Rodengen, Jeffrey L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Write Stuff Syndicate 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 623.823 RODYates, Brock
Summary: "Genius? Tyrant? Power broker? Enzo Ferrari is the impressively researched, fully detailed biography of one of the most powerful men of the twentieth century. Brock Yates penetrated Ferrari's inner circle and reveals everything, from his early days in the town of Modena to his bizarre relationship with his illegitimate son; from his fanatic passion for speed to his brilliant marketing of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: "The coronavirus pandemic threw life into a tumult for American workers, igniting new class struggles and further stoking those already under way. Across the country, essential workers lashed out against low wages, long hours, and safety risks, both with labor union backing and without it. Nurses, teachers, grocery clerks, farmers, food processing workers, and many more fought for higher wages,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.0973 MCCMann, Charles C.
Summary: "1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to the present. How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europe and then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square/Seven Stories Press 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909.08 MANKurutz, Steven
Summary: "The little-engine-that-could story of how a band of scrappy entrepreneurs are reviving the enterprise of manufacturing clothing in the United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2024
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Summary: "Phyllis Michael Wong tells the stories of the "Gossard Girls," women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in Ispheming and Gwinn in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. Particularly as the Upper Peninsula's mines were exhausted and its stands of timber depleted, the Gossard Girls' income sustained both their families and the local economy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2022
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI UP WongDe Semlyen, Nick
Summary: "Wild and Crazy Guys opens in 1978 with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray taking bad-tempered swings at each other backstage at Saturday Night Live, and closes 21 years later with the two doing a skit in the same venue, poking fun at each other, their illustrious careers, triumphs and prat falls. In between, Nick de Semlyen takes us on a trip through the tumultuous '80s, delving behind the scenes of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2019
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Summary: Assesses the pivotal role of American big business in building weapons and enabling industrial dominance for Allied forces in World War II, tracing the contributions of Danish immigrant William Knudsen and shipbuilding industrialist Henry Kaiser.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 HERMintz, Sidney W. (Sidney Wilfred)
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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.1 MINSlade, Rachel
Summary: "From the best-selling author of Into the Raging Sea comes a moving and eye-opening look at the story of manufacturing in America, whether it can ever successfully return to our shores, and why doing so is vital to our well-being as a nation, told through the experience of one young couple in Maine as they attempt to rebuild a lost industry, ethically. Ben and Whitney Waxman are two tireless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2024
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Summary: "Role-playing game historian Ben Riggs unveils the secret history of TSR- the company that unleashed imaginations with Dungeons & Dragons, was driven into ruin by disastrous management decisions, and then saved by their bitterest rival. Co-created by wargame enthusiasts Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, the original Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game released by TSR (Tactical Studies Rules) in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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Summary: "Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech's most powerful players. This is the inside story we've all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world."--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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Summary: "When people talk about the Industrial Revolution, they tend to point to the positives. Electric lighting, washing machines, cars-the list of things that have improved people's lives around the world is seemingly endless. However, the negative effects of this historical turning point, such as climate change and oil depletion, are frequently glossed over. Through detailed maps and in-depth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2022
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Summary: Motown music emerged in the United States in the 1960s. It launched the careers of many African American musicians. Motown music shaped culture and society during the American civil rights movement. The Making of Motown explores the history and legacy of Motown. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J338.761 HARDowns, Linda Bank.
Summary: Poster in pocket inside back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Detroit Institute of Arts in association with W.W. Norton 1999
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Summary: "This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. The Industrial Revolution brought not simply misery and poverty. On the contrary, Griffin shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy, and offered exciting opportunities for political action. For...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.941 GRISummary: The true story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical. That is, until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2007
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER CATSummary: Martin Sheen-impersonating the voice of author Dashiell Hammett-narrates this compelling docudrama on immigrant labor and anti-war politics in 1917. As a young employee of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, Hammett spied for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company in Butte, Montana, during the height of labor struggles there. Using a wealth of archival footage, first-rate dramatizations, interviews...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: "Beyond the Horizons: The Lockheed Story is the story of those turbulent eighty-two years during which Lockheed achieved fantastic successes and endured occasional failures. Lockheed aircraft set innumerable records and were flown by great pioneering aviators such as Amelia Earhart, Wiley Post, and Howard Hughes. Lockheed engineers achieved fame usually reserved for film stars: Men like the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Automobile Quarterly Publications 1983
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 338.7 GENGreen, Hardy.
Summary: Examines how towns across the United States have grown thanks to the existence of one large business being run from the community, discusses how those single-business communities have influenced the American economy, and explores the benefits and consequences of these towns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.76 GREWartzman, Rick
Summary: In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers--General Motors, General Electric, Kodak, and Coca-Cola--he shows how big businesses once took responsibility for providing their workers and retirees with an array of social benefits. At the height of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331 WARAngus, Charlie
Summary: "The world is desperate for cobalt. It fuels the digital economy and powers everything from cell phones to clean energy. But this 'demon metal,' this 'blood mineral,' has a horrific present and troubled history. Then there is the town in northern Canada, also called Cobalt. It created a model of resource extraction a hundred years ago -- theft of Indigenous lands, rape of the earth,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anansi 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.2 ANGBellerby, Peter
Summary: "A beautifully illustrated story of our globe and the creations it has inspired."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023