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Title:
The American century : art & culture, 1950-2000 / Lisa Phillips.
Author:
Phillips, Lisa.
Publication:
New York : Whitney Museum of American Art in association with W.W. Norton, c1999.

Item Details:
398 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Publication:
New York : Whitney Museum of American Art in association with W.W. Norton, c1999.
Notes:
Completes the history begun with: The American century : art and culture, 1900-1950 / Barbara Haskell.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition The American century: art & culture 1900-2000 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Pt. 1, 1900-1950 held April 23 to August 22, 1999 and pt. 2, 1950-2000 held Sept. 26, 1999 to Feb. 13, 2000.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-382) and index.
Subjects:
Art, American.
Art, American -- 20th century.
Arts, American.
Arts, American -- 20th century.
Other author:
Haskell, Barbara. American century.
Whitney Museum of American Art.
ISBN:
0393048152 :



Title:
The complete book of U.S. presidents / by William A. DeGregorio.
Author:
DeGregorio, William A., 1946-
Publication:
New York : Dembner Books : Distributed by W.W. Norton, c1989.

Item Details:
xi, 740 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
Publication:
New York : Dembner Books : Distributed by W.W. Norton, c1989.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographies and index.
Subjects:
Presidents -- United States.
Additional title:
Complete book of US preidents
Complete book of United States presidents
ISBN:
0942637178


Title:
Dawn of the century : 1900-1910 / by the editors of Time-Life Books.
Publication:
Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books, c1998.

Item Details:
192 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Publication:
Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books, c1998.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189) and index.
Series:
Our American century
Subjects:
United States -- History -- 1901-1909.
United States -- History -- 1901-1909 -- Pictorial works.
Nineteen hundreds (Decade)
Nineteen hundreds (Decade) -- Pictorial works.
Other author:
Time-Life Books.
ISBN:
0783555113 :


Title:
Scientific American inventions and discoveries : all the milestones in ingenuity--from the discovery of fire to the invention of the microwave oven / Rodney Carlisle.
Author:
Carlisle, Rodney P.
Publication:
Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley, c2004.

Publisher description
Table of contents
Item Details:
ix, 502 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Publication:
Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley, c2004.
Notes:
Includes index.
Subjects:
Inventions -- History -- Encyclopedias.
Inventions -- United States -- Encyclopedias.
Technology -- History -- Encyclopedias.
Technological innovations -- Encyclopedias.
ISBN:
0471244104 :


Title:
American music in the twentieth century / Kyle Gann.
Author:
Gann, Kyle.
Publication:
New York : Schirmer Books ; London : Prentice Hall International, c1997.

Item Details:
xvi, 400 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publication:
New York : Schirmer Books ; London : Prentice Hall International, c1997.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents:
Prelude : What is American music? -- Forefathers -- Ultramodernism-- the 1920s -- Populism-- the 1930s -- Experimentalism -- Atonality and European influence -- John Cage and the New York School revolution -- Post-Cage conceptualism -- Minimalism -- New tonality 1-- the new Romanticism -- Electronic music -- Interfaces with rock and jazz -- New tonality 2-- postminimalism -- Totalism and the 1990s.
Subjects:
Music -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Additional title:
American music in the 20th century
ISBN:
002864655X :