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Contracting out United States Education and state United States National security United States Postal service Deregulation United States Postal service United States History Postal service United States Reorganization Privatization Privatization in education United States Privatization United States Space tourismRavitch, Diane
Summary: "An in-depth look at the failed efforts to privatize public schools and the victories of those who have fought to save America's public school system"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.01 RAVVance, Ashlee
Summary: "With the launch of the Falcon 1 rocket in 2008, Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first private company to build a low-cost rocket that could reach orbit. And that milestone carried major implications: Silicon Valley, not NASA, was suddenly cemented as the epicenter of the new Space Age. Start-ups and the wealthy investors behind them began to realize that the universe-ungoverned and infinite-was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.43 VANSummary: Robocop: "Set in Detroit sometime in the near-future, the film is about a policeman killed in the line of duty, who the department decides to resurrect as a half-human, half-robot supercop. The robocop is indestructible, and within a matter of weeks he has removed crime from the streets of Detroit. However, his human side is tortured by his past, and he wants revenge on the thugs who killed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM 2014
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ROBHagedorn, Ann.
Summary: "The story behind the ultimate American privatization, which has taken place gradually and almost invisibly: how we privatized our national security"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 HAGHaven, Josh
Summary: Texas businessman John Mills and his Czech companion, Petr Kovac, travel to the furthest reaches of post-Soviet Russia to acquire vouchers for the country's national oil company, Gazneft, moving town to town with suitcases full of cash, until the Russian mafia and Gazneft catch wind of their successes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HavenCohen, Donald
Summary: "America's leading defender of the public interest and a bestselling historian show us how to prevent the private takeover of our cherished public resources"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.973 COHRavitch, Diane.
Summary: "From the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, "whistleblower extraordinaire" (The Wall Street Journal), one of the foremost authorities on education and the history of education in the United States, author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System; The Language Police ("Impassioned . . . Fiercely argued . . . Every bit as alarming as it is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379.3 RAVSchneider, Jack
Summary: "A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door is about the right-wing agenda to dismantle public education, assessing the myriads of ways our education system is being eroded with privatization measures that exacerbate inequality"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.973 SCHSummary: Describes the enormous, top-secret, invisible universe created by the government after 9/11 and describes why the system in place to keep us safe may actually be putting us in greater danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.32517 PRIShafer, David
Summary: The Committee, an international cabal of industrialists and media barons, is on the verge of privatizing all information. Dear Diary, an idealistic online Underground, stands in the way of that takeover, using radical politics, classic spycraft, and technology that makes Big Data look like dial-up. Into this secret battle stumbles an unlikely trio: Leila Majnoun, a disillusioned non-profit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHASummary: This program chronicles the rise and fall of the concept that government does a better job of providing transportation, power, or even employment, than does private enterprise. Case by case and country by country, it explains the philosophy of governmental involvement in business and examines the consistent results. The viewpoint is skewed in favor of private ownership and the privatization of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Shaw, Christopher W.
Summary: "The U.S. Postal System is under assault. For decades, corporate interests and ideologues have sought to convert this invaluable public institution into yet another profit-driven corporation. In 2020, the attacks escalated. In the middle of a pandemic anda presidential election dependent on mail-in ballots, the newly installed postmaster, Louis DeJoy, disrupted postal operations by slowing down...
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2021