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Planning Our Future Libraries: Blueprints for 2025
Kim Leeder · American Library Association
Pages: 130
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With essays by Brett Bonfield, John Chrastka, Lesley Farmer, Dave Harmeyer, Megan Hodge, Ben Malczewski, Krisellen Maloney, and Hugh RundleIn an information environment where the only constant is change, many wonder where libraries are headed. This edited collection brings together library... |
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Labor Movements: Global Perspectives
Stephanie Luce · Polity; 1 edition
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Fewer than 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world. With tremendous growth in inequality within and between countries, steady or indeed rising unemployment and underemployment, and the marked increase in precarious work and migration,... |
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This Brave New World: India, China and the United States
Anja Manuel · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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In the next decade and a half, China and India will become two of the world's indispensable powers - whether they rise peacefully or not. During that time, Asia will surpass the combined strength of North America and Europe in economic might, population size, and military spending. Both... |
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Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
Mychal Denzel Smith · Nation Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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How do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, and too many more. It means celebrating powerful moments of black... |
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The Secret World of Oil
Ken Silverstein · Verso, 2014.
Pages: 281
Format: Print book |
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The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it, like ExxonMobil. But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady meeting ground of fixers, gangsters, dictators, competing governments,... |
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The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
Tom Burgis · PublicAffairs; First Edition edition
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The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other "emerging markets" have transformed their economies, Africa's resource states remained tethered to the bottom of the industrial supply... |
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