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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Young Henry began his rule as a magnificent and chivalrous Renaissance prince who embodied every virtue. He had all the qualities to make a triumph of his kingship, yet we remember only the violence. Henry famously broke with the pope, founding the Church of England and launching a religious revolution that divided his kingdom. He beheaded two of his wives and cast aside two others. He died a suspicious, obese, disease-riddled tyrant, old before...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Anne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history, her greatest legacy lies in the path-breaking reign of her daughter, Elizabeth. Much of the fascination with Britain's legendary Tudors centers around the dramas surrounding Henry VIII and his six wives and Elizabeth I's rumored liaisons. Yet the most fascinating relationship in that historic era may well be that between...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford, was a lady-in-waiting at the court of Henry VIII. She has been described as a ‘wicked wife’, a ‘pathological meddler’ and an altogether ‘vicious’, ‘heartless’, and most ‘unnatural’ woman for the betrayal of her own husband, George Boleyn. Her intimate role in court intrigues sent not only her husband but two English queens, Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard, to the scaffold. For her involvement in the...
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"This suspenseful and propulsive account of the days leading up to the end of World War II, is told through the stories of three men: Henry Stimson, the Secretary of War, who had overall responsibility for decisions about the atomic bomb; Gen. Carl "Tooey" Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in Europe and the Pacific, who was in charge of actually dropping the bombs; and Shigenori Tōgō, the Japanese Foreign Minister, who was the only one in Emperor...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Ms. Silvers is a New York-based choreographer whose work has been presented in North America, the United Kingdom, and Asia. Mindy Aloff of Dance Magazine has called her "... among the most talented choreographers to emerge in the decade [of the 1980's]." Ms. Silvers' choreography has been supported by the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation, and most recently, the Jerome Foundation. This piece features excerpts from her solo and group work as well as a...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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An active citizen, says the prolific and influential scholar and and teacher Henry Giroux, is "somebody who has the capacity not only to understand and engage the world but to transform it when necessary - and to believe he or she can do that." In this provocative new interview, Giroux speaks with passion and clarity about the inextricable links between education, civic engagement, and social justice. Strongly influenced by Paulo Freire, the Brazilian...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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In this issue of Videofashion Collections, the Isabel Marant customer will get a chance to show her romantic side while still embracing an edgy attitude for Spring/Summer 2014. The Carven girl is tough but sweet with a touch of Nineties embellishment, as designer Guillaume Henry blends camo and rose prints on his Paris Fashion Week runway. Get a sneak peek of runway looks from Barbara Bui’s latest Spring/Summer 2014 show! Plus, Vanessa Bruno puts...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply thoughtful memoir of the lifelong effects of stardom and the struggle to become whole. Henry Winkler, launched into prominence as "The Fonz" in the beloved Happy Days, has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny, and widely-regarded as the nicest man in Hollywood (though he would be the first to tell you that it's simply not the...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Featuring previously unseen footage, de-classified documents, and revealing interviews with Kissinger supporters (Alexander Haig, Brent Scowcroft, and William Safire) as well as his detractors (Seymour Hersh, William Shawcross, and Christopher Hitchens), The trials of Henry Kissinger explores how a young boy who fled Nazi Germany grew up to become one of the most powerful and controversial figures in U.S. History.
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Walden combines delicate and brilliant images filmed on location around Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts with readings by poet, John D. Ogden, bringing to life the heart and soul of Thoreau's writings. Stunningly filmed by Rick Cardin at the height of New England's fall foliage season, Walden is one of the first films to capture the magical sense of place that inspired Thoreau. Through the selection of quotes, images and a soulful score by legendary...
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Series
Great explorers book volume 1
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
An account of Henry Hudson's four voyages in search of a passage to the Orient in the early seventeenth century and the discoveries made by him on the northeastern coast of America.
14) Wyatt Earp
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Kevin Costner plays the man who became a myth in this film directed and co-written by Lawrence Kasdan. Gene Hackman stars as Wyatt's iron-willed father and Dennis Quaid plays Earp's deadly best friend, Doc Holliday. Covers everything from Wichita to Dodge City to the shootout at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times best-selling author of The Accidental President comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the greatest election stories of all time, as Truman mounted a history-making comeback and staked a claim for a new course for America."--
On the eve of the 1948 election, America was a fractured country. Racism was rampant, foreign relations were fraught, and political parties were more divided than ever. Americans...
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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This new three-part series follows a modern expedition that re-creates Sir Ernest Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which launched in 1914. The series joins a crew of five intrepid explorers, led by renowned adventurer, scientist and author Tim Jarvis, as they duplicate Shackleton's epic sea-and-land voyage in a replica of the original explorers' lifeboat, James Caird, using only the tools and supplies his team used. When the ship The Endurance...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This new three-part series follows a modern expedition that re-creates Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which launched in 1914. The series joins a crew of five intrepid explorers, led by renowned adventurer, scientist and author Tim Jarvis, as they duplicate Shackleton’s epic sea-and-land voyage in a replica of the original explorers’ lifeboat, James Caird, using only the tools and supplies his team used. When the ship The...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This new three-part series follows a modern expedition that re-creates Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which launched in 1914. The series joins a crew of five intrepid explorers, led by renowned adventurer, scientist and author Tim Jarvis, as they duplicate Shackleton’s epic sea-and-land voyage in a replica of the original explorers’ lifeboat, James Caird, using only the tools and supplies his team used. When the ship The...
20) Fire on the levee: the murder of Henry Glover and the search for justice after Hurricane Katrina
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The former federal prosecutor and founder of Justice Innovation Lab tells the story of his struggle to unravel the cover-up of a police shooting, and subsequent incineration of the shooting victim, in Hurricane Katrina-era New Orleans. In 2009, Jared Fishman was a young prosecutor working on low-level civil rights cases in the Justice Department when a file landed on his desk. That folder contained two items: a story from The Nation magazine examining...
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