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Abolitionists United States Biography African American abolitionists Biography Antislavery movements United States History 19th century Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895 Miura, Yūichirō 1932- Olmsted, Frederick Law 1822-1903 Ski mountaineering Skis and skiing Slaves United States Social conditions 19th century United StatesEgerton, Douglas R
Summary: Almost immediately after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, abolitionists began to call for the raising of black regiments. The South and most of the North responded with outrage. Southerners vowed to enslave black soldiers captured in battle, while many northerners claimed that blacks lacked the courage to fight. Yet Boston's Brahmins, always eager for a moral crusade,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 EGEHofstadter, Douglas R.
Summary: Argues that the key to understanding ourselves and consciousness is the "strange loop," a special kind of abstract feedback loop that inhabits the brain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 HOFHurt, R. Douglas.
Summary: "A how-to-do-it book for local historians...for writing the history of a farm." Discusses oral history, using photographs, and the importance of farm architecture. Suggests major sources, appropriate techniques for research at libraries and state historical societies, and how to write the history.--Book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Krieger Pub. Co. 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 907.2 HURHurt, R. Douglas.
Contents: British America -- The Spanish Southwest -- Spanish Alta California -- The Pacific Northwest -- The trans-Appalachian frontier -- The southern nations -- The Black Hawk War -- The Great Plains -- The Far West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of New Mexico Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 HURBurgess, Douglas R.
Summary: "From previously undiscovered archives in England, the Carolinas, Rhode Island, Jamaica, and elsewhere, Douglas Burgess has synthesized a fascinating retelling of the "Golden Age of Piracy", from 1660 to 1725. Pirates needed patrons, the fragile American colonies needed maritime wealth and coastal protection, and everyone except the English crown benefited from untaxed and unregulated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 BURDouglas, Janet R.
Summary: When an occupational therapist suffers a massive stroke while attending a wedding in her native England, she can't believe it. Janet R. Douglas emerges from a coma weeks later at a Chicago hospital where she once worked. Her left side is totally paralyzed, her eyesight impaired, her memory and identity lost. Trapped in the present, she finds herself talking in German even though she has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archway Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOUGLAS, JANET R. DOUHofstadter, Douglas R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1999
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Summary: Tells how to get started in radio controlled model airplanes, discusses the Academy of Model Aeronautics, and shows how to assemble and operate an RC airplane kit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tab Books 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.1331 PRAGraves, Douglas R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Publishers 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.4542 GRABosworth, Barbara
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 635.977 BOSEgerton, Alex
Summary: Lonely Planet's Colombia is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Journey to Ciudad Perdida, explore Cartagena's old town, and trek in El Cocuy; and see the giant statues of Easter Island; all with your trusted travel companion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global Limited 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 918.61 COLSummary: Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1936, nine boys from the University of Washington took the rowing world and a nation by storm, when their eight-oar crew team captured the gold medal at the Olympics in Berlin. The boys' victory, and their obstacles, inspired a nation struggling to emerge from the depths of the Depression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BOYHodges, Andrew.
Summary: A gripping story of mathematics, computers, cryptography, and homosexual persecution. Hodges tells how Turing's revolutionary idea of 1936-- the concept of a universal machine-- laid the foundation for the modern computer. Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design. This work was directly related to Turing's leading role in breaking the German Enigma...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TURING, ALAN HODBarnard, Edward Emerson
Summary: "Edward Emerson Barnard's Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way was originally published in two volumes in 1927. Together these volumes contained a wealth of information, including photographic plates of the most interesting portions of the Milky Way, descriptive text, charts, and data. Only 700 copies were printed, making the original edition a collector's item. Reproduced in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2011
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 523.1 BARDouglass, Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lawrence Hill Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 DOUSummary: A biography of the man who made public parks an essential part of American life. He made enormous contributions to the American landscape, believing a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted's efforts to preserve nature created an "environmental ethic" decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712.0237 FRESummary: "Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1975, this stirring chronicle tells the tale of Japanese alpinist Yūichirō Miura and his attempt to ski down Mt. Everest in 1970"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Film Detective 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MANBerwick, Jeff
Summary: "The American Empire is finished and will soon become another cautionary tale, tossed upon the trash heap of history, and destroyed by the very same societal issues that plagued the many former empires that share similar fates. It didn't have to end this way, but when the most devious and ruthless members of a society are tasked with running the system, the outcome can hardly be in dispute. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeff Berwick & Charlie Robinson 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 BERTougias, Mike
Summary: In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor'easter in years. While the storm raged on the freezing Atlantic, two oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer, found themselves in the same predicament. Not built to withstand those seas, both tankers split in two. This is the gripping, true story of the Coast Guard's valiant attempt to rescue the dozens of men left...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 910.9163 TOUDouglass, Frederick
Summary: Edited by Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer David W. Blight, this Library of America edition is the largest single-volume selection of Frederick Douglass’s writings ever published, presenting the full texts of thirty-four speeches and sixty-seven pieces of journalism. (A companion Library of America volume, Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies, gathers his three memoirs.) With startling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 DOUDouglass, Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOUGLASS, FREDERICK DOUDouglass, Frederick
Summary: Presents the autobiography of Douglass, an American slave, and his journey out of mental and physical bondage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1991
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.8 DOUDouglass, Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press 1993