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The digital age

Publishing Date: 2015

Classification: 300

Call Number: 303.48

"Digital technology has transformed our lives so completely that we hardly recognize it and so quickly that we have yet to grasp its implications. No industry has been left untouched; every aspect of how we communicate and how and where we get our information has been affected. We are connected as never before. Even the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court has said that a cellphone can contain the "sum of an individual's private life"--surely a combination of the personal and the technological that is unique in history. Yet even as we gain greater and greater access to information, explore new avenues of creativity and new kinds of entertainment, and find new ways to express ourselves and integrate our social activities, we crave still more. Change is the only constant. How are we to make sense of this ever-shifting terrain--as we must, or be overwhelmed by it? The Digital Age challenges us to understand not only the great potential good offered by modern digital technology but its negative consequences: loss of privacy, erosion of face-to-face communication abilities, exposure to cybercrime, even such seemingly mundane consequences as the decline of handwriting among children. None of these issues is abstract; we need to know where digital technology is taking us."--Publisher's website.

The 33 strategies of war

By Greene, Robert

Publishing Date: 2006

Classification: 300

Call Number: 303.6 GRE

Abundantly illustrated with examples from history, this newest work in the bestselling amoral series is a brilliant distillation of the strategies of war that can help people gain mastery in the modern world. 2-color interior.

American sucker

By Denby, David

Publishing Date: 2004

Classification: 300

Call Number: 332.6 DEN

The author of Great Books presents a candid memoir of money, desire, greed, and love as he describes his divorce, its effects on his life, and his irrational plunge into the stock market madness of the high-tech boom, discussing his own motives and illusions in terms of the simultaneous blindness and greed that consumed the nation. - (Baker & Taylor)

The Anti-Federalist papers: And, the constitutional convention debates

Publishing Date: [2003]

Classification: 300

Call Number: 342.73

Contains the complete texts of the Anti-Federalist papers which offer the arguments of statesmen who were opposed to the Constitution, and includes transcripts of Constitutional Convention debates, commentaries, and an index of ideas.

Citizenville: how to take the town square digital and reinvent government

By Newsom, Gavin Christopher

Publishing Date: 2013

Classification: 300

Call Number: 352.3 NEW

"By integrating democratic government with cutting-edge American innovation, the lieutenant governor of California charts a bright future for open-source America. Citizenville is the story of how ordinary citizens can use new digital tools to dissolve political gridlock and transform American democracy"--

Silent coup: the removal of a president

By Colodny, Len

Publishing Date: ©1991

Classification: 300

Call Number: 364.132 COL

SILENT COUP documents the political and personal agendas that combined to destroy Richard Nixon.

Convict Lake: a true account of the Convict Lake rescue

By Mallard, Richard

Publishing Date: c2011

Classification: 300

Call Number: 365.42 MAL

WHEN IT HAPPENED, the heartrending drama at Convict Lake made international headlines. It was the most significant event to occur there since 1871 when a real-life Wild West shootout earned Convict Lake its name. In addition to the powerful and page-turning emergency, the events that led up to the Convict Lake rescue reveal a larger story that continues to haunt our affairs today. It is a story of bureaucratic ineffectiveness, abuse, greed and troubled juveniles. It is a story of law enforcement, fire and rescue, privatization and public policy. The book Convict Lake answers the question of why the teenagers and rescuers arrived at that frozen spot in the middle of a High Sierra lake on Presidents’ Day 1990; and the answer reveals a tale that is as much about the ghost of our future as it is about the ghosts of our past. - (Createspace)

Hetch Hetchy and its dam railroad: the story of the uniquely equipped railroad that serviced the camps, dams, tunnels, and penstocks of the 20-year construction project to bring water from the Sierra to San Francisco

By Wurm, Ted

Publishing Date: [1973]

Classification: 300

Call Number: 385.5 WUR

The skeleton at the feast: the Day of the Dead in Mexico

By Carmichael, Elizabeth

Publishing Date: 1992

Classification: 300

Call Number: 394.266 CAR

Lavishly illustrated with color and b&w photographs of scenes and artifacts, explores both the current and historical celebration of the Day of the Dead in Mexico and the US. Much attention is paid to the artisans who make pieces for the festival. Includes a glossary without pronunciations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Ghost stories of California

By Gua Gua La

Publishing Date: 2000

Classification: 300

Call Number: 398.2 GUA

California's rich and colorful history has produced a wealth of tales about the supernatural. These unique stories of scary folklore come from all over the state and include such legends as the ghostly sailors that roam, the decks of the Queen Mary at Long Beach to the malevolent phantoms that still haunt Alcatraz.