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Citizenship Papers: Essays
Wendell Berry · Counterpoint; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback |
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Discerning the political import of complex current events requires great urgency, clarity, and care. Nothing less than the future of our nation is at stake. Wendell Berrys Citizenship Papers, collecting nineteen essays, is a ringing alarm, a call for resistance and responsibility, and a reminder... |
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A Listening Wind: Native Literature from the Southeast
Marcia Haag · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 366
Format: Hardcover |
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A Listening Wind, a collection of translated original texts and commentary edited by Marcia Haag, highlights the large array of Indigenous linguistic and cultural groups of the U.S. Southeast. A whole range of genres and selected texts represent language groups of the Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw,... |
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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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Crash Course in Marketing for Libraries
Sara Gillespie Swanson · Libraries Unlimited; 2 edition
Format: Book |
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Marketing a library's programs or services takes more than sending out a flyer or posting an announcement on the website. Effective marketing is important for every library, as it can lead to a significant increase in library use—which is a major factor in budget justification.... |
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Roar: The New Conservative Woman Speaks Out
Scottie Nell Hughes · Worthy Publishing
Format: Hardcover |
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Are you sick and tired of watching your city, state and country spiral out of control and into the hands of liberals, whether Democrats or Republicans in Name Only? If so, you will be inspired to make a difference as you read the passionate battle cry of Scottie Nell Hughes. In the past,... |
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Social Work Research and Evaluation: Examined Practice for Action
Elizabeth DePoy · SAGE Publications
Pages: 324
Format: Print book |
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Social Work Research and Evaluation applies systematically developed research knowledge to social work practice and emphasizes the "doing" of social work as a reciprocal avenue for generating research evidence and social work knowledge. Using the Examined Practice Model, authors... |
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The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction
David Garland · Oxford University Press
Pages: 153
Format: Print book |
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Welfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is perennially in question. But all developed societies have welfare states of one kind or another - they are a fundamental dimension of modern... |
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The Right Way to Lose a War: America in an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts
Dominic Tierney · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover |
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Why has America stopped winning wars? For nearly a century, up until the end of World War II in 1945, America enjoyed a Golden Age of decisive military triumphs. And then suddenly, we stopped winning wars. The decades since have been a Dark Age of failures and stalemates-in Korea, Vietnam,... |
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An American Diplomat in Bolshevik Russia
DeWitt C Poole · Univ Of Wisconsin Press
Pages: 332
Format: Print book |
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Diplomat DeWitt Clinton Poole arrived for a new job at the United States consulate office in Moscow in September 1917, just two months before the Bolshevik Revolution. In the final year of World War I, as Russians were withdrawing and Americans were joining the war, Poole found himself... |
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Who We Be: A Hidden Cultural History of Race in Post-Civil Rights America
Jeff Chang · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago and today.During that time, the U.S. has seen the most dramatic demographic and cultural shifts in its history, what can be called the colorization of America. But the same nation that elected its first... |
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The Map and the Territory 2.0: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting
Alan Greenspan · Penguin Books
Pages: 420
Format: Book |
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Like all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting. No one with any meaningful role in economic decision making in the world saw beforehand the storm for what... |
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After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War
Gregory P. Downs · Harvard University Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover |
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On April 8, 1865, after four years of civil war, General Robert E. Lee wrote to General Ulysses S. Grant asking for peace. Peace was beyond his authority to negotiate, Grant replied, but surrender terms he would discuss. As Gregory Downs reveals in this gripping history of post-Civil War America,... |
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