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David Roberts
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2025.
Physical Desc
viii, 199 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"David Roberts was hired in 1988 to provide security for the UK portion of Whitney Houston's Moment of Truth world tour. Accustomed to working for diplomats and Fortune 500 clients, Roberts had reservations about working with a pop star. But from the moment they met at Heathrow Airport, Houston's heart of gold won him over. Roberts would work for Houston for seven years as her career soared to its pinnacle. His memoir reveals heartwarming anecdotes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
"In this groundbreaking book, David Roberts sets out to demonstrate the centrality of the total work of art to European modernism since the French Revolution. The total work of art is usually understood as the intention to reunite the arts into the one integrated whole, but it is also tied from the beginning to the desire to recover and renew the public function of art. The synthesis of the arts in the service of social and cultural regeneration was...
Author
Series
Yale historical publications. Miscellany volume 73
Pub. Date
1969
Physical Desc
xiii, 369 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
With the conquest of New Mexico in 1598, Spanish governors, soldiers, and missionaries began their brutal subjugation of the Pueblo Indians in what is today the Southwestern United States. In the summer of 1680, led by a visionary shaman named Popé, the Puebloans revolted. Before then the many different Pueblo villages had never acted in concert (and never would again). Now, in total secrecy they coordinated an attack, routing the rulers in Santa...
12) Don't blink!
Author
Lexile measure
AD 520L
Language
English
Description
"A page turns every time you blink, bringing you closer to the end of the book--and bedtime" -- Provided by publisher.
Win the staring contest and you don't have to go to bed! An interactive bedtime story that gives young readers a chance to avoid bedtime, provided they don't blink, but for every blink, a page turns, bringing the end of the story and sleep closer.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The riveting story of one of the greatest but least-known sagas in the history of exploration from David Roberts, the "dean of adventure writing." By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed Gino), a 23-year-old explorer, led thirteen scientists and...
14) Germs!
Author
Series
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bertie's sister has chickenpox and Bertie thinks that if he can catch it he will not have to go to school and admit he did not do his homework--and that is just the first problem that Bertie faces in this trio of stories.
15) Fangs!
Author
Series
Lexile measure
420L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bertie is convinced that the grumpy school janitor is a vampire, but locking Mr. Grouch in a shed is probably not a good idea--and that is only the first trouble that Bertie finds in this trio of stories.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Creativity meets curiosity and critical thinking in this project book from the #1 New York Times bestselling team behind Iggy Peck, Architect, Rosie Revere, Engineer, and Ada Twist, Scientist. Iggy Peck takes readers through more than 40 exciting STEM and design projects and activities, from drafting and doodling to building and blueprints. Aspiring architects and young dreamers of all kinds will get a sense of the unique mix of science, technology,...
17) Fleas!
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone/Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
480L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (111 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
What kind of trouble will Bertie get into next? This time, his trio of adventures feature a flea-ridden the dog, a dangerous dare at school, and a shiny red fire engine.
18) Worms!
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
540L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (111 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
In these three tales Bertie turns a pink birthday party into a mess, faces and fails the challenge of being polite for an entire day (fortunately), and mistakes his mother's flower arrangement for garbage.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A personal and historical exploration of the Bears Ears country and the fight to save a national monument. The Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, created by President Obama in 2016 and eviscerated by President Trump in 2017, contains more archaeological sites than any other region in the United States. It's also a spectacularly beautiful landscape, a mosaic of sandstone canyons and bold mesas and buttes. This wilderness, now threatened...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
AD 780L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Rosie may seem quiet during the day, but at night she's a brilliant who dreams of becoming a great engineer. When her Great, Great Aunt Rose (Rosie the Riveter) comes for a visit and mentions her one unfinished goal to fly. Rosie sets to work building a contraption to make her aunt's dream come true. An aspiring young engineer must first conquer her fear of failure.
