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Two strangers unite to save an innocent child—and perhaps the world—in this romantic thriller by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of No Way Out.
When Manhattan editor Dani Arnold she impulsively comes to the aid of a lost child, she finds herself plunged into a mystery more dangerous than anything she's ever read—or anything on the city streets—with an enigmatic stranger who threatens
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Culper Ring novels (Brad Meltzer) volume 1
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A young archivist working in the National Archives and his childhood crush accidentally happen upon a priceless artifact--a 200-year-old dictionary that once belonged to George Washington--hidden inside a desk chair. Eager to discover why the President is hiding this important national treasure, the two soon find themselves entangled in a web of deception, conspiracy, and murder that will reveal the most well kept secret of the U.S. Presidency.
3) The vaults
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In a dystopian 1930s America, a chilling series of events leads three men down a path to uncover their city's darkest secret. A mysterious duplicate file is discovered deep within the Vaults, and their investigations call into question whether their most basic beliefs can be maintained in a climate of overwhelming corruption and conspiracy.
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Culper Ring novels (Brad Meltzer) volume 3
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To most, it looks like Beecher White has an ordinary job. A young staffer with the National Archives in Washington, D.C., he's responsible for safekeeping the government's most important documents... and, sometimes, its most closely held secrets. But there are a powerful few who know his other role. Beecher is a member of the Culper Ring, a 200-year-old secret society founded by George Washington and charged with protecting the Presidency. Now the...
5) Frame 232
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Jason Hammond novels volume 1
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When she inherits all of her parents' possessions, including a tape which reveals new facts about John F. Kennedy's killers, Sheila Baker turns to Jason Hammond for help.
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Our photos. They are the keepers of our most precious memories and the tellers of our most cherished stories. But in the digital age, and when free time is nonexistent, organizing your photos-the thousands stored in shoeboxes under your bed, in fading photo albums, and on your phone-is a daunting task! In Photo Organizing Made Easy: Going from Overwhelmed to Overjoyed, professional photo organizers share their eight, doable steps to help you organize,...
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Opening with the notorious bonfires of "un-German" and Jewish literature in 1933 that offered such a clear signal of Nazi intentions, Burning the Books takes us on a 3000-year journey through the destruction of knowledge and the fight against all the odds to preserve it. Richard Ovenden, director of the world-famous Bodleian Library, explains how attacks on libraries and archives have been a feature of history since ancient times but have increased...
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In a race against time, a group of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Monuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture. Focusing on the period between D-Day and V-E Day, this book follows the Monuments Men on their impossible mission to save the world's great art from the Nazis. These unlikely heroes, mostly middle-aged family men, walked...
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Nelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has bestowed his entire extant personal papers, which offer an unprecedented insight into his remarkable life. A singular international publishing event, Conversations with Myself brings these documents into a sweeping narrative of great immediacy and stunning power. (Bestseller)...
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Résolument multidisciplinaire, cet ouvrage cherche à mettre en lumière la pluralité des rles qu'ont joués les revues culturelles, reconnues ou marginales, dans l'histoire du Québec. D'un certain « canon revuiste » à des périodiques qui, sans être de « petites revues » ou de « petites feuilles », sont moins étudiés, il entreprend une traversée intellectuelle et littéraire des années 1940 à l'époque contemporaine. On trouvera ici...
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Uno de los conceptos que se manejan en la Ciencia de la Información Documental es el de mediación, la cual no es un proceso meramente instrumental, mecánico, dirigido por la técnica o la tecnología, sino una acción humana y por consecuencia, llena de sentidos e intenciones. Es por ello que se encuentra íntimamente ligado al concepto de intencionalidad y por consecuencia es necesario reflexionar sobre ese elemento que resulta esencial para la...
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Based on unique and previously unpublished sources, this book examines in detail the complex, emotional, and difficult movement to remove the National Archives and Records Service from the control of the U.S. General Services Administration. This struggle began almost from the time the National Archives lost its independence in 1950 and culminated during the tenure of Robert Warner as sixth Archivist of the United States. The story is important to...
14) Moving Archives
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The image of the dusty, undisturbed archive has been swept away in response to growing interest across disciplines in the materials they house and the desire to find and make meaning through an engagement with those materials. Archival studies scholars and archivists are developing related theoretical frameworks and practices that recognize that the archives are anything but static. Archival deposits are proliferating, and the architects, practitioners,...
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What if your local LGBTIA/Queer community started its own library?In the past few years, several volunteers at QueerIST have experienced how hard it is to find and access works written by and for queer people. We decided to take matters into our own hands and embraced the ambitious endeavor of starting our own community library. This is the sum of knowledge from what we, as volunteer amateur librarians, learned from this experience. We hope it can...
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Roque Chabás, canónigo de la catedral de Valencia, inició un movimiento historiográfico de carácter científico sobre temas valencianos sustentados en estudios documentales y arqueológicos, con una dedicación personal que plasmó en la ordenación de varios archivos, entre ellos el de la catedral de Valencia, o en publicaciones memorables como la revista 'El Archivo'. Su preservación y difusión ocupó un lugar destacado entre sus disposiciones...
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What constitutes an archive in architecture? What forms does it take? What epistemology does it perform? What kind of craft is archiving? Crafting History provides answers and offers insights on the ontological granularity of the archive and its relationship with architecture as a complex enterprise that starts and ends much beyond the act of building or the life of a creator.
In this book we learn how objects are processed and catalogued, how a...
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L'année 1996 a vu s'éteindre à Paris ce qui fut le dernier quotidien yiddish non seulement en France, mais dans le monde entier. En effet, après le 28 juin de cette année, date du dernier numéro deUnzer Vort, il ne restait sur la planète aucun des innombrables journaux qui...
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A collection of essays exploring current issues in early film archiving, curation, and research.
Invented in the 1890s and premiered in Paris by the Lumière brothers, the cinematograph along with Louis Le Prince's single-lens camera projector are considered by film historians to be the precursors to modern-day motion picture devices. These early movies were often shown in town halls, on fairgrounds, and in theaters, requiring special showmanship...