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020    9781538100332|q(hardcover|qalkaline paper) 
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100 1  Janes, Joseph,|eauthor. 
245 10 Documents that changed the way we live /|cJoseph Janes. 
264  1 Lanham, Maryland :|bRowman & Littlefield, an imprint of 
       The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,|c[2017] 
264  4 |c©2017 
300    xv, 273 pages :|billustrations (some color), maps (chiefly
       color) ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Gregorian Calendar, 1582/Gutenberg Indulgence, 1454 -- 
       Exaltation of Inanna, c2300 BCE -- Rosetta Stone, 196 BCE 
       -- Donation of Constantine, c750 -- Liber Abaci (Arabic 
       numerals), 1202 -- Annals of the world, 1650 -- 
       Philosophical transactions, 1665 -- The Riot Act, 1714 -- 
       Declaration of Independence deleted passage, 1776 -- What 
       is the Third Estate?, 1789 -- The Star-Spangled Banner, 
       1814 -- Webster's Dictionary, 1828 -- The Book of Mormon, 
       1830 -- First women's college diploma, 1840 -- John Snow's
       cholera map, 1854 -- Rules of Association Football 
       (soccer), 1863 -- Alaska Purchase check, 1868 -- Robert's 
       Rules of Order, 1876 -- Alfred Nobel's will, 1895 -- First
       x-ray, 1895 -- Fannie Farmer Cook Book, 1896 -- The 
       protocols of the elders of Zion, c1900 -- IQ test, 1905 --
       Zimmerman Telegram, 1917 -- The Nineteenth Amendment, 1920
       -- Statistical significance, 1925 -- Stock Market ticker 
       tape, 1929 -- Richter Scale, 1935 -- Einstein's letter to 
       Roosevelt, 1939 -- FDR and Thanksgiving, 1939 -- Letters 
       of transit, 1942 -- We can do it! poster, 1943 -- Joseph 
       McCarthy's list, 1950 -- Mental disorder diagnosis manual,
       1952 -- Airplane "black box," 1958 -- Space Needle sketch,
       1959 -- Obama birth certificate, 1961 -- Zapruder film, 
       1963 -- Quotations of Chairman Mao, 1965 -- The 18 1/2 
       minute gap, 1972 -- Internet Protocol, 1981 -- Vietnam 
       Veterans Memorial, 1982 -- Aids quilt, 1987 -- Nupedia, 
       2000 -- Palm Beach County butterfly ballot, 2000 -- Pope 
       Benedict XVI's resignation, 2013. 
520    Documents are milestones and markers of human activity, 
       part of who and what we are. Our story can be told through
       the objects, profound and trivial, famous and forgotten, 
       by which we remember and are remembered. Documents That 
       Changed the Way We Live examines \dozens of compelling 
       stories that describe these documents; their creation, 
       motivation, influence, importance, historical and social 
       context, provenance; and their connections to contemporary
       information objects, technologies, and trends. 
650  0 Civilization, Western|xSources|vAnecdotes. 
650  7 Civilization|xSources.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01352403 
650  7 Civilization, Western|xSources.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00863165 
651  0 United States|xCivilization|xSources|vAnecdotes. 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
655  7 Anecdotes.|2lcgft 
655  7 Anecdotes.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423876 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aJanes, Joseph.|tDocuments that changed 
       the way we live.|dLanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield,
       2017|z9781538100349|w(DLC)  2017019993 
994    C0|bCKE 
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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  909 JANES    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  909.094 JAN    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  909.0982 JANES    Check Shelf