Summary: In 1983, the Reagan Administration's report, A Nation at Risk, shattered public confidence in America's school system and sparked a new wave of education reform. This program explores the impact of the "free market" experiments that ensued, from vouchers and charter schools to privatization-all with the goal of meeting tough new academic standards. Today, the debate rages on: do these diverse...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program focuses on Berlin, where Hannah Hoch, George Grosz, and John Heartfield politicized the anarchist Dada movement, uniting it with the extreme Left. Nearby, the newly formed Bauhaus School, led by founder Walter Gropius and other influential architects and artists, encouraged students to reject history and embrace new techniques, materials, and styles. The film also features Gerhard...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Sherman, Jill.
Summary: Through narrative nonfiction, tells about numerous roles of women during the war, including as spies, army nurses, factory workers, and pilots.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 SHEDowswell, Paul.
Summary: The two world wars of 1914 -1918 and 1939 -1945 cast a malevolent shadow over the entire 20th Century. This book takes you through the story of both conflicts, from the soldiers' terrifying experiences of the trenches in the First War, to the huge battles and bombing of cities in the second. Stunningly illustrated with dramatic contemporary photographs, paintings, posters and maps, this is an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: After escaping from Captain Korda on Thune, Milo and Lina track the source of a rebel transmission to a jungle planet, but they are unaware of the dangers lying in wait.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Spotlight 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC HUDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J SWaws 6Contents: Reawakening -- An early victory -- Sisterhood -- "We cannot rely on existing ideologies" -- Our bodies -- Working for change -- Themes of the eighties and nineties.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 FEMContents: You're lookin' at country / Loretta Lynn -- I ain't never / Mel Tillis -- How I got to Memphis / Bobby Bare -- It's not love (but it's not bad) / Merle Haggard -- How much more can she stand / Conway Twitty -- Lovin' on back streets / Mel Street -- She's all I got / Johnny Paycheck -- After the fire is gone / Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn -- The lord knows I'm drinking / Cal Smith -- A good year...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CONContents: (Ghost) riders in the sky -- It's been a great afternoon -- If I could only win your love -- All of me -- Room full of roses -- Amony my souvenirs -- You're the one -- Rated "X" -- Don't be angry -- I may never get to heaven -- A picture of me (without you) -- Ruby (are you mad) -- Baby boy -- Rednecks, white socks and blue ribbon beer -- Sometimes -- Feelins' -- Before my time -- I'll go to my...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time Life Music 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CONContents: Better man / Clint Black -- Cry, cry, cry / Highway 101 -- I told you so / Randy Travis -- I'll always come back / K.T. Oslin -- I wonder do you think of me / Keith Whitley -- There's a tear in my beer / Hank Williams Jr. and Hank Williams Sr. -- Set 'em up Joe / Vern Gosdin -- Bluest eyes in Texas / Restless Heart -- If you change your mind / Rosanne Cash -- What am I gonna do about you / Reba...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CONSummary: UN aids Palestinian refugees in Gaza strip; harsh conditions
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Giangreco, D. M.
Contents: Chapter 1 Korea--A Nation Divided 1 -- Chapter 2 Invasion 23 -- Chapter 3 Inch'on--The UN Strikes Back 67 -- Chapter 4 Drive to the Yalu 97 -- Chapter 5 "An Entirely New War" 127 -- Chapter 6 Attacks and Counterattacks 163 -- Chapter 7 War Along the Outposts 203 -- Chapter 8 The Air War 249 -- Chapter 9 The War at Sea 275 -- Chapter 10 The Last Battles 299.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Presidio 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.9 GIAContents: I can help / Billy Swan -- All these things / Joe Stampley -- Love is like a butterfly / Dolly Parton -- (Turn out the light and) love me tonight / Don Williams -- The door / George Jones -- Wasted days and wasted nights / Freddy Fender -- Hank Williams, you wrote my life / Moe Bandy -- Drinkin' thing / Gary Stewart -- I never go around mirrors / Lefty Frizell -- Country bumpkin / Cal Smith --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CONFreedman, Russell.
Summary: "Examines World War I, the first global war in which modern weapons inflicted mass slaughter and an estimated 20 million people were killed."--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.3 FRESummary: In June of 1950, the North Korean Army initiated a massive attack on its neighbor to the south, beginning a see-saw war that would engulf the entire Korean Peninsula. For the next three years, the United Nations and the Communists would wage a bloody and brutal war. Though the Korean conflict is often referred to as the "Forgotten War", those who fought and sacrificed for freedom will never...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Timeless Media Group 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV KORHahn, Steven
Summary: "A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's provocative reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War (and leading into the twentieth century); the next volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner. In this ambitious story of American imperial conquest and capitalist development, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Steven Hahn takes on the conventional...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 HAHGidwitz, Adam
Summary: Reimagines the second Star Wars film in which Luke Skywalker trains with Yoda to become a Jedi after a rebel defeat on the ice planet Hoth and battles Darth Vader, who reveals a startling secret to Luke during their duel. You are Luke Skywalker, taking your first steps toward becoming the greatest Jedi in the galaxy. But the way will not be easy, and the power of the dark side is strong...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Lucasfilm Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC GIDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JFIC STAContents: I don't know why you don't want me / Rosanne Cash -- Life's highway / Steve Wariner -- Why not me / The Judds -- What's a memory like you / John Schneider -- Somebody should leave / Reba McEntire -- There's a fire in the night / Alabama -- Thank God for the radio / The Kendalls -- Forgiving you was easy / Willie Nelson -- Natural high / Merle Haggard (with Janie Fricke) -- Who's gonna fill...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CONContents: All my ex's live in Texas (George Strait) -- A little bit in love (Patty Loveless) -- I sang Dixie (Dwight Yoakam) -- Don't go to strangers (T. Graham Brown) -- 80's ladies (K.T. Oslin) -- I'm no stranger to the rain (Keith Whitley) -- If it don't come easy (Tanya Tucker) -- Lynda (Steve Wariner) -- Love someone like me (Holly Dunn) -- One promise too late (Reba McEntire) -- Chill factor (Merle...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CONContents: Mr. Lovemaker/Johnny Paycheck -- We're gonna hold on/George Jones & Tammuy Wynette -- Borrowed Angel/Mel Street -- Good hearted woman/Waylon Jennings -- Man in Black/Johnny Cash -- I'm just me/Charley Pride -- One's on the way/Loretta Lynn -- Do you remember these/Statler Brothers -- You always come back(to hurting me)/Johnny Rodriguez -- Fifteen years ago/Conway Twitty -- Once more with...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CONChrisp, Peter.
Contents: Pearl Harbor -- Why war came -- Japanese conquests -- Striking back -- The battle of Midway -- Home fronts -- U.S. offensives -- The island campaign -- Attacking Japan -- Atomic bombs -- Victory and defeat.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Raintree 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5426 CHRHitchcock, William I.
Summary: “Eisenhower’s accomplishments were enormous, and loom ever larger from the vantage point of our own tumultuous times. A former general, Ike kept the peace: he ended the Korean War, avoided a war in Vietnam, adroitly managed a potential confrontation with China, and soothed relations with the Soviet Union after Stalin’s death. He guided the Republican Party to embrace central aspects of the New...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Pres HitchcockSummary: World War I altered the economic landscape of Europe and inadvertently contributed to World War II. In this program, we see how the interruption of American economic aid following the 1929 stock market crash caused havoc in the post-war European economy. The Treaty of Versailles, Germany's inability to repay its war debt, and its chronic inflation problems are discussed. Germany's problem with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Persico, Joseph E.
Summary: Explains how Franklin D. Roosevelt assumed the role of a hands-on wartime leader, discussing his contributions to military strategy and analyzing how his decisions may have helped end or prolonged the war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D PERFreedman, Russell.
Contents: Murder in Sarajevo -- Armed to the teeth -- To Berlin! To Paris! -- "The most terrible August in the history of the world" -- Stalemate -- The technology of death and destruction -- Life and death in the trenches -- Over the top -- The Battle of Verdun -- The Battle of the Somme -- The war at sea -- Mutiny, revolution, and the collapse of armies -- "Lafayette, we are here!" America joins the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2010