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Forgotten Frontier is a concrete and vivid contribution to the new Western history. A world apart from the false and flashy image of the Wild West, Wyoming coal mining has built up a history that carries considerable human drama. Forging community out of scarce resources, living with the risk of terrifying mining accidents, enduring the uncertainty of boom-bust cycles, the men and women porrtrayed in this book live at the heart of the region's history....
2) Respectfully quoted: a dictionary of quotations requested from the Congressional Research Service
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The Congressional Research Service has been responding to Congressional inquiries about quotations for eighty-five years, and during this time they have searched out many of the most popular statements many times over. But they have tracked down many others that had never been identified before but which had a pith and point equal to the more traditional thoughts. The 2100 statements included in this book are the best of the latter. Quotations come...
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"The purpose of this document is to set forth guidelines of excellence for school library programs in Louisiana by focusing on the role of the school librarian as an active partner in the teaching and learning process." --p. 1.
This document is presented in two sections: Section one describes each of five goals for a comprehensive school ibrary program with a positive impact on student learning: It should be staffed with certified school librarians;...