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1) On the road
Author
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
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Description
Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast. As he travels across 1950s America, aspiring writer Sal Paradise chronicles his escapades with the charismatic Dean Moriarty. Sal admires Dean's passion for experiencing as much as possible of life and his wild flights of poetic fancy.
Author
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (264 pages)
Language
English
Description
"In Farquhar McHarg's autobiography, a young boy from Glasgow finds himself in the middle of Barcelona's revolutionary underworld at the tail end of World War I. Volume One chronicles McHarg's liaisons between the British Secret Service Bureau and the Spanish anarchists. McHarg tells of a corrupt Spanish regime bent on crushing a rebellious working class and the generous and recklessly idealistic men and women who struggled to transform it after rejecting...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (ix, 421 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language
English
Description
"Heralded as America's most quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much as any city in the nation. And, yet, few historians have attempted big-picture narratives of the city's transformation over the twentieth century. Chicago on the Make traces the evolution of the city's politics, culture, and economy as it grew from an unruly tangle of rail yards, slaughterhouses, factories,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Around Christmas of 1882, while peering through a microscope at starfish larvae in which he had inserted tiny thorns, Russian zoologist Elie Metchnikoff had a brilliant insight: what if the mobile cells he saw gathering around the thorns were the same as white blood cells that traveled to the site of an injury or infection in a human or other animal? Was this some form of cellular defense? Metchnikoff's theory of immunity, that phagocytes-white blood...
Publisher
Britannica Educational Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (168 p.)
Language
English
Description
"Humans have long attempted to mechanize calculations-mathematical and otherwise-and build problem-solving machines. Yet it was not until the 20th century, with the advent of the computer, that such technology truly hit its stride. Indispensable to nearly all industry and increasingly vital to individuals around the globe, the computer has come to be an icon of the modern age. This insightful volume chronicles the history of computing devices, from...
Author
Language
English
Description
Born on a sugar plantation in Java at the turn of the 20th century, psychic, alternative healer, and writer Dora van Gelder Kunz was to become one of the most unique and unforgettable women of her age. This biography traces her life from her signs of clairvoyant ability in early childhood through her pioneering development, with Delores Krieger, of Therapeutic Touch; her presidency of the Theosophical Society in America; and, finally, her death at...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
[Open Access edition].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvii, 307 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color).
Language
English
Description
"Outcasts of Empire probes the limits of modern nation-state sovereignty by positioning colonial Taiwan at the intersection of the declining Qing and ascending Japanese empires. Paul D. Barclay chronicles the lives and times of interpreters, chiefs, and trading-post operators along the far edges of the expanding international system, an area known as Taiwan's "savage border." In addition, he boldly asserts the interpenetration of industrial capitalism...
Author
Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (240 pages)
Language
English
Description
THE FIRST AND ONLY BIOGRAPHY TO CHART ONE OF PUNK ROCK'S MOST INFLUENTIAL AND IMPORTANT BANDS. Blink-182 started off as a power-punk trio that gigged relentlessly and goofed about constantly. Yet, over the course of five blistering studio albums, Blink evolved into one of the most influential post-punk outfits in music, which led to sales in excess of 20 million records worldwide. They split up in 2005 amidst tales of barbed acrimony after which the...
Author
Publisher
Microcosm Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (160 pages)
Language
English
Description
Love and music collide in this refreshing, uplifting memoir that chronicles the romantic coming-of-age of a woman in her 20s experiencing the dating scene in the San Francisco Bay Area. After the disappointment of a failed marriage, Natalye Childress embarks on a soul-searching journey to discover what happens when true and everlasting turns out not to last that long. Using music as a vehicle to express herself, she revisits 10 men of her past and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles in the 1960s gave the world some of the greatest music in rock 'n' roll history: "California Dreamin'" by the Mamas and the Papas, "Mr. Tambourine Man" by the Byrds, and "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys, a song that magnificently summarized the joy and beauty of the era in three-and-a-half minutes. But there was a dark flip side to the fun fun fun of the music, a nexus between naIve young musicians and the fringe elements that exploited...
Author
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (176 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Chronicling the history of two New York City provocateur groups-Black Mask and Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker-this account complies the complete 10 issues of the newspaper Black Mask; numerous leaflets, articles, and flyers generated by Black Mask; the Up Against the Wall Motherfucker Magazine; and Free Press and Rolling Stone reports on Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker. Founded in the mid-1960s, the Black Mask group melded the ideas and inspiration...
Author
Language
English
Description
"During the opening months of World War II, Vassar-educated career woman Rulka Langer (1906-1993) risked her life and relied on her wits to keep her two small children and elderly mother out of harm's way. "The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt" is a rare eyewitness account of the early, chaotic days of WWII -- the Nazi German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, the Siege of Warsaw and the first few months of the Occupation -- written by a young...
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 9
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Modern library ed.
Physical Desc
xxv, 190 p. : maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 11
Publisher
The Modern Library
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Modern Library ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
194 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 32
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Modern Library ed., 1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 197 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 8
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Modern Library ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 13.1 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
xviii, 295 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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