Swisher, James Kenneth
Summary: Daniel Morgan was a brash, wholly uneducated, fearless young man--an unlikely American folk hero from the Shenandoah Valley who lived during one the most transformative periods of American history: the Revolutionary War. Self-trained on the margins of civilization, ignorant of military sciences, and without access to formal military training or tutelage, Daniel Morgan combined an innovative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Koehler Books 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORGAN, DANIEL SWIFisher, Kenneth L.
Summary: Filled with more than 100 visuals and practical advice, an investment expert and long-time Forbes columnist shows investors how to improve their investing success rate by answering just three questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 332.6 FISSummary: In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KENFisher, Kenneth L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 FISFisher, Kenneth L.
Summary: A columnist for Forbes magazine shares his personal approach to wealth and success as he discusses ten different ways to amass a fortune, describing the guideposts and warning signs on the path to wealth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 FISSummary: "The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames is widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products ... But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life ... has been less widely understood. Narrated by James...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EAMFISHER, JAMES
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1969
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Powers of ten ... illustrates a picnic in Chicago and then begins moving ten times farther out every ten seconds, until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light. Then, we move inward into the hand of a sleeping picnicker with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. A rough sketch ... is an earlier version of the same concept illustrated in Powers of ten. 901, after 45 years of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Featuring vérité footage and vintage family films, this documentary was shot primarily within the compound where Debbie Reynolds and her daughter Carrie Fisher led separate lives but maintained a close relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Documentary Films 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BRIFisher, James A. (James Aiken)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avant Pub. Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.2 FISSwisher, Doug.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons & Burford 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 595.7 SWIFisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FISHER, M.F.K. FISSummary: Follows several for-hire scientific experts that are regularly featured in the media speaking about threats to the public from various environmental and man-made events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DOC MERSwisher, Kara
Summary: "Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech's most powerful players. This is the inside story we've all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world."--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Investigates how President Trump turned immigration into a powerful political weapon that fueled division and violence. The documentary goes inside the efforts of three political insurgents to tap into populist anger, transform the Republican Party and crack down on immigration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ZERFisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley Pub. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.01 FISFisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)
Contents: Serve it forth.--Consider the oyster.--How to cook a wolf.--The gastronomical me.--An alphabet for gourmets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1976
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Contents: Map of another town -- A considerable town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.91 FISSummary: Presents a reinterpretation of the legacy of 9/11, chronicling the polarized political culture that evolved over the two decades since the terrorist attacks, leading up to the insurrection of January 6, 2021.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AMESummary: Complilation of 7 films with introduction to the work of designers Charles and Ray Eames. 'Toccata for toy trains' is a trip through a world of antique toys, and toy trains. 'House : after five years of living' illustrates the home and studio designed and built by Charles Eames on a hill in California overlooking the ocean. 'Lucia chase vignette' follows a sister chasing her brother through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILSummary: "Takes you on an exclusive and rarely seen journey into the process behind creating a duets recording. Legendary entertainer Tony Bennett teams up with the biggest names in contemporary music, all live in the studio recording side by side with Bennett and his superb jazz quartet. This "behind the scenes" musical diary, complete with exclusive "in the moment" interviews, was shot completely in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony BMG Music Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD TONKennett, David
Summary: Describes Egypt during the rules of Seti I and his son Ramesses II, with particular emphasis on the religious role of the pharaohs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Company 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 932 KENTames, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1995