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Start a Revolution: Stop Acting Like a Library
Ben Bizzle · Editions
Pages: 194
Format: Paperback
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But this is how we've always done it! Objections to taking a fresh tack are about as common as budget shortfalls, and the two are more closely related than you might think. At the Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library in Arkansas, Bizzle and his colleagues defied common practices... |
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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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Citizen Hollywood: How the Collaboration between LA and DC Revolutionized American Politics
Timothy Stanley · Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press, 2014.
Pages: 309
Format: Print book
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To most Americans, Hollywood activism consists of self-obsessed movie stars promoting their pet causes, whether defending marijuana legalization or Second Amendment rights. There's some truth in that stereotype, and in this book you'll find the close personal friends of Fidel Castro,... |
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The Gun Debate: An Encyclopedia of Gun Control & Gun Rights
Grey House · Salem Press
Pages: 600
Format: Print book
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With public debate of gun violence at an all-time high, this new third edition of The Gun Debate: An Encyclopedia of Gun Control & Gun Rights is a must-have resource for all libraries.* Over 350 entries provide in-depth coverage of both sides of the gun debate.* Updated and expanded... |
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The Challenge of Library Management: Leading With Emotional Engagement
Wyoma vanDuinkerken · Amer Library Assn Editions
Format: Book
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Change is inevitable and essential to any functioning institution. But change can be stressful, especially when it upsets established routines and patterns. Library managers need to be able to lead staff through episodes of change while remaining empathetic, and this book shows them how toEngage... |
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A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples
Frederick Hertz · NOLO; Seventeenth Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Laws affecting LGBT couples are changing rapidly, and while its an exciting time for all gay and lesbian partners, keeping up with the myriad ways the shifting legal landscape touches your family life can be daunting. Now more than ever, its important that you take the proper legal steps... |
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Easternization: Asia's Rise and America's Decline From Obama to Trump and Beyond
Gideon Rachman · Other Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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From the winner of the 2016 Orwell Prize and the European Press Prize for Commentator of the Year, a provocative analysis of how a new era of global instability has begun, as the flow of wealth and power turns from West to East. Easternization is the defining trend of our age - the growing... |
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Demand the Impossible!: A Radical Manifesto
William Ayers · Haymarket Books
Pages: 225
Format: Print book
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In an era defined by mass incarceration, endless war, economic crisis, catastrophic environmental destruction, and a political system offering more of the same, radical social transformation has never been more urgent - or seemed more remote.A manifesto for movement-makers in extraordinary... |
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Lenin on the Train
Catherine Merridale · Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful 1917 rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and forever changed the worldIn April 1917, as the Russian Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future... |
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Pill City: How Two Honor Roll Students Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire
Kevin Deutsch · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 266
Format: Print book
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In 2015, Baltimore plunged into the worst American riots in recent history. In the chaos, two high school honor-roll students, "Brick" and "Wax, used their smarts, computer skills, ambition and gang connections to change the world of illegal drugs forever. With their gang... |
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Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy
David A Nichols · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 385
Format: Hardcover
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Revealed for the first time, this is the full story of how President Dwight Eisenhower masterminded the downfall of the anti-Communist demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy.Behind the scenes, Eisenhower loathed McCarthy, the powerful Republican senator notorious for his anti-Communist witch... |
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