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Barron's Police Officer Exam, 10th Edition
Donald Schroeder Ph.D. · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 672
Format: Print book
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This updated manual presents information, practice tests, and strategies for the different question types used by police departments throughout the country. It includes:Four full-length practice exams with all questions answered and explainedTwo official exams given by a large metropolitan... |
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Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers
Joel Whitney · Or Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has never been resolved. The story continues to unfold, with the reputations of some of America's best-loved literary figures - including Peter... |
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King of Spies: The Dark Reign of America's Spymaster in Korea
BLAINE HARDEN · Viking
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14, the shocking, gripping account of the most powerful American spy you've never heard of, whose role at the center of the Korean War - which gave rise to the North Korean regime - is essential to understanding the most intractable... |
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If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes From Trump's America
Jon Sopel · BBC Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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As the BBC's North America Editor, Jon Sopel has experienced 'the Greatest Country on Earth' from a perspective that most could only dream of: he has travelled aboard Air Force One, interviewed President Obama and seen first-hand the gaudy splendour of Donald Trump's billion-dollar... |
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The Politics of Petulance: America in an Age of Immaturity
Alan Wolfe · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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How did we get into this mess? Every morning, many Americans ask this as, with a cringe, they pick up their phones and look to see what terrible thing President Trump has just said or done. Regardless of what he's complaining about or whom he's attacking, a second question comes... |
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American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures
TO BE CONFIRMED. · Gallery Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures.America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably... |
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The Time Has Come: Why Men Must Join the Gender Equality Revolution
Michael Kaufman · Counterpoint
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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"For too long the struggle for the rights of women and girls was seen as women's business. Of course, it's equally men's business and stops being such a struggle when it's seen that way. This reframing gives us a chance to understand violence against women as deeply toxic for us all."... |
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The Class of '74: Congress after Watergate and the Roots of Partisanship
John A Lawrence · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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In November 1974, following the historic Watergate scandal, Americans went to the polls determined to cleanse American politics. Instead of producing the Republican majority foreshadowed by Richard Nixon's 1972 landslide, dozens of GOP legislators were swept out of the House, replaced... |
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The Cold War: A World History
Odd Arne Westad · Basic Books
Pages: 720
Format: Hardcover
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From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact around the worldWe tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming... |
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The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
Anna Clark · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The first full account of the Flint, Michigan, water scandal, an American tragedy, with new details, from Anna Clark, the award-winning Michigan journalist who has covered the story from its beginningsWhen the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring... |
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If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty
Eric Metaxas · Viking
Pages: 260
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America.In 1787, when the Constitution was drafted, a woman asked Ben Franklin... |
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Gorsuch: The Judge Who Speaks for Himself
John Greenya · Threshold Editions
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Learn all about Neil Gorsuch, the youngest judge to be nominated to the Supreme Court in twenty-five years, with this comprehensive and fascinating biography.When forty-nine-year-old Neil Gorsuch was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Donald Trump, he was told by a senator, "We... |
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