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Catholic Women Confront Their Church: Stories of Hurt and Hope
Celia Viggo Wexler - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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Catholic Women Confront Their Church tells the stories of nine exceptional women who have chosen to remain Catholic despite their deep disagreements with the institutional church. From Barbara Blaine, founder of Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) , to Sister Simone Campbell,... |
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Handcuffed: What Holds Policing Back, and the Keys to Reform
Malcolm K Sparrow - Brookings Institution Press
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... |
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Start a Revolution: Stop Acting Like a Library
Ben Bizzle - Editions
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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The 13th Gift: A True Story of a Christmas Miracle
Joanne Huist Smith - Harmony
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of Richard Paul Evans and Greg Kincaid comes The 13th Gift, a heartwarming Christmas story about how a random act of kindness transformed one of the bleakest moments in a family's history into a time of strength and love.After the unexpected death of her husband, Joanne... |
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Pantsuit Nation
LIBBY CHAMBERLAIN - FLATIRON BOOKS
Format: Print book
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From the fastest-growing private Facebook group in history -- now with nearly 4 million engaged and impassioned members -- a beautifully designed, inspiring collection of stories and photographs that capture what it means to live, work, struggle, love, and celebrate in our world. |
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The Meaning of Human Existence
Edward O. Wilson - Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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National Book Award Finalist. How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, Why? In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most... |
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Terrorists at the Table: Why Negotiating is the Only Way to Peace
Jonathan Powell - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Should governments talk to terrorists? Do they have any choice? Without doing so, argues author Jonathan Powell in Terrorists at the Table, we will never end armed conflict. As violent insurgencies continue to erupt across the globe, we need people who will brave the depths of the Sri Lankan... |
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Enough: Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence
Gabrielle Giffords - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords-- disabled from an assassination attempt in Tucson, Arizona-- and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, share their impassioned argument for responsible gun ownership and more responsible gun control laws, despite being gun owners and staunch supporters... |
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Liars: How Progressives Exploit Our Fears for Power and Control
Glenn Beck - Threshold Editions
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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Exoneree Diaries: The Fight for Innocence, Independence, and Identity
Alison Flowers - Haymarket Books
Format: Print book
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Through intimate portraits of four exonerated prisoners, journalist Alison Flowers explores what happens to innocent people when the state flings open the jailhouse door and tosses them back, empty-handed into the unknown. From the front lines of the wrongful conviction capital of the United... |
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United States of Jihad: The Untold Story of Americans Fighting for Radical Islam
Peter Bergen - Crown
Format: Print book
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A riveting, panoramic look at "homegrown" Islamist terrorism from 9/11 to the present Since 9/11, more than three hundred Americans - born and raised in Minnesota, Alabama, New Jersey, and elsewhere - have been indicted or convicted of terrorism charges. Some have taken the fight... |
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Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran
ShiÌ?riÌ?n Ê»IbaÌ?diÌ? - Random House Publishing Group
Format: eBook
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The first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around the globe through her work as a human rights lawyer defending women and children against a brutal regime in Iran. Now Ebadi tells her story of courage and defiance in the face of a government... |
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Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe
George Friedman - Doubleday
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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Scalia: A Court of One
Bruce Allen Murphy - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An authoritative, deeply researched biography of the most controversial and outspoken Supreme Court justice of our time and how he chose to be "right" rather than influential.Antonin Scalia knew only success in the first fifty years of his life. His sterling academic and legal... |
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Social Insecurity: 401(k)s and the Retirement Crisis
James W. Russell - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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How 401(k) s have gutted retirement security, from charging exorbitant hidden fees to failing to replace the income of traditional pensionsNamed one of PW's Top 10 for Business & Economics A retirement crisis is looming. In 2008, as the 401(k) fallout rippled across the country,... |
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The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey
Dawn Anahid MacKeen - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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An epic tale of one man's courage in the face of genocide and his granddaughter's quest to tell his story In the heart of the Ottoman Empire as World War I rages, Stepan Miskjian's world becomes undone. He is separated from his family as they are swept up in the government's mass deportation... |
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The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present
Douglas Coupland - Blue Rider Press
Format: Paperback
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A highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era.50 years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture in The Medium is the Massage, Basar, Coupland and Obrist... |
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Two Paths: America Divided or United
John Kasich - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Two paths.One choice -- the path that exploits anger, encourages resentment, turns fear into hatred and divides people. This path solves nothing, demeans our history, weakens our country and cheapens each of us. It has but one beneficiary and that is to the politician who speaks... |
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On Becoming a Teen Mom: Life before Pregnancy
Mary Patrice Erdmans - University of California Press,
Format: Print book
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In 2013, New York City launched a public education campaign with posters of frowning or crying children saying such things as "I'm twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen" and "Honestly, Mom, chances are he won't stay with you."... |
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State Trooper Exam
LearningExpress Editors - LearningExpress, LLC; 2nd Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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This completely updated second edition of State Trooper Exam provides fast, focused test preparation through instructional chapters and targeted practice on the most commonly tested topics: reading comprehension, writing, information ordering, mathematics, directional orientation, memory,... |
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The Nixon Tapes: 19711972
Douglas Brinkley - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Format: Print book
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The famous -- and infamous -- Nixon White House tapes that reveal forthe first time President Richard Nixon uncensored, unfiltered, and in hisown wordsPresident Nixon's voice-activated taping system captured every wordspoken in the Oval Office, Cabinet Room, and other key locations... |
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Corporations Are Not People: Reclaiming Democracy from Big Money and Global Corporations
Jeffrey D. Clements - Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 2 edition
Format: Hardcover
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NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Since the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling that the rights of things - money and corporations - matter more than the rights of people, America has faced a crisis of democracy. In this timely and thoroughly updated second edition, Jeff Clements describes... |
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The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
Heather Mac Donald - Encounter Books
Format: Print book
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Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the "Ferguson... |
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Men Still at Work: Professionals Over Sixty and On the Job
Elizabeth F Fideler - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Print book
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Men Still at Work explores the reasons why many men are continuing to work well beyond the traditional retirement age. In today's challenging economy, they are the second-fastest growing group of workers (just behind older women). Filled with profiles of older working men, as well as dynamic... |
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The Year of Voting Dangerously The Derangement of American Politics
Maureen Dowd - Twelve
Format: Print book
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Maureen Dowd's incendiary takes and takedowns from 2016--the most bizarre, disruptive and divisive Presidential race in modern history. Trapped between two candidates with the highest recorded unfavorables, Americans are plunged into The Year of Voting Dangerously. In this perilous and shocking... |
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Social Insecurity: 401(k)s and the Retirement Crisis
James W. Russell - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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How 401(k) s have gutted retirement security, from charging exorbitant hidden fees to failing to replace the income of traditional pensions. Named one of PWs Top 10 for Business & Economics A retirement crisis is looming. In 2008, as the 401(k) fallout rippled across the country, horrified... |
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Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America
Sheryll Cashin - Beacon Press; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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From a nationally recognized expert, a fresh and original argument for bettering affirmative action Race-based affirmative action had been declining as a factor in university admissions even before the recent spate of related cases arrived at the Supreme Court. Since Ward Connerly... |
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Police Sergeant Exam (Police Sergeant Exam (Learning Express))
LearningExpress Editors - Learningexpress, Llc; 3rd Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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For officers who want to advance their careers, this edition of Police Sergeant Exam offers the preparation they need! Brimming with critical new information and useful test-taking tips, Police Sergeant Exam provides a detailed, realistic study plan, a guide to local laws, and instructive... |
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Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
Anonymous. - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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Throughout the Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders galvanized voters with his progressive platform and vision for America. In the book, Sanders shares experiences from the campaign trail and outlines his ideas for continuing a political revolution to fight for a progressive economic,... |
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Breakthrough: The Making of America's First Woman President
Nancy L Cohen - Counterpoint
Format: Print book
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Why Americans have never elected a woman president, how we changed to make it possible, and why it matters.From Hollywood to the halls of Congress, a lively conversation about women's leadership, equal pay, and family-work balance is underway. On the cusp of a historic breakthrough - the potential... |
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Substitute : going to school with a thousand children.
Nicholson Baker - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district. He awoke to the dispatcher's five-forty a.m. phone call and headed to one of several nearby schools; when he got there, he did his best... |
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The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America
Ai-jen Poo - The New Press, 2015. 2015
Format: Print book
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By 2035, 11.5 million Americans will be over the age of eighty-five, more than double today's 5 million, living longer than ever before. To enable all of us to age with dignity and security in the face of this coming Age Wave, our society must learn to value the care of our elders.... |
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We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Anchor Books
Format: Print book
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The highly acclaimed, provocative New York Times bestseller - a personal, eloquently-argued essay, adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name - from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Americanah. Here she offers readers a unique definition of feminism... |
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On Becoming a Teen Mom: Life before Pregnancy
Mary Patrice Erdmans - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 2013, New York City launched a public education campaign with posters of frowning or crying children saying such things as Im twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen and Honestly, Mom, chances are he wont stay with you. Campaigns like this support a public... |
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American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone
Marco Rubio - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover
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Dear Friends, My parents came to the United States in 1956. The country they found was truly a land of opportunity, where hardworking people with grade school educations could afford a home, a car, and college for their kids. A country where maids and bartenders could raise doctors, lawyers,... |
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Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy
David A Nichols - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Revealed for the first time, this is the full story of how President Dwight Eisenhower masterminded the downfall of the anti-Communist demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy.Behind the scenes, Eisenhower loathed McCarthy, the powerful Republican senator notorious for his anti-Communist witch... |
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The Fangirls Guide to the Universe: A Handbook for Girl Geeks
Sam Maggs - Quirk Books
Format: Hardcover
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From notable geek girl Sam Maggs, The Fangirls Guide to the Universe is the ultimate handbook for teens living the nerdy life. . Fandom, pop culture, feminism, cosplay, cons, books, memes, podcasts, vlogs, OTPs and RPGs and MMOs and more - theres never been a better time to be a fangirl,... |
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American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus
Lisa Wade - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory account of the new culture of sex that has come to dominate the American college experience.The hookup is now part of college life. Yet the drunken encounter we always hear about tells only a fraction of the story. Rising above misinformation and moralizing, Lisa Wade offers... |
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The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House
Chuck Todd - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Chuck Todds gripping, fly-on-the-wall account of Barack Obamas tumultuous struggle to succeed in Washington. Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 partly because he was a Washington outsider. But if hed come to the White House thinking he could change the political culture, he soon discovered... |
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After Snowden: Privacy, Secrecy, and Security in the Information Age
Ronald Goldfarb - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Was Edward Snowden a patriot or a traitor? Just how far do American privacy rights extend?And how far is too far when it comes to government secrecy in the name of security? These are just a few of the questions that have dominated American consciousness since Edward Snowden exposed the breath... |
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Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement
Recorded Books Inc. - The New Press
Format: eBook
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The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture has denounced the use of solitary confinement beyond fifteen days as a form of cruel and degrading treatment that often rises to the level of torture. Yet the United States holds more than eighty thousand people in isolation on any given day. Now sixteen... |
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Weed the People: The Future of Legal Marijuana in America
Bruce Barcott - Time Home Entertainment
Format: Hardcover
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The legalization of marijuana is the next great reversal of history. Perhaps the most demonized substance in America, scientifically known as Cannabis sativa, simply a very fast growing herb, thrived underground as the nation's most popular illegal drug. Now the tide has shifted: In 1996... |
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Critical Thinking Skills: Success in 20 Minutes a Day, 2nd Edition
Editors of LearningExpres LLC - LearningExpress, LLC; 2nd Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Become an effective critical thinker in just 20 minutes a day! Whether at work, at school, or at home, critical-thinking skills are essential for success. Learning to think critically will improve your decision-making and problem-solving skills, giving you the tools you need to tackle the tough... |
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Revolution
Russell Brand - Ballantine Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERWe all know the system isnt working. Our governments are corrupt and the opposing parties pointlessly similar. Our culture is filled with vacuity and pap, and we are told theres nothing we can do Its just the way things are. In this book, Russell Brand hilariously lacerates... |
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The secret life of sleep
Kat Duff - Atria Books ; Hillsboro
Format: Hardcover
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Citing a high percentage of Americans who routinely experience sleep problems or shortages, the award-winning author of The Alchemy of Illness draws on a wide range of disciplines to reveal the healing benefits of sleep and argue for its prioritizing.--Publisher information. |
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A Unified Theory of Happiness: An East-Meets-West Approach to Fully Loving Your Life
Andrea Polard PsyD - Sounds True; 1 edition
Format: Book
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The Western world teaches us that happiness comes from achievement-from setting goals and actively pursuing them. Eastern wisdom teaches us that surrender is the key, that we must let go in order to experience the great flow of being that is only available in the present moment. How do we take... |
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Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
Ted Koppel - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book
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In this New York Times bestselling investigation, Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America's power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared. Imagine a blackout lasting not days, but weeks... |
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Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword
David K. Shipler - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative, timely assessment of the state of free speech in America With his best seller The Working Poor, Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times veteran David K. Shipler cemented his place among our most trenchant social commentators. Now he turns his incisive reporting to a critical... |
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Enough: Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence
Gabrielle Giffords - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, share their impassioned argument for responsible gun ownership. After the 2011 Tucson shooting that nearly took her life, basic questions consumed Gabby Giffords and her family Would Gabby survive the bullet... |
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Affluenza: How Overconsumption Is Killing Us-and How to Fight Back
David Wann - Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 3 edition
Format: Book
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NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATEDaffluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.We tried to warn you! The 2008 economic collapse proved how resilient and dangerous affluenza can be. Now in its third... |
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Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year
David Ritz - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing and dramatic chronicle of the twelve months leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassinationMartin Luther King, Jr. died in one of the most shocking assassinations the world has known, but little is remembered about the life he led in his final year. New York Times... |
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Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America
Mark R. Levin - Threshold Editions; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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1New York Timesbestselling author Mark Levin explores the philosophical basis of Americas foundations and the crisis that faces government today., |
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Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times
Carolina De Robertis - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Radical Hope is a collection of letters - to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged - written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists. Provocative and inspiring, Radical... |
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The U.S. House of Representatives: Fundamentals of American Government
Matthew Spieler - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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The third book in the Fundamentals of American Government civics series explores the inner workings of this important part of the legislative branch. As with Selecting a President and The U.S. Senate, this book is written for all audiences, but voiced toward high school seniors... |
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Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
Lawrence Wright - Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA gripping day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign the first peace treaty in the modern Middle... |
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Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America
Amy Goodman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A celebration of the acclaimed news program Democracy Now! and the extraordinary heroes who have moved our democracy forward.In 1996 Amy Goodman started a radio show called Democracy Now! to focus on the issues that are underreported or ignored by mainstream news coverage.... |
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Idiot's Guides: The U.S. Constitution, 2E
Timothy Harper - Alpha Books
Format: Print book
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One of the most revered, imitated, and controversial governmental documents in the world, the U.S. Constitution serves as the foundation for the American government and shapes the lives of Americans every day. Yet, how many of us know its history and the impact it has on guiding our ever... |
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Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
Katha Pollitt - Picador
Format: Book
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Recommended by Carol McFarland, Youth Services.
A POWERFUL ARGUMENT FOR ABORTION AS A MORAL RIGHT AND SOCIAL GOOD BY A NOTED FEMINIST AND LONGTIME COLUMNIST FOR THE NATIONForty years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, abortion is still a word that is said with outright... |
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The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech
Kirsten Powers - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* Lifelong liberal Kirsten Powers blasts the Lefts forced march towards conformity in an exposé of the illiberal war on free speech. No longer champions of tolerance and free speech, the "illiberal Left" now viciously attacks and silences anyone with... |
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The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man
Luke Harding - Vintage
Format: Book
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IT BEGAN WITH A TANTALIZING, ANONYMOUS EMAIL: "I AM A SENIOR MEMBER OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY." What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever, brought about by one extraordinary man. Edward Snowden was a 29-year-old computer genius working for the National... |
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Barron's AP Comparative Government & Politics
Jeff Davis M.Ed. - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Print book
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Here's everything you need to review, simplify, and understand the most important concepts in AP Comparative Government and Politics. This must-have guide focuses on an in-depth study of the governments of six nations: Britain, Russia, China, Mexico, Iran, and Nigeria. Topics of study,... |
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God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy
Mike Huckabee - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller from a presidential candidate for the 2016 election!In God, Guns, Grits and Gravy, Mike Huckabee asks, Have I been taken to a different planet than the one on which I grew up? The New York Times bestselling... |
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Book Smart: How to Develop and Support Successful, Motivated Readers
Anne E. Cunningham - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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Authored by two passionate psychologists and educators, Book Smart: How to Develop and Support Successful, Motivated Readers is a how-to guide rich with stories, lessons, activities, and ideas aimed at supporting reading development and addressing the broad range of interpersonal, social,... |
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Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution
John Paul Stevens - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time ever, a retired Supreme Court Justice offers a manifesto on how the Constitution needs to change. By the time of his retirement in June 2010, John Paul Stevens had become the second longest serving Justice in the history of the Supreme Court. Now he draws upon his more... |
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
TIMOTHY SNYDER - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Paperback
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#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy... |
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We're still right - and they're still wrong.
James Carville - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book
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Every politico and pundit has tried to explain the 2016 presidential race, but James Carville - the multiple best-selling Ragin' Cajun and grand strategist of Bill Clinton's rise to the White House - has largely stayed silent. Until now. "He straddled the punch bowl, dropped his pants,... |
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No place to hide : Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. surveillance state
Glenn Greenwald - Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt
Format: Print book
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Investigative reporter Glenn Greenwald provides an in-depth look into the National Security Agency scandal that has triggered a national debate over national security and information privacy. With further revelations from documents entrusted to Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden himself,... |
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The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
Matthew B. Crawford - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking new book from the bestselling author of Shop Class as SoulcraftIn his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of manual competence, as expressed through mastery of our physical environment.... |
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Legal Rights, 6th Ed.: The Guide for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People
National Association of the Deaf - Gallaudet University Press
Format: Paperback
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The standard handbook on law affecting deaf and hard of hearing people has been completely rewritten and updated. The sixth edition of Legal Rights: The Guide for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People meticulously describes those statutes that prohibit discrimination against deaf and hard of hearing... |
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This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
Elizabeth Warren - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestsellerThe fiery U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and bestselling author offers a passionate, inspiring book about why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the fight to save itSenator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America's... |
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