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Conservatism United States Generals United States Biography Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris) 1909-1998 James Webb Space Telescope (Spacecraft) Legislators United States Biography Presidential candidates Arizona Biography Space telescopes United States United States. Army Biography United States. Congress. Senate BiographySummary: "The first volume in more than 20 years tells a new and modern story of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms, one of the top collections of American fine and decorative arts in existence. The art of United States diplomacy has been conducted over more than two centuries with figures from all over the world, in peacetime and in conflict. For the last six decades, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2023
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Summary: Describes the plight of the migrant workers who traveled from the Dust Bowl to California during the Depression and were forced to live in a federal labor camp and discusses the school that was built for their children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1992
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1994
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 940.53 STAStanley, Jerry
Summary: The story of Annie Clemenc and the 1913 strike by copper miners employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company in upper Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CLESummary: "How did NASA engineers build and launch the most ambitious telescope of all time? Follow the dramatic story of the James Webb Space Telescope -- the most complex machine ever launched into space. If it works, scientists believe that this new eye on the universe will peer deeper back in time and space than ever before to the birth of galaxies, and may even be able to "sniff" the atmospheres of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ULTCurry, Dayna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CURSummary: The story of the brave young men and women who successfully reversed the tide of an epidemic, demanded the attention of a fearful nation, and stopped AIDS from becoming a death sentence. This improbable group of activists bucked oppression and infiltrated government agencies and the pharmaceutical industry, helping to identify promising new medication and treatments and move them through trials...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sundance Selects 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HOWDeary, Terry
Summary: "Want to know: Why the vicious Vikings had names like Fat-thighs, Oaf and Stinking? Which Viking god dressed up as a woman? A genuine jester's joke? Why medieval chickens had their bottoms shaved? Discover all the facts about the Vicious Vikings and Measly Middle Ages--double the gore and more"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.1 DEASummary: In 1964, author Ken Kesey and his friends, known as the Merry Pranksters, set out on a cross-country bus trip from California to New York to visit the World's Fair. They also decided to record it, with several 16 mm movie cameras and audio tape. Compiled from more than 40 hours of footage shot during the journey, it was the magical mystery tour--fueled by both the countercultural sentiments of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Pictures 2011
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Summary: In chronicling the adventurous life of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, The Road Not Taken definitively reframes our understanding of the Vietnam War. In this epic biography of Edward Lansdale (1908-1987), the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene's The Quiet American, best-selling historian Max Boot demonstrates how Lansdale pioneered a "hearts and mind" diplomacy, first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LANSDALE, EDWARD BOOSummary: In Michigan State University : On the banks of the Red Cedar, Larry Bielat has captured the Spartan feeling in more than 250 photographs and fascinating historical facts. Amateur and professional photographers alike have contributed views of Michigan State throughout the changing seasons to this beautiful keepsake volume. This book evokes warm memories and a sense of tradition for anyone who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 378.774 MICVirginia State Library
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archives Branch, Archives and Records Division, Virginia State Library 1981
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3755 ClaSummary: "[A] group of bright but incorrigible high school students spend...their summer at the NASA SpaceCamp. But when a frightening miscommunication occurs during a space shuttle training mission, the teens and their astronaut instructor are accidentally launched into orbit. Can this young team of unlikely heroes work together to survive the outer-space adventure of a lifetime?" --container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family SpaceSummary: The four-part series hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chronicles the vast social networks and organizations created by and for Black people beyond the reach of the "White gaze." The series recounts the establishment of the Prince Hall Masons in 1775 through the formation of all-Black towns and business districts, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, destinations for leisure, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAKBoykin, Jerry.
Summary: Boykin reveals how his military duty worked in tandem with his faith to bring him through the bloody storms of foreign battle-- and through the political firestorm that ambushed him in his own country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faith Words 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOYKIN, WILLIAM G BOYContents: Introduction: Star Spangled banner/A day in the life (underscore) -- Sugar mountain -- I am a child -- Comes a time -- After the gold rush -- Thrasher -- My my, hey hey (out of the blue) -- Stage announcements -- When you dance I can really love -- The loner -- Welfare mothers -- The needle and the damage done -- Lotta love -- Sedan delivery -- Powderfinger -- Cortez the killer -- Cinnamon girl...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sanctuary Visual Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC RUSO'Neill, John E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.931 ONESummary: Did Henry Kissinger sabatoge the 1968 Vietnam peace talks for his own personal gain? Did he orchestrate the secret bombing of Cambodia? Did he authorize covert operations to overthrow a Chilean President? This explores how a young boy who fled Nazi Germany grew up to become one of the most powerful and controversial figures in United States history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRISummary: "From acclaimed scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Gospel explores Black spirituality through sermon and song. From the blues to hip-hop, African Americans have been the driving force of sonic innovation for over a century. But, while musical styles come and go, there is one sound that has been a constant source of strength, courage, and wisdom. It is a message that resounds from the pulpit to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Follows Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater's tumultuous election year, as well as other years in a career that encompassed numerous political and ideological triumphs. Though he never achieved the ultimate prize, the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 vindicated the conservative agenda Goldwater had long championed. Ironically, in later years, Goldwater's support of issues like abortion and gay...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MR.Summary: An unforgettable look at the 86th Combat Support Hospital, which is the premier U.S. Army medical facility in Iraq. Watch as doctors and nurses fight to save lives of wounded soldiers on a frighteningly routine basis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BAGPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Contents: Essays. Collecting the image of America : Charles Willson Peale's The artist in his museum and Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre / Judith Russi Kirshner -- Painting the image of America : portraiture and genre in the 19th century / Elizabeth Milroy -- Americans in the landscape / D. Scott Atkinson -- American impressionism / Elizabeth Milroy -- America and the modernist spirit / D....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Museum of American Art 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.73 PROStarkey, David.
Summary: Starkey examines the rituals of diplomacy, marriage, pregnancy, and religion that were part of daily life for women at the Tudor Court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 STARKSpacey, Kevin
Summary: Follows a group of California teenagers as they compete in a prestigious annual Shakespeare festival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2012