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Language
English
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*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award*
*A New York Times Notable Book*
*Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*
This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West "is nothing short of a revelation...will leave dust...
*A New York Times Notable Book*
*Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*
This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West "is nothing short of a revelation...will leave dust...
Series
Publisher
LinDon NW Productions
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Part I: Don McCune looks at the changes in the logging industry in the Pacific Northwest as exemplified by Weyerhauser's Camp Vail near Tenino, Washington and Mount Rainier. Includes photos and 1930's Weyerhaueser motion picture film of early steam logging, highlighting the importance of the railroad in the logging industry, and interviews of some veteran loggers.
Part II: Nostalgic flashback to the days when high-riggers ruled the big forests,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xiii, 317 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Biographer Charlotte Chandler draws on a series of interviews she conducted with the star just months before her death in 1980, as well as interviews with people who worked or lived with her. Actress, playwright, screenwriter, and iconic sex symbol Mae West created a scandal--and a sensation--on Broadway with her play Sex in 1926. Sentenced to ten days in prison for obscenity, she went in a convict and emerged a star. Her next play, Diamond Lil, was...
4) Beethoven's skull: dark, strange, and fascinating tales from the world of classical music and beyond
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Beethoven's Skull is an unusual and often humorous survey of the many strange happenings in the history of Western classical music. Proving that good music and shocking tabloid-style stories make excellent bedfellows, it presents tales of revenge, murder, curious accidents, and strange fates that span more than two thousand years. Highlights include:
A cursed song that kills those who hear it
A composer who lovingly cradles the head of Beethoven's...
Series
Reference shelf volume 86, no. 1
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
xii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This volume examines the great challenges America will face in caring for aging baby boomers. The collection begins with statistical data on the major health issues for boomers, the demographics of the population, and the availability of health care in the future. How to negotiate rising medical costs and a growing population of seniors is one of the greatest challenges, the topic of the following chapter. The challenges and opportunities for families...
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
xlvi, 1,182 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Unprecedented in scope and depth, this tour de force collection of works by French-speaking women poets contains over 600 poems from 54 different pens, from the twelfth century Marie de France through Albertine Sarrazin, who died in 1967. Through artful, careful translations that remain true to the authors' voices, style, and artistic integrity, Norman R. Shapiro provides a very particular window into the development and evolution of French poetry...
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