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A River Runs Again: India's Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka

Meera Subramanian
Format: Digital

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Marketing Your Library's Electronic Resources: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians (How to Do It Manuals for Librarians)

Marie R. Kennedy · ALA Neal-Schuman; 1 edition
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

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Breakout: Pioneers of the Future, Prison Guards of the Past, and the Epic Battle That Will Decide America's Fate

Newt Gingrich · Regnery Publishing; First Edition edition

It is not between the Left and the Right, but between the past and the future.America is on the edge of a breakout. In fact, we are poised for one of the most spectacular leaps in human well-being in history. Pioneers of the future - innovators and entrepreneurs - are achieving breakthroughs...
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Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution: Voices from Tunis to Damascus

Layla Al-Zubaidi (Editor), · Penguin Books

An English PEN Award–winning collection of personal testimony from participants in the Arab Spring As revolution swept through the Arab world in spring of 2011, much of the writing that reached the West came via analysts and academics, experts and expats. We heard about...
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Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order

Richard N. Haass · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

The biggest threat to the United States comes not from abroad but from within. This is the provocative, timely, and unexpected message of Council on Foreign Relations President Richard N. Haass’s Foreign Policy Begins at Home.A rising China, climate change, terrorism, a nuclear Iran,...
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Blueprint for a Job Center at Your Library

Bernice Kao · Libraries Unlimited

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True Stories of Censorship Battles in America's Libraries

Valerie Nye (Author, Editor), · Amer Library Assn Editions

Intellectual freedom is a core value of librarianship, but fighting to keep controversial materials on the shelves can sometimes feel like a lonely battle. And not all censorship controversies involve the public objecting to a book in the collection libraries are venues for displays and meetings,...
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

Doris Kearns Goodwin · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

One of the Best Books of the Year as chosen by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Time, USA TODAY, Christian Science Monitor, and more. "A tale so gripping that one questions the need for fiction when real life is so plump with drama and intrigue" (Associated...
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The American Boomerang: How the World's Greatest 'Turnaround' Nation Will Do It Again

Nick Adams · WND Books
Format: Hardcover

Is America still the world's most celebrated and beloved superpower? Is this great nation poised for an amazing American century-or instead for a slow descent into mediocrity?   In The American Boomerang, possibly one of the most important books of our time, philosopher...
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