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Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map.
Language
Español
Description
Presents a brief biography of Wilma Rudolph, revealing how she overcame polio to become an Olympic athlete and winner of three gold medals. Features full-color and black-and-white photographs, a timeline, and a glossary.
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 850L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of the African-American woman who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman to win three gold medals in track in a single Olympics.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Wilma Rudolph became a great American athlete. But do you kjnow what she was like as a child? From battling polio to playing basketball, Wilma was a determined and strong child. Her strength and determination played an important part in her life and in her ability to achieve greatness as a U.S. Olympic track-and-field star" --
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
560L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map.
Language
English
Description
In this inspiring biography, readers will learn about the life of Wilma Rudolph, the first American woman to win three gold medals at one Olympics. Readers will feel engaged and inspired as they read about Rudolph's incredible journey from a young girl with polio, to her first encounter with track and field, to becoming one of the best Olympic athletes of her time! A timeline of Rudolph's life, a glossary, and index are provided for further understanding...
Author
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Despite a career spanning over forty years, filmmaker Alan Rudolph has flown largely under the radar of independent film scholars and enthusiasts, often remembered as Robert Altman's prote̹ge̹. Through a reading of his 1985 film Trouble in Mind, Caryl Flinn demonstrates that Rudolph is long overdue for critical re-evaluation. Exploring Trouble in Mind's influence on indie filmmaking, Rudolph's dream-like style, and the external political influences...
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 318 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In a book based on the podcast series, a broadcast journalist tells the unbelievable true story of 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph, who, in 1961, set out to build an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall and was faced with many obstacles before freeing 29 people.
In the summer of 1962, a young student named Joachim Rudolph dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin were dozens of men, women, and childrenall willing to...
13) Larger than life
Author
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
490L
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the segregated town of Clarksville, Tennessee, in the 1960s, Alta's family cannot afford to buy her new sneakers--but she still plans to attend the parade celebrating her hero Wilma Rudolph's three Olympic gold medals.
Author
Series
Cinema cultures in contact volume 1
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"In the post-World War I American climate of isolationism, nativism, democratic expansion of civic rights, and consumerism, Italian-born star Rodolfo Valentino and Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini became surprising paragons of authoritarian male power and mass appeal. Drawing on extensive research in the United States and Italy, Giorgio Bertellini's work shows how their popularity, both political and erotic, largely depended on the efforts of public...
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxv, 310 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"In 1988, despite powerful Congressional opposition, U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani brought a massive civil racketeering (RICO) suit against the leaders of the behemoth International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) and more than two dozen Cosa Nostra (LCN) leaders. Intending to land a fatal blow to the mafia, Giuliani asserted that the union and organized-crime defendants had formed a devil's pact. He charged the IBT leaders with allowing their organized-crime...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Christmas has been canceled! Or at least it will be if Santa can't find a way to guide his sleigh through a fierce blizzard. Fortunately for him, there's Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Cricket on the hearth: animated musical version of Charles Dickens' classic tale. A Cricket on the Hearth, tells the story of a poor toymaker and his daughter whom a helpful Cricket named Crocket befriends on Christmas morning. When tragedy strikes the family, it's...
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