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Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 422 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this vivid, sweeping history of the industrial revolution, Gavin Weightman shows how, in less than one hundred and fifty years, an unlikely band of scientists, spies, entrepreneurs, and political refugees took a world made of wood, powered by animals, wind, and water, and made it into something entirely new, forged of steel and iron, and powered by steam and fossil fuels.
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Language
English
Description
Immigrant farm-girl Clara Kelley clambers out of steerage and, by assuming the identity of a fellow passenger with the same name, hops onto the dock and straight into a position as lady's maid to Mrs. Carnegie, the exacting mother of Andrew, captain of industry. By turns tirelessly ambitious, philanthropic, and deeply influenced by his bootstrap-climb from poverty, Andrew is the personification of the American dream. He values Clara's intellect and...
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Language
English
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Description
Born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie is best known as the founder of Carnegie Steel ... Carnegie, the son of an impoverished linen weaver, moved to Pittsburgh at the age of thirteen. The embodiment of the American dream, he pulled himself up from bobbin boy in a cotton factory to become the richest man in the world. He spent the rest of his life giving away the fortune he had accumulated and crusading for international peace....
Author
Series
Wildwood chronicles volume 3
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a young's girl's midnight seance that awakens a long-slumbering, malevolent spirit, a band of runaway orphans teams up with an underground collective of saboteurs to rescue friends imprisoned in an industrial wasteland.
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Language
English
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They could have been allies: two self-made millionaires who invented a global industry, in an era when wife and mother were supposed to be the highest goals for their sex. Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein each founded empires built on grit and determination...and yet they became locked in a feud spanning three continents, two world wars, and the Great Depression. Brought up in poverty, Canadian-born Elizabeth Arden changed popular opinion, persuading...
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Language
English
Description
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Alexander Hamilton: here is the essential, endlessly engrossing biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.—the Jekyll-and-Hyde of American capitalism. In the course of his nearly 98 years, Rockefeller was known as both a rapacious robber baron, whose Standard Oil Company rode roughshod over an industry, and a philanthropist who donated...
From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Alexander Hamilton: here is the essential, endlessly engrossing biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.—the Jekyll-and-Hyde of American capitalism. In the course of his nearly 98 years, Rockefeller was known as both a rapacious robber baron, whose Standard Oil Company rode roughshod over an industry, and a philanthropist who donated...
Author
Publisher
MIT
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume)
Language
English
Description
Rising labor costs in China and other emerging economies, high supply chain and logistics costs, and wide differentials in energy costs in different parts of the world are provoking a fresh round of relocation of manufacturing and production. While some labor-intensive jobs are moving out of China to Southeast Asia or the next emerging low-cost regions, some manufacturing work is also returning to the United States. Wal-Mart is facilitating reshoring...
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Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
1938.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The daughter of an oil magnate makes trouble for a gas station attendant.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
7 CDs (approximately 8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guide (80 pages : illustrations (some color)).
Language
English
Description
In this course, Texas A&M University history professor H.W. Brands examines the lives and careers of successful men and women who seized the opportunities offered by the vibrant and open economy that has ensued.
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Anand, the proud owner of a small factory, finds his future uncertain when it collides with urban forces out of his control and a woman named Kamala who is determined to make a better life for her son.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (76 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In the meantime, he lost touch with his family. When he saw what was happening, it was already too late."--Container.
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Series
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
190 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Kentucky is the banner of bourbon, and there are a proud few who helped usher the industry into prominence. Learn about men like bourbon baron Isaac Bernheim, who founded the Bernheim Forest and Research Center, or John Douglas, who built a racetrack for the trotter racing industry and was known as the "Prince of Sports." George Carvin Brown and his business partner, George Forman, formed the Brown-Forman Company, which today is one of the largest...
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