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- ProQuest statistical abstract of the United States 2025 / by ProQuest (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)291866;
- Preface -- New and deleted tables -- Guide to tabular presentation -- Section 1: Population -- Estimates and projections by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin -- States, metropolitan areas, cities -- Mobility status -- Profiles of elderly, racial, and Hispanic-origin populations -- Native and foreign-born populations -- Immigration -- Ancestry, languages -- Marital status and households -- Religion -- Section 2: Births, deaths, marriages, and divorces -- Births -- Sexuality and family planning -- Life expectancy -- Deaths -- Marriages and divorces -- Section 3: Health and nutrition -- National health expenditure accounts -- Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP -- Health insurance -- Healthcare industry revenue and employment -- Hospitals and healthcare utilization -- Health measures -- Health measures, children -- Food consumption, nutrition -- Section 4: Education -- Overview, all levels of education -- School readiness -- Primary and secondary schools -- Higher education -- Libraries -- School crime and safety -- Section 5: Law enforcement, courts, and prisons -- Crmes and crime rates -- Law enforcement and arrests -- Courts -- Juveniles, child abuse -- Prisoners and inmates -- Fire departments and property losses -- Section 6: Geography and environment -- Land and water -- Air quality -- Municipal hazardous waste -- Weather -- Conservation -- Section 7: Elections -- Voter registration and vote results -- Elected officials -- Campaign finances -- Section 8: State and local goverment finances and employment -- Governmental units -- Aid to state and local governments -- State and local governments -- State government finances -- Local government finances -- Employment and payroll -- Section 9: Federal government finances and employment -- Budget receipts, outlays, debt -- Income taxes -- Federal employment, payroll, and facilities -- Section 10: National security and veterans affairs -- National defense outlays, expenditures, personnel -- Military manpower -- Military sales and assistance -- Veterans -- Homeland security -- Section 11: Social insurance and human services -- Government transfer payments -- Social security, retirement funds, and other income assistance -- Federal food programs and family assistance -- Child care, child support -- Social services providers -- Section 12: Labor force, employment, and earnings -- Labor force status, Occupations and employment projections -- Unemployment -- Establishments -- Compensation and hours worked -- Benefits -- Injuries -- Union membership -- Section 13: Income, expenditures, poverty, and wealth -- Gross domestic product -- Personal and household income -- Consumer expenditures -- Money income -- Poverty status -- Wealth -- Section 14: Prices -- Consumer price index -- Cost of living index -- Producer price index -- Section 15: Business enterprise -- Sole proprietors, partnerships, corporations -- Establishments, employees, payroll -- Firms, births, deaths, expansions, and contractions -- Women- and minority-owned businesses -- Bankruptcy, patents -- Investment, capital expenditures -- Economic indicators -- Corporate profits -- Multinationals -- Section 16: Science and technology -- Research and development funds, outlays -- Science and engineering degrees -- Science and engineering employment -- Space program -- Section 17: Agriculture -- Farms and farmland -- Farm balance sheet, income -- Agricultural exports and imports -- Crops, livestock -- Section 18: Forestry, fishing, and mining -- Natural resource-related industries -- Timber, lumber -- Fishery -- Mining, minerals, and energy resources -- Section 19: Energy and utilities -- Energy production, consumptionn -- Energy expenditrues and trade -- Crude oil -- Nuclear -- Renewable energy -- Electric power -- Gas and other utilities -- Section 20: Construction and housing -- Construction industry indicators -- Home sales and prices -- Housing supply -- Housing occupancy and tenure -- Home financing and improvements -- Nonresidential construction -- Section 21: Manufactures -- Manufacturing summary -- Hours and earnings of production workers -- Shipments, inventories, new orders, and finances -- Industry reports by subject and subsector -- Section 22: Wholesale and retail trade -- Wholesale trade -- Retail trade -- Section 23: Transportation -- Transportation system -- Air transportation -- Water transportation and port traffic -- Highways -- Motor vehicle registrations and fuel consumption -- Motor vehicle accidents -- Urban transit and commuting -- Trucks, railroads, and pipelines -- Postal service -- Section 24: Information and Communications -- Information industries -- Publishing, newspapers, books, and online -- Recording media and broadcasting -- Telecommunications -- Internet access and use -- Libraries -- Section 25: Banking, Finance, and Insurance -- Establishment, receipts -- Flow of funds, financial assets, and liabilities -- Financial institutions -- Payment instruments, credit and debit cards -- Consumer credit, mortgage debt -- Money stock, interest rates -- Stocks and bonds, equity ownership, mutual funds -- Insurance and real estate -- Section 26: Arts, recreation, and travel -- Employees, establishments, and payroll -- Performing arts -- Leisure activities -- Sports -- Parks and wildlife activities -- Travel -- Section 27: Accommodation, food services, and other services -- Section 28: Foreign commerce and aid -- International transactions -- Foreign investments -- Foreign grants and credits -- Exports and imports -- Section 29: Peurto Rico and the island areas -- Section 30: International statistics -- World population, vital statistics -- Economic measures -- Labor force -- Agriculture -- Energy and environment -- Technology -- Finance -- Security and terrorism -- Appendix 1: Guide to sources of statistics, state statistical abstracts, and foreign statistical abstracts -- Appendix II: Metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas: concepts, components, and population -- Appendix III: Limitations of the data -- Appendix IV: Weights and Measures -- Index.The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the best known statistical reference. As a comprehensive collection of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the country, it is a snapshot of America and its people. It includes over 1,400 tables from hundreds of sources.
- Subjects: Census data.; Statistics.; Statistics.; Demography;
- ProQuest statistical abstract of the United States 2024 / by ProQuest (Firm)(CARDINAL)291866;
- Preface -- New and deleted tables -- Guide to tabular presentation -- Section 1: Population -- Estimates and projections by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin -- States, metropolitan areas, cities -- Mobility status -- Profiles of elderly, racial, and Hispanic-origin populations -- Native and foreign-born populations -- Immigration -- Ancestry, languages -- Marital status and households -- Religion -- Section 2: Births, deaths, marriages, and divorces -- Births -- Sexuality and family planning -- Life expectancy -- Deaths -- Marriages and divorces -- Section 3: Health and nutrition -- National health expenditure accounts -- Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP -- Health insurance -- Healthcare industry revenue and employment -- Hospitals and healthcare utilization -- Health measures -- Health measures, children -- Food consumption, nutrition -- Section 4: Education -- Overview, all levels of education -- School readiness -- Primary and secondary schools -- Higher education -- Libraries -- School crime and safety -- Section 5: Law enforcement, courts, and prisons -- Crmes and crime rates -- Law enforcement and arrests -- Courts -- Juveniles, child abuse -- Prisoners and inmates -- Fire departments and property losses -- Section 6: Geography and environment -- Land and water -- Air quality -- Municipal hazardous waste -- Weather -- Conservation -- Section 7: Elections -- Voter registration and vote results -- Elected officials -- Campaign finances -- Section 8: State and local goverment finances and employment -- Governmental units -- Aid to state and local governments -- State and local governments -- State government finances -- Local government finances -- Employment and payroll -- Section 9: Federal government finances and employment -- Budget receipts, outlays, debt -- Income taxes -- Federal employment, payroll, and facilities -- Section 10: National security and veterans affairs -- National defense outlays, expenditures, personnel -- Military manpower -- Military sales and assistance -- Veterans -- Homeland security -- Section 11: Social insurance and human services -- Government transfer payments -- Social security, retirement funds, and other income assistance -- Federal food programs and family assistance -- Child care, child support -- Social services providers -- Section 12: Labor force, employment, and earnings -- Labor force status, Occupations and employment projections -- Unemployment -- Establishments -- Compensation and hours worked -- Benefits -- Injuries -- Union membership -- Section 13: Income, expenditures, poverty, and wealth -- Gross domestic product -- Personal and household income -- Consumer expenditures -- Money income -- Poverty status -- Wealth -- Section 14: Prices -- Consumer price index -- Cost of living index -- Producer price index -- Section 15: Business enterprise -- Sole proprietors, partnerships, corporations -- Establishments, employees, payroll -- Firms, births, deaths, expansions, and contractions -- Women- and minority-owned businesses -- Bankruptcy, patents -- Investment, capital expenditures -- Economic indicators -- Corporate profits -- Multinationals -- Section 16: Science and technology -- Research and development funds, outlays -- Science and engineering degrees -- Science and engineering employment -- Space program -- Section 17: Agriculture -- Farms and farmland -- Farm balance sheet, income -- Agricultural exports and imports -- Crops, livestock -- Section 18: Forestry, fishing, and mining -- Natural resource-related industries -- Timber, lumber -- Fishery -- Mining, minerals, and energy resources -- Section 19: Energy and utilities -- Energy production, consumptionn -- Energy expenditrues and trade -- Crude oil -- Nuclear -- Renewable energy -- Electric power -- Gas and other utilities -- Section 20: Construction and housing -- Construction industry indicators -- Home sales and prices -- Housing supply -- Housing occupancy and tenure -- Home financing and improvements -- Nonresidential construction -- Section 21: Manufactures -- Manufacturing summary -- Hours and earnings of production workers -- Shipments, inventories, new orders, and finances -- Industry reports by subject and subsector -- Section 22: Wholesale and retail trade -- Wholesale trade -- Retail trade -- Section 23: Transportation -- Transportation system -- Air transportation -- Water transportation and port traffic -- Highways -- Motor vehicle registrations and fuel consumption -- Motor vehicle accidents -- Urban transit and commuting -- Trucks, railroads, and pipelines -- Postal service -- Section 24: Information and Communications -- Information industries -- Publishing, newspapers, books, and online -- Recording media and broadcasting -- Telecommunications -- Internet access and use -- Libraries -- Section 25: Banking, Finance, and Insurance -- Establishment, receipts -- Flow of funds, financial assets, and liabilities -- Financial institutions -- Payment instruments, credit and debit cards -- Consumer credit, mortgage debt -- Money stock, interest rates -- Stocks and bonds, equity ownership, mutual funds -- Insurance and real estate -- Section 26: Arts, recreation, and travel -- Employees, establishments, and payroll -- Performing arts -- Leisure activities -- Sports -- Parks and wildlife activities -- Travel -- Section 27: Accommodation, food services, and other services -- Section 28: Foreign commerce and aid -- International transactions -- Foreign investments -- Foreign grants and credits -- Exports and imports -- Section 29: Peurto Rico and the island areas -- Section 30: International statistics -- World population, vital statistics -- Economic measures -- Labor force -- Agriculture -- Energy and environment -- Technology -- Finance -- Security and terrorism -- Appendix 1: Guide to sources of statistics, state statistical abstracts, and foreign statistical abstracts -- Appendix II: Metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas: concepts, components, and population -- Appendix III: Limitations of the data -- Appendix IV: Weights and Measures -- Index.The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the best known statistical reference. As a comprehensive collection of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the country, it is a snapshot of America and its people. It includes over 1,400 tables from hundreds of sources.
- Subjects: Statistics.; Census data.; Statistics.; Demography;
- ProQuest statistical abstract of the United States 2021. by ProQuest (Firm)(CARDINAL)291866; United States.Bureau of the Census.(CARDINAL)171405; United States.Economics and Statistics Administration.(CARDINAL)275203;
- Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- New and deleted tables -- Guide to tabular presentation -- Section 1: Population -- Estimates and projections by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin -- States, metropolitan areas, cities -- Mobility status -- Profiles of elderly, racial, and Hispanic-origin populations -- Native and foreign-born populations -- Immigration -- Ancestry, languages -- Marital status and households -- Religion -- Section 2: Births, deaths, marriages, and divorces -- Births -- Sexuality and family planning -- Life expectancy -- Deaths -- Marriages and divorces -- Section 3: Health and nutrition -- National health expenditure accounts -- Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP -- Health insurance -- Healthcare industry revenue and employment -- Hospitals and healthcare utilization -- Health measures -- Health measures, children -- Food consumption, nutrition -- Section 4: Education -- Overview, all levels of education -- School readiness -- Primary and secondary schools -- Higher education -- Libraries -- School crime and safety -- Section 5: Law enforcement, courts, and prisons -- Crimes and crime rates -- Law enforcement and arrests -- Courts -- Juveniles, child abuse -- Prisoners and inmates -- Fire departments and property losses -- Section 6: Geography and environment -- Land and water -- Air quality -- Municipal hazardous waste -- Weather -- Conservation -- Section 7: Elections -- Voter registration and vote results -- Elected officials -- Campaign finances -- Section 8: State and local government finances and employment -- Governmental units -- Aid to state and local governments -- State and local governments -- State government finances -- Local government finances -- Employment and payroll -- Section 9: Federal government finances and employment -- Budget receipts, outlays, debt -- Income taxes -- Federal employment, payroll, and facilities -- Section 10: National security and veterans affairs -- National defense outlays, expenditures, personnel -- Military manpower -- Military sales and assistance -- Veterans -- Homeland security -- Section 11: Social insurance and human services -- Government transfer payments -- Social security, retirement funds, and other income assistance -- Federal food programs and family assistance -- Child care, child support -- Social services providers -- Section 12: Labor force, employment, and earnings -- Labor force status, Occupations and employment projections -- Unemployment -- Establishments -- Compensation and hours worked -- Benefits -- Injuries -- Union membership -- Section 13: Income, expenditures, poverty, and wealth -- Gross domestic product -- Personal and household income -- Consumer expenditures -- Money income -- Poverty status -- Wealth -- Section 14: Prices -- Consumer price index -- Cost of living index -- Producer price index -- Section 15: Business enterprise -- Sole proprietors, partnerships, corporations -- Establishments, employees, payroll -- Firms, births, deaths, expansions, and contractions -- Women- and minority-owned businesses -- Bankruptcy, patents -- Investment, capital expenditures -- Economic indicators -- Corporate profits -- Multinationals -- Section 16: Science and technology -- Research and development funds, outlays -- Science and engineering degrees -- Science and engineering employment -- Space program -- Section 17: Agriculture -- Farms and farmland -- Farm balance sheet, income -- Agricultural exports and imports -- Crops, livestock -- Section 18: Forestry, fishing, and mining -- Natural resource-related industries -- Timber, lumber -- Fisheries -- Mining, minerals, and energy resources -- Section 19: Energy and utilities -- Energy production, consumption -- Energy expenditures and trade -- Crude oil -- Nuclear -- Renewable energy -- Electric power -- Gas and other utilities -- Section 20: Construction and housing -- Construction industry indicators -- Home sales and prices -- Housing supply -- Housing occupancy and tenure -- Home improvements -- Nonresidential construction -- Section 21: Manufactures -- Manufacturing summary -- Hours and earnings of production workers -- Shipments, inventories, new orders, and finances -- Industry reports by subject and subsector -- Section 22: Wholesale and retail trade -- Wholesale trade -- Retail trade -- Section 23: Transportation -- Transportation system -- Air transportation -- Water transportation and port traffic -- Highways -- Motor vehicle registrations and fuel consumption -- Motor vehicle accidents -- Urban transit and commuting -- Trucks, railroads, and pipelines -- Postal service -- Section 24: Information and Communications -- Information industries -- Publishing, newspapers, books, and online -- Recording media and broadcasting -- Telecommunications -- Internet access and use -- Libraries -- Section 25: Banking, Finance, and Insurance -- Establishment, receipts -- Flow of funds, financial assets, and liabilities -- Financial institutions -- Payment instruments, credit and debit cards -- Consumer credit, mortgage debt -- Money stock, interest rates -- Stocks and bonds, equity ownership, mutual funds -- Insurance and real estate -- Section 26: Arts, recreation, and travel -- Employees, establishments, and payroll -- Performing arts -- Leisure activities -- Sports -- Parks and wildlife activities -- Travel -- Section 27: Accommodation, food services, and other services -- Section 28: Foreign commerce and aid -- International transactions -- Foreign investments -- Foreign grants and credits -- Exports and imports -- Section 29: Puerto Rico and the island areas -- Section 30: International statistics -- World population, vital statistics -- Economic measures -- Labor force -- Agriculture -- Energy and environment -- Technology -- Finance -- Security and terrorism -- Appendix 1: Guide to sources of statistics, state statistical abstracts, and foreign statistical abstracts -- Appendix II: Metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas: concepts, components, and population -- Appendix III: Limitations of the data -- Appendix IV: Weights and Measures.The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the best-known statistical reference in the country. As a comprehensive collection of statistics of the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States, it is a snapshot of America and its people.
- Subjects: Census data.; Statistics.; Statistics; Demography;
- Empire of AI : dreams and nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI / by Hao, Karen,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-467) and index.Prologue: A run for the throne -- part I. Divine right -- A civilizing mission -- Nerve center -- Dreams of modernity -- Scale of ambition -- part II. Ascension -- Science in captivity -- Dawn of commerce -- Disaster capitalism -- part III. Gods and demons -- Apex -- Plundered Earth -- The two prophets -- Deliverance -- part IV. The gambit -- Cloak-and-dagger -- Reckoning -- A formula for empire -- Epilogue: How the empire falls."When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, the organization was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely mercantile, and potentially dangerous, forces. What could go wrong? Over time, Hao began to wrestle ever more deeply with that question. Increasingly, she realized that the core truth of this massively disruptive sector is that its vision of success requires an almost unprecedented amount of resources: the "compute" power of high-end chips and the processing capacity to create massive large language models, the sheer volume of data that needs to be amassed at scale, the humans "cleaning up" that data for sweatshop wages throughout the Global South, and a truly alarming spike in the usage of energy and water underlying it all. The truth is that we have entered a new and ominous age of empire: only a small handful of globally scaled companies can even enter the field of play. At the head of the pack with its ChatGPT breakthrough, how would OpenAI resist such temptations? Spoiler alert: it didn't. Armed with Microsoft's billions, OpenAI is setting a breakneck pace, chased by a small group of the most valuable companies in human history--toward what end, not even they can define. All this time, Hao has maintained her deep sourcing within the company and the industry, and so she was in intimate contact with the story that shocked the entire tech industry--Altman's sudden firing and triumphant return. The behind-the-scenes story of what happened, told here in full for the first time, is revelatory of who the people controlling this technology really are. But this isn't just the story of a single company, however fascinating it is. The g forces pressing down on the people of OpenAI are deforming the judgment of everyone else too--as such forces do. Naked power finds the ideology to cloak itself; no one thinks they're the bad guy. But in the meantime, as Hao shows through intrepid reporting on the ground around the world, the enormous wheels of extraction grind on. By drawing on the viewpoints of Silicon Valley engineers, Kenyan data laborers, and Chilean water activists, Hao presents the fullest picture of AI and its impact we've seen to date, alongside a trenchant analysis of where things are headed. An astonishing eyewitness view from both up in the command capsule of the new economy and down where the real suffering happens, Empire of AI pierces the veil of the industry defining our era." -- Provided by publisher.
- Subjects: Case studies.; Altman, Sam, 1985-; OpenAI (Firm); Artificial intelligence.; Artificial intelligence; Artificial intelligence;
- Seed money : Monsanto's past and our food future / by Elmore, Bartow J.,author.(CARDINAL)407924;
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-374) and index."A deeply researched and eye-opening history that shows how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system. This is the definitive history of Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world's largest genetically engineered seed enterprise. Monsanto merged with German pharma-biotech giant Bayer in 2018, but its Roundup Ready seeds, introduced twenty-five years ago, are still reshaping the farms that feed us. Incorporating global fieldwork, interviews with company employees, and untapped corporate and government records, award-winning historian Bartow J. Elmore traces Monsanto's astounding evolution from a scrappy chemical startup to a global agrobusiness powerhouse. Capitalizing on deals with customers like Coca-Cola, General Electric, and especially the US government, Monsanto used seed money derived from toxic products-including PCBs and Agent Orange-to build an agricultural empire, promising endless bounty through its genetically engineered technology. As new data emerges about its blockbuster Roundup system, and as Bayer faces a tide of lawsuits over Monsanto products past and present, Elmore's urgent history takes a penetrating look at the company's past"--
- Subjects: Monsanto Company.; Agricultural chemicals industry; Agriculture; Plant biotechnology industry; Seed industry and trade; Transgenic plants;
- ProQuest statistical abstract of the United States 2016 / by ProQuest (Firm)(CARDINAL)291866; United States.Bureau of the Census.(CARDINAL)171405; United States.Economics and Statistics Administration.(CARDINAL)275203;
- Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- New and deleted tables -- Guide to tabular presentation -- Section 1: Population: -- Estimates and projection by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin -- States, metropolitan areas, cities -- Mobility status -- Profiles of elderly, racial, and Hispanic-origin populations -- Native and foreign-born populations -- Immigration -- Ancestry, languages -- Marital status and households -- Religion -- Section 2: Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Divorces: -- Births -- Sexuality and family planning -- Life expectancy -- Deaths -- Marriages and divorces -- Section 3: Health And Nutrition: -- National health expenditure accounts -- Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP -- Health insurance -- Healthcare industry revenue and employment -- Hospitals and healthcare utilization -- Health measures -- Food consumption, nutrition -- Section 4: Education: -- Overview: All levels of education -- School readiness -- Primary and secondary schools -- Higher education -- School crime and safety -- Libraries -- Section 5: Law Enforcement, Courts, And Prisons: -- Crimes and crime rates -- Law enforcement and arrests -- Courts -- Juveniles, child abuse -- Prisoners and inmates -- Fire departments and property losses -- Section 6: Geography And Environment: -- Land and water -- Air quality -- Municipal hazardous waste -- Weather -- Conservation -- Section 7: Elections: -- Voter registration and vote results -- Campaign finances -- Section 8: State And Local Government Finances And Employment: -- Governmental units -- Aid to state and local governments -- State and local governments -- Local government finances -- Employment and payroll -- Section 9: Federal Government Finances And Employment: -- Budget receipts, outlays, debt -- Income taxes -- Federal employment, payroll, and facilities -- Section 10: National Security And Veterans Affairs: -- National defense outlays, expenditures, personnel -- Military manpower --Military sales and assistance -- Veterans -- Homeland security -- Section 11: Social Insurance And Human Services: -- Government transfer payments -- Social security, retirement funds, and other income assistance -- Federal food programs and family assistance -- Child care, child support -- Social services providers -- Section 12: Labor Force, Employment, And Earnings: -- Labor force status -- Occupations and employment projections -- Unemployment -- Establishments -- Compensation and hours worked -- Benefits -- Injuries -- Union membership -- Section 13: Income, Expenditures, Poverty, And Wealth: -- Gross domestic product -- Personal and household income -- Consumer expenditures -- Money income -- Poverty status -- Wealth -- Section 14: Prices: -- Consumer price index -- Cost of living index -- Producer price index -- Section 15: Business Enterprise: -- Sole proprietors, partnerships, corporations -- Establishments, employees, payroll -- Firms, births, deaths, expansions and contractions -- Women- and minority-owned businesses -- Bankruptcy, patents -- Investment, capital expenditures -- Economic indicators -- Corporate profits -- Multinationals -- Section 16: Science And Technology: -- Research and development funds, outlays -- Science and engineering degrees -- Science and engineering employment -- Space program -- Section 17: Agriculture: -- Farms and farmland -- Farm balance sheet, income -- Agricultural exports and imports -- Crops, livestock -- Section 18: Forestry, Fishing, And Mining: -- Natural resource-related industries -- Timber, lumber -- Fishery -- Mining, minerals, and energy resources -- Section 19: Energy And Utilities: -- Energy production, consumption -- Energy expenditures and trade -- Crude oil -- Nuclear -- Renewable energy -- Electric power -- Gas and other utilities -- Section 20: Construction And Housing: -- Construction industry indicators -- Home sales and prices -- Housing supply -- Housing occupancy and tenure -- Home improvements -- Nonresidential construction -- Section 21: Manufactures: -- Manufacturing summary -- Hours and earnings of production workers -- Shipments, inventories, new orders, and finances -- Industry reports by subject and subsector -- Section 22: Wholesale And Retail Trade: -- Wholesale trade -- Retail trade -- Section 23: Transportation: -- Transportation system -- Air transportation -- Water transportation and port traffic -- Highways -- Motor vehicle registrations and fuel consumption -- Motor vehicle accidents -- Urban transit and commuting -- Trucks, railroads, and pipelines -- Postal service -- Section 24: Information industries -- Publishing: newspapers, books and online -- Recording media and broadcasting -- Telecommunications -- Internet access and use -- Libraries -- Section 25: Banking, Finance, And Insurance: -- Establishments, receipts -- Flow of funds, financial assets, and liabilities -- Financial institutions -- Payment instruments, credit and debit cards -- Consumer credit, mortgage debt -- Money stock, interest rates -- Stocks and bonds, equity ownership, mutual funds -- Insurance and real estate -- Section 26: Arts, Recreation, And Travel: -- Employees, establishments, and payroll -- Performing arts -- Leisure activities -- Sports -- Parks and wildlife activities -- Travel -- Section 27: Accommodation, Food Services, And Other Services: -- Section 28: Foreign Commerce And Aid: -- International transactions -- Foreign investments -- Foreign grants and credits -- Exports and imports -- Section 29: Puerto Rico And The Island Areas: -- Section 30: International Statistics: -- World population, vital statistics -- Economic measures -- Labor force -- Agriculture -- Energy and environment -- Technology -- Finance -- Appendix 1: Guide to sources of statistics, state statistical abstracts, and foreign statistical abstracts -- Appendix 2: Metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas: concepts, components, and population -- Appendix 3: Limitations of the data -- Appendix 4: Weights and measures -- Index."Since 1878, this publication has provided a statistical portrait of social, political, and economic conditions of the United States" and includes thousands of tables from hundreds of sources and valuable, detailed bibliographic documentation.
- Subjects: Statistics.; Census data.; Statistics;
- Atlas of the world / by National Geographic Maps (Firm)(CARDINAL)318973;
- World -- Natural world -- Human world -- North America -- South America -- Europe -- Asia -- Africa -- Australia and Oceania -- The poles -- Oceans -- Cities -- Space -- Nations.Combining state-of-the-art cartographic technology and information with dynamic and diverse physiographic and cultural content, the Eighth Edition is National Geographic's most accurate and interesting record of the world yet. The opening section, Ninety Years of Mapping at National Geographic, traces the founding of Geographic cartography to the present advances in technology and the practice of compiling and organizing geographic information. The atlas truly begins with three stunning new, full-spread world maps, that drape Earth's surface seamlessly with satellite imagery, then physical and natural features, and finally today's political world of countries and growing cities. World thematic topics are organized into two groups: the Physical and Natural World and Human Activities. The Physical and Natural World section includes captivating core topics such as the evolution of earth, geology and tectonics, climate and weather, oceans, world water, the biosphere, and biodiversity. Human Activities covers 11 world themes: population, migration and refugees, conflict and terrorism, cultures, economy, energy and minerals, communications, food, health and education, the environment, and ending with wildlands. All of these intriguing spreads reflect the most authoritative and recent data available and are reviewed by preeminent scholars and experts. Lined up after the world thematic focus is the continental division. All seven continents open with views from space and are then represented with separate physical and political maps. Larger scale regions of each continent are presented for higher definition and detail. Because of our primary readership, additional coverage is given to the United States and Canada. An entirely new component to the Eighth Edition is the city section. Maps and text discussing urban explosion will open this compilation of sixty new maps. Pictures, fact boxes, and text will accompany each city map to create colorful and informative portraits of our built environment. Selected cites such as, New York, Mexico City-the most densely populated city in the world, and Paris will receive more detailed scaling. Less familiar and remote areas of the world and beyond-the poles, the ocean floors, and space-are mapped with new data and findings and dramatic effects. The addition of a new spread and map devoted to Mars will provide a timely reference to the expected news coverage of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission-Spirit and Opportunity. Flags and facts of every country in the world have been newly designed and consolidated into one section, listed in alphabetical order. Locater maps and cross referencing to corresponding large-scale map plates are provided for every entity. Text for each independent country summarizes physical and cultural aspects, while facts reveal the status of population, religion, area, capital, language, literacy, life expectancy, GDP, and economy. A user-friendly, 136 page, comprehensive place-name index cross-references over 130,000 geographical sites and areas. An appendix presents valuable, convenient reference to time zones, metric conversions, foreign terms, abbreviations, airline distances, and temperature and rainfall statistics from all corners of the globe. Navigating throughout the atlas is made easy with enhanced cross-referencing, pointers, labels and an end sheet that includes a visual key with corresponding plate numbers to all the maps. Every map spread in the atlas will include interactive features and access to up-to-the-minute updates and information via the electronic National Geographic Map Machine. Streams of information are available to us on myriad topics and on many fronts. At the same time, there is a need-greater than ever-to better understand our global culture. The Eighth Edition helps bridge the gap with a collection of maps and information that is as engaging as it is informative.
- Subjects: Atlases.; World atlases.;
- ProQuest statistical abstract of the United States, 2023 / by ProQuest (Firm)(CARDINAL)291866;
- The Statistical Absract of the United States has provided a statistical portrait of the social, poliitical, demographic, and economic conditions of America since 1878.Preface -- New and deleted tables -- Guide to tabular presentation -- Section 1: Population -- Estimates and projections by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin -- States, metropolitan areas, cities -- Mobility status -- Profiles of elderly, racial, and Hispanic-origin populations -- Native and foreign-born populations -- Immigration -- Ancestry, languages -- Marital status and households -- Religion -- Section 2: Births, deaths, marriages, and divorces -- Births -- Sexuality and family planning -- Life expectancy -- Deaths -- Marriages and divorces -- Section 3: Health and nutrition -- National health expenditure accounts -- Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP -- Health insurance -- Healthcare industry revenue and employment -- Hospitals and healthcare utilization -- Health measures -- Health measures, children -- Food consumption, nutrition -- Section 4: Education -- Overview, all levels of education -- School readiness -- Primary and secondary schools -- Higher education -- Libraries -- School crime and safety -- Section 5: Law enforcement, courts, and prisons -- Crmes and crime rates -- Law enforcement and arrests -- Courts -- Juveniles, child abuse -- Prisoners and inmates -- Fire departments and property losses -- Section 6: Geography and environment -- Land and water -- Air quality -- Municipal hazardous waste -- Weather -- Conservation -- Section 7: Elections -- Voter registration and vote results -- Elected officials -- Campaign finances -- Section 8: State and local goverment finances and employment -- Governmental units -- Aid to state and local governments -- State and local governments -- State government finances -- Local government finances -- Employment and payroll -- Section 9: Federal government finances and employment -- Budget receipts, outlays, debt -- Income taxes -- Federal employment, payroll, and facilities -- Section 10: National security and veterans affairs -- National defense outlays, expenditures, personnel -- Military manpower -- Military sales and assistance -- Veterans -- Homeland security -- Section 11: Social insurance and human services -- Government transfer payments -- Social security, retirement funds, and other income assistance -- Federal food programs and family assistance -- Child care, child support -- Social services providers -- Section 12: Labor force, employment, and earnings -- Labor force status, Occupations and employment projections -- Unemployment -- Establishments -- Compensation and hours worked -- Benefits -- Injuries -- Union membership -- Section 13: Income, expenditures, poverty, and wealth -- Gross domestic product -- Personal and household income -- Consumer expenditures -- Money income -- Poverty status -- Wealth -- Section 14: Prices -- Consumer price index -- Cost of living index -- Producer price index -- Section 15: Business enterprise -- Sole proprietors, partnerships, corporations -- Establishments, employees, payroll -- Firms, births, deaths, expansions, and contractions -- Women- and minority-owned businesses -- Bankruptcy, patents -- Investment, capital expenditures -- Economic indicators -- Corporate profits -- Multinationals -- Section 16: Science and technology -- Research and development funds, outlays -- Science and engineering degrees -- Science and engineering employment -- Space program -- Section 17: Agriculture -- Farms and farmland -- Farm balance sheet, income -- Agricultural exports and imports -- Crops, livestock -- Section 18: Forestry, fishing, and mining -- Natural resource-related industries -- Timber, lumber -- Fishery -- Mining, minerals, and energy resources -- Section 19: Energy and utilities -- Energy production, consumptionn -- Energy expenditrues and trade -- Crude oil -- Nuclear -- Renewable energy -- Electric power -- Gas and other utilities -- Section 20: Construction and housing -- Construction industry indicators -- Home sales and prices -- Housing supply -- Housing occupancy and tenure -- Home financing and improvements -- Nonresidential construction -- Section 21: Manufactures -- Manufacturing summary -- Hours and earnings of production workers -- Shipments, inventories, new orders, and finances -- Industry reports by subject and subsector -- Section 22: Wholesale and retail trade -- Wholesale trade -- Retail trade -- Section 23: Transportation -- Transportation system -- Air transportation -- Water transportation and port traffic -- Highways -- Motor vehicle registrations and fuel consumption -- Motor vehicle accidents -- Urban transit and commuting -- Trucks, railroads, and pipelines -- Postal service -- Section 24: Information and Communications -- Information industries -- Publishing, newspapers, books, and online -- Recording media and broadcasting -- Telecommunications -- Internet access and use -- Libraries -- Section 25: Banking, Finance, and Insurance -- Establishment, receipts -- Flow of funds, financial assets, and liabilities -- Financial institutions -- Payment instruments, credit and debit cards -- Consumer credit, mortgage debt -- Money stock, interest rates -- Stocks and bonds, equity ownership, mutual funds -- Insurance and real estate -- Section 26: Arts, recreation, and travel -- Employees, establishments, and payroll -- Performing arts -- Leisure activities -- Sports -- Parks and wildlife activities -- Travel -- Section 27: Accommodation, food services, and other services -- Section 28: Foreign commerce and aid -- International transactions -- Foreign investments -- Foreign grants and credits -- Exports and imports -- Section 29: Peurto Rico and the island areas -- Section 30: International statistics -- World population, vital statistics -- Economic measures -- Labor force -- Agriculture -- Energy and environment -- Technology -- Finance -- Security and terrorism -- Appendix 1: Guide to sources of statistics, state statistical abstracts, and foreign statistical abstracts -- Appendix II: Metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas: concepts, components, and population -- Appendix III: Limitations of the data -- Appendix IV: Weights and Measures -- Index.
- Subjects: Statistics.;
- Résumé magic : trade secrets of a professional résumé writer / by Whitcomb, Susan Britton,1957-(CARDINAL)654339;
- 1. A résumé primer -- Tools for the task -- The résumé tool : asset or liability? -- Employers and candidates usually view résumés as having different purposes -- A résumé is most effective when it follows face-to-face or voice contact with a hiring manager -- A support person or computer program will probably be the one to screen your résumé -- Résumés are not read thoroughly -- You won't always need a résumé to land a job -- Then why write a résumé? -- And why this book? -- Some success stories -- Your most important tool -- Top 10 tips to create résumé magic --10. Cover letters and other parts of the puzzle -- Strategy and style -- The value mantra -- Sell, don't tell -- Reveal a secret -- The segments of a cover letter -- The carrot -- The corroboration -- The close -- The anatomy of the cover letter -- Sticky wickets -- To whom it may concern? -- Missed a filing deadline? -- Terminated from a job? -- Relocating? -- Dealing with salary -- Other types of letters -- Direct-mail campaigns -- Writing to a recruiting firm -- Thank-you letters, a chance to resell yourself -- Other pieces of the puzzle -- References -- When to send references -- When and how to ask for references -- Rethinking the 'reference page" with some creative persuasion -- Networking cards -- Addenda -- Paper -- Sending your cover letter and résumé -- By surface mail -- By fax -- By e-mail -- Futurist career management -- Top 10 cover letter tips -- Appendix A. Worksheets to catalog professional history -- Appendix B. Survey : what employers really want in a résumé and cover letter -- Résumés -- Cover letters -- Appendix C. Action verbs with sample phrases.2. How to use branding and advertising strategies to get an interview -- Using brand and ad agency strategies to win an interview -- Elements of your career brand -- Authentic image -- Advantages -- Awareness -- The proven ad agency formula -- Step 1 : how to grab your reader's attention -- Headlines and hard-hitting leads -- Visual appeal -- Step 2 : how to capture your reader's interest -- Selling points, front and center -- Where's the center of the page? -- Place supporting information below the visual center -- Skimmable material goes at the bottom of the page -- Step 3 : how to create desire for your product, you! -- Why you buy -- Why employers buy -- Prove your superiority -- Step 4 : call to action -- Top 10 résumé strategy tips --3. How to choose the most flattering format -- Two tried-and-true winning formats : chronological and functional -- The chronological format -- The functional format -- Genetic variants of the two main résumé types -- The accomplishments format -- The combination format -- The creative format -- The curriculum vitae (CV) -- The dateless chronological format -- The international résumé -- The linear format -- The newsletter format -- The reordered chronological format -- The targeted format -- If it works, it's right -- Top 10 résumé formatting tips --4. The blueprint for a blockbuster résumé -- Data bits, or contact info -- To list or not to list your business telephone number -- Other solutions for daytime contacts -- Sample résumé headers -- Dealing with relocation on your résumé -- Objective, or focus statement -- Key features, or qualifications summary -- Professional experience -- Skills -- Education, credentials, and licenses -- Affiliations -- Publications, presentations, or patents -- Awards and honors -- Bio bites -- Endorsements -- What not to include -- Putting it all together -- Top 10 résumé blueprint tips --5. How to write great copy -- Keywords -- What are keywords? -- Where to find keywords -- Off-line resources for keywords -- Online resources for keywords -- How to position keywords -- How to improve your "hit" ratio -- Top 10 résumé keyword tips -- The objective or focus statement -- Cover letter focus statement -- Title statement -- Traditional objective -- Exercise for assembling a focus statement -- The qualifications summary -- Professional experience -- How far back? -- Where to find material for your job descriptions -- How long is too long? -- Solutions for downplaying less-relevant positions -- Skills -- Education, credentials, licensure -- Recent high school graduate -- Recent college graduate -- Degree obtained a number of years ago -- Degree in a field different from your major -- Degree not completed -- Two-year degree -- Degree equivalent -- No degree -- Including credentials, licenses, and certificates -- Affiliations -- Publications, presentations, and patents -- Publications -- Presentations -- Patents -- Awards and honors -- Bio bites -- Endorsements -- Top 10 tips for writing great copy --6. Accomplishments : the linchpin of a great résumé -- What's in it for me? -- Words to woo employers -- Buying motivator #1 : make money -- Buying motivator #2 : save money -- Buying motivator #3 : save time -- Buying motivator #4 : make work easier -- Buying motivator #5 : solve a specific problem -- Buying motivator #6 : be more competitive -- Buying motivator #7 : build relationships/image with internal/external customers, vendors, and the public -- Buying motivator #8 : expand business -- Buying motivator #9 : attract new customers -- Buying motivator #10 : retain existing customers -- Strategies for presenting accomplishments -- Numbers : the universal language -- Comparison, a powerful form of communication -- ROI, how quickly can you deliver? -- The company's mission statement, make it your mission -- The CAR technique, challenge, action, and result -- Where to find material for your accomplishments -- Performance appraisals -- Your career management file -- Impact-mining : probing questions to unearth hidden treasures -- Sifting through the accomplishments you've gathered -- Use impact statements to portray yourself as the right fit -- Top 10 tips for writing accomplishments --7. Editing : résumé-speak 101 -- Development editing : a primer in power writing -- Top 10 tenets of developing your résumé -- Examples of résumé-speak -- The keys to writing compelling copy -- Address the needs of your audience -- Summarize by using the ABC method -- Focus on transferable skills -- Résumé-speak 101 -- Deliver the goods up front -- Start sentences with action verbs or noun phrases -- Sidestep potential negatives -- Give outdated experience a feeling of real time -- Avoid an employer pet peeve : baseless personality attributes -- Convey confidential information without giving away proprietary/trade secrets -- Technical editing/copyediting : the mechanics of résumé-speak -- Abbreviations -- Acronyms -- Active voice -- Articles (in absentia) -- Auxiliary or helping verbs -- Capitalization -- Colons and semicolons -- Commas -- Commas that separate -- Commas that set off -- Comma trauma -- Contractions -- Dashes -- Ellipsis marks -- Elliptical sentences -- Gender equity -- Hyphenation -- Numbers -- Parallel sentence structure -- Parentheses -- Parts of speech -- Passive voice -- Periods -- Possessives -- Prepositions -- Quotation marks -- Sentence fragments -- Slashes -- Split infinitives -- Tense -- Verbs -- Writing in the first person -- Prune, prune, prune -- Proof, proof, proof -- Top 10 résumé proofreading tips --8. Visual artistry : the missing link -- Design elements -- Create a visual pattern -- Consistency counts -- Use tab stops sparingly -- Apply white space liberally -- Make bullets work for you -- Think in threes -- Keep headings to a minimum -- Segment paragraphs -- Balance is beautiful -- Pay attention to vertical balance -- Balancing a two-column format -- Balancing a full-width layout -- Balancing unevenly distributed copy -- Balancing impact statements -- Justification, ragged right or full justification? -- Hang it on the wall! -- Use typefaces tastefully -- Choosing a font -- Fonts that buy more space -- Use discretion in mixing fonts -- Go easy on bold, underline, and italic -- Establish a logical sizing hierarchy -- Tweaking tips -- Technical tools to create tables -- Add white space -- Adding space between paragraphs in MS Word -- Adding space between paragraphs in Corel WordPerfect -- Change line height -- Adjusting vertical space between lines within paragraphs in MS Word -- Adjusting vertical space between lines within paragraphs in Corel WordPerfect -- Expand character spacing -- Expanding text in MS Word -- Expanding text in Corel WordPerfect -- Tricks to make text fit -- Shrinking text in MS Word -- Shrinking text in Corel WordPerfect -- Use bullets strategically -- Creating bullets in MS Word -- Creating bullets in Corel WordPerfect -- Adding or subtracting spacing between bullets and text in MS Word -- Adding or subtracting spacing between bullets and text in Corel WordPerfect -- Changing the type of bullet in MS Word -- Changing the type of bullet in Corel WordPerfect -- Size of bullets -- Use rule lines -- Inserting a rule line in MS Word -- Inserting a rule line in Corel WordPerfect -- Other graphic elements -- Top 10 visual appeal tips --9. E-résumés, e-portfolios, and blogs -- ASCII text résumés -- The advantages and disadvantages of ASCII résumés -- ASCII résumé do's and don'ts -- Steps for ASCII conversion -- Converting to ASCII for e-mailing using MS Word or Corel WordPerfect -- Converting to ASCII for pasting into e-forms -- Quick cleanup of an ASCII conversion -- How to post an ASCII résumé to a Web site -- Web résumés, e-portfolios, and blogs -- The advantages and disadvantages of Web résumés -- The technical how-tos of Web résumés -- Online résumé-builder services -- Do-it-yourself Web résumés -- Hire a pro -- Web résumé do's and don'ts -- What to include in an e-portfolio -- Hyperlinks or hyperjinx? -- Using your Web résumé -- Marketing your Web résumé -- Getting on the blog bandwagon -- What to include in a blog -- Creating a blog -- Using RSS (really simple syndication) technology -- Marketing your blog -- Scannable résumés -- Scannable résumé do's and don'ts -- Applicant-tracking systems : what happens after you e-mail or post your résumé? -- Positive aspects of applicant-tracking technology -- Negative aspects of applicant-tracking technology -- Conflicting advice -- Résumés of the future -- Top 10 technology tips for e-résumés, e-portfolios, and blogs --
- Subjects: Résumés (Employment); Community Foundation of Western North Carolina;
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