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Featuring 17 exclusive interviews with filmmakers and actors, as well as an afterword from Jonathan Banks (Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul), Indiana University Cinema, is a lavishly illustrated book that is sure to please everyone from the casual moviegoer to the most passionate cinephile.
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[2004]
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English
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Limestone Lives pays tribute to the skill and dedication of the men and women who work with stone. It combines 79 striking fine art photographic images with engaging oral histories, representing a range of voices of the workers themselves. We hear from sculptors, drill runners, stone polishers, planermen, forklift operators, a union leader, and the president of a stone company. The book also features brief descriptions of the region’s stone companies,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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850L
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Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic "Slaughterhouse-five" introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes "unstuck in time" after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden. "Slaughterhouse-five" is...
18) The Indiana Living Biography Series: Season I,Episode II, August 12th 2009 :with Senator Evan Bayh
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2009.
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English
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The Pendleton Community Public Library, in cooperation with WIPB-TV and Indiana Public Radio is pleased to announce U.S. Senator and former Indiana Governor, Evan Bayh, as the distinguished guest of the Indiana Living Biography Series. Evan Bayh was born the day after Christmas, 1955 in Terre Haute, Ind., near the Bayh family home in Shirkieville. After two terms as Governor of Indiana (1989-96), Bayh was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1998, winning...
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[1998]
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English
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Twenty Black residents of a small Ohio River town here tell the stories of their lives. Madison, though in the North, had its cultural roots in the south, and for most of the twentieth century the town was strictly segregated. In their own words, Black men and women of Madison describe the deprivations of discrimination in their hometown: what it meant, personally and culturally, to be denied opportunities for participation in the educational, economic,...
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20th century memories volume 1
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English
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This oral history covers the twentieth century in Greencastle with the lives of minority members. It is as valuable, because of racial restrictions, for what it does not say about living habits as for what it does say. It points out the many activities of the black minority in Greencastle, but it also says much about the restrictions as to living areas, social grouping and practices of thiese same persons, who were not able to conduct their lives...
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