Summary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAKBarber, Lilian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Italian Greyhound Productions 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.753 BARDorson, Richard M. (Richard Mercer)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1952
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 398.2774 DORGaron, Jon M.
Summary: "Reviews the broad landscape of legal and practical issues facing parents and adolescents when using smart phones and online technologies"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 004.67 GARSummary: Into the Amazon tells the remarkable story of the journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon into the heart of the South American rain forest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon. Two of the most celebrated men from their respective nations, Roosevelt and Rondon set out with twenty other adventurers in 1914. Over eight eventful weeks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INTGodin, M. Leona
Summary: "A probing, witty, and deeply insightful history of blindness--in Western culture and literature, and in the author's own experience--that ranges from Homer to Milton to Braille to Stevie Wonder. M. Leona Godin begins her fascinating, wide-ranging study with an exploration of how the idea of sight is inextricably linked with knowledge and understanding; how "blindness" has, for millennia, been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 GODLuceno, James.
Summary: Text and illustrations present characters from Star Wars, episode III, revenge of the Sith and the technology they use.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucas Books/DK 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J 791.4372 LUCGorman, Jack M.
Summary: An informative and easily accessible source of information about all the psychiatric medications available today, including antidepressants, tranquilizers, and antipsychotics, encompasses their uses, side effects, cost, dosage, and more, teaching consumers to take an active role in their mental health.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.788 GORBarnes, Derrick
Summary: "Let's hear it for everything that makes you the amazing, awesome, inspiring kid that you are... Your curiosity and creativity. Your bravery and kindness. Your sense of humor and fun. Your ability to get up again when you get knocked down. Your way of helping others. Yeah--you are all that and more! You are every good thing that makes the world go round. So go ahead and show us your...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022
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Summary: Almost no one thought Joe Biden could make it back to the White House--not Donald Trump, not the two dozen Democratic rivals who sought to take down a weak front-runner, not the mega-donors and key endorsers who feared he could not beat Bernie Sanders, not even Barack Obama. The story of Biden's cathartic victory in the 2020 election is the story of a Democratic Party at odds with itself, torn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 ALLGordon, Deborah (Deborah M.)
Summary: "Deborah Gordon's Ants at Work takes us to the amazing world of an ant society and reveals a new and original understanding of how these tiny animals get the work of the colony done. Gordon's surprising and deceptively simple message that the queen is not in charge represents a fundamental shift in modern biology. It is no less than a revolution in our thinking on the mystery of natural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 595.796 GORAllen, Jonathan (Jonathan J. M.)
Summary: It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the tragic story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate, no explanation of defeat can begin with anything other than the core problem of Hillary's campaign -- the candidate herself....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324 ALLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 324.973 ALLShepherd, Gordon M.
Summary: In his new book, Gordon M. Shepherd expands on the startling discovery that the brain creates the taste of wine. This approach to understanding wine's sensory experience draws on findings in neuroscience, biomechanics, human physiology, and traditional enology. Shepherd shows, just as he did in Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters, that creating the taste of wine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.23 SHESummary: All your favorite Minecraft jokes are now in one place! This collection of three titles from the Jokes for Minecrafters series brings you over two thousand puns, one-liners, and wisecracks about all your favorites from the world of Minecraft. From ghasts and endermen to zombies and creepers, no mob is safe from the punchlines in this laugh-a-minute collection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 818.6 HOLHunt, Morton M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 150.9 HUNAllen, Jonathan (Jonathan J. M.)
Summary: "An examination of the strategy behind Hillary Clinton's political revitalization and her comeback in the US and abroad"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLINTON, HILLARY ALLBarnett, Thomas P. M.
Contents: Preface: The shape of things to come -- The seven deadly sins of Bush-Cheney -- A twelve-step recovery program for American grand strategy -- The American trajectory: of great men and great powers -- The economic realignment: racing to the bottom of the pyramid -- The diplomatic realignment: rebranding the team of rivals -- The security realignment: rediscovering diplomacy, defense, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 BARSummary: From the frigid suburbs of Buffalo NY to his early years living and busking on the streets of San Francisco, to formative experiences with punk band The Nerves and L.A. power pop legends The Plimsouls, to his decades-long, Grammy-nominated solo career, walk a million miles in the shoes of one of America's last great troubadours.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC PETBender, Robert M. (Robert Morton)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.2 BENAchen, Christopher H.
Summary: Achen and Bartels argue that democratic theory needs to be founded on identity groups and political parties, not on the preferences of individual voters.Democracy for Realists provides a powerful challenge to conventional thinking, pointing the way toward a fundamentally different understanding of the realities and potential of democratic government. --Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 ACHSummary: Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan and animal behaviorists join forces to explore stories of animal lives 'told' by the animals themselves. The series explores the secret side of the animal kingdom where human cameramen can't go, and camera-wearing animals film their own stories. Meerkats, penguins, a chimp, cheetahs, seals, baboons, devil rays, brown bears, and sheepdogs are the subjects of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ANIGoodrich, Phillip
Summary: In this under-reported and under-taught story of the American Revolution, Phillip Goodrich describes the role Benjamin Franklin played in bringing the northern and southern colonies together against corrupt British rule. Along with an "Inner Circle" of British Abolitionists, Franklin worked behind the scenes to secure the freedom of a single American slave, James Somersett; and then, in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021