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Liars: How Progressives Exploit Our Fears for Power and Control
Glenn Beck · Threshold Editions
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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Glenn Beck, #1 bestselling author and radio host, reveals the cold truth behind the ideology of progressivism and how the tenets of this dangerous belief system are eroding the foundation of this country.WHY DO WE ACCEPT THE LIES? Politics is no longer about pointing to a shining city on the hill;... |
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Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe
George Friedman · Doubleday
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover |
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A major new book by New York Times bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman (The Next 100 Years) , with a bold thesis about coming events in Europe. This provocative work examines "flashpoints," unique geopolitical hot spots where tensions have erupted throughout... |
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Handcuffed: What Holds Policing Back, and the Keys to Reform
Malcolm K Sparrow · Brookings Institution Press
Pages: 262
Format: Print book |
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The current crisis in policing can be traced to failures of reform."Sparrow surely is right to condemn policing directed only at crime rates rather than community satisfaction." -The New York Times Book ReviewIn the past two years, America has witnessed incendiary milestones in the poor... |
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Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse , and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide
Josh Katz · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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From the creator of the New York Times dialect quiz that ignited conversations about how and why we say the words we say, a stunning and delightful exploration of American language Did you know that your answers to just a handful of questions can reveal where you grew up? In December 2013,... |
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Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think
Ralph Nader · City Lights Publishers
Pages: 144
Format: Print book |
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In Breaking Through Power, Nader draws from a lifetime waging--and often winning--David vs. Goliath battles against big corporations and the United States government. In this succinct, Tom Paine-style wake-up call, the iconic consumer advocate highlights the success stories of fellow Americans... |
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The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
Tom Burgis · PublicAffairs; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other "emerging markets" have transformed their economies, Africa's resource states remained tethered to the bottom of the industrial supply... |
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Hillary's America
Dinesh D'Souza · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 294
Format: Print book |
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Dinesh D'Souza has a warning: We are on the brink of losing our country forever. After eight years of Obama, four years -- or possibly eight years -- of Hillary Clinton as president of the United States would so utterly transform America as to make it unrecognizable. No more will America... |
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Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-first Century
Katherine S. Newman · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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From Katherine Newman, award-winning author of No Shame in My Game, and sociologist Hella Winston, a sharp and irrefutable call to reenergize this nation's long-neglected system of vocational trainingAfter decades of off-shoring and downsizing that have left blue collar workers obsolete... |
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Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World
Timothy Garton Ash · Yale University Press
Pages: 504
Format: Print book |
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Never in human history was there such a chance for freedom of expression. If we have Internet access, any one of us can publish almost anything we like and potentially reach an audience of millions. Never was there a time when the evils of unlimited speech flowed so easily across frontiers:... |
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The Supreme Court on Unions: Why Labor Law Is Failing American Workers
Julius G Getman · ILR Press
Pages: 227
Format: Print book |
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Labor unions and courts have rarely been allies. From their earliest efforts to organize, unions have been confronted with hostile judges and antiunion doctrines. In this book, Julius G. Getman argues that while the role of the Supreme Court has become more central in shaping labor law,... |
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Career Transitions for Librarians: Proven Strategies for Moving to Another Type of Library
Davis Erin Anderson · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 230
Format: Print book |
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Career Transitions for Librarians: How to Get a Job in Another Type of Library explores the multifaceted roles of the librarian profession from personal narratives of professional librarians who have successfully worked and transitioned from one type of library to another. What kinds of skill... |
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How Civility Works
Keith J Bybee · Stanford Briefs
Pages: 80
Format: Print book |
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Is civility dead? Americans ask this question every election season, but their concern is hardly limited to political campaigns. Doubts about civility regularly arise in just about every aspect of American public life. Rudeness runs rampant. Our news media is saturated with aggressive bluster... |
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Ferguson's Fault Lines: The Race Quake That Rocked a Nation
Kimberly Jade Norwood · American Bar Association
Pages: 276
Format: Print book |
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In almost every highly publicized case of police using deadly force and killing unarmed individuals, the person killed was an African American male. These incidents have caused dramatic erosion in public confidence in the justice system and America's promise of equal treatment under... |
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