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Adults Just Wanna Have Fun: Programs for Emerging Adults
Audrey Barbakoff · ALA Editions
Pages: 136
Format: Print book |
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There are a wealth of resources out there geared towards serving the needs of toddlers, school age children, young adults, and senior citizens. But something's missing. Library users in their 20s and 30s constitute one of the most underserved populations for public libraries, and there's... |
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Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling
Michael Cannell · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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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 Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
David A. Stockman · PublicAffairs; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover |
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A New York Times bestseller The Great Deformation is a searing look at Washingtons craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year revisionist history of how the American stateespecially the Federal Reservehas... |
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WHAT WE DO NOW: Standing Up for Your Values in Trump's America
Dennis Loy Johnson · Melville House
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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An inspiring handbook for people troubled by the election of Donald Trump, by some of the biggest names in progressive politics. Meant to give people heart and actual strategies about how to advance a variety of causes. |
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No Wall Too High: One Man's Daring Escape from Mao's Darkest Prison
Erling Hoh · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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An enthralling true-life story about a daring escape from one of Mao Zedong's prisonsMao Zedong's labor reform camps were notoriously brutal; modeled after the Soviet gulag, their inmates were subject to backbreaking labor, malnutrition, and vindictive wardens. They were thought... |
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What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster
Jonathan V. Last · Encounter Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Look around you and think for a minute Is America too crowded? For years, we have been warned about the looming danger of overpopulation people jostling for space on a planet thats busting at the seams and running out of oil and food and land and everything else. Its all bunk. The population... |
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Kingdoms in the Air: Dispatches from the Far Away
Bob Shacochis · Grove Press
Pages: 480
Format: Print book |
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"Shacochis has extended his knowledge and imagination into places most of us have never ventured." - Washington PostBest known for his sweeping international and political fiction narratives, including The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, which won the Dayton Peace Prize and was finalist... |
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How to Retire with Enough Money: And How to Know What Enough Is
Teresa Ghilarducci · Workman Publishing
Pages: 128
Format: Print book |
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Here is a single-sit read than can change the course of your retirement. Written by Dr. Teresa Ghilarducci, an economics professor, a retirement and savings specialist, and a trustee to two retiree health-care trusts worth over $54 billion, How to Retire with Enough Money cuts... |
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One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
Ben Carson · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover |
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Dear Reader, In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the dangers facing our country and called for a return to the principles that made America great.Many Americans heard and responded, but our nation's... |
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The Wikileaks Files: The World According to Us Empire
Julian Assange · Verso, 2015.
Pages: 614
Format: Print book |
Published in collaboration with WikiLeaks: What Cablegate tells us about US foreign policy
When WikiLeaks first came to prominence in 2010 by releasing 2,325,961 top-secret State Department cables, the world saw for the first time what the US really thought about national... |
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Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes
Michael Rubin · Encounter Books
Format: Print book |
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The world has seldom been as dangerous as it is now. Rogue regimes—governments and groups that eschew diplomatic normality, sponsor terrorism, and proliferate nuclear weapons—threaten the United States around the globe. Because sanctions and military action are so costly, the American... |
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Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama
Peniel E. Joseph · Basic Civitas Books; First Trade Paper Edition edition
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback |
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The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ‘60s is now remembered as a distant, sepia-toned campaign, whose achievements and idealism were soon eclipsed by angry, confrontational Black Power activists. However, far from marking the end of an era, as is commonly thought, the 1965 Voting... |
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