Kalt, Brian C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2001
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Hannum, James S.
Summary: "This book complements and augments the store of knowledge currently available on the subject of Michigan's abandoned railroads. By design, the work is limited to Michigan's pine belt, in the northern half of the Lower Peninsula. In the late 1800s, logging railroads were densely concentrated in that locale. Restricting the scope of the book to that region results in a volume of manageable size....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life-guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our ability to care for each other, and gutting the practice of politics. In this tightly argued and urgent volume, leading Marxist feminist theorist Nancy Fraser charts the voracious appetite of capital, tracking it from crisis point to crisis point, from ecological...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2022
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Summary: In this book the author shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with its use first as an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1986
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Summary: "All spring, Dr. Elizabeth Hilborn watched as her family fruit farm of many years rapidly diminished, suffering from a lack of bees and other insects. The plentiful wildlife, so abundant just weeks before, was gone. Everything was still, silent. As an environmental scientist trained to investigate disease outbreaks, she rose to the challenge. Step by step, day by day, despite facing headwinds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2023
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Summary: The celebrated writer reminisces about his boyhood in Michigan at the turn of the century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1987
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Summary: "When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city's water supply to a source that corroded Flint's aging lead pipes. Complaints about the foul-smelling water were dismissed: the residents of Flint, mostly poor and African...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Society Publishers 2010
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Summary: An authentic account of the lumberjacks, the lumber barons and the millhands as told by William Crowe, lumberjack, a first-hand witness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Country Pub. 2002
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Cashin, Sheryll
Summary: "How interracial love and marriage changed history, and may soon alter the landscape of American politics. Loving beyond boundaries is a radical act that is changing America. When Mildred and Richard Loving wed in 1958, they were ripped from their shared bed and taken to court. Their crime: miscegenation, punished by exile from their home state of Virginia. The resulting landmark decision of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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Summary: From our earliest ancestors to babies born today, fabric is a necessary part of our everyday lives, but it's also an opportunity for creativity, symbolism, culture and connection. Traveling across the world and bringing history to life, bestselling author Victoria Finlay investigates how and why people have made and used cloth. A century ago in Wales, women would sew their own funeral clothes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.09 FINSummary: "Northern Michigan is undergoing unprecedented changes in land use, climate, resource extraction, and species distributions. For the last hundred years, the University of Michigan Biological Station has monitored these environmental transformations. Stretching 10,000 acres along Burt and Douglas Lakes in the northern Lower Peninsula and 3,200 acres on Sugar Island near Sault Ste. Marie,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Fox Enterprises 2003
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Brimner, Larry Dane
Summary: "Richard Perry Loving and Mildred Jeter Loving wanted to live out their married life near family in Virginia. However, the state refused to let them--because Richard was white and Mildred was black. After being arrested and charged with a crime, the Lovings were forced to leave their home--until they turned to the legal system. In one of the country's most prominent legal battles, Loving v....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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Summary: "Ever wonder if there's a better way to live, work, and eat? You're not alone. Here is the story of five back-to-the-land movements, from 1840 to present day, when large numbers of utopian-minded people in the United States took action to establish small-scale farming as an alternative to mainstream agriculture. Then and now, it's the story of people striving to live freely and fight injustice,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godine 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 334 KELLubbers, David
Summary: Michigan-based photographer Lubbers combines efforts with environmental advisor and author Dempsey in creating a portrait of the waters of Michigan and their significance to the state's identity. Each of the 79 black and white photographs is accompanied by a short text offering readers historical background to the sites depicted and providing a sense of how precious and fragile this natural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2008
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Summary: "Every major American city has a highway tearing through its center. Seventy years ago, planners sold these highways as progress, essential to our future prosperity. The automobile promised freedom, and highways were going to take us there. Instead, they divided cities, displaced people from their homes, chained us to our cars, and locked us into a high-emissions future. And the more highways...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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Summary: Michigan-based photographer Lubbers combines efforts with environmental advisor and author Dempsey in creating a portrait of the waters of Michigan and their significance to the state's identity. Each of the 79 black and white photographs is accompanied by a short text offering readers historical background to the sites depicted and providing a sense of how precious and fragile this natural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2008
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Summary: Michigan-based photographer Lubbers combines efforts with environmental advisor and author Dempsey in creating a portrait of the waters of Michigan and their significance to the state's identity. Each of the 79 black and white photographs is accompanied by a short text offering readers historical background to the sites depicted and providing a sense of how precious and fragile this natural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2008
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Summary: An assessment of agricultural and cultural landscape resources in the Port Oneida Rural Historic District at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan. This illustrated study is replete with pictures, maps, diagrams, and census records.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midwest Regional Office, National Park Service 1995
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Summary: "From hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultraprocessed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species-and points the way to a better future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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Summary: "In a humorous graphic novel set in Minnesota around 1914, we see W. B. Laughead, an advertising manager for a lumber company, spin the Paul Bunyan tall tales. Highlights the impact of clear-cutting old-growth forests. With contributions by Native authors as well as historical maps, photos, and a bibliography."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Toon Books 2023
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Summary: "The story of the invention and use of electricity has often been told before, but never from an environmental point of view. The assumption of safety, and the conviction that electricity has nothing to do with life, are by now so entrenched in the human psyche that new research, and testimony by those who are being injured, are not enough to change the course that society has set. Two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1989