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Breaking Through!: Helping Girls Succeed in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
Harriet S Mosatche · Prufrock Press Inc.
Pages: 250
Format: Print book
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Even with increased pressure to involve more girls in STEM areas in education, parents are often left wondering what they can do to encourage their daughter's love of science, math, and technology from fading. In Breaking Through! Helping Girls Succeed in Science, Technology, Engineering,... |
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I Like Ike: The Presidential Election of 1952
John Robert Greene · University Press of Kansas
Pages: 254
Format: Hardcover
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When the 1952 presidential election campaign began, many assumed it would be a race between Harry Truman, seeking his second full term, and Robert A. Taft, son of a former president and, to many of his fellow partisans, "Mr. Republican." No one imagined the party standard bearers... |
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The Death of Truth
MICHIKO KAKUTANI · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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A stirring and incisive manifesto on America's slide away from truth and reason. Over the last three decades, Michiko Kakutani has been thinking and writing about the demise of objective truth in popular culture, academia, and contemporary politics. In The Death of Truth, she connects... |
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Supreme Power: 7 Pivotal Supreme Court Decisions That Had a Major Impact on America
Ted Stewart · Shadow Mountain
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating look at how much power the Supreme Court actually has and how far-reaching the consequences of some of their decisions can be. What do bakers' working hours have to do with abortion rights? What role did the Supreme Court play in sanctioning racism, in moving power away... |
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Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
Suzy Hansen · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Suzy Hansen left her country and moved to Istanbul and discovered AmericaIn the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York... |
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Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary
WALTER STAHR · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 720
Format: Hardcover
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Walter Stahr, award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Seward, tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's indispensable Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, the man the president entrusted with raising the army that preserved the Union.Of the crucial men close to President Lincoln, Secretary... |
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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
Al Franken · Twelve
Pages: 406
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times Bestseller"Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously happy." - Louise Erdrich, The New York Times p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px... |
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Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West
James Pogue · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary inside look at America's militia movement that shows a country at the crossroads of class, culture, and insurrection.In a remote corner of Oregon, James Pogue found himself at the heart of a rebellion. Granted unmatched access by Ammon Bundy to the armed occupation... |
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A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama
Michael D'Antonio · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Barack Obama was once a most unlikely candidate, but his successful campaign for the White House made him a worldwide sensation and a transformative figure even before he was inaugurated. Elected as the Iraq War and the Great Recession had discouraged millions of Americans, Obama made a promise... |
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Letters to Memory
Karen Tei Yamashita · Coffee House Press
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
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Praise for Karen Tei Yamashita:"It's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny and entrancing." - NPR"Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." - New York Times Book ReviewWith delightful plays of voice and structure, this is literary fiction at an adventurous,... |
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We Were Eight Years in Power: A Journey Through the Obama Era
TA-NEHISI COATES · One World
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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In these "urgently relevant essays,"* the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath"* - including the election of Donald Trump."We were eight years in power" was the lament... |
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World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
FRANKLIN FOER · Penguin Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Franklin Foer reveals the existential threat posed by big tech, and in his brilliant polemic gives us the toolkit to fight their pervasive influence. Over the past few decades there has been a revolution in terms of who controls knowledge and information. This rapid change has imperiled... |
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What Happened
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 494
Format: Hardcover
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"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I'm letting my guard down." - Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What HappenedFor the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals... |
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First Ladies and American Women: In Politics and at Home
Jill Abraham Hummer · University Press of Kansas
Pages: 269
Format: Hardcover
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Unelected, but expected to act as befits her "office," the first lady has what Pat Nixon called "the hardest unpaid job in the world." Michelle Obama championed military families with the program Joining Forces. Four decades earlier Pat Nixon traveled to Africa as the nation's... |
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