DuVal, Kathleen
Summary: "In this magisterial history of the continent, Kathleen DuVal traces the power of Native nations from the rise of ancient cities more than 1000 years ago to the present. She reframes North American history, noting significantly that Indigenous civilizations did not come to a halt when a few wandering explorers or hungry settlers arrived, even when the strangers came well-armed. A millennium...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: "In Apprentice Nation, education and workforce expert Ryan Craig explores how a modern apprenticeship system will allow students and job seekers to jumpstart their careers by learning while they earn - ultimately leading to greater economic opportunity, workforce diversity, and geographic mobility"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books, Inc. 2023
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Summary: "An entertaining and thought-provoking portrait of Indonesia: a rich, dynamic, and often maddening nation awash with contradictions. Jakarta tweets more than any other city on earth, but 80 million Indonesians live without electricity and many of its communities still share in ritual sacrifices. Declaring independence in 1945, Indonesia said it would 'work out the details of the transfer of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.9 PISKrasner, Barbara
Summary: "Introduces the main native nations of the northeastern United States, including the Abenaki, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Nattagansett, Ojibwe, Pequot, Powhatan, and Wampanoag nations. The nations' historical significance, cultural highlights, and contemporary life are all examined through respectful text and well-chosen photos. Additional features to enhance comprehension include informative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974 KRAGoldfield, David R.
Summary: In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson's "Battle Cry of Freedom." Where past scholars have limned the war as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatest failure: the result of a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the public sphere. As the Second Great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Press 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.7 GOLBeaton, Roderick
Summary: We know ancient Greece, the civilization that shares the same name and gave us much that defines Western culture today. Yet, as financial crises have convulsed Greece repeatedly since 2010, worldwide coverage has revealed just how poorly we grasp the modern nation. This book sets out to understand the modern Greeks on their own terms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.5 BEANaber, Therese
Summary: "Introduces the main native nations of the California area, including the Hupa, Yurok, Pomo, Pit River, Miwok, Yokuts, Chumash, Cahuilla, and Luiseno nations. The nations' historical significance, cultural highlights, and contemporary life are all examined through respectful text and well-chosen photos. Additional features to enhance comprehension include informative sidebars, detailed maps, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.4 NABDouthat, Ross Gregory
Summary: Traces the decline of Christianity in America since the 1950s, posing controversial arguments about the role of heresy in the nation's downfall while calling for a revival of traditional Christian practices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 277.3 DOUEmanuel, Rahm
Summary: "At a time of anxiety about the effectiveness of our national government, Rahm Emanuel provides a clear vision, for both progressives and centrists, of how to get things done in America today--a bracing, optimistic vision of America's future from one of our most experienced and original political minds"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.23 EMAPowell, Marie
Summary: "Introduces the main native nations of the arctic and subarctic regions, including the Inuit, Yup'ik, Unangan, Northern Athabaskan, Innu, Cree, Ojibwe, and Atikamekw nations. The nations' historical significance, cultural highlights, and contemporary life are all examined through respectful text and well-chosen photos. Additional features to enhance comprehension include informative sidebars,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970 POWHolley, Santi Elijah
Summary: "A history of the rise and lasting impact of Black liberation groups in America, as seen through the Shakurs, one of the movement's most prominent and fiercely creative families, home to Tupac and Assata, and a powerful incubator for today's activism, scholarship, and artistry"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 HOLSenor, Dan
Summary: "From the coauthors of the New York Times bestseller Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle comes the highly anticipated follow up, The Genius of Israel, which outlines the defining factors behind Israel's successful track record of innovation and explaining how other nations can learn from its development"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2023
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Summary: "Introduces the main native nations of the southeastern United States, including the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Muscogee (Creek), Choctaw, Siminole, Catawba, and Chitimacha nations, as well as the Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana. The nations' historical significance, cultural highlights, and contemporary life are all examined through respectful text and well-chosen photos. Additional features...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975 NABYasuda, Anita
Summary: An overview of the Native American tribes of the Great Plains, including the Crow, Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Comanche, Arapaho, Sioux, Mandan and Pawnee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2016
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Summary: In a climate of culture wars and tremendous economic uncertainty, the media have often reduced America to a simplistic schism between red states and blue states. In response to that oversimplification, journalist Dante Chinni teamed up with political geographer James Gimpel to launch the Patchwork Nation project, using on-the-ground reporting and statistical analysis to get past generalizations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.0973 CHIPedder, Sophie
Summary: "He emerged from nowhere to seize the presidency, defeat populism and upend French party politics. Who is Emmanuel Macron? How far can he really change France? In Revolution Française, Sophie Pedder examines the first year in office of France's youngest and most exciting president in modern times, with unique perspective from her time as head of The Economist's Paris bureau. President Emmanuel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Continuum 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MACRON, EMMANUEL PEDSmith, Helmut Walser
Summary: "The first major history of Germany in a generation, a work that presents a five-hundred-year narrative that challenges our traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past. An epic in the tradition of Jonathan Spence's The Search for Modern China andJill Lepore's These Truths, Helmut Walser Smith's sterling work promises to redefine our perception of German history. For nearly a century,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943 SMIKrasner, Barbara
Summary: An overview of Native American tribes located in the Southwest, including the Apache, Hopi, Navajo, Pima, Pueblo, Quechan, Tohon O'Odham and Zuni.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.2 KRAFoner, Nancy
Summary: "An in-depth look at the many ways immigration has redefined modern America. The impact of immigrants over the past half century has become so much a part of everyday life in the United States that we sometimes fail to see it. This deeply researched bookby one of America's leading immigration scholars tells the story of how immigrants are fundamentally changing this country.An astonishing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 FONFreedman, Russell.
Summary: In the mid-1930s, Marian Anderson was a famed vocalist who had been applauded by European royalty and welcomed at the White House. But, because of her race, she was denied the right to sing at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. This is the story of her resulting involvement in the civil rights movement of the time. "A voice like yours," celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini told contralto...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 ANDMarsico, Katie
Summary: The United Nations is a very important international organization. Around the world this agency's staff and volunteers are working to provide children with access to medical treatment and education. Have you ever wondered how this important work gets done? How do organizations like the United Nations help? What kinds of problems do they have to solve? Read How Do They Help? UNICEF to learn more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 341.23 MARKrasner, Barbara
Summary: Introduces the Native Nations of the Great Basin and Plateau, including historical details and highlights from contemporary culture and economic life. The tribes covered in this title are Nez Percé, Yakama, Shoshone-Bannock, Ute, Paiute, Washoe, and Klamath. --Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979 KRASexton, Jared
Summary: "From writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes a journey through the history of the United States, from the nation's founding to the twenty-first century, which examines and debunks the American myths we've always told ourselves. In recent years, Americans have faced a deluge of horrifying developments in politics and culture: stolen elections, fascist rallies, families torn apart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Pol SextonYasuda, Anita
Summary: "Introduces the main native nations of the United States' northwestern coast, including the Tlingit, Nuu-chah-nulth, Makah, Haida, Chinook, Nisga'a, Puyallup, and Tsimshian nations. The nations' historical significance, cultural highlights, and contemporary life are all examined through respectful text and well-chosen photos. Additional features to enhance comprehension include informative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2016