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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xxvi, 229 pages, plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The people that will be most affected by a "greater Cedar Rapids" were staying home or were still coping in FEMA trailers where the water pipes routinely burst in the harsh Iowa winter, or were living with relatives, or had simply disappeared and moved on or given up. They had sold their flooded houses for a song or had taken out a mortgage at the age of seventy. They were buried under massive mounds of bureaucratic paperwork, trying to get a check...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xix, 219 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Covering parts of four states--Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota--that share a shoreline with the Mississippi River, the Driftless area was spared the glacial activity that leveled the rest of the Midwest landscape. What is left is a common culture of tucked away hills and valleys, where small-scale farming, a respect and love of nature, and close-knit community are a way of life. Lyons tells the stories of the Driftless through the colorful...
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color with black and white segments ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-five years ago, MIT-trained investigators Bob Rines and Charlie Wyckoff used side sonar and strobe photography to produce the most intriguing evidence yet for the [Loch Ness] monster's existence. Now, disappointed by the lack of follow-up by professional scientists, they return to Scotland for one last go at 'Nessie'... As Rines and Wyckoff scour the loch with today's sophisticated sonar, scientists explore the loch's ecosystem and geological...
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Against the backdrop of the Civil War, in the midst of the 1864 Battle of the Wilderness, six lost, ragged and exhausted soldiers share a campfire, some food, and a brief respite from the day's fighting ... unaware that they are actually on opposite sides. Under the cover of darkness, they are all the same, with individual hopes, fears, and dreams. But when the rising sun reveals them to be enemies, the stage is set for a deadly confrontation.
