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Publisher
BrainTrust Ink
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In Tread Loudly, Kristine Cherek shares her experiences as a female professional in a male-dominated culture. Through her two-decade journey as a female attorney, corporate executive, and college professor, Cherek has cultivated a plethora of wisdom and poignant guidance to share about how to persevere in the biased world of business...and life in general...In this inspiring call to action, Cherek shines a light on the bias, gender discrimination,...
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Publisher
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
"Housing prices are at record highs, and millions of Americans are housing insecure in one form or another. Our housing markets are failing to provide the foundation for all Americans to have a dignified life they can afford in a good place with access to opportunity. Housing is a classic example of a "wicked problem" in planning and public policy: one involving a complex system with many interrelated parts, which does not yield to simple prescriptive...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"How have millions of American Christians come to measure spiritual progress in terms of their financial status and physical well-being? How has the movement variously called Word of Faith, Health and Wealth, Name It and Claim It, or simply prosperity gospel come to dominate much of our contemporary religious landscape? Kate Bowler's Blessed is the first book to fully explore the origins, unifying themes, and major figures of a burgeoning movement...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The psychological toll of war is vast, and the social costs of war's psychiatric casualties extend even further. Yet military mental health care suffers from extensive waiting lists, organizational scandals, spikes in veteran suicide, narcotic overprescription, shortages of mental health professionals, and inadequate treatment. The prevalence of conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder is often underestimated, and there remains entrenched...
5) Independents rising: outsider movements, third parties, and the struggle for post-partisan America
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"As today's Tea Party movement demonstrates, Republicans and Democrats are out of touch with a huge section of the electorate. Despite two-party dominance in Washington, a full 38 percent of Americans identify themselves as independents who hold no allegiance to either the Democrats or the Republicans. Yet, as large as this group has become, they are only vaguely understood. Independent insider Jacqueline Salit chronicles the history of the independent...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The unknown and dramatic story of irregular guerrilla warfare that altered the course of the Civil War and inspired the origins of America's modern special operations forces. The Civil War is most remembered for the grand battles that have come to define it: Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh, among others. However, as bestselling author Patrick K. O'Donnell reveals in The Unvanquished, a vital shadow war raged amid and away from the major battlefields...
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Overview: If only this had been your history class textbook! The flip side of "official" history! Experience the true stories behind the history you learned in school: Native American witnesses' bloody descriptions of Custer's Last Stand; The destruction of The White House by foreign invaders. Actual government documents revealed! See how close we've come to nuclear annihilation: In 1957, the U.S. Air Force accidentally dropped a hydrogen bomb on...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The United States has by far the most powerful naval fleet in the world. Other nations are not even trying to keep up. This has enabled America to stand sentinel over crucial waterways like the Strait of Malacca, ensuring safe passage of goods with little interruption. But we are entering a new era. What will happen if the US does not keep spending resources on improving trade between other nations? Will China's rising economic influence and regional...
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful, smart, entertaining new art book from New Yorker cartoonist and author Bob Eckstein that is a love letter to museums and museum-goers, filled with lush and whimsical illustrations paired with stories and anecdotes from curators, museum workers, museum visitors, and more."--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
From a Pulitzer Prize winner and the bestselling author of "The Working Poor" comes an impassioned, incisive look at the violations of civil liberties in the United States that have accelerated over the past decade--and their direct impact on our lives.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From Boots to Business is designed to help guide service members interested in pursuing a career in the field of business post-military service on their journey by guiding them through the maze of possibilities and assisting them in maximizing their available choices"--
Author
Publisher
Libraries Unlimited, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Offers new and field-tested ideas for reaching diverse library customers with fun programming even on a limited budget"--
"Passive programming is a cheap, quick, fun way to make all library customers feel like part of the community. It can support reading initiatives, foster family engagement, encourage visit frequency, and coax interaction out of library lurkers-while barely making a dent in your programming budget. Passive programming can be targeted...
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A complete, illustrated A-to-Z resource for vintage trailer enthusiasts. The Illustrated Field Guide to Vintage Trailers is a complete alphabet of trailers filled with hundreds of high-quality photos and detailed illustrations that make it a one-stop identification reference. The deeply researched field guide uncovers elusive historical facts that make for excellent campfire conversation starters. There's no other collection of information like it...
16) Megan Rapinoe
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Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Discover the life of Megan Rapinoe, the world record-breaking footballer and activist. Chasing a ball in the school playground, Megan discovered her calling at a young age. Even if she didn't always fit in at school, she was a star on the field- and her teammates thought so too. Her passion, skill and leadership took Team USA to Olympic Gold and a World Cup victory, while she continues to champion women's and LGBTQ+ rights and representation in sport....
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds when Police Officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd on camera, and it ended with the sweeping federal, state, and intrapersonal changes that followed. It is a simple story, wherein white America finally witnessed enough brutality to move their collective consciousness. The only problem is that it isn't true. George Floyd...
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