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Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (273 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Everything looks better through beer goggles. Even history. So strap on a buzz and watch as a third season of big name celebrities, including Will Ferrell, Michael Cera, Ellie Kemper & Maya Rudolph, reenact wild American tales as told by trashed comedians.
6) Alice Adams
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Social climber Alice tries to push her clodhopper family to the background and assumes airs to win the love of an amiable, wealthy young man.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks ahead to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper. In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, will be home to four hundred million Americans by 2050. This projected rise in population is the strongest indicator...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Strong Towns is a book of forward thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you'll learn why inducing growth and development has...
Publisher
Comedy Central
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (398 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Historical reenactments from A-list talent as told by inebriated storytellers. Based on the award-winning and wildly popular web series, this follows the drunken and often incoherent narration of historical moments. Viewers explore rich culture and history on a tour of cities across America, with a twist of lime.
Author
Series
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
p2000
Physical Desc
2 CDs (2 hr., 20 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Hardly anyone ever leaves Des Moines, Iowa. But Bill Bryson did, and after ten years in England he decided to go home--to a foreign country. In an aging Chevrolet Chevette, he drove nearly 14,000 miles through thirty-eight states to compile this hilarious and perceptive state-of-the-nation report on small-town America."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
343 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Three of the nation's top scholars, known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America, turn their attention from the country's poorest people to its poorest places. Based on a fresh, data-driven approach, they discover that America's most disadvantaged communities are not the big cities that get the most notice. Instead, nearly all are rural. Little if any attention has been paid to these places or to the people who make their lives there....
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It offers three whirlwind tours of America's architectural treasures: the ten homes, ten parks, and ten towns that changed our country. Explore American houses through the ages, enjoy a lively history of landscape architecture and our most beloved parks, and discover the story of how we have planned our cities over time.
In an episode called 10 Homes that Changed America, we explore American housing through the ages; including a 600 year old Native...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
[296 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm]
Description
During the roaring twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country's poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a shining paradise of small farms, giant factories, and sparkling laboratories. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's "Detroit of the South" would be ten times the size of Manhattan, powered by renewable energy, and free of air pollution. And it would reshape American...
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
300 pages
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Description
"For most of America's history, rural people and culture have been casually mocked, stereotyped, and, in general, deeply misunderstood. Now an array of short stories, poetry, graphic short stories, and personal essays, along with anecdotes from the authors' real lives, dives deep into the complexity and diversity of rural America and the people who call it home. Fifteen extraordinary authors--diverse in ethnic background, sexual orientation, geographic...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Formats
Description
"[The author] takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched...
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