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State Historical Society of Wisconsin

Summary: Originally prepared for and delivered at a 1978 workshop about the resources of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, the four essays in this pamphlet provide a series of guides to the archives, maps, printed materials, and other sources of genealogical data located in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. All four essays were written by staff members of the society. James L. Hansen...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Society 1979

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1

Summary: When used with delicacy, the hand is capable of manipulation that goes far beyond what might be expected of its mechanical design. This program demonstrates how the hand functions, spotlighting the opposable nature of the thumb, and how the nerve network and blood vessels deploy. The pathologies of common damage, including carpal tunnel syndrome, wrist fractures, "mallet finger," and...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Leopold, Aldo

Summary: A Sand County almanac is often hailed as a foundational work of the modern environmental movement. Here, it is paired with over fifty other pieces by Leopold: uncollected articles, essays, speeches, and other writings that chart the evolution of his ideas over the course of three decades.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.73 LEO

Borges, Jorge Luis

Summary: Translation of El libro de arena.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1977

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOR

Dubus, Andre

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Kathy, a recovering alcoholic, separated from her husband, fails to open a series of letters from the tax office. The State seizes her house and it is sold to Behrani, a former Iranian Air Force officer. For him, the house comes to represent a passport to the American dream, but not for Kathy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUB

Wilson, F. Paul (Francis Paul)

Summary: A revolutionary leads the overthrow of a repressive government.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Infrapress 2001

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Summary: The tale of the gladiator slave Spartacus, who led a slave uprising against the Roman Republic departing from Capua.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2014

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SPA

Hand, Elizabeth

Summary: Photographer Cass Neary is desperate to get home, and she's already lost her camera--like losing a limb. Now her only chance is to cash in on a deal that a friend is about to cut for a legendary illuminated manuscript: The Book of Lamps and Banners. Rumored to have been rescued from the Library at Alexandria, the Book is said to contain ancient esoteric knowledge, even an otherworldly power. So...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little Brown and Company 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAN

Johnston, Jake

Summary: "Haiti's state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President Moise and not a single elected leader holds office, refugees desperately set out on boats to reach the US and Latin America, and the economy reels from the after-effects of disasters, both man-made and natural, that destroyed much of Haiti's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024

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Heller, Anne Conover.

Summary: A comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century--from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RAND, AYN HEL

Hoffman, Paul

Summary: Follows the adventures of sixteen-year-old Thomas, one of thousands of imprisoned youths being trained in combat by warrior monks who becomes aware of his secret destiny after a daring escape.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOF

Enss, Chris

Summary: Colorado Territory in 1864 wasn't merely the wild west, it was a land in limbo while the Civil War raged in the east and politics swirled around its potential admission to the union. The territorial governor, John Evans, had ambitions on the national stage should statehood occur--and he was joined in those ambitions by a local pastor and erstwhile Colonel in the Colorado militia, John...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: TwoDot 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 ENS

Oh Land

Contents: Perfection -- Break the chain -- Sun of a gun -- Voodoo -- Lean -- Wolf & I -- Human -- White nights -- Helicopter -- We turn it up -- Rainbow.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Epic 2011

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK OH

Contents: Undivided -- Only in America -- God bless the U.S.A / feat. Lee Greenwood and The United States Air Force Band -- Brothers in arms -- America (My country 'tis of thee) -- Travelin' soldier -- Land of the free -- American pie -- People / ft. Jeffrey East -- Born in the U.S.A.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY HOM

Summary: In segment one of this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel and correspondent John Donvan investigate the endemic nature of corruption in Russia, where bribery is commonplace and paying protection money is considered a business expense. In segment two, Koppel and billionaire Boris Berezovsky, identified as the unseen force behind Vladimir Putin's rise to power, discuss Berezovsky's recent foray...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010

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Summary: In the world of business, what are the benefits and drawbacks of state intervention in the private sector? Modules one and two of this program investigate the impact of Poland's transition from a state-managed economy to a market economy and New Zealand's fundamental reorientation from a socialist welfare state to liberal capitalism. Module three studies how private enterprise and local...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Library of Congress

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] 1967

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 912.73 LAN

The Band (Musical group)

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1976

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BAN

New York (State)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Printed by Packard & Benthuysen 1825

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3747 New

Cox, Anna-Lisa

Summary: "The American frontier is one of our most cherished and enduring national images. We think of the early settlers who tamed the wilderness and built the bones of our great country as courageous, independent--and white. In this groundbreaking work of deep historical research, Anna-Lisa Cox shows that this history simply isn't accurate. In fact, she has found a stunning number of black settlements...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 COX

Felton, Tom

Summary: From the magical moments on set as Draco Malfoy to the challenges of growing up in the spotlight, get a backstage pass into Tom Felton's life on and off the big screen. Tom Felton's adolescence was anything but ordinary. His early rise to fame in beloved films like The Borrowers catapulted him into the limelight, but nothing could prepare him for what was to come after he landed the iconic role...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FEL

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FELTON, TOM FEL

McCartney, Paul.

Contents: Band on the run -- Jet -- Bluebird -- Mrs. Vandebilt -- Let me roll it -- Mamunia -- No words -- Helen wheels -- Picasso's last words (Drink to me) -- Nineteen hundred and eighty five.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1973

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MCC

Contents: v. 1. The city of Albany, State of New York, 1887 / by Thomas P. Hughes -- v. 2. (Local series) Columbia County, State of New York, 1887 / by Thomas P. Hughes -- v. 3-12. Embracing lineages from the whole of the United States. 1888[-1899 / by Frank Munsell].

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1968

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.373 HUG

McGirr, Lisa

Summary: "Prohibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a pivotal expansion of the federal government, the genesis of our contemporary penal state. Her deeply researched,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.4 MCG

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