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Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"A history of Indian casinos in America reveals the lesser-known partnership between Native American tribes and the Mafia that has been responsible for the creation of hundreds of Vegas-style casinos throughout the United States, in part by taking advantage of historical injustices and cultural protections,"--NoveList.
3) Be my baby
Pub. Date
2006
Description
"She wanted payback...he wanted the baby"--Internet movie database.
5) Insanitarium
Pub. Date
2008
Description
A man pretends to be crazy to gain access to a mental facility in order to save his sister, when he finds out the patients are being given drugs that turn them into flesh-eating psychopaths.
Author
Publisher
James Egbert, printer
Pub. Date
1860
Description
A native of Frederick, Maryland, Luther Melanchthon Schaeffer sailed around the Horn to California in 1849. He spent most of the next two-and-a-half years in the gold fields, mining on the Feather River, Deer Creek, Grass Valley (Centerville) and other Nevada County sites. Sketches of travels in South America, Mexico and California (1860) gives an excellent picture of the international, interracial community of miners, with comments on social patterns,...
10) Hot fuzz
Publisher
Rogue Pictures
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Nicholas Angel is the finest cop London has to offer, with an arrest record higher than any other officer on the force. As a result, Angel's superiors send him to a place where his talents won't be quite so obvious, the sleepy and seemingly crime-free village of Sandford.
Pub. Date
2008
Description
"In this stunning DVD documentary packed full of music performances, explore Elvis' triumph in Vegas and his artistic legacy that continues through contemporary artists today. Enjoy rarely-seen footage of the music icon performing in Las Vegas, revealing interviews with those closest to him and special performances from some of today's top recording stars. Unique covers of Elvis classics include Toby Keith and Aerosmith's Joe Perry performing "Mystery...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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Description
The American Revolution was not inevitable, nor was it a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against one another, as loyalists and colonial rebels faced off for their lives and futures. Through the remarkable lives of the first Americans, this book reveals the contentious arguments that turned friends into foes and the land into a war zone. From the riots over a child's murder that led to the Boston Massacre, to the Continental Army's first victory...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"The United States now has three political parties, though only two of them are elected.The newest was founded a century ago, but just came to power in the last decade: It's the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the political party of the new American oligarchy. In this groundbreaking investigation of the big business takeover of the American political process, Alyssa Katz draws upon years of research to chronicle the rise to power of the organization and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Description
"The definitive biography of America's best-known and least understood food personality, and the modern culinary landscape he shaped. After World War II, a newly affluent United States reached for its own gourmet culture, one at ease with the French international style of Escoffier, but also distinctly American. Enter James Beard, authority on cooking and eating, his larger-than-life presence and collection of whimsical bow ties synonymous with the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Description
"John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement, Meacham writes of how the activist and leader was inspired by the Bible, his mother's unbreakable spirit, his sharecropper father's tireless ambition, and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson...
16) Fifty years at the US Environmental Protection Agency: progress, retrenchment, and opportunities
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, this book brings together leading scholars and EPA veterans to provide a comprehensive assessment of the agency's key decisions and actions in the various areas of its responsibility. Themes across all chapters include the role of rulemaking, negotiation/compromise, partisan polarization, judicial impacts, relations with the White House and Congress,...
17) Founding gardeners: the revolutionary generation, nature, and the shaping of the American nation
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Description
"From the author of the acclaimed The Brother Gardeners, a fascinating look at the founding fathers from the unique and intimate perspective of their lives as gardeners, plantsmen, and farmers. For the founding fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions, as deeply ingrained in their characters as their belief in liberty for the nation they were creating. Andrea Wulf reveals for the first time this aspect of the revolutionary...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks MediaFusion
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Let Every Nation Know is the first book of its kind-a historical biography in Kennedy's own words. Combining a remarkable audio CD of Kennedy's most famous speeches, debates and press conferences with the insights of two of America's preeminent historians, the result is a unique look at the world-changing words and presidency of John F. Kennedy.
Publisher
Distributed by Univ. of Massachusetts Pr
Pub. Date
2013
Description
"From an incomplete composition of brick buildings and informal gardens into an ordered landscape of white classical temples, the image of Washington, D.C., was transformed by visionary planning and implementation in response to the political and artistic movements of the early twentieth century. The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts was created by Congress in 1910 as an independent design review agency to guide the ongoing work of representing national...
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