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Culper Ring novels (Brad Meltzer) volume 1
Language
English
Description
A young archivist working in the National Archives and his childhood crush accidentally happen upon a priceless artifact--a 200-year-old dictionary that once belonged to George Washington--hidden inside a desk chair. Eager to discover why the President is hiding this important national treasure, the two soon find themselves entangled in a web of deception, conspiracy, and murder that will reveal the most well kept secret of the U.S. Presidency.
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Series
Culper Ring novels (Brad Meltzer) volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Brad Meltzer returns with the next novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Culper Ring series. Beecher White makes an alarming discovery on the White House grounds: there is a severed arm buried in the Rose Garden. As he investigates, he realizes it's a message one that may have dire repercussions for the President. Even worse, the message turns Beecher's personal life upside down, pointing him towards the dark truth about his father's death"--...
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Series
Culper Ring novels (Brad Meltzer) volume 2
Language
English
Description
Archivist Beecher White discovers a connection that may link the individuals responsible for the only four successful assassinations of American Presidents after discovering a modern-day killer who is recreating the assassins' crimes.
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Français
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Résolument multidisciplinaire, cet ouvrage cherche à mettre en lumière la pluralité des rles qu'ont joués les revues culturelles, reconnues ou marginales, dans l'histoire du Québec. D'un certain « canon revuiste » à des périodiques qui, sans être de « petites revues » ou de « petites feuilles », sont moins étudiés, il entreprend une traversée intellectuelle et littéraire des années 1940 à l'époque contemporaine. On trouvera ici...
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English
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The image of the dusty, undisturbed archive has been swept away in response to growing interest across disciplines in the materials they house and the desire to find and make meaning through an engagement with those materials. Archival studies scholars and archivists are developing related theoretical frameworks and practices that recognize that the archives are anything but static. Archival deposits are proliferating, and the architects, practitioners,...
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English
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What if your local LGBTIA/Queer community started its own library?In the past few years, several volunteers at QueerIST have experienced how hard it is to find and access works written by and for queer people. We decided to take matters into our own hands and embraced the ambitious endeavor of starting our own community library. This is the sum of knowledge from what we, as volunteer amateur librarians, learned from this experience. We hope it can...
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English
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Based on unique and previously unpublished sources, this book examines in detail the complex, emotional, and difficult movement to remove the National Archives and Records Service from the control of the U.S. General Services Administration. This struggle began almost from the time the National Archives lost its independence in 1950 and culminated during the tenure of Robert Warner as sixth Archivist of the United States. The story is important to...
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Español
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Uno de los conceptos que se manejan en la Ciencia de la Información Documental es el de mediación, la cual no es un proceso meramente instrumental, mecánico, dirigido por la técnica o la tecnología, sino una acción humana y por consecuencia, llena de sentidos e intenciones. Es por ello que se encuentra íntimamente ligado al concepto de intencionalidad y por consecuencia es necesario reflexionar sobre ese elemento que resulta esencial para la...
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Español
Description
Roque Chabás, canónigo de la catedral de Valencia, inició un movimiento historiográfico de carácter científico sobre temas valencianos sustentados en estudios documentales y arqueológicos, con una dedicación personal que plasmó en la ordenación de varios archivos, entre ellos el de la catedral de Valencia, o en publicaciones memorables como la revista 'El Archivo'. Su preservación y difusión ocupó un lugar destacado entre sus disposiciones...
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English
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What constitutes an archive in architecture? What forms does it take? What epistemology does it perform? What kind of craft is archiving? Crafting History provides answers and offers insights on the ontological granularity of the archive and its relationship with architecture as a complex enterprise that starts and ends much beyond the act of building or the life of a creator.
In this book we learn how objects are processed and catalogued, how a...
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Français
Description
L'année 1996 a vu s'éteindre à Paris ce qui fut le dernier quotidien yiddish non seulement en France, mais dans le monde entier. En effet, après le 28 juin de cette année, date du dernier numéro deUnzer Vort, il ne restait sur la planète aucun des innombrables journaux qui...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 25
Physical Desc
xvi, 473 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The previously untold story of a little-known WWII Allied division whose mission was to track down European art and treasures that had been looted by the Nazis at Hitler's command"--Provided by the publisher.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An unlikely World War II platoon has been tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. With the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could they possibly succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time, they would risk their lives to protect...
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English
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Discovered in the ruins of an old rebel base, these files weave together classified documents, intercepted transmissions, and gathered communications to trace the formation of the Rebel Alliance-- and unlock its secrets. The reports were compiled by archivist Hendri Underholt, and have been passed among key members of the Resistance who have added their notes, updates, and new insights -- Adapted from 'wrap' on page [4] cover.
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Français
Description
Les histoires insolites de la Seconde Guerre mondiale!
Daniel-Charles Luytens, fin limier de l'Histoire, est sans cesse à la recherche d'archives inédites, oubliées ou méconnues. Il nous livre ici sa dernière moisson de dossiers consacrés à l'une des périodes les plus tragiques du XXe siècle, 39-45, période durant laquelle Hitler et ses acolytes sévirent sur l'Allemagne et les territoires occupés. Grâce à des documents tels que des...
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An unlikely World War II platoon has been tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. With the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could they possibly succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time, they would risk their lives to protect...
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Language
English
Description
Recasting the history of African American literature, Shadow Archives brings to life a slew of newly discovered texts-including Claude McKay's Amiable with Big Teeth-to tell the stories of black special collections and their struggle for institutional recognition. Jean-Christophe Cloutier offers revelatory readings of major African American writers, including McKay, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, and Ralph Ellison, and provides a nuanced view of how archival...
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