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Speed-the-plow : a play / by Mamet, David.(CARDINAL)135137;
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The unicorn and the plow / by Moeri, Louise.(CARDINAL)708638; Goode, Diane.(CARDINAL)516395;
A poor starving farmer is persuaded by his two oxen to wait one more day before he sells one and kills the other for food.
Subjects: Fairy tales.; Fiction.; Unicorns;
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Sing behind the plow [videorecording] : John C. Campbell Folk School / by Davis, Scott H.,producer,director,screenwriter.; Hughes, Brenda,producer,director,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)894035; Davidson, Jan,1948-producer,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)832894; Alphin, Adam,editor of moving image work.; Sturmann, George,cinematographer.; Urben, Mike,narrator.; Story, Fred.(CARDINAL)895522; University of North Carolina Center for Public Television,production company.(CARDINAL)180965; John C. Campbell Folk School,production company.(CARDINAL)206184;
Music, Fred Story ; director of photography, George Sturmann ; editor, Adam Alphin ; executive producers, Jan Davidson and Scott H. Davis.Narrated by Mike Urben.The story of how the people of a remote mountain village joined with educators to begin the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1925.Not rated.DVD, stereo.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Campbell, John C. (John Charles), 1867-1919.; Campbell, Olive D. (Olive Dame), 1882-1954.; John C. Campbell Folk School.;
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You may plow here : the narrative of Sara Brooks / by Brooks, Sara,1911-(CARDINAL)745807; Simonsen, Thordis.(CARDINAL)745808;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Case studies.; Brooks, Sara, 1911-; Brooks, Sara.; African Americans; African Americans; Farm life;
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Washington at the plow : the founding farmer and the question of slavery / by Ragsdale, Bruce A.,author.(CARDINAL)767641;
Includes bibliographical (pages 297-343) references and index.Introduction: The life of a husbandman -- The experiments of a Virginia planter -- The agricultural foundations of Independence -- Mount Vernon in wartime -- New farming in a new nation -- Enslaved agricultural labor at Mount Vernon -- Cincinnatus and the world of improvement -- The farmer president -- Agriculture and the path to emancipation -- Epilogue: The reputation of a farmer."George Washington spent most of his time farming, often employing experimental methods. Washington saw slave-powered scientific agriculture as the key to the nation's prosperity. Bruce Ragsdale argues that it was slave labor's inefficiency as much as its inhumanity that finally convinced Washington to emancipate the men and women bonded to him"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Washington, George, 1732-1799.; Agriculture; Slave labor; Slavery; Enslaved persons;
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Too wet to plow : Americana and homespun philosophy in beautiful prose, poetry, and art / by Fuis, Frank,1911-(CARDINAL)841800;
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Plowman's folly / by Faulkner, Edward H.(Edward Hubert),1886-1964.(CARDINAL)193521;
Subjects: Plowing.; Soil conservation.; Soils.;
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Noses that plow and poke / by Swanson, Diane,1944-(CARDINAL)317649;
Focuses on animals' noses and all the amazing things for which they are used, discussing such creatures as the rabbit, grizzly bear, and shark.
Subjects: Nose;
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Plows, plagues, and petroleum : how humans took control of climate / by Ruddiman, W. F.(William F.),1943-(CARDINAL)764116;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-196) and index.1. Climate and human history -- 2. Slow going for a few million years -- 3. Linking earth's orbit to its climate -- 4. Orbital changes control ice-age cycles -- 5. Orbital changes control monsoon cycles -- 6. Stirrings of change -- 7. Early agriculture and civilization -- 8. Taking control of methane -- 9. Taking control of CO₂ -- 10. Have we delayed a glaciation? -- 11. Challenges and responses -- 12. But what about those CO₂ "wiggles"? -- 13. The horsemen of the apocalypse : which one? -- 14. Pandemics, CO₂, and climate -- 15. Greenhouse warming : tortoise and hare -- 16. Future warming : large or small? -- 17. From the past into the distant future -- 18. Global-change science and politics -- 19. Consuming earth's gifts
Subjects: Climatic changes.; Climatology.; Global temperature changes.; Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric.;
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Mrs. Greenthumbs plows ahead : five steps to the drop-dead gorgeous garden of your dreams / by Danz, Cassandra.(CARDINAL)370807;
Subjects: Anecdotes.; Landscape gardening.; Gardens; Landscape gardening; Gardens; Gardening;
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