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The Drosten's curse / by Kennedy, A. L.;
"Something odd is going on at the Fetch Brothers' Golf Spa Hotel: receptionist Bryony Mailer has noticed a definite tendency toward disappearance among the guests. She's tried talking to the manager; she's even tried talking to the owner who lives in one of the best cottages on the grounds, but to no avail. And then a tall, loping remarkably energetic guest (wearing a fetching scarf and floppy hat) appears. The Fourth Doctor thinks he's in Chicago. He knows he's in 1978. And he also knows that if he doesn't do something very clever very soon, matters will get very, very out of hand"--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Doctor (Fictitious character); Golf resorts; Golfers; Missing persons; Extraterrestrial beings; Time travel;
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1984 / by Radford, Michael,1946-film director,screenwriter.; Perry, Simon,1943-film producer.; Burton, Richard,1925-1984,actor.; Hurt, John,1940-2017,actor.; Hamilton, Suzanna,actor.; Cusack, Simon,1910-1993,actor.; Muldowney, Dominic,composer (expression).; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Orwell, George,1903-1950.Nineteen eighty-four.; Eurythmics (Musical group),composer (expression),performer.; Virgin Films,film production company.; Umbrella-Rosenblum Films,film production company.; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.;
DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby audio mono.Richard Burton, John Hurt, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack.Director of photography, Roger Deakins; editor, Tom Priestley; music, Eurythmics, Dominic Muldowney.MPAA rating: R.A man and a woman try desperately to escape the totalitarian regime they live in that bans nearly all free-thinking and love itself. Based on the book by George Orwell. This is the version released in 1984.
Subjects: Science fiction films.; Dystopian films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Orwell, George, 1903-1950; Totalitarianism;
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Dallas 1963 / by Minutaglio, Bill.; Davis, Steven L.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-362) and index.The authors ingeniously explore the swirling forces that led many people to warn President Kennedy to avoid Dallas on his fateful trip to Texas.In the months and weeks before the fateful November 22nd, 1963, Dallas was brewing with political passions, a city crammed with larger-than-life characters dead-set against the Kennedy presidency. These included rabid warriors like defrocked military general Edwin A. Walker; the world's richest oil baron, H. L. Hunt; the leader of the largest Baptist congregation in the world, W.A. Criswell; and the media mogul Ted Dealey, who raucously confronted JFK and whose family name adorns the plaza where the president was murdered. On the same stage was a compelling cast of marauding gangsters, swashbuckling politicos, unsung civil rights heroes, and a stylish millionaire anxious to save his doomed city. Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis ingeniously explore the swirling forces that led many people to warn President Kennedy to avoid Dallas on his fateful trip to Texas. Breathtakingly paced, DALLAS 1963 presents a clear, cinematic, and revelatory look at the shocking tragedy that transformed America. Countless authors have attempted to explain the assassination, but no one has ever bothered to explain Dallas-until now. With spellbinding storytelling, Minutaglio and Davis lead us through intimate glimpses of the Kennedy family and the machinations of the Kennedy White House, to the obsessed men in Dallas who concocted the climate of hatred that led many to blame the city for the president's death. Here at long last is an accurate understanding of what happened in the weeks and months leading to John F. Kennedy's assassination. DALLAS 1963 is not only a fresh look at a momentous national tragedy but a sobering reminder of how radical, polarizing ideologies can poison a city-and a nation.--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963; Conspiracies; Presidents;
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Once in a great city : a Detroit story / by Maraniss, David.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-407) and index."As David Maraniss captures it with power and affection, Detroit summed up America's path to music and prosperity that was already past history. It's 1963 and Detroit is on top of the world. The city's leaders are among the most visionary in America: Grandson of the first Ford; Henry Ford II; influential labor leader Walter Reuther; Motown's founder Berry Gordy; the Reverend C.L. Franklin and his daughter, the amazing Aretha; Governor George Romney, Mormon and Civil Rights advocate; super car salesman Lee Iacocca; Mayor Jerome Cavanagh, a Kennedy acolyte; Police Commissioner George Edwards; Martin Luther King. It was the American auto makers' best year; the revolution in music and politics was underway. Reuther's UAW had helped lift the middle class. The time was full of promise. The auto industry was selling more cars than ever before and inventing the Mustang. Motown was capturing the world with its amazing artists. The progressive labor movement was rooted in Detroit with the UAW. Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech there two months before he made it famous in the Washington march. Once in a Great City shows that the shadows of collapse were evident even then. Before the devastating riot. Before the decades of civic corruption and neglect, and white flight. Before people trotted out the grab bag of rust belt infirmities--from harsh weather to high labor costs--and competition from abroad to explain Detroit's collapse, one could see the signs of a city's ruin. Detroit at its peak was threatened by its own design. It was being abandoned by the new world. Yet so much of what Detroit gave America lasts"--Gone -- Ask not -- The Show -- West Grand Boulevard -- Party bus -- Glow -- Motor City Mad Men -- The pitch of his hum -- An important man -- Home juice -- Eight lanes down Woodward -- Detroit dreamed first -- Heat wave -- The vast magnitude -- Houses divided -- The spirit of Detroit -- Smoke rings -- Fallen -- Big old waterboats -- Unfinished business -- The magic skyway -- Upward to the Great society -- Epilogue : Now and then.
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Counting every vote : the most contentious elections in American history / by Dudley, Robert L.; Shiraev, Eric,1960-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-177) and index.1800 : the election : a second American revolution? -- 1876 : Hayes defeats Tilden : a commission decides -- 1916 : Wilson defeats Hughes : no war, not yet -- 1960 : Kennedy defeats Nixon : no recounts -- 1968 : Nixon defeats Humphrey : law and order -- 2000 : Bush defeats Gore : the court decides.
Subjects: Presidents; Contested elections;
© c2008., Potomac Books,
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Classics of free thought / by Blanshard, Paul,1892-1980.;
Harry Elmer Barnes -- The Jesus stereotype / Hugo Black -- The limits of religious establishment -- Prayer in public schools -- The right NOT to believe / Harry A. Blackmum -- The Supreme Court Speaks on the right to choose abortion / Charles Bradlaugh -- God, Adam and atonement / Luther Burbank -- Our Savior science / J. B. Bury -- The battle of Tom Paine / Morris R. Cohen -- The dark side of religion / Clarence Darrow -- Absurdities of the Bible / Charles Darrow -- De-censoring Darwin's religion / Denis Diderot -- Life -- Missionaries, atheists and marriage / John W. Draper -- A scientist looks at religious graft / Felix Frankfurter -- McCollum v. board of education / Francis Galton -- Statistical inquiries into the efficacy of prayer / E. Haldeman-Julius -- The mental disease called religion / George Jacob Holyoake -- An atheist's speech to the jury / Julian Huxley -- Religion without revelation -- Tran humanism / T.H. Huxley -- Agnosticism versus Christianity / Robert Ingersoll -- The Trinity -- Quest for God -- The Christian heaven / Thomas Jefferson -- Letter to Danbury Baptist / The Virginia act for establishing religious freedom / John F Kennedy -- Kennedy's Houston speech / W.E.H. Lecky -- Unblushing mendacity -- The horrors of witchcraft / James Madison -- Memorial and remonstrance against religious assessments / Joseph McCabe -- The masquerade of creeds / H.L. Mencken -- On Theologians / John Stuart Mill -- Growing up without God / The Nation -- Appeal to reason and conscience / Thomas Paine -- The creed of a skeptical deist -- Miracles and prophecy -- Clerical lying -- Wickedness in the Bible / J.M. Robertson -- The crusades -- The futility of missions / Eleanor Roosevelt -- The Spellman-Roosevelt exchange / Bertrand Russell -- Sexual freedom -- Religion and morals / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- The necessity of atheism / Leslie Stephen -- An agnostic apology / Mark Twain -- The War prayer -- The story of a bad little boy / Voltaire -- A man looks at adultery and divorce -- A woman looks at adultery and divorce -- Tolerance / Joseph Wheless -- Genealogies of Jesus -- The Virgin birth / Andrew D. White -- Protestant foes of light -- Theology and epidemics.
Subjects: Free thought.;
© , Prometheus Books,
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Maternal-child nursing care : optimizing outcomes for mothers, children, and families / by Ward, Susan L.; Hisley, Shelton M.,author.; Kennedy, Amy Mitchell,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Traditional and community nursing care for women, families, and children -- Contemporary issues in women's, families',and children's health care -- The evolving family -- Caring for women, families, and children across the life span -- Reproductive anatomy and physiology -- Human sexuality and fertility -- Conception and development of the embryo and fetus -- Physiological and psychosocial changes during pregnancy -- The prenatal assessment -- Promoting a healthy pregnancy -- Caring for the woman experiencing complications during pregnancy -- The process of labor and birth -- Promoting patient comfort during labor and birth -- Caring for the woman experiencing complications during labor and birth -- Caring for the postpartal woman and her family -- Caring for the woman experiencing complications during the postpartal period -- Physiological transition of the newborn -- Caring for the normal newborn -- Caring for the newborn at risk -- Caring for the developing child -- Caring for the child in the hospital, the community, and across care settings -- Caring for the child with a psychosocial or cognitive condition -- Caring for the child with a respiratory condition -- Caring for the child with a gastrointestinal condition -- Caring for the child with an immunological or infectious condition -- Caring for the child with a cardiovascular condition -- Caring for the child with an endocrinological or metabolic condition -- Caring for the child with a neurological or sensory condition -- Caring for the child with a musculoskeletal condition -- Caring for the child with an integumentary condition -- Caring for the child with genitourinary condition -- Caring for the child with a hematological condition -- Caring for the child with cancer -- Caring for the child with a chronic condition or the dying child -- Caring for the critically ill child.
Subjects: Maternal-Child Nursing; Holistic Nursing; Evidence-Based Nursing; Cultural Diversity; Maternity nursing.; Pediatric nursing.;
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The Presidents and the Constitution : a living history / by Gormley, Ken,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: An unfinished presidency / Ken Gormley -- Pt. I. The founding era : George Washington / Richard J. Ellis ; John Adams / Louis Fisher ; Thomas Jefferson / Cliff Sloan, Louis Fisher, and Moshe Spinowitz ; James Madison / Ralph Ketcham ; James Monroe / Gary Hart ; John Quincy Adams / Jonathan L. Entin -- Pt. II. The Age of Jackson : Andrew Jackson / Mark A. Graber ; Martin Van Buren / Michael J. Gerhardt ; William Henry Harrison / David Marks Shribman ; John Tyler / Robert J. Spitzer ; James K. Polk / Frank J. Williams -- Pt. III. The pre-Civil War era : Zachary Taylor / Paul Finkelman ; Millard Fillmore / Joseph F. Rishel ; Franklin Pierce / Paul Finkelman ; James Buchanan / Thomas A. Horrocks -- Pt. IV. Civil War and Reconstruction : Abraham Lincoln / William D. Pederson ; Andrew Johnson / Michael Les Benedict ; Ulysses S. Grant / John F. Marszalek -- Pt. V. The Gilded Age : Rutherford B. Hayes / Michael A. Ross ; James A. Garfield / Thomas C. Sutton ; Chester A. Arthur / Thomas C. Sutton ; Grover Cleveland, first term: 1884-1888 / Donald Grier Stephenson Jr. ; Benjamin Harrison / Allan B. Spetter ; Grover Cleveland, second term / Donald Grier Stephenson Jr. ; William McKinley / Thomas C. Sutton -- Pt. VI. The Progressive Era : Theodore Roosevelt / William D. Bader ; William Howard Taft / Francine Sanders Romero -- Pt. VII. World War I and the Great Depression : Woodrow Wilson / Saladin M. Ambar : Warren G. Harding / James D. Robenalt ; Calvin Coolidge / John W. Johnson and Dale E. P. Yurs ; Herbert Hoover / John Q. Barrett -- Pt. VIII. The New Deal and World War II : Franklin Delano Roosevelt / William D. Pederson ; Harry S. Truman / James N. Giglio -- Pt. IX. The Civil Rights Era : Dwight D. Eisenhower / Richard V. Damms ; John F. Kennedy / Barbara A. Perry ; Lyndon B. Johnson / John L. Bullion -- Pt. X. The Watergate Era and reform : Richard M. Nixon / Stanley Kutler ; Gerald R. Ford / Jeffrey Crouch ; Jimmy Carter / Scott Kaufman -- Pt. XI. New conservatives, new Democrats, and polarization : Ronald Reagan / Kenneth W. Starr ; George H. W. Bush / Lori Cox Han ; William Jefferson Clinton / Ken Gormley -- Pt. XII. National security era: post-9/11 : George W. Bush / Benjamin A. Kleinerman : Barack Obama / Michael J. Gerhardt -- Conclusion: An evolving American presidency / Ken Gormley."In this sweepingly ambitious volume, the nation's foremost experts on the American presidency and the U.S. Constitution join together to tell the intertwined stories of how each American president has confronted and shaped the Constitution. Each occupant of the office--the first president to the forty-fourth--has contributed to the story of the Constitution through the decisions he made and the actions he took as the nation's chief executive. By examining presidential history through the lens of constitutional conflicts and challenges, The Presidents and the Constitution offers a fresh perspective on how the Constitution has evolved in the hands of individual presidents. It delves into key moments in American history, from Washington's early battles with Congress to the advent of the national security presidency under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, to reveal the dramatic historical forces that drove these presidents to action. Historians and legal experts, including Richard Ellis, Gary Hart, Stanley Kutler and Kenneth Starr, bring the Constitution to life, and show how the awesome powers of the American presidency have been shaped by the men who were granted them. The book brings to the fore the overarching constitutional themes that span this country's history and ties together presidencies in a way never before accomplished."--Book jacket.
Subjects: Executive power; Presidents; Constitutional history;
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Power, politics, and universal health care : the inside story of a century-long balttle / by Altman, Stuart H.; Shactman, David.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-406) and index.Nixon comes close : our plan looks like a slam dunk, but ends with just a dunk -- Clinton chooses wrong : the colossal defeat of managed competition -- The past foreshadows the present : early attempts with little success -- The Hill-Burton program : how America's uninsured poor got a right to free hospital care -- The three-layer cake : Lyndon Johnson, Wilbur Mills, and the epic battle to enact medicare -- Oops! the brief life and death of medicare catastrophic -- Ted Kennedy and the Republican Congress : HIPAA and SCHIP add two more pieces to the puzzle -- The unlikely saga of the medicare prescription drug benefit -- Controlling health costs : many attempts but few successes -- The last 20 years : health care spending keeps growing -- Obama develops his plan -- Early players and done deals -- Baucus, Grassley, and the gang of six -- The summer of death panels -- The speaker carries the day -- The Senate and the Christmas Eve health bill -- Success at last -- How he did it : a political strategy learned from history -- The future is cost control.
Subjects: Medical policy; Health care reform; Health Care Reform; Health Policy; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Politics; Universal Coverage;
© 2011., Prometheus Books,
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The 1950s / by Kallen, Stuart A.,1955-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 228) and index.
Subjects: Nineteen fifties.;
© 2000., Greenhaven Press,
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