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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 413 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Assesses the pivotal role of American big business in building weapons and enabling industrial dominance for Allied forces in World War II, tracing the contributions of Danish immigrant William Knudsen and shipbuilding industrialist Henry Kaiser.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"...Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in his new book, People, Power, and Profits, the situation is dire. A few corporations have come to dominate entire sectors of the economy, contributing to skyrocketing inequality and slow growth. This is how the financial industry has managed to write its own regulations, tech companies have accumulated reams of personal data with little oversight, and our government has negotiated trade deals that fail to represent...
323) The politics industry: how political innovation can break partisan gridlock and save our democracy
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xvi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Our political system has become big business--and business is booming--yet solutions to big problems seem impossible. Behold, the political-industrial complex. Rampant lobbying and gerrymandering. Election spending rising exponentially with each cycle. The Democratic and Republican parties competing furiously against each other for advantage, while together--as a duopoly--having a lock on the entire industry. And yet, who is this system for? Citizens,...
Author
Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
650 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Tras la elección de Barack Obama, muchos declararon el inicio de una era postracial. Sin embargo, el pensamiento racista, más sofisticado e insidioso que nunca, sigue profundamente arraigado en la sociedad estadounidense. Tal y como argumenta Ibram X. Kendi-la voz más influyente de la lucha antirracista y uno de los referentes actuales del movimiento #BlackLivesMatter-,aunque las ideas racistas se desarrollan, difunden y consagran muy fácilmente,...
327) The whiteness of wealth: how the tax system impoverishes Black Americans - and how we can fix it
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
288 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking exposae of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policy. Dorothy A. Brown became a tax lawyer to get away from race. As a young black girl growing up in the South Bronx, she'd seen how racism limited the lives of her family and neighbors. Her law school classes offered a refreshing contrast: Tax law was about numbers, and the only color that mattered was green. But when Brown sat down to prepare...
328) Factory farming
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
183 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Contains essays that offer a variety of perspectives on the issue of factory farming, debating whether factory farming is economically beneficial, ethical, or harmful to human health or the environment, and considering the future of the industry.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
701 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the early 1980s, farmers were suffering through the worst economic crisis to hit rural America since the Great Depression. Land prices were down, operating costs and interest rates were up, and severe weather devastated crops. Instead of receiving assistance from the government as they had in the 1930s, these hardworking family farmers were threatened with foreclosure by the very agency that Franklin Delano Roosevelt created to help them. Desperate,...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Inverting the conventional history of American suburbanization, Tim Keogh turns the spotlight from wealth and freedom to poverty and inequality. Focusing on the archetypal Long Island communities of the postwar era, Keogh shows that a key driver of suburban development and the segregation it embodied was not housing but employment. Inequality and injustice were baked into suburban development, but housing discrimination was a secondary expression...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; cm
Language
English
Description
"The Darkest Year is acclaimed author William K. Klingaman's narrative history of the American home front from December 7, 1941 through the end of 1942, a psychological study of the nation under the pressure of total war. For Americans on the home front,the twelve months following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor comprised the darkest year of World War Two. Despite government attempts to disguise the magnitude of American losses, it was clear that...
332) Red gold
Publisher
Felt Soul Media
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (54 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (59 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
At the headwaters of the Kvichak and the Nushagak Rivers in Bristol Bay Alaska -- the two largest remaining sockeye salmon runs on the planet -- mining companies Northern Dynasty Minerals and Anglo American have proposed to extract what may prove to be the richest deposit of gold and copper in the world. Documenting the growing unrest among native, commercial and sport fisherman, [the film] is a portrait of a unique way of life that won't survive...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 643 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portrait, charts, facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath. In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York. The infinite demands for men and material reached into countries far from the front. The strain of the war ravaged all economic and political assumptions, bringing...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
448 pages
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling historian Craig Nelson reveals how FDR confronted an American public disinterested in going to war in Europe, skillfully won their support, and pushed government and American industry to build the greatest war machine in history, "the arsenal of democracy" that won World War II. As Nazi Germany began to conquer Europe, America's military was unprepared, too small, and poorly supplied. The Nazis were supported by robust...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 225 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Identifies an underground network of financial supporters who assist al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, describing how terrorists have obtained money, false credentials, and safe passage for decades.
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First graphic edition.
Physical Desc
283 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A comprehensive history of anti-black racism in graphic-novel format focuses on the lives of five major players in American history and highlights the debates that took place between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and anti-racists."--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xi, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a grade of D and C+, respectively, and has described roughly sixty-five thousand bridges in the United States as 'structurally deficient.' This crisis--and one need look no further than the I-35W bridge collapse in Minnesota to see that it is indeed a crisis--shows little sign of abating short...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
512 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"In The Ledger and the Chain, prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield company and the men who built it into the largest and most powerful slave trading company in the United States. In so doing, he reveals the central importance of the domestic slave trade to the development of American capitalism and the expansion of the American nation. Few slave traders were more successful than Isaac Franklin,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fifty years ago, a single bullet robbed us of one of the worlds most eloquent voices for human rights and justice. To the Promised Land goes beyond the iconic view of Martin Luther King Jr. as an advocate of racial harmony, to explore his profound commitment to the poor and working class and his call for “nonviolent resistance” to all forms of oppressionincluding the economic injustice that “takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 334 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A critical indictment of the Bush administration's Iraq war spending reveals the significant differences between the war's estimated and actual costs, arguing that reconstruction attempts have failed at the expense of thousands of lives and billions of dollars.
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