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Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Hughes (Author)A revelatory and unexpected history of the rise of American capitalism--and an argument that entrepreneurial leaders in government, not the mythical "free market," created the most dynamic economy the world has ever known. For many decades, a sacred myth has ruled the minds of policymakers and business leaders: free markets, untouched by the soiled hands of government, bring us prosperity and stability. But it's wrong. American policy maker...

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Report copyright infringementby Wilma a. Dunaway (Author)In The First American Frontier, Wilma Dunaway challenges many assumptions about the development of preindustrial Southern Appalachia's society and economy. Drawing on data from 215 counties in nine states from 1700 to 1860, she argues that capitalist exchange and production came to the region much earlier than has been previously thought. Her innovative book is the first regional history of antebellum Southern Appalachia and the first s...

The Unitary Executive: Presidential Power from Washington to Bush

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Report copyright infringementby Steven G. Calabresi (Author), Christopher S. Yoo (Author)This book is the first to undertake a detailed historical and legal examination of presidential power and the theory of the unitary executive. This theory-that the Constitution gives the president the power to remove and control all policy-making subordinates in the executive branch-has been the subject of heated debate since the Reagan years. To determine whether the Constitution creates a strongly unita...

Color Me in Boston: A Coloring Book for All Ages - Paperback

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by Martha Day Zschock (Author)Color your way through Boston! Best-selling author-illustrator Martha Day Zschock introduces young readers to the beautiful and exciting city of Boston. Young travelers and locals alike can color the boats in the harbor, visit the duckling statues and Swan Boats in Boston's parks, and explore museums. Color in ice cream and lobster and historic sites as you celebrate all that Boston has to offer Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.24 x 10.83 x 8.4 IN Publication Da...

My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America

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Report copyright infringementby Ruth Braunstein (Author)When the mundane reality of paying taxes takes on moral significance In My Tax Dollars, Ruth Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in which Americans experience and make sense of the tax system. Braunstein tells the stories of Americans who view taxpaying as more than a mundane chore: antigovernment tax defiers who challenge the legitimacy of the tax system, antiwar activists who resist the use of their taxes to fund war, antiabo...

The Rise and Fall of King Coal: American Energy Transitions in an Age of Markets, 1800-1940

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Aldrich (Author)A history of the dynamic role of coal in the energy landscape of the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.In The Rise and Fall of King Coal, Mark Aldrich explores the pivotal role of coal in the historical energy landscape of the United States. Meticulously researched and clearly written, this analysis of the rise, dominance, and eventual decline of coal as a primary fuel source traces its evolution from the late eigh...

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Indianapolis Beer Stories: History to Modern Craft in Circle City Brewing

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Beers (Author)Indianapolis Beer Stories is a time capsule of tales from the city's early taverns, to a pre-Prohibition golden era, to today's modern craft beer scene.Meet the ghosts of Indy's brewing past. Discover the very beginning of beer in Indiana's new capital and the pioneers who carved a path for a future industry. Uncover the legacy of a bygone brewing giant. Learn how one spontaneous decision to cross the treacherous Rocky Mountains led to a boomi...

Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women

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Report copyright infringementby Batya Ungar-Sargon (Author)A personal, journalistic ethnography of the modern American working class, based on the travels and interactions of the author through the American heartland."Second Class is the most important book you will read all year. A political realignment is coming, and it's my hope that the end result will work in favor of our all-too-neglected American working class. When that realignment comes, Batya and her book will help lead the way."--G...

Freedom Enterprise: Black Entrepreneurship and Racial Capitalism in Detroit

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Report copyright infringementby Kendra D. Boyd (Author)Traces the rise and fall of the historic Black business community in Detroit The Great Migration saw more than six million African Americans leave the US South between 1910 and 1970. Though the experiences of migrant laborers are well-known, countless African Americans also left the South to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities and viewed business as key to Black liberation. Detroit's status as a mecca for Black entrepreneurship illuminat...

The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse

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Report copyright infringementby Jane Kamensky (Author)The riveting story of the country's first banking scandal in the first decades of the American republic This enthralling historical narrative of the birth of speculative capitalism in America opens in the 1790s when financial pioneer-turned-confidence-man Andrew Dexter, Jr. created a pyramid scheme founded on real estate speculation and the greed of banks, who freely printed the paper money he needed to finance the then tallest building i...

Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism

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Report copyright infringementby Christina Dunbar-Hester (Author)An examination of how activists combine political advocacy and technical practice in their promotion of the emancipatory potential of local low-power FM radio.Author BiographyChristina Dunbar-Hester is Assistant Professor of Communication in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. Number of Pages: 298 Dimensions: 0.62 x 9 x 6 IN Publica...

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas Lemann (Author)An Amazon Best History Book of 2019 "A splendid and beautifully written illustration of the tremendous importance public policy has for the daily lives of ordinary people." --Ryan Cooper, Washington Monthly Over the last generation, the United States has undergone seismic changes. Stable institutions have given way to frictionless transactions, which are celebrated no matter what collateral damage they generate. The concentration of grea...

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by Michael Pollan (Author)The bestselling author of the Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the 21st century. Number of Pages: 710 Dimensions: 1.44 x 8.46 x 5.57 IN Publication Date: April 24, 2007 Large Print: Yes Accelerated Reader: Quiz Name: Omnivore's Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat Interest Level: Upper Middle Grades, 6 and up ...

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by Michael Bockemühl (Author)In the work of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) lies an impact akin to a sudden acquisition of sight. His landscapes and seascapes scorch the eye with such ravishing light and color, with such elemental force, it is as if the sun itself were gleaming out of the frame. Appropriately known as "the painter of light," Turner worked in print, watercolor, and oils to transform landscape from serene contemplative scenes to pictures pulsating with life. He anchor...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert A. Kryger (Author)Within the 100 years between 1900 - 2000, the world's citrus flavor production coalesced into a vibrant high-tech industry centered in Central Florida. The industry started within the context of Florida's orange juice concentrate industry, developed through the efforts of Floridian entrepreneurs, and quickly grew into an international business drawing in expertise from the worldwide Flavor & Fragrance industry. In this book, Dr. Kry...

Sugar Baron: Manuel Rionda and the Fortunes of Pre-Castro Cuba

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Report copyright infringementby Muriel McAvoy (Author)"Sugar Baron is a brilliant, highly original narrative of the fluctuating fortunes of Cuba and its sugar industry during the republican period."--Franklin W. Knight, professor emeritus, Johns Hopkins University "McAvoy's 'subject' is not simply Manuel Rionda as an individual, but the entire history of U.S.-Cuban relations from the Spanish-Cuban-American War to the Revolution of 1933. Believe it or not, such a story can be told from the van...

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

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Report copyright infringementby Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (Author)The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an explosion in economic growth and proof that economic change depends less on foreign trade, investment, or material causes, and a whole lot more on ideas and what people believe. Or s...

Women of the Grange: Mutuality and Sisterhood in Rural America, 1866-1920

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Report copyright infringementby Donald B. Marti (Author)Recent scholarship suggests that farm women have characteristically tried to improve their societal positions by pursuing strategies of mutuality with men, rather than by forming relationships of sisterhood with each other. Nowhere is this premise more clearly illustrated than in the rituals and programs of the Grange, the secret fraternal organization established to serve farmers. In this work, Donald Marti examines the important roles ...

KJV, Pew Bible, Hardcover, Blue, Red Letter Edition - Hardcover

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by Thomas Nelson (Author)The Thomas Nelson KJV Pew Bible has long been a trusted and durable Bible for use in churches and various worship settings. This edition is published in large KJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most readable at any size.The classic King James Version, one of the most influential and beautiful works of art in the English language, continues to be the standard translation for numerous churches and millions of Christians. T...

Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism - Hardcover

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by Mary Anne Hunting (Author), Kevin D. Murphy (Author)A comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American Modernism In the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women, but career success did not come easily. Women Architects at Work tells the stories of the resilient and resourceful women who surmounted barriers of sexism, racism, and classism to take on crucial roles in the establishment and grow...

The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West - Paperback

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by Peter Cozzens (Author)Bringing together Custer, Sherman, Grant, and other fascinating military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Geronimo, this "sweeping work of narrative history" (San Francisco Chronicle) is the fullest account to date of how the West was won--and lost. After the Civil War the Indian Wars would last more than three decades, permanently altering the physical and political landscape of America. Peter Cozzens gives...

Attention Kmart Shoppers: The Rise and Fall of America's First Big Discounter

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Report copyright infringementby Ben Schultz (Author) Number of Pages: 260 Dimensions: 0.55 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 12, 2025

America's Cigar Story: The History, Politics, and Legacy of Cigars from 1762 to the Modern Era

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Report copyright infringementby Sebastian Saviano (Author) Number of Pages: 202 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 25, 2025

King Dollar: The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Blustein (Author)An award-winning economic journalist on why the US dollar is positioned to maintain global primacy--and what that means for America and the world Prophecies that the dollar will lose its status as the world's dominant currency have echoed for decades--and are increasing in volume. Cryptocurrency enthusiasts claim that Bitcoin or other blockchain-based monetary units will replace the dollar. Foreign policy hawks warn that China's renminbi ...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Hayes (Author)What role did German big business play in the persecution of European Jews during the Holocaust? What were its motivations? And how did it respond to changing social and economic circumstances after the war? Profits and Persecution examines how the leaders of Germany's largest industrial and financial enterprises played a key part in the catastrophes and crimes of their nation in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on evidence c...

Empire of Labor: How the East India Company Colonized Hired Work

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Report copyright infringementby Titas Chakraborty (Author)Empire of Labor tells the story of how hired workers experienced and responded to the rise to power over the long eighteenth century of the English East India Company (EIC), which perennially hired thousands of people in and around its settlements in Bengal. Focusing on boatmen and silk reelers as well as sailors and soldiers--a remarkable look at both indigenous and European workers--the story begins with the earliest accounts of the ...

Canada's Entrepreneurs: From the Fur Trade to the 1929 Stock Market Crash: Portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Ross (Author), Andrew Smith (Author)Molson. Redpath. Desjardins. Labatt. Massey. Eaton. These names are as much a part of our national identity as our hockey teams and our literature, but few of us know much about the people behind them - the individuals who have energized this country's economic life for over four centuries, and whose entrepreneurialism has shaped the face of Canadian business as we know it.This captivating collection of biographies pro...

The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country

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Report copyright infringementby Laton McCartney (Author)In this amazing and at times ribald story, Laton McCartney tells how Big Oil handpicked Warren G. Harding, an obscure Ohio senator, to serve as our twenty-third president. Harding and his "oil cabinet" made it possible for cronies to secure vast fuel reserves that had been set aside for use by the U.S. Navy. In exchange, the oilmen paid off senior government officials, bribed newspaper publishers, and covered the GOP campaign debt. When ...

The Global Pharmaceutical Industry: Economic Structure, Government Regulation, and History

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Report copyright infringementby Hank Laskey (Author)This book uniquely combines the study of business and economics with the study of medicine, science, and technology-all within a regulatory framework-and provides the reader with a broad perspective necessary to understand the multifaceted global pharmaceutical industry. It provides a solid introduction for anyone who desires to enter or excel within the industry today yet also provides a fascinating historical perspective for those interest...

To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-Up Companies, and the Rise of Mos Technology

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Report copyright infringementby Ross Knox Bassett (Author)Without the transistor to regulate the flow of current in electronic systems, there would be no miniaturization of electronics. But the metal-oxide-semiconductor (or simply MOS) transistor-it replaced the bipolar transistor, which itself had made obsolete the hot and bulky vacuum tube--Bassett describes as "the base technology" of the electronic revolution of the late-twentieth century. From the calculator to the digital watch to the m...

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Report copyright infringementby Angelo Codevilla (Author)Analyzing the American intelligence network, senior research fellow at Hoover Institution Angelo Codevilla concludes that American intelligence efforts are desperately outdated in this "masterful exploration of the field" (Publishers Weekly). Based on years of research and experience working within the American intelligence network, Angelo Codevilla argues that the intelligence efforts of the nation's government are outgrown and inconc...