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One Amazing Thing: Amazing People and Events

Eastfield Common Book 2013-2014

Amazing Acts

Project rebirth : survival and the strength of the human spirit from 9/11 survivors by Robin Stern; Courtney E. Martin
Call Number: BF 698.35 .R47 .S74 2011
Saved by her enemy : an Iraqi woman's journey from the heart of war to the heartland of America by Don Teague; Rafraf Barrak
Call Number: DS 79.767.R43 .T43 2010
Voices rising : stories from the Katrina Narrative Project by Rebeca Antoine; Katrina Narrative Project
Call Number: HV 636 2005 .L8 V65 2008
Escape from Camp 14 : one man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West by Blaine Harden; Dong-hyuk Shin
Call Number: HV 9815.6 .H37 2012

Websites

Amazing Science & Inventions

The scientists : an epic of discovery by Andrew Robinson
Call Number: Q 141 .S3712 2012
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Call Number: QA 76.2 .J63 I83 2011
Stephen Hawking : an unfettered mind (1st edition) by Kitty Ferguson
Call Number: QC 16 .H33 F465 2012
The annotated and illustrated double helix (1st Simon & Schuster hardcover edition) by James D. Watson; Alexander Gann
Call Number: QH 450.2 .W37 2012
Great lives from history. Inventors & inventions by Alvin K. Benson
Call Number: T 39 .G75 2010
Reference Collection (Library Use Only)
Fifty machines that changed the course of history by Eric Chaline
Call Number: TJ 15 .C44 2012

Amazing Medicine

Great discoveries in medicine by William F. Bynum; Helen Bynum
Call Number: R 133 .G72 2011
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Call Number: RC 265.6 .L24 S55 2010
Medical firsts : from Hippocrates to the human genome by Robert E. Adler
Call Number: R 133 .A43 2004
Technological medicine : the changing world of doctors and patients by Stanley Joel Reiser
Call Number: RA 418.5 .M4 R45 2009

Databases

American History in Video
Watch documentaries, newsreels, and archival footage of key events in American history. Follow or search synchronized transcripts for each video. Bookmark, link, embed, and share entire videos or custom clips that you create yourself.
American History Online
Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history highlighting the American experience.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Begin your research with reliable overviews from authoritative subject encyclopedias. Dependable information, citable sources.

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