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Amazon.com (Firm) History Coal mines and mining Pharmaceutical industry Postwar reconstruction Economic aspects Postwar reconstruction Social aspects United States Commerce History United States Economic conditions 1945- United States Economic conditions 1971-1981 United States Economic conditions 1981-2001 United States Economic conditions 2001-Weil, Jamie
Summary: Details the life and career of the internet businessman, discussing his youth, creation of Amazon, and his purchase of the "Washington Post."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BEZOSRogin, Josh
Summary: Examines the U.S. rivalry with China during Donald Trump's presidency, discussing the trade war between the two countries and how the love-hate relationship between Trump and Xi Jinping forced the U.S. to reckon with China's foreign influence operations and human rights abuses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 ROGDrucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand)
Summary: This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline that explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial economy. Superbly practical, Innovation and Entrepreneurship explains what established businesses, public service institutions, and new ventures need to know and do to succeed in today's economy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.6 DRU1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 658.6 DRU
Stone, Brad
Summary: In the spirit of iconic Silicon Valley renegades like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, another generation of entrepreneurs is using technology to upend convention and disrupt entire industries. These are the upstarts, idiosyncratic founders with limitless drive and an abundance of self-confidence. Led by such visionaries as Travis Kalanick of Uber and Brian Chesky of Airbnb, they are rewriting the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.6 STOSpector, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381.45 SPEBezos, Jeff
Summary: Profiles Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and investigates the company's practices and impact, including interviews with executives, insiders, regulators, and critics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AMABilton, Nick
Summary: From New York Times-bestselling author Nick Bilton comes a true-life thriller about the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the online black market Silk Road.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weber Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381.45 WEBSummary: From Mexican landowners in California to Native American tribes in the Black Hills of South Dakota, this film examines various perspectives on territorial claims to the West and the history of U.S. annexation. This program explains how events, such as the Texas War of Independence, opened the door to U.S. annexation. Diary excerpts, letters, and other primary resources vividly portray the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: Coal Mining (Part 1)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1981
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Summary: Free Trade With Europe? Story about possible benefits to UK
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1958
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Shachtman, Tom
Summary: "In The Founding Fortunes, historian Tom Shachtman offers an in-depth look at a time when money became as vital as guns in securing victory on the Revolutionary War's battlefields, and how some of America's wealthiest men risked their fortunes to aid the new country even as they reaped benefits from its independence. While history teaches that successful revolutions depend on participation by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 SHASummary: Lipstick factory
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: Chrysler Wind Tunnel testing; car with tufts of yarn stuck to it to test air flow; then clouds of smoke blown over to observe flow
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: Chrysler car being tested
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: Designing new Dodge automobiles
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1952
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Summary: Pharmaceutical sales rep explains why his company's work is so good and important
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1956
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Summary: Pharmaceutical sales rep assures boy that he will take flavored children's medicines and like it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1956
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Summary: Industrial labor since the dawn of civilization through ancient Egypt and Rome.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1957
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Summary: Hughes Aircraft automated missile factory; magnetic tape reels on computer
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1958
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Summary: Promo for Ford Thunderbird; features like sunroof and triple tail lights; the American dream: "everybody has a 'someday' car…
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1959
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Summary: Bread company: manufacturing bread
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1962
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Summary: Coal Mining (Part 2)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1981
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Summary: Program on Gasohol. Shots of alcohol being bottled, cars on roads and highways, pumping gas into cars.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1981