Belleville, Bill
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Florida 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.76 BELAcemoglu, Daron
Summary: Artificial intelligence and other innovative technologies won't guarantee a rising standard of living for workers, according to this lucid manifesto. MIT economists Acemoglu and Johnson explore historical instances of new technology failing to pay off for workers: improved agricultural practices and equipment in medieval Europe conferred few benefits on peasants while lords and churchmen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 ACEGoldratt, Eliyahu M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North River Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLSchmidt, Gary D.
Summary: In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This episode of The Green Interview features Ronald Wright, a novelist, essayist, historian, philosopher and the author of nine books, including the 2004 CBC Massey Lectures, "A Short History of Progress," which won the Libris Award for Nonfiction Book of the Year and was subsequently produced as a documentary film. Wright is also a compelling and well-regarded speaker who began as an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Hazelgrove, William Elliott
Summary: "William Elliot Hazelgrove provides the exciting and sprawling history behind the 1933 World's Fair, the last of the golden age. He reveals the story of the six millionaire businessmen, dubbed the Secret Six, who beat Al Capone at his own game, ending the gangster era as Prohibition was repealed. He also details the story of an intriguing woman, Sally Rand, who embodied the ideals of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 HAZWright, Ronald
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.44 WRIBartlett, Jamie.
Summary: In Radicals Chasing Utopia, Jamie Bartlett, one of the world's leading thinkers on radical politics and technology, takes readers inside the strange and exciting worlds of the innovators, disrupters, idealists, and extremists who think we can do better-and believe they know how. Bartlett introduces us to some of the most influential movements today: techno-futurists questing for immortality,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 BARBrown, Carrie
Summary: Dr. Leo Hoffman is famous for the living premature babies he displays in their incubators at fairs around the country, but when a baby who was born three months early is left at Dr. Hoffman's booth, many of the fair's vendors find themselves drawn to the tiny baby boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBrynjolfsson, Erik.
Summary: A pair of technology experts describe how humans will have to keep pace with machines in order to become prosperous in the future and identify strategies and policies for business and individuals to use to combine digital processing power with human ingenuity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 BRYGray, John
Summary: The illusion of progress -- War, terrorism, and Iraq -- Politics without illusions. Progress, the moth-eaten musical brocade -- Biotechnology and the post-human future -- Homo rapiens and mass extinction : an era of solitude? -- Sex, atheism and piano legs -- Faith in the matrix -- When the machine stops -- Science as a vehicle for myth -- A report to the academy -- 9/11 : history resumes --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Granta Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824 GRASummary: An unconventional work in every way, the Qatsi Trilogy wordlessly surveys the rapidly changing environments of the Northern Hemisphere. It shuttles viewers from one vision to the next, moving from images of untouched nature to others depicting human beings' increasing dependence on technology. -- adapted from container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC QATPinker, Steven
Summary: The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 303 PINTeilhard de Chardin, Pierre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Books/Doubleday 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A small-town Michigan lawyer takes on a difficult case: that of a young Army lieutenant accused of murdering the local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife. A gripping, envelope-pushing courtroom drama, Anatomy of a murder was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex. More than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words. With its outstanding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANAMidnight Oil (Musical group)
Contents: Progress -- Hercules -- Blossom and blood -- Pictures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1985
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Summary: "Learn to burn! Woodburning, also known as pyrography, is a craft on the rise and now you can learn how to get started with the expert advice in this book from the renowned wood artist, Court O'Reilly. The book starts with an introduction to the necessary tools and supplies. You'll learn how to pick the wood burner that is right for you and how to safely use it. You'll start simply by learning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stash Books 2022
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 745.51 O'RESummary: Nuremberg Trials in progress (part 2)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1946
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Summary: Nuremberg Trials in progress (part 3)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1946
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Summary: Nuremberg Trials in progress (part 1)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1946
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Summary: The second season of adventures for the down-on-his-luck lawyer who forms a unique friendship with his sexy neighbor's pet pooch Wilfred. Everyone else sees a dog, but Ryan sees a bong-ripping, beer-chugging, foul-mouthed Australian bloke in a furry suit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WILShaw, Catherine M. (Catherine Marie)
Summary: "Successful campaign manager and three-time mayor of Ashland, Oregon, Catherine Shaw presents a clear and concise, must-have handbook for navigating local campaigns. This handbook gives political novices and veterans alike a comprehensive and detailed plan for organizing, funding, publicizing, and winning local political campaigns. Finding the right message and targeting the right voters are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.7 SHASummary: Sections included In this beginning course are: Excel 2007 Basics; and Work with Cells and Worksheets. Each section comes with a quiz to help you measure your progress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Technology Skills 2008
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Summary: Discusses the progress women have made in mathematics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2018