Industries
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Chesapeake Oysters: The Bay’s Foundation and Future
$35.99 Add to cartCrassostrea virginica, the eastern oyster. These humble bivalves are the living bones of the Chesapeake and the ecological and historical lifeblood of the region. When colonists first sailed these imp… [more below]
- Author: Livie, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: October 26 2015
- ISBN10: 1540212696
- Language: English
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Lost Car Companies of Detroit
$23.99 Add to cartAmong more than two hundred auto companies that tried their luck in the Motor City, just three remain: Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. But many of those lost to history have colorful stories worth
- Series: Lost
- Author: Naldrett, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1467118737
- Language: English
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The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives
$15.99 Add to cart“[A] startling and absorbing exposé . . . Required reading for fans of muckraking authors like Barbara Ehrenreich.”–Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Exceptional . . . thorough, and even gut-wrenc- Author: Servon, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1328745708
- Language: English
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Kaufmann’s: The Family That Built Pittsburgh’s Famed Department Store
$17.00 Add to cartIn 1868, Jacob Kaufmann, the nineteen-year-old son of a German farmer, stepped off a ship onto the shores of New York. His brother Isaac soon followed, and together they joined an immigrant community
- Author: Pitz, Marylynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 263
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0822967138
- Language: English
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Food
$19.95 Read moreA consumer’s guide to the food system, from local to global: our part as citizens in the interconnected networks, institutions, and organizations that enable our food choices.
Everybody eats. We may ev
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Parasecoli, Fabio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0262537311
- Language: English
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Eating Up Route 66: Foodways on America’s Mother Road
$34.95 Add to cartFrom its designation in 1926 to the rise of the interstates nearly sixty years later, Route 66 was, in John Steinbeck’s words, America’s Mother Road, carrying countless travelers the 2,400 miles betwe… [more below]
- Author: Baker, T. Lindsay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0806190698
- Language: English
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JD’s Community Services: A Janitorial General and Hospital Cleaning Training Manual
$23.95 Add to cartThe author’s purpose for writing this book is to bring confidence to those who are in the cleaning services. It is the “How To’s” in cleaning. This is a guide in being effective in cleaning. It confir
- Author: Burnett, Earl L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1638749221
- Language: English
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How Modern Media Destroys Our Minds: Calming the Chaos
$21.99 Add to cartA guide to navigating modern media and staying sane in a world that does not turn off.
Navigating the onslaught of media is overwhelming, to say the least. We are so used to living in a media-saturate
- Author: The School of Life
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1912891883
- Language: English
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Lost Mill Towns of North Georgia
$24.99 Add to cartThe textile era was born of a perfect storm. When North Georgia’s red clay failed farmers and prices fell during Reconstruction, opportunities arose. Beginning in the 1880s, textile industries moved s… [more below]
- Series: Lost
- Author: Russell, Lisa M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1467143510
- Language: English
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Crafty Bastards: Beer in New England from the Mayflower to Modern Day
$29.30 Add to cartThe region that defined Yankee ingenuity has a beer heritage in keeping with its character. Brewing in New England goes back four centuries beginning with the Pilgrims who dropped anchor in Plymouth b… [more below]
- Author: Clark, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1934598119
- Language: English
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Lost Restaurants of Chicago
$24.99 Add to cartChicago author, Greg Borzo, recalls the city’s celebrated lost restaurants.
Many of Chicago’s greatest or most unusual restaurants are no longer taking reservations, but they’re definitely not forgotte
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Borzo, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1625859333
- Language: English
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Lost Restaurants of Baltimore
$21.99 Add to cartBaltimore’s unforgettable dining scene of the past is re-visited here in thirty-five now shuttered restaurants that made their mark on this city.
Haussner’s artwork. Coffey salad at the Pimlico Hotel.
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Loudermilk, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 28 2019
- ISBN10: 146714066X
- Language: English
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Data Strategies for Data Governance
$49.95 Add to cartStrategy is the key to winning any game, and Data Strategy is the key to winning the Data Management game. Data Strategy is a concept in the plural, as it comprises a set of different interrelated str
- Author: Lopez, Marilu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1634623797
- Language: English
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Timber: Toil and Trouble in the Big Woods
$14.99 Read moreHas anyone today any conception of the grandeur, the extent, the million board feet a day production…the entire meaning of the forests of the Pacific Northwest-the “Big Woods”? The photographs alone… [more below]
- Author: Andrews, Ralph W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: January 20 1997
- ISBN10: 0887400361
- Language: English
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Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win
$28.00 Add to cartFrom award-winning ProPublica reporter Marshall Allen, a primer for anyone who wants to fight the predatory health care system–and win.
Every year, millions of Americans are overcharged and underserv- Author: Allen, Marshall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 0593190009
- Language: English
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Hit Makers: How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction
$18.00 Add to cart“Enthralling – full of ‘aha’ moments about why some ideas soar and others never get off the ground. This book picks up where The Tipping Point left off.” —Adam Grant
Nothing “goes viral.” If you thin- Author: Thompson, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1101980338
- Language: English
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Grinding It Out
$9.99 Add to cartFew entrepreneurs can claim to have actually changed the way we live, but Ray Kroc is one of them. His revolutions in food service automation, franchising, shared national training and advertising hav
- Author: Kroc, Ray
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0312929870
- Language: English
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The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Industrial Revolution was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the adve… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Allen, Robert C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198706782
- Language: English
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North Myrtle Beach
$39.99 Add to cartIn 1968, the family-based Cherry Grove, Ocean Drive, Crescent, and Windy Hill Beaches were consolidated into one municipality, gaining a stronger presence with a new name of North Myrtle Beach. Lookin… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: McMillan, Susan Hoffer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1540247082
- Language: English
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Lake Tahoe Tourist Guide, USA: Tour North Lake Tahoe, South Lake Tahoe
$31.00 Add to cartLake Tahoe Tourist Guide, USA. Tour North Lake Tahoe, South Lake Tahoe. Whether you swim, fish, sail, or simply rest on its shores, you’ll be wowed by the overwhelming beauty of Lake Tahoe, the larges
- Author: Gray, Caleb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: December 09 2019
- ISBN10: 191248398X
- Language: English
