ProQuest (Firm)
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Pub. Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
xiv, 1008 pages : maps, tables ; 29 cm
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"The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the best known statistical reference. As a comprehensive collection of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the country, it is a snapshot of America and its people. It includes over 1,400 tables from hundreds of sources."-- (source of summary not specified)
2) "Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" and other conversations about race
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Description
"Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together--the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clustered in their own groups, too. The same phenomenon can be observed in college dining halls, faculty lounges, and corporate cafeterias. What is going on here? Is this self-segregation a problem we should...
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xiii, 297 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
The book is a history of Boston's emergence as a world-class city. Once upon a time, Boston Town was an insulated New England township. But the community was destined for greatness. Between 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a stunning metamorphosis to emerge as one of the world's great metropolises, one that achieved national and international prominence in politics, medicine, education, science, social activism, literature, commerce, and transportation....
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
583 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of Caesar's life from birth through assassination, historian Goldsworthy covers not only Caesar's accomplishments as charismatic orator, conquering general, and powerful dictator, but also lesser-known chapters during which he was high priest of an exotic cult, captive of pirates, seducer not only of Cleopatra but also of the wives of his two main political rivals, and a rebel condemned by his own country. Goldsworthy...
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xviii, 284 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Description
Perhaps nothing did more to foment anti British sentiment than the armed occupation of Boston. This is the author's narrative of those critical months between October 1, 1768 and the winter of 1770 when Boston was an occupied town. He moves between the governor's mansion and cobblestoned back alleys as he traces the origins of the colonists' conflict with Britain. He reveals the maneuvering of colonial leaders as they responded to London's new policies,...
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Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xx, 106 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a radically new form of government based on the idea that people had the right to govern themselves. In this lively account, Robert Allison provides a cohesive synthesis of the military, diplomatic, political,...
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Pub. Date
c2009
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232 p. : ill., map, port. ; 24 cm.
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Between the Revolution and the settlement of the little cabin with the bean rows, however, Walden Woods was home to several generations of freed slaves and their children. Living on the fringes of society, they attempted to pursue lives of freedom, promised by the rhetoric of the Revolution, and yet withheld by the practice of racism. [In this work, the author] brings to life the former slaves of Walden Woods and the men and women who held them in...
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
320 p. : col. ill. 24 cm.
Description
On February 20, 2003, the deadliest rock concert in U.S. history took place at a roadhouse called The Station in West Warwick, Rhode Island. That night, in the few minutes it takes to play a hard-rock standard, the fate of many of the unsuspecting nightclub patrons was determined with awful certainty. The blaze was ignited when pyrotechnics set off by Great White, a 1980s heavy-metal band, lit flammable polyurethane "egg crate" foam sound insulation...
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Pub. Date
c2011
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xiv, 265 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
In the beginning, the World Wide Web was exciting and open to the point of anarchy, a vast and intimidating repository of unindexed confusion. Into this creative chaos came Google with its dazzling mission: "To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible", and its much quoted motto, "Don't be Evil." In this book, the author examines the ways we have used and embraced Google, and the growing resistance to its expansion across...
