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"It's not so long ago that a woman's expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed her. And yet spiritualism, in various incarnations, has influenced numerous men - including lauded modernist artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich and Paul Klee - without repercussion. The fact that so many radical women artists of their generation - and earlier - also drank deeply from the same spiritual...
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English
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"As the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940, Aleida van der Zee Martens escapes to London to wait out the Occupation. Separated from her three-year-old son, Theo, in the process, the young widow desperately searches for her little boy even as she works for an agency responsible for evacuating children to the countryside.When German bombs set London ablaze, BBC radio correspondent Hugh Collingwood reports on the Blitz, eager to boost morale...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 578 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America's past to predict our future in this startling and hopeful prophecy for how our present era of civil unrest will resolve over the next ten years--and what our lives will look like once it has"--
Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative new theory of American history. Looking back at the last 500...
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Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
96 pages : color illlustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Explores the birth of rock and roll, its defining characteristics, and its evolution throughout music history. Also discusses its legacy today. Includes a timeline, biographical sketches of important people, photographs, and further resources.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's Spring 1940 and with Europe at war, the community in Darrowby are pulling together more than ever before. With Tristan away serving, Siegfried and James bring in some extra hands to help around the practice: highly efficient bookkeeper Miss Harbottle, and student vet Richard Carmody.
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Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
154 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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While visiting their father in New York City, Felix and Maisie use a shell she brought from The Treasure Chest to travel to late 1800s Hawaii, where they meet a young girl who will one day be Queen Liliuokalani, the last queen of Hawaii.
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
159 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
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"Time travelers Maisie and Felix meet a young Alexander Graham Bell (the inventor of the telephone). When the twins get separated from Alexander, they join the thousands of orphans in the streets of Victorian London"--
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Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
He was loved by British Revolutionary War loyalists and hated by American patriots. What made King George III so mad? Hoping to restore glory to the British crown, he instead plunged two countries into a seven-year bloodbath and died plagued by insanity and failure.
10) The Celtic world
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (v, 257 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
In The Celtic World, discover the incredible story of the Celtic-speaking peoples, whose art, language, and culture once spread from Ireland to Austria. This series of 24 lectures explains the traditional historical view of who the Celts were, then contrasts it with brand-new evidence from DNA analysis and archeology that changes our perspective on where the Celts came from. European history and culture have been profoundly affected by the Celts,...
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