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Publisher
Playtone Productions
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (511 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The 1960s was the decade America transformed from a country of conformity to a land of political, cultural, and social liberation. Looking through the lens of television, this production weaves together the events and personalities that influenced and dominated the 1960s in America, sketching a portrait of this remarkable decade that is both entertaining and illuminating.
782) Flight and rescue
Author
Publisher
The Museum
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 218 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 32 cm
Language
English
783) What happens later
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ex-lovers reunite when they both become stranded in an airport overnight. They find themselves drawn together to revisit their past to discuss what could have been and what may happen in the future.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Throughout this nation's history, we have reached for the heavens and dreamed of touching the stars. Now Tom Hanks presents the dramatic story of the unforgettable Apollo missions.
785) Spacewalker
Publisher
Capelight Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
In the heat of the Cold War, the USSR and USA compete for supremacy in outer space. They race to be the first nation to have a man complete a spacewalk. No price is too high and no risk is too great. To set off one of humankind₂s most ambitious missions, the USSR pair the unlikely duo of a seasoned war veteran and a fearless test pilot. Without proper testing, and inside a tiny spaceship, the two astronauts launch into the unknown to take on what...
786) The Cloverfield 3-movie collection: Cloverfield ; 10 Cloverfield Lane ; The Cloverfield paradox
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (288 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cloverfield (2008): New York is suddenly under attack from a Godzilla-like monster who stomps through midtown, destroying everything and everybody in sight.
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016): A young woman wakes up after a terrible accident to find that she's locked in a cellar with a doomsday prepper, who insists that he saved her life and that the world outside is uninhabitable following an apocalyptic catastrophe. Uncertain what to believe, the woman...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
April 12, 1945. A fleet of American B-29 bombers flew toward Japan. Their mission: burn the cities, factories, and military bases of the Japanese empire, forcing an unconditional surrender. On board the City of Los Angeles a phosphorus bomb detonated inside the plane. Staff Sergeant Henry E. "Red" Erwin absorbed the blast of burning phosphorus, threw the still-flaming bomb overboard, and collapsed from the third-degree burns over much of his body....
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Tuskegee Airmen heroically fought for the right to be officers of the US military so that they might participate in World War II by flying overseas to help defeat fascism. However, after winning that battle, they faced their next great challenge at Freeman Field, Iowa, where racist white officers barred them from entering the prestigious Officers' Club that their rank promised them. The Freeman Field Mutiny, as it became known, would eventually...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A new compilation of original footage, this program has an in-depth montage of the moon landing story. It contains rare and previously unseen footage from the BBC live coverage in 1969, footage of the landing, and also the buildup to the launch. Includes an episode of The sky at night.
792) Baby bird
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
26 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A bird falls out of his nest while trying to fly and has encounters with several animals before he finds success.
Author
Publisher
Oneworld
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xvi, 195 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The wonder of flight has long captured the human imagination. In this beguiling history ranging from the first aircraft to astronauts and beyond astronomer David Darling tells the stories of the true life adventurers whose wonder has translated into bizarre contraptions, magnificent achievements and, sometimes, startling folly.
794) Quack!
Author
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
23 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Quack, a young duck, builds a rocket and goes to the moon, only to find that he misses home.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xviii, 492 pages : illustrations, 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era-tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft-even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by its leading intellectuals. Eire observes how levitating saints and flying witches...
796) The flyers
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1903, a group of children on the beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, dream of flying and witness the first flight of the Wright brothers. Includes a chronology of milestones in the history of flight.
797) Cronkite remembers
Series
Publisher
Timeless Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 450 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Walter Cronkite, using archival news footage and revealing interviews, reminisces about his career in journalism covering major events in recent history.
798) Mission to Mars
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
33 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines space flight to Mars.
Author
Series
Bobiverse volume 1
Publisher
[Worldbuilders Press]
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
[Second edition].
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an...
Publisher
CBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (556 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In season two of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, under the command of Captain Christopher Pike, confronts increasingly dangerous stakes, explores uncharted territories, and encounters new life and civilizations. The crew will also embark on personal journeys that will continue to test their resolve and redefine their destinies.
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