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2022.
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1 volume ; 22 cm
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"Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Godfather-and America's obsession with the classic film trilogy"--
Forty years after the initial release of The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola's trilogy continues to fascinate viewers old and new. The Godfather Effect analyzes the reasons behind this ongoing global phenomenon. With behind-the-scenes anecdotes from all three Godfather films, Tom Santopietro explores the historical origins of the Mob and...
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[2022]
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199 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
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"Myths! Lies! Secrets! Uncover the hidden truth about the Underground Railroad and Black Americans' struggle for freedom. Perfect for fans of I Survived! and Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales. Before the Civil War, there was a crack team of abolitionists who used quilts and signal lanterns to guide enslaved people to freedom. Right? Wrong! The truth is, the Underground Railroad wasn't very organized, and most freedom seekers were on their own. With a...
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"From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City. Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite 'better half' against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. This early-20th-century...
1024) Notes on Complexity
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Pub. Date
2023
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An elegant, mind-bending introduction to Complexity Theory, the science of how complex systems behave-from cells to ecosystems to human beings-that illuminates the very nature of life itself.
The great scientific revolutions of the early twentieth century-the Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics-are well-known, but another theory of equal profundity was developed by mathematicians at the end of the last century: an outgrowth of Chaos Theory,...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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x, 229 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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"In You Are What You Watch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and data expert Walt Hickey explains the power of entertainment to change our biology, our beliefs, how we see ourselves, and how nations gain power through entertainment. Virtually anyone who has ever watched a profound movie, a powerful TV show, or read a moving novel understands that entertainment can and does affect us in surprising and significant ways. But did you know that our most popular...
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Pub. Date
c2010
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xii, 243 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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"Death, funerals, burials, wills--these are things you never want to think about, but someday you'll have to plan for them, either for yourself or for someone you love. Humorous, insightful and relentlessly practical, Death for Beginners will give you the tools to quickly plan a funeral that will save you and your loved ones time, money, and unnecessary emotional stress"--Cover, p. 4.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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viii, 260 pages ; 23 cm.
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Why do we keep trying to solve poverty with technology? What makes us feel that we need to learn to code--or else? In The Promise of Access, Daniel Greene argues that the problem of poverty became a problem of technology in order to manage the contradictions of a changing economy. Greene shows how the digital divide emerged as a policy problem and why simple technological solutions to complex social issues continue to appeal to politicians and professionals...
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2024.
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pages cm
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"Rediscovering, valuing, and embracing Indigenous spirituality and wisdom is critical for humanity to survive in the future. Civilization is a western, Eurocentric construct borne from a distrust of nature, a desire to endlessly exploit it and profit from it. Despite being a relatively recent development, civilization’s inherent logic has resulted in over-population, inequality, poverty, misery, war, and climate change and now threatens humanity’s...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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269 pages ; 25 cm
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"Mindf*ck goes deep inside Cambridge Analytica's "American operations," which were driven by Steve Bannon's vision to remake America and fueled by mysterious billionaire Robert Mercer's money, as it weaponized and wielded the massive store of data it had harvested on individuals--in excess of 87 million--to disunite the United States and set Americans against each other. Bannon had long sensed that deep within America's soul lurked an explosive tension....
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[2024]
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ix, 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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A social scientist dispels people's tidy versions of reality and delves deeply into the theories of random chance and chaos to demonstrate that the world really works through random events that can alter the trajectory of our lives.
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2017.
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xii, 402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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"The book centers on the community that developed around Choctaw Academy, the first federally-controlled Indian boarding school in the United States, which operated from 1825 to 1848 on the Kentucky plantation of prominent politician Richard Mentor Johnson. In addition to white and Indian teachers, the school was supported by the labor of free and enslaved African Americans. Although initiated by the Choctaw Nation, the Academy eventually became home...
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2023.
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viii, 375 pages ; 25 cm
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"Conservatives have succeeded in establishing their vision of education in America, one in which government funds can be used to pay for both public and private schools. As a result, the very meaning of public education in the United States has shifted away from the idea of a universal good. To understand how we got here, The Death of Public School argues, we must look back at the turbulent history of school choice. The Death of Public School tells...
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2012.
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286 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
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This is a book about how well-intentioned Americans dammed up the Columbia, "Great River of the West," fulfilling dreams of cheap electricity and gardens flourishing in the desert. It is also a narrative of exploitation: of Native Americans, of endangered salmon, of nuclear waste, and of a river - once wild - tamed to puddled remains. Harden's story is a journey of rediscovery. His home town, Moses Lake, Washington, once bone dry, could not have existed...
1039) Locker room diaries: the naked truth about women, body image, and re-imagining the "perfect" body
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Pub. Date
c2006
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xxi, 239 p. ; 22 cm.
1040) Surviving the Confederacy: rebellion, ruin, and recovery : Roger and Sara Pryor during the Civil War
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c2002
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447 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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