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Five Steps of Outcome-Based Planning and Evaluation for Public Libraries
Melissa Gross · ALA Editions
Pages: 102
Format: Print book
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Planning and assessment are both crucial elements of a public library that functions efficiently and flexibly. So why are they often treated as separate processes? This concise book combines planning and evaluation in a holistic approach, helping public library managers and staff put library... |
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Things that Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations
Arundhati Roy · Haymarket Books
Pages: 106
Format: Print book
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In late 2014, Arundhati Roy, John Cusack, and Daniel Ellsberg travelled to Moscow to meet with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.The result was a series of essays and dialogues in which Roy and Cusack reflect on their conversations with Snowden.In these provocative and penetrating discussions,... |
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Scarlet Letters: The Ever-Increasing Intolerance of the Cult of Liberalism
Jack Cashill · WND Books
Format: Hardcover
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Like its namesake, Scarlet Letters addresses the hard truths of life in an increasingly progressive America where the irrational prejudices of a group can crush the soul of the individual. In both the old and new puritanism, worshippers achieve a sense of moral worth simply by designating... |
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Stolen Girls: Survivors of Boko Haram Tell Their Story
Wolfgang Bauer · The New Press
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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One night in April 2014, members of the terrorist organization Boko Haram raided the small town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria and abducted 276 young girls from the local boarding school. The event caused massive, international outrage. Using the hashtag "Bring Back Our Girls,"... |
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Deciding What's True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism
Lucas Graves · Columbia University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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Over the past decade, American outlets such as PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and the Washington Post's Fact Checker have shaken up the political world by holding public figures accountable for what they say. Cited across social and national news media, these verdicts can rattle a political... |
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The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight
Adrian Levy · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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Startling and scandalous, this is an intimate insider's story of Osama bin Laden's retinue in the ten years after 9/11, a family in flight and at war.From September 11, 2001 to May 2, 2011, Osama Bin Laden evaded intelligence services and special forces units, drones and hunter killer squads.... |
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Three Roads to Magdalena: Coming of Age in a Southwest Borderland, 1890-1990
David Wallace Adams · University Press of Kansas
Pages: 454
Format: Hardcover
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"Someday," Candelaria Garcia said to the author, "you will get all the stories." It was a tall order, in Magdalena, New Mexico, a once booming frontier town where Navajo, Anglo, and Hispanic people have lived in shifting, sometimes separate, sometimes overlapping worlds... |
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Politics in Minutes
Marcus Weeks · Quercus Publishing
Pages: 415
Format: Print book
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Quick, accessible, compact guide to understanding key political concepts. Contents include: Liberty, Justice, Equality, Human rights, Social contract, Democracy, Monarchy, Anarchism, Capitalism, Socialism, Nationalism and Globalisation. |
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Electile Dysfunction: A Guide for Unaroused Voters
Alan Dershowitz · Rosettabooks, LLC
Pages: 130
Format: Hardcover
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If you re frustrated with the choices for president this year, you re not alone. 81 percent of voters say they d feel afraid if either Trump or Clinton takes office but what recourse do we have? The American electorate is plagued by a widespread feeling of impotence. But this may be the most... |
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Crashing the Party: An American Reporter in China
Scott Savitt · Soft Skull Press
Pages: 296
Format: Print book
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It's 1983. Scott Savitt, one of the first American exchange students in Beijing, picks up his guitar and begins strumming Blackbird. He's soon surrounded by Chinese students who know every word to every Beatles song he plays. Scott stays on in Beijing, working as a reporter for Asiaweek... |
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Witnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in Guantanamo
Lakhdar Boumediene · Redwood Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir lived quiet, peaceful lives - working for humanitarian organizations, raising young children, filling weekend afternoons with pick-up soccer games and coffee with friends.In October 2001, along with four other Algerian nationals, they were arrested... |
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A Street Divided: Stories From Jerusalem's Alley of God
Dion Nissenbaum · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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"It has been the home to priests and prostitutes, poets and spies. It has been the stage for an improbable flirtation between an Israeli girl and a Palestinian boy living on opposite sides of the barbed wire that separated enemy nations. It has even been the scene of an unsolved international... |
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