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A lifelong affair: my passion for people and politics
Par Bethine C Church. 2003
Bethine Church, wife of Idaho senator Frank Church, had been her husband's political partner since their earliest days together. In…
her own winsome words this is the story of the woman people called "The Third Senator from Idaho". Critical chapters of our history, from civil rights battles and the Vietnam War to Senator Church's chairmanship of the Senate Intelligence Committee, come vividly to life here, as does the idealism and love of people that animate Bethine Church's entire career in politicsWhiteness in plain view: a history of racial exclusion in Minnesota
Par Chad Montrie. 2022
Whiteness in Plain View examines the ways White residents across Minnesota acted to intimidate, control, remove, and keep out African…
Americans over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their methods ranged from anonymous threats, vandalism, and mob violence to restrictive housing covenants, realtor deceit, and mortgage discrimination, and they were aided by local, state, and federal government agencies as well as openly complicit public officials. What they did was not an anomaly or aberration, in some particular place or passing moment, but rather common and continuous. Chapter by chapter, the book shows that Minnesota's overwhelming Whiteness is neither accidental nor incidental, and that racial exclusion's legacy is very much woven into the state's contemporary politics, economy, and culture. Provided by publisher Adult. UnratedThe Violence Project: how to stop a mass shooting epidemic
Par Jillian Peterson. 2021
Build the life you want: The art and science of getting happier
Par Arthur C Brooks. 2023
You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime. INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER…
In Build the Life You Want , Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey invite you to begin a journey toward greater happiness no matter how challenging your circumstances. Drawing on cutting-edge science and their years of helping people translate ideas into action, they show you how to improve your life right now instead of waiting for the outside world to change. With insight, compassion, and hope, Brooks and Winfrey reveal how the tools of emotional self-management can change your life―immediately. They recommend practical, research-based practices to build the four pillars of happiness: family, friendship, work, and faith. And along the way, they share hard-earned wisdom from their own lives and careers as well as the witness of regular people whose lives are joyful despite setbacks and hardship. Equipped with the tools of emotional self-management and ready to build your four pillars, you can take control of your present and future rather than hoping and waiting for your circumstances to improve. Build the Life You Want is your blueprint for a better lifeRaulito: the first Latino Governor of Arizona = Raulito : el primer gobernador latino de Arizona
Par Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford. 2021
"This bilingual biography for kids ages 8-14 follows the dreams and achievements of Raul H. Castro, who was the first…
Latino governor of Arizona and US Ambassador to El Salvador, Bolivia and Argentina." -- GoodreadsHoudini's box: the art of escape
Par Adam Phillips. 2001
British psychotherapist explores the intentions of escape artists and the meaning of escape in a broader sense. Phillips's discussion of…
Houdini's compulsion to perform dangerous feats is interwoven with pertinent extracts from therapeutic case studies and examples from literature and literary history, such as the long seclusion of the poet Emily Dickinson.Green metropolis: the extraordinary landscapes of New York City as nature, history, and design
Par Elizabeth Barlow Rogers. 2016
People think of New York City as the land of skyscrapers, but the parks and green spaces are remarkable. They…
include nature refuges and bird sanctuaries as well as the celebrated Central Park. AdultA continual feast: words of comfort and celebration collected by Father Tim
Par Jan Karon. 2005
Words of wisdom, faith, and encouragement, as well as lively ideas, humor, commonsense advice, and more, that fictional Father Tim…
of Mitford has collected over the years from writers, philosophers, and the Bible. Companion to Patches of Godlight (DB 61575). 2005Patches of Godlight: Father Tim's favorite quotes
Par Jan Karon. 2001
Collection of favorite quotes and passages that have a special meaning for fictional Father Tim. They are drawn from the…
works of poets, humorists, clerics, philosophers, and others. Companion to A Continual Feast (DB 62403). 2001Living in a mindful universe: a neurosurgeon's journey into the heart of consciousness
Par Eben Alexander. 2017
With Living in a Mindful Universe, the authors share techniques that can be used to tap into our greater mind,…
explore how the power of the heart, and discuss how both can enhance healing, relationships, creativity, guidance, and more. Using various modalities related to meditation and mindfulness described herein, you too can gain the power to access that infinite source of knowing so vital to us all. Adult. UnratedLong players: a love story in eighteen songs (A Penguin Original)
Par Peter Coviello. 2018
A passionate, heartfelt story about the many ways we fall in love: with books, bands and records, friends and lovers,…
and the families we make. Have you ever fallen in love--exalting, wracking, hilarious love--with a song? Long Players is a book about that everyday kind of besottedness--and, also, about those other, more entangling sorts of love that songs can propel us into. We follow Peter Coviello through his happy marriage, his blindsiding divorce, and his fumbling post marital forays into sex and romance. Above all we travel with him as he calibrates, mix by mix and song by song, his place in the lives of two little girls, his suddenly ex-stepdaughters. In his grief, he considers what keeps us alive (sex, talk, dancing) and the limitless grace of pop songs Adult. Strong language. UnratedLos suicidas del fin del mundo: crónica de un pueblo patagónico (Colección Andanzas #613)
Par Leila Guerriero. 2020
"In the late 1990s, a wave of suicides rocked Las Heras, a small oil town in the province of Santa…
Cruz. Most of the dead were around twenty-five years old and were typical inhabitants of the town, children of modest but traditional families. However, the official list of these suicides was never drawn up. Leila Guerriero traveled to this desolate Patagonian spot, talked to the families and friends of the suicides, walked the same streets and visited every corner of the town. The result is this stark and precise account that not only reconstructs the tragic episodes of those years but also magnificently depicts the daily life of a community far from the big cities. Las Heras, with its wave of unemployment and lack of future for young people, is an enigma whose resolution is far from definitive: suicides, like a dismal destiny, followed one another for a long time. This is a disturbing chronicle that reads with fascination and unveils a reality marked by horror, prejudice and indifference." -- Amazon.comDisrupt, discredit, and divide: how the new FBI damages Democracy
Par Mike German. 2020
"Impressively researched and eloquently argued, former special agent Mike German's Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide tells the story of the transformation…
of the FBI after the 9/11 attacks from a law enforcement agency, made famous by prosecuting organized crime and corruption in business and government, into arguably the most secretive domestic intelligence agency America has ever seen. German shows how FBI leaders exploited the fear of terrorism in the aftermath of 9/11 to shed the legal constraints imposed on them in the 1970s in the wake of Hoover-era civil rights abuses. Empowered by the Patriot Act and new investigative guidelines, the bureau resurrected a discredited theory of terrorist "radicalization" and adopted a "disruption strategy" that targeted Muslims, foreigners, and communities of color, and tarred dissidents inside and outside the bureau as security threats, dividing American communities against one another. By prioritizing its national security missions over its law enforcement mission, the FBI undermined public confidence in justice and the rule of law. Its failure to include racist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, and xenophobic violence committed by white nationalists within its counterterrorism mandate only increased the perception that the FBI was protecting the powerful at the expense of the powerless. Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide is an engaging and unsettling contemporary history of the FBI and a bold call for reform, told by a longtime counterterrorism undercover agent who has become a widely admired whistleblower and a critic for civil liberties and accountable government." -- Provided by publisherBlack skin, white masks (Get political)
Par Frantz Fanon. 2008
"Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon,…
and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon's masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force today from one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history." -- Provided by publisherChina irrumpe en Latinoamérica: ¿dragón o panda? (Colección Geopolítica y dominación)
Par Alfredo Jalife-Rahme. 2020
Quebrantamiento: cuando Díos convíerte la presión en poder
Par T. D Jakes. 2019
"Author of |Instinct| and |Destiny| presents a guide to learning from life's challenges and trusting in God's love. Uses personal…
experiences, including his teenage daughter's pregnancy, his mother's death from Alzheimer's, and his son's heart attack, to illustrate lessons learned." -- Provided by NLSLas guerras globales del agua: privatización y fracking
Par Alfredo Jalife-Rahme. 2021
"Just as the 20th century was the era of the "oil/gas wars" that were part of the superpowers' geostrategic games,…
the 21st century is oriented towards the "global water wars" that have already begun in some areas of the planet, full of sea water and, paradoxically, where most humans are thirsty." -- Translation provided by NLSBrain rules: 12 principles for surviving and thriving at work, home, and school
Par John Medina. 2008
The digital republic: on freedom and democracy in the 21st century
Par Jamie Susskind. 2022
"Not long ago, the tech industry was widely admired, and the internet was regarded as a tonic for freedom and…
democracy. Not anymore. Every day, the headlines blaze with reports of racist algorithms, data leaks, and social media platforms festering with falsehood and hate. In The Digital Republic, acclaimed author Jamie Susskind argues that these problems are not the fault of a few bad apples at the top of the industry. They are the result of our failure to govern technology properly. The Digital Republic charts a new course. It offers a plan for the digital age: new legal standards, new public bodies and institutions, new duties on platforms, new rights and regulators, new codes of conduct for people in the tech industry. Inspired by the great political essays of the past, and steeped in the traditions of republican thought, it offers a vision of a different type of society: a digital republic in which human and technological flourishing go hand in hand." -- Provided by publisherThe accommodation: the politics of race in an American city
Par Jim Schutze. 2021
"The powerful, long-repressed classic of Dallas history that examines the violent and suppressed history of race and racism in the…
city. Written by longtime Dallas political journalist Jim Schutze, formerly of the Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Observer, and currently columnist at D Magazine, The Accommodation follows the story of Dallas from slavery through the Civil Rights Movement, and the city's desegregation efforts in the 1950s and '60s. Known for being an uninhibited and honest account of the city's institutional and structural racism, Schutze's book argues that Dallas' desegregation period came at a great cost to Black leaders in the city. Now, after decades out of print and hand-circulated underground, Schutze's book serves as a reminder of what an American city will do to protect the white status quo." -- Provided by publisher