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61) Parkland
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
November 22, 1963, is a day that changed the world forever when beloved American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Parkland is the true story behind that tragic day, told from the vantage point of individuals who are forced to make split-second decisions after this incomprehensible event that will change the world's landscape forever.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 48 min.)
Language
English
Description
In 1959, a government employee named Richard Oyler, living in the tiny desert town of Lone Pine, California, asked world-famous modern architect Richard Neutra to design his modest family home. To Oyler's surprise, Neutra agreed. Thus began an unlikely friendship that led to the design and construction of an iconic mid-century modern masterpiece. Considered the "father of California Modern Architecture," Time Magazine put Richard Neutra on their cover...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xxix, 608 p. : ill. ; cm.
Language
English
Description
Draws from interviews, private letters, and personal papers to provide an inside look at the Kennedy White House, discussing the public image and personal life of Jack Kennedy, and discussing his relationship with Jackie, as well as her contributions to his presidency.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon. On May 25, 1961, JFK made an astonishing announcement: his goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In this engrossing, fast-paced epic, Douglas Brinkley returns to the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 29 min., 12 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This program looks at the key theories of human development by detailing the work of Piaget, Freud, Erikson, Gesell, Skinner and Vygotsky. It explains the concept of the 'whole child' and how a more holistic approach can provide practical perspective for the real world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Excelsior Editions, State University of New York Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xii, 333 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles JFK's growing confidence and ambition while a member of the US Senate.
John F. Kennedy's path to the presidency began during his eight years of service in the United States Senate. In The Senator from New England, Sean J. Savage contends that Kennedy initially pursued a centrist, bipartisan course in his rhetoric and policy behavior regarding the regional policy interests of New England. Following his narrow defeat for the Democratic vice...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 511 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An account of the contentious relationship between the thirty-fifth president and Martin Luther King, Jr. throughout the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement explores their influence on one another and the important decisions that were inspired by their rivalry.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (460 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five warned his family (so, so many times) that using his powers to escape from Vanya's 2019 apocalypse was risky. Well, he was right--the time jump scatters the siblings in time in and around Dallas, Texas. Over a three-year period. Starting in 1960. Some, having been stuck in the past for years, have built lives and moved on, certain they're the only ones who survived. Five is the last to land, smack dab in the middle of a nuclear doomsday, which--spoiler...
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
108 pages 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Through this engaging Who Was? biography, kids will discover the woman behind the sunglasses. Private and bookish, Jackie Kennedy found herself thrust into the world spotlight as the young and glamorous wife of the President John F. Kennedy. As First Lady she restored the once neglected rooms of the White House to their former glory, and through her charm and elegance became a style icon whose influence is still felt even today. Kids will be fascinated...
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 8
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Opal Koboi, power-crazed pixie, is plotting to exterminate mankind and become fairy queen. If she succeeds, the spirits of long-dead fairy warriors will rise from the earth, inhabit the nearest available bodies and wreak mass destruction. But what happens if those nearest bodies include crows, or deer, or badgers -- or two curious little boys by the names of Myles and Beckett Fowl? Yes, it's true. Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl's four-year-old brothers...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting history of the momentous Friendship 7 space flight that put America back into the space race. If the United States couldn't catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kennedyat the height of the Cold War-a moment when the Soviet Union built the wall in Berlin, tested nuclear bombs more destructive than any in history, and beat the US to every major milestone in space....
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"An extended picture book about the history and construction of the steamship SS United States, its designer William Francis Gibbs, and author/illustrator David Macaulay's personal story of immigration to America on board the SS United States."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages (large print) : maps, portraits, photographs ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"From historian and critically acclaimed author of The Three-Cornered War comes the propulsive and vividly told story of how Yellowstone became the world's first national park amid the nationwide turmoil and racial violence of the Reconstruction era. Eachyear nearly four million people visit Yellowstone National Park-one of the most popular of all national parks-but few know the fascinating and complex historical context in which it was established....
75) Reading Beauty
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Once upon a planetoid, surrounded by book lovers, a princess, Lex, read morning, noon and night (beneath her covers). But when a curse -- a death-like sleep via paper cut -- threaten to turn her kingdom into a place barren of books, the space princess sets out to break the fairy's curse and bring books back to her planet.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the military leadership of President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, his strategic insight, and how he often overstepped the boundaries of his political office to assume the role of commander in chief, ultimately changing the course of the war and saving the Union.
77) Jacque Futrelle's "The thinking machine": the enigmatic problems of Prof. Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
xxxi, 370 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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