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Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the twentieth century, the innermost arm of the American state, the US Department of the Interior pursued minerals beyond US borders, spanning continents, plumbing depths, and reaching into the heavens. Although the Interior Department is known today for managing natural resources and indigenous peoples in a domestic context, it has long facilitated US expansion. Founded in the mid-nineteenth century to oversee settler colonialism, the Interior...
1442) Deep extraction
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Oil and gas magnate Nathan Moore's killer used Moore's pacemaker as a seemingly perfect means of execution. And a bombing at one of Nathan's oil rigs days earlier indicates his death could be part of a bigger conspiracy. Special Agent Tori Templeton's first order of business is separating the personal from the professional: the victim's wife, her best friend, is one of the FBI's prime suspects. With the newest member of the task force, recently reinstated...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
I examined biodiversity management issues, implications and opportunities in a working industrial landscape of the San Bernardino Mountains, California, USA, where historic and active mining operations overlap habitat occupied by threatened, endangered or protected plant and animal tax. To elucidate patterns of habitat use by ungulates in a mini-influenced landscape, I evaluated resource selection by the Cushenbury population of desert bighorn sheep...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In 1981, Jack Welch took over General Electric and quickly rose to fame as the first celebrity CEO. He golfed with presidents, mingled with movie stars, and was idolized for growing GE into the most valuable company in the world. But Welch's achievements didn't stem from some greater intelligence or business prowess. Rather, they were the result of a sustained effort to push GE's stock price ever higher, often at the expense of workers, consumers,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Describes Musk's work with a range of advanced technology companies, including PayPal, the space exploration company SpaceX, and the electric car company Tesla Motors, and discusses his plans for the future.
1446) The Revengers
Author
Series
Jeremiah Halstead Western volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"No sooner has Montana become a state than Zimmerman launches a diabolical campaign to turn a remote swath of land into an outlaw kingdom. Some of the richest mines in the West are in Zimmerman's sights, and he's rallied allies on both sides of the law to stake his claim. The corpses are piled high in Deputy U.S. Marshal Jeremiah Halstead's war with the vicious outlaw, but now Zimmerman proves himself as cunning with a pen as he is deadly with a six-gun....
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Out of the ashes of World War I, a new generation of Titan rises: Pierre Du Pont, Walter Chrysler, J.P. Morgan Jr., Henry Ford, and William Boeing. Their fight to reach the top will transform America as they compete to dominate new industries, from the highways to the skyways. After years of fighting each other, and FDR, these rivals must unite during World War II to defeat a greater enemy and save the world.
1448) Notes on resistance
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Noam Chomsky dissects the multiple crises facing humankind and the planet; and provides a road map for resistance. In this completely original set of interviews between the legendary duo of Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, the two confront topics such as the pandemic, the wealth gap (made worse because of the pandemic), climate destruction, the increasing power of the corporate owned media, systematic racism, Big Tech, and more."--
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When a coldly single-minded businessman uses an untested element to create clean energy for a profit, he inadvertently awakens the beast from the deep--Godzilla! Sensing the harm the new energy poses to the planet, Godzilla attacks the heart of the problem: humankind! It will be up to three intrepid middle-school students--with a little magic help from Infant Island--to show Godzilla that not all humans are bad, and that there is still hope for Planet...