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Author
Publisher
Patagonia
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Crazy World is a kind of speed date with the history of water control--its dams, diversions and canals, and just as importantly, the politics and power that evolved with them. Examples from the American West reveal that the costs of building and maintaining a sprawling water storage and delivery complex in an arid world--growing increasingly arid under the ravages of climate chaos--is well beyond the benefits...
Author
Series
INSS occasional paper volume 5
Publisher
USAF Institute for National Security Studies, USAF Academy
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
523) Colin Kaepernick
Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This graphic biography traces Colin Kaepernick's road from young sports standout to athlete and activist. As Kaepernick protested violence against African Americans, he lost his career in football but gained a voice heard worldwide" --
Author
Series
Nevada studies in history and political science volume no. 27
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Author
Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An unprecedented look inside the global battle to power our lives from acclaimed Reuters reporter Ernest Scheyder. A new economic war for critical minerals has begun, and The War Below is an urgent dispatch from its front lines. To build electric vehicles, solar panels, cell phones, and millions of other devices means the world must dig more mines to extract lithium, copper, and other vital building blocks. But mines are deeply unpopular, even as...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"COVID-19 exposed the pre-existing conditions of the current global crisis. Many Western states failed to protect their populations, while others were able to suppress the virus only with sweeping social restrictions. "The Revenge of the Real" envisions a new positive biopolitics that recognizes that governance is literally a matter of life and death. Bratton argues that instead of thinking of technology as something that happens to society, we must...
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Raising a daughter is hard. Raising her to be a conservative can seem impossible. In a long career devoted to equipping the next generation of conservative women for leadership, Michelle Easton has worked with thousands of students and young professionals. Their backgrounds are as varied as America itself, but in each girl’s life, something went right. How to Raise a Conservative Daughter is an invaluable guide to what works. It’s foolish to...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"More than two million men and women are currently behind bars in the United States. Incarceration not only separates the imprisoned from their families and communities, it also exposes them to shocking levels of violence and sexual assault and subjects them to the arbitrary cruelties of the criminal justice system. Yet, as Nicole Fleetwood reveals, America's prisons are filled with art. Despite the isolation and degradation they experience, the incarcerated...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Perhaps we were too distracted by the pandemic, or the endless financial crises, or the rise of TikTok. But under cover of them all, a new and more exploitative system has been taking hold. Insane sums of money that were supposed to re-float our economies after the crash of 2008 went to big tech instead. With it they funded the construction of their private cloud fiefdoms and privatized the internet. Technofeudalism says Yanis Varoufakis, is the...
Author
Series
INSS occasional paper volume 43
Publisher
USAF Institute for National Security Studies, USAF Academy
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of The Real Anthony Fauci comes an explosive exposé of the cover-up behind the true origins of COVID-19. 'Gain-of-function' experiments are often conducted to deliberately develop highly virulent, easily transmissible pathogens for the stated purpose of developing preemptive vaccines for animal viruses before they jump to humans. More insidious is...
Publisher
Marine Barracks
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
English
Description
With United States involvement in Afghanistan, knowledge of the country is imperative. This "handbook" explains a number of basic issues that should be in the knowledge "toolbox" of a Marine working with Afghanis or deployed to the country.
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In 26 connected essays, Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Elizabeth Kolbert takes us on an illustrated journey through the landscape of climate change and the stories we tell ourselves about the future"--
"In twenty-six essays—one for each letter of the alphabet—the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction takes us on a hauntingly illustrated journey through the history of climate change and the uncertainties of our future. Climate...
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