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Summary: "Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been doing science because they have always wanted to make sense of the world and harness its power. From ancient Greek philosophers through Einstein and Watson and Crick to the computer-assisted scientists of today, men and women have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An extensive biography of the American film producer and director William Castle, with a focus on his classic horror films. Castle was famous for directing films with many gimmicks which were ambitiously promoted, despite being reasonably low budget B-movies. Includes extensive film clips and commentary by his family, friends and actors, producers, directors and film historians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Automat Pictures 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SPIBeckett, I. F. W. (Ian Frederick William)
Summary: Focuses on events from World War I that continue to shape the world today--from the flooding of Belgium's fields to the picture palaces of Britain's cinema, from the idealism of Wilson's Washington to the German Lys offensive of 1918.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.3 BECPagel-Hogan, Elizabeth
Summary: "An inspiring graphic novel about Elizebeth Friedman, a codebreaking pioneer who changed the course of World War II. Nazi spy rings! No-good gangsters! Shakespearian lies! Discover the courageous woman who cracked all these cases and more-with only a pencil and paper. The youngest of ten siblings, Elizebeth Friedman stood out from an early age with brilliant language skills and a passion for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRIFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Summary: "It was Gatsby that solidified his reputation as the chronicler of the Jazz Age and established him as one of the leading American novelists of his generation. Perhaps no other novel of the twentieth century makes a greater claim to being our Great American Novel--for its poetic prose, its exploration of the broad, intertwined themes of money, class, and American optimism (Daisy Buchanan's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITGranger, Edith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 1962
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 808.81 GRAKing, H. F. (Horace Frederick)
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.1333 MILVarious authors.
Contents: To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf. -- The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka. -- The prussian officer / D. H. Lawrence. -- The waste land / T.S. Eliot. -- Mourning becomes electra / Eugene O'Neill. -- The great gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald. -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner. -- Mother courage and her children / Bertolt Brecht. -- The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway. --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EncyclopŒdia Britannica 1990
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC LitSummary: Dead last in the ratings, ABC hired two towering public intellectuals to debate each other during the Democratic and Republican national conventions. William F. Buckley Jr. was a leading light of the new conservative movement. A Democrat and cousin to Jackie Onassis, Gore Vidal was a leftist novelist and polemicist. Armed with deep-seated distrust and enmity, Vidal and Buckley believed each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BESSloan, Mark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quantuck Lane 2003
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.3 SLOSummary: Combines elements of analysis, history, biography, performance, and the personal passions of six presenters to tell the stories behind the stories of six Shakespeare plays. Includes interviews with actors, directors, and scholars; visits to key locations; clips from celebrated film and television adaptations; and illustrative excerpts from performances staged at Shakespeare's Globe in London...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SHAWalsh, Bill (William F.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.027 WALMellberg, William F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plymouth Press, Ltd. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.45 MELBuckley, William F.
Summary: "A unique collection of eulogies of the twentieth century's greatest figures, written by conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and compiled by National Review and Fox News chief Washington correspondent James Rosen. In a half-century on the national stage, William F. Buckley Jr. achieved unique stature as a polemicist and the undisputed godfather of modern American conservatism. He knew...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 BUCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BUCMeader, Robert F. W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 749.2 MEARustmann, F. W.
Summary: "Every major government on earth recognizes the value of intelligence and employs an intelligence service to collect it. Businesses should be no different. Knowing how to gather information about the strength of your competitors, being able to anticipate their next move, and preventing them from stealing your secrets are critical keys to success in the new economy. Executives, entrepreneurs,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brassey's 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.47 RUSRussell, William F.
Summary: Presents the essential Greek and Roman myths that form the basis of our cultural literary heritage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 1989
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 292.13 RUSBuckley, William F. (William Frank)
Summary: The late William F. Buckley Jr. offers a reminiscence of thirty years of friendship with the man who brought the American conservative movement out of the political wilderness and into the White House. Ronald Reagan and Buckley were political allies and close friends throughout Reagan's political career. They went on vacations together and shared inside jokes. Yet for all the words that have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REAGAN, RONALD BuckleySaggs, H. W. F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 930 SAGBuckley, William F. (William Frank)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 BUCNoonan, William Sylvester.
Summary: A portrait of the late son of President Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy Onassis, told by his closest friend, describes the shared loss that bonded their childhoods, John Jr.'s marriage to Carolyn Bessette, and the aftermath of the plane crash that ended their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY JR., JOHN F. NOONoonan, William Sylvester.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 KENNEDY, JOHN F. JR. NOONoonan, William Sylvester.
Summary: For 25 years William Noonan and John F. Kennedy, Jr. were best friends. Sharing an adolescence in Hyannisport, Massachusetts, the two frequented beach bonfires and the Monday-night yacht-club dances, took road trips, shared albums, sneaked cigarettes on the widow's walk of John's house, and scored beer together. And as they grew older, John and Billy never lost the connection they forged in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006