John Barry
Author
Publisher
Books Americana
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
Description
Complete descriptions of types of pottery and over 400 full color plates give the new purchaser a complete resource to use in making wise choices, while comprehensive history sections educate collectors and admirers of Pueblo and other Indian pottery.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
In 1927, the Mississippi River swept across an area roughly equal in size to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont combined, leaving water as deep as thirty feet on the land stretching from Illinois and Missouri south to the Gulf of Mexico. Close to a million people - in a nation of 120 million - were forced out of their homes. Some estimates place the death toll in the thousands. The Red Cross fed nearly 700,000 refugees for months....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the winter of 1918, the coldest the American Midwest had ever endured, history's most lethal influenza virus was born. Over the next year it flourished, killing as many as 100 million people. It killed more people in twenty-four weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty-four years, more people in a year than the Black Death of the Middle Ages killed in a century. There were many echoes of the Middle Ages in 1918: victims turned blue-black and priests...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"In the winter of 1918, the coldest the American Midwest had ever endured, history's most lethal influenza virus was born. Over the next year it flourished, killing as many as 100 million people. It killed more people in twenty-four weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty-four years, more people in a year than the Black Death of the Middle Ages killed in a century. There were many echoes of the Middle Ages in 1918: victims turned blue-black and priests...
Author
Publisher
Oxford Illustrated Press
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
In K2: Savage Mountain, Savage Summer, John Barry pays tribute to Alan Rouse and tells the story of the team's unsuccessful attempts at the notoriously difficult North - West Ridge and the Abruzzi Spur; of the months spent on the mountain during a summer marked by prolonged and violent storms; of the loss of the other mountaineers from America, Poland, Pakistan, Francem, Austria, and Italy.
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. Revised to reflect...
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
©1992
Language
English
Description
The great moments of scientific discovery all too often occur in the far reaches of the laboratory, hidden from the public eye. Rarely do readers have an opportunity to comprehend the exhilaration and sense of awe scientists feel as they finally make a breakthrough in understanding the complex web of nature. The Transformed Cell changes all that. Dr. Steven Rosenberg, one of the world's leading surgeons, provides an extraordinary glimpse inside the...
Language
English
Description
A historical drama about the relationship between a Civil War soldier and a band of Sioux Indians. Attracted by the natural simplicity of their lifestyle, John W. Dunbar chooses to leave his former life behind to join them, taking on the name Dances with Wolves. Soon, Dances with Wolves has become a welcome member of the tribe and fallen in love with a white woman who has been raised amongst the tribe. His peaceful existence is threatened, however,...
16) Goldfinger
Language
English
Description
Sean Connery returns as Agent 007 and faces off with a maniacal villain bent on destroying all the gold in Fort Knox-- and obliterating the world economy.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Bond learns that Blofeld is headquartered in a remote part of the Swiss Alps. In order to infiltrate Blofeld's mountain fortress - an allergy clinic filled with beautiful women - Bond disguises himself as a stuffy genealogist. Unable to withstand the overwhelming temptation surrounding him, 007 blows his stuffy cover but discovers Blofeld's sinister plot in the process.
19) The Deep
Author
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset star as a vacationing American couple who quickly find themselves involved in a modern-day pirate tale, complete with sunken treasure and sadistic voodoo terror.
20) Robin and Marian
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
The legend of Robin Hood continues when Robin and Little John return from the Crusades under the command of King Richard the Lionheart. But when Richard is accidentally slain, the mad King John assumes the throne and Robin regroups the members of his old Sherwood Forest band.