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Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Follows the fates of five interrelated families -- American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh -- as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
This novel continues the stories of five interrelated families who struggle with social, political, and economic turmoil in the mid-twentieth century, during which they witness the rise of Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War, and the horrors of World War II. It picks up right where the first book left off, and continues up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. As he writes, "Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism and communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Reveals predictions made in "Popular Mechanics" magazine between 1903 and 1969 about what the future would hold! "Surrounded by wonders and a fast-evolving culture of innovation, it's just as chalenging today for us to imagine the next century as it must have been for our early 20th century colleagues to envision the fabled year 2000."-- P. 6.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
432 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Color of Time spans more than one hundred years of world history-- from the reign of Queen Victoria and the American Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and the beginning of the Space Age. It charts the rise and fall of empires, the achievements of science, industrial developments, the arts, the tragedies of war, the politics of peace, and the lives of men and women who made history. This illustrated narrative is a collaboration between a gifted...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
295 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Scott Eyman, this is the story of one of the most legendary and influential studios in film history, from its inception up to its demise in 2019"--
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1,147 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Continues the experiences of five intertwined international families as they confront the social, political, and economic turmoil of the second half of the twentieth century.
Sigue las experiencias de cinco familias internacionales entrelazados, ya que se enfrentan a la crisis social, política y económica de la segunda mitad del siglo XX.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
559 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
"Beginning in 1850 and organized by decade, 6,000 timeline entries cover events year by year in the categories of science, medicine, and technology; religion, philosophy, and education; history and politics; business and commerce; daily life and society; and the arts. In addition, 300 spotlight articles explore, in greater detail, the most intriguing events of each decade. Augmenting the text are thousands of photographs, drawings, and paintings"--Publisher...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The former defense analyst who revealed the Pentagon Papers offers an eyewitness account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s and reveals the dangers in the country's seventy-year-long nuclear policy.
"From the legendary whistleblower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness expose of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that--chillingly--continues to this day. Here, for the first time, former high-level...
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
ix, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen sixty-eight was a pivotal year that grew more intense with each day. As thousands of Vietnamese and Americans were killed in war, students across four continents took over colleges and city streets. Assassins murdered Dr. King and Robert F. Kennedy. Demonstrators turned out in Prague and Chicago, and in Mexico City, young people and Olympic athletes protested. In those intense months, generations battled and the world wobbled on the edge...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xx, 507 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. A century later, women are still grappling with how to use the vote and their political power to expand civil rights, confront racial violence, improve maternal health, advance educational and employment opportunities, and secure reproductive rights. Formidable chronicles the efforts of white and Black women to advance sometimes competing causes. Black women wanted the rights enjoyed by whites....
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