John Powell
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With "The Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons," readers can explore the one-thousand miles of the Colorado River in its natural state nearly one-hundred and fifty years ago. Legendary explorer John Wesley Powell, accompanied by a crew of close friends and associates, details his travels through the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon at a time when much of the area was unknown to contemporary readers. Starting in Wyoming, the crew travelled...
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During the two decades ending at Pearl Harbor, Mr. Powell was owner and editor of the China Weekly Review. His opposition to Japanese expansion into China was consistent and bitter, and carried on at great personal risk. His chapters on this phase of recent Chinese history are written at first-hand and are important. It is in his discussion of internal Chinese affairs that he sometimes seems a less reliable guide, being thoroughly committed to Chiang...
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This book is a collection of essays printed in the Abilene Reporter News, the daily newspaper for Abilene, Texas. These essays are less about expressing the author's opinions and more about widening the discussion. Political, social, and religious issues are too often, discussed in the simplest possible terms, usually with a predetermined slant. Most readers go about looking for information and opinions that coincide with what they already believe....
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The World, Genesis, and Theology of the Pentateuch sets its focus on God's redemption of the entire human race following the entrance of sin into the physical time–space (i.e., the physical universe, physical realm of creation). Redemption didn't begin in the New Testament, but in the first book of the Bible called Genesis. As such, God has been reaching out to people through various means, methods, and ways to rebuild the divine and human relationship...
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King Freddie the Umpteenth of England and his prime minister, Merlin the Whirlin, are convinced that Patron Saint Cuthbert is no longer up to the job. As fast as Cuthbert's splendid band of knights in shining armour chase the fire-breathing monsters out of the kingdom, they fly back in again. So, when George, an impoverished knight living in a dilapidated castle in Gloucestershire, finds a means of pacifying the incendiary megafauna, the king and...
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John Wesley Powell was a U.S. soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers that included the first passage of European Americans through the Grand Canyon. Powell served as second director of the US Geological Survey (1881-1894), and was also the director of the Bureau...
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Here Come the Romans is a progressive survey on the historical influence of Rome and how it influenced the times, events, customs, religious institutions, and specifically the life of Jesus, the Jewish people, and the New Testament. Its progressive style guides the reader through a six-hundred and seventy-five-year period of selected history to educate how Rome fitted the biblical narrative and story. The Bible ascribes divine inspiration to the Scriptures,...
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When geologist Powell and his party of explorers first assayed the Colorado in 1869, it was North America's longest stretch of uncharted river. This is the story of that three-month, thousand-mile excursion, told in the words of the men who negotiated and mapped the river, through their journals, accounts, and letters. Black-and-white illustrations.
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Wild and woolly West books volume 21
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xii, 36 pages : facsimiles, map ; 22 cm.
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14) Chicken run
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1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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While the chickens on Mrs. Tweedy's farm dream of a better life, a clever hen named Ginger is hatching plans to fly the coop for good. The only problem is, chickens can't fly, or can they? Every escape attempt goes fowl until Rocky, a smooth-talking All-American rooster, crash lands in the coop. It's hardly poultry in motion when Rocky attempts to teach Ginger and her fine feathered friends to fly, but, with teamwork, determination, and a little bit...
15) United 93
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A real-time, cinéma vérité account of the final flight of United 93, the only airplane hijacked on 9/11 that didn't reach its intended target.
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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While Astrid, Snotlout and the rest of the gang are challenging each other to dragon races, Hiccup and Toothless journey through the skies, charting unmapped territories and exploring new worlds. When one of their adventures leads to the discovery of a secret ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the center of a battle to protect the peace.
Hiccup and Toothless must...
17) Green zone
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1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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During the Iraq war, U.S. Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller leads Mobile Exploitation Team-Delta (MET-D) on a fruitless search of suspected WMD sites. When he wonders out loud why the intelligence is all wrong, he's told not rock the boat. Soon Miller, working with a local Iraqi informant named Freddy, is going after a Ba'athist general named Al-Rawi. CIA agent Martin Brown and journalist Lawrie Dayne share Miller's doubts; each have some pieces to...
18) Antz
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1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Life is no picnic for Z, a small worker ant with some very big ideas, whose chances with the beautiful Princess Bala are literally one in a billion. When Z convinces his soldier ant buddy to switch places with him, his simple life takes a wild turn.
19) P.S. I love you
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1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Holly Kennedy is beautiful, smart and married to the love of her life, a passionate, funny, and impetuous Irishman named Gerry. So when his life is taken by an illness, it takes the life out of Holly. Nobody knows Holly better than Gerry, so it's a good thing he planned ahead. Before he died, Gerry wrote Holly a series of letters that will guide her, not only through her grief, but in rediscovering herself. The first message arrives on Holly's 30th...
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4 videodiscs (349 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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How to Train Your Dragon: Hiccup is a young Viking who defies convention when he befriends one of his deadliest foes, a ferocious dragon he calls Toothless. Together this unlikely pair must overcome many obstacles and one ultimate challenge in order to save both their worlds.
How to Train Your Dragon 2: While Astrid, Snotlout and the rest of the gang are challenging each other to dragon races, Hiccup and Toothless journey through the skies, charting...