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African American feminists Biography African American intellectuals Biography African American women civil rights workers Biography Chicago (Ill.) Fiction Female friendship United States Immigrants Fiction Lithuanian Americans Fiction Rock music 1971-1980 Stockyards Fiction Working class FictionSinclair, Iain
Summary: Mourns the ways in which the 2012 Olympic games are prompting redevelopment at the cost of local history, exploring the roots of new constructions while citing the losses of private establishments, public parks, and casual diversity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.1086 SINMcKay, Sinclair.
Summary: Describes the vastly different types of people working alongside each other at Britain's Government Code and Cypher School and how they passed their time at this extraordinary facility when they weren't working on projects vital to saving the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5486 MCKMcKay, Sinclair
Summary: "A gripping work of narrative nonfiction recounting the history of the Dresden Bombing, one of the most devastating attacks of World War II. On February 13th, 1945 at 10:03 PM, British bombers began one of the most devastating attacks of WWII: the bombingof Dresden. The first contingent killed people and destroyed buildings, roads, and other structures. The second rained down fire, turning the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 MCKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 MCKGreen, Peter
Contents: Disc 1.; Man of the world /; Fleetwood Mac --; Long grey mare /; Fleetwood Mac --; Cryin' won't bring you back --; A fool no more --; Trying to hit my head against the wall --; Last train to San Antone --; Walkin' the road --; Uranus /; Brunning Sunflower Blues Band --; Watcha gonna do? --; Born on the wild side --; Lost my love --; Fast talking woman blues /; Fleetwood Mac --; Long way from...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sanctuary Records Group 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GRESummary: This was the age of the Tokugawa family, the era of Edo, a period of over two-and-a-half centuries during which Japan was hermetically sealed off from the rest of the world and only a few Dutch and Chinese-constantly watched and treated like pariahs-were allowed to live on Japanese soil and to trade with the Japanese. This program treats the history of Japan during this period: the established...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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The Belvedere Club
Summary: History of the summer resort The Belvedere Club of Charlevoix, Michigan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlevoix 0000
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 977.486 BELContents: Disc l. The Nyingmapa sect. Chant asking the blessing of the Guru Drakmar. -- Instruments of the monastery orchestra. Two shawms (rGyaling) ; Two long trumpets (dung) ; Two shell-trumpets made from conches (dung-dkar) ; Two short horns (rKang-ling) ; Hand-bell (drilbu) and hand-drum (damaru) ; Cymbals (rolmo) ; Cymbals (silnyen) ; Pole-drum (rGna) ; Ritual (for attaining the qualities of)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN ANTLong, Michael G.
Summary: "Kids have always been on the front lines of the fights for justice. From marches protesting child labor to the student strike that helped build the case for Brown v. Board of Education to modern-day March for Our Lives and the Climate Strike, 'Kids on the March' tells the empowering story of children and teens throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first century rallying to fight for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 320.083 LONSinclair, Upton
Summary: Presents the novel that exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meat-packing industry, and affected radical social changes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Sinclair 1994Summary: In this remarkable anthology, some of the world's greatest writers provide a master class on the transformative power of learning and literature. Culled from a course developed by Pulitzer Prize'winning author Robert Coles for the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Teaching Stories is an invaluable collection in which novelists, essayists, and poets "render school life in all its complexity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TEAContents: Disc one : Do you believe / Melanie -- Blessed are /Joan Baez -- Light flight / Pentangle -- Foolish season / Dana Gillespie - Someone to talk my troubles to -- Auntie aviator / John & Beverley Martyn -- Flying away / Serpent Power -- It could have been better / Joan Armatrading -- Morning Morgantown / Jude -- If not by fire / Mandy More -- Upstairs by a Chinese lamp / Laura Nyro -- I thought I...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Grapefruit Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK MILSinclair, Upton
Summary: The horrifying conditions in the meatpacking industry in the early 1900's are revealed through the experiences of immigrants as they try to make a living by working in the Chicago stockyards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Signet Classic 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It's the revenge of power on those that dare to challenge it. So begins this program on Goya's haunting painting of defiance and despair, The Third of May 1808. The video keenly conveys the circumstances of the Spanish uprising against the French, relates Goya's deafness to his darkening artistic vision, examines Goya's painting technique, analyzes The Third of May's symbolism, illustrates the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Sinclair, Upton
Summary: The author's famous tale of a Lithuanian family who emigrates to America and is destroyed by exploitation, crushing poverty, and economic despair.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIN1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SIN
Upton, Dell.
Summary: Dell Upton's revolutionizing interpretation examines American architecture in relation to five themes: community, nature, technology, money, and art. In giving particular attention to indigenous, folk, ethnic, and popular architectures like Chaco Canyon, Brooklyn Bridge, and native American houses, in addition to the great monuments of traditional histories such as Jefferson's Monticello and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720.973 UPTBevins, Vincent
Summary: "According to a recent report published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the number of mass protests has increased each year by over ten per cent. But we are not living in a world that is more just and democratic as a result. In If We Burn, acclaimed journalist and author of The Jakarta Method, Vincent Bevins sets out to answer a pivotal question: How did mass protest...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 BEVSinclair, Upton.
Summary: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a vivid portrait of life and death in a turn-of-the-century American meat-packing factory. A grim indictment that led to government regulations of the food industry, The Jungle is Sinclair's extraordinary contribution to literature and social reform.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2008
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Sinclair, Richard.
Contents: Going for a song -- Cruising -- Only the brave -- Plan it earth -- Heather -- Keep on caring -- Emily -- Felafel shuffle -- Halfway between heaven & earth -- Five go wild -- Flowered at Bracknell -- It didn't matter anyway.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: HTD Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SINGarland, Judy.
Contents: Every Sunday. Waltz with a swing/Americana ; Opera vs. jazz -- Broadway melody of 1938. Everybody sing ; Yours and mine ; Your Broadway and my Broadway -- Thoroughbreds don't cry. Got a pair of new shoes ; Sun showers -- Everybody sing. Down on Melody Farm ; Why, because! ; Ever since the world began/Shall I sing a melody? -- Love finds Andy Hardy. In between ; It never rains, but what it pours...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Classic Movies Music/Rhino Movie Music 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC GARRuoff, A. LaVonne Brown.
Summary: Examines the history, evolution, and culture of the American Indians, discussing both oral and written literature.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 RUOSummary: Communist Chinese protest Lumumba’s death
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Bell-Scott, Patricia.
Summary: "Describes the unlikely friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray, a granddaughter of a mixed race slave and a lesbian, who became a lawyer and civil rights pioneer, and the important work they each did, taking stands for justice and freedom,"--NoveList.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016