Collins, Gail.
Summary: Recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past fifty years. A comprehensive mix of oral history and Gail Collin's keen research--covering politics, fashion, popular culture, economics, sex, families, and work--this is the definitive book on five crucial decades of progress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co 2009
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Summary: A lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in America, by a <i>New York Times<i> columnist who illustrates the ways in which age is an arbitrary concept that has swung back and forth over the centuries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Summary: "The president who served the shortest term--just a single month--but whose victorious election campaign rewrote the rules for candidates seeking America's highest office"--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books/Henry Holt and Co. 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2004
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Summary: Describes the record-breaking 1975 Masters Tournament, in which Lee Elder became the first African-American to compete at the exclusive golf club; the tournament resulted in a showdown between the three legends, Nicklaus, Miller, and Weiskopf.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: This book highlights the resilient capacities of mothers who have experienced childhood sexual abuse and gives them the opportunity to break their silence, share their struggles, and give voice to their experiences, pains, and triumphs. By offering their stories, Teresa Gil sheds light on the challenges of mothering after childhood sexual abuse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2018
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Summary: "Describes the characteristics, food, habitat, behavior, and extinction of dodos"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2015
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Summary: Shows how the system of sacred violence at the heart of the conventional culture is being undermined by the bibical tradition, especially the Gospel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Pub. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 241.697 BAICommins, Pat
Summary: "To leave or stay was the question for the Irish in the nineteenth century. In Ireland, people suffered persecution, poverty and famine. America offered freedom and opportunity. For those who left and came to Michigan, the land's abundant natural resources encouraged them to become loggers, miners, fishermen, traders and farmers. Others became rail workers, merchants, lawyers, soldiers, doctors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 COMCossins, Peter
Summary: The first Tour de France was a far cry from the polished international sporting event we see on television today. Organized by the financially free falling L'Auto magazine, the desperate editors thought that organizing a grand cycling tour was the only thing that could save their publication. But in 1903, cyclists weren't enthusiastic about what was pitched to them as a heroic race through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2017
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Summary: Rev up your reading engines! Gearhead garage is ready to take you for a ride. From screaming fast F1 cars to custom choppers, get to know what's "under the hood" of your favorite vehicles. You're in the driver's seat now.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rabbit Books 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Breckling Press 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Common Press 2007
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Summary: Collects seventy recipes for a variety of sodas, egg creams, and floats celebrating the history and stories of classic American soda fountains, ranging from classics like the Purple Cow and Cherry Lime Rickey to contemporary innovations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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Summary: A remarkably illuminating biography of one of America's most fascinating political figures--including news-making revelations from Mitt Romney himself about dissension within today's Republican Party--written with his full cooperation by an award-winning writer at The Atlantic. Few figures in American politics have seen more and said less than Mitt Romney. An outspoken dissident in Donald...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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Summary: From the development of international trade fairs in the twelfth century to the innovations made in China, India, and the Arab world, it turns out that historical economies were much more sophisticated that we might imagine, tied together by webs of credit and financial instruments much like our modern economy. Here, Philip Coggan takes us from the ancient mountains of North Wales through Grand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Economist Books, PublicAffairs 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1965
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1989
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Summary: "A provocative, incisive look at the building of social movements-from the 1600s to the present day-and how current technology is undermining them. We tend to think of revolutions as loud: frustrations and demands shouted in the streets. But the ideas fueling them have traditionally been conceived in much quieter spaces, in the small, secluded corners where a vanguard can whisper among...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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Summary: "From facial recognition--capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents--to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn't just appear: they are part of a history that goes back centuries, from the census enshrined in the US...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: "Change when you eat and change your body, your health, and your life! Diets don't work. You know you know that, and yet you continue to try them, because what else can you do? You can Fast. Feast. Repeat. After losing over eighty pounds and keeping every one of them off, Gin Stephens started a vibrant, successful online community with hundreds of thousands of members from around the world who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Wiley 2003
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Contents: Introduction : the scientific method -- A word about calculators -- Apparatus needed for all experiments -- Experiment 1 : Identified flying objects -- Experiment 2 : Updated cannonballs -- ch. 1. How things move : position, velocity, and acceleration -- Experiment 3 : Weight 'til the sun shines, Nellie -- ch. 2. Why things move : forces and their effects -- Experiment 4 : Dropsy -- ch. 3....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2007