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Doctor Blake volume 4
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2 videodiscs (approximately 472 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The continuing story of Dr. Lucien Blake as he practices medicine and investigates murder in 1950s rural Australia.
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xvi, 448 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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In this tour de force of science history, Manjit Kumar gives a dramatic and superbly written account of the theory that sparked the 20th century's most fundamental scientific revolution and the central conflict between Einstein and Bohr over the nature of reality and the soul of science.
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English
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Showing how a single community's terrible tragedy instead became the catalyst for radical change, this first book to examine the Waverly Train Disaster of 1978, penned by a medical writer and Waverly native, examines how this disaster laid the groundwork for the future of emergency management and disaster relief.
February 22, 1978: a devastating freight train derailment drastically altered Waverly, Tennessee. One of the worst train explosions of...
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xix, 172 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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English
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"In June of 1961, A.E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke: a few weeks later, Ernest Hemingway was released home, where he took his own life. Their final conversation was also the final installment in a story whose telling Hemingway had spread over nearly a decade. Hemingway divulged the details of the affair that destroyed his first marriage: the truth of his romantic...
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xxi, 438 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. Today we're accustomed to remembering the war through Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Robert Capa's photographs. But Adam Hochschild has discovered some less familiar yet compelling...
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1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, black and white with color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"More than 40 years after his death, Hemingway is one of the most widely read, and widely written about American authors. His distinct style and profound influence are indisputable; his larger-than-life persona is still the stuff of heated debate. As well known in his lifetime as any movie star, Hemingway was a dashing international figure who challenged the notion that writers exist in an ivory tower. There were the battles, the bull fights, the...
7) The book that changed my life: 71 remarkable writers celebrate the books that matter most to them
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xvii, 197 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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xi, 572 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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An anthology of top-selected "Rolling Stone" articles offers insight into both the late Thompson's early career and the magazine's fledgling years, in a volume that includes the stories of his infamous Freak Party sheriff campaign and his observations about the Bush-versus-Kerry presidential rivalry.
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