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Career Transitions for Librarians: Proven Strategies for Moving to Another Type of Library
Davis Erin Anderson - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Format: Hardcover
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What if you were a public librarian and then you wanted to become an academic librarian? How different are those worlds and how would you know what kind of skills or experiences you need to get your foot into the academic door? Career Transitions for Librarians: How to Get a Job in Another... |
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American Conspiracies
Jesse Ventura - Skyhorse Publishing Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Jesse Ventura is back with more conspiracies that our government wishes you didn't know about!In this explosive account of wrongful acts and ensuing cover-ups, Jesse Ventura offers a different side to the stories we've all heard and read about in the history... |
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Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin
Sybrina Fulton - Spiegel & Grau Format: Print book
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Trayvon Martin's parents take readers beyond the news cycle with an account only they could give: the intimate story of a tragically foreshortened life and the rise of a movement. On a February evening in 2012, in a small town in central Florida, seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking... |
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Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity
Tim Wise - City Lights Publishers Format: Paperback
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"It's a great book. I highly, highly, highly recommend it." --Tavis SmileyIn this powerful follow-up to Between Barack and a Hard Place, Tim Wise argues against colorblindness” and for a deeper color-consciousness in both public and private practice. We can only... |
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Rethinking Collection Development and Management
Becky Albitz; Christine Avery; Diane Zabel - Libraries Unlimited Format: Paperback
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This collection of thought-provoking essays by visionary and innovative library practitioners covers theory, research, and best practices in collection development, examining how it has evolved, identifying how some librarians are creatively responding to these changes, and predicting what... |
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Soar: How Boys Learn, Succeed, and Develop Character
David Banks - Atria / 37 Ink Format: Hardcover
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A respected educator who has advised Hillary Clinton and Cory Booker on scholastic issues presents a plan for teaching the countrys most educationally endangered groupboysDavid Banks knows a few things about at-risk boys In he petitioned New York Citys mayor to allow an all-boys public... |
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Daddy King: An Autobiography
Martin Luther King - Beacon Press Format: Print book
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First-person account and rarely heard life story of the man known as "Daddy King," the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr.Born in 1899 to a family of sharecroppers in Stockbridge, Georgia, Martin Luther King, Sr., came of age under the looming threat of violence at the hands of white... |
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Andrew Young and the Making of Modern Atlanta
Andrew Young - Mercer University Press Format: Hardcover
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ANDREW YOUNG AND THE MAKING OF MODERN ATLANTA tells the story of the decisions that shaped Atlanta's growth from a small, provincial Deep South city to an international metropolis impacting and influencing global affairs. When Mayor William Hartsfield coined the term "City too Busy... |
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Bravehearts: Whistle-Blowing in the Age of Snowden
Mark Hertsgaard - Hot Books Format: Print book
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Whistleblowers pay with their lives to save ours. When insiders like former NSA analyst Edward Snowden or ex-FBI agent Coleen Rowley or Big Tobacco truth-teller Jeffrey Wigand blow the whistle on high-level lying, lawbreaking or other wrongdoing - whether it's government spying, corporate... |
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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
Al Franken - Twelve Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times Bestseller"Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously happy." - Louise Erdrich, The New York Times p.p1 {margin:... |
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A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Jimmy Carter - Simon & Schuster Format: Paperback
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In the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world’s most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: the ongoing discrimination and violence against women and girls.President Carter was encouraged to write this book... |
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Doing Social Media So It Matters: A Librarian's Guide
Laura Solomon - Amer Library Assn; 1 edition Format: Paperback
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Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn: it s difficult enough to keep abreast of social media Web sites, let alone understand how they fit into today s library. This practical resource brings together current information on the topic in a concise format that s easy to digest. Laura Solomon... |
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La vida robot.
Joshua Davis - Farrar Format: Paperback
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Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Four undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest . . . and a major motion picture In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University... |
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Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor - University of North Carolina Press Format: Print book
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Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically been a right reserved for whites. In this book, Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor shows that African Americans fought obstructions to their mobility... |
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Transforming Pain to Power: Unlock Your Unlimited Potential
Daniel Beaty - Berkley Format: Hardcover
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Pain doesn’t last alwaysSometimes only for a nightTry not to resistIt hurts the more we fightOvercoming life’s difficulties is daunting. At times, it seems the burdens that we bear are too painful to overcome. They keep us from even trying to accomplish the things we want most.... |
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Rogue Spooks: The Intelligence War on Donald Trump
Dick Morris - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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There is a looming and dangerous threat to our democracy. Anti-Trump partisans are scheming to overturn the will of the American electorate by paralyzing the Trump presidency.These partisan zealots have been secretly orchestrating an unprecedented undercover campaign to sabotage President... |
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Old School: Life in the Sane Lane
ANONYMOUS. - Holt, Henry & Company, Inc. Format: Print book
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Old School is in session....You have probably heard the term Old School, but what you might not know is that there is a concentrated effort to tear that school down.It's a values thing. The anti-Old School forces believe the traditional way of looking at life is oppressive. Not inclusive.... |
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Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus
MATT TAIBBI - Spiegel & Grau Format: Print book
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Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take on our democracy's uncertain future, by the country's most perceptive and fearless political journalist. In twenty-five pieces from Rolling Stone - plus two original essays - Matt Taibbi tells the story of Western... |
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The Native Americans: The Indigenous People of North America
Colin F Taylor - Salamander Books Format: Book
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The Native American looks back at the way of life of the first Americans. Divided into nine cultural areas, it draw particular attention - through the medium of 38 superb artifact spreads - to the ways in which some of the early inhabitants adapted to living in widely varying environments,... |
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Once Upon A Revolution: An Egyptian Story
Thanassis Cambanis - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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"he inside story of the 2011 Egyptian revolution by following two courageous and pivotal leaders--and their imperfect decisions that changed the world... Thanassis Cambanis tells the story of the noble dreamers who brought Egypt to the brink of freedom, and the dark powerful forces... |
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Disruptive Power: The Crisis of the State in the Digital Age
Taylor Owen - Oxford University Press; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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Anonymous. WikiLeaks. The Syrian Electronic Army. Edward Snowden. Bitcoin. The Arab Spring. Digital communication technologies have thrust the calculus of global political power into a period of unprecedented complexity. In every aspect of international affairs, digitally enabled actors... |
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Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
David Frum - Harper Format: Hardcover
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Builds on the author's March 2017 "How to Build an Autocracy" column in The Atlantic to explain how Donald Trump has undermined America's most important institutions as part of a carefully crafted plan to institute authoritarianism, in an account that explains how ongoing... |
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Born Bright: A Young Girl's Journey from Nothing to Something in America
C. Nicole Mason - St. Martin's Press Format: Print book
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Standing on the stage, I felt exposed and like an intruder. In these professional settings, my personal experiences with hunger, poverty, and episodic homelessness, often go undetected. I had worked hard to learn the rules and disguise my beginning in life... So begins Born Bright,... |
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A Time to Attack: The Looming Iranian Nuclear Threat
Matthew Kroenig - Palgrave Macmillan Trade Format: Hardcover
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Iran's advanced nuclear program may be the world's most important emerging international security challenge. If not stopped, a nuclear-capable Iran will mean an even more crisis-prone Middle East, a potential nuclear-arms race in the region and around the world, and an increased... |
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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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Everyday Sexism
Laura Bates - St Martin'S Press, 2016. Format: Book
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In 2012 after having been sexually harassed on London public transport, Laura Bates started a project called Everyday Sexism. Astounded by the response from all over the world, she quickly realized that the situation was far worse than she'd initially thought.
In a culture that's... |
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America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk
Megan Pugh - Yale University Press Format: Print book
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The history of American dance reflects the nation's tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another. Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American. Using the stories of tapper Bill "Bojangles" Robinson,... |
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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 Timesbestselling 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... |
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Checklist of Library Building Design Considerations
William W Sannwald - ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association, 2016. Format: Print book
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The needs and functions of library buildings have certainly changed over the last decade, but the necessity for planning intelligently and thoroughly hasn't. In fact, tighter budgets and the complex demands of both library users and staff call for careful preparation now more than ever.... |
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A Guide for the Idealist: Launching and Navigating Your Planning Career
Richard W Willson - Routledge Format: Hardcover
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A Guide for the Idealist is a must for young professionals seeking to put their idealism to work. Speaking to urban and regional planners and those in related fields, the book provides tools for the reader to make good choices, practice effectively, and find meaning in planning work. Built... |
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Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin's Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom
Allen West - Crown Forum Format: Print book
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The inspiring life and uncensored views of a veteran, patriot, former Congressman, conservative icon, and warrior for personal liberty ... Over the course of the past few decades, Allen West has had many titles bestowed on him, among them Lt. Colonel, U.S. Representative, "Dad,"... |
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Nolos Guide To Social Security Disability: Getting and Keeping Your Benefits
David A. Morton III - NOLO PRESS Format: Paperback
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Social Security disability is an enormous program, with hundreds of thousands of people participating each year. Consequently, its easy for both participants and first-time applicants to get lost in the systems bureaucracy. Nolos Guide to Social Security Disability is an essential book... |
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Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know
P.W. Singer - Oxford University Press Format: Hardcover
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A generation ago, "cyberspace" was just a term from science fiction, used to describe the nascent network of computers linking a few university labs. Today, our entire modern way of life, from communication to commerce to conflict, fundamentally depends on the Internet. And the cybersecurity... |
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Black and Blue: Inside the Divide between the Police and Black America
Jeff Pegues - Prometheus Books Format: Hardcover
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The recent killings in Dallas, Baton Rouge, Ferguson, and elsewhere are just the latest examples of the longstanding rift between law enforcement and people of color. In this revealing journey to the heart of a growing crisis, CBS News Justice and Homeland Security Correspondent Jeff Pegues... |
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Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
Jason L. Riley - Encounter Books Format: Hardcover
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Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries? In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift... |
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Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom
Cornel West - Hay House; 1ST edition Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times best-selling author of Race Matters and Democracy Matters offers open-hearted wisdom for our times in this courageous collection of quotations, speech excerpts, letters, philosophy, and photographs that reflect the profound humanity that... |
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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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Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
Joe Biden - Flatiron Books Format: Hardcover
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A deeply moving memoir about the year that would forever change both a family and a country. In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years; it was the one constant in what... |
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Black stats African Americans by the numbers in the twenty-first century
Monique W Morris - The New Press
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"Black Stats-- a comprehensive guide filled with contemporary facts and figures on African Americans-- is an essential reference for anyone attempting to fathom the complex state of our nation. With fascinating and often surprising information on everything from incarceration rates,... |
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The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities
Stephen G Breyer - Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. Format: Print book
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In this original, far-reaching, and timely book, Justice Stephen Breyer examines the work of the Supreme Court of the United States in an increasingly interconnected world, a world in which all sorts of activity, both public and private - from the conduct of national security policy to the conduct... |
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40 New Revenue Sources for Libraries and Nonprofits
Edmund A Rossman III - ALA Editions Format: Print book
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In recent years, levies, grants, and other traditional sources of library funding have stagnated or even been scaled back. But as they've already done in other areas, libraries can take an innovative, proactive approach to funding. Change creates opportunities, and the ability to see and exploit... |
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Social Insecurity: 401
James W. Russell - Beacon Press Format: Print book
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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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Beating Obamacare 2014: Avoid the Landmines and Protect Your Health, Income, and Freedom
Betsy McCaughey Ross - Regnery Publishing Format: Print book
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New Edition Fully Updated for 2014!What Obamacare disaster will hit next? The website launch was a fiasco, millions of Americans' insurance has already been cancelled, the exchanges are still not working, and the enrollment numbers are abysmal. Betsy McCaughey uncovers the next disasters... |
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17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-Up in History
Andrew Morton - Grand Central Publishing Format: Hardcover
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For fans of the Netflix series The Crown, a meticulously researched historical tour de force about the secret ties among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, the Duke of Windsor, and Adolf Hitler before, during, and after World War II.Andrew Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward... |
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Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe
Malcolm Nance - Skyhorse Publishing Format: Hardcover
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ISIS - the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria - has taken on the mantle of being the single most dangerous terrorist threat to global security since al-Qaeda. In Defeating ISIS, internationally renowned intelligence veteran, author, and counterterrorism expert Malcolm Nance gives an insider's... |
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Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples, A
Frederick Hertz Attorney - NOLO Format: Eighteenth Edition
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Protect yourself and your loved one with sound legal planning . Gay and lesbian couples have gained a lot of legal ground in recent years. Although same-sex marriage is now legal across the U.S.,laws governing civil unions and domestic partnerships vary from state to state. . So its still... |
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Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now
Tour? - Atria Books; Reprint edition Format: Paperback
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In this provocative book, writer and cultural critic Touré explores the concept of Post-Blackness: the ability for someone to be rooted in but not restricted by their race. Drawing on his own experiences and those of 105 luminaries, he argues that racial identity should be understood... |
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eBooked!: Integrating Free Online Book Sites into Your Library Collection
H. Anthony Bandy - Libraries Unlimited Format: Paperback
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Online book sites such as the Google Books project, the Open Library, HathiTrust, and others are transforming our thoughts on just what a library is and does, and expanding the possibilities of what a library can be. Library staff need to be knowledgeable about these sites, but unfortunately... |
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Streamlined Library Programming: How to Improve Services and Cut Costs
Daisy Porter-Reynolds - Libraries Unlimited Format: Paperback
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In their roles as community centers, public libraries offer many innovative and appealing programs; but under current budget cuts, library resources are stretched thin. With slashed budgets and limited staff hours, what can libraries do to best serve their publics? This how-to guide provides... |
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Web Design for Libraries
Charles P Rubenstein - Libraries Unlimited Format: Paperback
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Having a clear, attractive, and easy-to-navigate website that allows users to quickly find what they want is essential for any organization -- including a library. This workbook makes website creation easy -- no HTML required.* Offers a basic textbook for short courses or workshops, or a segment... |
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Building a Buzz: Libraries and Word-of-mouth Marketing
Peggy Barber - Amer Library Assn Editions Format: Book
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Want to get the word out about your library in the most cost-effective way possible? You can achieve this with the effective word-of-mouth marketing (WOMM) strategies laid out in this book. Two creative marketers, Peggy Barber and Linda Wallace, bring you sound marketing principles to spread... |
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Confronting School Bullying: Kids, Culture, and the Making of a Social Problem
Jeffrey W. Cohen - Lynne Rienner Publishers Format: Hardcover
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Is bullying an innocent part of growing up ... or a serious problem requiring large-scale policy remedies? What is behind our rapidly changing perceptions of acceptable behavior? And when is the remedy worse than the problem? In their in-depth view of school bullying, Jeffrey Cohen and Robert... |
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Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein
John Nixon - Blue Rider Press Format: Print book
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Set for release on the 10th anniversary of Saddam Hussein's execution, a riveting, revealing and newsmaking account of the CIA's interrogation of Saddam, written by the CIA agent who conducted the questioning. In December 2003, after one of the largest, most aggressive manhunts in history,... |
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One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
Ben Carson - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated Format: Hardcover
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Dear Reader, In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the dangers facing our country and called for a return to the principles that made America great.Many Americans heard and responded, but our nation's... |
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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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The New American Revolution: The Making of a Populist Movement
KAYLEIGH MCENANY - Threshold Editions Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of Hillbilly Elegy comes an exploration of the American heartland - a fascinating and eye-opening collection of interviews and stories about the powerful grassroots populist movement of frustrated Americans left behind by the government that changed the landscape... |
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Called to Rise
DAVID O BROWN - Ballantine Books Format: Hardcover
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The Dallas police chief who inspired a nation with his compassionate, community-focused response to the killing of five of his officers shares his uplifting personal story and a blueprint for the future of policing. |
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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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BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
John Palfrey - Basic Books Format: Hardcover
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Libraries today are more important than ever. More than just book repositories, libraries can become bulwarks against some of the most crucial challenges of our age: unequal access to education, jobs, and information.In BiblioTech, educator and technology expert John Palfrey argues... |
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The Kingdom of Happiness: Inside Tony Hsieh's Zapponian Utopia
Aimee Groth - Simon & Schuster Format: Print book
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Fearless gonzo journalism - an insider's look at the enigmatic and successful CEO of Zappos, Tony Hsieh, and his quest to create his own version of utopia in the center of Las Vegas.In 2010 Tony Hsieh was introduced to many as a visionary modern business leader. Under Hsieh's leadership,... |
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The Last Goodnight: A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure, and Betrayal
Carol Belanger Grafton - Harper Collins Publishers Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Dark Invasion, channels Erik Larson and Ben Macintyre in this riveting biography of Betty Pack, the dazzling American debutante who became an Allied spy during WWII and was hailed by OSS chief General "Wild Bill" Donovan as "the... |
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False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton
Liza Featherstone - Verso Format: Print book
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Hillary Clinton presents her campaign for the presidency and her long career in public life as a triumph of feminism. But an all-star lineup of American feminists here says, "It's not that simple." In a history of proposals and policies on welfare, Wall Street, crime and policing,... |
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America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder
Bret Stephens - Sentinel Format: Hardcover
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A world in which the leading liberal-democratic nation does not assume its role as world policeman will become a world in which dictatorships contend, or unite, to fill the breach. Americans seeking a return to an isolationist garden of Edenalone and undisturbed in the world, knowing neither... |
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Gilbert King - Harper Perennial Format: Paperback
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* Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction* Nominated for a 2013 Edgar Award * Book of the Year (Non-fiction, 2012) The Boston Globe, Christian Science MonitorFrom acclaimed, prize-winning author Gilbert King comes this gripping true story of racism, murder, rape, and the law - a stirring... |
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Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
Cornel West - Penguin Press Format: Hardcover
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In his major bestseller, Race Matters, philosopher Cornel West burst onto the national scene with his searing analysis of the scars of racism in American democracy. Race Matters has become a contemporary classic, still in print after ten years, having sold more than four hundred thousand... |
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Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality
Theodore Dalrymple - Encounter Books Format: Hardcover
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In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought. Most psychological explanations of human behavior are not only ludicrously inadequate oversimplifications, argues... |
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17 Carnations
Andrew Morton - Grand Central Publishing Format: Print book
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"Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor, his American wife Wallis Simpson, the bizarre wartime Nazi plot to make him a puppet king after the invasion of Britain, and the attempted cover-up by Churchill, General Eisenhower, and King George VI of the Duke's... |
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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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A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia
Aaron L. Friedberg - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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An explosive examination of the fast-escalating Sino-American struggle for geopolitical predominance. There may be no denying Chinas growing economic strength, but its impact on the global balance of power remains hotly contested. Political scientist Aaron L. Friedberg argues that our nations... |
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Criminology For Dummies
Steven Briggs - For Dummies; 1 edition Format: Paperback
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Your thorough guide to comprehending and combating crime Are you fascinated by criminology, forensics, and detective work? This you-are-there guide takes you deep into the world of crime, giving you a better understanding of the dark recesses of the criminal mind and how law enforcement... |
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Marketing with Social Media: A LITA Guide
Beth C Thomsett-Scott - ALA TechSource Format: Paperback
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Eschewing mere theory in favor of real-world examples, editor Thomsett-Scott and her contributors offer to-the-point advice for getting up to speed with the world of social media. Ideal for newbies ready to get serious about marketing with social media, as well as practitioners on the lookout... |
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We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama
E.J. Dionne - Bloomsbury USA Format: Hardcover
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A collection of Barack Obama's greatest speeches, now including his farewell address, selected and introduced by columnist E.J. Dionne and MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid.We Are the Change We Seek is a collection of Barack Obama's 27 greatest addresses: beginning with his 2002 speech... |
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Black lotus : a woman's search for racial identity
Sil Lai Abrams - Karen Hunter Publishing/Gallery Books Format: Print book
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A unique and exquisitely wrought story of one multiracial woman's journey to discover and embrace herself in a family that sought to deny her black heritage, Sil Lai Abrams shares her story in Black Lotus: A Woman's Search for Racial Identity - an account that will undoubtedly ignite... |
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Reagan: American Icon
Iwan Morgan - I. B. Tauris & Company Format: Print book
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Ronald Reagan is one of the most important -- and arguably most successful -- presidents in modern American history. He is broadly credited with renewing American prosperity in the wake of the most miserable economic era since the 1930s, laying the foundations for Cold War victory and doing... |
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The Conservative Case for Trump
Phyllis Schlafly - Regnery Publishing Format: Print book
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From Phyllis Schlafly, the woman whose celebrated classic A Choice Not An Echo (over 3 million copies sold) upended the 1964 Republican Convention, comes a persuasive new argument for a surprising conservative choice: Donald Trump.For the first time since 1980, a significant number of Republicans... |
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The Basic Business Library: Core Resources and Services
Eric J Forte - Libraries Unlimited Format: Hardcover
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Now in its fifth edition, The Basic Business Library is a modern sourcebook of core resources for the business library and the business information consumers and researchers it serves. This up-to-date guide also discusses strategies for acquiring and building the business collection in a Web 2.0/3.0... |
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The Handy American Government Answer Book: How Washington, Politics and Elections Work
Gina Renée Misiroglu - Visible Ink Press Format: Paperback
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The stakes have never been higher: national security, civil liberties, the economy, the future of the republic. Yet few outside Washington actually understand how our government and political system should work, much less how it actually operates. On one level, it's a complex, interlocking... |
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Beyond Book Sales: The Complete Guide to Raising Real Money for Your Library
Susan Dowd - ALA Neal-Schuman Format: Paperback
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Like library users, library donors hail from all walks of life. Regardless of the scope or complexity of library fundraising, successful efforts are always about forging and strengthening relationships with the range of stakeholders throughout the community. Dowd and her team from Library... |
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Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans
Corey D. Fields - University of California Press Format: Hardcover
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What do you think of when you hear about an African American Republican? Are they heroes fighting against the expectation that all blacks must vote democratic? Are they Uncle Toms or sellouts, serving as traitors to their race? What is it really like to be a black person in the Republican... |
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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Monique W. Morris - New Press Format: Print book
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Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center... |
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