ProQuest (Firm)
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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xiv, 1000 pages : maps, tables ; 29 cm
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The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the best-known statistical reference in the country. As a comprehensive collection of statistics of the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States, it is a snapshot of America and its people.
2) "Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" and other conversations about race
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"Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together--the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clustered in their own groups, too. The same phenomenon can be observed in college dining halls, faculty lounges, and corporate cafeterias. What is going on here? Is this self-segregation a problem we should...
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Pub. Date
c2010
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xiii, 297 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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The book is a history of Boston's emergence as a world-class city. Once upon a time, Boston Town was an insulated New England township. But the community was destined for greatness. Between 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a stunning metamorphosis to emerge as one of the world's great metropolises, one that achieved national and international prominence in politics, medicine, education, science, social activism, literature, commerce, and transportation....
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Pub. Date
2007
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xviii, 904 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
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As part of the Oxford History of the United States series, this volume is a portrait of an era that saw dramatic transformations in American life. The author illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of the North American continent. This narrative portrays revolutionary improvements in transportation and communications...
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Pub. Date
2008
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xvi, 237 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Jones provides a concise, incisive, and dramatic account of President Eisenhower's disastrous attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. He deftly examines the train of missteps and self-deceptions that led to the invasion of U.S.-trained exiles at the Bay of Pigs.
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Pub. Date
c2012
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320 p. : col. ill. 24 cm.
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On February 20, 2003, the deadliest rock concert in U.S. history took place at a roadhouse called The Station in West Warwick, Rhode Island. That night, in the few minutes it takes to play a hard-rock standard, the fate of many of the unsuspecting nightclub patrons was determined with awful certainty. The blaze was ignited when pyrotechnics set off by Great White, a 1980s heavy-metal band, lit flammable polyurethane "egg crate" foam sound insulation...
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Pub. Date
c2010
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xii, 367 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
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Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in a park, hopping a train for the suburbs: some aspects of city life are so familiar that we don't think twice about them. But such simple actions are structured by complex relationships with our natural world. The contours of these relationships,social, cultural, political, economic, and legal, were established during America's first great period of urbanization in the nineteenth century, and Boston, one...
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xiii, 254 p. ; 23 cm.
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In 1614, explorer John Smith sailed into what was to become Boston Harbor and referred to the wild lands and waters around him as "the Paradise of all these parts". Within fifteen years, the Puritans were developing the tadpole shaped Shawmut Peninsula, as members of the Massachusett tribe fled. Now, nearly four hundred years later, one must wonder what remains of John Smith's "Paradise." In this work the author strolls through Boston's streets,...
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Pub. Date
c2011
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viii, 502 p., [44] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
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This work is an investigation of North American history in the seven centuries before the founding of the United States, looking at how the sequential cultural layers defined by people the author calls the progenitors, conquistadores, traders, planters, imperialists, and Atlanteans contributed to the society, culture, and politics of the U.S. as it emerged after the Revolutionary War. It includes sections on Albany, New York; Boston, Massachusetts;...
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This edition of Ben Kiernan's account of the Cambodian revolution and genocide includes a new preface that takes the story up to 2008 and the UN-sponsored Khmer Rouge tribunal. Kiernan's other books include 'Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur' and 'How Pol Pot Came to Power'.
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Pub. Date
2011
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xi, 291 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
An introduction and overview to the subatomic world of quantum mechanics and physics. Nuclear researcher and teacher, Ford covers everything from quarks, quantum jumps, and what causes the starts to shine, to practical applications ranging from lasers and superconductors to light-emitting diodes.
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Pub. Date
[2013]
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134 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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In 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gave a series of lectures about the Federal Reserve and the 2008 financial crisis, as part of a course at George Washington University on the role of the Federal Reserve in the economy. He revealed important background and insights into the central bank's crucial actions during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, and offers insight into the guiding principles behind the...
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Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Benjamin Franklin secretly loved London and in the decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution, thousands of his fellow colonists flocked to the city. This book recreates the city's hey day as the centre of an empire that encompassed North America and the West Indies.
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The emergence of Japan as a political and economic global power has been one of the most remarkable success stories of modern history. This introduction offers an overview of two thousand years of Japanese history. This edition includes photographs and maps. Highlighting key historical events, the author also marks cultural, artistic, and religious milestones. Chronologies at the end of each chapter, as well as a detailed glossary, offer additional...
20) Collision course: Ronald Reagan, the air traffic controllers, and the strike that changed America
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Pub. Date
2011
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viii, 472 p. ; 25 cm.
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"In August 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) called an illegal strike. The new president, Ronald Reagan, fired the strikers, establishing a reputation for both decisiveness and hostility to organized labor. As Joseph A. McCartin writes, the strike was the culmination of two decades of escalating conflict between controllers and the government that stemmed from the high-pressure nature of the job and the controllers'...




