Bruder, Jessica
Summary: "From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.3 BRUWolny, Philip
Summary: "Cruise liners, destroyers and aircraft carriers, and oil tankers are some of the massive watercraft breaking records and keeping the world economy moving and safe. This fascinating resource provides snapshots of innovative and impressive ships of the future, using these awe-inspiring vessels as an introduction to basic engineering principles. A dynamic overview of present and future seagoing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing, LLC. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 623.82 WOLHurst, Vera J.
Summary: From horse-drawn carts on wheels to flying trains, there is no doubt that trains have become a major force for societal change. Humans have moved goods and themselves from place to place from our earliest times. Creating solutions to these problems have long engaged creative people. This resource explores the remarkable engineering feats that have moved this form of transportation forward into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing, LLC. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 625.2 HURTime-Life Books
Contents: prelude.--v. 1. 1900-1910.--v. 2. 1910-1920.--v. 3. 1920-1930.--v. 4. 1930-1940.--v. 5. 1940-1950.--v. 6 1950-1960.--v. 7. 1960-1970.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1970
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.9 THIWoldoff, Rachael
Summary: "Digital nomads are knowledge workers who actively seek a lifestyle of freedom, using technology to perform their work remotely, travelling far and wide, and moving as often as they like. They have left their local coffee shops behind and now proudly posttheir "office of the day" photos from exotic locales, but what do their lives really look like? This book takes readers into an expatriate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.7 WOLSummary: Declares "the American century", the name Henry Luce gave to an era of American prosperity beginning in 1941, dead, and collects essays explaining what the American century was and meant, and why many believe it has met a premature demise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 SHOOstler, Catherine
Summary: Elizabeth Chudleigh lived a privileged life in 18th century England where she was part of the Hanoverian court as maid of honor to the Princess of Wales. Known for her style and wit, Elizabeth delighted and scandalized the press and public. She married twice: in secret to a young heir to an earldom and later to a duke. Eventually charged with bigamy, her trial was Georgian England's greatest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRISTOL, ELIZABETH CHUDLEIGH OSTMauceri, John
Summary: "This book offers a major reassessment of classical music in the twentieth century. John Mauceri argues that the history of music during this span was shaped by three major wars of that century: World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Probing why so few works have been added to the canon since 1930, Mauceri examines the trajectories of great composers who, following World War I, created...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.9 MAUJentleson, Bruce W.
Summary: "Great leaders made the twentieth century safer and more peaceful. In The Peacemakers, a kind of global edition of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Bruce Jentleson shows how key figures in the previous century rewrote the zero-sum and transactional scripts they were handed and successfully prevented conflict, advanced human rights, and promoted global sustainability. Covering a broad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 JENWolbrecht, Christina
Summary: "How have American women voted in the first 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment? How have popular understandings of women as voters both persisted and changed over time? In A Century of Votes for Women, Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder offer an unprecedented account of women voters in American politics over the last ten decades. Bringing together new and existing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 WOLCollins, Paul
Summary: A narrative history of the origins of Western civilization argues that Europe was transformed in the tenth century from a continent rife with violence and ignorance to a continent on the rise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.1 COLClark, Gary W.
Summary: This book was born out of the need to easily find information that would help establish a date for old pictures during genealogical research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PhotoTree.com 2013
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.1072 CLASchlögel, Karl
Summary: "The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least int he material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR? What did it look. fell smell, and sound like? In The Soviet Century, Karl Schlögel, one of the world's leading historians of the Soviet Union, presents a spellbinding epic that brings to life the everyday world of a unique...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 947.084 SCHGeniesse, Jane Fletcher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STARK, FREYA GENPutnam, Robert D.
Summary: "An eminent political scientist's brilliant synthesis of social and political trends over the past century that shows how we have gone from an individualistic society to a more communitarian society and then back again -- and how we can use that experience to overcome once again the individualism that currently weakens our country"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.5 PUTHonigsbaum, Mark
Summary: Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish flu to the 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles to the 1930 "parrot fever" pandemic,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.4 HONHalsey, John R.
Summary: "Discusses how nineteenth-century explorers and miners discovered evidence of prehistoric copper mining in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and how that discovery ultimately led to the destruction of the prehistoric archaeological sites they found"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan, The Museum of Anthropology 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.49 HALKelly, Edward F.
Contents: A view from the mainstream: contemporary cognitive neuroscience and the consciousness debates -- F.W.H. Myers and the empirical study of the mind-body problem -- Psychophysiological influence -- Memory -- Automatism and secondary centers of consciousness -- Unusual experiences near death and related phenomena -- Genius -- Mystical experience -- Toward a psychology for the 21st century --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2007
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Summary: "In a completely original analysis, prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America's rise as a world power--from the 1890s through the Cold War--and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military alliances. McCoy then analyzes the marquee instruments of US hegemony--covert intervention, client...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 MCCSattin, Anthony
Summary: "The remarkable story of how nomads have fostered and refreshed civilization throughout our history. Moving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. Often overlooked in history, the story of the umbilical connections between these two very different ways of living presents a radical new view of human civilization....
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 SATHill, Fiona
Summary: Foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness Fiona Hill reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia--and shows how we can return hope to our forgotten places. In this deeply personal account, she shares what she has learned, and explains that only by expanding opportunity can we save our democracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021