Gibson, Larry S.

Summary: The only biography of Thurgood Marshall endorsed by his immediate family covers his life from his upbringing to his landmark work with the NAACP and his appointment as the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARSHALL, THURGOOD GIB

Summary: The story of American politics and military policies as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense, under President Kennedy and President Johnson, Robert S. McNamara. McNamara is a controversial and influential political figure. He offers a candid journey through some of the most seminal events in contemporary American history. He offers insights into the 1945 fire bombing of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 973.92 FOG

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FOG

Haymon, S. T.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1988

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 HAY

Eliot, T. S.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1980

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.912 ELI

Wiley, T. S.

Summary: End notes: p. 207-304.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.071 WIL

Summary: During the early days of COVID, the Oscar nominee set himself the challenge of committing Four Quartets to memory, and in 2021 he brought it to the London stage followed by a tour of theaters across the UK. Written by Nobel Prize winner Eliot in the shadow of the Second World War, the poem is a searching examination of who and what we are. This celebrated meditation on human experience, time,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS FOU

Webber, Andrew Lloyd

Summary: Musical about a gathering of cats to decide who will be chosen to go to the "Heavyside Layer" and be reborn.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD CAT

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CAT

Wilson, Jo Anne S.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Trafford 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILSON, JO ANNE S WIL

Wilson, Joseph S.

Summary: This book provides an introduction to the roughly 4,000 different bee species found in the United States and Canada, dispelling common myths about bees while offering tips for telling them apart in the field. The book features more than 900 color photos of the bees living all around us -- in our gardens and parks, along nature trails, and in the wild spaces between. It describes their natural...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 595.79 WIL

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace 1950

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822 ELI

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)

Summary: These playful verses by a celebrated poet have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since they were gathered for publication in 1939. As Valerie Eliot has pointed out, there are a number of references to cats in T.S. Eliot's work, but it was to his godchildren, particularly Tom Faber and Alison Tandy, in the 1930s, that he first revealed himself as "Old Possum" and for whom he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1982

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 ELI
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 821 ELI

Summary: HMS Pinafore: Ralph Rackstraw, a humble sailor, is smitten with the captain's daughter, Josephine, a woman far above his social rank. When Josephine declares her love for Ralph, the couple decide to elope. Their plans are thwarted, but the lovers are reunited when Ralph's true social position is revealed. Trial by jury: Jurors and reporters gather in a courtroom for a much-publicized case...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2005

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA GIL

Hoobler, Dorothy

Summary: Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler share a collection of handwritten love letters that offers a surprising and intimate portrait of the men who occupied the White House. From George Washington to Barack Obama, these are not the presidents we see in history books. Instead, when they courted the women they wanted to marry, or seduced women outside of their marriage, they often showed a side the public...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD 920 ARE

Eisenhower, John S. D.

Summary: Eisenhower offers a surprising portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman, the Civil War general whose path of destruction cut the Confederacy in two, broke the will of the Southern population, and earned him a place in history as "the first modern general." Yet behind his reputation as a fierce warrior was a sympathetic man of complex character.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SHERMAN, WILLIAM T EIS

Williams, Gareth (EDT)/ Pentz, Peter (EDT)/ Wemhoff, Matthias (EDT)/ Margrethe, Queen of Denmark (FRW)

Contents: Contacts & exchange / Sunhild Kleingärtner and Gareth Williams -- Vikings in Arabic sources / Gareth Williams -- Wiskiauten / Timo Ibsen -- Reuse of foreign objects / Sunhild Kleingärtner -- Warfare & military expansion / Gareth Williams -- The way of the warrior / Neil Price -- Continental defences against the Vikings / Simon Coupland -- Viking camps in England and Ireland / Gareth Williams --...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cornell Univ Pr 2014

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 948.022 VIK

Summary: With unprecedented access to the nuclear industry in France, Russia, and the United States, filmmaker Oliver Stone explores the possibility for the global community to overcome challenges like climate change and reach a brighter future through the power of nuclear energy an option that may become a vital way to ensure our continued survival sooner than we think.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NUC

GILSON, BERTHA

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 0000

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: MI 921 GIL

Gibbon, Edward

Summary: An abridged, profusely illustrated edition of the classic work originally published in six volumes from 1776 to 1788.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rand McNally 1979

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 937 GIB

Bierce, Ambrose

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 423 BIE

Singer, S. Fred (Siegfried Fred)

Contents: Is humanity losing the global warming debate? -- How did we find the Earth's 1,500-year climate cycle? -- Shattered glass in the greenhouse theory -- The baseless fears : sea levels will surge, bringing floods and devastation -- The treaty that would change Earth's climate-or maybe not -- The baseless fears : a million wild species will be lost forever -- Warming and cooling in human history --...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.6 SIN