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Teaching and Organizing Against the Corporate Juggernaut
Monthly Review Press
That education should instill and nurture democracy is an American truism. Yet organizations such as the Business Roundtable, together with conservative philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Walmarts owners, the Waltons, have been turning public schools into corporate mills. Their …
View book details for Fertility Holidays
IVF Tourism and the Reproduction of Whiteness
NYU Press
A critical analysis of white, working class North Americans motivations and experiences when traveling to Central Europe for donor egg IVFEach year, more and more Americans travel out of the country seeking low cost medical treatments abroad, including fertility treatments …
View book details for Race and the Politics of Deception
The Making of an American City
NYU Press
What is the relationship between race and space, and how do racial politics inform the organization and development of urban locales?In Race and the Politics of Deception, Christopher Mele unpacks Americas history of dealing with racial problems through the inequitable …
NYU Press
A vital collection for reforming criminal justiceAfter five decades of punitive expansion, the entire U.S. criminal justice system mass incarceration, the War on Drugs, police practices, the treatment of juveniles and the mentally ill, glaring racial disparity, the death penalty …
NYU Press
Can individuals believe that they are acting with integrity, yet in disobedience to the dictates of their conscience? Can they retain fidelity to their conscience while ignoring a sense of what integrity requires? Integrity and conscience are often thought to …
NYU Press
The Garland of Past Lives is a collection of thirty four stories depicting the miraculous deeds performed by the Buddha in his previous rebirths. Composed in the fourth century C.E. by the Buddhist monk Aryashura, the texts accomplished artistry led …
View book details for "Jesus Saved an Ex-Con"
Political Activism and Redemption after Incarceration
NYU Press
An examination of the efforts of faith-based organizations to expand the rights of the formerly incarcerated The use of religion to rehabilitate and redeem formerly incarcerated individuals has been a cultural touchstone of the modern era. Yet religious outreach to …
View book details for Delphi High Performance
Build fast Delphi applications using concurrency, parallel programming and memory management
Packt Publishing
Orbit
New York Times bestselling author Lilith Saintcrow returns to dark fantasy with a new series where the faery world inhabits diners, dive bars and trailer parks.Jeremiah Gallow is just another construction worker, and that's the way he likes it. He's …
Grand Central Publishing
This book will prove that you can prepare quick meals that are low in fat and still taste great. The recipes will make use of bold seasonings that instantly add flavor without the need for long simmering. The book is …
View book details for The Gold Standard
Building a World-Class Team
Grand Central Publishing
Half a book on basketball, half a book on management techniques, The Gold Standard captures Coach K's personal style and approach to getting different (and sometimes difficult) people to work hard and succeed in reaching a common goal."In all forms …
View book details for To Protect and Serve
How to Fix America's Police
PublicAffairs
The police in America belong to the people -- not the other way around. Yet millions of Americans experience their cops as racist, brutal, and trigger-happy: an overly aggressive, militarized enemy of the people. For their part, today's officers feel …
Grand Central Publishing
Here in this portable treasury are the 100 most moving and memorable love poems of all time, each accompanied by an illuminating introduction.Words of Love...and seduction, heartbreak, adoration, and passion. Revisit the Classics:"He Is More Than a Hero" by Sappho …
View book details for Mugabe
Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe's Future
PublicAffairs
Robert Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe in 1980 after a long civil war in Rhodesia. The white minority government had become an international outcast in refusing to give in to the inevitability of black majority rule. Finally the defiant …
View book details for Fearless
The Amazing Underdog Story of Leicester City, the Greatest Miracle in Sports History
PublicAffairs
"The odds of the Foxes winning the Premier League at the start of the season were the same as the Yeti or the Loch Ness Monster being proven to exist, Christmas being the warmest day of the year in England …
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Make Your Life Count by Pursuing a Healthy You
B&H Publishing Group
Life is a gift from God.Living Fit: Make Your Life Count by Pursuing a Healthy You, was written to equip you for living a healthy life, in all areas of your life. Author and pastor Ronnie Floyd will help you …
Basic Books
The Roosevelt name conjures up images of powerful Presidents and dashing men of high society. But few people know much about the extraordinary network of women that held the Roosevelt clan together through war, scandal, and disease. In The Roosevelt …
View book details for The Spoils of War
Greed, Power, and the Conflicts That Made Our Greatest Presidents
PublicAffairs
Two eminent political scientists show that America's great conflicts, from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror, were fought not for ideals, or even geopolitical strategy, but for the individual gain of the presidents who waged them. It's striking …
View book details for What's Your Bias?
The Surprising Science of Why We Vote the Way We Do
Elliott & Thompson
Psychologists have been studying how we make political choices for years, and the truth is, we're a lot less rational than we think we are; we vote for reasons we're not even consciously aware of. In this absorbing book, Lee …
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An Intimate History of the Legendary Design Firm
ABRAMS
A lushly illustrated look inside the interior design firm that set the standard for Americas finest homesserving the Astors, the Kennedys, and more. Starting in the 1960s, one name was synonymous with gorgeous interior design and luxurious, stylish home decor: …
Zonderkidz
With simple text, bright art, and a padded cover, The Beginner's Bible for Little Ones is a cute board book that presents eight Bible stories in bite-sized chunks that even the youngest readers can understand. The Beginners Bible for Little …
Mariner Books
The triumphant return of the New York Times bestselling novels orphaned heroinethe Southern Holden Caulfield . . . the female Huck Finn (Bookmarks Magazine). Ellen Foster, fifteen years old, formidable, and back in North Carolina with a loving new foster …
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Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
Little, Brown and Company
Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times). Set amid the most turbulent social and political …
Hesperus Press
Dorothy and her friends go on an adventure to Ozma's grand birthday party in this spellbinding classic taleDorothy and faithful Toto are back home in Kansas when they encounter the homeless and hapless Shaggy Man and decide to accompany him …
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