Lepore, Jill
Summary: In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. The American experiment rests on three ideas -"these truths," Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, "on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: "As we become a more digital society, the gains that have been made for the environment by moving toward a paperless world with more and more efficient devices will soon be or already have been offset by the number of devices in our lives that are always using energy. But many don't think about the impact on the environment of the "Internet of things." Whether it's a microwave connected to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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Summary: A revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister and a wholly different account of the founding of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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Summary: A cultural history of Wonder Woman traces the character's creation and enduring popularity, drawing on interviews and archival research to reveal the pivotal role of feminism in shaping her seven-decade story
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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Summary: "In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian ... Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American history. Written in elegiac prose, Lepore's groundbreaking investigation places truth itself--a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence--at the center...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018
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Summary: "From the best-selling author of These Truths, a work that examines the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century. At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Harvard historian Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America. Since the end of the Cold War, Lepore writes, American historians have largely retreated from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2019
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Summary: "A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller, These Truths. The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Comapny 2020
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Summary: A history of American ideas about life and death discusses how the age of discovery, Darwin's theories of evolution, and the space age changed ideas about life on Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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Summary: Examines the origins of dozens of writings, speeches, and other printed pieces from American history--from paper ballots and the Constitution to Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" and Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2012
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Summary: A portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister, Jane, reveals how she was, like her brother, a passionate reader, gifted writer, and shrewd political commentator who made insightful observations about early America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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Summary: Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary vivacity to everything from profiles of long-dead writers to urgent constitutional analysis to an unsparing scrutiny of the woeful affairs of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley likes to imagine it has no past but the scientists of Simulmatics are the long-dead grandfathers of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Borrowing from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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Summary: Retelling of a traditional Russian folktale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pumpkin House 2003
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Summary: "Practical choices we can all make to travel the world more ethically. Travel can be a blast, but there are hidden costs to your trips that go deeper than your pockets. From potential impacts on the environment or the communities we visit to respecting others' cultures, taking a moment to consider our choices can make a real impact on the planet and other people. Whether it's doing the research...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smth Street Books 2022
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Summary: Explores how robots function and are made, looking at their computing components and how engineers design them with specific capabilities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2018
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Summary: "A celebration of the author's art, a rallying read for women who are fed up with their own harassment experiences, and a statement on how pervasive the problem of street harassment really is, this is a singular and important book. Sitting at the cross-section of social activism, art, community engagement, and feminism, Stop Telling Women To Smile brings to the page the author's arresting and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2019
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Summary: "A book for young readers about how paper is made from trees and then sold."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Introduces cougars, including where they live in the world, how they hunt for food, and how they take care of their young, and what to do if a person encounters one in the wild.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AV2 2021
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Summary: In this tale set in the ancient Inka empire, Little Chaski has a big job: he is the Inka King's newest royal messenger. But on his first day things quickly start to go awry. Will Little Chaski be able to deliver the royal message on time?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lorenz 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1959
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Summary: An exposae of the Varsity Blues scandal reveals how an unscrupulous college counselor named Rick Singer preyed on the desperation of wealthy, upper class, insecure parents who sought to have their children admitted to elite colleges to maintain their ownsocial status.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2021