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Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
KATY TUR · Dey Street Books
Pages: 291
Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Compelling ... this book couldn't be more timely." - Jill Abramson, New York Times Book Review FROM THE RECIPIENT OF THE 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in JournalismCalled "disgraceful," "third-rate," and "not nice"... |
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Private Investigating, Third Edition
Steven Kerry Brown · ALPHA; 3 edition
Format: Paperback
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The mystique of private investigating draws significant numbers of people to consider it as a career or side business. At the same time, individuals want to learn investigative techniques to solve their own personal and legal problems. In The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Private... |
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The Library Innovation Toolkit: Ideas, Strategies, and Programs
Anthony Molaro · Editions
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
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Progress for the sake of progress is all too often a drain on precious time and resources. The communities and users that libraries serve are always changing; true innovation helps libraries adapt to meet their needs and aspirations both now and in the future. This stimulating collection... |
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Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling
Michael Cannell · Minotaur Books
Pages: 289
Format: Hardcover
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Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the streets of 1950s New York. The race to catch him would give birth to a new science called criminal profiling.Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall -- for almost two decades, no place... |
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The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
David Graeber · Melville House
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms?... |
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Scorched Earth: Restoring America after Obama
Michael Savage · Center Street
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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"New York Times" bestselling author Michael Savage reveals why we have an infected political system, and what we can now do to nurse the country back to health. Michael Savages says that for the past eight years there has been a retrovirus in the White House, and that the last... |
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Democracy in the Dark: The Seduction of Government Secrecy
Frederick A O Schwarz · The New Press, 2015.
Pages: 350
Format: Print book
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From Dick Cheney's man-sized safe to the National Security Agency's massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has too often captured the American government's modus operandi better than the ideals of the Constitution. In this important new book, Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr., who was chief... |
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Enough: Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence
Gabrielle Giffords · Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords-- disabled from an assassination attempt in Tucson, Arizona-- and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, share their impassioned argument for responsible gun ownership and more responsible gun control laws, despite being gun owners and staunch supporters... |
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Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA
Timothy Edgar · Brookings Institution Press
Pages: 166
Format: Hardcover
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Safeguarding Our Privacy and Our Values in an Age of Mass SurveillanceAmerica's mass surveillance programs, once secret, can no longer be ignored. While Edward Snowden began the process in 2013 with his leaks of top secret documents, the Obama administration's own reforms have also helped... |
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The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey
Soner ÇagÌŒaptay · I.B.Tauris
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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In a world of rising tensions between Russia and the United States, the Middle East and Europe, Sunnis and Shiites, Islamism and liberalism, Turkey is at the epicentre. And at the heart of Turkey is its right-wing populist president, Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan. Since 2002, ErdoÄŸan has consolidated... |
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Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us
Sara E. Gorman · Oxford University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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Why do some parents refuse to vaccinate their children? Why do some people keep guns at home, despite scientific evidence of risk to their family members? And why do people use antibiotics for illnesses they cannot possibly alleviate? When it comes to health, many people insist that science... |
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Library Services for Adults in the 21st Century
Elsie Okobi · Libraries Unlimited
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
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Public librarians are directly responsible for providing a large proportion of the American population with access to the Internet and guidance in obtaining important government information. Effectively servicing today's adult library users is already a pressing need, and will only... |
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