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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"This wonderfully quirky book will change the way you look at your desk forever with stories of accidental genius, bitter rivalries, and an appreciation for everyday objects, like the humble but perfectly designed paper clip and the utilitarian, irreplaceable pencil. How many of humanity's brightest ideas started out on a scrap of paper, a Post-It, or in the margins of a notebook? In a delightfully witty and fresh voice, James Ward--co-founder of...
90303) When Jesus came, the Corn Mothers went away: marriage, sexuality, and power in New Mexico, 1500-1846
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1991.
Description
"This social history of one remote corner of Spain's colonial American empire uses marriage as a window into intimate social relations, examining the Spanish conquest of America and its impact on a group of indigenous peoples, the Pueblo Indians, seen in large part from their point of view."--Amazon.
90304) The Oklahoma City Thunder
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"A revised Team Spirit Basketball edition featuring the Oklahoma City Thunder that chronicles the history and accomplishments of the team. Includes access to the Team Spirit website which provides additional information and photos"--
90307) First Ladies For Dummies
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Few historical characters have fascinated the public like the First Ladies of the United States of America. From Martha Washington to Dr. Jill Biden, the triumphs and stumbles of these powerful women have been the subject of debate for centuries. Perfect for history fanatics as well as those just a little curious about how the wives of American presidents have risen to meet history in their own unique ways, First Ladies For Dummies tells the gripping...
90308) Liberty and freedom
Author
Series
America a cultural history volume 3
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
A distinguished history and author of Washington's Crossing analyzes the concepts of liberty and freedom through visions, images, and symbols throughout the folk history of those ideas, showing how they are popular beliefs deeply embedded in American culture rather than political abstractions. Liberty and freedom: Americans agree that these values are fundamental to our nation, but what do they mean? How have their meanings changed through time? In...
90309) Warships
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Learn all about warships, from how they have influenced history to how the technology behind them has improved over time."--
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Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of times and migrations past are intimately linked to our exclusion and demonization of migrants in the present. When and how did migration become a crime? Why did "Greek ideals" become foundational to the West's idea of itself? How have our personal migration myths -and our nostalgia for a lost world of clear borders and values - shaped our troubling new realities? In 2020, Lauren...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"This book traces the dynamics in the current fraught relationship between Israel and Palestine to the dramatic events of March 27-29, 2002--from a bloody suicide bombing to the Arab Peace Initiative to the invasion and reoccupation of the West Bank, where Israeli soldiers won a bloody military battle but Israel lost the media battle of public opinion"--
Death Tango traces the Middle East dynamic back to the events of March 27–29, 2002. March 27,...
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
Explore the development of left-wing sexual politics from the 1830s to the present in Gay Men and the Sexual History of the Political Left. It provides a unique documentation of socialist, anarchist, and communist ambivalence toward homosexuality and of homosexuals' involvement with the radical left wing of the political spectrum. Chapter authors are internationally recognized scholars who analyze key developments of the attitudes and policies of...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A Brief Illustrated History of Warfare charts the history of warfare all the way through from the early charioteers and spear throwers, through Roman legions, knights, and siege machines, through to musketeers and the military arms used in the two world wars, then all the way through to the use of smart weapons today.
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[2007]
Description
This book tells the story of five royal weddings: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1840, the future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in 1863, the future King George V and Queen Mary in 1893, the future King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1923, and Princess Elizabeth (Her Majesty The Queen) and The Duke of Edinburgh in 1947. Each of the weddings is presented in turn, with biographies of bride and groom, first meeting, engagement, the preparations...
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Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
Humanism, in both its rhetoric and practice, attempted to transform the relationships between men that constituted the fabric of early modern society. So argues Alan Stewart in this ground-breaking investigation into the impact of humanism in sixteenth-century England. Here the author shows that by valorizing textual skills over martial prowess, humanism provided a new means of upward mobility for the lowborn but humanistically trained scholar: he...
90318) Petrifying plagues
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"This book is about different diseases that have occurred throughout time and their effects on society"--
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Pub. Date
2006.
Description
In this elegant edition, Merritt, author and editor of more than 20 books, chronicles how youth is rendered in photographs, as well as other art and literature, over the course of the last 150 years. Highlights include hand-colored photos from Lewis Carroll (including an image of his muse, young Alice Liddell) and masterpieces by Richard Avedon, Andre Kertesz, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe and Nan Goldin. Cutting no corners, Merritt tackles the...
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Pub. Date
1978.
Description
The Greeks and Romans were considerable engineers. They made many remarkable machines, which where not betttered until the Industrial Revolution. Landels shows how these machines were developed and made. He draws together evidence from archaeological discoveries and from literary sources.
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