Leopold, Aldo

Summary: A Sand County almanac is often hailed as a foundational work of the modern environmental movement. Here, it is paired with over fifty other pieces by Leopold: uncollected articles, essays, speeches, and other writings that chart the evolution of his ideas over the course of three decades.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013

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Leopold, George

Summary: Unlike other American astronauts, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom never had the chance to publish his memoirs save for an account of his role in the Gemini program before the tragic launch pad fire on January 27, 1967, which took his life and those of Edward White and Roger Chaffee. The international prestige of winning the Moon Race cannot be understated, and Grissom played a pivotal and enduring role...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Purdue University Press 2016

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Stokowski, Leopold

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1996

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Damrosch, Leopold

Summary: "Leo Damrosch draws on discoveries made over the past thirty years to tell the story of Swift's life anew. Probing holes in the existing evidence, he takes seriously some daring speculations about Swift's parentage, love life, and various personal relationships and shows how Swift's public version of his life--the one accepted until recently--was deliberately misleading. Swift concealed...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014

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Leopold, Glenn.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1998

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Damrosch, Leopold

Summary: "In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk's Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as "the Club." In this captivating book, Leo...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2019

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Leopold, Les

Summary: "Layoffs upend people's lives, cause enormous stress, and lead to debilitating personal debt. The societal harm caused by mass layoffs has been known for decades. Yet, we do little to stop them. Why? Why do we allow whole communities to be destroyed by corporate decision-makers? Why do we consider mass layoffs a natural, baked-in feature of modern financialized capitalism? In Wall Street's War...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2024

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Leopold, Allison Kyle.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 1995

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Ladowsky, Ellen

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Park Lane Press 1997

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Strauss, Linda Leopold

Summary: "This true story begins long ago in Spain, where a bride and groom are gifted a hand-painted haggadah. It is used at many Passover seders until the Spanish Inquisition when the family escapes. The haggadah survived for centuries in different countries. Scholars declared it a treasure. To protect it from the Nazis, a curator smuggled it out of a Sarajevo museum and hid it in a village mosque. On...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kar-Ben Publishing 2024

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Brodowsky, Pamela K.

Summary: Is writing a book proposal actually harder than writing the book itself? Not if you have this book!.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest Books 2006

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Summary: It tells the shocking story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb; wealthy college students who had planned to abduct and kill a child at random just to prove they were smart enough to get away with it.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Boeselager, Philipp Leopold Antonius Hubertus

Summary: Follows Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager and his fellow officers as they begin to understand the horrors perpetrated by the Third Reich and decide that they must assassinate the Führer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009

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Summary: "Scarves and shawls are today's must-have accessories--every outfit deserves one! In these pages you'll find scarves and shawls to suit every style and every moment: ten miles long, short and sassy, thick and fluffy, or light as a feather. Scarves can begin as simply as a knitted rectangle or become as trendy as an infinity loop. Shawls can be made with simple stitches, bulky cables, or airy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Trafalgar Square 2015

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Summary: The show chronicles the unlikely partnership between Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine. This revealing, compelling and often gritty story takes place in recording studios, humble homes and massive mansions, in criminal courts and in the highest corridors of corporate power. Featuring interviews with those who worked closely with Jimmy and Dr. Dre, including Bono, David Geffen, and more. The docu-series...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: Tells the story of Haitian national hero, journalist, and freedom fighter Jean Dominique, whom Demme first met and filmed in 1986. As owner and operator of his nation's oldest and only free radio station, Dominique was frequently at odds with his country's various repressive governments and spent much of the 80's and early 90's in exile in New York, where Demme continued to interview him over...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment [distributor] 2005

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Patterson, James.

Summary: Daniel, an alien hunter, zeroes in on #7, the mastermind behind a plot that could result in the eventual takeover of the earth, but Daniel may need the help of Kildare, the alien villain's rebellious son, to bring him to justice.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown & Co. 2008

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Wen, Leana S.

Summary: Discusses how to avoid harmful medical mistakes, offering advice on such topics as working with a busy doctor, communicating the full story of an illness, evaluating test risks, and obtaining a working diagnosis.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2013

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Nielsen, Larry A.

Summary: "In 'Nature's Allies', Larry Nielsen profiles the lives of eight pioneers-- John Muir, Ding Darling, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Chico Mendes, Billy Frank Jr., Wangari Maathai, and Gro Harlem Brundtland-- all individuals from modest backgrounds who have influenced the course of conservation over the past century, showing us better ways to live in balance with nauture. Some famous and some...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2017

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Burger, Harry

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Colorado 1997

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Bang, Maia

Summary: Violin Method for Beginners, in its general basic teaching plan and pedagogic principles, differs to a very considerable extent from all existing works of similar purpose. It presents an entirely different plan of study which, in the main, is based upon Professor Leopold Auer's unconventional teaching principles. This method was developed around one of Auer's most important principles-to...

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Fischer 1919

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Dante Alighieri

Summary: It is at once a vision of the other world, an allegory of Christian life, a spiritual autobiography, and a cyclopaedic embodiment of all knowledge of its day.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 1966

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