Chudacoff, Howard P.
Contents: Introduction -- Childhood and play in colonial America, 1600-1800 -- The attempt to domesticate children and play, 1800-1850 -- The stuff of childhood, 1850-1900 -- The invasion of children's play culture, 1900-1950 -- The golden age of unstructured play, 1900-1950 -- The commercialization of co-optation of children's play, 1950 to the present -- Children's play goes underground, 1950 to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.2310 CHUWillens, Howard P.
Contents: December 1963: the nation responds -- January 1964: distrust of the FBI grows -- February 1964: the search for evidence begins -- March 1964: our investigation expands -- April 1964: Mexico and the Cuban connection -- May 1964: critical decisions -- June1964: crucial witnesses -- July / August 1964: a tale of tragic truth -- September 1964: the last debates -- Aftermath.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.922 WILLovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
Summary: Explore the marvelous complexity of Lovecraft's writing—including his use of literary allusions, biographical details, and obscure references in this rich, in-depth exploration of great horror fiction from the acknowledged master of the weird, including the stories "Herbert West—Reanimator", "Pickman's Model", "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Thing on the Doorstep", "The Horror at Red Hook" and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell 1997
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Summary: Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Phillips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and envisioning instead mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. Love craft's preeminent interpreter S. T. Joshi presents a selection of the master's fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1999
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Summary: "H. P. Lovecraft is one of America's giants of the horror genre. Now, in this second volume of annotated tales, Lovecraft scholars S. T. Joshi and Peter Cannon provide another rare opportunity to look into the mind of a genius. Their extensive notes lift the veil between real events in the writer's life - such as the death of his father - and the words that spill out onto the page in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Dell Trade Paperback 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVKohn, Edward P. (Edward Parliament)
Summary: "Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America's prototypical "cowboy" president-a Rough Rider who derived his political wisdom from a youth spent in the untamed American West. But while the great outdoors certainly shaped Roosevelt's identity, historian Edward P. Kohn argues that it was his hometown of New York that made him the progressive president we celebrate today. During his early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, THEODORE KOHCrapol, Edward P.
Contents: Introduction -- Forewarned, forearmed -- Visions of national destiny -- Defending slavery -- Avoiding war & preserving peace -- Pacific visions -- Texas -- Retirement & secession -- Conclusion : precedents & legacies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bureau of History, Dept. of State 1991
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Summary: The 1896 New York heat wave that killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days coincided with a pitched presidential contest between William McKinley and the upstart Democrat William Jennings Bryan, who arrived in New York City at the height of the catastrophe. As historian Edward P. Kohn shows, Bryan's hopes for the presidency began to flag amidst the abhorrent heat just as a bright...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 KOHVon der Porten, Edward P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crowell 1976
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5459 VONDLaozi
Summary: Most people know Ursula K. Le Guin for her extraordinary science fiction and fantasy writing. Fewer know just how pervasive Taoist themes are to so much of her work. And in Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching, we are treated to Le Guin's unique take on Taoist philosophy's founding classic. Reflecting more than forty years of Le Guin's personal study and contemplation, her rendering of the text is a brilliant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Theosophical Publishing House 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.934 BLAHorn, James P. P.
Summary: "In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake region kidnapped an Indian teenager and took him back to Spain, a common occurrence at the time. What was uncommon in this case was that the young man eventually came back. During his timeabroad, the boy lived in Madrid, Seville, Havana, and Mexico City, becoming a favorite of King Philip II and converting to Catholicism in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OPECHANCANOUGH HORContents: Taxonomy / Bart W. O'Gara -- Distribution: past and present / Bart W. O'Gara and Robert G. Dundas -- Elk and Indians: then again / Richard E. McCabe -- Physical and physiological adaptations / Robert J. Hudson and Jerry C. Haigh with contributions by Anthony Bubenik -- Nutrition and food / John G. Cook -- Diseases and parasites / E. Tom Thorne ... [et al.] -- Adaptive behavioral strategies /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Institution Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.6542 TOWLash, Joseph P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Book Club 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ROOSEVLET FAMILY LASBurger, Edward B.
Summary: An explanation of challenging puzzles within the world of mathematics considers such topics as the link between a pineapple's spirals and the famous Fibonacci numbers, and the shape of the universe as reflected by a twisted strip of paper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005
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Summary: "In The Power of Money, economist Paul Sheard distills what money is, how it comes into existence, and how it interacts with the real economy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Matt Holt Books, an imprint of BenBella Books, Inc. 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Book Publications 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 683.4 FJEFranklin, V. P. (Vincent P.)
Summary: "Filling a gap in the scholarship of American history, V. P. Franklin crafts the first full-length history of the children and teen activists who participated in and led key protests during the Civil Rights Movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.8 FRALasky, Kathryn
Summary: "Ever since Williamina Fleming was little she was curious, and her childhood fascination with light inspired her life's work. Mina became an astronomer in a time when women were discouraged from even looking through telescopes. Yet Mina believed that the universe, with its billions of stars, was a riddle--and she wanted to help solve it. Mina ultimately helped to create a map of the universe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FLEAndersen, Christopher P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 ONAAndersen, Christopher P.
Summary: An account of Jack and Jackie Kennedy's final year together reveals details of their complex marriage, including rumored infidelities, the president's hidden medical problems, and the tragic death of their infant son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, JOHN F ANDBarry, James P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Book House 1972
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Barry, James P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howell-North Books 1981