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No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy: The Life of General James Mattis
JIM PROSER · Broadside Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The first in-depth look at the marine hero who has become one of the most beloved and admired men in America today: Secretary of Defense James Mattis.A devout student of history and erudite reader revered by rank and file soldiers, officers, academics, politicians, and ordinary citizens,... |
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The People Have Spoken
David Harsanyi · Regnery Publishing
Format: Book
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Democracy may be one of the most admired ideas ever concocted, but what if it’s also one of the most harebrained? After many years of writing about democracy for a living, David Harsanyi has concluded that it’s the most overrated, overused, and misunderstood idea in political... |
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Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump
David A Neiwert · Verso
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the remarkable resurgence of right-wing extremists in the United StatesJust as Donald Trump's victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked the world, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious "alt-right"... |
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Gorbachev: His Life and Times
WILLIAM TAUBMAN · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 852
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the transformational world leader by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev.When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR was one of the world's two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost... |
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Written Out of History: The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government
Mike Lee · Sentinel
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Senator Mike Lee tells the story of the Founders whose warnings about the dangers of an all-powerful federal government helped shape our Constitution--but are being ignored today. Today, most Americans are familiar only with the "big names" associated with the Founding - Washington,... |
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Apps for Librarians: Using the Best Mobile Technology to Educate, Create, and Engage
Nicole Hennig · Libraries Unlimited
Pages: 197
Format: Print book
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Smartphones and other mobile devices that support downloadable applications - universally referred to as "apps" - can be used to foster productivity, conduct research, or read and study. Additionally, savvy librarians can better serve their communities by gaining expertise in mobile... |
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Why We Fight: Recovering America's Will to Win
Sebastian Gorka · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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America needs a clear, unifying doctrine if we are to succeed in the war on terror says security, strategy, and counterterrorism expert Sebastian Gorka, author of national bestseller Defeating Jihad and former Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States. |
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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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School's Out: Gay and Lesbian Teachers in the Classroom
Catherine Connell · University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
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How do gay and lesbian teachers negotiate their professional and sexual identities at work, given that these identities are constructed as mutually exclusive, even as mutually opposed? Using interviews and other ethnographic materials from Texas and California, Schools Out explores how teachers... |
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Where We Go from Here
BERNIE SANDERS · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Senator Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign was a beginning, not an end. In his new book, America's most popular political figure speaks about what he's been doing to oppose the Trump agenda and strengthen the progressive movement and how we go forward as a nation. |
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The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left
D D'SOUZA · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 293
Format: Hardcover
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"Of course, everything [D'Souza] says here is accurate... But it's not going to sit well with people on the American left who, of course, are portraying themselves as the exact opposite of all of this." - RUSH LIMBAUGHThe explosive new book from Dinesh D'Souza, author of the #1 New York... |
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Fairies: The Myths, Legends, & Lore
Skye Alexander · Adams Media Corporation
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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An enchanting treasury of fairy lore!Around the corner, behind the bushes, and just out of sight...fairies have spent hundreds of years weaving their way in and out of our homes and gardens to spread their magic. Featuring folklore, mythology, and poetry from around the world, this lovely... |
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