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 SpencWarrick, Karen Clemens.
Summary: Traces the history of the War of 1812, examining the maritime and boundary issues that caused it and highlighting the roles of famous personalities, including Oliver Hazard Perry, Andrew Jackson, and Dolley Madison.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.52 WARSmith, Graeme
Summary: A personal look at the war in Afghanistan from the perspective of a Canadian war correspondent.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 SMISummary: 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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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 WARSummary: With debate over the war in Iraq still dominating policy discussions, The Case for War, a part of the PBS film series, America at a Crossroads, follows former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle as he travels the globe, defending and debating the neoconservative case for an assertive American foreign policy. From a conversation with Abdel Bari Atwan, editor of Arabic newspaper Al Quds...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Bright Eyes (Musical group)
Contents: Big picture -- Method acting -- False advertising -- You will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will -- Lover I don't have to love -- Bowl of oranges -- Don't know when but a day is gonna come -- Nothing gets crossed out -- Make war -- Waste of paint -- From a balance beam -- Laura Laurent -- Let's not shit ourselves (to love and to be loved).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Saddle Creek 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BRIContents: Little hands / Robert Plant -- Cripple Creek / Mark Lanegan -- Diana / Alejandro Escovedo -- Margaret Tiger-Rug / The Durocs -- Weighted down : the prison song / Jay Farrar & the Sir Omaha Quintet -- War in peace / Mudhoney -- Broken heart / Robyn Hitchcock -- All come to meet her / Diesel Park West -- Book of Moses / Tom Waits -- Dixie peach promenade : yin for yang / Greg Dulli -- Lawrence of...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Birdman 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MORRosenberg, Ian
Summary: ""The Fight for Free Speech" explores ten cases that define First Amendment freedoms"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 ROSSummary: Technological innovations are penetrating ever more deeply into the substance of society-faster, in fact, than people can assimilate them. As ethical dilemmas and unforeseen consequences pile up, will techno-enthusiasts succeed in weaving a net that will ultimately trap us all? Following a concise summary of Technoscience, this disturbing program addresses diverse topics such as virtual...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: He's super-smart, he's student body president, and he's expected to follow family tradition by applying to medical school upon graduation. But though Chetan isn't opposed to being a doctor, he's also interested in designing cars. In this program a career specialist and a life coach help Chetan sort out which, if either, of his interests are realistic. He presents some sketches for a new...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Hirsch, Shelley.
Contents: Aida, aida -- Bessie -- Phillip -- Jacob -- Blue -- So tender! -- Club enchantment -- Blue moon -- War of dreams -- The Shaman -- Reaching for Jerry -- Sitting in a room.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tzadik 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD AVANT-GARDE HIRSummary: "Rare and fascinating films preserved in the museum's archives. Many have never been released to the public before and are presented here, complete and uncut, for the very first time. ... [These 24 training and public information films cover a] range of subjects from ditching procedures for Halifax bomber crews ... to the best way to rescue crashed fighter pilots from their cockpits. There are...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Vision 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ROYEdstrom, Erik
Summary: "A whistle-blowing manifesto about America's unchallenged war machine, from a new kind of military hero. First: Imagine your own death. Second: Imagine America's wars from "the other side." Third: Imagine what might have been if the war were never fought.Un-American poses these startling circumstances in a searing examination of America and Americans at war. Erik Edstrom grew up in suburban...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDSTROM, ERIK EDSMcCraw, David Edward
Summary: "David E. McGraw recounts his experiences as the top newsroom lawyer for The New York Times during the most turbulent era for journalism in generations. In October 2016, Donald Trump's lawyers demanded that The New York Times retract an article about two women who accused the then presidential candidate of touching them inappropriately. David E. McCraw sent a scathing letter of refusal that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: All Points Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 MCCManning, Chandra
Summary: Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the root of the war, and they began running to the Union army. By the war's end, nearly half a million had taken refuge behind Union lines in improvised "contraband camps". These were crowded and dangerous places, with conditions approaching those of a humanitarian crisis, yet families and individuals took...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MANSummary: 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 WAYNeruda, Pablo
Summary: Presents the impassioned poems that the future Nobel prize-winner wrote while serving as Chilean consul in the Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 NEROstrovsky, Arkady
Summary: "A highly original narrative history by The Economist’s Moscow bureau chief that does for modern Russia what Evan Osnos did for China in Age of Ambition,"--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 OSTKrieger, Emily
Summary: "Can you spot the truth from a lie? Kids can test their sleuth skills in this gut-bustingly funny follow-up title in the exciting Real or Fake series. Can you detect a hoax from the real deal? See right through photo trickery? Spot the phony logic in a story in seconds? Put your sleuthing skills to work in this riotously fun book! See if you can find the truth behind bizarre stories, faulty...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2018
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Summary: Drawn from personal correspondence of people located in the Great Valley Counties of Augusta, Virginia, and Franklin, Pennsylvania, a ground level perspective of how the war and emancipation affected those living there.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 AYEWar (Musical group)
Contents: Magic mountain (4:18). -- Spill the wine (4:05). -- Tobacco road (3:59). -- Mother earth (3:59). -- Love is all around (3:48). -- Home dream (7:14). -- Bare back ride (4:09). -- Nights in white satin (4:38). -- Beautiful new born child (4:03). -- Paint it black (4:04). -- They can't take away our music (4:53). -- Gun (4:10). -- Home cookin' (4:10).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Avenue Records 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BURWyeth, Sharon Dennis
Summary: "Learn more about Juneteenth, a holiday that celebrates the end of chattel slavery in the United States in this Step 3 History Reader"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE WYEWalker, Peter
Contents: Me and my lady -- Johnny Cuckoo -- Early in the morning -- Pretty bird -- Grey morning sun -- Fifty miles -- Wonder.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Delmore Recording Society 2013