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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Scribner trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 304 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For four thousand years, the size and vitality of cities, economies, and empires were heavily determined by infection. Striking humanity in waves, the cycle of plagues set the tempo of civilizational growth and decline, since common response to the threat was exclusion--quarantining the sick or keeping them out. But the unprecedented hygiene and medical revolutions of the past two centuries have allowed humanity to free itself from the hold of epidemic...
2) Airplanes
Author
Language
English
Description
The new Boeing Superliner looks much different than the plane the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk. Have you ever wondered how new planes are developed? This "Innovation in Transportation" book, Planes, takes a look at the people and creative ideas that have changed the way we think about flying.
3) GPS
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.) : col. ill., col. map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides information about the GPS navigation system and what it is used for. Details its components and the process of manufacturing it and includes a glossary of terms.
4) Jeans
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Readers will find out more about the history of Jeans worldwide, and how Jeans are made, from the cotton picked from the fields to the processing plant and onto jean and clothing stores worldwide, making Jeans truly a Global Product.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As isolationism and realism become the dominant values of a previously interconnected world, the logic that motivated international relations and global trade must be reevaluated. Zeihan uses a mixture of geographical knowledge, political history, and sharp analysis to predict the shape of the next twenty years on the world stage"--
2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The consequential age we are living in will be remembered as one of the great turning points in civilization. Once we turn, though, where will we be? That is the compelling question Al Gore sets out to answer by examining the drivers of global change, connecting the dots among the social, economic, and political forces shaping our present and future. A rising global consciousness is forcing people around the world, but especially Americans, to rethink...
7) Skateboards
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Pub
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : color illustrations, color map.
Language
English
Description
Skateboards are not just popular in America, they are popular in England, China, and Japan as well. This book will help readers understand how raw materials are made into skateboards in factories from California to China.
8) Colas
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Did you know that popular cola drinks are bottled, produced, and sold in countries all over the world? Readers will be introduced to the history of cola drinks and learn how American cola companies produce their soft drinks and sell them worldwide.
9) Cell Phones
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alexander Graham Bell couldn't possibly have imagined that one day people the world over would be able to call someone on telephone smaller than the palms of their hands. Readers will discover how cell phone technology has emerged as a global phenomenon, connecting people all over the world to one another.
10) MP3 Players
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.) : col. ill., col. map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Walk down the street of just about any city in the world and you will see someone listening to music on an MP3 player. This book will introduce readers to the history behind the development of MP3 Players and take them on a journey to companies around the world where they are manufactured.
Author
Language
English
Description
Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk--the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What are these revolutions, and how can they help us to understand our fraught world? Fareed Zakaria investigates...
12) Cars
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
You may have traveled thousands of miles in your family's car. Did you know that some parts of that car might have traveled halfway around the world before the car ended up in your family's garage? Look inside to find out more about how cars are manufactured by companies in many different countries.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In this exciting new Kurt Austin/NUMA Files novel, an anti-globalization group plans to give the world's industrial nations a jolt by using an artificially triggered "polar shift." But the scheme goes awry when the shift cannot be reversed and the NUMA Special Assignments Team is called into action.
14) Radar Guns
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.) : col. ill., col. map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book takes a product students are interested in, Radar Gun, and provides them with details on how the product is created in the global market place of the 21st century.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"COVID-19 is speeding up history, but how? What is the shape of the world to come? Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps readers to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic consequences that may take years to unfold. Written in the form...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Friedman discusses how the key to understanding the 21st century is understanding that the planet's three largest forces -- Moore's law (technology), the market (globalization) and Mother Nature (climate change and biodiversity loss) -- are accelerating all at once. And these accelerations are transforming the five key realms: the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics, and community. Friedman posits that we should purposely "be late" -- we should...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes how the chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture fought for his more than seven hundred employees in a small Virginia town using legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and his wits and determination in the wake of sales losses to cheap Asian furniture imports.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this book the author, a New York Times columnist advances the work on globalization published in his book The Lexus and the Olive Tree. Claiming that the world is now at an important historical point, as important as the changes brought by the discoveries by Columbus or by the Industrial Revolution, he analyzes the events, inventions, and business practices that have resulted in a changed world, one he calls Globalization 3.0. In this new edition...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Today, Hirsi Ali argues, the world's 1.6 billion Muslims can be divided into a minority of extremists, a majority of observant but peaceable Muslims, and a few dissidents who risk their lives by questioning their own religion. But there is only one Islam, and as Hirsi Ali shows, there is no denying that some of its key teachings--not least the duty to wage holy war--inspire violence not just in the Muslim world but in the West as well. For centuries...
Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
910L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (64 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map.
Language
English
Description
Why did colonists dump tea into the Boston harbor? Why did the British government cling to the 13 colonies with such force? Why did the French and Spanish lend a helping hand to the colonies? From local rebellions to full-scale battles, The Revolutionary War: Why They Fought reveals the motivations behind the Revolutionary War from all sides. Go beyond names and dates and ask: what were they fighting for?