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Clark, William 1770-1838 Dictators Soviet Union Biography Heads of state Soviet Union Biography Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) Lewis, Meriwether 1774-1809 Political culture Soviet Union History Soviet Union History 1925-1953 Soviet Union Politics and government 1917-1936 United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 CampaignsKoonin, Steven E.
Summary: The author points out that core questions about the way the climate is responding to our influence and what the impacts will be remain largely unanswered. He provides insights and perspective free from political agendas, dispels popular myths, and unveils little-known truths. He points out that the models we use to predict the future aren't able to accurately describe the climate of the past,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.738 KOOKotkin, Stephen
Summary: In his biography of Stalin, Kotkin rejects the inherited wisdom about Stalin's psychological makeup, showing us instead how Stalin's near paranoia was fundamentally political and closely tracks the Bolshevik revolution's structural paranoia, the predicament of a Communist regime in an overwhelmingly capitalist world, surrounded and penetrated by enemies. At the same time, Kotkin posits the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STALIN, JOSEPH KOTKotkin, Stephen
Summary: When we left Stalin at the end of Stalin: Paradoxes of Power: 1878-1928, it was 1928, and he had finally climbed the mountaintop and achieved dictatorial power of the Soviet empire. The vastest peasant economy in the world would be transformed into socialist modernity, whatever it took. What it took, or what Stalin believed it took, was the most relentless campaign of shock industrialization...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STALIN, JOSEPH KOTKotkin, Stephen
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history. As the shadows of the 30's deepen, Stalin's drive to militarize Soviet society takes on increasing urgency, and the ambition of Nazi Germany becomes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 STALIN, JOSEPH KOTKotkin, Stephen
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history. As the shadows of the 30's deepen, Stalin's drive to militarize Soviet society takes on increasing urgency, and the ambition of Nazi Germany becomes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: The explosive memoir of legendary DEA agents and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos. Readers will go deep inside the inner workings of the Search Bloc, the joint Colombian-US task force that resulted in an intensive 18-month operation that tracked Escobar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 MURGoodin, Robert E.
Contents: Introduction -- Modes of settling: where this is heading, settling down, settling in, settling up, settling for, settling one's affairs, settling on: the master notion -- The value of settling: settling as an aid to planning and agency, settling, commitment, trust, and confidence, settling the social fabric -- What settling is not: settling is not just compromising, settling is not just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 172 GOOWoodworth, Steven E.
Summary: General William Tecumseh Sherman famously said, "War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it." This statement has contributed to his mythic status as a grim-visaged character who embodied implacable war. Now acclaimed Civil War historian Steven E. Woodworth delivers a nuanced, insightful portrait of Sherman as an original, decisive, and efficient leader who wanted the war to end as quickly as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 SHERMAN, WILLIAM TECUMSEH WOOWilson, Steven E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan Geological Survey Division 1970
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 551.375 WILOzment, Steven E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.471 OZMWoodworth, Steven E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7462 WOOWoodworth, Steven E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.7 WOOWoodworth, Steven E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7359 WOOThomas, E. L. (Erin L.)
Summary: Rolled & Told is an all-inclusive gaming experience! Each and every month, we brought you a ready-to-play, fun adventure for one of your favorite tabletop role-playing games. And now the first 7 full & 6 mini adventures are collected here! These pages are packed with beautiful illustrations, comics coinciding with each adventure to excite and inspire your players, and helpful articles sure to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lion Forge, LLC 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Legend has it that the original Ten Commandments handed down from God to Moses were placed inside an ark which was last seen in Jerusalem in 587 B.C. This search for the Ark of the Covenant travels to ancient Palestine to dig for answers, where historic illustrations shed light on the date of the Ark's last sighting. The trail next leads to wondrous artifacts that bear witness to mankind's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Video 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.493 LOSSummary: The highly anticipated film version of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by renowned economists Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Like the book, the film examines human behavior with provocative and sometimes hilarious case studies, bringing together a dream team of filmmakers responsible for some of the most acclaimed and entertaining documentaries in recent years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FREAmbrose, Stephen E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1994
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 AMBSieden, Lloyd Steven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FULLER, BUCKMINSTER SIEWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5421 AMBAmbrose, Stephen E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977 AMBAmbrose, Stephen E.
Summary: An account of one of the most momentous journeys in American history, the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 AMBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 AMBAmbrose, Stephen E.
Summary: Author Stephen E. Ambrose retells the classic story of Lewis and Captain William Clark's journey across the great unknown of western America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks/Simon & Schuster Audio 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001