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Developing Librarian Competencies for the Digital Age
Jeff Coghill · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 166
Format: Print book
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Librarianship is both an art and a science. Librarians study the science of information and how to work with clients to help them find solutions to their information needs. They also learn quickly that there is an art to working with people, to finding the answers to tough questions using... |
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Hope in Hard Times: Norvelt and the Struggle for Community During the Great Depression
Timothy Kelly · Penn State University Press
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover
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Of the many recipients of federal support during the Great Depression, the citizens of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, stand out as model reminders of the vital importance of New Deal programs. Hoping to transform their desperate situation, the 250 families of this western Pennsylvania town worked... |
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Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security
TODD MILLER · City Lights Publishers
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
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According to U.S. military planners, climate change now poses the #1 national security threat to the United States, even before terrorism. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre reports that a person is four times more likely to be forced to move due to environmental disaster than... |
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Black Girl Dangerous on Race, Queerness, Class and Gender
Mia McKenzie · BGD Press
Pages: 169
Format: Print book
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Mia McKenzie, creator of the enormously popular website Black Girl Dangerous, writes about race, queerness, class and gender in a concise, compelling voice filled at different times with humor, grief, rage, and joy. In this collection of her work from BGD (now available only in this book)... |
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The Complete Guide to Veterans' Benefits: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply
Bruce C Brown · Atlantic Publishing Group Inc; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Retiring or being discharged from the military is one of the most trying times for service members. You must leave your military life and training to venture once more into the civilian life, transition into a civilian career, and navigate the waters of life without the military. But the good... |
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The Dawning of American Labor: The New Republic to the Industrial Age
Brian Greenberg · Wiley-Blackwell
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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A concise history of labor and work in America from the birth of the Republic to the Industrial Age and beyond From the days of Thomas Jefferson, Americans believed that they could sustain a capitalist industrial economy without the class conflict or negative socioeconomic consequences... |
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City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning
Michael J Lewis · Princeton University Press 2017.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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The vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping art, literature, and especially town planning. In City of Refuge, Michael Lewis takes readers across centuries and continents to show how Utopian town planning produced a distinctive type of settlement characterized by its square... |
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Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran
Nahid Siamdoust · Stanford University Press
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
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Music was one of the first casualties of the Iranian Revolution. It was banned in 1979, but it quickly crept back into Iranian culture and politics. The state made use of music for its propaganda during the Iran-Iraq war. Over time music provided an important political space where artists... |
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Gender: In World Perspective
Rebecca Pearse · Polity; 3 edition
Format: Hardcover
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How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? What psychological differences now exist between women and men? How are masculinities and femininities made? And what is the relationship between gender issues and globalizing concerns such as environmental change and economic restructuring?Raewyn... |
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The Destruction of Hillary Clinton
Susan Bordo · Melville House
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A play-by-play of the political forces and media culture that vilified and ultimately brought down Hillary Clinton during her 2016 Presidential campaign The Destruction of Hillary Clinton is an answer to the question many have been asking: How did an extraordinarily well-qualified, experienced,... |
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