Hurley, Kameron
Summary: "The book collects dozens of Hurley's essays on feminism, geek culture, and her experiences and insights as a genre writer, including "We Have Always Fought," which won the 2013 Hugo for Best Related Work. The Geek Feminist Revolution will also feature several entirely new essays written specifically for this volume."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 HURMcAfee, Andrew
Summary: "We're living in a time of amazing technological innovation, but we're not paying enough attention to one of the most important innovations of all--one that's going to be a wellspring of progress for a long time to come. This innovation lies with the company itself--the collection of people and assets brought together to create goods and services and bring them to market. And, as Andrew McAfee...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: Highlights some of the members of the Daughters of the American Revolution who made an impact during the suffrage era. Book published to accompany an exhibit by the same name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 ORDSons of the American Revolution
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Society 0000
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3774Hogan, Kristen
Summary: "From the 1970s through the 1990s more than one hundred feminist bookstores built a transnational network that helped shape some of feminism's most complex conversations. Kristen Hogan traces the feminist bookstore movement's rise and eventual fall, restoring its radical work to public feminist memory. The bookwomen at the heart of this story-mostly lesbians and including women of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381 HOGDaughters of the American Revolution
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Publisher / Publication Date: Daughters of the American Revolution 0000
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.373Isaacson, Walter.
Summary: "Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 004 ISAHiggins, Nadia Abushanab.
Summary: Presents a history of feminism, discussing the three waves of the movement and the issues that feminism addresses, including such topics as reproductive rights, domestic violence, income inequality, and body image.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.4 HIGSummary: "In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, there was shock, outrage, and, for some, satisfaction. When 53 percent of white women voted for Donald Trump and 94 percent of black women voted for Hillary Clinton, how can women unite as a political class in Trump's America? The misogyny, racism, and xenophobia that were features of the campaign have long been a part of American life, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 NASSummary: This episode of Reconstruction shows how, in just a few years, a series of stunning events - the Emancipation Proclamation, the Fourteenth Amendment granting ex-slaves citizenship in 1868, the enfranchisement of blacks the following year - reversed centuries-old patterns of race relations in America. People who for generations had been the property of others were now free to run their own lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Contents: Disc 1. One night only: You should be dancing -- Alone -- Massachusetts -- To love somebody -- I've gotta get a message to you -- Words -- Closer than close -- Islands in the stream -- One -- Our love -- Night fever/More than a woman -- Still waters -- Lonely days -- Morning of my life -- New york mining disaster 1941 -- Too much heaven -- I can't see nobody -- Run to me -- And the sun will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eagle Vision 1997
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BEEPincus, Steven C. A.
Contents: The unmaking of a revolution -- Rethinking revolutions -- Going Dutch: English society in 1685 -- English politics at the accession of James II -- The ideology of Catholic modernity -- The practice of Catholic modernity -- Resistance to Catholic modernity -- Popular revolution -- Violent revolution -- Divisive revolution -- Revolution in foreign policy -- Revolution in political economy --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.2 PINCabot, Heather
Summary: This book "isn't about the famous tech trailblazers you already know, like Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer. Instead, veteran journalists Heather Cabot and Samantha Walravens introduce readers to the ... female entrepreneurs and technologists fighting at the grassroots level for an ownership stake in the revolution that's changing the way we live, work and connect to each other"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 651 CABBeck, Koa
Summary: "Join the important conversation about race, empowerment, and inclusion in the United States with this powerful new feminist classic and rousing call for change. Koa Beck, writer and former editor-in-chief of Jezebel, boldly examines the history of feminism, from the true mission of the suffragettes to the rise of corporate feminism with clear-eyed scrutiny and meticulous detail. She also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 BECRomm, Aviva Jill
Summary: "A Yale-trained, board-certified family physician with a specialty in women's health and obstetrics delivers a proven 28-day program to heal the overwhelmed, overloaded systems, and prevent and reverse the myriad of symptoms affecting the vast majority of women today. Weight gain, fatigue, brain fog, hormonal imbalances, and autoimmune conditions--for years, health practitioners have commonly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Society 1982
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.1 DAUMaggs, Sam
Summary: A handbook for ladies living the nerdy life, including fanfic, cosplay, cons, books, memes, podcasts, vlogs, OTPs and RPGs and MMOs and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305 MAGThorland, Donna.
Summary: "British Occupied Manhattan, 1777. With her witty comedies, American actress Jennifer Leighton has been packing the John Street Theater, but she longs to escape the provincial circuit for the glamour of the London stage. When the playwright General John Burgoyne visits the city, fresh from a recent success on the Continent, she seizes the opportunity to court his patronage. But her plan is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library, Published by the Penguin Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOSummary: Within two years of the Cultural Revolution, armed factions battled each other in Mao's name. To avoid civil war, Mao essentially banished his zealots to the countryside. This program chronicles the Cultural Revolution, its disastrous aftermath, and the role of Mao's wife, Jiang Qing. Scholars, diplomats, and survivors discuss the forced labor camps known as "Schools of May 7th"; the attacks on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Hungarian revolution
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1956
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Thorland, Donna
Summary: Rebel Kate Gray cannot resist the advances of British Major Peter Tremayne, but after a member of her own family steals his military dispatches, Peter, having narrowly escaped hanging, vows to get revenge on Kate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOSummary: This program examines how the French and Industrial Revolutions altered Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries. The French Revolution spread anti-royalty sentiment and increased awareness of the ideals of democracy throughout the continent. The Industrial Revolution promoted the middle class and turned Europe into an urbanized, industrial society. Karl Marx published his Communist Manifesto, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Adams, Molly
Summary: Birding is more popular than ever, and for good reason. Birds are infinitely fascinating and inspiring, and can be found everywhere from forests to city parks to suburban backyards. Birding not only grounds us in our natural environment but is shown to reduce stress and support our mental well-being. It's something that can be done alone or in community, by anyone, anytime. In Birding for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press, a division of Chronicle Books LLC 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 598.072 ADAZakaria, Fareed
Summary: The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions--past and present--that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024