Gilles, Renae.
Summary: "Readers will learn about the history, importance, and environmental impacts of industrialization through colorful and clear graphics, such as maps, charts, and infographics. Book also includes a glossary, index, suggested books and websites, and a bibliography"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Envi Info GillesSummary: Guiliana is the wife of Ugo, a plant manager in Ravenna. Recently released from the hospital after a car accident, Giuliana is in dire straits mentally, but Ugo thinks she's just hysterical. When she meets the charming Corrado, he seems sympathetic, shares her feeling of being lost, but he doesn't fully understand and his amatory advances are not what she needs. Living in the shadow of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REDSummary: In 2026, the rich rule over the poor, who live underground. One man tries to bridge the gap between the two classes. In July 2008 a complete copy of the film was discovered with an additional 25 minutes of lost footage that had not been seen since the film's premiere in 1927. After years of restoration the sci-fi epic was re-released in theaters in 2010 as The Complete Metropolis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI COMSummary: Out of the ashes of World War I, a new generation of Titan rises: Pierre Du Pont, Walter Chrysler, J.P. Morgan Jr., Henry Ford, and William Boeing. Their fight to reach the top will transform America as they compete to dominate new industries, from the highways to the skyways. After years of fighting each other, and FDR, these rivals must unite during World War II to defeat a greater enemy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TITSwanwick, Michael
Summary: Caitlin of House Sans Merci is the young half-human pilot of a sentient mechanical dragon. Returning from her first soul-stealing raid, she discovers an unwanted hitchhiker-- in her head. When Caitlin is framed for the murder of her brother, she must disappear into Industrialized Faerie and look for the one person who can clear her. Unfortunately, the stakes are higher than she knows... and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWACecil, Mark
Summary: "A large-hearted reimagining of beloved all-American legends, this epic debut novel brings men of myth Paul Bunyan and John Henry alive like never before, teaming up for an adventure quest with deeper interrogations of race, class, and industrialization. When we first meet Paul Bunyan-legendary larger-than-life lumberjack and classic figure from American mythology-he is still just a man, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2024
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Summary: Traces the historic quest to rekindle the human exploration of space as navigated by billionaire entrepreneurs, sharing insights into how professional rivalry and Silicon Valley innovations are lowering the cost of space travel and exceeding the achievements of NASA. "The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 DAVKuhlmann, Torben
Summary: "Torben Kuhlmann's stunningly illustrated, nearly wordless tale offers a fascinating window into an imaginary yet hauntingly familiar world under our feet, where the moles suddenly recognize the precarious balance between progress and preservation. But is it too late?"--Page [2] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthSouth 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KUHReid, Brian Holden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.73 REISummary: This program examines the conduct of the war, from Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, to the defeatist attitude of Spanish commander Admiral Cerveras, to Cuban General Gomez and his decision to side with the Americans. Actual footage taken at the battles of Las Guasimas, El Caney, and San Juan Hill supports excellent historical commentary, including photos, sketches, and firsthand accounts of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1998
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Dray, Philip.
Summary: From an award-winning historian, a stirring (and timely) narrative history of American labor from the dawn of the industrial age to the present day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.88 DRAMoyo, Dambisa.
Summary: Discusses the commodity dynamics that the world will face over the next several decades and, in particular, the implications of China's rush for resources across all regions of the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.7095 MOYModesitt, L. E.
Summary: "L. E. Modesitt, Jr., bestselling author of Saga of Recluce and the Imager Portfolio, continues his brand new, gaslamp, political fantasy series with Councilor the thrilling sequel to Isolate. Continued poor harvests and steam-powered industrialization displace and impoverish thousands. Protests grow and gather followers. Against this rising tide of social unrest, Steffan Dekkard, newly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODPappalardo, Joe
Summary: Examines the current state and future of the space travel industry, discussing the rise of private companies engaged in commercialized space flight, the building of new spacecraft and rockets, and the development of spaceports.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Duckworth 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629 PAPSummary: YES! Magazine is a non-profit, ad-free magazine that covers topics of social justice, environmental sustainability, alternative economics, and peace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Positive Futures Network 1996
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Burgan, Michael.
Contents: From the farm to the factory -- New power source, new factories -- On the move -- A revolution spreads.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 330.94025 BURSummary: The U.S.S. Maine Blown Up in Havana Harbor-268 Men Lost shouted the headlines of the day. Using archival footage, newspaper excerpts, and historical documents, this program traces the roots of the Spanish-American War to Spain's quest to preserve its flagging empire, American imperialism, and the genuine desire on the part of Cubans to shake off the yoke of Spanish domination. It closely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1998
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Freeman, Joshua Benjamin
Summary: Factories, with their ingenious machinery and miraculous productivity, are celebrated as modern wonders of the world. Yet from William Blake's "dark Satanic mills" they have also fuelled our fears of the future. Telling the story of the factory, Joshua B. Freeman takes readers from the textile mills in England that powered the Industrial Revolution to the steel and car plants of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 FREHosseini, Ali
Summary: The Place of Stones is Ali Hosseini's newly translated first novel, his second book to appear in English. In it, he paints a vivid portrait of Sangriz, a village in the southern part of Iran where life has been disrupted by industrialization and the revolution of 1979. Haydar and Jamal are best friends, and their families have always made their living from the land in the foothills of Iran's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curbstone Books, 2017. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOSMerchant, Brian
Summary: "The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods. The Luddites organized guerrilla raids to smash those machines--on punishment of death--and won the support of Lord Byron, enraged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet. Among others, Fresh features urban farmer and activist Will Allen, sustainable farmer and entrepreneur Joel Salatin, and supermarket owner David Ball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ripple Effect Productions 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FREHakim, Joy.
Summary: A history of the Reconstruction period and the movements of reform, immigration, industrialization, and urbanization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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Contents: Yankees in New England and beyond -- Yankees come to Michigan -- Yankees on the Michigan frontier -- The flowering of Yankee Michigan -- The industrialization of Yankee Michigan -- The decline of Yankee Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 DTPOM WilsonBarton, Barbara J.
Summary: This is the first book of its kind to bring forward the rich tradition of wild rice in Michigan and its importance to the Anishinaabek people who live there. Manoomin: The Story of Wild Rice in Michigan focuses on the history, culture, biology, economics, and spirituality surrounding this sacred plant. The story travels through time from the days before European colonization and winds its way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2018