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Triangle Fire (01 Edition)
by Leon Stein  
Synopsis On March 25, 1911, 146 employees of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City were killed in the span of a few minutes because no provision had been made for their safety in the event of fire. The Cornell edition of Leon Stein's 1962 account...
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Environmental Research #1: Modeling Archaeological Site Burial in Southern Michigan: A Geoarchaeological Synthesis
by G. William And William A. Lovis Monaghan
Synopsis Modeling Archaeological Site Burial in Southern Michigan is the first volume in the Environmental Research Series. The product of more than two decades of research, it examines relationships between regional and local scale fluvial system evolution and...
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Boston's Back Bay: The Story of America's Greatest Nineteenth-Century Landfill Project
by William A. Newman Synopsis A fascinating look at the people, politics, and technology behind the massive landfill project that filled Boston's Back Bay....
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Arctic Bush Pilot: From Navy Combat to Flying Alaska's Northern Wilderness
by James Anderson Synopsis "Andy" Anderson pioneered postwar bush service to Alaska's Koyukuk River region, serving Natives, sportsmen, adventurers, and assorted "bush rats."...
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Iditarod Fact Book
by Tricia Brown Synopsis The Iditarod Fact Book is jam-packed with fascinating facts and figures about the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Updated following the 2006 race, this handy guide includes facts on race champions, volunteers, sleds and gear, checkpoints, mushers' clothing,...
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Tending Fire: Coping with America's Wildland Fires
by Stephen J Pyne
Publisher Comments The wildfires that spread across Southern California in the fall of 2003 were devastating in their scale-twenty-two deaths, thousands of homes destroyed and many more threatened, hundreds of thousands of acres burned. What had gone wrong? And why, after...
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Natural Museums: U.S. National Parks, 1872-1916
by Kathy S Mason
Synopsis In 1872 the world's first national park was founded at Yellowstone. Although ideas of nature conservation were not embraced generally by the American public, five more parks were created before the turn of the century. By 1916, the year that the National...
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History of My Own Times (95 Edition)
by William (ed.) Otter
Synopsis This is one of the few first-person accounts of a rural artisan in pre-genteel American. The book depicts the ambiguities of race relation in the early nineteenth century, sheds light on its definition of manhood, and conveys a sense of humor very...
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Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles Through Baja California, the Other Mexico
by C. M Mayo Publisher Comments This exquisite book is a rare jewel in the literature of Mexico and its little-known peninsula, Baja. Describing her adventures on this austere and beautiful slip of land, C. M. Mayo creates a multi-layered map of place filled with daredevil aviators...
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When the Mines Closed : Stories of Struggles in Hard Times (98 Edition)
by Thomas Dublin
Synopsis The anthracite region of northeastern Pennsylvania, five hundred square miles of rugged hills stretching between Tower City and Carbondale, harbored coal deposits that once heated virtually all the homes and businesses in Eastern cities. At its peak...
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Poles in Michigan (Discovering the Peoples of Michigan)
by Dennis Badaczewski
Synopsis One of the most vibrant and influential ethnic groups in Michigan, Poles have a long history of migration and settlement in the Great Lakes State. From Michigan's earliest Polish marriage (in 1762) to the most recent post-Cold War migrations, each...
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Kay Fanning's Alaska Story
by Kay Fanning Publisher Comments The inspirational account of a journalist who successfully built The Anchorage Daily News into Alaska's largest newspaper reveals how she helped define Alaska's issues and shape its future by placing public interests above special interests....
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Michigan Agricultural College: The Evolution of a Land-Grant Philosophy, 1855-1925 (Msu Sesquicentennial)
by Keith R Widder
Synopsis Step back in time and re-live the stirring saga of America's premier land-grant institution long before it became Michigan State University. Discover how forward-looking legislators, scholars, and administrators found an oak clearing in the midst of some...
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Strange Stories of Alaska and the Yukon
by Ed Ferrell
Synopsis From the Far North come startling accounts of the extraordinary and the unexplained: mammoths frozen whole in a glacier, a tropical valley deep in the Arctic. This is the mysterious side of Alaska that you'll never find in history books....
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Amazing Pipeline Stories: How Building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Transformes Life In...
by Dermot Cole Synopsis In the 1970s the world's largest construction companies invaded Alaska in a wild rush to build the 800-mile, $10 billion trans-Alaska pipeline. The resulting rapid economic and social change touched every Alaskan....
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Moose Droppings & Other Crimes of Nature: Funny Stories from Alaska
by Tom Brennan
Synopsis In these one-liners, practical jokes, and funny stories, Tom Brennan shares hilarious and engaging tales of people, animals, and politicians of the Far North....
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Cheating Death: Amazing Survival Stories from Alaska
by Larry Kaniut
Synopsis Here are true stories of Bush pilots, hikers, hunters, and others who faced death in the Alaska wilderness -- and lived to tell about it....
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Alaska's Sky Follies: The Funny Side of Flying in the Far North
by Joe Rychetnik
Synopsis Joe Rychetnik's laugh-a-line book reveals the not-so-glamorous truth about an earlier era of aviation in Alaska when breaking the rules was the rule....
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The Puritan Experiment (Library of New England)
by Francis J. Bremer Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-247) and index....
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People of Paradox an Inquiry Concerning
by Michael Kammen
Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-316) and index....
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