
Summary: An evocative chronicle of the battle that led to America's landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling shares insights into the abuses of the "separate but equal" system and how such courageous activists as Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois helpedend legal segregation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323.1196 GOLRoberts, Lawrence
Summary: "A cinematic history of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history, in Richard Nixon's Washington"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 ROBO'Donnell, Lawrence
Summary: "The 1968 U.S. Presidential election was the young Lawrence O'Donnell's political awakening, and in the decades since it has remained one of his abiding fascinations. For years he has deployed one of America's shrewdest political minds to understanding its dynamics, not just because it is fascinating in itself, but because in it is contained the essence of what makes America different, and how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324 ODOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 324.973 ODOGoldstone, Lawrence
Summary: "The feud between this nation's great air pioneers, the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss, was a collision of unyielding and profoundly American personalities. On one side, a pair of tenacious siblings who together had solved the centuries-old riddle of powered, heavier-than-air flight. On the other, an audacious motorcycle racer whose innovative aircraft became synonymous in the public mind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.13 GOLLawrence, Tim
Summary: "As the 1970s gave way to the '80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. [This book] chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and social eruptions that took place in the city's subterranean party venues as well as the way they cultivated breakthrough movements in art, performance, video, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 LAWGoldstone, Lawrence
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of Birdmen comes a revelatory new history of the birth of the automobile, an illuminating and entertaining true tale of invention, competition, and the visionaries, hustlers, and swindlers who came together to transform the world. In 1900, the Automobile Club of America sponsored the nation's first car show in New York's Madison Square Garden. The event was a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 GOLPaterson, Lawrence
Summary: "The first complete history of the U-boat war in its entirety, a story which began on the very first day of hostilities in 1939 and did not end until the final torpedo sinking on 7 May 1945. It details the Wehrmacht's disastrous decision to despatch Dönitz's U-boats to the Mediterranean; the actions of U-boats at the extremities of the Eastern Front, where, despite the legendary destruction of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Osprey Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 PATGoldstone, Lawrence
Summary: "On Easter Sunday of 1873, just eight years after the Civil War ended, a band of white supremacists marched into Grant Parish, Louisiana, and massacred over one hundred unarmed African Americans. The court case that followed would reach the highest court in the land. Yet, following one of the most ghastly and barbaric incidents of mass murder in American history, not a single person was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 976 GOLEstleman, Loren D.
Contents: The bandit -- The tree on Execution Hill -- The angel of Santa Sofia -- Rossiter's stand -- The pilgrim -- The pioneer strain -- Young Mister St. John -- A web of books -- Mago's bride -- Bad blood -- Kate -- Hell on the draw -- Beds and bullets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTGreco, Thomas H.
Contents: My purpose and my journey -- mega-crisis and metamorphosis -- can civilization be saved? -- the contest for rulership -- two opposing philosophies -- central banking and the rise of the money power -- the new world order -- usury and the engine of destruction -- the nature and cause of inflation -- the separation of money and state -- the evolution of money -- from commodity money to credit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.49 GREWilkinson, Richard H.
Summary: "With hundreds of illustrations and specially commissioned drawings, this is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the deities that lay at the heart of Egyptian religion and society."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.31 WILLawrence, R. D.
Summary: Observation of a captive pack of untamed wolves and the comparison of their behavior to free wild wolves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.74 LAWLawrence, D H
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWJackson, Robert H.
Summary: "Robert H. Jackson was one of the giants of the Roosevelt era: an Attorney General, a still-revered Supreme Court Justice, and, not least important, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's close friends and advisers. His intimate memoir of FDR, written in the early 1950s before Jackson's untimely death, has remained unpublished for fifty years. Here is that newly discovered memoir." "Written with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. JACPayne, M. D. (Matthew D.)
Summary: "Star Trek remains one of the most popular science-fiction series of all time, and Captain Kirk is one of the most famous and highly decorated captains in the history of Starfleet. Viewers follow his adventures through space as the commanding officer of starships like the U.S.S. Enterprise. But did you know that Kirk wasn't even the show's first captain? And that the Star Trek series almost...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021