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Civil Service Exams Power Practice

LEARNINGEXPRESS LLC EDITORS. · Learningexpress, LLC
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

This guide offers what every candidate preparing for a civil service exam is looking for - powerful practice. Packed with EIGHT full-length practice tests based on exams given nationwide--the most exams available on the market - Civil Service Exams: Power Practice offers the comprehensive...
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American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream

Julia L Mickenberg · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or 1930s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Left Bank quickly come to mind. But would you have ever thought of Russia and the wilds of Siberia?...
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Understanding Trump

Newt Gingrich · Center Street
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

With this book, Newt Gingrich provides insight and inspiration for Americans as they embrace their new president in office. Donald Trump is a remarkable phenomenon. He is the only person ever elected president without holding office or serving as a general. Trump and "Trumpism "...
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The new librarianship field guide

R David Lankes · The MIT Press
Pages: 226
Format: Print book

This book offers a guide for librarians who see their profession as a chance to make a positive difference in their communities -- librarians who recognize that it is no longer enough to stand behind a desk waiting to serve. R. David Lankes, author of The Atlas of New Librarianship, reminds...
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A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity

Nicholas D. Kristof · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

An essential, galvanizing narrative about making a difference here and abroad—a road map to becoming the most effective global citizens we can be.In their number one New York Times best seller Half the Sky, husband-and-wife team Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn brought to light struggles...
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The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics

SALENA ZITO · Crown Forum
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Standout syndicated columnist and CNN contributor Salena Zito, with veteran Republican strategist Brad Todd, reports across five swing states and over 27,000 miles to answer the pressing question: Was Donald Trump's election a fluke or did it represent a fundamental shift in the electorate...
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First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee and the Call to Independence

Harlow G Unger · Da Capo Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Before Washington, before Jefferson, before Franklin or John Adams, there was Lee--Richard Henry Lee, the First Founding Father.Richard Henry Lee was the first to call for independence, and the first to call for union. He was "father of our country" as much as George Washington,...
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The Librarian's Guide to Book Programs and Author Events

Brad Hooper · ALA Editions
Pages: 135
Format: Print book

From hosting authors to planning and coordinating book activities such as book signings and book clubs, libraries are perfect venues for readers to interact directly with authors and their books. And mounting literary programming can be easier than you might think. In this guide BOOKLIST...
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American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution

A Roger Ekirch · Pantheon
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From "one of America's most imaginative historians" (Gordon S. Wood) . The extraordinary story of the mutiny aboard the frigate HMS Hermione in 1797 (eight years after the mutiny on the Bounty) - the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy, that led to the extradition...
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The Handy American Government Answer Book: How Washington, Politics and Elections Work

Gina Rene?e Misiroglu · Visible Ink Press
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

The stakes have never been higher: national security, civil liberties, the economy, the future of the republic. Yet few outside Washington actually understand how our government and political system should work, much less how it actually operates. On one level, it's a complex, interlocking...
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Police Officer

National Learning Corporation. · National Learning Corp.
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

This item is Non-Returnable.
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Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI · Harper
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in this taut and provocative book, empathizing with Palestinian suffering and longing for reconciliation...
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Fascism

MADELEINE ALBRIGHT · Harper
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From one of the most admired international leaders, comes a timely, considered, and personal look at the history and current resurgence of fascism today and the virulent threat it poses to international freedom, prosperity, and peace. At the end of the 1980s, when the Cold War ended, many,...
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

Arlie Russell Hochschild · New Press
Pages: 351
Format: Print book

2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR NONFICTIONA 2016 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2016One of "6 Books to Understand Trump's Win" according to the New York Times the day after the election"This is a smart, respectful and compelling...
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