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Author
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
From acclaimed author Derrick Jensen comes a prescient, thought-provoking collection of interviews with 10 leading writers, philosophers, teachers, and activists who argue against society's belief that corporations and governments know what is best for them.
47) Nature's nation
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1967.
Physical Desc
xvi, 298 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
At the beginning, everyone's name and address was listed in the phone book, and everyone answered their landline because you didn't know who it was. By the end, exposing someone's address was an act of emotional violence, and nobody picked up their cell phone if they didn't know who was calling. Klosterman shows that in the 1990s there was a wholesale shift in how society was perceived. He shows how the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall and...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The other great Renaissance of black culture, influence, and glamour burst forth joyfully in what may seem an unlikely place--Pittsburgh, PA--from the 1920s through the 1950s. Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson's famed plays about noble but doomed working-class strivers. But this community once had an impact on American history that rivaled the far larger black worlds of Harlem and Chicago. It published the most widely...
Author
Series
Genealogy and local history volume LH 319
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[1904]
Physical Desc
19 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates (2 folded) : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
55) Russian thinkers
Author
Series
Selected writings volume 1
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1978.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 312 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The young Benjamin Franklin sought his fortune on a trip to England, but instead discovered a world of intellectual ferment in the coffeehouses and salons of London. He brought home to Philadelphia the intense hunger for knowledge that buzzed in a Europe where Newton, Bacon and Galileo had made epochal discoveries. With the "first Drudgery" of settling the American colonies now behind them, Franklin announced in 1743, it was high time that the colonists...
Author
Series
Genealogy and local history volume LH 703
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1936.
Physical Desc
xiv, 683 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Genealogy and local history volume LH 712
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[1945?]
Physical Desc
23 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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