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    Damming Grand Canyon : The 1923 USGS Colorado River Expedition / by Boyer, Diane E.

    Published 2007
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    Diamonds in the rough : a history of Alabama's Cahaba coal field / by Day, James Sanders, 1956-

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…Discovering and Marketing Coal : 1815-1859 -- Mining and Mapping Coal : 1859-1883 -- Surveying and Developing the Field : 1883-1910 -- Coal Towns : 1881-1919 -- Convict Leasing : 1872-1927 -- Welfare Capitalism : 1915-1933 -- Unionism : 1878-1935 -- Decline and Demise : 1929-1976.…”
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    James and Esther Cooper Jackson : love and courage in the Black freedom movement / by Haviland, Sara Rzeszutek

    Published 2015
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Love and activism -- Jack and Esther's paths to activism and each other -- Radical marriage on the front lines of the double victory campaign -- The demise of the Black popular front in the postwar period -- Family and the Black freedom movement in the early Cold War years -- The Communist Party USA and Black freedom in the 1950s -- Radical journalism in the civil rights years -- Freedomways, the Communist Party USA, and Black freedom in the post-civil rights years -- Conclusion: Esther and Jack in American history.…”
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    Newton and the origin of civilization by Buchwald, Jed Z.

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…Troubled Senses -- Troubled Numbers -- Erudition and Chronology in Seventeenth-Century England -- Isaac Newton on Prophecies and Idolatry -- Aberrant Numbers : The Propagation of Mankind before and after the Deluge -- Newtonian History -- Text and Testimony -- Interpreting Words -- Publication and Reaction -- The War on Newton in England -- The War on Newton in France -- The Demise of Chronology -- Evidence and History -- Appendix A: Signs, Conventions, Dating, and Definitions -- Appendix B: Newton's Computational Methods -- Appendix C: Commented Extracts from Newton's MS Calculations -- Appendix D: Placing Colures on the Original Star Globe -- Appendix E: Hesiod, Thales, and Stellar Risings and Settings.…”
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    One man's music the life and times of Texas songwriter Vince Bell / by Bell, Vince

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…Foreword by Kathleen Hudson -- Sorcerers' apprentice -- Look of the loner looking at it -- Sweat like a boxer -- Sinbad and the silver tooth -- Music where the words are the important part -- I'm not this way because I'm a musician, I'm a musician because I'm this way -- Secret mountain laboratory -- Six strings, no kick -- Three-day ride to the kitchen -- The songwriter -- Elastic plastic fork and pitiable paper plate -- Bermuda triangle -- Name unknown -- Rumor of my demise -- Room 933 -- If it was time for the musicians to call, it was time to go home and fix it -- Providence Street -- Even up on Misery Ave., they sometimes dance and sing -- Path of least regret -- Music school -- Edge of the world -- Monday for two years -- Keep your eyes in the sky -- Second Street -- Fate worse than death -- Wizard of odds -- Adrift in paradise -- Give chance a chance -- Prize for not working hard enough -- Phoenix -- Album of a lifetime -- The poetry in the prose -- Play like you practice -- Texas plates -- Say in your owndamnway -- The bottom line -- Live in Texas -- Rough old Texas hands.…”
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    Lone star lawmen the second century of the Texas Rangers / by Utley, Robert Marshall, 1929-

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- The border, 1910-1915 -- The "bandit war," 1915 -- The Big Bend, 1913-1919 -- Austin, 1918-1919 -- Pat Neff's "battles of peace," 1921-1925 -- Ma and Pa Ferguson, 1925-1927 -- Dan Moody, 1927-1931 -- Ross and Bill Sterling, 1931-1933 -- Return of the Fergusons, 1933-1935 -- The Department of Public Safety, 1935 -- DPS birth pangs, 1935-1938 -- Homer Garrison, 1938-1968 -- Gambling-- and other distractions -- Latino uprising -- Change, 1965-1985 -- Highs and lows, 1970s -- Highs and lows, 1980s -- Highs and lows, 1990s -- A summing-up.…”
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