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Chronology Of American Popular Music, 1900-2000

The Korean War : An Exhaustive Chronology

The Grammys

  • The Grammys
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    Thomas O’Neil ; foreword by Peter Bart
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    Book, 1st Perigee ed., Rev. and updated ed, Perigee Books, 1999
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    From the first awards ceremony in 1958 to the last call on the party circuit in 1998, “The Grammys” gives readers the inside scoop on the music industry’s highest honor. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     REFERENCE (MAIN)  ML76.G7 O53 1999  AVAILABLE

Hit Songs, 1900-1955 : American Popular Music Of The Pre- Rock Era

A Chronology Of Middle Missouri Plains Village Sites

TimelineScience : One Thousand Years Of Scientific Thought

Aviation Year By Year

Annals Of English Drama, 975-1700; An Analytical Record Of All Plays, Extant Or Lost, Chronologically Arranged And Indexed By Authors, Titles, Dramatic Companies, &c

Germany : A Reference Guide From The Renaissance To The Present

Day By Day : The Thirties

A Chronology Of Jane Austen And Her Family

Twelve Days : The Story Of The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

  • Twelve Days : The Story Of The 1956 Hungarian Revolution
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    Victor Sebestyen
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    Book, Pantheon Books, 2006
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    On the fiftieth anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution, a defining moment in the Cold War, Victor Sebestyen, a journalist whose own family fled from Hungary, gives us a totally fresh account of that uprising, incorporating newly released official Hungarian and Soviet documents, his family?s diaries, and eyewitness testimony. We witness the thrilling first days when, armed with a few rifles, petrol bombs, and desperate courage, the people of Budapest rose up against their Soviet masters and nearly succeeded in routing the Russian forces. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (LOWER LEVEL)  DB957.5.C49 S43 2006  AVAILABLE

Mary Shelley’s Monster : The Story Of Frankenstein

With Speed And Violence : Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points In Climate Change

  • With Speed And Violence : Why Scientists Fear Tipping  Points In Climate Change
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    Fred Pearce
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    Book, Beacon Press, 2007
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    Fred Pearce has been writing about climate change for eighteen years, and the more he learns, the worse things look. Where once scientists were concerned about gradual climate change, now more and more of them fear we will soon be dealing with abrupt change resulting from triggering hidden tipping points. Even President Bush’s top climate modeler, Jim Hansen, warned in 2005 that “we are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.” virtually overnight.”?from the Introduction “If you want to quickly get up to date on climate change and its consequences, I recommend With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change. ?Lester Brown, president, Earth Policy Institute “Pearce’s survey of abrupt climate change science is a compelling and terrifying read.” (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  QC981.8.C5 P415 2007  AVAILABLE

Mozart

  • Mozart
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    Julian Rushton
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    Book, Oxford University Press, 2006
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    Julian Rushton offers a concise and up-to-date biography of this musical genius, combining a well-researched life of the composer with an introduction to the works–symphonic, chamber, sacred, and theatrical–of one of the few musicians in history to have written undisputed masterpieces across every genre of his time. Rushton takes full advantage of these biographical and musical studies as well as the definitive New Mozart Edition to provide an accurate account of Mozart’s life and, equally important, an insightful look at the music itself, complete with musical examples. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  ML410.M9 R87 2006  AVAILABLE