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28081) Midnight in vehicle city: General Motors, Flint, and the strike that created the middle class
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Within the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century which resulted in the triumph of the protestant ethic-the ideology of the propertied class-there threatened another, quite different, revolution. Its success zmight have established communal property, a far wider democracy in political and legal institutions, might have disestablished the state church and rejected the protestant ethic.yIn The World Turned Upside Down Christopher Hill studies...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Waged for a just cause and culminating in total victory, World War II was America's "good war." Yet for millions of GIs overseas, the war did not end with Germany's and Japan's surrenders. The Good Occupation chronicles America's transition from wartime combatant to postwar occupier, by exploring the intimate thoughts and feelings of the ordinary servicemen and women who participated--often reluctantly--in the difficult project of rebuilding nations...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Born just one year before the United Nations itself, Ban Ki-moon came of age with the world body. His earliest memories are haunted by the sound of bombs dropping on his village and the sight of fires consuming what remained. At six years old he fled with his family, trudging for miles in mud-soaked shoes, suffering from incessant hunger, and wondering how they would survive-until the United Nations rescued them. And after he experienced its lifesaving...
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1957.
Language
English
Description
A social history of the United States during the "roaring twenties." Examines American individualism and the decade that they knew Mah Jong and Mencken, Couéism and Coolidge, Listerine and Lindbergh, as well as Capone, Ford, Babe Ruth, the Teapot Dome, and bathtub gin.
28086) Isabel Feeney: Star Reporter
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the 1920s, a ten-year-old newsgirl who aspires to be a reporter at the ChicagoTribune investigates the murder of a gangster.
28087) Maywood neighborhood plan
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Publisher
Arlington County Office of Planning
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Widely known as the crime fiction writer whose work led to the movies Get Shorty and Out of Sight, Elmore Leonard had a special knack for creating "cool" characters. In Being Cool, Charles J. Rzepka looks at what makes the dope-dealers, bookies, grifters, financial advisors, talent agents, shady attorneys, hookers, models, and crooked cops of Leonard's world cool. They may be nefarious, but they are also confident, skilled, and composed and cope without...
Author
Publisher
Conecta
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Como Henry Ford con Ford, Sam Walton con Walmart, o Steve Jobs con Apple, Jeff Bezos y su Amazon son la historia de negocios de la ďcada. El hombre m̀s rico del planeta y el futuro primer trillonario del mundo ha construido una de las m̀quinas creadoras de riqueza m̀d eficientes en la historia que representa el 2% del ingreso de Estados Unidos, gastado en cerca de 500 millones de productos enviados desde sus almacenes a 17 pa̕ses. Amazon no s̤lo...
28090) Letters to memory
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"Praise for Karen Tei Yamashita: "It's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny and entrancing." -NPR "Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." -New York Times Book Review With delightful plays of voice and structure, this is literary fiction at an adventurous, experimental high point." -Kirkus "Magnificent. Intriguing." -Library Journal "This powerful, deeply felt, and impeccably researched fiction is irresistibly evocative." -Publishers...
28091) Automania
Author
Publisher
The Museum of Modern Art
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Drawing on the wealth of automobile-related design, art and architecture in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Automania takes an in-depth look at an industrial object that changed the world. From its first appearance as a plaything for the rich in the 1890s to its establishment as a utilitarian necessity of modern life, the car has transformed the ways in which we live, work and enjoy ourselves, inspiring countless designers and artists...
28093) Space explorers
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Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This book, a sequel and companion volume to Marcus's Real Life Rock: The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014, is a collection of hundreds of items from the crisscrossing spectrum of culture and politics throughout the tumultuous past six years of American life. Tracking the evolution of national identity during the convulsive Trump administration, Marcus spotlights the most whip-smart cultural artifacts to compose a mosaic portrait of American society,...
28096) Holy warrior
Author
Series
Robin Hood adventures (Angus Donald) volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"In 1190 A.D. Richard the Lionheart, the new King of England, launches an epic crusade. His goal is to reclaim Jerusalem from the Saracens. Marching with the vast royal army is Britain's most famous, most feared, most ferocious warrior: the Outlaw of Nottingham, the Earl of Locksley--Robin Hood himself. With his band of loyal men at his side, Robin cuts a bloody swath on the brutal journey east. Daring and dangerous, he can outwit and outlast any...
Author
Publisher
Maverick Arts Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
John loves inventing things! When he reads about another inventor who has tried to make a machine that will show real live pictures, John decides he can build one himself AND make it work. Equipped with bits and pieces found in his house, John begins a journey that will change the course of history forever. Based on the life of John Logie Baird, one of the inventors of the television.
28098) Child in the valley
Author
Series
Publisher
Hub City Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Ian McGuire's The North Water and Michael Punke's The Revenant, Child in the Valley by Gordy Sauer is a coming-of-age story set in the harsh landscape of Gold Rush America, centering on a orphan's journey to California in a wagon train of ruthless 49ers. Seventeen-year-old Joshua Gaines is suddenly orphaned in 1849, and after discovering that his foster father has left him deeply in debt, he flees his St. Louis home for Independence,...
Author
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The first substantial book on the French Neo-Romantics, a cosmopolitan group working in 1920s Paris who turned against modernist abstraction in favour of a new form of figurative painting.0 In 1926, the Galerie Druet in Paris made waves presenting a group of young painters who had spurned modernist abstraction and returned to a form of figurative painting. For most of them this was the first time they had exhibited, but their impact was considerable....
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 sparked imaginations across the globe. While Howard Carter emptied its treasures, Tut-mania gripped the world-and in many ways, never left. But who was the "boy king," and what was his life really like?0 Garry J. Shaw tells the full story of Tutankhamun's reign and his modern rediscovery. As pharaoh, Tutankhamun had to manage an empire, navigate influential courtiers, and suffered the pain of losing at least...
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