Contents: The ambush (Lu Pei-yuan, pʻipʻa) (6:29) -- Some ways of touching the chʻin (3:52) ; Water and clouds over the rivers Hsiao and Hsiang (10:11) (Tsar Teh-yun, chʻin) -- Wild geese descend on level sands (Chan Hon-kwong, cheng) (7:28) -- High moon : a composition in twelve movements describing the course of the moon from its rising to its setting (C.K. Wong, nan hsiao ; Lu Pei-yuan, pʻi pʻa)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy International 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN ELESummary: This was the age of the Tokugawa family, the era of Edo, a period of over two-and-a-half centuries during which Japan was hermetically sealed off from the rest of the world and only a few Dutch and Chinese-constantly watched and treated like pariahs-were allowed to live on Japanese soil and to trade with the Japanese. This program treats the history of Japan during this period: the established...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy 1976
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.374Ayers, Edward L.
Summary: The early decades of the nineteenth century saw the expansion of slavery, Native dispossession, and wars with Canada and Mexico. Mass immigration and powerful religious movements sent tremors through American society. Even as the powerful defended the status quo, others defied voices from the margins moved the center; eccentric visions altered the accepted wisdom, and acts of empathy questioned...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 AYECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 AYENational Society, Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century
Summary: This current edition of the Lineage Book was authorized for the benefit of newer members and Chapters, prospective members, and other researchers of early colonial ancestors. It is an index with both original and supplemental lines and services, names of the living descendant member with the Chapter affiliation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield Company 2013
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.373 ROB 1896-1999National Society, Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century
Summary: This current edition of the Lineage Book was authorized for the benefit of newer members and Chapters, prospective members, and other researchers of early colonial ancestors. It is an index with both original and supplemental lines and services, names of the living descendant member with the Chapter affiliation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield Company 2013
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.373 ROB 1896-1989Daughters of the American Revolution
Summary: Highlights some of the members of the Daughters of the American Revolution who made an impact during the suffrage era. Book published to accompany an exhibit by the same name.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 ORDSummary: Covers all U.S. and Canadian models of Subaru coupes, sedans and wagons, ff-1, 1300, 1400, 1600, 1800 and BRAT, for model years 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1984.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chilton Book Company 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 Subaru CoupesOates, Stephen B.
Contents: The speakers : Thomas Jefferson -- Henry Clay -- Nat Turner -- William Lloyd Garrison -- John C. Calhoun -- Frederick Douglass -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- George Fitzhugh -- Stephen A. Douglas -- Abraham Lincoln -- John Brown -- Jefferson Davis -- Mary Boykin Chesnut.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 OATZakaria, Fareed
Summary: The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions--past and present--that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLESummary: In 1540, Portuguese navigators and Jesuit priests landed in a Japan of shoguns and samurai, where the arts of warfare had been refined to hitherto unknown heights of cruelty. Although Westernisms quickly became the rage in Japan, the Japanese soon recognized the long arm of colonialism. Christian priests and converts were persecuted and martyred and, in 1650, Japan shut tight its doors to the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Derks, Scott.
Summary: Derks and Smith illustrate the value of the dollar during the Colonial period, the Revolutionary War, during Western expansion, and slavery, up to 1865. Each chapter has a chronology and information on social and economic issues, income, everyday household expenses for services and fees, exchange rates and inflation, the slave trade, and prices of commodities and specific items. Detailed lists...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grey House Pub. 2005
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 338.52 DERMortimer, Ian
Summary: The author shows everyday life for people living in late 17th century Britain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942 MORBangs, Jeremy Dupertuis
Summary: Transcriptions of more than four hundred Native American land conveyances from Plymouth Colony court records are now accessible to researchers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2002
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 BangsContents: 3 Branles de Bourgogne / Jacques Moderne --Torion-Pavane-Gaillarde / Pierre Attaignant (Collegium Aureum) -- Soleasi nel mio cor; I'vo piangendo; Rendz-moy mon coeur / Orlando Di Lasso (Cantus CFolln) --Kyrie-Christe-Kyrie; Gloria / Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis) -- Dance music / Tielman Susato (Collegium Aureum) -- Udite, lacrimosi spirti d'averno / Giaches De...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: DHM/BMG Classics, c p1997. 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL CENSummary: Founded in 1230, Scotland's Pluscarden Abbey still pulses with the prayers and spiritual pursuits of Benedictine monks. Abbot Hugh Gilbert describes their work in reassuringly human terms, framing the Christian battle against Satanic evil as an inner struggle within one's own psyche. But, as this program shows, the culture which brought Pluscarden into existence was rigidly institutional-and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: In the aftermath of the Revolution, a newly independent America confronted one of its most daunting challenges: how to build a united nation out of thirteen disparate colonies. This program profiles the passionate crusade launched by Thomas Jefferson and continued by Noah Webster, Horace Mann, and others to create a common system of tax-supported schools that would mix people of different...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Anderson, Robert Charles
Contents: Structure of the great migration -- Narrative of the Winthrop migration -- Structure of the Winthrop migration -- Overview -- Genealogical sketches.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Great Migration Study Project 2012
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.341 AndersonJackson, Ronald Vern.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Accelerated Indexing Systems 1978
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 JacksHakim, Joy.
Summary: Presents the history of the Native Americans from earliest times through the arrival of the first Europeans.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.1 HAKSummary: Writing in the late 1200s, the Spanish nobleman Ramon Lull listed various duties which no knight could ignore. They included fidelity to the monarch, defense of the Christian faith-and, only slightly lower on the list, maintaining order among the tenants on one's estate. This program examines the means by which such political "ideals" were implemented and enforced during the Middle Ages....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Petersen, Christine.
Summary: "Explore the life of a colonial apothecary and his importance to the community, as well as everyday life, responsibilities, and social practices during that time"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 615 PETMara, Wil.
Summary: "Explore the life of a colonial schoolmaster and his importance to the community, as well as everyday life, responsibilities, and social practices during that time"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 371.1 MARSummary: Medieval science wasn't nonsense: it could conceive of a spherical Earth, for example. But the medieval scholar discerned both natural and supernatural forces at work in the cosmos, reading an eclipse as a sign from God as well as the result of planetary movement, and populating even the most rigorous maps of the era with sea monsters. This program explores that fascinating conceptual dichotomy...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010