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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2006, c1999
Physical Desc
xxv, 648 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The world's oldest established imperial rivalry had its start during the Napoleonic age when British agents came upon the tracks of Russian rivals in snowbound Tibet, and then again in mythic Bokhara, deep in Central Asia. Was the Tsar planning to invade India, or even worse, was Russia bent on global dominion? To foil these real or imagined schemes, the British twice invaded Afghanistan, and in 1904 dispatched an army to Lhasa to check Tsarist designs...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xiii, 622 p. : ill. (some ill.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
20,000 B.C., the peak of the last ice age -- the atmosphere is heavy with dust, deserts, and glaciers span vast regions, and people, if they survive at all, exist in small, mobile groups, facing the threat of extinction. But these people live on the brink of seismic change -- 10,000 years of climate shifts culminating in abrupt global warming that will usher in a fundamentally changed human world. After the Ice is the story of this momentous period...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xiv, 478 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
For decades, books about John or Robert Kennedy have woven either a shimmering tale of Camelot gallantry or a tawdry story of runaway ambition and reckless personal behavior. But the real story of the Kennedys in the 1960s has long been submerged -- until now. In Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, David Talbot sheds a dramatic new light on the tumultuous inner life of the Kennedy presidency and its stunning aftermath. Talbot, the founder...
Series
The Sapranos volume s. 1
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 780 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tony Soprano is your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife, a not-so-dutiful daughter, a son named Anthony Jr. a mother he's trying to coax into a retirement home, a hot-headed uncle, a not-too-secret mistress and a shrink to tell all his secrets, except the one she already knows: Tony's a mob boss.
Series
The Sapranos volume s. 4
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 780 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The sluggish economy has not been good for Tony Soprano's family business and some of his people are not happy with his recent decisions. Contains the entire 13 episodes from the fourth season.
Series
The Sapranos volume s. 6 , pt. 1
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tony Soprano is a middle-aged, Italian-American businessman in New Jersey with a wife, a daughter, a son, and an elderly mother. He's got a psychiatrist to tell all his secrets to, except the one she already knows. He's also a mob boss facing several crises. Rival boss Johnny Sack is in prison and the always tense relations between the New Jersey and New York families are strained through the unpredictable behavior of Sack's surrogates.
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