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Teach yourself books (Lincolnwood, Ill.)Markoff, John.
Summary: An analysis of the political and cultural forces that gave rise to the personal computer chronicles its development through the people, politics, and social upheavals that defined its time, from a teenage anti-war protester who laid the groundwork for the PC revolution to the imprisoned creator of the first word processing software for the IBM PC.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Penguin 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 004.16 MARMarkoff, John
Summary: "From one of our greatest chroniclers of technology and society, the definitive biography of iconic serial visionary Stewart Brand, from the Merry Pranksters and the generation-defining Whole Earth Catalog to the marriage of environmental consciousness and hacker capitalism and the rise of a new planetary culture-the story behind so many other stories. Stewart Brand has long been famous if you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRAND, STEWART MARZuckoff, Mitchell.
Summary: "The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi. 13 HOURS presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team of six American security operators fought to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve, Hachette Book Group 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 363 ZUCMackoff, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lowell House 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 MACKBryce, Robert
Summary: "In the face of today's environmental and economic challenges, doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off disaster is for humans to reverse course: to de-industrialize, re-localize, ban the use of modern energy sources and forswear prosperity. But in this provocative and optimistic rebuke to the catastrophists, Robert Bryce shows how innovation and the inexorable human desire to make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.064 BRYBryce, Robert
Summary: "If, in the ancient world, it was guns and germs and steel that determined the fates of people and nations, in modern times it is electricity. No other form of power translates into affluence and influence like it. Though demand for it is growing exponentially, it remains one of the most difficult forms of energy to supply and to do so reliably. Storage is even harder. This paradox has shaped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.793 BRYCrume, Rick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Betterway Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.1 CRUCruze, Rachel
Summary: "Do you want to improve your money-and your life-for good? Then you need to understand why you handle money the way you do! The basics of personal finance, like budgeting and saving, may be black and white, but there are deeper reasons you make the choices you do with money. That's why, in Know Yourself, Know Your Money, #1 New York Times bestselling author and money expert Rachel Cruze goes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ramsey Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 CRUZuckoff, Mitchell
Summary: Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11. This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerizing, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the days and months after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US ZuckoffZuckoff, Mitchell.
Summary: "The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi. 13 HOURS presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team of six American security operators fought to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 ZUCCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 ZUCZuckoff, Mitchell.
Summary: In Nov. 1942 a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap, the B-17 sent on the search-and-rescue mission got caught in a storm and also crashed, miraculously all nine men aboard surrived. A second rescue operation was launched, but the plane, the Grumman Duck, flew into a storm and vanished. The survivors of the B-17 spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harpercollins 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5429 ZUCBreece, Hannah
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.1 BREZuckoff, Mitchell
Summary: "When the U.S. began its withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Afghan Army instantly collapsed, Homeira Qaderi was marked for death at the hands of the Taliban. A celebrated author, academic, and champion for women's liberation, Homeira had achieved celebrity in her home country by winning custody of her son in acontentious divorce, a rarity in Afghanistan's patriarchal society. Homeira tried and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 ZUCZuckoff, Mitchell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.3 ZUCZuckoff, Mitchell.
Summary: Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff unleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into the jungle-clad land of New Guinea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 ZUCCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.548 ZUCPryce, Will
Summary: Wood has unique qualities, yet is undervalued or ignored in histories of architecture. However, leading designers around the world are increasingly drawn to it to satisfy social and environmental needs. Will Pryce, the most admired architectural photographer in Britain, has traveled the world seeking both famous and obscure buildings in wood. Intensely dramatic but not over-dramatized,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 721.0448 PRYBrose, Christian
Summary: "When we think about the future of war, the military and Washington and most everyone gets it backwards. We think in terms of buying single military systems, such as fighter jets or aircraft carriers. And when we think about modernizing those systems, wethink about buying better versions of the same things. But what really matters is not the single system but "the battle network"--the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 BROTruhe, Marv
Summary: "The US Navy charged Black sailors with rioting and assaults on White sailors in an incident referred to as a race riot, while totally ignoring violent unprovoked assaults committed by White sailors and Marines. Author Marv Truhe was a Navy JAG defense lawyer seeking justice for the accused Black sailors. Truhe possesses one of the most complete collections, personal or institutional, of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lawrence Hill Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 TRUPritchard, D. Brine (David Brine)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 795.34 PRIDruse, Ken.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 1994
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 635.951 DRUBracy, Kate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.95 BRABruder, 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, Call number: 331.3 BRUCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.3 BRUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.3 BRUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.3 BRUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.3 BRUCrute, Josh
Summary: Sometimes in London it drizzles. Sometimes it mizzles. Other times it pelts and showers and spits. And Jonas Hanway hates getting wet. How can he go about his day as a proper London gentleman when his shoes are soggy, his coat is always collecting puddles, and his wig looks like a wet cat? Fed up with damp and dreary London, Jonas sails far away, to places where the sun always shines. But what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HANPryce, Jessica
Summary: "Dr. Jessica Pryce knows the child welfare system firsthand and, in this long overdue book, breaks it down from the inside out, sharing her professional journey and offering the crucial perspectives of caseworkers and Black women impacted by the system. It is a groundbreaking and eye-opening confrontation of the inherent and systemic racism deeply entrenched within the child welfare system....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2024